When asked how hw planned to spend the money, Chris quickly responded that he had already spent four thousand- donating it to non-profit organizations. The always generous and thoughful Carr donated a thousand dollars each to the following organizations: The Clayton Foundation, the Davey Camlin Memorial Fund, Aid to Injured Riders, and the Steel Shoe Fund.

"The race worked out to plan. I got a good start and I pressed the pace early because we knew there wouldn't be any tire problems. I wanted to separate the field a bit. I wanted to define the guys who had the speed. It turned out to be Parker and King and Springer. Those were the guys that could stay with me, the only guys that could pass me the whole race. I think I led ten of the fifteen laps and I was able to sort those guys out during that time and figure out where I needed to be."

Chris picks up the story:

"I got the start I needed. I was second in turn one and two. You never know what the track is going to do. I was conserving tires in the first ten laps of the race, and thinking about it, I didn't really need to, because I had more rear tire left than I have ever had here, simply because Dan Stanley showed everybody the line today, to run up off the groove. There was traction there, and it wasn't that hard on the tires. We went up there, we were running on a track that was cool, and it just wasn't hard on the tires. Had I thought about it a little, we might have pressed the pace earlier on in the race. I led six of the 25 laps, and I probably could have led a lot more than that, but I was trying to size everybody up that I was dealing with up there. There was five or six guys that led laps at different times. Fortunately, in a 25-lap race, you can sort that out a little bit. I felt like I cold have won the race either leading or following. On the last lap, Rich King ran a lap different than anyone had run the whole race. It was a brilliant move.

"We had been running up above the groove coming off of turn four and drifting into the wall. I drafted by Davis going into three. I thought I had the point going in, and he (King) blazed by me. I was really shocked that he had gotten up there. I went tooth and nail with Springer, who was coming around the outside of me and pretty much had to stuff it up in there and move Springer over in order to follow Rich and have a chance to win. Rich darted to the bottom before the exit of four and then ran real close to the guardrail, probably ten feet lower than we had been running, and then straightened up and went straight to the wall. When he got to the wall, he turned and I was doing the best I could to chase him to get the draft. He was able to wait long enough to get to the wall in order for me to take the best advantage of the draft. It was a good move. He tried the same move last year and didn't win on Sunday's race, but this year it worked for him. He did a fine job today and he ran a really brilliant last half of a lap."

Look for photos from the race on this site very soon.

A new venue, a mile-long facility in Dallas, is next on the schedule this Saturday.