Champion Racing Association

UAW Motorsports 5th Annual March of Dimes Cabin Fever Championships This Sunday at Lucas Oil Raceway

CRA Late Model Sportsman & CRA Street Stocks share the spotlight with Mods & Compacts

April 2, 2014

Salem, Indiana (April 2, 2014) – The UAW Motorsports 5th Annual March of Dimes Cabin

Fever Championships, a Champion Racing Association Powered by JEGS promoted

event, will take place this Sunday at the famed Lucas Oil Raceway located in Brownsburg,

Indiana. The event will feature racing from the Vore’s Welding CRA Late Model Sportsman

Top Speed Modified Tour and the Vores Compact Touring Series.

Fans will be treated to 170 laps of feature racing action Sunday with 40 lap features for the

Late Model Sportsman and Street Stocks, plus a 40 lap feature event for the Top Speed

Modified Tour and the 30 lap Vores Cup feature for the Vores Compact Touring Series and

the 20 lap DJ Sales Cup for the Vores Compact Touring Series, who have 75 cars pre-

entered for their events. In all fans could see 150 racecars competing in Sunday’s events.

Sunday’s race will be the second of the season for the Vore’s Welding CRA Late Model

Sportsman after opening their season last Sunday afternoon at Anderson Speedway, were 14 year old Chris Hacker got a dominating win over Jason Atkinson and rookie Eric McGlothlen. Atkinson is the defending Cabin Fever winner with the CRA Late Model Sportsman and he won the Fall Brawl series event last September at Lucas Oil Raceway on his way to a series leading four wins in 2013. Atkinson will have plenty of competition on Sunday with former series winners Mark Lambert and Trey Craig making their 2014 series debuts.

Sunday will be the 2014 season opening event for the Stealth Trailers CRA Street Stocks Powered by JEGS. Dave Bice is the defending Cabin Fever winner from the 2013 season while Jimmy Kirby picked up the series win at last September’s Fall Brawl at Lucas Oil Raceway. 2013 series Champion Dustin Burge is set to defend his Championship starting on Sunday, but will have plenty of competition as the series has seen an increase in cars signed up to run the full season after the announcement of the CRA Street Stock Triple Crown Series featuring three 200 lap, $3000 to win events.

There is an open practice on Saturday, pit gates open at 11am, open practice will go from 1 to 5pm with rotating sessions for all four divisions. Pit gates open on Sunday morning at 8am, practice will begin at 10am with qualifying at 12:30pm. The race program will begin at 2:00pm with any last chance races that are needed, and will be followed by the 170 laps of feature racing. UAW Members will get in free with a UAW distributed ticket and proper I.D. and a $1 donation to the March of Dimes. UAW Members should contact their local Union or Retiree Chapter for tickets. General admission tickets will be sold day of the show, adult tickets will be $20, students 6 to 12 will be $5, children five and under will get in free.

More information on the UAW Motorsports 5th Annual March of Dimes Cabin Fever Championships and on all the CRA Series is available at www.cra-racing.com