"Tonight was the toughest race I have ran all year." Hantz stated. "I need to thank my car owner, Dick Poe for all he has done to make this possible. And tonight we had Klotz (Synthetic Lubricants) in the engine, it works."

Hantz set fast time in qualifying to win the EDCO Welding Fast Qualifier Award, with a time of 17.274 seconds over .134 seconds faster than second fast qualifier Landis. By setting fast time and winning the race Hantz also took the Competition Race Fuels Clean Sweep Award, which had grown to $400 after not having a winner since Hantz won it May 17^th. He then drew a six putting Kenny Tweedy on the pole.

JR Roahrig ran out from the green flag to take the lead from his outside front row starting position and held on to it from the pole position. Meanwhile, Kugler was moving on the outside, passing cars several each lap. He took the lead from Roahrig going around on the outside on the 34^th lap. Kugler held that lead until Hantz took over on the 48^th lap. By leading at halfway, Hantz also received the Kingen Interstate Express Halfway Leader Award. "I think we had something for Scott there at the end if we had not had that last yellow." Dietsch said.

Racing for the Top 5 positions was intense between Dietsch, Kugler, VanDoorn, Landis, Roahrig and Al Cook, Jr. Each moving up and back behind Hantz. Landis slid sideways with-in the last few laps after contact and made a tremendous save to finish fifth.

Kugler and Cook won the Hoosier Racing Tire Performance Awards, with Cook also winning the Lane Automotive/ISKY Racing Cams Hard Charger Award for moving up to sixth from his 16^th starting position. For his move to take the lead Hantz won the ARP Bodies Cool Move of the Race Award.

Nick Lay won the K & N Filters Rookie of the Race. The VDL Fuel Systems Hot Lap of the Race of the Award for the fastest lap during the race was turned by JR Roahrig.

Official Results

Bob Smith took the win in the Vore’s Welding and Steel CRA FWD Compacts portion of the events, beating teammate Mark Mason. Third Was Justin Brown, fourth Nathan Thomas, and fifth was Cary Abrell.

Smith set fast time in qualifying. The invert put Chuck Agnew on the pole. On the opening lap, Nathan Thomas roared through the crowd of cars as they quickly started running three abreast. Thomas came out as the early leader and held the lead until the eighth lap when Smith took the lead. Jeff Williams and Brian Brewer won the heat races.

The next event for the CRA Super Series will be the Radisson Hotel Riverfront Grand Rapids 125 at Berlin Raceway near Grand Rapids, MI on October 10th. The Super Series was originally scheduled to race at Berlin Raceway on August 8^th, but the race was postponed due to weather. This will be the ninth series event at Berlin, including the second this year. The Rowdy Busch 125 in June was won by local hero Brian Campbell, for his second CRA Super Series win at his home race track. Kyle Busch finished fifth in that event, Scott Hantz sixth and current CRA Super Series point leader Johnny VanDoorn finished seventh at his home track. More information about Berlin Raceway is available at www.berlinraceway.com

The next event for the Vore’s Welding and Steel CRA FWD Compacts will be at Winchester Speedway as part of the Old Timers Weekend that will also feature the HOSS Winged Sprints and USAC National Sprint Cars as well as the CRA Street Stock and the Howe CRA Late Model Sportsman. The New Stars 20 on Saturday, October 3^rd is a 20 lap non-points feature open to all cars and drivers that have not finished in the top three in a series feature at Winchester during the 2008 or 2009 seasons and have not won any CRA feature events during the 2009 season. Then the next afternoon on October 4^th there will be a Vore’s Welding and Steel 20 regular point race. For more information about Winchester Speedway see www.winchesterspeedway.com. Information about all of the CRA divisions can be found at www.craracing.net.