Salem, IN (August 24, 2010) – The CRA Super Series will head back to the state of Ohio this Saturday for it’s second event of the season in the buckeye state at Columbus Motor Speedway. The series last competed on the tight quarter mile in June of 2007 when Robbie Pyle got his first ever series victory. The former ASA Racing Series competitor was a regular competitor at Columbus Motor Speedway for several years before moving up to compete full time with ASA for several seasons. The Columbus native now resides in Illinois but still says Columbus is home. He will be on hand to defend his win this Saturday.

Saturday’s event will be the seventh appearance for the series at Columbus. The series has a very impressive list of winners at Columbus, besides Pyle other winners include Canadian Motorsports Hall of Fame driver Junior Hanley, also Scott Hantz, Bobby Parsley, Jack Landis and Fred Campbell. Hantz is the only other former winner who is entered for Saturday’s race.

2009 Series Champion John VanDoorn comes into Saturday’s event with a 61 point lead over Hantz in series Championship points. VanDoorn became the series first two-time winner in 2010 with his victory in the series last event on August 13^th at Toledo Speedway. Hantz is in second place despite missing the series first event of the season, he has five series events left to catch VanDoorn.

Tommy St. John is currently in third place in series points, he is 19 points behind Hantz. Terry Fisher Jr., is fourth in points, he is only 10 points behind St. John. Rick Turner is fifth in series points, only three points behind Fisher Jr. The rest of the top ten include Jason Dietsch sixth, Brian Campbell seventh, rookie Colin Nickolai eighth, Tyler Roahrig ninth and Jason Shively is tenth. Everyone in the top ten is entered for Saturday’s race except Roahrig and Shively.

Other top series drivers who are entered include Nick Lay, Jim Crabtree and series rookies John Long, Nick Gullatta and Jay Niewiek. There will also be several Ohio drivers competing including Justin Alsip, Mike Rush, Jamie Hunt, Tyler Nuckles, Jared Marks, Sloan Henderson, David Carter, and Rob Jones. Berlin Raceway Outlaw Late Model point’s leader Terry VanHaitsma will make his first Columbus CRA start on Saturday night as will former Illiana Motor Speedway competitor Jack Kalwasinski.

Saturday’s event will be on an earlier time schedule then Columbus Motor Speedway usually has because of a free Blue Oyster Cult Concert that will take place next-door to the track Saturday night. Pits will open at 11am on Saturday, practice will begin at 1pm with CRA qualifying at 3:30pm. The race program will begin at 4pm and will include the 125 lap CRA Super Series event. More information on the event can be found at www.columbusspeedway.com. More information on the CRA Super Series is available at www.craracing.net.