Salem, IN (October 8, 2010) – With a second half of the season surge, Ohio driver Nick Gullatta heads into the final CRA Super Series points event of the season next weekend with a 47 point lead in the Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie of the Year Standings. Gullatta looks to add his name to the list of outstanding racers who have been CRA Super Series Rookie of the Year Award winners, which started with Spanks Overbeck in 1998. The other former series Rookie of the Year Award winners since then include 1999 winner Peter Cozzolino, 2000 winner Scott Hantz, 2001 winner Joel Kauffman, 2002 winner Andy Ponstein, 2003 winner Chuck Barnes Jr., 2004 winner Chris Gabehart, 2005 winner Tommy St. John, 2006 winner Danny Jackson, 2007 winner John Van Doorn, 2008 winner Aaron Pierce, and 2009 winner Tyler Roahrig.

Next weekend’s 39^th Annual Winchester 400 Presented By EDCO Welding & Hydraulics and WMDH will be the 12^th points event of the 2010 season. The highest finishing registered rookie in the Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie of the Year Standings, which will be the driver who accumulates the most points in their best 10 series point races of the 12 events held in 2010, will receive the Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie of the Year Award at the 2010 Champion Racing Association Awards Banquet.

Gullatta’s adjusted points to date are 645, his two lowest point events that he has dropped so far are a 0 in an event he missed and a 50. Fellow Ohio driver Colin Nickolai is in second place with 598 adjusted points, Nickolai is the only rookie to compete in every series points event during the season. 16-year-old Michigan driver Jay Niewiek is in third place with 590 adjusted points. Niewiek missed the first two point events of the season and is competing in his first season in a full size racecar. Early season rookie points leader John Long of Michigan has fallen to fourth place in points with 554 adjusted points after missing three series events so far this season.

Gullatta’s R & D Racing Team, owned by Stan and Judi Rosen, has made a complete turn around from earlier in the season when the team struggled to even be competitive. The team has been the Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie of the Race Award winner five of the last seven series events and had a series high finish of fourth at the August 13^th Toledo Speedway event and a ninth place finish at Columbus Motor Speedway.

Long has been the Perfect Circle Racecars Rookie of the Race Award winner at three series events to date. Niewiek has won the award at two events this season including last week’s 200 lap All American 400 event at the legendary Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville. Tony Dager won the award at the series season opener at Anderson Speedway in April.

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