Christopher Able

Christopher "Chris" Michael Able (born December 9th, 1983) is a ShopRite Series driver from 2003-TBA. He races for Blaze Motorsports in the 18. He won the 2004 ShopRite Series championship.
== Career ==
Christopher debuted 4 races late in 2003 and was expected to glow like his predecessor, Bobby Labonte, who won twice in his four races. Able was mid-pack unless it was at the speedways and pulled off a win in New Hampshire after Jeffery Chev got trapped a lap down. He has gained speed and since won another race. Even though he got two wins, he was not as consistent as his main rival, Chev, who got consistent top 10s and was higher than Able in points (17th for Chev, 22nd for Able). The 2004 season started off slowly, but after the first quarter, he established a competitive set of races, which included a narrow loss at Dover and a win at Pocono. He also won the Pepsi 400 at Daytona in 2004 and went back to back in the Tropicana 400 the following race after a dominating performance leading 23 of the 54 laps before setting a once-in-a-lifetime record at Pocono by not only being the first driver to sweep a track in a season, but to sweep them after winning the pole in both races. After working his way up in points, he had arguably the most dominant race ever at the New Hampshire 300 by leading all but the first lap to get his fifth win of 2004. He then had another dominating performance the next race at Dover, leading 70 of 80 laps and becoming the first driver to win a specific race two years in a row. He also tied Eric Drew a-top the all-time wins chart before Drew got his ninth and tenth career wins at the end of the season at Rockingham and Homestead, but a strong performance was enough to put Able in the height of the championship fight, being third in points heading into Homestead, 11 points out of the lead.
At Homestead, Christopher qualified in the 12th position, with his main contender throughout the race, Winford Bradford Rutherford, qualifying 10th with the other 4 championship contenders down the order. A short amount of time into the race, points leader Sergei Thompson came together with Dario Sanchez and crashed. This ultimately ended his chances. Up until green flag pit-stops, Chris had pulled away from Rutherford, but Rutherford passed him before both nearly collided entering the pits as Chris sent it. Both Rutherford and Chris had horrible stops which sent both toward the back of the field. Rutherford however was way behind Chris. Chris continued to pass cars, getting stuck behind Donald Wilson up until the final corner to win the 2004 ShopRite Series Championship after having an amazing 2nd half of the season.
== List of Wins ==
# 2003 New England 300
# 2003 Dover 400
# 2004 Pocono 500
# 2004 Pepsi 400
# 2004 Tropicana 400
# 2004 Pennsylvania 500
# 2004 New Hampshire 300
# 2004 Dover 400
== Records ==
* First driver to win a race from the pole (2004 Pocono 500)
* First driver to sweep a track in a season (Pocono in 2004)
* First driver to sweep a track in a season after winning the pole in both races (Pocono in 2004)
* First driver to win a specific race in successive years (2003 & 2004 Dover 400)
* First driver to win consecutive races twice during a season (2004 Pepsi 400-2004 Tropicana 400, 2004 New Hampshire 300-2004 Dover 400)