As of today the defending champ does not have a ride for 2020 season. Cobys' car owner has retired from the sport leaving him, his crew chief and crew as free agents.
It is being reported that Wall Stadium closing after 2020 season. A housing development of approx 350 homes will take it's place.
However since the original report of the proposed shutdown/sale of speedway's 49 acre property, the Township of Wall,NJ has said the property is not zoned for residential and housing can not be built on the property due to it being in an airport safety zone. They said there is no plans to re-zone the property.
Not sure how many cars were entered, but the field size was capped at 26 per the 68th Race of Champions Competitor Guide
68th Annual Race of Champions 250 Qualifying Procedure at Lake Erie Speedway: • 26 Car Field maximum. • 26 Car Field maximum. (Two (2) Provisional positions available to the Top-15 in the current championship standings.) Provisional starting positions will be awarded to the first (two) 2 drivers in the Top-15, who have failed to qualify for the feature race provided the competitor that is eligible for the Provisional practices and makes an attempt to qualify through the qualifying races.
If you didn't catch the race live on FansChoice.TV, they will have it archived on their site in a day or two. Pretty decent coverage for a one camera production. Pretty wild race, lots of carnage. One leader (Dowling) penalized for jumping a restart with 20 or so laps to go and with a couple laps to go McKennedy ran out of fuel while leading and coming to a restart.