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Super Cup Teams Return to the Track for the Performance Fiberglass 75 Presented by Cool Shirt

It has been over a month since the Super Cup Stock Car Series last made an appearance on the track due to May’s rainout at Motordrome Speedway, but teams have been readying for the upcoming race at Columbus Motor Speedway in Ohio.

Some teams have been busy off the track in the meantime as well.  The Peck Motorsports team unveiled their NASCAR Camping World Truck for 2013 and driver Todd Peck participated in the Arthritis Walk in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Todd, who was diagnosed with arthritis as a child, helped raised funds for the foundation by offering participants the opportunity to sign his pit wall banner and post sticky notes on his truck.  Todd and his team were the 2010 winners of the Super Cup race at Columbus and will be a contender once again this year.

There are five drivers looking to improve on their first career performances in the series at Shenandoah Speedway in April.  Leading this group is Codie Rohrbaugh who had a phenomenal debut with a top ten car during practice, and despite spinning early in the race rebounded to a fourth place finish.  Nokesville, Virginia’s Mike Southard also had a fast car and ran as high as third before finishing the evening in sixth.  New Jersey representative Howie Conk Jr. started the race outside the top ten, but stayed out of trouble and steadily worked his way to an eighth place finish.

The remaining two first-timers hope to turn around their luck in the second race of the season.  Kyle Baugh climbed from the back of the field to third before getting spun, relegating him to an eleventh place finish.  Baugh has previous starts at Columbus in a Legends car.  Derrick Layne was only able to run a handful of laps at Shenandoah due to a mechanical issue, and looks for a strong finish this weekend.

Columbus Motor Speedway differs from some of the other tracks the Super Cup Stock Car Series visits, with its smaller 1/3 mile, semi-banked layout.  The track has been on the Super Cup schedule since 2009, but last year’s race was canceled due to rain.  The last race winner was three-time defending series champion Jody Harrison in May of 2011, who held off Shenandoah winner Jim Crabtree Jr.  Despite coming up short of the victory, Crabtree was fastest in practice and qualifying during that weekend.

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