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Bodine, Lucas Earn Bobsled Titles in Lake Placid
Todd Bodine carried over his success from Saturday's qualifying round to the finals as he earned his first Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge championship on Sunday...
SPEED Staff  |  Posted January 04, 2009   Lake Placid, New York
Todd Bodine pilots one of the USA Team sleds on Sunday during a Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge championship round at the Olympic Sports Complex. (Photo: Todd Bissonette)

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Todd Bodine carried over his success from Saturday's qualifying round to the finals as he earned his first Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge championship Sunday at the Olympic Sports Complex.

PHOTO GALLERY: Fourth Annual Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge

The top qualifier on Saturday, Todd Bodine was first out of the chute in Sunday's first round of Race 1, which featured NASCAR and NHRA racers competing against the clock for a trip to the podium. His maiden run of 49.83 seconds stood as the fastest in the round as the top eight of 12 drivers advanced. In the second round, with the race order inverted, nearly each driver that went bested the one before him. Joey Logano, who went next-to-last, posted a 49.56 to set the bar for Bodine. The younger brother of the event's namesake did not disappoint as he crossed the finish line at 49.35. Bodine's two-round combined time of 1:39.18 earned the Race 1 title.

"I've had a good sled," Bodine said. "During qualifying and the first round I had really clean runs. The second round wasn't quite as fast as Larry's [Gunselman], and what I needed to do was just stay with them, and we got it done."

Logano, in his second year of competition in the Bodine Bobsled Challenge, finished with a combined time of 1:39.58. Logano, who will contend for the 2009 Raybestos Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, earned his first invitation last year as the 2007 NASCAR Camping World Series East championship. Gunselman came in third at 1:39.60. Gunselman's second run of 49.33 seconds was the fastest run of either round in the morning session.

Morgan Lucas was the highest finishing NHRA competitor in Race 1 at 1:39.83.

Boris Said, the defending Race 1 champion and five-time winner in the Bodine Bobsled Challenge settled for a sixth-place finish.

The event also included NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour champion Brian Loftin, who finished eighth in his first bobsledding experience. Philip Morris earned a return trip to Lake Placid with his second NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national championship in three years, finished 10th.

PHOTO GALLERY: Fourth Annual Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge

SPEED will televise four hours of the Whelen Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge on Jan. 18 at noon and Jan. 25 at 2 pm Eastern.


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