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Belyea Looking to Clinch 2011 Brighton Late Model Championship; Great Crate Race Coming up This Weekend
Craig Revelle – Finish Line Web Design

September 13, 2011



Greg Belyea and the Excel Tower Service race team had a pair of events on the schedule this past weekend, beginning with a Go Nuclear Late Model Challenge Series race at Can Am on Friday night, then back to their home track, Brighton Speedway on Saturday. While Can Am had their weekly track points finished the previous week, Belyea is still entrenched in spirited battle for the 2011 Brighton Late Model Championship.



Belyea started the weekend at Can Am for the Go Nuclear Late Model Challenge Series. He started his qualifying heat from the front row, but the car was not handling, and he slid back through the field and finished eighth. In the 25 lap main event, he started from outside of the seventh row in 14th position. While the car was better then it was earlier, Belyea still had to deal with handling issues, but moved up slowly during the course of the race. By lap 10 he was in 11th place, and was up to ninth with just ten laps remaining. Belyea ended the race with an eighth place finish.



At Brighton Speedway, Belyea is locked in a battle for the track championship. He started the night with the preliminary qualifying heats, and Belyea finished third after moving up at the green flag from his seventh place starting position. In the 25 lap feature, Belyea had started 11th, and began to move up, but on lap five, he had to make an evasive move and to the infield and knocked a tire onto the track. Belyea would have to start from the rear of the 18 car field, and began to march his way back to the front of the pack. At the checkered flag, he had climbed back up to third place.



“We are pretty happy with that, considering we had to come from the back”, says Belyea. “We leave here with a pretty good points lead, and we look forward to the final two events of the season”.



Belyea will be back at Chapman’s Can Am Motorsports Park one last time in 2011 on Friday night, before going back to Brighton Speedway for the much anticipated Great Crate Race at Brighton Speedway on Saturday. The unprecedented $5000 to win Late Model event will see cars from all over Ontario, New York State, Pennsylvania and beyond battle for a purse of more then $20000. For more information, visit www.finishlinewebdesign/greatcraterace.



For more information on Greg Belyea and the Excel Tower Service racing team, please visit our website, www.exceltowerracing.com.