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ARCA: Sheltra Takes Victory On Springfield Mile
Patrick Sheltra won the ARCA Series Allen Crowe 100...
ARCA Communications  | http://www.arcaracing.com  |  Posted August 23, 2010   Springfield, IL
Patrick Sheltra celebrates in victory lane after winning the Allen Crowe 100. (Photo: ARCAracing.com)
Patrick Sheltra took advantage of an unprotected outside lane on a late-race restart, charged into the lead, and straight into the history books as the winner of the eventful 48th annual Allen Crowe 100 on the Illinois State Fairgrounds mile dirt in Springfield Sunday afternoon.

The Indiantown, Florida driver also became the 13th different race winner in 14 events so far on the 2010 ARCA Racing Series presented by RE/MAX and Menards tour.

Sheltra, driving a badly battered Recycling Services-Ferguson Pipe sponsored Dodge, also survived an early race meeting with the turn three wall, a lap 64 tangle with Justin Marks, and a last-lap charge from Mikey Kile in overtime to earn his second career ARCA Series victory.

"I did a bone head move about 50 laps into the race," Sheltra said from Victory Lane. "I went on the outside of a lapped car and I thought it cost us the race today. It almost destroyed the car; I backed it into the fence. We came back in and fixed it up a little bit. We knew the tow was out. Then we got in the other wreck; I think Arpin had a flat and it got them balled up off of two over there. We just came through it you know and got hit again. The fender was beat in and everything. We came back down pit road and fixed it up."

Then, on a restart eight laps from the finish, Sheltra, barely inside the top-10, powered into the outside lane occupied by no one and drove around every car in front of him, including race leader Ron Cox before the cars got to turn one.

"We were running ninth on the second to last restart and everyone was going to the bottom all day on the restarts, so I decided to go on the outside," added Sheltra. "They held them up a little bit and I got around them going into one."
Patrick Sheltra takes the lead in the Allen Crowe 100. (Photo: ARCAracing.com)

Sheltra then had to fend off Cox and Kile for the duration until the sixth and final caution flag waved just as Sheltra took the white flag. It happened when Kile drove underneath Cox for the second position headed into turn one where Kile made contact with Cox resulting in Cox landing hard against the turn one wall. That set the stage for the one-lap shoot-out to the checkered flag during which Sheltra held off Kile, beating him to the final stripe by a length.

"I was kind of scared there with the one lap finish because it wouldn't turn for crap. It was just a good day for us," finished Sheltra.

Kile, in the Venturini Motorsports Chevrolet, had to settle for second after leading four laps.

"It was a good points day," said Kile. "A lot of the guys in the front had some trouble, we needed that. We had some trouble throughout the year and we needed some luck to change our way. It was a good day today. It took me a while to get used to the dirt again. It's been about 12 years since I've raced dirt. It was a lot of fun. I had a blast. Just looking forward to the rest of the season."


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