PR 06/02/09 Charter Raceway Park

After a rough evening during last Saturday’s races at Charter Raceway Park, Steenbergen returned to the track with a vengeance.  Steenbergen charged to the front of his heat race and won it running away from the field.  Starting on the outside of the front row, Steenbergen looked to repeat the performance in the twenty lap feature race.  As the field came around to complete the first lap, Steenbergen was leading the twenty car field.  By the halfway point of the race, Steenbergen had built up a half straightaway lead over the second place driver.  That driver was Barth, who had started in eighth but drove up to the second spot by lap three.  Slowly Barth started reeling in the leader, running a lane about a car width higher.  With four laps remaining, the top two had distanced themselves from third and were starting to work their way through lap traffic, and Barth was right on Steenbergens bumper.  Barth made his move on the final lap, diving down to the inside of Steenbergen in turn three.  Side by side the front runners battled through the final turns.  It was Steenbergen, on the outside, who was able to maintain momentum and power his way to the checkers.  Barth settled for second followed by Brad Weber, Kevin Brill and Mike Mueller