"I got a good start in the main event, was running up front, moving away from the guys about eight or nine laps into the race. The track was starting to dry out quite a bit. That played right into Scotty's hands. He's the master of the real dry-slick pea gravel tracks. He reeled me in and passed me, and set the pace that I couldn't match. I didn't see pea gravel until I was about seventeen years old. I've become pretty good at riding on the stuff, but on that particular night, Scotty showed why he's the best in the business on that particular surface. He pretty much put it on us. I think Scotty was born in a bed of pea gravel."

Chris takes over the lead in the point standings, displacing part-timer Nick Hayden. The Mecca of modern dirt track racing, the Springfield Mile, awaits the Grand National Series next weekend.