ARCA Lincoln Welder Trucks and CRA Street Stocks Headline Sunday’s Action At Winchester Speedway

Winchester, IN (April 30, 2008) – The ARCA Lincoln Welder Trucks and the CRA Street Stocks headline this Sunday’s action on the famous High Banks of Winchester Speedway. The Howe CRA Sportsman Series and Vore’s CRA FWD Compacts will also be in action Sunday providing a great afternoon of racing at the historical half mile.

The ARCA Lincoln Welder Truck Series will return for the fourth season in a row. The trucks have always showcased great racing at each of their previous events. To date there are 23 trucks pre-entered for Sunday’s event led by veteran Paul Hahn winner of last season’s event. Also entered is 2007 series Champion Bill Withers and veteran Ft. Wayne racer Steve Christman who got his first victory with the series in the 2008 season opener on April 19th at Anderson Speedway. Other top drivers entered include Tully Esterline, Nick Gullatta, Rob Jones, Norm Weaver, Ron Wells and Robin Slaughter.

The MAX Rocks 100 for the MAX 93.5/96.7 CRA Street Stocks will hit the High Banks Sunday, it’s the biggest race of the season for that division at Winchester Speedway in 2008. The event will pay $2,500 to win and $100 to start. The CRA Street Stocks events have proven to be some of the best events every season at Winchester Speedway and Sunday will be no exception after the exciting action in that divisions season opener last Sunday when veteran Carl Muffley held off a hardcharging Jake Owens to get the his first points victory with the series.

Owensboro native Beau Mitchell is expected to enter Sunday’s event, Mitchell has scored six victories in the Street Stock division at Winchester Speedway the past two seasons including consecutive wins in the last two seasons 200 lap events. Mitchell will have plenty of competition from the likes of two-time series driver Champion Joe Beaver, Rich Boyer, Brian Hopkins, Jeff Perry, Bret Miles Jr., Larry Matillo, Winston Wood, Steve Blair and Calvin Parham.

The Howe CRA Sportsman will be competing in the series second event of the season after visiting Anderson Speedway on Saturday, April 19th were Tony Dager got his first series win in his first ever race with the series. The race was an exciting one with several yellows for spins during the event. 2007 series Champion Billy Hutson leads the list of former winners in this division at Winchester that are expected to compete in Sunday’s event. Other series High Banked winners include Charlie Hanna and Rick Rinehart. The former winner s will get plenty of challenges from a very talented group of racers including Dager, Nick Lay, Zach Hulvey, Justin Alsip, Brandon Phillips, Gabe Cerny, Hathan Herron and the Wisconsin Cowboy Rick Tackman Jr.

The Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts will have their second event of the season were Bill Charles will be looking to make it two in a row after getting the win in last Sunday’s series season opener at Winchester Speedway. Charles will have plenty of competition from former High Banks winner Brian Redmon along with his teammate Rex Zimmerman.

Pit gates will open on Sunday morning at 8am, spectator gates at 10am, practice will begin at 10:30am, with qualifying at 12noon. The race program will begin at 2pm. More information is available at www.winchesterspeedway.com.

 

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