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Crate Late Model World Championships Get Under Way

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A Tribune staff, wire report

Published: December 8, 2007

TAMPA - The third annual Crate Late Model World Championships opened Friday at East Bay Raceway Park as Jimmy Owens of Newport, Tenn., was fastest in qualifying with a lap of 15.922 seconds around the 1/3 -mile clay oval.
NASCAR driver Ken Schrader qualified 13th among the 74 drivers from 13 states who made qualifying attempts.

Six 15-lap heat races set the first 18 starting spots for tonight's 100-lap, $10,000-to-win Crate Late Model World Championship finale.

The first three finishers in each advanced, with wins going to Owens, Shannon Buckingham, John Pursley, Randy Korte, Randy Weaver and David Gentry, the 2007 and two-time StormPay.com Crate Late Model Series champion.

Warm-ups will begin at 6 p.m., with racing at 6:45. East Bay's 4-Cylinder Bomber and Open Wheel Modified divisions also will be in action.

Gary Ardrey
FORMULA ONE: The World Motor Sport Council deferred a ruling on whether McLaren illegally used confidential data from Formula One rival Ferrari on its 2008 car.

The council will meet again Feb. 14 in Paris. The decision means McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton won't know whether his 2008 car has been cleared until a month before the opening race.

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