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CRA Super Series reveals 2020 schedule

The central midwestern SLM tour enters Year 24 of competitive racing

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The 2020 ARCA/CRA Super Series schedule was released on Thursday and includes 11 points-paying races and three exhibition events.

This is the 24th season of competition for the Indiana-based template touring Late Model sanctioning body.

“We are really excited about the 2020 schedule with the ARCA/CRA Super Series,” remarked R.J. Scott, Managing Partner of CRA. “Our 24th 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.”

TOURING SCHEDULES: CARS Tour |  Midwest Tour | TUNDA SLM Series| PASS North & National | NASCAR Modified Tour | NASCAR Pintys | Pretoria Race Alliance | Southern Super Series | ACTTri Track

This will also be the fourth season that CRA has operated with the Chase for the Championship playoff format. That culminates with a NASCAR-style championship race at the prestigious Winchester 400 in Winchester, Indiana.

The points-paying CRA Super Series schedule will begin on Saturday, April 18 at Anderson Speedway in Anderson, Indiana. The 125-lap race is the only Super Late Model race at the high-banked quarter-mile prior to July’s prestigious Redbud 400.

The series will then head to the famous Fairgrounds Speedway in Nashville, Tennessee for a 100-lap event on Sunday, May 3rd. The event will be a co-sanctioned event with the Southern Super Series and the CARS Tour and the race program will include a CRA JEGS Tour Pro Late Model event.

The series will then head to Bristol Motor Speedway as part of the U.S. Nationals, an event that will once again be co-sanctioned by the Southern Super Series and the CARS Tour on Saturday, May 30th. The Super Late Model portion will again be a 100-lap, $10,000 to win feature.

The series will head to Michigan for its next event at Flat Rock Speedway on Saturday, June 20.

The series will then visit Jennerstown Speedway for the first time and the first ever series event in the state of Pennsylvania over July 4th Weekend. The CRA Super Series will co-sanction that event alongside the CARS Tour. The race pays a whopping $20,000-to-win. There will also be a CRA Jegs Tour Pro Late Model race that weekend.

The Redbud 400 is scheduled for Monday, July 13 following the NASCAR Cup Series weekend at Kentucky Speedway.

The series will head back to Kalamazoo Speedway located just outside of Kalamazoo, Michigan, for a special Wednesday night event on August 5 for the regular season finale. More details on this event will be released at a later date.

This is where the CRA Super Series Chase for the Championship begins.

REGIONAL SCHEDULES: South Boston | Langley | Motor Mile | Hickory | Stafford

The playoffs start in Michigan for the $20,000-to-win Battle at Berlin 250 on Saturday August 15 at Berlin Raceway — a co-sanctioned points race for the CRA Super Series, CRA JEGS Tour Pro Late Models and the Berlin Raceway Super Late Models.

The second race of the playoffs will be the World Stock Car festival on Monday, September 7.

The series will then visit Toledo Speedway on Saturday, September 19 for a $5,000 to win 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.

The template portion will serve as the final race of the playoffs to determine the Championship Four.

The ARCA/CRA Super Series will crown their 2020 Tour Champion with the 49th running of the prestigious Winchester 400 on Sunday, October 11th, in its second visit of the season to Winchester Speedway.

As for the exhibition races: The CRA Super Series will open 2020 with Speedfest at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on Friday and Saturday January 24-25. The non-points races attracts teams from all over the continent traveling south to escape winter and scratch the racing itch.

On Monday June 8, the tour will head to Berlin Raceway for the $20,000 to win Money in the Bank 150.

The series will also be part of the famed All American 400 Weekend at Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville on Sunday, November 1st. This will be a co-sanctioned non-points event with the Southern Super Series and the CARS Tour.

The complete schedule can be found below.

2020 ARCA/CRA Super Series Powered by JEGS

Exhibition races italicized

Sat-Sun Jan 24-25 | Watermelon Capital Speedway | Cordele GA
Sat Apr 18 | Anderson Speedway | Anderson IN
Sun May 3 | Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville | Nashville TN
Fri-Sat May 29-May 30 | Bristol Motor Speedway | Bristol TN
Mon Jun 8 | Money in the Bank 150 at Berlin Raceway | Marne MI
Sat Jun 20 | Flat Rock Speedway | Flat Rock MI
Sat Jul 4 | Jennerstown Speedway w/ CARS | Jennerstown PA
Mon Jul 13 | Redbud 400 at Anderson Speedway | Anderson IN
Wed Aug 5 |  Kalamazoo Speedway | Kalamazoo MI
Sat Aug 15 | Battle at Berlin at Berlin Raceway | Marne MI
Sun-Mon Sept 6-7| Winchester Speedway | Winchester IN
Sat Sept 19 | Toledo Speedway | Toledo OH
Sat-Sun Oct 10-11 | Winchester 400 at Winchester Speedway | Winchester IN
Sun Nov 1 | All American 400 at Fairgrounds Nashville | Nashville TN

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  1. Dan Bennett

    July 13, 2020 at 10:57 am

    Nascar is based on a tradition of racism and as the public learns more and more about it, the sponsors and advertisers with withdraw with any series that is ted in to Nascar.
    Nascar was not flying the Confederate Battle Flag to honor the Souths tradition as its heritage was that the rich and powerful land owners would rather buy a slave rather then pay a Southerner an honest days pay. This resulted in mass poverty among the average Southerner.
    The rich and powerful owned all the politicians and all the newspapers and used propaganda to blame the US government for their poverty and created an army and raised arms against the Constitution of the United States and became traitors.
    That is their history.
    I was stationed in the South when I served in the Military, stationed in Mississippi and afterwards relocated to Nashville Ten.
    The Southern people are the nicest, friendliest people I ever met, they are just wonderful people, but when they get talking about the War, they are talking about the Civil War, and then start repeating that same old propaganda that it was the Northern States and not the rich land owners that was the root of their poverty.
    One of the reasons Southerners hated the slaves, at times the Southerners had no money, no food yet the slaves were sheltered, fed and clothed, they actually had it better off than most of the poorest of the poor whites. They Rich Land owners treated slaves as prized livestock to force them to work their plantations and had the control of life or death over them. Few Southerners ever knew the truth, they still do not.
    When will the Southerners admit that the Confederate Battle Flag stood for Greed and Evil. The Greed to own humans rather to pay them, and the evil on how they treated these slaves. These Plantation owners could beat these slaves or even murder them with immunity from prosecution.
    Even after these slaves were given their freedom their rights as humans and American citizens were deprived from them. They could be beaten up, and even murdered without much of any interest by the Police.
    The hate the Southerners have is not limited to minorities, while I volunteered to serve in the military during the Vietnam War, when I was in Texas, and Mississippi I was called a “Yankee” because I was born in southern Indiana. I say southern Indiana because parts of Kentucky are farther north than parts of Indiana.
    I had never been called a Yankee before that ad it was said in a very unflattering manner, a derogatory manner to be exact.
    What the hell was that about, I was as white as any of them and was just as much an American citizen as them. Where did that hatred come from ?
    Talking about racism, I had a friend in High school, his father was a former German soldier that was brought into US to be detained. After WWII he decided to stay in American and became a citizen. He had a son and we met in junior high. He was about the racist person I ever met, saying those “N”s should go back to where they came from. I just laughed at him saying most of those peoples fathers and mothers were born in the USA unlike your father.
    Hatred is based upon ignorance, not stupidity, ignorance is not knowing better. Ignorance is not knowing the facts. Ignorance is not accepting the truth.
    The Truth is The Confederate Battle Flag represents racism and Nascar flew that racist flag with pride.
    Ps while living in Nashville I held a Nascar mechanics license as Nascar Grand Nationals were still racing there at the time. So don’t tell me I do not know what I am talking about.

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