VOL. 50 ISSUE 12 MARCH 26, 2013
P75
THREE-PEAT
Tyler Bowers gets it done the hard way
BY DAVE DERINGER
PHOTOGRAPHY BY KINNEY JONES
Y
ou'd think with 20 mainevent wins and 10 overall
victories on the season
that winning his third-straight Arenacross Championship would
have been another stroll down
easy street. Ha! It was anything
The new Race to the
Championship format had the
top qualifiers' points reset,
which meant Bowers' points
lead was all but erased. He
prevailed with three to spare.
but for the 22-year-old from
Danville, Kentucky.
With Arenacross making drastic changes to its racing format
for 2013, the series organizers
got exactly what they wanted - a
title fight to the bitter end, which
pretty much came at Bowers'
expense. Along with some other changes (random "briefcase"
starts, head-to-head bracket
racing, etc.), the most significant change was using the first
six rounds of the series as sort
of a "qualifier," then resetting
the points for those who qualified, making the last four rounds
of the series a sprint "Race to
the Championship," much like
how golf does it with its "FedEx-