Winchester, IN (September 17, 2007) - In 2006, Owensboro, Kentucky native Beau Mitchell dominated the CRA Street Stocks at Winchester Speedway, winning five races in a row including the 2006 MAX Rocks 200.  This season, bad luck has plagued him at Winchester and had kept him out of victory lane. Mitchell started near the tail of the of Sunday’s MAX Rocks 200 at Winchester Speedway, patiently moving through traffic leading a little early, then taking the lead on the 103rd lap and staying there to get the win and the $5000 first place money. 

"We got into a couple of pinches early, but it all went right and we missed the spins.  Then we short pitted so we would be ahead when everyone else pitted later and it all worked."  A jubilant Mitchell said from Victory Lane.

Mitchell was able to hold off fellow Owensboro native Brett Hudson who raced in the lead pack through out the event. Mitchell made a late bump and run on Calvin Parham to move into second, but could never get a run on Mitchell and had to settle for second in his first ever race on the High Banks of Winchester Speedway.

Veteran Salem Speedway race Chuck Barnes Sr. made a late pass also on Parham to get third. Barnes Sr.’s car made slight contact with the wall in an incident early in the event, which seemed to slow the car some for the remainder of the event. Parham would finish in fourth in the #21 Steve Davis owned machine to keep Davis’s car in the CRA Street Stock Championship points lead with only two events remaining in the 2007 season.

Chuck Cook fought a hard battle over the last part of the event with Brian Hopkins to finish in fifth place. Hopkins would finish in sixth with Carl Muffley in seventh, Johnny Magee in eighth and Tom Gossar in ninth, the last car to complete all 200 laps. Brian Bayer finished in tenth, one lap down.

The MAX Rocks 200 was another exciting event that saw 49 CRA Street Stocks take the green flag and battle through out the race with exciting racing action from the front to the back, showcasing the great talent that the drivers in this series possess.

In the Vore's Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts Winchester 75 Farmland, Indiana native Brian Redmond started near the tail, pitted once and restarted on the tail, was placed at the rear following a caution at lap 69 and still came back to get the win and the $1500 first place prize. 

"This was our Daytona 500, the biggest race of the year.  I'm not up there in the points due to a couple DNF's early in the season, so I really wanted to win this race, " a very happy Redmond stated. "I want to thank my sponsor Vore’s Welding & Steel, this win goes out to all the safety workers here at Winchester Speedway."

Redmon, a safety worker at Winchester Speedway himself when not racing, had pulled to the rear bumper of first place running Matt Norm when the two-made contact going into turn one resulting in Norm slamming the turn one wall hard, ending his day after leading several laps.

"I want to apologize to Norm for the contact," remarked Redmon. "I had a great run, I don’t know if something happened to his car or if he just checked up, but he slowed suddenly and I couldn’t stop and ran into the back of him."

Redmon was placed at the rear of the lead cars for the restart with only five laps left in the event. Redmon charged to the front to regain the lead and get the victory. Kevin Claborn racing at Winchester for the first time this year, finished second, Bill Leisure third, series point leader Greg De St. Jean fourth and Justin Kelley fifth.

The next event at Winchester Speedway will be the season ending 36^th Annual Winchester 400 Weekend Presented By Ed Martin Auto Group and Renegade on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 12^th, 13^th and 14^th with racing action from the Vore's Welding & Steel CRA FWD Compacts, CRA Street Stocks, Howe CRA Sportsman, US PRO Series, The Run For The Gun Shootout between the American Modifieds and the USA Modifieds and the CRA Super Series in the Winchester 400 with NASCAR Nextel Cup drivers David Stremme and Kyle Busch. For additional information and to purchase advance tickets go to www.winchesterspeedway.com.

Photos by Todd Ridgeway