Travis Braden and Johnny VanDoorn Lead ARCA/CRA Super Series Harris Products Group Season Lap Leader Awards

One Race Left in Each Section to Determine 2013 Winners

October 3, 2013

Salem, Indiana (October 3, 2013) – Recently Crowned 2013 ARCA/CRA Super Series

Champion Travis Braden and three time ARCA/CRA Super Series Champion Johnny

VanDoorn are leading the 2013 Harris Products Group Season Lap Leader Awards with

the ARCA/CRA Super Series for the 2013 season. Braden leads in the Harris Products

Group Season Lap Leader Award in the regular 100/125-lap series events for the 2013

season, with the October 26th 125 lap event at Memphis International Raceway being the

last 100/125-lap event of the season, while VanDoorn leads the Harris Products Group

Season Lap Leader Award in the special event extra distance races, which has only the

Winchester 400 left for the 2013 season.

Braden has led a total of 270 laps in the 100/125-lap series events and is tied with

VanDoorn with a series leading four wins. Brian Campbell is currently second and is the

only person with a chance of catching Braden. Campbell has a total of 212 laps led so far

this season. VanDoorn is third in this category with 93 laps led. Ross Kenseth is fourth

with 81 laps led while David Carter is fifth with 66 laps led.

VanDoorn has led a dominating 353 laps in the series extra distance races so far in 2013,

with wins in the Border Wars 7-UP 150 at Toledo Speedway, the Berlin 251 at Berlin

Raceway and the Stoops Freightliner RedBud 300 at Anderson Speedway. If VanDoorn

can win the Winchester 400 he will claim the JEGS/CRA $100,000 Triple Crown Bonus.

Travis Sauter is in second with 161 laps led, while fellow Wisconsin competitor Chris

Wimmer is in third with 134 laps led. Eddie Van Meter is in fourth with 100 laps led, while

Minnesota driver Jacob Goede is in fifth place with 60 laps led.

The Harris Products Group will award each category winner with a set of the Harris

Products Group Cutting Torches. Both awards will be presented at the 2013 Champion

Racing Association Awards Banquet.

The Harris Products Group is a world leader in metal working products used in the

brazing, soldering, welding, cutting and gas distribution industries. The company was

formed in 2006 with the merger of Harris Calorific, Inc., a manufacturer of gas welding and

cutting equipment and gas regulation and distribution systems, and the J.W. Harris Co., a

manufacturer of brazing and soldering alloys and welding consumables. The Harris

Products Group currently operates manufacturing facilities in Mason, Ohio, USA;

Gainesville, Georgia, USA, Dzierzonow, Poland, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. Each is ISO 9001

certified for quality management systems.

The Harris Products Group is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Lincoln Electric Company,

the world leader in the design, development and manufacture of arc welding products,

robotic welding systems, plasma and oxy-fuel cutting equipment. More information can be found at www.harrisproductsgroup.com