American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 7 | Page 34

Rico Romps in Eldora
4-Crown Midget Rout

Rossburg, Ohio.........Rico Abreu
arrived at Eldora Speedway Saturday evening via an airplane ride
alongside Tony Stewart after competing in the afternoon's NASCAR
Camping World Truck Series race
in New Hampshire.
As soon as the St. Helena, California driver hit the western Ohio
half-mile for the first time on Saturday, it almost seemed as if Abreu

was still on-board a jet as he piloted his Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian
Motorsports entry to a complete
sweep of the night's USAC National Midget events, recording
ProSource Fast Qualifying time,
then following that up with a new
8-lap track record run on his way
to a heat race victory before slashing his way to third from his sixth
starting position by the end of the
first lap of the feature.

Abreu rocketed around the outside
of teammate Tanner Thorson in
turn two on the second lap, and
then quickly ran down leader Chad
Boat by the time the two got to
turn three.
Abreu instantly shot down to the
bottom of turn three for a classic
Eldora slide job right up in front of
Boat to take the top spot as Boat
countered underneath Abreu and