Chris Windom - a 16-year-old phenom, and one of the hottest race car drivers in short-track racing today - is headed to Kyle, Texas, this weekend for the “Allstate Lightning 100” Presented by Toyota USAC National Midget Car Series event at Thunder Hill Raceway, to be contested on Saturday, April 7th.
A tremendous field of 28 cars is pre-entered already for Saturday s “Allstate Lightning 100. ” It s the second appearance for the series at the track which hosted last October s USAC 40-lap debut. Located on approximately 38 acres, Thunder Hill is a three-eighths mile, D-shaped track with a curved front straight (much like the larger tracks at Texas Motor Speedway and Daytona International Speedway). As such, it offers short-track drivers yet another different kind of track.
Windom, who plans a full schedule of racing this year in both the USAC National Sprint and Midget Car Series, as well as racing locally in Indiana when his schedule allows, has already had a busy year of racing early in the 2007 season.
“We started off with a lot of work heading into the Chili Bowl, ” Windom said of the beginning of his 2007 season. “That went really well, as I finished seventh in the A Main after starting 23rd in a race that s probably one of the most competitive environments of any race anywhere in the world. When we headed to Florida for non-winged Sprint car races at East Bay Raceway Park, we had mechanical problems early on, but it ended up being an interesting trip.
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