April 21, 2009 – Summit Point, WV – In Saturday’s 20-mile heat race, Beth Burkhard put in a strong performance culminating in a sixth place ITB finish. Burkhard, who started 7th in the ITB field for the race, quickly moved into 6th after the green flag. “This was our first race with the car as an ITB,” said Burkhard. She went on to add, “Unfortunately, converting the car took longer than we anticipated and, while we made the track this weekend, we were unable to get the car into full ITB-fighting trim.”

Burkhard had a tougher time in Sunday’s 40-mile feature race when she spent the race fighting an ill-handling car. During the fourth lap, Burkhard went off-course in turn 10 and lost considerable time. “We got aggressive on tire pressures to compensate for being down on power and maybe we were too aggressive,” said Burkhard.