| |
Sterkowitz and
Poore Win Convincingly at Anderson Speedway
Anderson, IN (April 23, 2011) –
Keith Sterkowitz narrowly
avoided a couple of early accidents when others bounced off walls and
spun in front of him to patiently work his way through the field on
his way to the Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman win. On the same
night Josh Poore started 12th, pushed through the field to
get to the front took the lead on the 40th lap to win the
EDCO Welding CRA Street Stocks feature at Anderson Speedway.
Bret Miles, Jr. set
fast time for the Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman with a time of
13.246 seconds just .035 seconds ahead of Sterkowitz to earn the
Allstar Performance Fast Qualifier Award. Miles then drew a 10 for the
invert putting Anderson veteran Jason Atkinson on the pole.
Atkinson, coming off his win at the Cabin Fever 200
race at Plymouth Speedway, took the early lead as craziness happened
behind him. As Atkinson came through the fourth turn on his second
lap, Miles, Rick Rinehart and other cars came together as they raced
toward the third turn nearly catching Sterkowitz up in the accident.
Miles and Rinehart hit the corner by the entrance to the track from
the pits. Both drivers hit the wall head on and Miles spun down onto
the track and collected Mark Livesay in the accident. All the drivers
were uninjured.
Following the restart Damon Ecoff seemed to have
handling problems as he nearly spun a couple of times in the next two
laps and on the fourth lap disaster struck again as he spun when he
was hit from behind in the middle of a large pack of cars causing an
accident that collected several the of the fastest cars on the track.
But again Sterkowitz slipped through. "I saw a car starting to spin
out there and I kept thinking, don’t spin now don’t spin now as I came
through there." Sterkowitz said later.
KC Spillers took the lead from Atkinson on the
eighth lap just before another couple of caution periods. Spillers was
able to hold the lead until just after taking the crossed flags
marking half way when the caution flag few again. Sterkowitz then in
second pulled past him for a lead he would not give up on the restart.
A flurry of restarts in the closing laps gave
Atkinson a chance to take the lead, but Sterkowitz was too strong as
he took the Turn One High Performance Steering Award for leading the
most laps.
"I had a good car tonight!" Sterkowitz
commented. "We worked on it all day, my crew chief Bobby Blount,
and the car owner John Marshall set this car up, we could go high or
low it was great."
Rookie Contender Chris Parker took the AFCO Racing
Products Hardcharger and Racing Electronics Hardcharger Awards moving
up 22 places after starting 31 finishing ninth in for his first
Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman Top Ten finish. Mark Livesay took
home the DJ Safety Hard Luck Award. Jason Atkinson, Rookie contender
Lucas Krick and Randy Hoppes won the heat races to kick off racing on
this Saturday night.
The EDCO Welding CRA Street Stocks Allstar
Performance Fast Qualifier Josh Poore set a new track record turning a
lap of 13.766 seconds over Josh Myers. He then drew a 12 for the
invert putting Anderson Speedway veteran Rob Allman on the pole. On
the first lap Allman traded paint
with Danny Smith who started on the outside of him causing Allman to
develop a flat tire, and the first caution as Allman came to stop on
the track.
Smith led the first 25 laps until Dave Bice passed
him just after the halfway point pulling Poore with him. Poore looked
high and low to get around Bice, but could not find a way to get past
him until Bice slowed on the 39th lap and dropped out
trailing a cloud of smoke on the 40th lap. From there Poore
pulled away, slowed just once due to the race 's
fourth caution on the 44th lap.
"I knew after I drew that 12, I was going to have to
be aggressive about moving up to get this win." Poore stated
from Victory Lane.
For leading the most laps Danny Smith received Turn
One High Performance Steering Award. Smith also earned a set of wires
from Taylor Cable Products for his second place finish. Poore took
home the Crumrine Buckle Manufacturing custom belt buckle for winning.
Billy Van Meter started 23rd
and finished 10th earning the TCI
Automotive Hardcharger Award. The DJ Safety Hard Luck Award went to
Shawn Amor. David Bice, Randy Hoppes and Frankie Oakes won the EDCO
Welding Street Stocks heat races. It was Hoppes second heat race win
of the night after he also won his Late Model Sportsman heat.
The next
Champion Racing Association event will be the CRA Super Series, in the
Manning Service 100, EDCO Welding CRA Street Stocks with a 40 lap
feature event and Vore’s Welding and Steel FWD Compacts 20 lap feature
at Winchester Speedway on Sunday, May 1. The next Sullivan RV CRA Late
Model Sportsman’s next event will be back at Anderson Speedway on May
14. For more information about any CRA division go to
www.craracing.net. For more about
Winchester Speedway see
www.winchesterspeedway.com. Anderson Speedway
information can be found at
www.andersonspeedway.com.
Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman Official Results
EDCO Welding CRA Street Stock Official Results
Atkinson, Krick and Hoppes Win Sullivan RV Heat Races
Jason Atkinson took the
Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman fast heat over KC Spillers to open the racing at Anderson Speedway.
Rookie contender Lucas Krick raced to the win in the second heat over
Nick Moore, with Randy Hoppes taking the third heat over Mike Horvath.
Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman Heat Race Results
Bice, Hoppes and Win EDCO Welding Heats
David Bice won the first EDCO Welding CRA Street Stocks heat race over
Nick Moore. Doing double duty Randy Hoppes took his second heat
race win of the night winning the second heat over Danny Smith.
EDCO Welding CRA Street Stock Heat Race Results
Miles and Poore Set Fast Times
Bret Miles, Jr. set fast time for the Sullivan RV CRA Late Model
Sportsman with a lap of 13.246 seconds. Keith Sterkowitz was
second at 13.281, Mark Lambert third, Rick Sullivan fourth and Terry
Cater was fifth. Miles then drew a 10 for the invert putting
Jason Atkinson on pole with William Mefford on the outside of the
front row.
Josh Poore broke the track record for the EDCO Welding CRA Street
Stocks at Anderson Speedway with a lap of 13.766 seconds, Josh Myers
was second at 13.857 seconds. Shawn Amor was third, Brian
Hopkins was fourth and Jeff Lane fifth. Poore drew a 12 for the
invert putting Rob Allman on the pole.
Sullivan RV CRA Late Model Sportsman Qualifying Results
EDCO Welding CRA Street Stock Qualifying Results
|
|
