| Cometic Gasket to Continue its Support of the ARCA/CRA Super Series for 2022 Salem, IN (January 13, 2022) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials announced today that Cometic Gasket will continue its support of the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS for the 2022 race season, the 26th season of competition for the ARCA/CRA Super Series and Champion Racing Association. Cometic Gasket will once again be the Official Gasket of the ARCA/CRA Super Series and will be involved in several programs supporting the series’ racers throughout the season. Cometic Gasket has been a valued supporter of the ARCA/CRA Super Series for several seasons. “It’s always great to have the continued support of a company like Cometic Gasket,” remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner of the ARCA/CRA Super Series. “We greatly appreciate Cometic’s support of our series in the past and for the upcoming 2022 season. We look forward to another successful season with the help of committed sponsors like Cometic Gasket!” Cometic Gasket will be involved as a Product Contingency sponsor at each series’ event during the 2022 season. Cometic Gasket will award a $50 Product Certificate to the eighth-place finisher at every series event. In addition, Cometic Gasket will award the second-highest finishing Rookie Contender at each event with a $25 Product Certificate. At the 2022 Champion Racing Association Awards Banquet, Cometic Gasket will award a $200 Product Certificate to the eighth-place finisher in final series points, a $200 Product Certificate to the highest finishing Rookie Contender and a $200 Product Certificate that will be given away by random draw from the 2022 ARCA/CRA Super Series Chase for the Championship competitors. Cometic Gasket will also support the series with year-end cash award bonuses again in 2022. Cometic Gasket will award an $600 Season Hardcharger Award bonus to the driver in the top 15 in series’ points who advances the most positions during the 2022 season. Cometic Gasket will award the 2022 ARCA/CRA Super Series Rookie of the Year with a $500 cash bonus. Cometic Gasket will also award a $300 Cometic Gasket Hard Luck Award bonus to the driver in the top 10 in final series’ points with the most DNF’s during the 2022 season. Sammy Smith was awarded the Cometic Gasket 2021 Season Hardcharger Award bonus for advancing the most positions during the 2021 season. Josh Ebbert received the Cometic Gasket Rookie Award Bonus for being the series’ 2021 Rookie of the Year. Michael Simko was awarded the Cometic Gasket Hard Luck Award bonus for the most DNF’s during the 2021 season. Cometic Gasket, Inc. is a leading worldwide supplier of gaskets and engine sealing solutions for the Automotive Performance, Powersports, Original Equipment and Remanufactured Engine Industries. “Cometic’s relationship with the ARCA/CRA Super Series dates back several years and we were eager to renew our commitment in 2022,” said Cometic Gasket Founder and CEO Bob Gorman. “We’ve supported grass-roots racing since we opened our doors in 1989 and we’ve maintained that commitment ever since. Cometic is a home-grown, Midwest-headquartered company so our association with the ARCA/CRA Super Series has always been a great fit. It’s a great platform and we’re proud to support the series and its competitors.” Housed in a 70,000 square-foot, state-of-the-art R&D and manufacturing center in Concord, Ohio, Cometic Gasket has maintained its deep roots in the performance industry while expanding to service the Domestic Automotive, Sport Compact, V-twin, Marine, Diesel, Agricultural, Industrial and Stationary Power markets. Cometic combines advanced materials with the most current manufacturing processes to provide custom-tailored solutions to meet the needs of each individual customer. Engineers analyze the environment in which the gasket will perform, select the proper material, and apply the appropriate technology to offer the best-performing gaskets available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Cometic gaskets are the industry standard for championship-winning teams across multiple disciplines of both professional and amateur motorsports. For more information about Cometic, visit www.cometic.com. Additional information on the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS is available at www.cra-racing.com. Top Notch Fabrication to Sponsor Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Fast Qualifier Award at SpeedFest 2022 Salem, IN (January 12, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have announced that Top Notch Fabrication will be the Fast Qualifier Award sponsor for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS event with SpeedFest 2022 Presented by Racing America, which will take place at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on Friday, January 28th and Saturday January 29th. Top Notch Fabrication will award the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Fast Qualifier with a $200 cash bonus. This will be the first time the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks have been a part of the SpeedFest event. Top Notch Fabrication, LLC., located in Painesville, OH, is a welding and fabrication shop, and are huge supporters of street stock racing. More information on Top Notch Fabrication is available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/Top-Notch-Fabrication-LLC or by calling (440) 551-9719. There are currently entries from seven different states for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks special event with SpeedFest 2022, including Painesville, Ohio natives Billy Roberts and Earl Goldy, who are both sponsored by Top Notch Fabrication. SpeedFest 2022 will consist of a $12,000 to win co-sanctioned ARCA/CRA Super Series and Southern Super Series 150 lap Super Late Model non-points event, the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event, the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event and Legend Cars will also be featured in a 25 lap feature. There will be an optional open test for all SpeedFest 2022 divisions on Thursday, January 27th, pits will open at 9am with rotating practice sessions going from 12noon until 5pm. Cost for the test is $100 per car, that will include up to six pit passes for Thursday. Friday, January 28 will feature practice and pole day for all five classes with on track activity beginning at 11:30 AM. Saturday, January 29 will be feature day with all five of the main events. Saturday will begin with an autograph session at 11:30 AM with racing at 1:00 PM. Advance sale discount tickets are available for $25 and includes Friday’s practice/pole day as well as feature day Saturday. Tickets will be $5 more at the track on race day. To purchase tickets or to view more detailed info, visit www.trackenterprises.com and www.crispmotorsportspark.com. Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stock teams are reminded that January 22nd is the advanced entry deadline for SpeedFest 2022, teams entering after that date will have to pay an additional $25 for a late entry fee. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com.
PitBoxes.com to Continue Pit Crew Award Programs with CRA for 2022 Salem, IN (January 11, 2022) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have announced that PitBoxes.com will continue to support CRA teams with the ARCA/CRA Super Series Super Powered by JEGS and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance for the upcoming 2022 race season. For the seventh season in a row PitBoxes.com will continue its Pit Crew Award Programs with both series. “This is our chance to continue to directly connect with the crew members,” said Pitboxes.com Owner Ricky Sanders. “The drivers get a lot of the recognition, and rightfully so, but at Pitboxes.com we relate to the hard-working crew members who are the driving force behind much of a car’s success. We look forward to partnering with CRA again on this award and look forward to recognizing some of the awesome crews out there.” CRA officials will be looking to honor the pit crews that really put forth an extraordinary effort to get a good finish at each series event. The Pitboxes.com Pit Crew of the Race at each event will be awarded with a $200 Product Certificate from Pitboxes.com. At the end of the season, each series will recognize a Pitboxes.com Pit Crew of the Year, each of those pit crews will receive a $1,000 Product Certificate from Pitboxes.com, which will be presented at the 2022 CRA Awards Banquet. The R & D Racing, owned by Stan and Judi Rosen with driver Kyle Crump, was the Pitboxes.com Pit Crew of the Year with the ARCA/CRA Super Series last season, while the Blackmer Motorsports team owned by Michael Blackmer with driver Andrew Scheid was the Pitboxes.com Pit Crew of the Year with the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour. “This is a fantastic award that Ricky has come up with,” remarked Glenn Luckett, Managing Partner with CRA. “As much as this sport focuses on the driver, stock car racing is still a team sport. Without a hard-working pit crew, the driver is just not going to do well in our races. CRA is extremely competitive racing and it takes a good, dedicated pit crew to finish at the top each week or to make the best of a bad situation that has happened!” With the popularity of the internet, Pitboxes.com was launched in 1999 with a goal to specialize in fabricating a high-quality line of standard and custom pit boxes. Since that time the boxes have gained such popularity that they have become standard equipment for almost any racer from Go Karters to Motorcycles to Upper levels of motorsports and everything in between. The products offered by Pitboxes.com has also changed quite a bit over the years having started with a stick built steel frame with a store bought toolbox to a much more modern process of CAD drawn, Laser Cut, Computer formed, all aluminum construction, with an in house built drawer system that is built to withstand not only the use by the race teams but also the many miles on the highway that a race team has to do going from race to race. If you are a pro, amateur or even new to the racing profession Pitboxes.com is very proud to offer you a world class pit box or pit cart! Pitboxes.com manufactures a complete line of standard pit boxes, custom pit boxes, and pit carts to fit your particular needs and requirements. Pitboxes.com is located in Stockbridge GA and their boxes are manufactured right here in the USA. Pitboxes have been shipped all over the world and Pitboxes.com can custom create anything you have in mind for your own pit box. Give Pitboxes.com a call and let them create your dream PITBOX! More Information on PitBoxes.com is available at www.pitboxes.com. Additional information on all the CRA Series is available at www.cra-racing.com. Flat Rock Speedway and Grundy County Speedway added to 2022 JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Schedule Salem, IN. (January 4, 2022) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have announced the two TBA dates that were listed on the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance 2022 schedule, when it was officially released on December 10th. The series will visit Flat Rock Speedway in Flat Rock, Michigan on Saturday, June 18th and will visit Grundy County Speedway in Morris, Illinois on Friday, July 22nd. The June 18th event at Flat Rock Speedway will be the series first ever event at that track that has been a staple of the ARCA/CRA Super Series for many seasons. The 125-lap event will be a combo points event for both the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour with a winner declared for both series, similar to what both series did in 2019 and 2021 at Berlin Raceway. The very racy ¼ mile track has seen some great ARCA/CRA Super Series events in the past featuring tight side by side racing. NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitor Carson Hocevar won the ARCA/CRA Super Series event at Flat Rock Speedway in 2021, Brian Bergakker got his first ever CRA win at that event in 2019, Brian Campbell won in 2017, Hunter Baize won in 2015, Travis Braden won in 2014, Scott Hantz won in 2013 and 2012, the first two years the series raced at Flat Rock. Flat Rock Speedway was on the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour schedule in 2019 and 2020, but the series never got to actually have an event at the track. The 2019 event ended up being canceled twice because of weather. The 2020 event was canceled because of COVID. The July 22nd Chicagoland Showdown 100 presented by McMahon Transport at Grundy County Speedway will be the series first ever event at that track. The ARCA/CRA Super Series had one event at the 1/3-mile-high banked oval on June 12th, 2005. 43 cars showed up for the event with several local cars trying to get their first ever CRA win that day. Wausau, Wisconsin native Jeremy Lepak picked up the win in the 125-lap event in his first ever start with the series. Multi-time Grundy County Speedway Track Champion Eddie Hoffman is a nine-time winner with the ARCA/CRA Super Series and a two-time winner with the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour, he was the track's 2021 Late Model Champion. “CRA reached out to us about having an event, and the deal came together pretty quickly with the help of McMahon Transport,” remarked Grundy County Speedway Promoter Steve Bechtel. “We are excited to bring this show to the fans in the Chicagoland area!” The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour has competed in the state of Illinois once prior, that event took place in the series inaugural season in 2011 at Rockford Speedway. Current NASCAR Cup Series driver Erik Jones got the win that day on his way to claiming the series 2011 inaugural Championship. “We are really looking forward to having JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour events at Flat Rock Speedway and Grundy County Speedway during the 2022 season,” remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner with CRA. “Both tracks have a ton of history and put on great races. Both tracks bring a lot to the great diversity to the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour 2022 schedule!” The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour will kick off it’s 2022 season in a special non-points 100 lap event as part of SpeedFest 2022 at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on January 28th and 29th. More information on the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour is available at www.cra-racing.com. Luke Yoder Construction to Sponsor JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Fast Qualifier Award at SpeedFest 2022 Salem, IN (December 30, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have announced that Luke Yoder Construction will return as the Fast Qualifier Award sponsor for the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance event with SpeedFest 2022, which will take place at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on Friday, January 28th and Saturday January 29th. Luke Yoder Construction will award that driver with a $400 cash bonus. This will be the ninth year that Luke Yoder Construction has sponsored that award. Luke Yoder Construction is your trusted source for superior new home construction and home improvements provided with personable, courteous service. They have more than 10 years of experience in providing construction solutions for residential and commercial customers throughout the greater Perry and Montezuma, Georgia communities. They are fully licensed and insured for your protection and peace of mind. More information on Luke Yoder Construction is available at www.lukeyoderconstruction.com, on FaceBook at www.facebook.com/luke.yoder.397 or by calling 478-952-3420. SpeedFest 2022 will consist of a $12,000 to win co-sanctioned ARCA/CRA Super Series and Southern Super Series 150 lap Super Late Model non-points event, the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event, the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event and Legend Cars will also be featured in a 25 lap feature. There will be an optional open test for all SpeedFest 2022 divisions on Thursday, January 27th, pits will open at 9am with rotating practice sessions going from 12noon until 5pm. Cost for the test is $100 per car, that will include up to six pit passes for Thursday. Friday, January 28 will feature practice and pole day for all five classes with on track activity beginning at 11:30 AM. Saturday, January 29 will be feature day with all five of the main events. Saturday will begin with an autograph session at 11:30 AM with racing at 1:00 PM. Advance sale discount tickets are available for $25 and includes Friday’s practice/pole day as well as feature day Saturday. Tickets will be $5 more at the track on race day. To purchase tickets or to view more detailed info, visit www.trackenterprises.com and www.crispmotorsportspark.com. Teams are reminded that January 15th is the advanced entry deadline for SpeedFest 2022, teams entering after that date will have to pay an additional $50 for a late entry fee. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com. Earnest Performance to Sponsor SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model Fast Qualifier Award Salem, IN (December 28, 2021) – ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS and the Southern Super Series Presented by Sunoco Race Fuel officials have announced that Earnest Performance will return as the Fast Qualifier Award sponsor for the Super Late Model event with SpeedFest 2022, which will take place at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on Friday, January 28th and Saturday January 29th. Earnest Performance will award that driver with a $500 cash bonus. This will be the second year that Earnest Performance has sponsored that award. Earnest Performance offers a full-service in-house shock program, from sales to service to at-track advising. Complete shock and bumpstop packages are available as well as shock rebuilds and tailored shock programs for racers of all disciplines. Earnest Performance supports many of the top Super Late Model teams all over the country. As was announced this last week, the SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model event, which is a co-sanctioned special non-points event for the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the Southern Super Series, will now be 150 laps and will pay the winner $12,000. The entire Super Late Model purse was raised after making it a 150 green flag lap event and an anonymous sponsor added a $5,000 bonus to the winner making the winners payoff $12,000 for the event. The format for the SpeedFest 2022 150 Super Late Model event will be 150 green flag laps, teams will have six tires total for the event and there will be Controlled Cautions. SpeedFest 2022 will also include the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event, the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event and Legend Cars will also be featured in a 25 lap feature. There will be an optional open test for all SpeedFest divisions on Thursday, January 27th, pits will open at 9am with rotating practice sessions going from 12noon until 5pm. Cost for the test is $100 per car, that will include up to six pit passes for Thursday. Friday, January 28 will feature practice and pole day for all five classes with on track activity beginning at 11:30 AM. Saturday, January 29 will be feature day with all five of the main events. Saturday will begin with an autograph session at 11:30 AM with racing at 1:00 PM. Advance sale discount tickets are available for $25 and includes Friday’s practice/pole day as well as feature day Saturday. Tickets will be $5 more at the track on race day. To purchase tickets or to view more detailed info, visit www.trackenterprises.com and www.crispmotorsportspark.com. Teams are reminded that January 15th is the advanced entry deadline for SpeedFest 2022, teams entering after that date will have to pay an additional $50 for a late entry fee. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com. More information on the Southern Super Series is available at www.southernsuperseries.com. NASCAR’s Erik Jones Tops Talented List of Early SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model Entries Salem, Indiana (December 22, 2021) – NASCAR Cup Series competitor Erik Jones tops the talented list of early entries to date for the upcoming Super Late Model event at SpeedFest 2022 Presented by Racing America, that will take place at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia Friday, January 28th and Saturday January 29th. As was announced this past Monday, the SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model event, which is a co-sanctioned special non-points event for the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the Southern Super Series, will now be 150 laps and will pay the winner $12,000. The entire Super Late Model purse was raised after making it a 150 green flag lap event and an anonymous sponsor added a $5,000 bonus to the winner making the winners payoff $12,000 for the event. Jones was the inaugural JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Champion in 2011. Shortly after that he started his climb in NASCAR, going from the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series where he was the 2015 Champion, to the NASCAR Xfinity Series and moved up to the NASCAR Cup Series where he started racing full-time in 2017. Jones has two NASCAR Cup Series wins to date, one at Daytona in 2018 and one at Darlington in 2019. He was a nine-time winner in the Xfinity Series and a seven time winner in the NASCAR Trucks. Jones has always loved Super Late Model racing, winning the Winchester 400 three times, including the JEGS Triple Crown in 2015 when he won the Battle at Berlin 251, the Redbud 400 and the Winchester 400 to collect the $100,000 Triple Crown bonus. Jones is also a former Snowball Derby and Governor’s Cup winner. After seven years of not racing in a Super Late Model, Jones returned to make selected starts at the end of the 2021 season and will make selected starts again in 2022, starting with SpeedFest 2022. “I’m really looking forward to getting back to SpeedFest at Watermelon Capital Speedway,” remarked Jones. “We’ve had some good runs there and I really enjoy all the people down there as well. We’ve only got a few races in this new super late model and are just coming off a good run at the Derby, so I’m hoping to go to SpeedFest and knock out our first win at the beginning of the season. There is always a great group of drivers there, so it’s definitely another trophy that I want!” NASCAR Camping World Truck Series competitor Carson Hocevar is entered for SpeedFest 2022. Hocevar was in the Chase for the Truck Series Championship in 2021 and is signed to compete full-time in that series again in 2022. Hocevar won the Redbud 400 and Winchester 400 during the 2020 season, two of five ARCA/CRA Super Series victories he had that season. One of the top Super Late Model drivers in the country, Stephen Nasse, is also entered for SpeedFest 2022. The former two-time Southern Super Series Champion, Bristol Short Track Nationals and Winchester 400 winner looks to start off the 2022 season with his first ever win in the Super Late Model portion of SpeedFest. Nasse won the 2020 JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Pro Late Model event at SpeedFest. 16-year-old Georgia hot shoe Jake Garcia has already entered for SpeedFest 2022. Garcia was the 2021 Southern Super Series Champion as well as the Blizzard Series Champion at Five Flags Speedway. Garcia was the Allen Turner Pro Late Model Series Champion at Five Flags Speedway in 2019. Garcia picked up his first Super late Model victory this past season in the Southern Super Series event on August 14th at Watermelon Capital Speedway. 2016 ARCA/CRA Super Series Champion Cody Coughlin has filed an entry for SpeedFest 2022. Coughlin, who was the 2021 JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Champion, his series leading fourth Championship, will do double duty entering both the 150 lap Super Late Model event and the 100 lap JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Pro Late Model event. Former Redbud 400 winner Steve Dorer has also filed an entry for both the SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Pro Late Model event. Dorer has two ARCA/CRA Super Series victories and two JEGS/CRA-Stars Tour victories on his resume along with several big wins in his native Florida. The format for the SpeedFest 2022 150 Super Late Model event will be 150 green flag laps, teams will have six tires total for the event and there will be Controlled Cautions. SpeedFest 2022 will also include the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event, the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event and Legend Cars will also be featured in a 25 lap feature. There will be an optional open test for all SpeedFest divisions on Thursday, January 27th, pits will open at 9am with rotating practice sessions going from 12noon until 5pm. Cost for the test is $100 per car, that will include up to six pit passes for Thursday. Friday, January 28 will feature practice and pole day for all five classes with on track activity beginning at 11:30 AM. Saturday, January 29 will be feature day with all five of the main events. Saturday will begin with an autograph session at 11:30 AM with racing at 1:00 PM. Advance sale discount tickets are available for $25 and includes Friday’s practice/pole day as well as feature day Saturday. Tickets will be $5 more at the track on race day. To purchase tickets or to view more detailed info, visit www.trackenterprises.com and www.crispmotorsportspark.com. Teams are reminded that January 15th is the advanced entry deadline for SpeedFest 2022, teams entering after that date will have to pay an additional $50 for a late entry fee. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com. More information on the Southern Super Series is available at www.southernsuperseries.com. SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model Feature Winners Payoff Up to $12,000 Super Late Model Feature Format Revamped to 150 Laps Salem, Indiana (December 20, 2021) – Track Enterprises, the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS, and the Southern Super Series Presented by Sunoco Race Fuel officials have announced that the Super Late Model feature with SpeedFest 2022 Presented by Racing America will now pay $12,000 to win. The winner’s purse was raised to a $7,000 payoff by Track Enterprises the event promoter, then an anonymous sponsor added a $5,000 bonus making the winners payoff $12,000 for the event. The event will take place on Friday, January 28th and Saturday January 29th. The format for the SpeedFest 2022 Super Late Model event, which will be a co-sanctioned special non-points event for the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the Southern Super Series, will now be 150 green flag laps, teams will have six tires total for the event and there will be Controlled Cautions. “This event has traditionally been a bigger Super Late Model event, so we felt like we needed to increase the total payoff and the number of laps,” remarked Bob Sargent with Track Enterprises. “We increased the laps to 150 and gave the teams two more tires, we increased the entire Super Late Model payoff for the event, then we had a sponsor come on board that wanted to put up a $5,000 bonus for the event winner, taking this event to the next level!” For over ten years SpeedFest has been a long-standing and highly anticipated event held at Watermelon Capital Speedway located in Cordele, Georgia. For 2022, Track Enterprises, with the help of Racing America, will lead the way in making sure that SpeedFest retains its prominence and is well attended by drivers, fans and different series on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, January 29th, with Sunday, January 30th as the events rain date. SpeedFest will have a new look in 2022 with the 150 lap special non-points event for the Super Late Models, a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event, the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event and Legend Cars will also be featured in a 25 lap feature. There will be an optional open test for all SpeedFest divisions on Thursday, January 27th, pits will open at 9am with rotating practice sessions going from 12noon until 5pm. Cost for the test is $100 per car, that will include up to six pit passes for Thursday. Friday, January 28 will feature practice and pole day for all five classes with on track activity beginning at 11:30 AM. Saturday, January 29 will be feature day with all five of the main events. Saturday will begin with an autograph session at 11:30 AM with racing at 1:00 PM. Advance sale discount tickets are available for $25 and includes Friday’s practice/pole day as well as feature day Saturday. Tickets will be $5 more at the track on race day. To purchase tickets or to view more detailed info, visit www.trackenterprises.com and www.crispmotorsportspark.com. Teams are reminded that January 15th is the advanced entry deadline for SpeedFest 2022, teams entering after that date will have to pay an additional $50 for a late entry fee. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com. More information on the Southern Super Series is available at www.southernsuperseries.com. CRA Releases 2022 Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stock Schedule Salem, IN (December 17, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have released the 2022 schedule for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS. 2022 will be the 18th season of competition for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Series that crowned Jason Atkinson as its 2021 Champion. The 2022 Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks schedule currently has 14 total events scheduled, with 2 special non-point events and 12 point events. The CRA Street Stocks will once again have the Four Crown Series with four $3000 minimum to win, longer distance events. The Four Crown events will be held at Shadybowl Speedway, Anderson Speedway, and Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. There are four total point events at Anderson Speedway, two point events at Winchester Speedway, two point events at Shadybowl Speedway, one point event at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, one point event at Jennerstown Speedway, the season opening non-points special event at Watermelon Capital Speedway as part of SpeedFest 2022 and the non-points special season ending event at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway as part of the All-American 400 Weekend. There are currently two T.B.A. point events that will be officially announced in the near future. CRA will continue the Chase for the Championship format for determining a series champion for the 2022 season. The playoff format has produced more teams competing for a championship in every CRA division since the 2017 season. Winchester Speedway will host the final points event during Winchester 400 weekend, where the series champion will be crowned More information on all the CRA Series is available at www.cra-racing.com. 2022 Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Schedule All Aspects of Schedule are Tentative and Subject to Change. Additional Events May be Added. DATE TRACK LAPS Saturday, January 29 Watermelon Capital Speedway 75 Non-Points Sunday, April 3 Shadybowl Speedway 75 Saturday, April 16 Anderson Speedway 75 Saturday, April 30 Shady Bowl Speedway 150 Four Crown Sunday, May 15 T.B.A. 75 Saturday, June 25 Anderson Speedway 150 Four Crown Saturday, July 30 Indianapolis Raceway Park 100 Four Crown Saturday, August 13 Anderson Speedway 150 Four Crown Saturday, August 20 T.B.A. 50 Sat/Sun, September 3-4 Winchester Speedway 40 Saturday, September 17 Anderson Speedway 75 Saturday, October 1 Jennerstown Speedway 50 Friday, October 14 Winchester Speedway 25 Non-Points Saturday, October 15 Winchester Speedway 40 Saturday, October 29 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 50 Non-Points Greg Hubler Automotive Group to Sponsor 56th Annual Redbud 400 in 2022 Salem, IN (December 15, 2021) – Anderson Speedway officials have announced that the Greg Hubler Automotive Group has agreed to continue its title sponsorship of the famed Redbud 400 event at Anderson Speedway, located in Anderson, Indiana. The event will be sanctioned once again by the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS in its 26th year of competition. Anderson Speedway has hosted more ARCA/CRA Super Series events than any other track, including the series first ever event on April 26, 1997, where two time series Champion Brian Ross came away with the victory. The 56th Annual Greg Hubler Automotive Group Redbud 400, one of the most prestigious Super Late Model events in the country, is scheduled for Saturday, July 16th on the 2022 ARCA/CRA Super Series schedule. The event had been held on a Monday for the past several seasons but will be moved back to a Saturday night for the 2022 season. Past CRA winners of the prestigious Redbud 400 event include Kyle Crump in 2021, Carson Hocevar in 2020, Johnny VanDoorn in 2019 and 2013, Rapheal Lessard in 2018, Steve Wallace in 2017, Dalton Armstrong in 2016, Erik Jones in 2015, Daniel Hemric in 2014, Ross Kenseth in 2012, Steve Dorer in 2011, Scott Hantz in 2010 and Kyle Busch in 2009. The 56th Annual Greg Hubler Automotive Group Redbud 400 will be 400 laps counting yellows and will pay the winner a minimum of $15,000. The event will also feature cost savings Controlled Cautions. The ARCA/CRA Super Series will kick off its 2022-point season on Saturday, April 9th at Anderson Speedway, located in Anderson, Indiana, with a $5,000 to win 125-lap event, this event will be the warm-up for the Redbud 400. Additional track and Redbud 400 event information can be found at www.andersonspeedway.com. Additional information on the ARCA/CRA Super Series can be found at www.cra-racing.com. Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks SpeedFest 2022 Entry Form Released Salem, Indiana (December 13, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have released the entry form for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS Special non-points event with SpeedFest 2022 at Crisp Motorsports Park - Home of Watermelon Capital Speedway located in Cordele, Georgia. For over ten years SpeedFest has been a long-standing and highly anticipated event, which was not held last year due to the pandemic. For 2022, Track Enterprises will lead the way in making sure that SpeedFest retains its prominence and is well attended by drivers, fans and different series on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, January 29th, with Sunday, January 30th as the event's rain date. The Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will be a part of SpeedFest for the first time in 2022, the event will also be the series’ first ever event in Georgia after having two successful non-point special South events as a part of the All American 400 Weekend in Nashville in 2020 and again in 2021 and being a part of the U.S. Short Track Nationals at Bristol Motor Speedway from 2017 through the 2020 season. SpeedFest will have a new look in 2022 with the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS and the Southern Super Series Presented by Sunoco Race Fuel having a special non-points 100 lap Super Late Model event. There will be a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event. New for SpeedFest 2022 the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event, along with the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks who will have a special $2,000 to win 75 lap non-points event. There will be an optional open test day on Thursday, January 27th, more details will be released on that very soon. Friday’s schedule will consist of practice and qualifying, with all features being run on Saturday. Racing America, powered by Speed51.TV, will lead the exposure plans for the event with extended pre-event promotion, celebrity participation and extensive live content. Additional track and event information can be found at www.crispmotorsportspark.com. For track rental prior to the event, interested parties can contact Ben at 229-938-8814. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com. 2022 JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Schedule Released Salem, Indiana (December 10, 2021): Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS have officially released the 2022 schedule for the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour 2022 schedule will consist of 14 races, 12 of those are point events, and two non-point special events. 2022 will be the 12th season of competition for the crate late model touring series sanctioned by Champion Racing Association. "We are really excited about the 2022 schedule with the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour," remarked Glenn Luckett, Managing Partner of CRA. "We have a great mix of events on the schedule, with some great high-profile events that will challenge our drivers throughout the season and provide some great racing for our fans!" CRA will continue the Chase for the Championship format for determining a series champion for the 2022 season. The playoff format has produced more teams competing for a championship in every CRA division since CRA started using that format in 2017. The 2022 racing season kicks off with the traditional non-points opener for both the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour with SpeedFest 2022 at Crisp Motorsports Park in Cordele, Georgia on Saturday, January 29th. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour race will be a 100 lap four tire event. This event has traditionally attracted the best Pro Late Model drivers from all around the country. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour will kick off its 2022-point season on Sunday, April 24th with a visit to Southern Indiana’s Salem Speedway, which has hosted several series events over the years and was added back to the series traditional schedule last season. The ARCA/CRA Super Series will also be in action with that event. The series will then head to Michigan for the first of three events that were previously announced at Birch Run Speedway in Birch Run, Michigan on Saturday, April 30th. The Birch Run Triple Crown Series will crown a 2022 Champion. The series will go South to the famed Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee for the first of three events at that historic facility in 2022 on Saturday, May 7th. The ARCA/CRA Super Series will also be in action that weekend in Nashville. The series has a to be announced event for June. The series will then stay in Michigan for the second Birch Run Speedway Triple Crown Series event on Saturday, July 2nd as the track has a huge July 4th Weekend celebration planned. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour schedule is then highlighted by a return visit to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville for the famed CRA Masters of the Pro’s 150 on Saturday, July 9th. The series has a to be announced event on Friday, July 22nd. The series will then go to Anderson Speedway, in Anderson, Indiana on Saturday, August 6th. The track was added back to the series schedule in 2019 after racing there from 2011 through the 2016 season. The Labor Day tradition is up next as the series will head to the legendary 1/2-mile-high banks of Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Indiana on Labor Day Weekend, the first weekend in September and the series’ first of two visits in 2022. That event will be the first race of the series 2022 Chase for the Championship. The series will then head back to Birch Run Speedway for the Birch Run Triple Crown Series Championship event on Saturday, September 10th. That event will be the second event in the series 2022 Chase. The series will then be the featured event at the previously announced Fall Brawl 2022 event at Jennerstown Speedway located in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. The series competed at Jennerstown Speedway in 2020, whereCody Coughlin came away with the win. That event will be the third event in the series 2022 Chase. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour will crown their 2022 Tour Champion at Winchester Speedway as part of the 50th Annual Winchester 400 Weekend on Friday, October 14th in its second visit of the season to Winchester Speedway. The series will make its third stop of 2022 at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway to close out the 2022 season with a special 100 lap non-points event as part of the famed All American 400 Weekend on Sunday, October 30th. For more information about all five touring series’ within Champion Racing Association, please go to the series website at: www.cra-racing.com. You can also follow CRA on Facebook at: www.facebook.com and search for "Champion Racing Association" as well as Twitter at: www.twitter.com/CRAracing. 2022 JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Schedule DATE TRACK LAPS Fri./Sat., January 28-29 Watermelon Capital Speedway 100 Sunday, April 24 Salem Speedway 100 Saturday, April 30 Birch Run Speedway 100 Saturday, May 7 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 100 Sunday, June TBA 125 Saturday, July 2 Birch Run Speedway 100 Saturday, July 9 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 150 Friday, July 22 TBA 100 Saturday, August 6 Anderson Speedway 100 Saturday, September 3 Winchester Speedway 100 Saturday, September 10 Birch Run Speedway 100 Saturday, October 1 Jennerstown Speedway 100 Friday, October 14 Winchester Speedway 100 Sunday, October 30 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 100 ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS 2022 Schedule Released Numerous High Paying Special Events Highlight the Series’ 26th Season of Racing Salem, Indiana (December 9, 2021): Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS has officially released the 2022 Schedule for the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS. The ARCA/CRA Super Series 2022 season will consist of 13 total races, with 11 of those being point events. 2022 will be the 26th season of competition for the Template Super Late Model touring series that first raced in 1997. "We are really excited about the 2022 schedule and season of racing we have planned with the ARCA/CRA Super Series," remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner of CRA. "Our 26th season will provide our drivers with a great variety of challenging races on some of the best racetracks in the nation, with some of the most prestigious late model events in the country!" CRA will continue the Chase for the Championship format for determining a series champion for the 2022 season. The playoff format has produced more teams competing for a championship in every CRA division since CRA started using that format in 2017. The 2022 racing season kicks off with the traditional non-points opener for both the ARCA/CRA Super Series and the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour with SpeedFest 2022 at Crisp Motorsports Park in Cordele, Georgia on Saturday, January 29th. The ARCA/CRA Super Series race will be a 100-lap event at SpeedFest 2022 that will be co-sanctioned by the Southern Super Series. This event has traditionally attracted the best Super Late Model drivers from both the North and the South in this early season battle. The ARCA/CRA Super Series will then kick off its 2022-point season on Saturday, April 9th at Anderson Speedway, located in Anderson, Indiana, with a $5,000 to win 125-lap event, the first of two events on the fast quarter mile oval that has hosted more series events than any other track. This event will be the warm-up for the Redbud 400. The series will then head to Southern Indiana to one of the original tracks that formed the series back in 1997, Salem Speedway, located in Salem, Indiana, for an event on Sunday, April 24th. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour will also be in action at that event. The series will then go South to the famous Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee for a 100-lap event on Saturday, May 7th. The event will be a co-sanctioned event with the Southern Super Series and the race program will include a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour event. The series will then head to beautiful Jennerstown Speedway in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania for a 150 lap $10,000 to win event on Saturday, June 4th, a new event for the series. The series has previously raced at Jennerstown in an event co-sanctioned by the CARS Tour. The series will then head to Michigan for its next event at Flat Rock Speedway on Saturday, June 18th, a track that has produced some great series racing. The series will then go back to Indiana to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in the previously announced Circle City Twin 100’s event on Brickyard Weekend, where the series will have a 100-lap event and the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a 100-lap event on Saturday, July 30th. The NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and the ARCA Menards Series doubleheader event at Lucas Oil Raceway will take place the day prior on Friday, July 29th. The series currently has a to be announced date on August 20th. The series will then head to the famous High Banks of Winchester Speedway located in Winchester, Indiana for the traditional Labor Day Weekend 100 lap event on the first weekend in September and the first of two series events for the series at Winchester Speedway. This event will be the tune up for the 51st Winchester 400 and the second race in the series Chase for the Championship. The series will then visit Toledo Speedway on Saturday, September 17th for a 100-lap event as part of the famed Glass City 200, which will also include a 100-lap event for the outlaw-bodied ARCA Late Models. That event will be the third Chase event for the series. The ARCA/CRA Super Series will crown their 2022 Tour Champion with the 51st running of the prestigious Winchester 400 on Sunday, October 16th, in its second visit of the season to Winchester Speedway. The Winchester 400 is one of the most prestigious Super Late Model events in the country! The series will close out the year as part of the famed All American 400 Weekend at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway on Sunday, October 30th, another historic iconic stock car racing event. That event will be a co-sanctioned non-points event with the Southern Super Series and the ARCA/Midwest Tour. For more information about all five-touring series within Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS, please go to the series website at: www.cra-racing.com. You can also follow CRA on Facebook at: www.facebook.com and search for "Champion Racing Association" as well as Twitter at: www.twitter.com/CRAracing. 2022 ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS All Aspects of Schedule are Tentative and Subject to Change. DATE TRACK LAPS Fri./Sat., January 28-29 Watermelon Capital Speedway 100 Saturday, April 9 Anderson Speedway 125 Sunday, April 24 Salem Speedway 100 Saturday, May 7 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 100 Saturday, June 4 Jennerstown Speedway 150 Saturday, June 18 Flat Rock Speedway 125 Saturday, July 16 Anderson Speedway 400 Saturday, July 30 Lucas Oil Raceway 100 Saturday, August 20 TBA 100 Sat./Sun., September 3-4 Winchester Speedway 100 Saturday, September 17 Toledo Speedway 100 Sat./Sun., October 15-16 Winchester Speedway 400 Sat./Sun., October 29-30 Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway 300 Schedule of Events and Late Model Entry Forms Released for SpeedFest 2022 Salem, Indiana (December 1, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have released the schedule of events and the entry forms for the Super Late Model and Pro Late Model events with SpeedFest 2022 at Crisp Motorsports Park - Home of Watermelon Capital Speedway located in Cordele, Georgia. For over ten years SpeedFest has been a long-standing and highly anticipated event, which was not held last year due to the pandemic. For 2022, Track Enterprises will lead the way in making sure that SpeedFest retains its prominence and is well attended by drivers, fans and different series on Friday, January 28th and Saturday, January 29th, with Sunday, January 30th as the events rain date. SpeedFest will have a new look in 2022 with the ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS and the Southern Super Series Presented by Sunoco Race Fuel co-sanctioning a special non-points 100 lap Super Late Model event. There will be a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance special non-points 100 lap Pro Late Model event. New for SpeedFest 2022 the Midwest Modifieds and Modifieds of Mayhem Tour will have a special 50 lap non-points Challenge event and Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a special 75 lap non-points event. Friday’s schedule will consist of practice and qualifying, with all features being run on Saturday. Racing America, powered by Speed51.TV, will lead the exposure plans for the event with extended pre-event promotion, celebrity participation and extensive live content. Additional track and event information can be found at www.crispmotorsportspark.com. For track rental prior to the event, interested parties can contact Ben at 229-938-8814. SpeedFest 2022 Schedule of Events and Entry Forms, along with any additional information on all the CRA Series, can be found at www.cra-racing.com.
CRA to be Part of New Fall Brawl Event at Jennerstown Speedway Complex Salem, IN. (December 1, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials and Jennerstown Speedway Complex officials have announced that the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance and the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS will be a part of a new Fall Brawl event at the beautiful Jennerstown Speedway Complex located in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania. After spending multiple years at Lucas Oil Raceway in Brownsburg, Indiana, the traditional fall stock car racing event will move to Jennerstown Speedway and will take place on Saturday, October 1st, 2022. The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour will have a $5,000 to win 100 lap Chase for the Championship event, while the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will have a $1,500 to win 50 lap Chase for the Championship event. The top teams in CRA competition for the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour and Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will receive travel bonus money for this event. “We are really looking forward to having this event at Jennerstown Speedway,” remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner with CRA. “We are grateful to have a facility like Jennerstown reach out and want to continue the great tradition of this event. We look forward to working with Bill Hribar and his whole staff. We hope this is the beginning of a great partnership between Jennerstown and CRA and this event!” “We are extremely excited to bring the Fall Brawl event to Jennerstown Speedway,” stated Bill Hribar, General Manager at Jennerstown Speedway. “I couldn’t think of four better series to showcase our speedway!” The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour competed at Jennerstown Speedway during the 2020 season in a 100-lap event on July 4th Weekend. Four time series Champion Cody Coughlin took the lead on lap 22 and held off Josh Brock and Matt Craig to get the win. The Fall Brawl event will be the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks first ever event at that track and first event in Pennsylvania. The Vore’s Compact Touring Series and the Midwest Modifieds Tour will also be a part of the Fall Brawl event at Jennerstown Speedway. Fall Brawl will also be the first ever events at Jennerstown for the Vore’s Compact Touring Series and the Midwest Modifieds Tour. Additional event information will be released in the near future. More track information on Jennerstown Speedway is available at www.jennerstown.org/. More information on all the CRA Series is available at www.cra-racing.com.
-- Van Hoy Oil to Continue as Title Sponsor of the CRA Street Stocks for the 2022 Season Salem, IN (November 24, 2021) – Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS officials have announced that Van Hoy Oil has agreed to continue its title sponsorship of the CRA Street Stocks for the upcoming 2022 race season. The series will continue to be titled the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS for the 2022 season. “We are very excited to have Van Hoy Oil continue as the title sponsor of the CRA Street Stocks,” remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner of CRA. “Jeff Van Hoy has been a huge supporter of short track racing in central Indiana for a number of years and the title sponsor of the CRA Street Stocks the last three seasons. We look forward to having his continued support again for the 2022 season!” 2022 will be the 18th season of competition for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS, whose past Champions include Dean Baker in 2005, Joe Beaver in 2006, 2007 and 2009, Bret Miles Jr. in 2008, Steve Christman in 2010, Jeff Lane in 2011, Jimmy Kirby in 2012, Dustin Burge in 2013, Jason Atkinson in 2014, 2015 and 2021, Phil Jenkins in 2016, Colby Lane in 2017, James Kirby III in 2018, Jake MacElfresh in 2019 and Brandon Roberts in 2020. Van Hoy Oil Company Inc. has been a family owned and operated business since 1943, located in Knightstown, Indiana. Current owner Jeff Van Hoy operates the business with his wife Susan, sons Jeffrey Van Hoy, wife Monica, daughter Adalynn and Jordan Van Hoy. Van Hoy Oil provides and delivers quality fuel products, lubricants and services with delivery to customers in over fifteen counties in central Indiana. Van Hoy Oil Company Inc. employees are committed to providing professional service in a timely manner to all commercial businesses, farming and home heating customers. The 2022 season for the Van Hoy Oil CRA Street Stocks will begin in January with its first ever involvement with SpeedFest 2022 at Crisp Motorsports Park - Home of Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on January 28th and 29th. The series will have a special non-points 75 lap, $2000 to win event as part of SpeedFest 2022. More information on all the CRA Series is available at www.cra-racing.com. | 
