Winchester, IN (November 4, 2008) – Charlie Shaw, owner of Winchester Speedway, along with Champion Racing Association have announced that the 38^th Annual Winchester 400, sanctioned again by the CRA Super Series, will be held on Sunday, October 18^th, 2009. The event, one of the top short track stock car events in the country, will be moved a week later in 2009 due to NASCAR moving it’s annual October Lowe’s Motor Speedway Sprint Cup event, which will be held on Saturday night, October 17^th.

"We really didn’t want to move the date any later," remarked Glenn Luckett with Champion Racing Association. "With NASCAR moving the Lowe’s Sprint Cup event, it really didn’t give us much of a choice if we want to give David Stremme, Kyle Busch and any other NASCAR racers a chance to race again in the Winchester 400. We felt like we owed it to the Winchester 400 fans to keep open the opportunity for those racers to be able to compete in that event again in 2009."

South Bend, Indiana’s David Stremme held off Kyle Busch to win this season’s exciting 37^th addition of the Winchester 400. A huge crowd enjoyed near perfect weather all weekend in one of the best ever 400 weekends to date. The 38^th Annual Winchester 400 Weekend will feature prelimary racing action on the famous High Banks on Friday, October 16^th and Saturday, October 17^th with the Winchester 400 taking the green flag on Sunday, October 18^th, 2009 at 1pm. Both Stremme and Busch indicated they would like to return to race in next year’s event along with another strong field of some of the best short track racers in the country.

More event information will be available on www.winchesterspeedway.com. Additional information on the CRA Super Series is available at www.craracing.net.