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Message started by LMR on 04/21/11 at 1:28am

Title: Chub Frank Advances From Last-Place Start To Salvage Top-10
Post by LMR on 04/21/11 at 1:28am

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Chub Frank Racing
982 Lottsville Niobe Road
Bear Lake, PA 16402

Chub Frank Advances From Last-Place Starting Spot To Salvage Top-10 Finish In Commonwealth 100 At Virginia Motor Speedway

BEAR LAKE, PA – April 20, 2011 – No one made a bigger advance through the field in the rain-delayed second annual ‘Commonwealth 100’ on Sunday afternoon (April 17) at Virginia Motor Speedway than Chub Frank.

And after completing his run from the 26th starting spot to a solid 10th-place finish, the 49-year-old veteran from Bear Lake, Pa., breathed a sigh of relief.

“We’re happy with 10th,” Frank said following the $25,000-to-win World of Outlaws Late Model Series event, which had its headline program postponed from Saturday night to late Sunday afternoon due to wet and stormy weather. “I said before the race that I’d be tickled with a top 10 from where we had to start and we were able to pull it off.”

Frank had to play catch-up all weekend at Bill Sawyer’s gorgeous half-mile oval, beginning with his subpar time-trial lap on Friday night that left him 30th fastest in the 43-car field. He then fell one spot short of transferring through the second 15-lap heat race (he finished fifth) before suffering misfortune during the first 20-lap B-Main, which he led for most of the distance until a deflating left-rear tire forced him to pull up lame with just four laps remaining.

Facing a rare DNQ despite his Corry Rubber/Hino Toyota Rocket showing plenty of speed in the B-Main, Frank was disappointed. But he got a reprieve when VMS owner Bill Sawyer decided to add ‘Chubzilla’ to the Commonwealth 100 starting field as a promoter’s option.

That left Frank with the last starting spot in the 100-lapper, but he wasn’t fazed by his positioning. Showing patience on a tough, sun-baked track surface, Frank rallied from a lap-26 pit stop for a tire change to reach the edge of the top 10 by lap 70. He moved into his final 10th-place finishing spot heading to the white flag when Jason Feger spun out of a potential top-five finish after getting in a scrape with Chris Madden while battling for fifth.

“The car actually wasn’t too bad,” Frank said of his afternoon performance at VMS. “You just can’t start that far back – not just in a daytime deal, but anytime. The racetrack was pretty good for a daytime show – if I was stuck on the outside for a restart, I could still get by cars because the rubber was in the middle-top or you could use that cushion in one and two – but when you start last there’s just too many good guys ahead of you.”

Frank, whose $2,650 payoff for 10th place at VMS left him ranked eighth in the WoO LMS points standings (62 points behind leader Josh Richards) after five events, does not plan to compete anywhere this weekend. He’ll spend the Easter holiday on a short vacation with his family before returning to action in a WoO LMS doubleheader on April 29 at Hartford (Mich.) Motor Speedway and April 30 at Bluegrass Speedway in Bardstown, Ky.

For more information on Chub Frank, visit his Web site at www.chubfrank.com.

Chub Frank Racing receives support from many valued sponsors, including Corry Rubber, Lake Shore Paving, Hino Toyota, Sorbera Family Chiropractic, All-Star Performance, Slavic Corporation, Custom Race Engines, GW Performance, Integra Shocks and Hoosier Tire.