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Drew Herring paced the final practice session for Saturday’s running of the Sears Auto Center 150 at The Milwaukee Mile. The rookie, driving the No. 22s Black’s Tire & Auto Service Ford, toured the flat, mile-long track in 30.280 seconds at 118.890 mph to pace the 48 drivers that took times.

Herring, driver of the No. 22s Black’s Tire & Auto Service Ford, came up 1.12 seconds short of his first Hooters Pro Cup win, but second place was still his best finish in his first four starts.

“This is the run we needed,” said Herring, who pocketed an extra $1,000 for being the Miller Lite Rookie of the Race. “We definitely would have liked one more position, but we needed a nice solid finish today, and we got that. This is a great confidence builder, and hopefully we can carry this into the next few races.”

Drew Herring is currently 11th in the 2008 Southern Division Standings, the highest ranking Rookie.

Drew has now actually moved up to 5th in the points race.  See above link for complete details.  He is currently the top rookie in the standings and only 5 points behind the fourth place driver.

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By Paul Warner

Drew Herring, driver of the No. 22s Black’s Tire&Auto Service Ford, always had fans at South Boston (Va.) Speedway and Southern National (N.C.) Raceway Park during his racing career. But, evidently, Herring’s fans are willing to venture far outside of Benson, N.C., to follow their favorite.

When the first practice rolled off at 10:30 a.m., they were already in their seats, cheering wildly when Herring made his first laps.

“That was crazy,” said a grateful Herring. “I’m in Florida, eight hours away from home, and I got just as many fans as anyone here. When you hear that many people cheer for you it gets you pumped up.”

Herring was a little too pumped up in qualifying, but he rallied from starting 21st-and a mid-race spin-to finish 10th in his first Pro Cup start.

“I thought were we at least going to be in the top 10 in qualifying, but the driver got a little overzealous. I guess I thought I was in my Late Model and drove a little too hard. Instead of gaining two tenths [of a second], we lost two tenths. [Finishing 10th] wasn’t what we were looking for. But after getting punted, losing a lap and popping the wall twice, coming home 10th wasn’t bad.”

Learn more about Drew at www.drewherring.com

Rockingham, NC – BTS was proud to be associated with the Matt Hawkins Racing Team this past Sunday at Rockingham Motor Speedway at the inaugural Carolina 500.  The race was nationally televised live on SPEEDVISION.

Check out the results:  http://www.arcaracing.com/schedule.cfm?contentid=1219&display=results

See full article at:  http://www.arcaracing.com/news.cfm?contentid=6474

As a side note, Matt Carter is the current points leader of the Arca racing series shown here.  It was only a couple years ago that Matt won the ”Rookie of the Year” honors in the Hooters Pro Cup Racing Division behind the wheel of the Black’s Tire and Auto #22 Chevrolet.