Vision Racing Enters Lusk for Chili Bowl Midget Nationals

TULSA OK (1-2-06) - Vision Racing, which competed in seven ARCA RE/MAX Series races in 2005, has filed an entry for the upcoming 20th running of the Chili Bowl indoor midget nationals with RE/MAX Series veteran driver Damon Lusk at the helm.

Lusk, in 33 career RE/MAX Series starts, made two dirt track attempts at Springfield and DuQuoin recording a career-best dirt-track finish of 11th at Springfield in 2000 driving for veteran James Hylton, where he also won the Pork Pole award (below right). Outside of a 27th place finish at DuQuoin in 2004, Lusk has no other dirt-track experience.

“I really don’t have much dirt-track experience, and certainly none in an open-wheel car,” said Lusk. “But heck yah; might as well give it a shot. I just appreciate the opportunity to race with all the legends that I know will be there. It'll be neat just to say we were there and we gave it our best.”

Other entries from the ARCA RE/MAX Series ranks include Justin Allgaier, Brandon Knupp and the Fike bothers’ AJ and Aaron.

Vision Racing team owner Adrian Berryhill, whose family business is "The Original Chili Bowl", was the title sponsor for the race in its inaugural running, hence the name "Chili Bowl" in each race thereafter.

Vision Racing will be teaming up with national midget champion Donnie Lehman and World of Outlaws "mean 15" sprint car driver Justin Henderson for this year’s running. Lusk will be piloting a Gaerte-powered Maxim chassis on Hoosier tires.

Lusk was not familiar with the event’s prestige until he looked at the 2006 entry list, which already includes heavy hitters such as Tony Stewart, Steve Kinser, Kasey Kahne, JJ Yeley, Jason Leffler, Danny Lasoski, Sammy Swindell, Tracy Hines and many others.

Lusk won two RE/MAX Series races in 2002 at Atlanta Motor Speedway and Pocono Raceway. In all, Lusk has 15 top-10 finishes in 33 RE/MAX Series starts and has led 208 laps in 10 races.
Vision Racing has brought a few of its ARCA RE/MAX Series team sponsors to support this year’s Chili Bowl effort such as NationalCashLenders.com, Excel Therapy Specialists and Builders Plus