The National Chumpionship is ON!

From east and west, from north and south, even from Canada, ChumpCar teams have converged on Newton, Iowa, for the first, and possibly last, National Chumpionship. Nearly 50 cars took the green flag this morning shortly after 10:00 a.m. That's a lot of cars for the one mile road course and the 7/8ths mile oval.

About an hour into the race, the rain started to fall, soon turning into a deluge. The suddenly slippery track caught a few drivers, especially those not used to racing on a wet track.

The track configuration was supposed to switch to the banked oval at 1:00 pm, but ChumpCar officials have decided to stay with the road course until the faster oval dries out.

At 12:30 pm, the top ten look like this:
1. #33 Tubby Butterman BMW - 116
2. #1 My Little Pony, Mustang - 115
3. #68 BSD, - 114
4. #3 Three Sheets, Escort ZX2 - 112
5. #24 Bear Patrol, Lexus - 112
6. #66 Holy Rollers, Acura - 112
7. #11 BrainNerds, Porsche 944 - 112
8. #47 Chump Change, Miata - 111
9. #51 British American, BMW - 111
10. #89 Schumacher Taxi, Toyota FX16 - 110