Salem, IN (July 7, 2010) – Three divisions of Champion Racing Association will be in action at Plymouth Speedway this weekend starting with the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts which will have a doubleheader weekend with features on Saturday night and Sunday evening. The CRA Street Stocks will have a 50 lap feature on Sunday’s race card while the CRA Super Series will return to Plymouth for the Summer Championship 200 on Sunday.

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver David Stremme came back to his roots in racing with the CRA Super Series in last years Summer Championship 200 and came away with a very popular victory in front of a packed house, with several fans from Stremme’s home town of South Bend, Indiana in attendance. It was the third CRA win for Stremme, a former full-time competitor with the series before moving up in the stock car racing ranks.

Stremme got the early lead starting from the pole. He restarted 11^th after the break after taking two tires, the cars that took less than two tires restarted in front of him. Stremme worked his way through the field using both the low and high lines then got by Jack Landis for the lead on lap 151. Stremme was able to hold off Landis on several restarts to get the win. Landis got second by inches over a hard charging Aaron Pierce who finished in third, Johnny VanDoorn was fourth and Jason Dietsch fifth. 

Stremme will be returning for Sunday’s event to defend last years win and leads a tough group of competitors entered for the event including Scott Hantz, a three time series winner at Plymouth and JR Roahrig also a former series winner at Plymouth. Other top series entries includes 2009 series Champion and current series point’s leader Johnny VanDoorn, also Brian Campbell, who is tied for second in series points and who won an exciting ASA Late Model Series event at Plymouth on June 26^th.

Other series drivers who are entered include Tommy St. John, who won Saturday night’s series event at Angola Motor Speedway, also Jason Dietsch, Rick Turner, Jason Shively, Kenny Tweedy, Jeff Lane, Eddie Van Meter, Tyler Roahrig, Aaron Pierce, Nick Lay, Jason Shively, Justin Alsip and Caleb Bisacky. A strong group of series rookies are also entered including Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie point’s leader John Long, also Colin Nickolai, Nick Gullatta, Tony Dager and Jay Niewiek.

Several local drivers will also compete in Sunday’s event including Plymouth Outlaw Late Model racer Michael Thayer. Also former Illiana regular Joe O’Connor and Doug Hayes who still competes at Illiana. Mid-west superstar Eddie Hoffman has also filed an entry. Florida native Steve Dorer will compete with the series for the second event in a row, Dorer was the EDCO Welding Fast Qualifier last Saturday at Angola. Minnesota native Joey Miller is also entered.

Tim Dilg comes into this weekend’s events as the point’s leader by 51 points in the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts. Jess Drook is in second with Brian Redmond in third, nine points behind Drook. Leading series rookie Sean Barry is in fourth, nine points behind Redmond with Phil Iliff in fifth place. Dilg finished second in the series season opener at Plymouth to Dave Bice.

Scott Neal has seen his lead in the CRA Street Stock points shrink to just four points after some bad luck in the last two series events. The number 33 car driven primarily by Rich Boyer and one race by Joe Beaver is in second place. Veteran Ft. Wayne racer Steve Christman is third in points, with Jeff Lane fourth and Brian Hopkins in fifth. Neal finished second in the series season opener at Plymouth to Illinois native Josh Nelms. The series has had six different winners in the six events held to far this season.

Plymouth Speedway will have open practice this Saturday, July 10th for any CRA cars. Pit gates open at 11am, open practice will go from 1pm until 4pm. There will also be another half hour for CRA Super Series cars from 4:30pm until 5pm, and another 20 minute practice during the intermission of the Saturday night show at Plymouth. Qualifying on Saturday will start at 5:30 with the race program starting at 7:30pm and will include a 25 lap feature event for the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts.

On Sunday pits will open at 11am. Practice will begin at 1:30pm with qualifying starting at 4pm. The race program will begin at 6pm with a 25 lap feature for the Vore’s Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts, followed by a 50 lap feature for the CRA Street Stocks, then the Summer Championship 200 for the CRA Super Series. More event information can be found at www.plymouthspeedway.net. More information on all the CRA Series is available at www.craracing.net.