Winchester, IN (May 8, 2009) - Winchester Speedway is ready to crown its fifth King in this year’s edition of the King Of The Wings Sprint Car Challenge Presented By Pier-Mac Plastics on the famous High Banks on Sunday, May 17th. The event will kick off the 2009 racing season at Winchester Speedway after the Rich Vogler Classic on April 19^th was canceled because of weather. The Rich Vogler Classic, with the USAC National Sprint Cars, was rescheduled for the Thursday Night Thunder show on July 2, while the Manning Service 100 for the CRA Super Series will now be part of the May 17^th event.

This year’s King Of The Wings Sprint Car Challenge Presented By Pier-Mac Plastics will again feature the best winged sprint car drivers in the country in an event organized by Must See Racing and sanctioned by the Auto Value Bumper to Bumper Super Sprint Series (AVBBSS) and the Hoosier Outlaw Sprint Series (HOSS). The King of the Wings Sprint Car Challenge will be the 1st event in a 2-race showdown called the "Battle of The Banks". The second race will be at Anderson Speedway on Wednesday, May 20^th of Little 500 Sprint Car Week. Both Tracks are heralded, as the "Fastest in the World" for their size tracks, and the over-all best finisher between the two shows, over the four days, will be crowned the "Battle of Banks" Champion.

Third generation driver Jimmy McCune earned the crown in last season’s fourth edition of the King of the Wings Sprint Car Challenge. McCune worked past early leader Geoff Kaiser on lap four, then held off a late challenge from Kevin Feeney to get the win. Feeney fought his way through the field from his seventh place starting position to challenge McCune, but McCune was just too strong at the end. Feeney finished in second with Kaiser holding on to finish in third, Greg Wheeler was fourth and Eddie Kelly was fifth.

"Wow this is great," remarked a very excited McCune in victory lane last year. "My crew really worked hard to get this car ready for today’s race, this is one of those races we really wanted to win, what a cool trophy to get, there’s nothing like being King at Winchester Speedway!"

Jeff Bloom was last years fast qualifier turning a spectacular 13.898 on his first lap, unfortunately something broke on the car coming into turn three sending the car hard into the wall in turn four. Bloom was taken to the hospital for observation but was back at the track by the end of the day with no injuries.

Must See Racing’s Jim Hanks is expecting a great group of cars for the May 17^th event.

"We had 26 cars at our first Must See Racing event on April 25^th at Salem Speedway," remarked Hanks. "I would expect a field as good as that, if not more for the King of the Wings event at Winchester Speedway. With the Battle of the Banks, then the Little 500 at Anderson Speedway on Saturday, May 23^rd fans are going to see a week filled with some exciting sprint car action!"

Other top drivers expected to battle McCune for the crown include the Salem winner Chad Goff, 2008 AVBBSS Champion Jason Blonde, the always fast Kevin Feeney, one of the best in any type sprint car David Steele, veterans Hank Lower, Jeff Bloom, Greg Wheeler, Bill Tyler, Tim Cox, Jim Swain, Ron Koehler and Geoff Kaiser. Sondi Eden will return to the High Banks in the May 17^th event along with Eddie Kelly, Canadian hot shoe Ryan Litt, and Michigan Youngster Kyle Flint. Muncie’s Aaron Pierce will do double duty on May 17^th in Mike Blake’s Wing Sprinter and in his own CRA Super Series late model.

The King Of The Wings Sprint Car Challenge Presented By Pier-Mac Plastics will be televised taped delayed by Must See Racing on Comcast Cable and Comcast Sportsnet to 10,000,000 households. Go to www.mustseeracing.com for information on time, date and channel of when the event will be broadcast. Winchester’s own Tom Bigelow is one of the broadcasters for Must See Racing along with veteran open wheel writer and announcer Dave Argabright.

The CRA Super Series will return to action at Winchester Speedway with the Manning Service 100 on Sunday afternoon May 17th. 2008 series Champion Scott Hantz started his record breaking 2008 season with a win in last season’s Manning Service 100, passing Jeff Lane on lap 47 for the lead. Boris Jurkovic came through the field and looked to challenge Hantz late in the event for the lead before being sidelined with a broken transmission. Hantz would go on to get the win, Kenny Tweedy was second, Jason Dietsch third, JR Roahrig was fourth and Zach Taylor fifth.

Hantz and current series point’s leader Jurkovic lead the list of entries for the Manning Service 100. Other series notables entered includes last season’s Labor Day Winchester winner Rick Turner, series 2009 season opener winner John VanDoorn, Tweedy, Roahrig, Dietsch, Jeff Lane, Jason Shively, Tommy St. John, Terry Fisher Jr., Aaron Pierce, John Heck, Eddie Van Meter, Adam Purdy, Brent Jack and 2006 series Rookie of the Year Danny Jackson. A strong 2009 Rookie class will test the High Banks on that Sunday, with current rookie point’s leader Justin Matson, Tyler Roahrig, Zach Hulvey, Damon Ecoff, Brandon Fagin and Nick Lay all entered.

The CRA Street Stocks will have their season opener on that Sunday were a strong group of drivers is expected including 2008 series Champion Bret Miles Jr. and last seasons series win leader Carl Muffley. The Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts will also have their first event of the season after a very successful second season of competition in 2008 that featured some of the best racing of the season on the High Banks. A great field of cars is expected for that division including 2008 series Champion Rex Zimmerman.

Pit gates will open on Sunday, May 17th at 8am, spectator gates at 9:30am. Practice will begin at 10:00am with qualifying at about 12:30pm. The race program will begin at 2pm. In order to relieve some of the congestion on Sunday morning, teams will be allowed to unload their equipment in their pit areas on Saturday, May 16^th from 5 to 8pm. More information on the May 17^th event is available at www.winchesterspeedway.com.