Crawford Climbing Back . . .

Tony Stewart has been doing a great job in  the No 2 Crawford SSC2K and double stinting the car, moved back up to 11^th place after the earlier battery problems.

When the car made its third pit stop, team boss Max Crawford decided to keep the Winston Cup ace in the car. The car had fresh tyres and fuel and was back in the race in 51 seconds.

At the front of the field the battle between the Jim Matthews Riley and Scott driven by Scott Sharp and the Risi Ferrari of David Brabham continued to lap within feet of each other as they contested the lead.

With the race three and a quarter hours old the No2 car was back in the top ten.

At the same mark Scott Sharp had moved ahead of the Ferrari, the Jon Field/Duncan Dayton/Mike Durand/Rick Sutherland Intersport Lola was battling for third place with the Dyson R &S of EFR/Rob Dyson/Chris Dyson/ Dorsey Schroeder.