SALEM, Ind. — The JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Presented by Chevrolet Performance will close out their 12th season of points competition this Friday, October 14 on the famous High Banks of Winchester Speedway.
The event will help kickoff the big 51st Winchester 400 Weekend Presented by Vore’s Welding & Steel.
A strong group of 32 talented Pro Late Model drivers are currently entered to compete in the series’ JEGS 100 Season Championship event on Friday evening.
This Friday’s event will be the 10th points event of the season for the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour.
The Winners
Casey Roderick, Salem Speedway (April 24)
Dylan Fetcho, Nashville (Tenn.) Fairgrounds Speedway (May 7)
Kyle Crump, Birch Run (Mich.) Speedway (May 15)
Ethan Stadniczuk, Flat Rock (Mich.) Speedway (June 16)
Carson Hocevar, Birch Run Speedway (July 2)
Willie Allen, Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway (July 9)
Nicholas Naugle, Anderson Speedway (August 6)
Nick Egan, Winchester Speedway (September 3)
Carson Hocevar, Birch Run Speedway (September 10)
The two drivers racing for the championship on Friday includes Chase event winner and Regular Season Champion Nick Egan. The Wisconsin native has already clinched the series 2022 rookie of the year award.
Owensboro, Kentucky native Dakota Stroup is the second Chase for the Championship driver. Stroup had been battling bad luck for several races before coming away with a third-place finish in the series’ last event on September 10 at Birch Run Speedway.
The driver finishing the highest of those two in the 100-lap season championship event on Friday will be crowned the 2022 champion. It will be the first CRA Championship for either driver.
The two championship hunting drivers will have plenty of CRA competition to race against on Friday, including defending event winner Jon Beach, Anderson event winner Nicholas Naugle, Flat Rock event winner Ethan Stadniczuk, two-time series Champion Dan Leeck, ARCA/CRA Super Series Chase competitors Albert Francis and Billy Van Meter, brothers Brandon and Evan Varney, Kevin Cremonesi, Jimmy Tucker, Chase Burda, Michael Simko, Scotty Tomasik, James Krueger, Jonathan Martin, J.P. Crabtree, Jordan Miller, Jordon Riddick, Tom Miller and Jared Smith. Dylan Stovall, John Stapleton and New York native Rick Giannino are entered to make their series’ debuts Friday night.
Gio Ruggerio leads a strong group of outside talent that have entered Friday’s JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Season Championship event. Ruggerio has won two big pro late model events in a row coming into next Friday’s event. Ruggerio won at Five Flags (Fla.) Speedway on September 24 and then won at Montgomery (Ala.) Motor Speedway on October 1.
15-year-old William Sawalich is entered. Sawalich has two ARCA/CRA Super Series wins in a row, including the Labor Day Weekend event at Winchester Speedway, and the Glass City 100 at Toledo (Ohio) Speedway on September 17. Sawalich also has five CARS Pro Late Model Tour wins so far in 2022.
Super Late Model great Stephen Nasse has entered the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Season Championship event. Nasse was the 2019 Winchester 400 winner and scored a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour win that season on Labor Day Weekend as well as winning the ARCA/CRA Super Series event that Weekend.
Texas racer Ryan Luza will make a return visit to Winchester as a teammate with Nasse for Jett Motorsports.
Florida native Michael Hinde is also entered for Friday’s event. Hinde won the series SpeedFest 2022 season opening event at Watermelon Capital (Ga.) Speedway on January 29. Hinde finished second to Sawalich in the Winchester Speedway ARCA/CRA Super Series event on Labor Day Weekend.
Hinde was the Nova Motorsports Fast Qualifier with the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour at Winchester on Labor Day Weekend but was out of the feature early with suspension issues.
Veteran late model competitor Jeff Fuikltz will make a rare start in Friday’s JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour Season Championship event. Fultz is a two-time winner with the ARCA/CRA Super Series at Winchester Speedway and finished second in a JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour event at Winchester 2012. Fultz won 26 late model events with NASCAR between 1996 and 2006 and won three championships.