"What an honor" Gabehart stated. "The guitar at Nashville, what more can you say.  How many people have been here and raced for that, it is an honor!"

Gabehart took the lead from the outside of the front row and led the first 20 laps, before Josh Vadnais charged to the front and took the lead.  Gabehart retook the lead on the 58th lap and held it until he pitted on the 111th lap when he handed the lead off to Johnny VanDoorn.  VanDoorn stayed out front until the 167th lap when Donnie Wilson made a strong move to the outside to pass for the lead.  Gabehart passed Wilson on lap 192. A caution with 2 to go forced a green/white/checker finish with Boris Jurkovic in second. Gabehart restarted smoothly pulling away from Jurkovic and raced on to the win. Jurkovic finished second, Wilson third, Scott Carlson fourth and Jason Hogan fifth.

"Chris drove a hell of a race" 2006 All American 400 CRA event winner, Jurkovic said. "On that last restart I was not where I wanted to be exactly as we were coming to green. I let up for just a second, and Chris took off at that second. If I could have gotten that spot I would have been like a mad alligator, but Chris was too strong. You can’t win all the guitars and we had a good run."

The race capped three days of practice and qualifying. Resulting in a strong field that included the last four winners Chuck Barnes, Jr. – 2004, Hogan – 2005, Jurkovic – 2006 and VanDoorn – 2007, as well as many of the best short track racers from as far away as Minnesota and Oklahoma and as close as Nashville.

Veteran racer Wheaton, IL’s Eddie Hoffman was entered but was unable to make the feature after losing an engine during the Last Chance race. Indianapolis, IN native Eddie Van Meter also found little luck after a hard hit in practice Thursday night ended his weekend along with Drew Turner hauled in from Columbus, OH only to have his weekend finish early with an accident on the opening day of practice. 36 cars started the race with 17 finishing on the lead lap and 26 cars on the track at the checkered flag.

Along with the Copley Guitar Gabehart earned the $400 RaceTrailerSales.com Halfway Leader Award, the Holley Performance Award, the Fatheadz.com Race Winner Award and a Schoenfeld Headers Finish Award. Zach Taylor took the other Schoenfeld Award as well as the Cometic Rookie of the Race Award and the VDL Fuel Systems Top Rookie Award.

Josh Vadnais took the VDL Fuel Systems Hot Lap of the Race Award and the Five Star RaceCar Bodies Hard Luck Award, he was the only car that needed a wrecker during the event. Dennis Schoenfeld took the ISKY Racing Cams/Lane Automotive Hard Charger Award moving up 24 positions starting 32^nd to finish eighth. Schoenfeld also earned the Lynch Tree Service Nashville Performance Award for the driver with the best overall finishes in the All American 150 and All American 400 events, finishing sixth in the July 20^th make up of the original March date to go with his eighth place finish.

The next CRA Super Series event will be the $10,000 to win Southern Slam 250 at the South Georgia Motorsports Park on November 21-23. For more information go to CRA Super Series.

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