May 11, 2009 – Danville, VA – In a hard fought race, Amigo John Burkhard took his Allsports Grand Prix Honda CRX to a podium finish in Saturday’s SARRC/MARRS Challenge. Burkhard, who started fourth for Saturday’s 39-mile race, spent the first 6 laps in a hard-fought battle for third place. At the mid-point of the race, however, Burkhard moved past his Brian Price and into third place. 

Burkhard immediately began hunting down the second-place MARRS-ITA of Bryan Pritt. Burkhard steadily closed the distance on Pritt. Burkhard, despite his fading brakes, ran his fastest laps in the second-half of the race but was unable to completely close the gap on second. Burkard managed to erase all but 1 second of the gap and, had the race been longer, would have been in a position to challenge Pritt.

Burkhard started Sunday’s race fifth in class. For much of the race he was involved in a ferocious four-way battle for second through fifth. Just past race mid-point, Burkhard advanced to fourth place, but lost considerable time when it took him several laps to move past an ITS Datsun. Overcoming this deficit, Burkhard managed to chase down the third-place Brian Price and moved into third place, and a podium position, on the last lap.