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TYLER TRYING TO BREAK SILVER CROWN DEADLOCK THIS WEEKEND; EDWARDS ENTERED AT |
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July 31, 2006...INDIANAPOLIS - The USAC Silver Crown Series presented by K&N Engineering
season could take a serious turn this week, and Brian Tyler knows it. Tyler, who finished second in the "Milwaukee 100" on July 23 at The Milwaukee Mile, tied Bud Kaeding for most points scored this season, and looks to break that tie with a combination of pavement and dirt races this week, one which could have a major impact on the series standings. Kaeding and Tyler each possess 369 points heading into the "J.D. Byrider 100" on Thursday at O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, the first for the new generation Silver Crown cars at ORP and first for the cars on a track smaller than a mile. The 100-lap event will be the seventh pavement race in eight events this season, and neither Kaeding nor Tyler has won a Silver Crown race there before. But Tyler has won at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track - the site of Round 9 on Saturday and first of three straight dirt races - in the annual "SUMAR Classic" in 2004. Tyler's biggest tear in recent years has been on the dirt. Kaeding and Tyler have been deadlocked earlier this season, and both are aiming for their first series title after Top 3 point performances over the last two years. Even though Kaeding and Tyler hold a comfortable advantage in the standings, they'll try to hold off one of the series' hottest drivers in Josh Wise. The Riverside, Calif. native, who became a two-time "Belleville Midget Nationals" champion over last weekend, is the defending champion of the "SUMAR Classic" and won the series' only other dirt race in 2006 - the "Hoosier Hundred" - at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. Wise has also won three poles this season - at Indianapolis, Richmond and Milwaukee - with two of those in the A.J. Foyt Enterprises car. Wayne Reutimann Jr., Dave Steele and Aaron Pierce - all winners on pavement this season- will also attempt the dirt. These three run third, fourth and fifth in the standings. NASCAR Nextel Cup Series driver Carl Edwards headlines a large group of surprising entries in the two races. Edwards will return to the cockpit of a Silver Crown car at O'Reilly for the first time since the cars have been modified, driving for a team he co-owns with R.E. Technologies. Jeff Swindell will also return - at Terre Haute - attempting to make a Silver Crown race for the first time since Oct. 9, 1993. Swindell owns four career Silver Crown victories and five poles. |
