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Chicago Motor Speedway
Cicero, Illinois
2001 ASA Event 11 of 20; July 7-8
EVENT FACTS
Race Title: Chicago 200
Track Locale: Located just seven miles from downtown Chicago, on the southwest side.
Track Size: 1.029-mile asphalt oval, banked six degrees in the corners.
Track Lap Record: 31.315 seconds, set July 15, 2000 by Mike Garvey.
Expected Entries: 38, as of July 5
Weather Forecast:
Saturday: High 82, Low 65, Partly Cloudy
Sunday: High 83, Low 66, Sunny
EVENT SCHEDULE
Saturday, July 7 (all times Central)
7:00 am - Registration and Tech Line Open
8:30 am - Drivers' Meeting
9:30 am- Spectator Gates Open
9:30 am - ASA Practice (50 mins.)
10:20 am - SCCA Practice (30 mins.)
10:50 am - ASA Practice (50 mins.)
11:40 am - Lunch (45 mins.)
11:45 am - SCCA Qualifying Session One (25 mins.)
12:25 pm - ASA Practice (50 mins.)
1:15 pm - Practice Ends
1:20 pm - SCCA Qualifying Session Two (25 mins.)
2:00 pm - Safety Meeting
2:45 pm - ASA Qualifications/ Time Trials (2 Laps)
4:15 pm - Registration Closes
4:30 pm - Spotters' Meeting
4:45 pm - Cars On Grid
5:00 pm - Driver Introductions
5:15 pm - Qualifier Race (50 laps/ for cars not making starting grid through time trials)
Sunday, July 8 (all times Central)
7:00 am - Registration and Tech Line Open
8:30 am - Drivers' Meeting
9:00 am - Spectator Gates Open
9:15 am - Victory Chapel
9:30 am - Cars On Grid
10:00 am - Scorers' Meeting
10:00 am - Autograph Session Begins (One hour)
10:15 am - Crew Chiefs' Meeting
10:30 am - Spotters' Meeting
10:45 am- Safety Meeting
11:00 am- Registration Closes
11:00 am - Autograph Session Ends
11:15 am - Special Guests & Awards
11:30 am - Driver Introductions
11:50 am - Invocation / National Anthem
Noon - Chicago 200
3:00 pm - SCCA Pro Spec Race (45 mins.)
Schedule Subject To Change Without Notice
HARD LUCK STRIKES FRASER CAMP - AGAIN
CICERO, Illinois - Scott Fraser had a car good enough to win the Chicago 200 at Chicago Motor Speedway on Sunday, until he hit an oil slick on turn one during the 162nd circuit around the speedway. Fraser's No. 00 King Freight Lines Chevrolet, running fourth at the time, spun around hitting the outside retaining wall hard enough to knock the rear-end out from under the car and ending the day for the team.
"We were racing Garvey for fourth, drove into turn one and the car just broke away from me," said Fraser, from Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia. "I was spinning backwards toward the wall when I heard them saying on the radio there was oil all over the track."
Fraser made the mandatory visit to the track medical care facility, but was released right away.
"I've got a headache," said the disappointed driver, who has been a victim of hard luck in his last several American Speed Association (ASA) outings.
Fraser, who started the race third, led on two different occasions for a total of 53 laps. Final results show him 29th.
Wisconsin's Johnny Sauter won the race, followed by Georgia's Joey Clanton and Wisconsin's Kevin Cywinski.
The next race on the docket for the ASA goes July 14 at Berlin Raceway in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
FRASER QUALIFIES THIRD QUICK AT CHICAGO
CICERO, Illinois - Scott Fraser grabbed his best starting spot on the 2001 American Speed Association (ASA) season with a third place effort in qualifying time trials for Sunday's Chicago 200 at the 1.029-mile Chicago Motor Speedway.
"We liked this track last year and we're really looking forward to a great race tomorrow," said Fraser, who led the first 19 laps of the 2000 ASA race at Chicago after starting second.
The No. 00 King Freight Lines Chevrolet was fast all day Saturday as Fraser, from Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, recorded the fastest practice time overall for the day among the 38 cars present. Fraser's timed qualifying lap was just a blink of an eye off pole winner Johnny Sauter, from Necedah, Wisconsin (Fraser at 31.592 seconds, Sauter 31.472 seconds). Mike Garvey, from Minnesota, was second.
The Chicago 200 is race number 11 of 20 on the 2001 ASA circuit and will be telecast live at 1 p.m. ET on TNN.
For more information on Scott Fraser, please visit www.scottfraseronline.com.
FRASER HOPES FOR RETURN OF GOOD FORTUNE IN CHICAGO
CICERO, Illinois - This weekend Scott Fraser will return to the spot of his spectacular American Speed Association (ASA) debut in 2000 but, more importantly, Fraser hopes for a return of some good fortune in Sunday's Chicago 200 at Chicago Motor Speedway.
Fraser, from Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, and his Pictou, Nova Scotia-based No. 00 King Freight Lines crew turned many heads in last July's ASA race at Chicago when they qualified second, led the first 19 laps and finished eighth. But Fraser is now going through the longest dry spell of his stellar racing career.
"It's the type of thing where we've mostly just been in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Fraser of his run of bad luck in the last five ASA races. "You can expect those things on the track. You hope they don't happen, but if they do you have to live with it. But what we can't believe are the other demons that have bitten us along the way."
Since early April, off the track, the King Racing team have lost an engine in their new 2001 race car hauler, had a crew member hurt at Odessa during practice, had a brand new race car motor blow up on them before they even got it to a race track and, most recently (this week), had the team four wheeler stolen.
"We're just shaking our heads at this point," said Fraser. "We still believe we can be competitive and win some races here. Hopefully this weekend will mark the turnaround."
The Chicago 200 is race 11 on the 20-race 2001 ASA schedule and will be telecast live on TNN at 1 p.m. ET.
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