"Final Round of The Battle of the Hawkeye State"

July 20^th, 2002 - Bear Lake, Pa.  

   Keith Simmons and Joe Hayes welcomed The Renegade DirtCar Racing Series to Farley Speedway in Farley, IA for the running of the $10,000 to win "Farley 75", with a purse in excess of $43,000, at the high-banked 1/2 mile speedway in Farley, Iowa You can visit the S.P.I. website located at www.simmonspromotionsinc.com.

    After losing the Renegade DirtCar Series Champion points lead Thursday night to Mike Balzano at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, IA, and not making last nights race at Farley Speedway Chub and the 1* team stayed right at Farley Speedway last night and were determined to make something out of what appeared to be a bad trip to Iowa for the 2 time defending Renegade DirtCar Series Champion. Chub, Boom and Steve worked on the 1* until after 2 am Saturday and started working again early Saturday morning to get ready for "Farley 75" Renegade DirtCar Racing Series points race. Chub qualified the 1* in 5^th out of 36 drivers registered for the event, Chub line up in the first heat in the 3^rd starting position and finished in 6^th Chub knew right away this was going to be another long night as he had his little motor in and needed his big motor in the car. Now Chub had to run the 1^st of 2 b-mains and lined up in 3^rd and finished in 4^th they take 3 to the main event. Chub now has to take a Provisional to get into tonight’s event and will start in 24^th at the drop of the green for the start Chub doing what he does best making something out of nothing started his charge towards the front and got all the way to 3^rd and took his Corry Rubber, Corry Laser, Nystrom’s Auto Sales, Draime Racing Engines, Rocket Chassis, Pierotti Motorsports, Farr MotorSports, Chevrolet Monte Carlo and finished in 3^rd position in the "Farley 75". Chub received the Hard Charger award and also took the points lead back from Balzano and is leading by 120 again. The finish for tonight was 1. Rick Aukland, 2. Denny Eckrich, 3. Chub Frank, 4. Skip Frey, 5. Billy Drake, 6. Steve Shaver, 7. Darren Miller 8. Greg Lucas, 9. Dan Schlieper, 10. Rod Conley.

Next up for Chub will be Friday at Raceway 7 in Conneaut, OH. & Saturday at Muskingum County Speedway In Zanesville, Ohio For The Renegade DirtCar Series.