Salem, IN (September 30, 2009) – The Howe CRA Late Model Sportsman Series, CRA Street Stocks and Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts will all return to action this Saturday and Sunday with the Old Timers Weekend event on the famous High Banks of Winchester Speedway. The event is a two day show with HOSS Outlaw Winged Sprints, CRA Street Stocks, Mt. Lawn Motion Motor Late Models and a Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts "New Star" event on Saturday, October 3^rd. The USAC National Sprint Cars, Howe CRA Late Model Sportsman Series and the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts will all be racing on Sunday, October 4^th. There will be vintage racecars on display and on the track on both days.

Charlie Hanna comes into this weekend’s event as the point’s leader with the Howe CRA Late Model Sportsman Series for the second straight event. Hanna’s second place finish at the series last event, coupled with Steve Minich Jr.’s inability to race at Anderson because of damage from the Labor Day Weekend event, gives Hanna a 53 point lead with only two points events left in the 2009 season. Rookie Steve Stacy got the win at Anderson, his first ever series victory, he is now in second place in series points. The number 17 car owned by John Marshall is in third place, 33 points behind Stacy. Minich Jr. is fourth place, 39 points behind the 17. Ric Pfiefer is in fifth place, he is 19 points behind Minich Jr. Terry Jones has won the last two series events at Winchester Speedway including the Labor Day Weekend event.

The point’s battle in the CRA Street Stocks is much closer coming into this weekend’s event. Two-time series Driver Champion Joe Beaver is leading the series points by 19 over second place Josh Burton, who is only one point ahead of third place Jason Thompson. Rich Boyer, the winner of the last series event at Winchester Speedway on Labor Day, is in fourth place, 15 points behind Thompson. Only 35 points separates first place and fourth place with only two events left in the 2009 season. Coming into this weekend’s event, there have been nine different winners in the series nine point events so far this season. Race winners to date include Beaver, Burton, Thompson, Boyer, Winston Wood, Scott Neal, Robbie Henderson, Rick Erwin and Ronnie Rose.

Tim Dilg has a commanding 91 point lead in the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts points with only two point events left in the 2009 season including Sunday’s event. 2008 series Champion Rex Zimmerman is in second. Brian Redmond is in third place, he is ten points behind Zimmerman. Leading rookie Justin Brown is in fourth place, he is only three points behind Redmond after getting three straight third place finishes in the last three series events. Fellow rookie Jeff Williams is in fifth place, he is 23 points behind Brown.

Pit gates open on Saturday at 10am. Practice will begin at 12:30pm with qualifying at 3:30pm. The race program will begin at 5pm, which will include a 30 lap feature and heat races for the HOSS Outlaw Winged Sprints, 40 lap features and heat races for the CRA Street Stocks and Motion Motor Late Models and the 20 lap Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts "New Star" Feature.

Pits open on Sunday at 9am. Practice will begin at 11am with qualifying at 1pm. The race program will begin at 2pm and will include a 40 lap feature and heat races for the USAC National Sprint Cars, a 40 lap feature and heat races for the Howe CRA Late Model Sportsman Series, and a 20 lap feature and heat races for the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts. The vintage cars will take laps on the track on both days prior to the feature events beginning.

More event information is available at www.winchesterspeedway.com. More information on all the CRA Series is available at www.craracing.net.