SWANSON’S SALEM REPEAT MOVES HIM TO 2ND ALL-TIME ON SILVER CROWN WIN LIST

By: Richie Murray Kody SwansonDallas Breeze photo Salem, Indiana………After a two-race “winless” streak, Kody Swanson admits it’s hard to say that he and the DePalma Motorsports team were struggling. Yet, for a team so accustomed to winning over the past four seasons, the results were bound to change soon as he, chief wrench Bob Hampshire and the crew went back to the books and did their homework over the last two weeks to return to victory lane for the second consecutive year in the “Joe James/Pat O’Connor Memorial” Saturday night at Salem Speedway. Swanson’s 18th career victory in the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series presented by TRAXXAS has him walking in high cotton as he moved into sole possession of second-place on the all-time series win list while his second-straight “James/O’Connor” triumph made him the fourth to accomplish the feat, joining Parnelli Jones (1960-61), Pancho Carter (1974-75-76-77) and Brian Gerster (2014-15). To put his name on a list with those individuals and reach that kind of comfort level on Salem’s 33-degree banks was something Swanson never imagined to be in the cards when he made his first visit years ago. “Those guys live for tracks like this to show [...]