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Salem, IN (February 22, 2008)
– Four former winners in late models at the Music City Motorplex are
some of the latest drivers to enter
the CRA Super Series All American
150 in Nashville, Tennessee on March 29th. The group
includes Wheaton, Illinois driver Eddie Hoffman who has scored three
victories with the
ASA Late Model Series in the four ASA Late Model
Series events that series had at
the Music City Motorplex during the 2006 and 2007 seasons. Hoffman, driving for Tom Kmak’s 2005 CRA Super
Series Owners
Championship winning TK Racing, is still trying to claim his first
Copley Guitar Trophy for winning a CRA Super Series sanctioned event
in Nashville. The veteran Mid-west racer has seven CRA Super Series
victories to date including SpeedFest 2007.
2005 Adam Petty Memorial All American
400 winner Jason Hogan has filed an entry. The Cleveland, Georgia
driver came close to getting his second All American victory last
November, John VanDoorn made a late charge after pitting and passed
Hogan for the lead with eight laps to go, VanDoorn got the CRA Super
Series event victory, Hogan would go on to finish second. The talented
late model veteran is always a threat to win with his Hogan Motorports
Team.
2007 Spring Clash 150 winner Nathan
Haseleu has filed an entry to defend his spring Nashville victory. The
Pardeeville, Wisconsin native will race again for Gary Schultz’s
Illinois based team in 2008. Haseleu won the inaugural ASA Midwest
Series Championship in 2007 and claimed back-to-back Wisconsin
Challenge Championships in 2006 and 2007. The former Roush Racing
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver lead 149 of the 150 laps in last
years spring event holding off Josh Vadnais to get the win, Haseleu
worked the high groove, giving Vadnais the low groove over the last
ten laps. Vadnais led lap 146, but Haseleu would grab the lead back
for good on the next lap, going to get the exciting victory.
2006 Spring Clash 150 winner Eddie
Mercer has also filed an entry for the All American 150. The
Pensacola, Florida veteran looks to claim his second Copley Guitar
Trophy, but will be using the All American 150 to get ready for his
main goal of
winning the All American 400 in November. The former Snowball Derby
winner wants to add the All American 400 win to his list of
achievements before ending his racing career.
Anderson, Indiana’s Donald Karr Jr.
and Plainfield, Illinois’s Nick Baran have also now filed entries for
the All American 150. Both drivers will be competing for the series
Rookie Of The Year award in 2008 after competing part-time in 2007.
Chelsea, Alabama native Josh Hamner has also filed an entry this week.
The son of famed engine builder Jeff Hamner has become one of the top
Southern late model drivers over the past couple of seasons. To date
there are now 29 cars pre-entered for the All American 150, the first
45 entries for the All American 150 are guaranteed a pit stall inside
the track.
The All American 150 for the CRA
Super Series late models will be part of the big 2008 Spring Clash
Weekend on March 28th and 29th at the Music City
Motorplex, which will also include a 75-lap event for the O’Reilly USA
Modified Series and a special-points 75-lap Shoot-out event between
the CRA Street Stocks and the MCM Sportsman.
This will be the third season in a
row that the CRA Super Series has opened its point’s season at the
famed oval with a 150-lap event. The Saturday night, March 29th
event will be a tune-up to the prestigious Adam Petty Memorial All
American 400 on Sunday, November 2nd. The All American 150
will pay $5000 to win, but more importantly, the top three finishers
will have a guaranteed start for the CRA sanctioned Adam Petty
Memorial All American 400.
The 2008 Spring Clash Weekend will
kick off with an open practice for all three divisions on Friday,
March 28th. Pits will open at 12noon Central Time; practice
will start at 3:30pm and will go until 7:30pm. Pits will open on
Saturday, March 29th at 9am, practice will begin at 12noon,
with qualifying starting at 4pm. The race program will begin at 7pm on
Saturday with last chance races first, then the three feature events
starting with the 75-lap event for the O’Reilly USA Modified Series,
followed by the All-American 150 for the CRA Super Series, and ending
with the 75-lap CRA Street Stock/MCM Sportsman Shoot-out.
More information on the event is
available at
www.musiccitymotorplex.com. Entry forms for the All American 150
for the CRA Super Series and series rules are available at
www.craracing.net.