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(Mar. 19 - New Braunfels, TX) The season has started for the POWRi Midgets and the Chris Coker Racing team. CCR made their 2012 debut this weekend with the Lucas Oil POWRi National Tour. Open wheel stars from around the country took Ft. Worth by storm, with and amazing 68 cars taking the track over two nights of action. For Chris, it would be his first action since August of 2011. Although he was quickly one of the fastest cars on the track, motor problems plagued the team throughout their early test sessions and into the first day of racing. With the help of Fontana Automotive the team corrected their woes and returned to form in the heat Friday night. Chris started 8th and began to make up ground on the leaders, but was stymied by a large pile up in turn 4, bending the front axle and relegating him to 7th. Starting the B main in 14th, Chris quickly went to work moving into the top 10, but ran out of time and ended his night short of the feature. Saturday would provide a challenge of different sorts as Chris found himself racing a tough field of heat race competitors and battled his way to a 4th place finish. After starting...more