By DDR Motorsports PR
Watertown, Conn.—Sept. 6, 2012 — When the final checkered flag waves on the 2012 season for David Gravel, he will have taken to the track nearly 80 times. Of all those races, only twice in a main event, will he circle the track for 50 laps. The first of those was last month in the 52nd Annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals at the famed Knoxville Raceway in Iowa, and the other will be this weekend in the historic Tuscarora 50 at Port Royal Speedway in Pennsylvania.
Gravel will open the AB Auto Glass 45th Annual Tuscarora 50 weekend with the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions on Friday, Sept. 7, with a full racing program, culminating with a 30-lap main event that pays $5,000-to-win. On Saturday, Sept. 8, another complete show is in order, with a 50-lap $11,000-to-win A-Feature capping the weekend at the half-mile. Read more »
50 Laps for David Gravel in the Tuscarora 50 at Port Royal
Back at the Front: David Gravel Finishes Third at Wayne County Speedway
By DDR Motorsports PR
Watertown, Conn.—Sept. 3, 2012 — With the speed and consistency that David Gravel has shown this season, he and his team have high expectations each and every time they roll through the pit gate. Following seventh and eighth-place showings that left them seeking more, they found what they were looking for in the form of a third-place finish at NAPA Auto Parts Wayne County Speedway in Ohio, on Sunday, Sept. 2, with the UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions.
Gravel opened the night at the three-eighths-mile by turning the second-fastest lap in time trials of the 27 drivers that were in attendance. He lined up third in the second eight-lap heat race and powered his way to a third-place finish, which put him in the dash. Gravel started on the pole in the dash and finished second to veteran Dean Jacobs, which earned him the outside front row starting spot in the 30-lap main event. At the drop of the green flag, the native of Watertown, Conn., ran second to Jacobs for the first several laps. Gravel would stay near the front of the field for the duration of the A-Feature, finishing third, which marked his ninth Top-Five finish of the season with the All Stars. Read more »
