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CRA Southern
Six-Pack Tour to Begin This Weekend at Gresham Motorsports Park
Salem, IN (March 9, 2010) –
The CRA Southern Six-Pack Tour is set to begin with the Gresham 125
this Saturday at Gresham Motorsports Park in Jefferson, Georgia. The
event will also be the season opener for Gresham Motorsports Park,
formally know as Peach State Speedway, which went through a
multi-million dollar renovation last year, and is now one of the
premier short tracks in the country.
The CRA Southern Six-Pack Tour events
will also include the CRA All-Star Twin 150’s
 Weekend
on May 21 at Tri-County Motor Speedway and May 23rd at
Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina, a return trip to Gresham
Motorsports Park on July 17th and the North/South Shootout
at Concord Speedway in North Carolina on November 6th. The
sixth event in the tour will be announced very soon. All the Tour
events will be point’s events towards the crowning of the inaugural
CRA Southern Six-Pack Tour Champion. There will be awards for the top
ten in Tour points.
To date 27 cars have filed entries
for this weekends events, with many of the top late model drivers in
Georgia and from around the country participating. The winner of
Saturday’s event will earn an automatic starting position in the 2010
World Crown 300 at Gresham on November 14th, which will
return as a Super Late Model event this year after being a Pro Late
Model event the past couple of seasons. Both CRA events will be part
of the GMP Super Series, which will include Super Late Model events on
June 19th and September 18th, those events will
be organized and ran by Gresham Motorsports Park.
There will be an open practice on
Friday with gates opening at 2pm with rotating practice going from 4
to 9pm. Pit gates open for the CRA Southern Six-Pack Tour on Saturday
at 10am. Practice will begin at 1pm with qualifying for the Gresham
125 at 5:45pm. The race program will begin at 7pm. Advanced tickets
for Saturday’s event are now on sale. Advance Ticket Phone Orders are
available by calling the Gresham Motorsports Park office at
706-367-9461 or advanced tickets can be purchased on line at
www.greshammotorsportspark.com.
More information on the CRA Super
Series and the CRA Southern Six-Pack Tour is available at
www.craracing.net.
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