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Chub Frank’s Bid For A $40,000 Firecracker 100 Victory Will Have To Wait One Month

Tuesday July 1, 2008

 

BEAR LAKE, PA – Chub Frank was hoping last weekend’s Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway would be the event that shook him from some recent doldrums on the World of Outlaws Late Model ‘Great Northern Tour.’

A close second-place finish to Brian Birkhofer in a Friday-night heat race – the two drivers ran side-by-side for virtually the entire 15-lap distance – just made the 46-year-old star known as ‘Chubzilla’ more confident about his prospects in the $40,000-to-win headliner.

But Mother Nature kept all cars off the four-tenths-mile oval on Saturday night and again on Sunday’s rain date, dousing the track with waves of rain that forced officials to postpone the event to Tues., July 29.

“I wish we could’ve run the thing,” said Chub, who is set to start 12th in the Firecracker 100. “Our car was good on Friday night and I think we had something for ‘em.”

Chub, who timed 12th-fastest among 62 entrants in Friday night’s time trials at Lernerville, came to the ‘Action Track’ after registering a pair of steady-but-quiet top-10 finishes in 40-lap mid-week WoO LMS events. He finished fifth on June 24 at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Speedway and placed ninth on June 25 at Big Diamond Raceway in Minersville, Pa.

While the fifth-place run represented Chub’s second-best finish in the six ‘Great Northern Tour’ A-Mains that were completed, he certainly wanted more. He had, after all, won four WoO LMS events in upstate New York over the past three years – and he also started second in the event. Darrell Lanigan actually nipped Chub at the finish line for fourth place.

Chub wasn’t a serious factor at the three-eighths-mile Big Diamond oval, improving two spots from his 11th starting position.

Chub now sits fifth in the WoO LMS point’s standings, 76 points behind leader Darrell Lanigan. Frustrated with his recent performances, he plans to assemble a new Lester Buildings, Corry Rubber, All Star Performance, Corry Laser, Slavic Corporation, Farr MotorSports, Lake Shore Paving, Custom Race Engines Chevrolet Impala SS Rocket Chassis No. 1* car in the coming days before heading out on the road for the WoO LMS ‘Wild West Tour,’ which kicks off on July 9 at Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn. The swing will feature nine races over a 13-day period in Minnesota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, Wyoming, South Dakota, Kansas and Nebraska.

“I had a new blue front-end car ordered already,” said Chub. “I always try to have one those cars for the big races and big tracks at the end of the track, but we’ve been searching for something to get us going so we’re going to take the new car on the trip and see what we can do with it.”

Right now were trying to schedule time for the entire team to stop at the Lester Buildings corporate headquarters in Lester Prairie, Minn. around the Deer Creek and Brainerd, Minn. events.

Chub’s only planned competitive appearance over this holiday week is on Thursday night (July 3) at Central PA Speedway in Clearfield, Pa., where he’ll enter the annual ‘Yankee Doodle 50.’

In addition, The Chub Frank Racing Merchandise Trailer / Slavic Corporation has released a complete line of new Chub Frank merchandise that can be purchased on-line at www.chubfrank.com or at the merchandise trailer this weekend at Central PA Speedway in Clearfield, Pa.,

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