Iowa Chump car race

The Iowa Speedway Chump-car race is Saturday-Sunday June 26-27th.

Buffalo driver Michael Wray leads a team driving a Ford Escort ZXT, the other members are: Nick Johananes, Tim Porter and Rich Labas. Twenty four teams are competing in this 24 hour endurance race.

We will continue updating the results.

After the first two hours their team was in fifth place just two laps behind the leader. After four hours they are in fourth place, just three laps behind the leader.

After Six hours ... they are in second place, just two laps behind the leader. Half-way through the race (12 hours) and the #3 team is still in second place, four laps behind the team #51. The #3 team had a set-back this morning, they dropped to fifth place (28 laps behind the leader). The racing was suspended for a few hours because of serious thunderstorms. They ended the endurance race finishing in 5th place.

2010 Chump Car BIR wrap

Michael Wray from Buffalo and his team finished a solid 5th place on Saturday and then 6th place (out of 29 teams) on Sunday at Brainerd International Raceway in the CHUMP Car endurance race.

The car ran mechanically well and the driving performance was good for this team of Rally Racers racing on a road coarse for the first time. On Sunday their average lap time was down to about 2:02 per lap.

Here is some in-car video of the Chump Car racing at BIR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz-WvcN_n2g&feature=player_embedded

Michael and his team plan on entering the Iowa Speedway 24 hour endurance event on June 26-27th.

www.davidwrayauto.com

Michael Wray on Speedtalk

Long time Rally racer Michael Wray from Buffalo will be on "Speedtalk on 1360" with Jason and Dean on Saturday May 29th 10-11am on KRWC and http://www.krwc1360.com/

Michael will be racing in the CHUMP CAR endurance road race at Brainerd International Raceway on June 5th & 6th.

http://www.chumpcar.com/events.php

Dan Plan from the Midwest racing connection will be talking local racing and Jordan Bianchi from http://www.theracinggeek.com/ will preview the BIG Indy Car and NASCAR double header on Sunday!

Its also our one year anniversary of "Speedtalk" on KRWC radio .... we will have some trivia and give out FREE tickets to Raceway Park in Shakopee.

Listen on-line Saturdays from 10-11am on http://www.krwc1360.com/