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NASCAR Competitor
David Stemme Heads Great List Of CRA Super Series Entries For Sunday’s
200 Lapper At Plymouth Speedway
Salem, IN (July 8, 2008) –
NASCAR competitor David Stremme heads a great list of competitors
entered for this Sundays Mid-Summer Championship 200 Presented By
Centennial Wireless, CRA Super Series event at Plymouth Speedway in
Plymouth, Indiana. Stremme, from nearby South Bend, will be competing
in Sunday’s event after competing in Friday nights NASCAR Nationwide
Series event at Chicagoland
Speedway.
Stremme, a former competitor and winner with the CRA Super Series, is
currently ninth in Nationwide Series points with four top five and 10
top 10 finishes so far this season for car owner Rusty Wallace. The
former NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver was recently hired as a test
driver for Penske Racing, and is rumored to be in line for a return to
the Sprint Cup Series in 2009.
Sunday’s event will continue the
Centennial Wireless month for the CRA Super Series and will be the
first series point’s event at Plymouth Speedway since 2002 when Scott
Hantz claimed his third victory at Plymouth in the four series events
held up to that point at that 3/8 mile speed plant. The series had a
special non-points event their during the 2006 season, the first
season for new track owners Bob Blount and Tom Smith, who have made
vast improvements to the facility over the past two seasons. Series
veteran JR Roahrig won that special 100-lap non-points event in 2006.
Jack Landis chased Roahrig through out the event but had to settle for
second. Former Illiana Motor Speedway Champions Mike White and John
Nutley finished third and fourth with Hantz finishing fifth.
Scott Hantz leads the strong group of
CRA
Super Series regulars entered for Sunday’s event. The two-time
Champion comes into Sunday’s event with the series points lead with
three series victories in the series six events held so far this
season including last Thursday’s win at Angola Motor Speedway. Hantz
is now second on the all-time series win list with 21 wins to former
two-time series Champion and Plymouth native Brian Ross who has 22
wins. Ross has filed an entry for Sunday’s race and will be looking to
keep in front of Hantz in the series all time victory category. Ross
has made only a few selected starts with the series the past several
years while recently becoming the Crew Chief for ML Motorsports and
driver Mark Green in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. Ross still competes
part-time in an Outlaw Late Model at Plymouth, he won the first two
legs of the Plymouth Speedway Triple Crown this season including the
100 lap Jim Blount Memorial on May 31st.
Other top CRA Super Series drivers
entered include second in points Boris Jurkovic, a winner earlier this
season at Illiana Motor Speedway and third in points Rick Turner, a
winner at Anderson Speedway earlier this season. Also entered are
series regulars Jason Dietsch, Jason Shively, Terry Fisher Jr., JR
Roahrig, John VanDoorn, Kenny Tweedy, Sean Matthuis and Rich Segvich.
Aaron Pierce leads a strong group of K & N Filters rookies entered for
the event, also entered are rookies Zach Taylor, Robert Maynor, Adam
Purdy and Tommy Cook. A very strong group of part time series
competitors are entered including teammates Jack Landis and Brian
Nester, also Mike Kugler, Eddie Van Meter, Donny Klotz, Doug True and
Tim Curry.
The Chicagoland area will also be
well represented in Sunday’s event including multi-time Illiana Motor
Speedway Late Model Champion Dave Weltmeyer of Dyer, Indiana.
Weltmeyer has been a main stay in the Chicago area for decades and was
a winner last season with the CRA Super Series in the Musgrave
Memorial event at Illiana. Wheaton, Illinois driver Eddie Hoffman has
also filed an entry, Hoffman is tied for sixth in all time CRA Super
Series victories with seven and is the current points leader in the
ASA Late Model Northern Series. Hoffman’s car owner Tom Kmak was the
2005 CRA Super Series Owners Champion with Hoffman competing in all
the races that season but one, former series competitor Steve Moenck
competed in that one other event for Kmak. 2007 Illiana Motor Speedway
Late Model Champion Jeff Cannon is also entered as is fellow Illiana
competitor Doug Hayes.
18-year-old Missouri native Jesse
Smith will make his CRA Super Series debut this Sunday. Smith has been
competing in the ARCA RE/Max Series part-time this season for the
Terry Jones Motorsports team under the direction of Crew Chief Bob
Blount. The former ASA Late Model Northern Series Champion finished a
career high of third in the Kansas Speedway ARCA event and followed
that up with a fifth place finish at Iowa Speedway. Smith is entered
for the next ARCA event on July 18th at Kentucky Speedway.
17-year-old Tyler Roahrig, son of
series veteran JR Roahrig, will make his CRA Super Series debut in
Sunday’s event. The younger Roahrig is no stranger to the CRA crowd as
he has been helping his father in the pits since he was old enough to
get in. Roahrig competed in area Street Stock events in 2006 and in
several Super Pro Late Model Series events last season. Tyler has
several Outlaw Late Model starts this season at Plymouth and at Angola
Motor Speedway including an 11th place finish at Plymouth
in the 75 lap Triple Crown event on June 28th.
Michael Thayer will also make his
series debut on Sunday, he is currently ninth in Plymouth Speedway
Outlaw Late Model points this season. Steven Brooks will make his
first attempt at a CRA Super Series point’s event Sunday, he competed
in the series non-points special event at Plymouth in 2006. Brooks is
currently 14th in ASA Late Model Northern Series points.
Sunday’s Mid-Summer Championship 200
Presented By Centennial Wireless will have a little different format
than most CRA Super Series events. The race will have a 15 minute
break at lap 100, at that time teams can work on their cars and have
the option to put on up to two new tires for the second 100 lap
segment, the catch is any cars changing tires will be placed in the
line-up behind the cars that do not change tires to start the second
100 lap segment. Sunday’s race winner will have to use not only good
racing but some good strategy as well. Shepherd Chevrolet will pay a
$200 bonus if Sunday’s winner is using a crate motor.
The Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD
Compacts will return to action
at
Plymouth Speedway on Sunday in an event with the Plymouth Speedway
FWD’s. The Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts were last in action
at Salem Speedway on June 7th were Rex Zimmerman became the
fourth different winner in four series events this season. Bill
Charles is currently leading the series points followed by teammate
Zimmerman in second, Brian Redman in third, Michael Myers in fourth
and Bobby Sanders in fifth place.
Hauler parking will begin at 12noon
on Sunday, pits will open at 1pm with practice beginning at 4pm and
qualifying at 5:45pm. The race program will begin at 7pm with a 15 lap
CRA Super Series Last Chance race followed by the 30 lap FWD feature.
The Mid-Summer Championship 200 Presented By Centennial Wireless will
follow with a 25-lap Plymouth Mini Stock feature closing out the
nights racing action. More information on Sunday’s event is available
at www.plymouthspeedway.net.
Additional information and rules for the CRA series is available at
www.craracing.net
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