SHRYOCK NIPS KROHN IN O’REILLY USMTS NATIONAL TOUR
THRILLER AT BUENA VISTA RACEWAY

Tuesday, June 24, 2008

ALTA, Iowa (June 24) – The only two drivers ever to wear
the championship belt of the O’Reilly USMTS National Tour
slugged it out again Tuesday night as a packed house
looked on at the Buena Vista Raceway in Alta, Iowa.

Defending O’Reilly USMTS National Champion Jason Krohn of
Slayton, Minn., overpowered race-long leader Brandon Kenny
on lap 21 of the 30-lap Holley "A" Main. Two laps later,
eight-time O’Reilly USMTS National Champ Kelly Shryock of
Fertile, Iowa, muscled past Kenny to take over the second
spot and set his sights on the leader.

With four laps to go, the battle royale waged on as
11th-starting Shryock pulled up alongside Krohn. Two laps
later, Shryock crossed the stripe first to take the lead.

As the white flag waved, the pair of heavyweights tip-toed
through the first turn before racing side by side down the
entire length of the back stretch. The two made contact in
the middle of turns 3 and 4, but the body-slamming didn't
stop there as the duo scratched, scraped and banged all
the way to the flagstand with Shryock taking the win by
the length of his front bumper.

The win was worth $2,000 to Shryock, who won his third
event in the last four races and eighth overall for the
2008 season. Krohn had to settle for the runner-up
paycheck for the second time in his last three starts
while Kenny finished third to match his career-best USMTS
showing and solidify his place atop the Rookies Rockin'
Sports Bar Rookie of the Year standings.

Another rookie contender and fellow Woodward, Okla.,
resident, Dereck Ramirez wound up fourth ahead of
Westville, Okla.'s Jason Hughes. Tommy Weder Jr. finished
sixth to give Sooner State pilots four of the top six
spots, with Jay Noteboom in seventh. Scott Green and Al
Hejna finished eighth and ninth, respectively, while Mike
Steensma rounded out the top-10 finishers in his first
USMTS start of 2008.

With the victory, Shryock broke a tie with Zack VanderBeek
for the points lead in the Great Plains Region and leads
VanderBeek by 39 markers (488 to 449) after four of nine
scheduled events in the region. Four more of those will be
completed by Saturday.

Jon Tesch sits third in the rankings with 425 points,
followed by Weder (372), Kenny (370), Ramirez (347), Krohn
(338), Green (337), Hejna (328) and Justin Boney (325).