Crandon, WI (June 29, 2008) —The WSORR was treated to some vintage Johnny Greaves here at Crandon International Raceway as Greaves made "Monster Mash" out of the competition in his Monster Energy Potawatomi Toyota Tundra, winning the Pro 4 race on Saturday by a "Wisconsin mile". Winning in front of his home-state fans and Forrest County Potawatomi following was a special boost to the Greaves team almost mid-way through the 2008 season. The Pro 2 race did not turn out as well but enabled the Greaves team to do some needed trial and error testing as he broke out a new automatic transmission for the Toyota powered Pro 2. Johnny ended up in 5th place in the 2-wheel drive class.
"I really hooked-up well here at Crandon today in both classes. BF Goodrich has given me some great tires for Crandon," stated Johnny. "While we are still putting the Pro 2 package together, the Pro 4 is really working well. I was really happy to get a big win for the local fans that I love here in Crandon. The Pro 2 is getting closer to what we want, it just takes some time to get a totally new and different package streamlined the way it has to be to be competitive in this league. I feel like we are getting really close."
The Pro 4 race began with Greaves on the back row but making his way to about 5th place by the famous first turn at Crandon with Kent Brasho leading the way on lap one. Greaves battled with Brasho for three laps while Douglas was close on Johnny's tail. It was shaping up to be a thriller when Greaves made the pass in the back turn and proceeded to "check-out" on the rest of the field. Douglas took most of the race to get around Brasho but Greaves had the big Tundra 4x4 half-way around Forrest County by that time and went on to another Pro 4 win at Crandon.
This was a good warm-up for the big "Potawatomi Chairman's Cup Challenge race" to be held tomorrow here at the famed Crandon Raceway. Johnny Greaves has been very successful here over the years and won this race in 2006 and is the defending champion of the BorgWarner Cup.
