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Gray charges to USCS presented by Goodyear feature win at I-77 Speedway
Chester, SC - July 24, 2010 - Defending United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee charged from his seventh place starting position into victory lane in the series 30-lap main event at I-77 Speedway on Saturday night. Gray who earlier in the evening had won the Goodyear Speed Dash drove his own familiar black Rislone Oil Stabilizer sponsored Wesmar powered, J&J Auto Racing #10 winged sprint car to victory lane. He finished about one quarter-lap ahead of early race-leader, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina in the who finished in the runner-up spot. Past Carolina regional series Champion, Coby Adams from Mooresville, North Carolina had his best finish of the season in third place.
Bridges started the Sue Ellen Wilshe owned Biobased USA sponsored #07s Roush Yates Ford powered, J& J Auto Racing car in the K&N Filters Pole Position. He was awarded this position after the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat winner, Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina drew a zero in the K&N Filters Pole award drawing on the front stretch in front of a packed I-77 Speedway grandstands. Bridges was the high-passing points' earner after qualifying in the heat races. This placed last week's Dixie Speedway winner and 2006 United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas driving the Jay Hancock owned Athens, Georgia based #1A sprint car on the outside of the front next to Bridges. Coby Adams was behind Bridges inside of row two with Bashford starting fourth. The May 15th, Lavonia Speedway feature winner Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia would start inside row three with Gray's team-mate seventeen year-old female sprint car star, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee in sixth position. The eventual feature winner, Gray started inside row four for the 30-lap contest.
At the drop of the initial green flag, Bridges bested Hagar in the drag race to turn one. Bridges then led the first three laps before David Clarke from Huntersville, North Carolina coasted to a stop in turn one bringing out the evening's first caution flag. After the re-start, on lap four Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina spun low in turn four to bring out the second caution flag and keeping Hagar and the lead pack on Bridges rear bumper. On the races' second re-start the racing order behind Bridges included, Hagar, Bashford, Adams, Linder, Gray and Turpen.
Hagar was smoking from the engine compartment as the race went green for the next seven laps when his Hancock #1A mount came costing to a stop with motor problems exiting turn four on lap eleven. With Bridges leading, Coby Adams then assumed the runner-up spot with Terry Gray now in the third position, followed by Linder, Bashford and Turpen.
On lap eighteen, Gray passed Coby Adams for the runner-up spot. On lap twenty he charged past the race-leader, Bridges who seemed to be suffering from front suspension problems, into the lead. On the following lap, fifteen year-old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina spun exiting turn two and the caution flag was displayed. This bunched the field behind the new race-leader, Gray followed by Bridges, Adams, Linder, Bashford and Turpen. The race went green over the final nine laps with Gray stretching his lead over Bridges and the lead pack.
At the finish after 30-laps around the 4/10 mile red South Carolina clay, I-77 Speedway oval it was Gray in victory lane. He was followed in the runner-up spot by Bridges, who it was discovered, had completed the entire distance without the benefit of a left front torsion bar stop. Coby Adams had a career and season best USCS effort in third place. Second generation sprint car racer, Matt Linder finished in the fourth position. Eighteen year-old North Carolina young gun Nick Bashford driving the other Roush Yates Ford powered rounded out the top five.
Current USCS Rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen headed the next group of finishers with a sixth place finish. Fifteen year-old first year racer, Eric Riggins, Jr. finished seventh followed by Greenville, South Carolina sprint car veteran, David Thorman in the eighth position. USCS regular, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia was ninth and Adam Jackson from Timmonsville, South Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
Terry Gray kicked off the evening's USCS sprint car action with a win in the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash for the top six cars from the previous event. Nick Bashford won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Coby Adams raced to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Terry Gray also garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award by passing the most cars in the main event. Current Rookie of the Year points leader Morgan Turpen garnered the Rookie of Race honors and Nick Bashford was recognized as the Goodyear Young Gun of the Race.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Friday, August 6th at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Alabama. The following night, the series moves over to Clayhill Motorsports for the second night of the weekend double. For more information on that event please visit www.norhalabamaspeedway.com and/or www.clayhillmotorsports.com For rules and info on the USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097
USCS results - I-77 Speedway 7/24/10:
Goodyear Speed Dash: Terry Gray, Morgan Turpen, Derek Hagar, Matt Liner, Eric Riggins, Jr. and David Thorman.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Nick Bashford, Johnny Bridges, Terry Gray, Matt Linder, Adam Jackson, Eric Riggins, Jr., David Thorman and Brandon McLain DNS.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Coby Adams, Derek Hagar, Morgan Turpen, Brandon Rekow, David Clarke, Joe Larkin and Darren Clarke.
USCS presented by Goodyear Outlaw Thunder Tour
Feature Race results - I-77 Speedway - (30 laps) - July 24, 2010:
1 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 2 - 07s Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 3 - 29 Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 4 - 1X Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 5 - X Nick Bashford, China Grove, NC 6 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie 7 - 47 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC - Rookie 8 - 5x David Thorman, Greenville, SC 9 - 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 10 - 46 Adam Jackson, Timmonsville, SC 11 - 21B Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 12 - 69 Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 13 - 1A Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 14 - 20 Darren Clarke, Huntersville, NC
15 - 21 David Clarke, Huntersville, NC
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Terry Gray K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Johnny Bridges KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Terry Gray (passed 6 cars). GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Nick Bashford ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Nick Bashford (5th place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Coby Adams BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Matt Linder Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Nick Bashford
USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS presented by GOODYEAR headline "South Carolina Sprint Car Nationals"
RACING ACTION AT I-77 SPEEDWAY ON SATURDAY - JULY 24th
Atlanta, GA - July 19, 2010 - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com continues action in the 2010 Southern Thunder Tour portion of its schedule on Saturday July 24th with the USCS "South Carolina Sprint Car Nationals" event at the I-77 Speedway in Chester, South Carolina. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in six of I-77 Speedway's regular racing divisions. Saturday night's USCS winged sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points and additionally award USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour National Championship points.
The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward the series' 14th National Championship. This weekend's dirt track event will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" presented by Goodyear National and regional Championships roaring into the fast 4/10-mile Carolina red clay oval. The USCS drivers will also race on paved ovals approximately ten times during the 40+-race 2010 season. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and pavement.
The I-77 Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Florida and West Tennessee . The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds, and are pound for pound the World's most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds over 130 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear tires.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of sprint car racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions before the 30-lap "Thunder at I-77" finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, the speedway's regular racing divisions are sure to keep the action rolling on Saturday night's racing card.
Eight-time and defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was ranked in the top ten drivers in the Nation, by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters at the end of the 2009 season heads the entry list for the event. Gray, who is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past five years with over eighty-five feature wins, is entered. Gray was the winner of Four out of five USCS main events during the last two seasons at nearby Carolina Spedway. Gray currently leads the USCS National and Southern Thunder regional series point standings.
Other notable entries include: The 1998 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2004 USCS/AOAS Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina won the June 18th USCS event at Carolina Speedway. Bridges will be driving one of only two rare Ford powered sprint cars. Bridges will be piloting the Biobased USA (Farm Products) Roush-Yates J&J Auto Racing familiar #07s car owned by Sue Ellen Wilshe. Eighteen year-old young gun Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina will be piloting the other Roush Yates Ford powered entry.
Seventeen-year old female sprint car hot-shoe and current USCS rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee leads a strong contingent of talented young drivers into I-77 Speedway. Turpen has been very impressive thus far in 2010. She is in second place in both the USCS National and in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series point standings behind the defending Champion Terry Gray.
Additional out of state entries expected are: The May 15, 2010 Lavonia (GA) Speedway USCS Feature winner, Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia. Linder and USCS sprint car veterans, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina. Three potent entries from the state of Florida are entered. Those will be multi-time Eastbay Raceway track Champions, Sport Allen from Pinellas Park, Florida and rookie A.J. Maddox from Tampa, Florida. Another expected Florida entry is talented young-gun, Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida.
In addition to Turpen, the young gun's entry list includes: last week's feature winner at Dixie Speedway, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas who is again expected to be in the Hancock #1A. The 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina and his brother Brandon McLain from the same hometown. Additional young drivers include 2010 Rookie of the Year candidate, fifteen year-old Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina and twenty one year-old, 2009 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina.
To give the event some International flavor, former road-racer and European stock car star, twenty-three year-old Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England, who presently resides in Timmonsville, South Carolina is entered. Jackson was named as the 2008 the USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour rookie of the Year
Other expected North Carolina entries include: Coby Adams and Justin Lineman from Mooresville, Brian Carter from Concord and Tim Perry from China Grove, North Carolina is also expected. In addition, Clarke Brothers Motorsports team-mates Darren Clarke, David Clarke and Tracey Jorgenson from Huntersville, North Carolina are also entered. Troy Severin and Ryan Price, both from Ashland, Virginia are expected as well.
I-77 Speedway is That's just ½ mile off I-77 at South Carolina Exit 65, then west toward to 2657 Lancaster Highway, Chester, SC 29706. The race track is on the right. The track's information phone number is: 803-789-7223. The track's website is www.mosleyi77speedway.com For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
Pre-entry entry list for I-77 Speedway on Saturday 7.24.10
1.. 1a - Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 2.. 1x - Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 3.. 5 - David Thorman, Greenville, SC 4.. 6c - Brian Carter, Concord, NC 5.. 07s - Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 6.. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN - 8 time - USCS National Champion 7.. 11 - Troy Severin, Ashland, VA 8.. 12 - Tracey Jorgenson, Huntersville, NC 9.. 20 - Darren Clarke, Huntersville, NC 10.. 21b - Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 11.. 21c - David Clarke, Huntersville, NC 12.. 24 - Nick Bashford, China Grove, NC 13.. 28 - Justin lineman, Mooresville, NC 14.. 29 - Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 15.. 33 - Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 16.. 36 - Tim Perry, China Groove, NC 17.. 46 - Adam Jackson, Birmingham, ENG. 18.. 47 - Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC 19.. 67m - Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC 20.. 67t - Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 21.. 69 - Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 22.. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie points leader 23.. 81 - A.J. Maddox, Tampa, FL 24.. 82 - Sport Allen, Tampa, FL 25.. 92 - Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 26.. 880 - Ryan Price, Ashland, VA
Hagar gets first 2010 USCS presented by Goodyear feature win at Dixie Speedway
Woodstock, GA - July 17, 2010 - The 2006 United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas charged past Cherryville, North Carolina hot-shoe Johnny Bridges, on lap five of the thirty- lap USCS presented by Goodyear Dixie Sprint Car Nationals at Dixie Speedway on Saturday night. Hagar was driving the Jay Hancock owned Athens, Georgia based #1A sprint car. It was Hagar’s first time in the car and he collected $2000 for his efforts. It was Hagar’s fourth career USCS feature win.
Hagar started outside row one next to K&N Filters Pole Award recipient, 15 year-old, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina. On lap one Hagar jumped into the lead. Johnny Bridges raced into the second position by lap four and past Hagar for the lead on the fifth circuit around the 3/8 mile red clay speed plant. Hagar regained the lead he never relinquished on lap six. The challengers pulled up behind the young Arkansan, after the caution flag flew three times, but he raced away each time to a comfortable margin.
Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia who started eighth advanced six positions and finished in the runner-up spot. Eight-time United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear National Champion and current series points leader, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the third position. Gray’s team-mate, seventeen year-old female sprint car star, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the fourth position. USCS veteran sprint car driver, Aubrey Black from Lookout Mountain, Georgia rounded out the top five.
The next group of finishers was headed by Rookie A.J. Maddox from Tampa, Florida in sixth place. Another rookie driver Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina followed in seventh position. Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, Carolina finished eighth. Veteran David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina finished ninth. Another sprint car veteran, Bob Auld from Largo, Florida rounded out the top ten finishers.
Johnny Bridges kicked off the evening’s USCS sprint car action with a win in the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash for the top six cars from the previous event. Bridges then went on to win the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Sport Allen from Seffner, Florida. rolled to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Brandon McLain garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award by passing eight cars in the main event. Current Rookie of the Year points leader Morgan Turpen garnered the Rookie of Race honors.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Saturday, July 24th at I-77 Speedway in Chester, South Carolina. For more information on that event please visit www.mosleyi77peedway.com or call 803-789-7223 For rules and info on the USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097
USCS results Dixie Sprint Car Nationals - Dixie Speedway 7/17/10:
Goodyear Speed Dash: Johnny Bridges, Morgan Turpen, Terry Gray, Brandon Rekow, Joe Larkin and Sport Allen DNS.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Johnny Bridges, Terry Gray, Derek Hagar, Morgan Turpen, Matt Linder, Bob Auld, David Thorman and David Clarke.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Sport Allen, Aubrey Black, Eric Riggins, Jr., A.J. Maddox, Joe Larkin and Nick DeFeo DNS Brandon McLain DNS, Brandon Rekow DNS, Darren Clarke DNS,
USCS presented by Goodyear Feature Race results (30 laps) 1 - 1A Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 2 - 1X Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 3 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 4 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie 5 - 21 Aubrey Black, Lookout Mountain, GA 6 - 81 A.J. Maddox, Brandon, FL - Rookie 7 - 47 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC – Rookie 8 - 21B Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 9 - 5x David Thorman, Greenville, SC 10 - 83 Bob Auld, Sarasota, FL 11 - 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 12 - 07s Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC GA 13 - 82 Sport Allen, Seffner, FL 14 - 21 David Clarke, Huntersville, NC
15 - 12 Darren Clarke, Huntersville, NC
16 - 69 Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC
17 - 96d Nick DeFeo, Marietta, GA – DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Johnny Bridges K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Eric Riggins, Jr. KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Brandon McLain (passed 8 cars). GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Derek Hagar ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Morgan Turpen (4th place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Morgan Turpen Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Aubrey Black
ENTRIES: 17 PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Derek Hagar Laps 1-4 and 6 thru 30. Johnny Bridges Lap 5.
USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS presented by GOODYEAR HEADLINE "Dixie Sprint Car Nationals"
RACING ACTION AT DIXIE SPEEDWAY ON SATURDAY JULY 17TH
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com returns to historic Dixie Speedway in Woodstock this Saturday, July 17th with the 15th annual "Dixie Sprint Car Nationals" event. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full "Smorgasbord of Speed" including a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in all of Dixie Speedway's weekly racing divisions including Super Late Models. There should be something for everyone who likes to see fast cars go round and round.
Saturday night's USCS winged Outlaw sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points. The race will additionally award USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour National Championship points. The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Northern Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward the series' 14th National Championship.
This event will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" National Championship roaring into the fast 3/8-mile clay oval. The USCS drivers also race on paved ovals. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
The Dixie Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Florida and West Tennessee. The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds. They are pound for pound the World's most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds approaching 130 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear race tires. Those tires are almost twice as wide as the Goodyear Eagles that NASCAR Sprint Cup cars use.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening's very first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions for the 30-lap "Dixie Sprint Car Nationals" USCS Championship finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, six other racing divisions will keep the action rolling non-stop on Saturday night's racing card.
USCS sprint car entries include: Eight-time and defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was ranked in the top ten drivers in the Nation, by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters at the end of the 2009 season heads the entry list for the event. Gray, who is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past five years with over eighty-five feature wins. Gray has won twice in 2010 UCSC competition and is a four time Dixie Sprint Car Nationals Champion. Terry Gray also currently leads the USCS National and USCS Southern Thunder regional point standings.
Other notable entries include: The 1998 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2004 USCS/AOAS Southern Thunder regional series Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina is entered. Bridges who is always a threat to win, will bring his rare (to sprint car racing) Roush-Yates Ford powered car to Dixie Speedway.
For the ladies: Seventeen-year old female sprint car hot-shoe and current USCS rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee leads a strong contingent of talented young drivers into Dixie Speedway. Turpen has been very impressive thus far in 2010. She is currently in the runner-up spot in the National standings behind her team-mate and defending Champion Terry Gray. Turpen finished third in last weekend's USCS main event at Lonesome Pine Raceway in virgina and has a number of top five finishs on the season.
Additionally expected are the 2009 Dixie Speedway Sprint Car Nationals feature winner Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia and USCS sprint car veterans, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia, David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina and veteran sprint car racer Ray Bugg from Iuka, Mississippi.
In addition to Turpen, expected young guns entries include, the 2009 USCS National Rookie of the year driver, 18 year-old, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee and current USCS Mid-South Thunder Rookie points leader, Jerod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi. Also entered are the 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina and nineteen year-old New York transplant Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina. Bashford's #24 will also utilize a Roush-Yates Ford power plant.
Additional young drivers include 15 year-old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina and 2009 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina and Andy McElhannon from Nesbit, Mississippi.
To give the event some International flavor, former road-racer and European stock car star, twenty-three year-old Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England who presently resides in Timmonsville, South Carolina is entered. Jackson was named as the 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour rookie of the Year.
Other expected out of state entries include: 2000 USCS Rookie of the Year, Michael Miller from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, two-time East Bay track Champion, Sport Allen from Seffner, Florida. The entry list also includes Allen's team-mate A.J. Maddox from Tampa, Florida. From North Carolina additional entries are C.J. Miller from Mooresville, North Carolina and Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina.
Grandstand Adult admission is $15 with children 8 and under FREE. Children 9-17 yr. are $11. Trackside/Tailgate parking is also available for $20 adult and $11 Children. Dixie Speedway is located at 150 Dixie Drive, Woodstock, GA, 30189. The race track phone number is: (770) 926-5315. The track's website is www.dixiespeedway.com For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
Skinner charges to 4th 2010 USCS win at Camden
Camden, TN – July 4, 2010 – Past USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas, charged to his fourth United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear main event win of the year at Camden Motor Speedway on Sunday night during the winged sprint car portion of the 5th Annual “Firecracker 100”. In the process, Skinner halted Tim Crawley’s dominating win streak while driving the Hooker Hood tribute car at three-in-a-row.
After winning the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race, Skinner started from the K&N Filters Pole Position. At the drop of the initial green flag, Skinner out gunned 2009 USCS Rookie of the Year, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee into turn one for the lead. He then led the next twenty laps with Carver, Jeff Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas, and Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi and defending Champion, Terry Gray also from Bartlett, Tennessee chasing him from the lead pack.
Carver chased Skinner for the next twenty laps until the races first of two cautions for a spinout by Tony Wilson that also collected current Rookie of the Year points leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee. The incident eliminated both drivers from the rest of the event. On the next lap 2009 Riverside Speedway track Champion, Jeff Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee slipped past Carver into the runner-up spot.
The caution came out once again on lap twenty-four for an incident involving rookies, Jerod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi and Brandon Olson from Denham Springs, Mississippi. The race re-started with Skinner at the point , Swindell, Carver, Crawley and Terry Gray in the top five.
Crawley who had already won three times over the weekend in USCS competition, got past Carver for the show position. The finishing order had Skinner, Jeff Swindell, Crawley, Carver and Gray comprising the top five finishers.
The next group had young gun Lee Sowell, finishing in the sixth position followed by Shane Morgan from Biloxi, Mississippi in seventh place. Brandon Olson finished in eighth place, Jerod Roller in ninth place and 17 year-old female sprint car racer, Morgan Turpen rounding out the top ten.
Tim Crawley kicked off the evening’s sprint car program by winning the 6-cars, 6-lap Goodyear USCS Speed Dash. Jeff Swindell was the KSE Racing Racing Products Hard Charger. Justin Carver garnered the Goodyear Young Gun of the race award. Jerod Roller was the Rookie of the Race. Marshall Skinner
USCS Goodyear Power Dash (6-laps): Tim Crawley, Lee Sowell, Morgan Turpen, Shane morgan, Brandon Olson and Terry Gray.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Marshall Skinner, Tim Crawley, Terry Gray, Morgan Turpen, Jerod Roller and Brandon Olson.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat winner: Justin Carver, Shane Morgan, Jeff Swindell, Lee Sowell, Dalton Davis and Tony Wilson.
United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear feature race: Camden Motor Speedway 7/4/10 30-laps:
Pos. Car# Driver/Hometown
1. 26 - Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR 2. 90 - Jeff Swindell, Bartlett, TN 3. 99 - Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 4. 24 - Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN 5. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 6. 51 - Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 7. 01 - Shane Morgan, Bioxi, MS 8. 02 - Brandon Olson, Denham Springs, LA 9. 5 - Jerod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 10. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 11. 10w - Tony Wilson, Paris, TN 12. 12d – Dalton Davis, Munford, TN
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Tim Crawley K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Marshall Skinner KSE Racing Products HARD CHARGER: Jeff Swindell GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Justin Carver ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Jerod Roller JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jeff Swindell (2nd place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Tim Crawley BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Justin Carver DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Terry Gray
ENTRIES: 12 PROVISIONALS: None CAUTIONS: Two
LAP LEADERS: (One) Marshall Skinner, Laps 1-30.
Crawley blasts to 3rd USCS holiday weekend win at Thunderhill
Summertown, TN – July 3, 2010 – Past USCS Mid South Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas, charged to his third United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear main event win of the weekend at Thunderhill Raceway on Saturday night during the winged sprint car portion of the Holiday weekend racing card. Crawley’s win was accomplished while driving the #99 Hooker Hood tribute car belonging to Dennis and Jeri Benjamin and crewed by his familiar Ward Racing crew.
After winning the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race Crawley started from the third position after the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing placed Rookie of the Year candidate Jerod roller on the K&N Filters Pole. At the drop of the green flag, Roller beat defending series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee to turn one and led the next two laps. On lap three gray took over the point for five laps. Crawley drove past Gray in turn one of the ninth lap to grab the lead. He then held on to win over the eight-time series Champion to win by eight car lengths at the finish. Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi chased the duo home in third place. Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi charged from a seventh place staring position to finish fourth. The only female sprint car racer in the field, seventeen year-old Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee rounded out the top five drivers after starting ninth
The next group had Shane Morgan from Biloxi, Mississippi in the sixth position. Ronny Howard from Southaven, Mississippi followed Morgan in seventh place. Brandon Olson from Denham Springs, Louisiana finished eighth followed by rookie Jerod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi in ninth place and veteran Jim Blenkarn from Murfreesboro, Tennessee rounded out the top ten.
Lee Sowell kicked off the evening’s sprint car program by winning the 6-cars, 6-lap Goodyear USCS Speed Dash. Sowell also won the Engler Machine and tool first Heat. Crawley won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Morgan Turpen was the KSE Racing Racing Products Hard Charger. Sowell also garnered the Goodyear Young Gun of the race award. Morgan Turpen was also the Rookie of the Race.
Results USCS presented by Goodyear at Thunderhill Raceway - July3, 2010:
USCS Goodyear Power Dash (6-laps): Lee Sowell, Tim Crawley, Jim Blenkarn, Jerod Roller, Terry Gray and Morgan Turpen,
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Lee Sowell, Jerod Roller, Aubrey Black, Ronny Howard, Raymond Stull, David Clark, Tracey Jorgenson and Darren Clark - DNS.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat winner: Tim Crawley, Terry Gray, Shane Morgan, Brandon Olson, Morgan Turpen, Steve Hall, Greg Merritt and Jim Blenkarn.
United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear feature race: Thunderhill Raceway 7/3/10 (30-laps):
Pos. Car# Driver/Hometown
1. 99 - Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 2. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 3. 51 - Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 4. 44c - Raymond Stull, Coldwater, MS 5. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 6. 01 - Shane Morgan, Bioxi, MS 7. 44 - Ronny Howard, Southaven, MS 8. 02 - Brandon Olson, Denham Springs, LA 9. 5 - Jerod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 10. 46 - Jim Blenkarn, Murfreesboo, TN 11. 3x - Steve Hall, Nesbit, MS 12. 21 - Aubrey Black, lookout Mtn., GA 13. 12m - Greg Merritt, Nesbit, MS 14. 12 - Tracey Jorgenson, Huntersville, NC 15. 21 - David Clark, Huntersville, NC 16. 20 - Darren Clark, Huntersville, NC - DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Lee Sowell K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Jerod Roller KSE Racing Products HARD CHARGER: Jeff Swindell GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Lee Sowell ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Tim Crawley (1st place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Lee Sowell BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Raymond Stull DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Morgan Turpen
ENTRIES: 16 PROVISIONALS: None CAUTIONS: One
LAP LEADERS: (Two) Jerod Roller, Laps 1-2; Terry Gray Laps 3-8; Tim Crawley 9-30..
Crawley wins USCS presented by Goodyear, Fireworks 150 at Malden
Goodyear Speed Dash winner: Tim Crawley
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Marshall Skinner
Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race: Tim Crawley
United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Malden Speedway feature race results (30 laps):
1. 88 - Tim Crawley 2. 51 - Lee Sowell 3. 24 - Justin Carver 4. 26 - Marshall Skinner 5. 39 - Brad Bowden 6. 10 - Terry Gray 7. 5 - Jerod Roller 8. 47 - Eric Riggins 9. 14T - Jimmy Bridgeman 10. 8Z - Zack Pringle 11. 44 - Ronny Howard 12. 80 - Morgan Turpen 13. 7D - Dylan DeJournett 14. 3B - Brad Greer 15. 7X - David DeJournett 16. 88 - Kevin Koslin 17. 44C - Raymond Stull 18. 12 - Jerrod Hull 19. 7T - Chuck Tilley
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Tim Crawley K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Ronny Howard KSE Racing Products HARD CHARGER: Terry Gray GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Lee Sowell ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Jerod Roller JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jerod Roller (5th place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Justin Carver BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Marshall Skinner DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Brad Bowden
ENTRIES: 19 PROVISIONALS: None CAUTIONS: None green to checkered.
LAP LEADERS: (Two) Justin Carver laps 1-4, Tim Crawley laps 5-30
Crawley wins USCS Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout at Riverside
Thursday, July 1, 2010 - West Memphis, AR - 2008 United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear, Mid South Thunder Tour Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas drove the #99 “Tennessee Tornado” Hooker Hood tribute car to victory lane in the 30-lap Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout. The race honored the Memphis racing legend and Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee Clarence “Hooker” Hood. Hood joined Crawley in victory lane along beside the car owned by Dennis and Jeri Benjamin from Millington, Tennessee and the Ward Racing crew for the victory celebration. In a gesture from one great racer to another, Crawley awarded Hood the winner’s trophy to further honor him on his night.
Crawley grabbed the lead on lap-twenty from early leader, Jeff Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee. The two drivers touched wheels while battling for the coveted win in turn one of lap twenty. This sent Swindell spinning but he continued around and re-joined the pack deep in the field to finish fourteenth. Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas chased Crawley across the finish line in the runner-up spot. Skinner grbbed the series point’s lead with his finish. Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri finished in the third position. A.G. Rains from West Memphis, Arkansas followed in fourth place and 2009 USCS Rookie of the Year, Justin Carver from Drummonds, rounded out the top five.
The next group was led by former United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Champion, Eddie Gallagher from Piperton, Tennessee in sixth place. Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi followed him in seventh place at the finsh. Defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee crossed the finish line in the eighth position. The J.E. Pistons Third Heat winner, Ronny Howard from Southaven, Mississippi finished ninth. Ernie Ainsworth from Bartlett, Tennessee rounded out the top ten. Ainsworth shared the special Southern States Utility Trailer Sales Hard Charger award with A.G. Rains.
Raymond Stull captured the win in the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. Marshall Skinner won the 8-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Rookie of the Year candidate, Jarod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi won the 8-lap Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Ronny Howard charged to the win in the 8-lap J.E. Pistons Third Heat Race.
The Goodyear Racing Tire Young Guns award for the top finishing driver under 25 years-old went to Justin Carver who finished in fifth place. Jarod Roller also garnered the Rookie of the Race honors. A.G. Rains passed the most cars in the main event to earn the evening’s KSE Racing Products Hard-charger Award. Jeff Swindell collected the K&N Filters Pole Award. The JE Pistons Top Guns Award which rotates from 1st through fifth positions went to Marshall Skinner who finished second.
USCS Goodyear Speed Dash: 1. #44 Raymond Stull, 2. #39 Brad Bowden, 3. #10 Terry Gray, 4. #12 Jerrod Hull, 5. #26 Marshall Skinner and 6. #51 Lee Sowell.
USCS Sprint Cars Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: 1. #26 Marshall Skinner, 2. #12 Jerrod Hull, 3. #90 Jeff Swindell, 4. #3ag A.G. Rains, 5. #1 Eddie Gallagher, 6. #58 Wade Oliver 7. #80 Morgan Turpen and 8. #47 Eric Riggins, Jr.
USCS Sprint Cars Butlerbuilt Second Heat: 1. #5 Jarod Roller, 2. #99 Tim Crawley, 3. #12d Dalton Davis, 4. #24 Justin Carver, 5. #8z Zach Pringle, 6. #39 Brad Bowden, 7. #60 Eric Sandage, and 8. #25 Ray Bugg..
USCS Sprint Cars JE Pistons Third Heat: 1. #44 Ronny Howard, 2. Terry Gray #10, 3. #51 Lee Sowell, 4. Chris Williams 8x, 5. Greg Merritt #12m, 6. #40 Ernie Ainsworth, 7. Raymond Stull and 8. #3 Steve Hall.
USCS presented by Goodyear Winged Sprint Cars Hooker Hood Shootout – Riverside Speedway July 1, 2010 Feature (30 Laps) 1. 99 - Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 2. 26 - Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR 3. 12 - Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 4. 3 - A.G. Rains, West Memphis, AR 5. 24 - Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN 6. 1 - Eddie Gallagher, Piperton, TN 7. 51 - Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 8. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 9. 44 - Ronny Howard, Southaven, MS 10. 40 - Ernie Ainsworth, Bartlett, TN 11. #8z - Zack Pringle, Little Rock, AR 12. 5 - Jarod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 13. 39 - Brad Bowden, Hernando, MS 14. 90 - Jeff Swindell, Bartlett, TN 15. 60 - Eric Sandage, Little Rock, AR 16. 44c - Raymond Stull, Coldwater, MS 17. 12D - Dalton Davis, Millington, TN 18. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 19. 47 - Eric Riggins, Charlotte, NC 20. 12m - Greg Merritt, Nesbit, MS 21. 58 - Wade Oliver, Southaven, MS 22. 8x - Chris Williams, Memphis, TN 23. 3 - Steve Hall, Nesbit, MS 24. 25 - Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Raymond Stull K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Jeff Swindell KSE Racing Products HARD CHARGER: A. G. Rains (passed nine cars) GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Justin Carver ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Jarod Roller JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Marshall Skinner (2nd place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Jerrod Hull BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: A.G. Rains DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Justin Carver
ENTRIES: 24 PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: (Two) Jeff Swindell laps 1-19 and Tim Crawley laps 20 -30.
USCS sprint car four race mini-series highlights busy holiday weekend July 1st-4th
Atlanta, GA - June 28, 2010 - The United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear continues action in the USCS Mid-South region over the July 4th/Independence Day weekend on dirt surfaces with a four-race mini-series consisting of four races in four days in Arkansas, Missouri and Tennessee at four of the series favorite tracks on July 1st through 4th. The four-race weekend posts over $50,000 in prize money. It pays $2000 to win each 30-lap main event and a minimum of $250 to start any main event. With bonuses and dash awards one driver can take home over $15,000 for the weekend.
On Thursday, July 1st the USCS sprint car drivers headline the 1st annual Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout honoring National Sprint Car Hall of Famer and Mid South racing legend, Clarence "Hooker" Hood. The Hooker Hood tribute event also includes the 3rd Annual Riverside Speedway "Triple Crown Challenge" at the historic ¼ mile Gumbo clay oval located in West Memphis, Arkansas. The Triple Crown Challenge has a posted $10,000 top prize including prize money and bonuses for any driver who can win the USCS presented by Goodyear winged sprint car, the USCS Modified Touring Series and Riverside Stock Car division main events all in one night.
Bonuses are also posted for winning two of the featured divisions as well. The USCS Modified drivers are racing for $1000 to win their main event during their 5-race USCS Modified Speedweek 2010 Round #1. The Modified main event pays $1100 if the car winning is topless. The Riverside Stock Cars are competing for a $500 top prize to win the 20-lap main event. The Riverside Wingless 305 sprint cars are also on the action packed racing card.
The following night on Friday, July 2nd the United Sprint Car Series makes its second visit of the season to Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri to contest their portion of the speedway's "Fireworks 150" Holiday weekend racing and Fireworks spectacular. The sprint cars are joined by the USCS Modifieds for the USCS Modified Touring Series Speedweek 2010 Round #2. Also on the racing card is all weekly Malden Speedway racing divisions and Fireworks.
Both United Speed Contest Sanction racing series then move over to the super-fast 1/4 mile high-banked red-clay Thunderhill Raceway oval in Summertown, Tennessee on Saturday, July 3rd. The event serves as the third race of the four race Holiday weekend mini-series for the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear winged sprint cars. It is Round #3 of 5 for the USCS Modified Touring Series Speedweek 2010 competitors. All Thunderhill Raceway Late Model and Stock Car Racing divisions will also be on the action-packed racing card.
The four-night USCS presented by Goodyear Independence Day weekend swing for winged sprint cars concludes with a mid-summer stop during the 5th annual "Firecracker 100" on Sunday night, July 4th at the Camden Motor Speedway in Camden, Tennessee. This race will be the only stop of the season for both the USCS winged sprint car and Modified Touring Series at the high speed three-eight's mile speedway. Also on the Camden Motor Speedway racing card will be the following weekly racing divisions: Hobby, Street Stock, Pure Street and the Hummer class plus..July 4th FIREWORKS.
All four United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear sprint car races award USCS National Championship points as well as USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series points.
Riverside International Speedway is located at 151 Legion Rd., West Memphis, AR 72301. The track number is (870)735-8071. Malden Speedway is located just west of Missouri Hwy. 25 on Thunder Road (CR 102) in Malden, Missouri 63863. The track phone number is (573)276-6265. The Thunderhill Raceway facility is located at 75 North Old Military Road, Summertown, Tennessee 38483. The track's phone number is (931) 964-2120. Camden Speedway is located on US 70 Bypass in Camden, Tennessee. The track phone number is 731-441-4800.
For complete directions and more info on these speedways please visit their websites at: www.riversideinternationalspeedway.com
www.maldenspeedway.com
www.thunderhillracing.com
www.camdenmotorspeedway.com
Crawley to pilot #99 honoring legendary Hooker Hood on 7/1-7/4
Atlanta, GA - 6/26/10 - Former National Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver of the Year and 2008 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas will pilot a special car honoring Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee, and open wheel racing legend Clarence Hooker Hood from Memphis, Tennessee during the four race United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear mini-series over the July 4th weekend.
The #99 car will carry a special graphics package honoring Hood who was appropriately known as the "Tennessee Tornado". The dynamic and colorful racer terrorized the Mid South for nearly five decades and won 56 features in 63 starts during his best season in the mid-sixties. Hood was usually the man to beat everywhere he traveled for decades.
The first USCS presented by Goodyear race Crawley has entered for the four contest weekend honors the legend (Hood) at his home track, Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas on Thursday, July 1st. That race is titled the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout in honor of Hood.
Crawley will also race the car owned by Dennis and Jeri Benjamin and crewed by Mike Ward and the Ward Racing crew for the rest of the weekend at Malden Speedway on Friday, July 2nd. Saturday night, July 3rd will find them at Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee. The weekend's USCS racing activities conclude at the Camden Motor Speedway in Camden, TN on Sunday, July 4th with fireworks and racing.
Each event also features a USCS double-header including the USCS Modified Touring Series open wheel modifieds. For rules and complete USCS schedules please visit www.uscsracing.com
Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout features 3rd Annual $10,000 USCS "Triple Crown Challenge" at Riverside Speedway on Thursday, July 1st
Atlanta, GA - June 26, 2010 - Historic Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas will host the 3rd Annual "Triple Crown Challenge" during the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Classic featuring the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear, the USCS Modified Touring Series, the Riverside 305 Non-Winged Sprint Cars and the popular Riverside Stock Cars on Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 7:30pm. The event features the most unique format in the track's sixty-year history. With posted bonuses, one driver may take home $10,000 for the evening's efforts by winning the Triple Crown Challenge. Winning the "Challenge" would include legally competing in and winning the main event in the USCS presented by Goodyear www.goodyear.com winged sprint cars, the USCS Modified Touring Series and the Riverside Stock Car divisions on Thursday, July 1st.
Additionally posted for the third time around for the popular event will be a $1000 bonus for any driver who can win two of the featured divisions. A $2500 bonus is posted for any driver who can win all three of the other divisions excluding the USCS winged sprint cars Those would include, the USCS Modified Touring Series a.k.a. USCS Outlaw Modifieds, the Riverside Stock Car division and the Riverside 305 Non winged Sprint Car division on Thursday night. The Parts Plus USCS sprint car main event will pay $2000 to win. The USCS Modified Touring Series event for open wheel modified type cars will award points toward the championship in that series and pays $1000 to the winner. The 305 Non-Winged Sprint car feature will pay $ Stock Cars and Mini Stock feature races will each pay $500 to the winner.
During the exciting inaugural event held on Thursday, July 10, 2008, the 2008 United Sprint Car Series Mid-South Thunder regional series Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas nearly completed the Triple Crown Challenge. Crawley first won the Stock Car division. He then raced from the ninth row in the thirty-lap USCS winged sprint car feature to grab the lead from Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. on lap twenty-six for his thrilling second win of the night. This set the stage for the third piece of the Crown in the USCS Modified finale. Crawley started in the second row of the USCS Modified feature and seemed poised for the Triple, but was involved in a lap-seven tangle that ended his evening shy of the big prize.
During the 2nd Annual Triple Crown Challenge on August 6, 2009, Crawley again repeated his 2008 feat of winning the USCS winged sprint car division after earlier in the evening driving Linda Kerbough's Riverside Stock Car into victory lane. But, once again in, the USCS Modified feature race, Crawley was unable to collect on the big bonus money due to contact with another car that sent him to the infield in the middle of the 25-lap main event. He did however pick up a $1000 bonus for his win in two divisions.
The Riverside Speedway Triple Crown Challenge during the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Classic is also part of a four-night, three-state swing for the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear. After Thursday night's event honoring Mid-South racing legend, Clarence Hooker Hood at the famed ¼ mile Gumbo bullring known for action and guaranteeing Thrills, Chills and Spills,
The USCS Sprint Car and Modified series both move North approximately two hours to Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri on Friday night, July 2nd. On Saturday, July 3rd, both USCS series invade Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee before concluding at Camden Speedway in Camden, Tennessee. The holiday weekend concludes two hours Northwest of Thunderhill at Camden Motor Speedway Camden, Tennessee on Sunday, July 4th. For more information on those three speedways please visit www.maldenspeedway.com, www.thunderhillracing.com and www.camdenmotorspeedway.com For additional info on the United Sprint Car Series and USCS Modified Touring Series please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS Asphalt Thunder at Watermelon Capital on June 26th cancelled
Atlanta, GA - Due to my own personal reasons and circumstances beyond our control. The USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour event scheduled for this weekend on Saturday, June 26th at Watermelon Capital Speedway has been cancelled", stated USCS President, Pete Walton. "This in no way effects the later date at Watermelon Capital" said Walton.
"We apologize for any inconvenience that this may cause anyone. We are presently negotiating several additional dates that will be added to the Asphalt Thunder schedule in the very near future" concluded the series Founder.
The next four USCS presented by Goodyear events are on dirt and scheduled over the Independence Day Holiday weekend. The "Firecracker 500" weekend for the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint cars begins on Thursday, July 1st at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas then moves to Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri on Friday, July 2nd. The following night the series moves over to Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee before concluding the Holiday weekend racing action at Camden Speedway in Camden, Tennessee on Sunday, July 4th.
All four events feature a USCS double-header that includes the USCS Modified Touring Series open wheel modified series. Each sprint car feature pays $2000 to win and the USCS Modifieds pay $1000 to win each night. The sprint car events will award USCS Mid-South Thunder regional points and national points. For info on the USCS please visit the series official website at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
Sport Allen captures USCS sprint car win at Fayetteville Motor Speedway
Fayetteville, NC - June 19, 2010 - Sprint car veteran Sport Allen from Seffner, Florida charged past mid-race leader, Tim Perry from China Gove, North Carolina on lap twenty-two of the thirty-lap United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Southern Thunder Biobased USA main event at Fayetteville Motor Speedway on Saturday night. Allen then led the final eight laps to victory lane in Hardy Maddox's #82 sprint car. With the additional prize money added by Don Wilshe's Biobased USA (farm products) company, Allen collected $2250 for his winning efforts. .
The previous night's Carolina Speedway feature winner, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina brought Sue Ellen Wilshe's Biobased USA sponsored, Roush Yates powered #07s J&J Auto Racing car home in the runner-up position after starting fourth.
The fifteen year-old rookie driver, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina finished in the third position Riggins who was running fifth on lap twenty-five charged past veterans Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee and Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia over the final five laps in his Goodyear shod, Andy Stapp wrenched Alpha Canvas #47 sprint car to re-gain the two positions after starting third in the main event.
The eight-time United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear National Champion, Terry Gray followed Riggins across the finish line in fourth place. K&N Pole Award recipient, Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia started from the K&N Filters Pole Position after the evening's highest passing point's collector, Johnny Bridges drew a four in the inversion drawing. Linder led the first ten laps of the main event before finishing fifth.
The next group was headed by female sprint hot-shoe, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee who finished in the sixth position. The 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year, Adam Jackson from Timmonsville, South Carolina finished in seventh place. Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia followed Jackson in the eighth position. Early race-leader, Tim Perry from China Grove, North Carolina collected ninth place pay for his efforts and 2009 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
Tim Perry was almost the "story of the night". Perry, who was looking for his first-ever USCS main event win, started outside the front row and followed early race-leader Matt Linder around the fast 4/10 mile red clay oval for the first ten laps. On lap eleven, Perry charged past Linder into the lead and started to drive away from the field while setting a torrid pace while creating "The Tim Perry Show". Eventual winner, Sport Allen ran Perry down in lapped traffic and raced past him entering turn three on lap twenty-two to grab the lead. Perry tagged Allen's rear bumper for the next three laps before his engine expired on lap twenty-five.
Johnny Bridges won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Talented 15 year-old, Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins, Jr. scored his first USCS heat race victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Sport Allen again garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award passing the most cars in the main event. Eric Riggins garnered the Goodyear, Rookie of Race honors.
Current Rookie of the Year point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee was awarded $250 in the pre-race driver's meeting drawing sponsored by Biobased USA. Turpen traveled the longest distance to the event from her Bartlett, Tennessee home.
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The next United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear racing event is the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Shootout honoring the legendary National Sprint Car Hall of Famer from Memphis, Tennessee. That event is on THURSDAY, July 1st at the historic Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. For more information on that event please visit www.riverisdeinternationalspeedway.com or call 870-735-8071. For rules and info on the USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS results Thunder in Carolina Round 2 - Carolina Speedway 6/18/10
Goodyear Speed Dash: Johnny Bridges, Matt Linder, Terry Gray, Sport Allen, Morgan Turpen, and Eric Riggins.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Johnny Bridges, Matt Linder, Sport Allen, Morgan Turpen, Adam Jackson, David Clark, Tracy Jorgenson and Darren Clark DNS
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Eric Riggins, Jr., Tim Perry, Terry Gray, Brandon McLain, Joe Larkin and Brandon Rekow. Jake McLain - DNS and Brian Maddox - DNS,
USCS presented by Goodyear Feature Race results (30 laps) 1 - 82 Sport Allen, Seffner, FL 2 - 07 Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 3 - 47 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC - Rookie 4 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 23 5 - 1X Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 6 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie 7 - 46 Adam Jackson, Timmonsville, SC 8 - 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA NC 9 - 36 Tim Perry, China Grove, NC
10 - 69 Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 11 - 21 David Clark, Huntersville, NC 12 - 21B Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 13 - 12 Tracy Jorgenson, Huntersville, NC - Rookie 14 - 20 Darren Clark, Huntersville, NC
15 - 81 Brian Maddox, Brandon, FL - DNS
16 - 67 Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC - DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Johnny Bridges
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Matt Linder
KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Sport Allen
GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE:
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Eric Riggins, Jr.
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Sport Allen (1st place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Eric Riggins, Jr.
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray
Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Matt Linder
ENTRIES:16
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Matt Linder Laps 1-10, Tim Perry Laps 11-21, Sport Allen Laps 22-30
USCS results Thunder in Carolina Round 2 - Carolina Speedway 6/18/10
Goodyear Speed Dash: Matt Linder, Morgan Turpen, Terry Gray, Johnny Bridges, Matt Kurtz and Nick DeFeo.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Johnny Bridges, Morgan Turpen, Matt Linder, Adam Jackson, Justin Lineman, Sport Allen, Joe Larkin and Troy Severin. Plus.Brandon McLain - DNS and Brian Thomas - DNS.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Matt Kurtz, Tim Perry, Eric Riggins, Jr., Terry Gray, Coby Adams, Brandon Rekow, David Thorman and Brian Maddox. Plus.Nick DeFeo - DNS and Jake McLain - DNS,
USCS presented by Goodyear Feature Race results (25 laps) 1 - 07 Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 2 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 23 3 - 1X Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 4 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 5 - 47 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC - Rookie 6 - 82 Sport Allen, Seffner, FL 7 - Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 8 - 46 Adam Jackson, Timmonsville, SC 9 - 28 Justin Lineman, Mooresille, NC
10 - 5 David Thorman, Greenville, SC 29 11 - 36 Tim Perry, China Grove, NC 12 - 92 Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 13 - 69 Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, 14 - 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA NC Did not start the feature:
67 Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC
67 Brian Thomas, Pendergrass - DNS
11 Troy Severin, Ashland, VA - DNS
81 Brain Maddox, Brandon, FL - DNS
21B Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC
96d Nick DeFeo, Marietta, GA - DNS
GODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Mat Linder
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Terry Gray
KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Sport Allen (passed 8 cars).
GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Eric Riggins, Jr. (fifth place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Matt Linder
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Morgan Turpen
Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Eric Riggins, JR
ENTRIES: 20
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Morgan Turpen Laps 1-11, Johnny Bridges Laps 12-25
USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS presented by GOODYEAR HEADLINE "NIGHT OF THUNDER"
RACING ACTION AT FAYETTEVILLE MOTOR SPEEDWAY ON SATURDAY - JUNE 19th
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com returns to the 2010 Southern Thunder Tour portion of its schedule on Saturday June 19th with the USCS "Night of Thunder" event at the Fayetteville Motor Speedway in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in all of Fayetteville Motor Speedway's weekly divisions. Saturday night's USCS winged sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points and additionally award USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour National Championship points.
The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward series' 14th National Championship. This weekend's dirt track events will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" National and regional Championships roaring into the fast 4/10-mile clay oval. The USCS drivers will also race on paved ovals ten times during the 40+-race 2010 season. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and pavement.
The Fayetteville Motor Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Florida and West Tennessee . The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds, and are pound for pound the World's most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds well over 125 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear tires.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of sprint car racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions before the 30-lap "Thunder at Fayetteville" finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, the speedway's weekly racing divisions are sure to keep the action rolling on Saturday night's racing card.
Seven-time and defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was ranked in the top ten drivers in the Nation, by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters at the end of the 2009 season heads the entry list for the event. Gray, who is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past five years with over eighty-five feature wins, is entered. Gray was the winner of the main event during all three of the USCS visit in 2009. Gray currently leads the USCS National and Southern Thunder regional series point standings.
Other notable entries include: The 1998 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2004 USCS/AOAS Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina who holds the Fayetteville Motor Speedway all-time track record, is entered. Bridges will be driving one of only two rare Ford powered sprint cars. Bridges will be piloting the Biobased USA (Farm Products) Roush-Yates J&J Auto Racing familiar #07 car.
Seventeen-year old female sprint car hot-shoe and current USCS rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee leads a strong contingent of talented young drivers into Fayetteville Motor Speedway. Turpen has been very impressive thus far in 2010. She is in second place in the National standings behind the defending Champion Terry Gray in the National standings.
Additional out of state entries expected are: The May 15, 2010 Lavonia (GA) Speedway USCS Feature winner, Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia, and USCS sprint car veterans, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina. Three potent entries from the state of Florida are entered. Those will be multi-time Eastbay Raceway track Champions, Sport Allen from Pinellas Park, Florida and Brian Maddox from Tampa, Florida are both Also entered is talented young-gun, Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida.
In addition to Turpen, the young gun's entry list includes, 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina and nineteen year-old New York transplant Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina. To give the event some International flavor, former road-racer and European stock car star, twenty-three year-old Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England who presently resides in Timmonsville, South Carolina is entered. Jackson was named as the 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour rookie of the Year. Additional young drivers include Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina and twenty one year-old, 2009 USC Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina.
Other expected in-state entries include: Coby Adams from Mooresville, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, Brian Carter from Concord, North, C.J. Miller from Denver and Tim Perry from China Grove.
Fayetteville Motor Speedway is located just off.I-95 Exit 46, Fayetteville, NC. The race track phone number is: 910-. The track's website is www.fayettevillemotorspeedway.net For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com
Pre-entry entry list for Fayetteville Motor Speedway on Saturday 6.18.10
1.. 1x - Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 2.. 3x - Brian Maddox, Tampa, FL 3.. 3s - Sport Allen, Tampa, FL 4.. 5 - David Thorman, Greenville, SC 5.. 6c - Brian Carter, Concord, NC 6.. 07 - Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 7.. 9 - C.J. Miller, Denver, NC 8.. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN - 8 time - USCS National Champion 9.. 11 - Troy Severin, Ashland, VA 10.. 21b - Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 11.. 24 - Nick Bashford, China Grove, NC 12.. 28 - Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 13.. 29 - TBA 14.. 33 - Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 15.. 36 - Tim Perry, China Groove, NC 16.. 46 - Adam Jackson, Birmingham, ENG. 17.. 47 - Eric Riggins, Charlotte, NC 18.. 67 - Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC 19.. 67 - Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 20.. 69 - Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 21.. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie points leader 22.. 92 - Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 23.. 96d - Nick DeFeo, Marietta, GA 24.. 880 - Ryan Price, Ashland, VA
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USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS presented by GOODYEAR HEADLINE "THUNDER AT CAROLINA"
RACING ACTION AT CAROLINA SPEEDWAY ON FRIDAY - JUNE 18th
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com returns to the dirt track portion of its 2010 Southern Thunder Tour on Friday June 18th with the USCS "Thunder at Carolina" event at the Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, North Carolina. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in four of Carolina Speedway's weekly divisions. Friday night's USCS race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points and additionally award USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour National Championship points.
The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward series' 14th National Championship. This weekend's of dirt track events will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" National and regional Championships roaring into the fast 4/10-mile clay oval. The USCS drivers will also race on paved ovals ten times during the 40+-race 2010 season. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and pavement.
The Carolina Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Florida and West Tennessee . The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds, and are pound for pound the World's most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds well over 125 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear tires.
Friday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions before the 30-lap "Thunder at Carolina" finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, four of the Speedway's weekly racing divisions will keep the action rolling on Friday night's racing card. Those racing divisions include the NDRA Crate Late Models, Bea's Gift Basket Open Wheel Modifieds, Tilley Harley Davidson Renegades and the Q2U BBQ Pit Four Cylinders.
Seven-time and defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was ranked in the top ten drivers in the Nation, by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters at the end of the 2009 season heads the entry list for the event. Gray, who is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past five years with over eighty-five feature wins was the winner of the main event during the April 23, 2010 USCS visit to Carolina Speedway. Gray has won four USCS sprint car main events in a row at Carolina Speedway dating back to April 24, 2009. Gray currently leads the USCS National and Southern Thunder regional series point standings.
Other notable entries include: The 1998 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2004 USCS/AOAS Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina is entered. Bridges won the June 27, 2008 Carolina Speedway USCS main event. Bridges won four times in 2008 USCS competition but went winless at his "hometrack" (Carolina Speedway) in 2009. Bridges will be piloting the Biobased USA (Farm Products) Roush-Yates J&J Auto Racing familiar #07 car.
Seventeen-year old female sprint car hot-shoe and current USCS rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee leads a strong contingent of talented young drivers into Carolina Speedway. Turpen has been very impressive thus far in 2010. She is in second place in the National standings behind the defending Champion Terry Gray in the National standings and won the USCS Goodyear Speed Dash during the April 24th USCS race event.
Additional out of state entries expected are the May 15, 2010 Lavonia Speedway USCS Feature winner Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia, and USCS sprint car veterans, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina. From Florida multi-time Eastbay Raceway track Champions, Sport Allen from Pinellas Park, Florida and Brian Maddox from Tampa, Florida are both entered. Also entered is yung gun Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida. Kurtz finished in the top five in April's main event. He was the runner-up in the October 2, 2009, USCS Thunder Nationals, 30-lap Championship main event held at Carolina Speedway.
In addition to Morgan Turpen and Matt Kurtz, the young gun's entry list includes, 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina and nineteen year-old New York transplant Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina. To give the event some International flavor, former road-racer and European stock car star, twenty-three year-old Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England who presently resides in Timmonsville, South Carolina is entered. Jackson was named as the 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour rookie of the Year.
Additional young drivers include Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina and twenty-one year old, 2009 USC Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina.
Other expected in-state entries include: Coby Adams from Mooresville, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, Brian Carter from Concord, North Carolina, C.J. Miller from Denver and Tim Perry from China Grove.
Carolina Speedway is located at 6335 Union Rd., Gastonia, NC 28054. The race track phone number is: (704) 869-0313. The track's website is www.carolinaspeedway.net For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.comUSCS presented by Goodyear at Carolina Speedway
Pre-entry entry list for Carolina Speedway on Friday 6.18.10
1.. 1x - Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 2.. 3x - Brian Maddox, Tampa, FL 3.. 3s - Sport Allen, Tampa, FL 4.. 5 - David Thorman, Greenville, SC 5.. 6c - Brian Carter, Concord, NC 6.. 07 - Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 7.. 9 - C.J. Miller, Denver, NC 8.. 10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN - 8 time - USCS National Champion 9.. 11 - Troy Severin, Ashland, VA 10.. 21b - Brandon McLain, Indian Trail, NC 11.. 24 - Nick Bashford, China Grove, NC 12.. 28 - Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 13.. 29 - TBA 14.. 33 - Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 15.. 36 - Tim Perry, China Groove, NC 16.. 46 - Adam Jackson, Birmingham, ENG. 17.. 47 - Eric Riggins, Charlotte, NC 18.. 67 - Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC 19.. 67 - Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 20.. 69 - Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 21.. 80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN - Rookie points leader 22.. 92 - Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 23.. 96d - Nick DeFeo, Marietta, GA 24.. 880 - Ryan Price, Ashland, VA
Marshall Skinner garners Biobased USA - USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 title
Atlanta, GA - June 7, 2010 - When final points were tallied, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas captured the Championship for the 5th Annual USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased USA (Farm Products). Skinner wrapped up the mini-series title with a feature win in the 30-lap United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Speedweek Finale main event on Saturday night (6/5) at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi.
It was Skinner's first outright USCS Speedweek Championship after twice tying for the Championship while competing in all four previously held USCS Sprint Speedweeks as well. Skinner won two out of three main events held during the eight-day period. His other win came on Memorial Day Monday, May 31st at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee in USCS Speedweek 2010 Round Three. Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas won the USCS Speedweek 2010 Round Four event at Beebe Speedway in Beebe, Arkansas on Thursday, June 3rd.
The USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased USA was initially scheduled for six events before Round One at Riverside Speedway, Round Two at North Alabama Speedway and Round Five at Jackson Motor Speedway were rained out.
The USCS Sprint Speedweek 2009 Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the runner-up position this time around, just four behind Skinner with 434 points. Young gun Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi finished just eight points behind the Champion and four behind Gray, in third place. Those three drivers came into the final race with Skinner and Gray tied for the lead and Sowell just two points back.
2009 Midwest All Star Champion, Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri finished in fourth place in the standings with a total of 416 points. Another Midwest sprint car ace, Tommy Worley, Jr. from Farmington, Missouri and 2008 USCS Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee tied for fifth place in the Speedweek standings with 392 points each.
Jan Howard from Marion, Arkansas concluded the week's racing with a great run at Greenville Speedway, finishing in the runner-up spot after leading much of the race. That was good enough to finish the mini-series standings in seventh place with 386 points. Rookie of the Year candidate Jarod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi finished eighth in the standings with a total of 376 points. Seventeen year-old female sprint car star Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee who is the current Rookie of the Year point's leader and 2009 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year, Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee each collected 370 points to finish in a tie for ninth place in the Speedweek standings.
The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear next races on pavement at Lonesome Pine Raceway in Coeburn, Virginia this Saturday night (6/12). The series returns to action in the USCS Mid South Thunder presented by Goodyear regional series with a four race mini-series on July 1st through 4th.
On July 1st the series is at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas for the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Classic. On Friday, July 2nd the series visits Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri. Saturday, July 3rd finds the series at Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee. The four-race Holiday weekend of USCS presented by Goodyear, winged sprint car action concludes at Camden Speedway in Camden, Tennessee on Sunday, July 4th with Fireworks and a full racing program.
For more information and a complete schedule of USCS Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear events please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
Biobased USA - USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 Final Point Standings
Pos. Car# Driver Points 1 26 Marshall Skinner - Champion 438 2 10 Terry Gray 434 3 51 Lee Sowell 430 4 12 Jerod Hull 416 5 A12 Tommy Worley 392 Tie 16 Anthony Nicholson 392 7 46S Jan Howard 388 8 10R Jerod Roller 376 9 80 Morgan Turpen 370 Tie 26S Jon Stinson 370 11 C4 Casey Rowland 360 12 23 Brian Bell 352 13 88 Tim Crawley 294 14 39 Brad Bowden 288 15 2m Bryce Vowan 242 16 1G Cody Gardner 234 17 32 Gary Bell 218 18 25 Ray Bugg 200 19 8Z Zach Pringle 194 20 12M Greg Merritt 170 21 12 Jeff Swindell 146 22 60 Eric Sandage 142 23 58 Wade Oliver 136 Tie 44c Raymond Stull 136 25 40 Ernie Ainsworth 132 26 12D Dalton Davis 128 Tie 14 Jordon Mallett 128 Tie 9Jr Derek Hagar 128 29 24 Justin Carver 124 Tie 44 Ronny Howard 124 31 99 Ray Stevison 122 32 9 Justin Sturch 120 33 1X Chad Pitts 118 34 8X Chris Williams 116 Tie 1 Jeremy Newkirk 116 36 7 Phillip Faulconer 114 37 6K Jerod Kelley 110 38 1a Lee Moore 100 Tie D12 Christopher Sloan 100 Tie 14 Paul Hart 100 Tie 10W Tony Wilson 100 Marshall Skinner garners Biobased USA - USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 title
Atlanta, GA - June 7, 2010 - Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas captured the Championship for the 5th Annual USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased USA (Farm Products). Skinner wrapped up the mini-series title with a feature win in the 30-lap United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Speedweek Finale main event on Saturday night (6/5) at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi.
It was Skinner's first outright USCS Speedweek Championship after twice tying for the Championship while competing in all four previously held USCS Sprint Speedweeks as well. Skinner won two out of three main events held during the eight-day period. His other win came on Memorial Day Monday, May 31st at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee in USCS Speedweek 2010 Round Three. Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas won the USCS Speedweek 2010 Round Four event at Beebe Speedway in Beebe, Arkansas on Thursday, June 3rd.
The USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased USA was initially scheduled for six events before Round One at Riverside Speedway, Round Two at North Alabama Speedway and Round Five at Jackson Motor Speedway were rained out.
The USCS Sprint Speedweek 2009 Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the runner-up position this time around, just four behind Skinner with 434 points. Young gun Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi finished just eight points behind the Champion and four behind Gray, in third place. Those three drivers came into the final race with Skinner and Gray tied for the lead and Sowell just two points back.
2009 Midwest All Star Champion, Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri finished in fourth place in the standings with a total of 416 points. Another Midwest sprint car ace, Tommy Worley, Jr. from Farmington, Missouri and 2008 USCS Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee tied for fifth place in the Speedweek standings with 392 points each.
Jan Howard from Marion, Arkansas concluded the week's racing with a great run at Greenville Speedway, finishing in the runner-up spot after leading much of the race. That was good enough to finish the mini-series standings in seventh place with 386 points. Rookie of the Year candidate Jarod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi finished eighth in the standings with a total of 376 points. Seventeen year-old female sprint car star Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee who is the current Rookie of the Year point's leader and 2009 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year, Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee each collected 370 points to finish in a tie for ninth place in the Speedweek standings.
The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear next races on pavement at Lonesome Pine Raceway in Coeburn, Virginia this Saturday night (6/12). The series returns to action in the USCS Mid South Thunder presented by Goodyear regional series with a four race mini-series on July 1st through 4th.
On July 1st the series is at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas for the Hooker Hood Sprint Car Classic. On Friday, July 2nd the series visits Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri. Saturday, July 3rd finds the series at Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee. The four-race Holiday weekend of USCS presented by Goodyear, winged sprint car action concludes at Camden Speedway in Camden, Tennessee on Sunday, July 4th with Fireworks and a full racing program.
For more information and a complete schedule of USCS Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear events please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
Biobased USA - USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 Final Point Standings
Pos. Car# Driver Points 1 26 Marshall Skinner - Champion 438 2 10 Terry Gray 434 3 51 Lee Sowell 430 4 12 Jerod Hull 416 5 A12 Tommy Worley 392 Tie 16 Anthony Nicholson 392 7 46S Jan Howard 388 8 10R Jerod Roller 376 9 80 Morgan Turpen 370 Tie 26S Jon Stinson 370 11 C4 Casey Rowland 360 12 23 Brian Bell 352 13 88 Tim Crawley 294 14 39 Brad Bowden 288 15 2m Bryce Vowan 242 16 1G Cody Gardner 234 17 32 Gary Bell 218 18 25 Ray Bugg 200 19 8Z Zach Pringle 194 20 12M Greg Merritt 170 21 12 Jeff Swindell 146 22 60 Eric Sandage 142 23 58 Wade Oliver 136 Tie 44c Raymond Stull 136 25 40 Ernie Ainsworth 132 26 12D Dalton Davis 128 Tie 14 Jordon Mallett 128 Tie 9Jr Derek Hagar 128 29 24 Justin Carver 124 Tie 44 Ronny Howard 124 31 99 Ray Stevison 122 32 9 Justin Sturch 120 33 1X Chad Pitts 118 34 8X Chris Williams 116 Tie 1 Jeremy Newkirk 116 36 7 Phillip Faulconer 114 37 6K Jerod Kelley 110 38 1a Lee Moore 100 Tie D12 Christopher Sloan 100 Tie 14 Paul Hart 100 Tie 10W Tony Wilson 100
Skinner charges to Biobased USA-USCS Speedweek Finale win at Greenville
June 5, 2010 - Greenville, MS - Past USCS series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas started eighteenth, then steadily charged forward into the runner-up position on lap twenty-four. Skinner then passed veteran Jan Howard from Marion, Arkansas for the lead one lap later in the thirty-lap United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear main event to capture the Biobased USA (FARM Products) USCS Speedweek 2010 Finale at Greenville Speedway on Saturday night. Skinner picked up a $2000 paycheck for his win and clinched the title as Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Champion. It was Skinner's second win of the week in the rain-shorted Speedweek 2010 mini-series and the third win of the season in USCS competition.
Midwest hot-shoe Tommy Worley, Jr. from Farmington, Missouri collected the most passing points in the qualifying heat races. Worley then drew a zero in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. This placed Worley who charged from last to second in the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat on the K&N Filters Pole with first heat winner, Jan Howard outside the front row. Young gun Brian Bell from Cordova, Tennessee, who won the FSR Racing Products Third Heat, was inside row. The Butlerbuilt Second Heat winner Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi was to his right for the start of the A-main.
On lap one, Jan Howard grabbed the lead and was officially scored as the race leader for the next ten laps while battling with Worley and Bell for the point. On lap nine Bell grabbed the runner-up spot from Worley. On lap twelve Bell then raced past Howard into the lead. The young driver, who was looking for his career-first USCS win, lead until lap fourteen.
On lap fifteen Bell went off the top of the race track and brought out the caution flag. On the re-start Jan Howard again held the point with Worley in the runner-up spot, Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi was in the in third position followed by Marshall Skinner and defending series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee in the top five.
On lap seventeen Skinner charged around Sowell into the third position behind Howard and Worley. On lap twenty-three Worley ran off of the track (which has no retaining wall) in turns one and two and once again brought out the caution flag. After the re-alignment Skinner (who started in the ninth row) was on the leader Jan Howard's rear bumper to start lap twenty-four.
On lap twenty-five Skinner raced past Howard into the lead. On lap twenty-six the field slowed again for a spinning car. The field bunched behind the new race-leader Skinner with Jan Howard in the runner-up spot, Sowell in the third position, Gray in fourth and now young gun Brad Bowden comprising the top five. After the final re-start, Skinner raced home to victory lane to clinch the win and the Speedweek title.
At the finish line it was Skinner with Jan Howard four car lengths back in the runner-up spot. The veteran Gray slipped past Sowell on lap twenty-seven for the third position in the main and was four points back of Skinner and the runner-up on the Speedweek 2010 standings. Sowell finished fourth in the race and third in the week's mini-series standings. Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri passed Bowden on the last lap to round out the top five finishers in the Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Finale.
Bowden led the next group to the stripe with a sixth place finish. The 2008 Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee was in the seventh place at the finish. Raymond Stull raced home in the eighth position followed by 2009 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee in ninth place. 2010 Rookie of the Year contender, Jarod Roller from olive Branch, Mississippi rounded out the top ten finishers.
Terry Gray kicked off the evening's sprint car action by winning the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. Jan Howard won the 8-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Two time 2009 USCS/Greenville Speedway feature winner, Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi won the 8-lap Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Young gun Brian Bell from Cordova, Tennessee picked up the win in the 8-lap FSR Racing Products Third Heat Race. The Goodyear racing Tire Young Guns award for the top finishing driver under 25 years-old went to Lee Sowell who finished in fourth place.
Jarod Roller from Olive Branch, Mississippi garnered the Rookie of the Race honors. Marshall Skinner passed the most cars in the main event to earn the evening's KSE racing Products Hardcharger Award.
Action continues for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour this coming weekend at Lonesome Pine Raceway in Coeburn, Virginia, but the racing surface switches to pavement at the beautiful 4/10 mile paved oval near Bristol, Tennessee and the Tri-Cities area.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear results for the Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #4 at Greenville Speedway on June 5, 2010:
USCS Goodyear Speed Dash: 1.Terry Gray #10, 2. Lee Sowell#51, 3. Anthony Nicholson #16, 4. Tommy Worley, Jr. A12, 5. Marshall Skinner #26, 6. Jerrod Hull #12,
USCS Sprint Cars Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: 1. Jan Howard #46S, 2. Tommy Worley #A12, 3. Gary Bell #32, 4. Ronny Howard #44, 5. Derek Hagar #9, 6. Marshall Skinner #26,
7. Brad Bowden #39.
USCS Sprint Cars Butlerbuilt Second Heat: 1. Raymond Stull #44c, , 2. Phillip Faulkner #7, 3. Lee Sowell #51, 4. Jarod Roller #5, 5. Jerrod Hull #12, 6. Jon Stinson #26s, 7. Greg Merritt #12m.
USCS Sprint Cars FSR Racing Third Heat: 1. Brian Bell #23, 2. Terry Gray #10, 3. Anthony Nicholson #16, 4. Casey Rowland #c4 5. Morgan Turpen #80, 6. Ray Stevison and 7. Lee Moore #1A - DNS.
Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Finale USCS presented by Goodyear Sprint Car Feature (30 Laps) 1. #26 - Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR 2. #46S - Jan Howard, Marion, AR 3. #10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 4. #51 - Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 5. #12 - Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 6. #39 - Brad Bowden, Hernando, MS 7. #16 - Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN 8. #44c - Raymond Stull, Nesbit, MS 9. #26S - Jon Stinson, Memphis, TN 10. #5 - Jarod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 11. #80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 12. #9 - Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 13. #C4 Casey Rowland, Hernando, MS 14. #44 - Ronny Howard, Nesbit, MS 15. #99 - Ray Stevison, Long Beach, MS 16. #12m - Greg Merritt, Nesbit, MS 17. #A12 - Tommy Worley, Farmington, MO 18. #23 - Brian Bell, Cordova, TN 19. #7 - Phillip Faulkner, Drummonds, TN 20. #32 - Gary Bell, Memphis, TN 21. #1A - Lee Moore, Tuscumbia, AL - DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Terry Gray K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Tommy Worley KSE racing Products HARD CHARGER: Brad Bowden (started 18th passed 17 cars) GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Lee Sowell ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Jarod Roller JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Lee Sowell (fourth place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Lee Sowell DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Jerrod Hull
ENTRIES: 21 PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: (Three) Jan Howard led laps 1-11; Brian Bell led laps 12-14; Jan Howard led laps 15-24 and Marshall Skinner: led laps 25-30.
Crawley rides lightning to Biobased USA USCS Speedweek Round #4 win at Beebe
June 4, 2010 - Beebe, AR - With lightning as a back drop, 2008 USCS Mid South Thunder regional series Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas passed young gun Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi on lap twenty of the thirty-lap United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear main event at Beebe Speedway to grab the lead on Thursday night. Crawley then raced the final ten laps to victory lane. He pocketed the first place pay check of $2000 to capture the Biobased USA- USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #4 race and the Speedweek 2010 points lead. It was Crawley's second win of the season in the tough USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series presented by Goodyear. Crawley also won on the September 2009 initial USCS visit at Beebe Speedway.
Justin Sturch from Benton, Arkansas collected the most passing points in the qualifying heat races. Sturch then drew a four in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. This placed defending USCS Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat on the K&N Filters Pole with Lee Sowell from outside the front row and Crawley inside the second row.
On lap one, Gray grabbed the lead and was officially scored as the race leader for the first three laps while battling with Sowell and Crawley for the point. On lap four Sowell raced past the veteran and into the lead.
The third generation racer seemed to have the race under control streaking through lapped traffic with Crawley five to six car lengths back. As the raced went past the mid-point, Crawley closed on Sowell and raced under him in turns three and four on lap twenty and led the final ten laps to victory lane.
At the finish line it was Crawley first with Sowell four car lengths back in the runner-up spot. Terry Gray finished in the third position. Zach Pringle from Benton, Arkansas finished in the fourth position and Eric Sandage from Alexander, Arkansas rounded out the top five finishers.
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Terry Gray captured the win in the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. Justin Sturch won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Terry Gray also won the 10-lap Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Tim Crawley picked up the win in the 10-lap FSR Racing Products Third Heat Race.
The Goodyear Racing Tire Young Guns award for the top finishing driver under 25 years-old went to Lee Sowell who finished in second place. Jordan Mallett from Greenbriar, Arkansas garnered the Rookie of the Race honors. 2008 USCS Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson passed the most cars in the main event to earn the evening's KSE Racing Products Hardcharger Award. Terry Gray also collected the K&N Filters Pole Award. The JE Pistons Top Guns Award which rotates from 1st through fifth positions went to Zack Pringle who finished fourth.
USCS Outlaw Thunder tour presented by Goodyear results for the Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #4 at Beebe Speedway on June 3, 2010:
USCS Goodyear Speed Dash: 1. Terry Gray #10, 2. Tim Crawley #88, 3. Tommy Worley#A12, 4. Marshall Skinner #26, 5. Jerrod Hull #12, 6. Lee Sowell #51.
USCS Sprint Cars Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: 1. Justin Sturch #9, 2. Lee Sowell #51, 3. Jan Howard #46S, 4. Bryce Vowan #2m, 5. Casey Rowland #c4, 6. Jon Stinson #26s, 7. Morgan Turpen #80 and 8. Ray Bugg #25 DNS.
USCS Sprint Cars Butlerbuilt Second Heat: 1. Terry Gray #10, 2. Zach Pringle #8z, 3. Eric Sandage#60, 4. Jeremy Newkirk #01, 5. Tommy Worley #A12, 6. Jerod Roller #5, and 7. Jordan Mallett #14.
USCS Sprint Cars FSR Racing Third Heat: 1. Tim Crawley #88, 2. Brian Bell #23, 3. Jerrod Hull #12, 4. Marshall Skinner #26, 5. Chad Pitts 1x, 6. Anthony Nicholson #16 and 7. Cody Gardner #1G
Biobased USA - USCS Speedweek Round #4 results USCS presented by Goodyear Sprint Car Feature (30 Laps) 1. #88 - Tim Crawley, Benton, AR AR 2. .#51- Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 3. #10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 4. #8Z - Zach Pringle, Benton, AR 5. #60 - Eric Sandage, Alexander, AR 6. #12 - Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 7 #26 - Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, 8. #16 - Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN 9. # A12 - Tommy Worley, Farmington, MO 10. #46S - Jan Howard, Marion, AR 11. #1G - Cody Gardner, Benton, AR 12. #14 - Jordan Mallett, Greenbriar, AR 13. #80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 14. #5 - Jerod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 15. #C4 - Casey Rowland, Hernando, MS TN 16. #9 - Justin Sturch, Benton, AR 17. #1x - Chad Pitts, Little Rock, AR 18. #01- Jeremy Newkirk, Benton, AR 19. #26S - Jon Stinson, Memphis, 20 #2M - Bryce Vowan, Forrest City, AR 21. #23 - Brian Bell, Cordova, TN 22. #25 - Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS - DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER:Teey Gray
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Terry Gray
KSE Racing Products HARD CHARGER: Anthony Nicholson (started 18th passed 10 cars)
GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Lee Sowell
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Jordan Mallett
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Zach Pringle (4th place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Zach Pringle
DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Eric Sandage
ENTRIES: 22
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: (Three) Terry Gray laps 1-3, Lee Sowell laps 4-19 and Tim Crawley laps 20 -30.
USCS Sprint Car and USCS Modified Double-Header at Greenville Speedway
for Super Saturday of Speed on Saturday June 5th
Atlanta, GA - The Atlanta, Georgia based United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) will invade Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi on Saturday, June 5th with an action-packed USCS Double-Header. The United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear and the USCS Modified Touring Series are scheduled to both make their first visit of the 2010 season to the fast high banked Delta Gumbo oval on the same night for National points events.
The event dubbed as the USCS "Super Saturday of Speed" coincides with the sixth night of the United Sprint Car Series presented by Biobased USA (Farm Products) Speedweek 2010 and will serve as the Grand Finale of the Sprint Speedweek mini-series. The race also falls at the end of a three-day weekend of competition for the USCS Modified Touring Series and will serve as the Finale of that two state tangle after visiting Beebe (AR) Speedway on Thursday and Jackson Motor Speedway (MS) on Friday night.
The event is expected to bring both top winged sprint car and open wheel modified drivers to the challenging 1/4 mile high-banked oval. Three previous winners of USCS winged sprint car events are entered including past series Champion Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas who won on the series first visit in July of 2007. Eight-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the series second visit in September of 2007 is also entered as is Raymond Stll who won twice in 2009 at Greenville Speedway.
All three of these drivers plus many more top drivers from at least six states are entered for this special sprint car event.
A strong field of drivers from at least four states are expected for the the USCS Modified Touring Series "Topless Challenge" event as well. That event features a bonus for the driver who can win the USCS Modified event "topless". Those entries include past Rislone USCS Modified Series winners at Greenville Speedway, Ashley Newman from Ripley, Tennessee, Duke Palasini from Leland, Mississippi, Hunter Rasdon from Jonesboro, Arkansas and Ben Reed from Munford, Tennessee.
Also on the racing card are the Greenville Speedway Super Late Models, Nesmith Crate Late Models and all stock car divisions. For more info and directions to Greenville Speedway please visit www.greenville speedway.net or call 662-822-7071 or 662-822-2662. For Part Plus USCS Sprint Car or USCS Modified Series rules and info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
Greenville Speedway Super Saturday of Speed - Saturday, June5th 7:30pm USCS Sprint Speedweek presented by Biobased USA Round Six Finale USCS Modifieds TOPLESS CHALLENGE $1000 to win/$1200 TOPLESS Plus Super Late Models, Nesmith Late Models and Stock Car Racing!
USCS Media contact - Pete Walton 770-865-6097 pwaltonuscs@comcast.net
USCS Sprint Cars and USCS Outlaw Modifieds Headline Beebe Speedway "Thursday Thunder'
(Thursday June 3rd)
Atlanta, GA - June 2, 2010 - The Atlanta, Georgia based United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) make its' return to the historic Beebe Speedway in Beebe, Arkansas this Thursday night (June 3rd) for Beebe Speedway's "Thursday Thunder" Special event.
The action packed event will be headlined by a USCS double-header featuring both the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" Tour presented by Goodyear winged sprint cars and the USCS Modified Touring Series open wheel modified cars. This will be the second-ever visits to Beebe Speedway for both the United Sprint Car Series and USCS Modified Touring Series after a successful 9/25/09 event.
The special THURSDAY night event is expected to bring both top winged sprint car and open wheel modified drivers from at least five states to the challenging ¼ mile clay oval for the track's only winged sprint car race of the season. In addition to the $2000 to win USCS presented by Goodyear winged sprint car event and the $1000 to win USCS Modified Touring Series "Topless Challenge", the speedway's popular E-MOD and Hobby divisions are on the action-packed racing card.
The USCS Outlaw Modifieds will be contesting a Topless Challenge event that pays a bonus for a driver who can win roofless.
For more info on Beebe Speedway and directions please visit www.beebespeedway.com or call 501-882-0805. Beebe Speedway is located just 200 yards east of Hwy. US 67/ US 167 Exit 31 on Highway 31 in Beebe, Arkansas.
Marshall Skinner claims Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #3 at Clayhill
May 31, 2010 - Atwood, TN - Former series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas passed young gun Brad Bowden on lap twenty-eight of the thirty-lap United Sprint Car Series presented main event at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee to gain the lead for the final time on Monday night. He then raced the final laps to victory lane and a first place pay check of $2000 to capture the Biobased USA - USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #3 and the Speedweek 2010 points lead. It was Skinner's second win of the season in the tough USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series presented by Goodyear. It was also his third win over the last four times that the USCS has visited Clayhill Motorsports.
USCS Rookie of the year, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee collected the most passing points in the qualifying heat races. Carver then drew a four in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. This placed Tommy Worley from Farmington, Missouri who won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat in the K&N Filters Pole Position with young gun Brad Bowden from Hernando, Mississippi outside the front row. Skinner started his own #26 J&J Auto Racing sprint car inside the second row in the main event with Carver to his right..
On lap one, Skinner grabbed the lead and was officially scored as the race leader for the next ten laps while battling with Worley and Bowden for the point. On lap eleven Worley raced into the lead and lead lap twelve as well. Skinner came charging back past him on lap thirteen. Skinner lead again until lap twenty-four. Bowden raced past Skinner into the lead on lap twenty three and lead until lap twenty-seven before the not- to-be-denied Skinner charged ahead for the final time, although Bowden led again momentarily on lap twenty-eight.
At the finish line it was Skinner with Bowden two car lengths back in the runner-up spot. Jeff Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was in the hunt for the final ten laps, finished in the third position. Current 2010 USCS Mid South Thunder presented by Goodyear point's leader, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas who started sixteenth charged his way to fourth place at the finish. Defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee rounded out the top five finishers.
Early race-leader Tommy Worley from Farmington, Missouri led the next group to the stripe with a sixth place finish. The June 2009 Clayhill Motorsports USCS feature winner, Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi started in the 22nd position, and then charged to seventh place at the finish. Wade Oliver from Southaven, Mississippi raced home in the eighth position followed by the evenings Goodyear Speed Dash winner Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri in ninth place. JE Pistons B-Main winner, Ernie Ainsworth from Bartlett, Tennessee rounded out the top ten finishers.
Jerrod Hull kicked off the evening's action by winning the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. Tommy Worley won the 8-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Hull won the 8-lap Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Jeff Swindell picked up the win in the 8-lap FSR Racing Products Third Heat Race. 2009 USCS Rookie of the Year Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee won the 8-lap Dynotech Fourth Heat. The Goodyear racing Tire Young Guns award for the top finishing driver under 25 years-old went to Brad Bowden who finished in second place.
Dalton Davis from Millington, Tennessee garnered the Rookie of the Race honors. Lee Sowell passed the most cars in the main event to earn the evening's KSE racing Products Hardcharger Award.
USCS Outlaw Thunder tour presented by Goodyear results for the Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 Round #3 at Clayhill Motorsports on May 31, 2010:
USCS Goodyear Speed Dash: 1. Jerrod Hull #12, 2. Tim Crawley #88, 3. Brad Bowden #39, 4. Marshall Skinner #26, 5. Terry Gray #10, 6. Anthony Nicholson #16N
USCS Sprint Cars Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: 1. Tommy Worley #A12, 2. Marshall Skinner #26, 3. Gary Bell #32, 4. Ernie Ainsworth #40, 5. Brian Bell #23, 6. Jon Stinson #26s, 7. Tim Crawley #88 and 8. Ray Bugg #25.
USCS Sprint Cars Butlerbuilt Second Heat: 1. Jerrod Hull #12, 2. Jerrod Roller #5, 3. Jan Howard #46S, 4. Bryce Vowan #2m, 5. Jared Kelly #6k, 6. Doc Sloan #d12, 7. Greg Merritt #12m and 8. Zach Pringle #8z
USCS Sprint Cars FSR Racing Third Heat: 1. Jeff Swindell #90, 2. Terry Gray #10, 3. Wade Oliver #58, 4. Chris Williams 8x, 5. Lee Sowell #51, 6. Casey Rowland #c4 and 7. #14 Paul Hart
USCS Sprint Cars Dynotech Fourth Heat: 1. Justin Carver #24, 2. Brad Bowden #39, 3. Anthony Nicholson #16N 4. Cody Gardner #1G 5. Morgan Turpen #80, 6. Dalton Davis #12, and 7. Tony Wilson #10w.
USCS Sprint Cars JE Pistons B-Main (15 Laps) 1. #40 Ernie Ainsworth, Bartlett, TN 2. #88 Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 3. #32 Gary Bell, Memphis, TN 4. #80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 5. #C4 Casey Rowland, Nesbit, MS 6. #6K Jared Kelley, Millington, TN 7. #51 Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 8. #12 Dalton Davis, Millington, TN 9. #26S Jon Stinson, Memphis, TN 10. #D12 Doc Sloan, Imperial, MO 11. #14 Paul Hart, Troy, TN 12. #25 Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS 13. #10W Tony Wilson, Paris, TN 14. #12M Gregg Merritt, Nesbit, MS 15. #8Z Zach Pringle, Benton, AR
Biobased USA Speedweek Round #3 USCS presented by Goodyear Sprint Car Feature (30 Laps) 1. #26 Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR 2. #39 Brad Bowden, Hernando, MS 3. #90 Jeff Swindell, Bartlett, TN 4. #88 Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 5. #10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 6. #A12 Tommy Worley, Farmington, MO 7. #51 Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 8. #58 Wade Oliver, Southaven, MS 9. #12 Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 10. #40 Ernie Ainsworth, Bartlett, TN 11. #2M Bryce Vowan, Forrest City, AR 12. #12 Dalton Davis, Millington, TN 13. #23 Brian Bell, Cordova, TN 14. #24 Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN 15. #26S Jon Stinson, Memphis, TN 16. #5 Jerod Roller, Olive Branch, MS 17. #16N Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN 18. #8X Chris Williams, Cordova, TN 19. #80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 20. #C4 Casey Rowland, Hernando, MS 21. #6K Jared Kelley, Millington, TN 22. #46S Jan Howard, Marion, AR 23. #32 Gary Bell, Memphis, TN 24. #1G Cody Gardner, Benton, AR
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Jerrod Hull
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Tommy Worley
KSE racing Products HARD CHARGER: Brad Bowden (started 22nd passed 15 cars)
GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Brad Bowden
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Dalton Davis
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jeff Swindell
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Jeff Swindell
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Tim Crawley
DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Terry Gray
ENTRIES: 30
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: (Three) Marshall Skinner: led laps 1-10, 13-24 and 28-30. Tommy Worley, Jr. laps 11-12 and Brad Bowden laps 25 -27.
USCS Winged Outlaw Sprint Cars and USCS Modifieds headline
Special "Fast Friday" racing card at Jackson Motor Speedway (Friday, June 4th)
Atlanta, GA - June 1, 2010 - The nationally touring United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) invades Jackson Motor Speedway for a special Friday night event featuring two of its racing divisions this Friday night (6/4/10) at 8:00pm. The United Sprint Car Series winged Outlaw sprint cars and the mighty USCS Outlaw Modifieds form a potent and powerful traveling series double-header on Friday, June 4th. The event billed as Jackson Motor Speedway's "ONE FAST FRIDAY" at Jackson Motor Speedway features high speed action in a total of six racing divisions racing for well over $20,000 in guaranteed prize money at one of the Mid-South's most popular racing venues.
Race teams and race fans that are in attendance on "Fast Friday" will be treated to a full menu of speed contests with racing in all of the area's most popular divisions. The event includes the only 2010 season appearance of the USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour presented by Goodyear winged sprint cars and the "three wheeling" USCS Outlaw Modified racers at Jackson Motor Speedway. The Friday night racing action features over 250 laps of racing around the 1/4 mile clay oval including qualifying races and 100+ laps of Championship main events on Friday night presented by Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co.
The excitement level at Jackson Motor Speedway turns up-tempo with the addition of the 700+ horsepower, 1300 pound Outlaw style sprint cars of the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear on Friday night. The sprint cars are pound for pound, the world's most powerful short track race cars and are expected to reach speeds exceeding 120 M.P.H. around Jackson Motor Speedway's ¼ clay oval.
Top winged sprint car drivers from 6 states are pre-entered for the third ever appearance of the USCS sprint cars to Jackson Motor Speedway. This stop is the fifth leg of the Biobased USA (farm products) USCS Speedweek 2010. The USCS Speedweek is a six-race mini-series of sprint car races at six different venues at over just eight days.
Entries include the winner of the of the last United Sprint Car Series main event at JMS in August 2001, defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Other USCS sprint car entries include past Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas who has won twice in USCS Mid South Thunder regional series competition. Skinner won on Monday night in Round #3 of the Biobased USA USCS Speedweek 2010 at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood. Also entered is 17 year-old female racer Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee who ranks second in the USCS National point standings for winged sprint cars.
The USCS Modified Touring Series a.k.a. USCS Outlaw Modified drivers will be making their first-ever appearance at Jackson Motor Speedway for the talented open wheel modified drivers in the USCS Modified "Topless Challenge". The event pays $1000 to win with a bonus pushing the top prize up to $1200 if the winning driver is racing "topless". The USCS will bring its top drivers to the speedway to challenge a tough weekly racing group of Jackson Motor Speedway regulars.
The USCS Modified Touring Series contingent will be led by the series current 2010 points leader, Chris Moore from Nesbit, Mississippi and 2008 USCS Modified Champion, Ashley Newman from Ripley, Tennessee. The 2006 USCS Modified Champion, Ben Reed from Munford, Tennessee plus USCS regulars Craig Vaughn and teammate Murray Vaughn both from Hernando, Mississippi are expected entries. Additionally the 2009 Rookie of the Year, Justin Roberts from Paragould, Arkansas and frequent USCS front-runner Duke Palasini from Leland, Mississippi are entered. Several other top drivers from around the state who don't compete regularly are expected to compete in the special event.
The Extreme Wireless Super Late Models will contest a full racing program on Friday night with a full field expected. All Jackson Motor Speedway weekly racing divisions are on the special Friday night racing card with a full program of racing in each division. Those include the Whittington Heating and Cooling Pure Stocks, the Hawkins Custom Machine Works Super Stocks and the Statewide Plumbing Crate Late Models
Jackson Motor Speedway is located just south of Jackson in Byram, Mississippi. The physical address is 548 Old Byram Road, Byram, Mississippi 39272. For more USCS Jackson Motor Speedway Fast Friday info and for directions to Jackson Motor Speedway please visit www.jacksonmotorspeedway.net or call 601-373-0076. For info on the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased.US headlines action at Riverside on Saturday night
Atlanta, GA - May 24, 2010 - The United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com kicks off its "Speed Week 2010" presented by Biobased.US at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas on Saturday night, May 29th. The 5th Annual "Rumble at the River" special event at the 1/4-mile high-banked gumbo clay oval serves as Round One of the USCS Speedweek 2010 presented by Biobased.US.
The race will be the opening round of a six race over eight day mini-series at tracks located in a close proximity to one another in the Mid-South area. This event is also set to be race number eight on the season for the Nationally touring USCS sprint car drivers who also race on paved ovals. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
An action packed program awaits fans as the USCS presented by Goodyear sprint car racing format will include test and tune hot laps followed by the evening's first sprint car race, the Goodyear Speed Dash that showcases the top six cars from the previous USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout. Next up will be qualifying heat races followed by Last Chance/B-Main race(s). The evening's grand finale will be the 5th Annual 30-lap USCS "Rumble at the River" winged sprint car A-main event.
The race will award USCS National Championship points as well as USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series Championship points. The USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series primarily consists of races in Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Missouri and West Tennessee. The Speedweek 2010 special event has pre-entries from top winged outlaw style sprint car drivers from at least eight states to the track.
Also on the Memorial Day weekend holiday racing program are several of Riverside's weekly Saturday night racing divisions including the Limited Late Models, Riverside Stock Cars, 600cc Mini Sprints and the popular 305 Non-Wing Sprint Cars.
For more information on Riverside International Speedway visit www.riversideinternationalspeedway.com The office number is 901-840-1970 and the race day phone number is 870-735-8071. For more information on the USCS Speed Week 2010 presented by Biobased.US including the full schedule of six races over eight days please visit www.uscsracing.com . Call the USCS Office at 770-460-7223 or cell 770-865-6097.
Matt Linder collects USCS Motor Madness win at Lavonia Speedway
Lavonia, GA - May 15, 2010 - Matt Linder raced to his second career United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear feature win at Lavonia Speedway on Saturday night. The second generation sprint car racer from Hoschton, Georgia out gunned K&N Filters Pole Position starter Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee to turn one and led every lap of the 30-lap main event.
Nicholson, who won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat, was awarded the pole position after the evening's top passing points collector Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina drew a four inversion in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. This placed defending series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee in the third starting position and Moss outside the second row starting in fourth position.
Linder jumped into the lead in turn one with Moss, Gray, Nicholson and Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida comprising the top five on laps one and two. Kurtz spun in lap three and Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina moved his Roush-Yates Ford powered mount into the top five. On lap four Bridges moved past Nicholson after the restart for Brandon Rekow's spin in turn two. This placed Bridges in the fourth position while Linder led over Moss and Gray.
The top five order remained the same through lap seventeen when seventeen year-old rookie, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee spun in turn two while running sixth. The field bunched behind Linder with Moss, Gray, Bridges, Nicholson, C.J. Miller from Denver, North Carolina, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia comprising the top seven cars.
The caution once again displayed for a spinning Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia with two laps to go on lap twenty-eight. The veteran Gray had just passed Moss for the runner-up position, but, was re-aligned in third position. On the re-start Johnny Bridges coasted to a stop in turn one with a flat right rear tire, once again bringing out the yellow cloth and creating another green-white and checkered finish.
Linder was at the front of the order with victory lane just two laps ahead. The lapped car of Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina was in behind Linder in the restart order. Lance Moss was in second place in the race order ready to challenged Linder for the win with Gray, Nicholson, Turpen, Miller and Thomas on the lead lap behind them.
When the green flag waved, the leaders raced around the 3/8 mile red Georgia clay oval toward the white flag, Moss was unable to drive past, the lapped car of Wickham who was the first car one lap down and appeared to be racing the leaders. After passing under the white flag on the final lap as Wickham and Moss entered turn one, Moss drove low and underneath the lapped car of Wickham and set his sights towards turns three and four. The two (Moss and the lapped Wickham) raced down the back stretch with Terry Gray in pursuit just behind them.
Moss raced on the outside of the track down the final backstretch in second place with the lapped car of Brad Wickham and Gray behind him. As Moss entered turn three in the middle groove Wickham, who was still challenging the runner-up car, entered turn three low and went up the track, crashing into Moss' car. Both cars flipped violently with Moss 'mount hitting the outside wall on the vulnerable left side of the car.
Moss remained in the car for some period of time while the wing was removed and he was checked out by emergency personnel. He was then transported to the Hospital with injuries from the wreck. He was released on Sunday morning.
After the wild last lap finish Linder found his way to the USCS victory lane for the first time in 2010. Terry Gray followed Linder in the runner-up spot after entering the final lap in third position. Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee drove Jay Hancock's #1A to a third place finish. Morgan Turpen rallied from her lap seventeen spinout to finish in fourth place. The evening's KSE Racing Products Hard Charger, Brian Thomas who started the A-Main event in twelfth position, rounded out the top five.
The next group was headed by Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida who finished in sixth place. Goodyear Speed Dash winner C.J. Miller followed in seventh place and Nick DeFeo from Marietta, Georgia followed in the eighth position. Fifteen year-old rookie driver Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina finished ninth. Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
C.J. Miller kicked off the evening's action by winning the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. Terry Gray won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Anthony Nicholson raced to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Brian Thomas garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award passing seven cars in the main event. Morgan Turpen garnered the Goodyear, Rookie of race honors.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is the USCS Sprint Speedweek Round One on Saturday, May 29th at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. For more information on that event please visit www.riversideinternationlspeedway.com . For info on all USCS Sprint Speedweek 2010 events please visit the series official website at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear Results for May 15, 2010 - Lavonia Speedway Goodyear Speed Dash: C.J. Miller, Eric Riggins, Jr., Morgan Turpen, Terry Gray, Lance Moss and Johnny Bridges.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Terry Gray, Lance Moss, Tim Perry, Matt Kurtz, Eric Riggins, Jr., Brian Thomas, Nick DeFeo, David Thorman and Joe Larkin.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race: Anthony Nicholson, Matt Linder, Morgan Turpen, Johnny Bridges, C.J. Miller, Aubrey Black, Brad Wickham and Brandon Rekow.
USCS Main event - 30 laps: 11 - #1x - Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 1 - #10 - Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 3 - 1A - Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN 4 - #80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 5 - #67 - Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 6 - #92 - Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 7 - #9 - C.J. Miller, Denver, NC 8 - #96 - Nick Defeo, Marietta, GA 9 - #47 - Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC 10 - #23 - Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC 11 - #5 - David Thorman, Greenville, SC 12 - #07 - Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 13 - #33 - Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA 14 - #6 - Brad Wickham, Rutherfordton, NC
15 - #21 - Aubrey Black, Lookout Mtn., GA 16 - #36 - Tim Perry, China Grove, NC 17 - #69 - Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: C.J. Miller K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Anthony Nicholson KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Joe Larkin (started 12th finished 5th) GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen (Rookie) ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Terry Gray (2nd place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Anthony Nicholson BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Morgan Turpen Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Brian Thomas
ENTRIES: 17 PROVISIONALS: None LAP LEADERS: Matt Linder Laps 1-30
USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS presented by GOODYEAR HEADLINE "May Motor Madness"
RACING ACTION AT LAVONIA SPEEDWAY ON SATURDAY MAY 15TH
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com kicks off the Georgia dirt track portion of its 2010 Southern Thunder Tour on Saturday, May 15th with the "May Motor Madness" event at the Lavonia Speedway in Lavonia, Georgia. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full "Smorgasbord of Speed" including a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in the popular Southeastern Limited Late Model Sportsman Series, Fastrak Late Models the Georgia Mini Sprint Series (winged mini-sprints) and five of Lavonia Speedway's weekly stock car racing divisions. There should be something for everyone who likes to see fast cars go round and round.
Saturday night's USCS winged Outlaw sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points. The race will additionally award USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour National Championship points. The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Northern Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward series' 14th National Championship.
This event will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" National Championship roaring into the fast 3/8-mile clay oval. The USCS drivers will also race on paved ovals twelve times during the 50-race 2010 season. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
The Lavonia Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Virginia, Florida and West Tennessee, . The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds. They are pound for pound the World's most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds approaching 130 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear race tires. Those tires are almost twice as wide as the Goodyear Eagles that NASCAR Sprint Cup cars use.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening's very first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions for the 30-lap "Motor Madness" USCS Championship finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, eight other racing divisions will keep the action rolling non-stop on Saturday night's racing card. Those include the touring Southeastern Late Model Sportsman Series, Fastrak Late Models, the Georgia Mini Sprint Series winged mini-sprints plus Modified Street, Stock V-8, Stock 4, Young Guns (Beginner 4) and Front Wheel Drive.
USCS sprint car entries include: Eight-time and defending USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who was ranked in the top ten drivers in the Nation, by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters at the end of the 2009 season heads the entry list for the event. Gray, who is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past five years with over eighty-five feature wins. Gray was leading last September's main event and had a U-Joint break in his car and injure his foot. Gray currently leads the USCS National point standings.
Other notable entries include: The 1998 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2004 USCS/AOAS Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina is entered. Bridges who is always a threat to win, will bring his rare (to sprint car racing) Roush-Yates Ford powered car to Lavonia Speedway.
For the ladies: Seventeen-year old female sprint car hot-shoe and current USCS rookie point's leader, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee leads a strong contingent of talented young drivers into Lavonia Speedway. Turpen has been very impressive thus far in 2010. She is currently in the runner-up spot in the National standings behind her team-mate and defending Champion Terry Gray. Turpen finished third in last weekend's USCS main event at Travelers Rest Speedway in South Carolina.
Additionally expected are 2008 USCS Lavonia Feature winner Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia and USCS sprint car veterans, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina is also entered.
In addition to Turpen, expected young guns entries include, 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina and nineteen year-old New York transplant Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina. Bashford's #24 will also utilize a Roush-Yates Ford power plant.
To give the event some International flavor, former road-racer and European stock car star, twenty-three year-old Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England who presently resides in Timmonsville, South Carolina is entered. Jackson was named as the 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour rookie of the Year. Additional young drivers include 15 year-old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina and 2009 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina.
Other expected out of state entries include the following North Carolina drivers: C.J. Miller from Mooresville, North Carolina, Tim Perry from China Grove, North Carolina, Coby Adams from Mooresville, North Carolina, Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina who was the 1990 Butler Speedway (Butler, Michigan) track champion and Brian Carter from Concord, NC.
Grandstand Adult admission is $20 with children under 12 years-old admitted FREE. Ticket discounts worth $3 off adult admission are available at McDonald's in Lavonia. Lavonia Speedway is located at 5941 Lavonia Highway, Lavonia, GA, 30553. The race track phone number is: (706) 356-2220. The track's website is www.lavoniadirttrack.com For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com or call770-865-6097.
Terry Gray collects USCS Night of Thunder win at Travelers Rest Speedway
Travelers Rest, SC - May 8, 2010 - Defending United Sprint Car Series presented by National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 25-lap USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour feature race during the 7th annual USCS Night of Thunder at Travelers Rest Speedway on Saturday night. It was the second USCS feature win of the young season for Gray while driving his Rislone Engine Treatment sponsored J&J Auto Racing Wesmar powered familiar black #10 sprint car. Gray also won the 2009 USCS race at the speedway.
Gray started outside the front row after rookie teammate Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee was awarded K&N Filters Pole position via the inversion drawing. The 17 year-old Turpen, the only female driver in the field, was awarded the pole position after Engler Machine and Tool First Heat winner, C.J. Miller from Denver, North Carolina drew a four in the K&N Filters Pole drawing. This placed Turpen and Gray on the front row for the 25-lap contest.
Gray jumped into the lead in turn one and Turpen chased her teammate for the lead on lap one, but the race was red flagged for a flipping Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Wickham was unharmed but his car was out for the remainder of the evening, On the second start Gray led again with Turpen in the runner-up spot and C.J. Miller, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina, Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia and Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina comprising the lead pack. After three cautions for spinning cars in the first thirteen laps, Bridges move past the talented rookie Turpen for the runner-up spot on lap fourteen. After a restart following a caution for a spinning car on lap fifteen, rookie Troy Severin from Ashland, Virginia moved into the top five on lap fifteen.
Ten laps later at the finish Gray found his way to victory lane for the second time in 2010. Johnny Bridges followed Gray in the runner-up spot six car lengths back in his Biobased.Us sponsored, Roush-Yates ford powered, J&J Auto Racing #07 mount. Morgan Turpen had career-best USCS finish in third place in her Casey's Lawn Care #80 J&J Auto Racing Wesmar powered car. Lance Moss rallied from a lap one spin to fourth place at the finish. C.J. Miller rounded out the top five.
The next group was headed by fifteen year-old rookie driver Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina who finished in sixth place. Troy Severin followed in seventh place and Ryan Price from Ashland, followed in the eighth position. Joe Larkin from Suwanee, Georgia finished ninth. Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
Terry Gray kicked off the evening's action by winning the 6-cars, 6-laps Goodyear Speed Dash. C.J. Miller won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Terry Gray rolled to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Joe Larkin garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award passing seven cars in the main event. Morgan Turpen garnered the Goodyear, Rookie of race honors.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Saturday, May 15th at Lavonia Speedway in Lavonia, GA. For more information on that event please visit www.lvoniadrttrack.com . For rules and info on the USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-86-6097.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear Results for May 8, 2010 - Travelers Rest Speedway
Goodyear Speed Dash: Terry Gray, Lance Moss, Matt Linder, Morgan Turpen, C.J. Miller and Jake McLain.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: C.J. Miller, Eric Riggins, Johnny Bridges, Jake MLain, Tim Perry, Brad Wickham, Troy Severin, Joe Larkin and Coby Adams - DNS.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race: Terry Gray, Lance Moss, Matt Linder, Morgan Turpen, Ryan Price, Brian Thomas, Brandon Rekow and David Thorman
USCS Main event - 25 laps: 1 - #10 - Terry Gray Bartlett, TN 2 - #07 - Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC 3 - #80 - Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN] 4 - #23 - Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC 5 - #9 - C.J. Miller, Denver, NC 6 - #47 - Eric Riggins, Jr. , Charlotte, NC 7 - #11 - Troy Severin, Ashland, VA 8 - #822 - Ryan Price, Ashland, VA 9 - #33 - Joe Larkin, Suwanee, GA 10 - #69 - Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 11 - #1x - Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 12 - #67 - Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC 13 - #67 - Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 14 - #36 Tim Perry, China Groove, NC 15 - #5 - David Thorman, Greenville, SC 16 - #6 - Brad Wickham, Rutherfordton, NC 17 - #29 - Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC - DNS
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Terry Gray K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Morgan Turpen - Rookie KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Joe Larkin (started 16th finished 9th) GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen - Rookie ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Terry Gray (1st place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Morgan Turpen BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Lance Moss Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: C.J. Miller
ENTRIES: 17 PROVISIONALS: None LAP LEADERS: Terry Gray Laps 1-25
USCS Outlaw Sprint Cars @TR Speedway postponed until SAT.- May 8th
Travelers rest, SC - Attention! Due to inclimate weather in the area and continued rain predicted through out the evening of Saturday April 24th the, United Sprint Car Series (www.uscsracing.com) Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car event presented by Goodyear at Travelers Rest Speedway has been postponed until, Saturday, May 8th. Additional details for that event will be posted ASAP. Any one who has discount coupons acquired at either Carolina Fine Foods or Burger King of Travelers Rest, should just hold onto them until Saturday, May 8th.
Travelers Rest Speedway www.trspeedway.net will still plans to hold a a weekly racing series event on Saturday night weather permitting. For further detsils call Gary Hyatt at 864-551-1621.
For questions about the United Sprint Car Series and for a complete schedule of events please visit the series official website at www.uscsracing.com or call USCS at 770-460-7223.
Terry Gray collects first 2010 USCS win at Carolina Speedway
Gastonia, NC - April 23, 2010 - Eight-time United Sprint Car Series presented by National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 30-lap USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour feature race during the 3rd annual USCS Thunder in Carolina event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. It was the first USCS feature win of the young season for Gray over a talent-laden field of twenty-six competitors from eight states that included three top ranked women sprint car racers. Three is most female sprint car drivers ever at any USCS event.
Gray started in the K&N Filters Pole position after Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia drew a six inversion in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing on the front stretch with a packed grandstands looking on, in front of the speedway's largest crowd ever. The inversion placed Gray on the pole and Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina outside the front row.
On the initial start the veteran Gray raced into the lead that he never relinquished for his fourth USCS/Carolina Speedway win in a row going back to April 24, 2009. Lance Moss tucked in behind Gray and kept it close the for the first four laps until Erin Crocker (Evernham) from Mooresville, North Carolina raced past Moss into the second position to challenge Gray. On lap fourteen Moss surged back past Crocker for the runner-up spot. The race was never a runaway by Gray who seems to have a lock on the red clay 4/10 mile oval. There were two red flags and one caution period that kept the field bunched
Moss finished just one and one half car lengths back of Gray at the end. Erin Crocker followed in third place. Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville, Florida finished in the fourth position and Josh Weller from Mertztown, Pennsylvania rounded out the top ten.
The next group was headed by C.J. Miller from Denver, North Carolina in sixth place. Tim Perry from China Grove, North Carolina followed in seventh position. Matt Linder who won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race finished eighth. The evening's Goodyear Speed Dash winner 17-year old female sprint car racer, Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, Tennessee finished ninth. Coby Adams from Mooresville, North Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
Lance Moss won the 8-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Matt Linder rolled to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. The Schoenfeld Headers Third Heat Race was won by the eventual feature winner Troy Severin from Ashland, Virginia. Jake McLain garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award passing eleven cars in the main event. Morgan Turpen garnered the Goodyear, Rookie of race honors.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Saturday, May 1st at Jackson Motor Speedway in Jackson, MS. For more information on that event please visit www.jacksonmotorspeedway.net . For rules and info on the USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-86-6097.
USCS results Thunder in Carolina Round - Carolina Speedway 4/23/10
Goodyear Speed Dash: Morgan Turpen, Johnny Bridges, Terry Gray, Brian Thomas, Brian Carter and David Thorman.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Lance Moss, C.J. Miller, Tim Perry, Brian Carter, Johnny Bridges, David Thorman, Brad Wickham, Joe Larkin and Jessica Zemken.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Matt Linder, Matt Kurtz, Erin Crocker, Josh Weller, Nick DeFeo, Brian Thomas, Jake McLain and Brandon McLain.
Bar's Leaks Third Heat: Troy Severin, Terry Gray, Eric Riggings, Jr., Morgan Turpen, Coby Adams, Ryan Price, Nick Bash ford and Brandon Rekow. Adam Jackson DNS
USCS presented by Goodyear Feature Race results (30 laps) 1 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 2 - 23 Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC 3 - 19 Erin Crocker, Mooresville, NC 4 - 92 Matt Kurtz, Jacksonville, FL 5 - 63 Josh Weller, Mertztown, PA 6 - 9 C.J. Miller, Mooresville, NC 7 - 36 Tim Perry, China Grove, NC 8 - 1X Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 9 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN
10 - 29 Coby Adams, Mooresville, NC 11 - 67 Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC 12 - 67 Brian Thomas, Pendergrass, GA 13 - 96d Nick DeFeo, Marietta, GA 14 - 69 Brandon Rekow, Mooresville, NC 15 - 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA
16 - 6c Brian Carter, Concord, NC
17 - 47 Eric Riggins, Jr., Charlotte, NC - Rookie
18 - 07 Johnny Bridges, Cherryville, NC
19 - 11 Troy Severin, Ashland, VA
20 - 6w Brad Wickham, Rutherfordton, NC
21 - 822 Ryan Price, Ashland, VA
22 - 24X Nick Bash ford, China Grove, NC
23 - 5 David Thorman, Greenville, SC
Did not start the feature:
14 - Jessica Zemken, Sprakers, NY
21b - Brandon, McLain, Indian Trail, NC
46 - Adam Jackson, Birmingham, ENG
GODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Morgan Turpen - Rookie
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Terry Gray
KSE Hard Charger AWARD: Jake McLain (started 22nd passed 11 cars)
GOODYEAR RACING TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Matt Kurtz (4th place)
ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Josh Weller (5th place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Erin Crocker
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Matt Kurtz
Dynotech TOP FIVE AWARD: Josh Weller
ENTRIES: 26
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Terry Gray Laps 1-30
USCS Ladies night in victory lane at Carolina?
Gastonia, NC - April 24, 2010 - Friday night's United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear winged sprint car event makes history as the USCS race with the most ever female sprint car entries (3)in the series 14-year history. But, the significance may just not stop there. All three of the female sprint car drivers have the potential to land in victory lane at the end of the 30-laps around the red clay 4/10 mile oval.
Possibly the most well known of the three drivers is Erin Crocker Evernham from Mooresville, North Carolina. The former Erin Crocker had her name change since last August after marrying famed NASCAR Championship Crew Chief and car-owner Ray Evernham. Erin Crocker Everham has a resume that includes not only Superspeedway experience in two of NASCARs top divisions and as a driver in ARCA, but is more noted for her accomplishments in winged sprint cars.
Erin Crocker was the first woman to ever qualify for the Knoxville Nationals or to win a World of Outlaws main event.
She has a number of victories in winged sprint cars in other series as well.
Jessica Zemken from Spakers, New York has competed at the highest levels of sprint car racing and has won races at the regional level in both winged sprint cars and open wheel Modified cars. She is presently racing in a Tony Stewart Racing team car.
Morgan Turpen is a seventeen year-old candidate for USCS Rookie of the Year and is presently third in the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear National point standings while leading the chase for Rookie of the Year. She has one sprint car feature win in a non-wing sprint car at Riverside Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
All three of these top sprint car racers who just happen to be women will compete for the win on Friday night at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, NC.www.carolinaspeedway.net A top ten finish by all three women drivers is a very real possibility and probability. They then hope to move on to Travelers Rest Speedway www.trspeedway.net with the series on Saturday night for Round #2 of Thunder in the Carolinas For a complete USCS sprint car schedule please visit www.uscsracing.com
CnB Mushroom Farms posts USCS Carolina Thunder Double-Up Bonus
Atlanta, GA - April 21, 2010 - CnB Mushroom Farms of Avondale, Pennsylvania has posted a bonus of $500 for any driver who can win both United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear main events during this weekend's "Thunder in Carolina" USCS winged sprint car double-header. All one driver would have to do would be to collect the win in the 30-lap USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night (4/23), then double-up by winning the Saturday night April 24th main event at Travelers Rest Speedway.
"We would like to thank Chubby for posting his company's extra incentive for these drivers. It will just make what was going to be a good USCS Southern Thunder dirt opening weekend better" stated USCS President, Pete Walton.
Each main event pays $2000 to win. The CnB Mushroom Farms $500 bonus makes it possible for one driver to take home $5000 for the weekend. For more info on the event and for a full USCS schedule of events please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
IMPORTANT RULE CHANGE: USCS Goodyear tire rule change effective immediately
Atlanta, GA - April 20, 2010 - Due to the knowledge gained from early season USCS events and other data gathered from other early season races around the country, the United Sprint Car Series has made the following decision in regards to tire compound rules: The USCS has decided to limit the Right Rear Goodyear 17.0 x 15 x 15 racing tires that the series will compete on in the future to two compounds. Those compounds are the G200 and G300 tire compounds.
Those G200 and G300 right rear tires will be available at each and every USCS event for the right rear of competitor's cars. This rule is effective immediately.
USCS Founder and President, Pete Walton stated, "We discussed this with the Goodyear www.racegoodyear.com management and they have agreed to this change. We felt it was in the best interest of our competitors to limit the tire compounds to reduce the amount of inventory they would need to compete on at USCS events. After what we have seen, we believe that the Goodyear G200 compound is compatible with the other SPEC tires we have utilized over the past thirteen seasons from two different manufacturers. On 90% of the track surfaces the USCS races on, I personally believe the G200 compound will be what you will see on the cars. The G300 tire compound will give them an option if the track becomes more abrasive" Walton concluded.
If anyone has already purchased (NEW ONLY) size 17.0 x 15 x 15 G100 right rear tires they can be returned to the USCS
( at no additional cost) in exchange for either the G200 or G300 tires starting Friday, April 23rd at Carolina Speedway. The USCS and Goodyear have allowed a burn off period through June 30, 2010 for competitors to use up old USCS SPEC tire inventory. After that date USCS competitors will compete on Goodyear Racing tires on both rear wheels.
For more info on USCS rules please visit www.uscsracing.com If you still have questions about the United Sprint Car Series Southern Thunder events on Friday, April 23rd at Carolina Speedway or Saturday night April 24th at Travelers Rest Speedway please call the USCS at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS Sprint Car Carolina double-header at Carolina and Travelers Rest this Friday and Saturday 4/23rd-4/24th
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com kicks off the dirt-track portion of its 2010 Southern Thunder Tour with a double-header dirt track weekend at two popular 3/8 mile red clay ovals in North and South Carolina just two hours apart. On Friday, April 23rd the USCS competes at Carolina Speedway www.carolinaspeedway.net in Gastonia, North Carolina. The following evening on Saturday April 24th the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car series completes the "Carolina Thunder" double-header weekend at Travelers Rest Speedway www.trspeedway.net in the Greenville, South Carolina suburb of Travelers Rest, South Carolina. Both events pay $2000 to win.
Both nights also feature a full program of racing in the USCS winged Outlaw style sprint cars plus several weekly racing divisions at ech track as well. For more info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-RACE. For more info on Goodyear Racing Tires please visit www.racegoodyear.com
Aguilar grabs $3000 USCS presented by Biobased.US win at Lanier
Braselton, GA - April 10, 2010 - Joey "The Ace" Aguilar from Tampa, Florida captured a career first United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Outlaw Thunder Tour 40-lap main event at Lanier National Speedway on Saturday night. Aguilar collected $3000 including a $1000 bonus to the winner posted by Don and Sue Ellen Wilshe's Biobased.US Company for his victory in Darrin Miller's #70 Chevy powered winged sprint car. Aguilar led thirty-nine of the forty laps after starting from the K&N Filters Pole Position.
The race was not decided until the final lap as defending National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee then, past USCS Southern Thunder regional series Champion, Johnny Bridges who started the contest in fifteenth place battled Aguilar all the way to the finish line for the $3000 paycheck. Bridges raced past Gray who started outside the front row next to Aguilar, for the runner-up position on lap twenty-nine .Bridge then reeled in Aguilar. Bridges then pulled along beside the eventual winner and the two raced side-by-side from laps 35 through 38 before Aguilar pulled ahead for the win and his first USCS victory lane visit.
Bridges charged his way into the runner-up spot at the finish driving the Biobased.US sponsored Roush-Yates Ford powered #07 J&J Auto Racing dirt sprint car. Gray got trapped behind several lapped cars on the white flag lap and finished just out of reach of the flying duo in the third position driving his own familiar #10 Wesmar Chevy powered
Winged Outlaw style sprint car. Talented nineteen year-old 2006 USCS Rookie of the Year, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas who started the race in thirteenth position charged past nine cars to finish his own #9jr. in the fourth position. Seventeen year-old, Rookie of the Year candidate, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee who was the only female sprint car driver in the field rounded out the top five finishers in her #80, after starting fifth. Like Hagar, it was only Turpen's second paved track sprint car race of her young career.
Sprint car racing veteran Doug Day from nearby Winder, Georgia headed the next group of finishers. Day started the evening by qualifying 2nd fastest with a lap of 11.606 seconds just a tick off of Johnny Bridges fast time of 11.541 seconds around the quick 3/8 mile paved oval. He was then inverted from the K&N Filters Pole Position after Bridges dropped out his heat race. Engler Machine and Tool First Heat winner Terry Gray drew a six inversion in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing prior to the main event on the front straightaway. This placed Day in the sixth starting position. He raced as high as third place in the feature race before finishing sixth. .
Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia finished in the seventh position. 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year Brian Carter from Concord, North Carolina finished in eighth place after starting ninth in the tough field. USCS veteran David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina followed in ninth position after his second place finish in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race that was won by Joey Aguilar after Thorman led the first six circuits. The 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina rounded out the top ten finishers.
Fourth starting Dude Teate also from Tampa, Florida pulled his #0 Biobased.US sponsored Roush-Yates Ford powered mount past Aguilar on lap fifteen while racing for the win to lead lap fifteen. On the very next lap Teate made contact with the lapped car of Jim Blenkarn from Smyrna, Tennessee and then hit the wall ending his charge to the front.
Yong gun, Derek Hagar won the 6 cars, 6-laps Goodyear Power Dash for the top six cars from time trials. Eight-time USCS National Champion, Terry Gray garnered the win in the 8-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Joey Aguilar won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Aguilar also was awarded the K&N Filters Pole Award. The JE Pistons Top Guns Award, which rotates from first through fifth positions in the A-Main, went to fourth place Derek finisher, Derek Hagar as alsoawarded the 4th place Butlerbuilt award. The Dynotech Top Five Award went to Morgan Turpen.
Derek Hagar was also awarded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Young Gun of the Race (for the highest finishing driver under 25 years old.) after his fourth place finish in the main event. Female teenage sprint car hot-shoe Morgan Turpen was awarded the Rookie of the Race. Johnny Bridges garnered the KSE Racing Hard charger Award for advancing the most positions in the 40-lap main event after passing 13 cars while racing from fifteenth to second place.
For more United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear info and a full schedule of remaining 2010 events, please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
OFFICIAL RESULTS USCS Night of Thunder presented by Biobased.US 10/03/09 - Hickory Motor Speedway, Newton, NC
Goodyear Power Dash: Derek Hagar, Dude Teate, Brian Thomas, Morgan Turpen, Johnny Bridges and Doug Day - DNS
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Terry Gray, Morgan Turpen, Brian Carter, Brad Wickham, Jake Mclain, Brandon Rekow, Derek Hagar and Johnny Bridges. Nick DeFeo - DNS
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Joey Aguilar, David Thorman, Doug Day, Brian Thomas, Dude Teate, Jim Blenkarn, Lee Moore and Joe Larkin. Adam Jackson - DNS
USCS Main Event presented by Biobased.US 40-laps:
POS. CAR# DRIVER HOMETOWN 1. 70 Joey Aguilar Tampa, FL 2. 07 Johnny Bridges Cherryville, NC 3. 10 Terry Gray Bartlett, TN 4. 9 Derek Hagar Marion, AR 5. 80 Morgan Turpen Bartlett, TN 6. 2D Doug Day Winder, GA 7. 67t Brian Thomas Pendergrass, GA 8. 6c Brian Carter Concord, NC 9. 5 David Thorman Greenville, SC 10. 67m Jake McLain Indian Trail, NC 11. 1A Lee Moore Tuscaloosa, AL 12. 6w Brad Wickham Rutherfordton, NC 13. 46b Jim Blenkarn Smyrna, TN 14. 33 Joe Larkin Suwannee, GA 15. 0 Dude Teate Tampa, FL 16. 69 Brandon Rekow Mooresville, NC DNS 96 Nick DeFeo Marietta, GA DNS 46 Adam Jackson Timmonsville, SC
Biobased.US Fast Time: Johnny Bridges 11.541 Goodyear POWER DASH: WINNER: Derek Hagar K &N Filters POLE AWARD: Joey Aguilar KSE Racing Hardcharger Award: Johnny Bridges (Started 15th finished 2nd) Goodyear Tire & Rubber YOUNG GUN: Derek Hagar (Top finish under 25 yrs. old) ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen (5th place) JE Pistons TOP GUNS AWARD: (4th place) Derek Hagar K&N Filters 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray Butlerbuilt 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Derek Hagar Dyno Tech top Five: Morgan Turpen
ENTRIES: 18 drivers from 6 states LEAD CHANGES: Two
LAP LEADERS: Joey Aguilar Laps 1-14, Dude Teate Lap 15, and Joey Aguilar Laps 16-40, CAUTIONS: One Caution on lap 20
USCS Winged Outlaw Sprint Cars invade Lanier National Speedway for the 6th annual "Night of Thunder"
After a two-season hiatus the world's most powerful short-track race cars return to Lanier National Speedway. The United Sprint Car Series "Asphalt Thunder" Tour winged outlaw sprint cars invade the legendary Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, Georgia on Saturday night April 10th at 7:00 pm for a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing in the 6th annual LNS "Night of Thunder'. The USCS is the only winged sprint car series in the World that contests it's National Championship on dirt and paved surfaces.
The USAC Carolina Midgets join the USCS winged outlaw style sprint cars for an open wheeled double-header. Additionally five other racing divisions are on the action-packed racing card. Those include the popular Legends Cars, Mini Stocks, Pro Challenge Cars, Bandoleros and Mini Cup Cars.
A North Carolina company, Biobased USA (www.biobased.us ), maufacturer of Soy Soap, has added $1000 to the first place postion for the feature winner at Lanier Saturday night. The race will now pay $3000 to win including the $1000 check from Biobased USA. The winner will also receive one gallon of Biobased USA's Soy Soap product concentrate valed at $700.
Early sprint car entries for the event which is being sanctioned and promoted by the USCS, include a number of the Nation's top open wheel drivers from at least six states for the event.
Veteran sprint car ace and defending series National champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee leads the USCS National championship title chase after 3 races on dirt ovals. Gray finished in the runner-up spot in the 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour pavement series just 16 points behind Blaze Martin from Valrico, Florida with 1036 points.
A full field of the fly-weight 1300 pound, 700 horsepower winged outlaw style sprint cars is expected for the return of the United Sprint Car Series to Lanier National Speedway. Entries include two of the Southeast's top sprint car pilots, Gray and former USCS/AOAS regional series Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina. Gray brings Wesmar built Chevrolet power to the track, while Bridges will enter his rare Roush-Yates Ford powered mount. Bridges has three USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour feature wins to his credit.
A host of talented young drivers are expected to assault Lanier's 3/8 mile paved oval including, 19 year-old 2006 USCS Rookie of the Year Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas. Hagar competes regularly with the USAC Silver Crown Series as well. He will be joined by 22 year-old 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year, Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England and 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year, Brian Carter from Concord, North Carolina.
Jake McLain who garnered the 2008 USCS Southern Thunder regional Rookie of the Year title and finished the 2009 season in fifth place in the Southern Thunder standings is entered as is 2009 Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina and 2007 Southern Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Lee Moore from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Another talented young driver, 18-year old Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina will also bring a heavy hitting Roush-Yates Ford powered mount to the speedway for his sprint car asphalt debut.
Among this season's young guns who are vying for the Rookie of the Year title is 17 year-old female sprint car hot-shoe, Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee who is Terry Gray's team-mate. Also expected is 15-year old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Veteran USCS dirt and paved track racers entered include, Doug Day from nearby Winder, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina. Day finished in the runner-up spot for the National title in 2003. Also pre-entered is sprint car veteran Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Wickham finished in the fourth position in the 2009 Southern Thunder regional series and in the top ten in the National standings last season as well. Another local favorite entered should be Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia.
Other pre-entries include Coby Adams from Mooresville, North Carolina, Jim Blenkarn from Smyrna, Tennessee and Nick Manikis from Tampa, Florida.
Dude Teate from Tampa, Florida and Joey Aguilar from Tampa, Florida have both called to confirm they are coming. Aguilar won the March sprint car race at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, and is second in points in the Tampa Bay Area Assn.
Trey Robb from Newcastle, Oklahoma won the last USCS "Night of Thunder" race at Lanier National; Speedway. The then fifteen year old teenage hot-shoe captured his fifth USCS feature win in his rookie season at Lanier on August 30, 2007.
Kevin Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee holds the Lanier National Speedway all-time track record with an unbelievable lap of 11.114 seconds around the 3/8 mile oval. There's a $300 bonus for breaking the record Saturday.
Ticket info and directions to Lanier National Speedway which is located just across the street from Road Atlanta on Georgia Highway 53 in Braselton, Georgia can be obtained by visiting www.laniernationalspeedway.com . For additional info and with questions, please call the track at 770-967-8600. For United Sprint Car series (USCS) info please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
$3000 to win BIOBASED USA USCS sprint event at Lanier Saturday (4/10)
Atlanta, GA – April 6, 2010 - North Carolina biotechnology company BIOBASED USA
( www.biobased.us ) manufacturer of Soy Soap and other green products has added $1000 to the first place position for the United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder Tour feature winner at Lanier National Speedway on Saturday, April 10th. The race will now pay $3000 to win including the $1000 check from BIOBASED USA. The winner will also receive one gallon of Biobased USA's Soy Soap product concentrate valued at $700. Additionally $300 is posted by USCS and BIOBASED USA for any driver who can break the all-time track record of 11.03 seconds around the paved 3/8 mile oval held by Kevin Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee.
The addtional money makes it possible for a driver to collect $3400 paycheck for a clean sweep of the USCS portion of the 6th annnual LNS Night of Thunder on Saturday night. Also on the action-packed racing card for the big event are the USAC Carolina Ford Focus Midgets, Lanier Mini Stocks, Legends Cars in four divisions, Bandoleros, Pro Challenge Cars and Mini Cup Cars.
Biobased USA is a biotechnology company which specializes in making Green Revolutionary II products out of Farm Grown Biobased US FDA EAFUS Food Additive Database ingredients. To find out more about BIOBASED USA please visit their website at www.biobased.us . The contact for BIOBASED USA is Don Wilshe at 800-995-9203.
For United Sprint Car Series info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call the USCS office at 770-460-7223.
USCS Asphalt Thunder event at Anderson on April 9th postponed
Atlanta, GA - April 2, 2010 - The Friday night April 9th United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder event originally scheduled at Anderson Motor Speedway in Anderson, South Carolina has been postponed until later in the season.
The decision was made by USCS and track management due to the prolonged re-surfacing work at that speedway. The USCS is still set to visit there on Friday, August the 13th.
This in no way effects the return of the United Sprint Car Series to Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, Georgia on Saturday, April 10th. That race is still 100% go and a practice session will be held at Lanier National speedway on Friday, April 9th. For more info please visit www.uscsracing.com or www.laniernationalspeedway.com.
USCS Winged Outlaw Sprint Cars invade Lanier National Speedway for the 6th annual Night of Thunder" on Saturday, April 10, 2010.
Atlanta, GA - April 1, 2010 - After a two-season hiatus the world's most powerful short-track race cars return to Lanier National Speedway. The United Sprint Car Series "Asphalt Thunder" Tour winged outlaw sprint cars invade the legendary Lanier National Speedway in Braselton, Georgia on Saturday night April 10th at 7:00 pm for a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing in the 6th annual LNS "Night of Thunder'. The USCS is the only winged sprint car series in the World that contests it's National Championship on dirt and paved surfaces.
The USAC Carolina Midgets join the USCS winged outlaw style sprint cars for an open wheeled double-header. Additionally five other racing divisions are on the action-packed racing card. Those include the popular Legends Cars, Mini Stocks, Pro Challenge Cars, Bandoleros and Mini Cup Cars.
Early sprint car entries for the event which is being sanctioned and promoted by the USCS, include a number of the Nation's top open wheel drivers from at least six states for the event.
Veteran sprint car ace and defending series National champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee leads the USCS National championship title chase after 3 races on dirt ovals. Gray finished in the runner-up spot in the 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour pavement series just 16 points behind Blaze Martin from Valrico, Florida with 1036 points.
A full field of the fly-weight 1300 pound, 700 horsepower winged outlaw style sprint cars is expected for the return of the United Sprint Car Series to Lanier National Speedway. Entries include two of the Southeast's top sprint car pilots, Gray and former USCS/AOAS regional series Champion Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina. Gray brings Wesmar built Chevrolet power to the track, while Bridges will enter his rare Roush-Yates Ford powered mount. Bridges has three USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour feature wins to his credit.
A host of talented young drivers are expected to assault Lanier's 3/8 mile paved oval including, 19 year-old 2006 USCS Rookie of the Year Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas. Hagar competes regularly with the USAC Silver Crown Series as well. He will be joined by 22 year-old 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year, Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England and 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Rookie of the Year, Brian Carter from Concord, North Carolina.
Jake McLain who garnered the 2008 USCS Southern Thunder regional Rookie of the Year title and finished the 2009 season in fifth place in the Southern Thunder standings is entered as is 2009 Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina and 2007 Southern Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Lee Moore from Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Another talented young driver, 18-year old Nick Bashford from China Grove, North Carolina will also bring a heavy hitting Roush-Yates Ford powered mount to the speedway for his sprint car asphalt debut.
Among this season's young guns who are vying for the Rookie of the Year title is 17 year-old female sprint car hot-shoe, Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee who is Terry Gray's team-mate. Also expected is 15-year old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins from Charlotte, North Carolina.
Veteran USCS dirt and paved track racers entered include, Doug Day from nearby Winder, Georgia and David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina. Day finished in the runner-up spot for the National title in 2003. Also pre-entered is sprint car veteran Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina. Wickham finished in the fourth position in the 2009 Southern Thunder regional series and in the top ten in the National standings last season as well. Another local favorite entered should be Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia.
Other pre-entries include Coby Adams from Mooresville, North Carolina, Jim Blenkarn from Smyrna, Tennessee and Nick Manikis from Tampa, Florida. Several more entries are expected to be added in the coming week.
Trey Robb from Newcastle, Oklahoma won the last USCS "Night of Thunder" race at Lanier National; Speedway. The then fifteen year old teenage hot-shoe captured his fifth USCS feature win in his rookie season at Lanier on August 30, 2007. Kevin Swindell from Bartlett, Tennessee holds the Lanier National Speedway all-time track record with an unbelievable lap of 11.03 seconds around the 3/8 mile oval.
The Friday night April 9th companion event at Anderson Motor Speedway in Anderson, South Carolina has been postponed until later in the season due to prolonged re-surfacing work at that speedway. The USCS is still set to visit there on Friday, August the 13th.
Ticket info and directions to Lanier National Speedway which is located just across the street from Road Atlanta on Georgia Highway 53 in Braselton, Georgia can be obtained by visiting www.laniernationalspeedway.com . For additional info and with questions, please call the track at 770-967-8600. For United Sprint Car series (USCS) info please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223.
Crawley blasts to USCS Spring Xplosion finale win at Magnolia
Columbus, MS - March 27, 2010 - Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas charged past Friday night's preliminary feature winner Jason Sides from Bartlett, Tennessee between turns three and four on lap twenty-three and led the final eight circuits to victory lane in the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Spring Xplosion 30-lap main event at Magnolia Motor Speedway on Saturday night. It was Crawley's first USCS presented by Goodyear win of the season in three attempts in the familiar Ward Racing #88. Crawley won eleven times in 2009 USCS competition.
Sides who hit a rut entering turn three on lap twenty-three, momentarily slowed giving Crawley the opportunity to race past him. Sides followed Crawley, the 2008 USCS Mid South Thunder regional series Champion to the finish line in the runner-up spot. The defending and eight-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who started twelfth raced home in third place. Michael Dupuy from Amite, Louisiana followed Gray in fourth place. Young gun Brad Bowden from Hernando, Mississippi charged from a fourteenth place starting position passing nine cars to round out the top five drivers.
Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri led the next group with his second sixth place finish in two nights. in sixth. 2007 USCS Rookie of the Year and USAC Silver Crown racer Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas was a one man show as he started eleventh and raced his way around the top of the slick 4/10 mile racing surface up to fourth position twice before fading to seventh position. Past USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas who won the season-opener last weekends at Malden Speedway finished in the eighth position. The 2008 USCS National Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee collected the ninth position paycheck and 2008 USCS Mid South regional series Rookie of the Year, Chris Williams rounded out the top ten finishers.
Jason Sides won the 6 cars, 6 laps, Goodyear Speed Dash. Wade Oliver from Southaven, Mississippi won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Marshall Skinner won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. The FSR racing Third Heat victory was collected by Chris Williams. Michael Miller from Ocean Springs, Mississippi won the 10-lap K&N Gold Filters B-MAIN after early race leader Ronny Howard from Nesbit, Mississippi coasted to the infield with engine woes on lap eight.
Jan Howard was the K&N Filters Pole award recipient after the previous night's feature winner Jason Sides drew a four inversion pill in the K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. Brad Bowden collected the honors for Goodyear Young Gun that is awarded to the top finishing driver under 25 years old.
The only female driver in the 30 car field, Morgan Turpen from Bartlett, Tennessee garnered the Rookie of the Race honors while finishing in eleventh place in the main event. The seventeen year-old Turpen also edged out team-mate Terry Gray and young gun Brad Bowden for the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award. Both of those drivers passed nine cars in the A-main, but she passed ten to garner the award that goes to the driver thar=t advances the most positions in the main event.
The next USCS presented by Goodyear sprint car event will be on pavement on Saturday April 10th at Lanier National Speedway. For more info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call the series office at 770-460-7223.
USCS presented by Goodyear results Magnolia Motor Speedway - Sat., March 27th
USCS Goodyear Speed Dash: Jason Sides, Tim Crawley, Michael Dupuy, Jerrod Hull, Terry Gray and Jan Howard.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Wade Oliver, Terry Gray, Brad Bowden, raymiond Stull, Matt Linder, Michael Miller, Morgan Turpen, Carl Zaniboni and Jay Adams.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Marshall Skinner, Jerrod Hull, Justin Carver, Derek Hagar, Ronny Howard, Brian Bell, Jared Kelly and Ryan Moore.
FSR Racing Third Heat: Chris Williams, Tommy Worley, Jr., Anthony Nicholson, timmy Thrash, Jon Stinson, Lee Sowell and Troy Dow.
B-main 10-laps: Michael Miller, Jon Stinson, Morgan Turpen, Ray Bugg, Troy Dow, Carl Zaniboni, Ryan Moore, Ronny Howard, Lee Moore, Jay Adams, Jared Kelly and Brian Bell DNS.
USCS presented by Goodyear Spring Xplosion A-Main 30-lap Finale:
1 - 88 Tim Crawley, Benton, AR 2 - 7s Jason Sides, Bartlett, TN 3 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 4 - 00 Michael Dupuy, Amite LA
5 - 39 Brad Bowden, Hernando, MS 6 - 12 Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 7 - 9 Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 8 - 26 Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR
9 - 16 Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN 10 - 8x Chris Williams, Cordova, TN 11 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Bartlett, TN 12 - 26s Jon Stinson, Memphis, TN 13 - 4m Michael Miller, Ocean Springs, MS 14 - 1x Matt Linder, Hoschton, GA 15 - 46 Jan Howard, Marion, AR 16 - 51 Lee Sowell, Nesbit, MS 17 - 6 Raymond Stull, Independence, MS 18 - 09 Timmy Thrash, Gulfport, MS 19 - 58 Wade Oliver, Southaven, MS 20 - A12 Tommy Worley, Jr., Farmington, MO
21 - 25 Ray Bugg, Iuka. MS 22 - Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Jason Sides
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Jan Howard
KSE Racing Products HARDCHARGER Award : Morgan Turpen (started 21st passed 10 cars) GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Brad Bowden RE TECHNOLOGIES ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Terry Gray (3rd place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Michael Dupuy
DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Brad Bowden
ENTRIES: 30 PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Jason Sides Laps 1-22; Tim Crawley Laps 23-30
Sides charges to USCS prelim win at Magnolia
Columbus, MS - March 26, 2010 - World of Outlaws regular Jason Sides from Bartlett, Tennessee claimed the win in the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear Spring Xplosion preliminary main event at Magnolia Motor Speedway on Friday night. Sides passed early race leader, Michael Dupuy from Amite, Louisiana on lap twelve and moved into second place. He then surged past Tim Crawley in traffic on lap eighteen of the to reach victory lane first in the 20-lap contest. Sides bested the 30-car field while racing with the new Goodyear Eagle sprint car tires on all four corners.
The 2008 USCS Mid South regional series Champion, Crawley finished in the runner-up spot followed by Dupuy in third place. Jan Howard from Marion, Arkansas charged from a twelfth place start to finish fourth and defending series Champion, Terry Gray who started eleventh rounded out the top five.
Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri led the next group in sixth, followed by Wade Oliver from Southaven, Mississippi in seventh place. 2009 USCS Rookie of the Year finished eighth, Brian Bell from Cordova, Tennessee was ninth and Tommy Worley, Jr. from Farmington, Missouri rounded out the top ten.
Oliver started the evening's activities by winning the 6 cars, 6 laps, Goodyear Speed Dash. Crawley won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Justin Carver won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. The FSR racing Third Heat victory was collected by Sides. The JE Pistons Fourth Heat race was won by Hull. Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee was victorious in the 12-lap K&N Gold Filters B-MAIN.
Tim Crawley was the K&N Filters Pole award recipient after collecting the most passing points in his heat race. Justin Carver collected the honors for Goodyear Young Gun and Jerod Roller from Hernando, Mississippi garnered the Rookie of the Race honors.
The two night event continues on Saturday night at Magnolia Motor Speedway. Also on the action packed racing card are the USCS Modified touring Series, Nesmith Late Models Street Stock and Mini Stock. Pit gates open at 3:00pm. Grandstands at 5:00pm. The driver's meeting is scheduled for 5:00pm and racing kicks off a 7:00pm. www.magnoliamotorspeedway.net in Columbus, Mississippi. For more info please call 662-574-2572.
USCS presented by Goodyear Spring Xplosion Prelim A-Main 20-laps
1 - 7s Jason Sides
2 - 88 Tim Crawley
3 - Michael Dupuy
4 - Jan Howard
5 - Terry Gray
6 - 12 Jerrod Hull
7 - 58 Wade Oliver
8 - justin Carver
9 - 23 Brian Bell
10 - A12 Tommy Worley, Jr.
11 - 9 Derek Hagar
12 - 26 Marshall Skinner
13 - 4m - Michael Miller
14 - 6 Raymond Stull
15 - 51 Lee Sowell
16 - 16 Anthony Nicholson
17 - 1x Matt Linder
18 - 5 Jerod Roller
19 - 26s Jon Stinson
20 - 6k Jared Kelly
21 - 80 morgan Turpen
22 - 09 Timmy Thrash
B-main 12 laps: Anthony Nicholson, Raymond Stull, Lee Sowell, Michael Miller, Jared Roller, Jon Stinson, Jared Kelly, Chris Williams, Troy Dow, Ronny Howard, Lee Moore, Steve Hall, Ray Bugg, Carl Zaniboni, Ryan Moore, Derek Hagar.
Marshall Skinner scores USCS sprint car season opener win at Malden
Malden, MO - March 20, 2010 - Past series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas charged from the K&N Filters Pole Position in the United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear 30-lap A-Main into the lead on lap one and held on for the victory over team-mate Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas in the sprint car portion of the 4th annual Bootheel 200 at Malden Speedway on Saturday night.
Skinner was awarded the K&N Filters Pole after winning the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Wade Oliver from Southaven, Mississippi started beside him with eventual runner-up Derek Hagar inside row two. For the first five laps that trio raced at the point before 2008 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas moved into the third spot and challenged Hagar for the runner-up spot. Crawley then made it a two-wide effort for the lead racing outside of Skinner and Hagar all the way around the 3/8 mile clay oval before spinning out on lap sixteen while trying to pass for the lead.
With Crawley vanished to the rear of the order, Skinner held off young gun Hagar for the last fourteen circuits to victory lane with Hagar crossing the finish line in second place. Jim Moughan from Springfield, Illinois finished in third position in his USCS debut. Tommy Worley, Jr. from Farmington, Missouri started eleventh and finished in the fourth position. The 2007 Mid South Thunder regional series Rookie of the Year, Chris Williams from Cordova, Tennessee rounded out the top five of the tough 29 car field from five states.
2007 USCS Rookie of the Year, Don Young from Bartlett, Tennessee from Nesbit, Mississippi who started in thirteenth position, finished sixth in the main event. Wade Oliver collected a heat race win and a seventh place finish in the A-Main. The 2009 USCS sprint car Bootheel 200 Champion, Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri raced from sixteenth position in the starting order to finish in eighth place. 2009 USCS Rookie of the Year, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee finished in the ninth position after starting seventeenth. Defending USCS presented by Goodyear National Champion, Terry Gray rounded out the top ten after starting in eighteenth position.
Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi kicked off the evening and the 2010 racing season with a hard fought win over Rookie of the Year candidate Morgan Turpen in the inaugural Goodyear Speed Dash. Marshall Skinner won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat. Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi charged to the win in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Derek Hagar won the FSR Racing Third Heat. Wade Oliver from collected the victory in the 8-lap JE Pistons Fourth Heat.
Jerrod Hull garnered the KSE Racing Products Hard charger Award for his charge past eight cars in the main event from sixteenth to eighth. RE Technologies Rookie of race honors went to 17 year-old female sprint car driver Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee. Derek Hagar garnered the Goodyear Racing Young Gun of the Race honors for his efforts as the highest finishing driver under 25 years-old in the main event.
The next United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Friday and Saturday, March 26th and 27th in the "USCS Spring Xplosion' 2010 at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, MS. For more information on that event please visit www.magnoliamotorspeedway.net or call 662-574-2572. For rules and info on the USCS sprint cars please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS presented by Goodyear results Bootheel 200 at Malden Speedway 3/20/10
Goodyear Speed Dash 6 laps: Raymond Stull, Morgan Turpen, Terry Gray, Marshall Skinner, Justin Carver and Ray Bugg.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat 8 laps: Marshall Skinner, Ray Bugg, Brad Bowden, Dustin Barks, Brad Greer, Dylan DeJournett and David DeJournett.
Bryce Vowan, Justin Sturch, Tommy Worley, Jon Stinson, Dylan DeJournett, Casey Rowland. Terry Gray, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Danny Wood, Todd Fayard,
Butlerbuilt Second Heat 8 laps : Lee Sowell, Tim Crawley, Jerrod Hull, Eric Todd, Jerod Roller, Justin Webb, and Morgan Turpen
FSR Racing Products Third Heat 8 laps : Derek Hagar, Tommy Worley, Jr., Raymond Stull, Jim Moughan, Justin Carver Jimmy Davies and Doc Sloan.
JE Pistons Fourth Heat: Wade Oliver, Chris Williams, Don Young, Brian Bell, Wade Human, Jared Kelly and Chuck Tilley.Anthony Nicholson, Jon Corbin, Lee Sowell, Scott Hensley, Clint Weiss, Kent Buckley.
B-Main 12 laps: Dustin Barks, Jerrod Hull, Justin Carver, Terry Gray, Brad Greer, Justin Webb, Jerrod Roller, Jared Kelly, Jimmy Davies, Morgan Turpen, Dylan DeJournett, Wade Human, Doc Sloan, Chuck Tilley and David DeJournett DNS.
USCS presented by Goodyear Feature Race results (30 laps): 1 - 26 Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR 2 - 9 Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 3 - 1m Jim Moughan, Springfield, IL 4 - A12 Tommy Worley, Jr., Farmington, MO 5 - 8x Chris Williams, Cordova, TN
6 - 75 Don Young, Bartlett, TN
7 - 58 Wade Oliver, Southaven, MS 8 - 12 Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 9 - 24 Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN 10 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN
11 - 88 Tim Crawley, Benton, AR
12 - 39 Brad Bowden, Hernando, MS
13 - 22 Dustin Barks, Farmington, MO
14 - 6 Raymond Stull, Coldwater, MS
15 - 3B Brad Greer, Coulterville, IL
16 - 80 Morgan Turpen, Oakland, TN (Rookie)
17 - 5 Jerod Roller, Nesbit, MS (Rookie)
18 - 31 Justin Webb, Drummonds, TN (Rookie)
19 - 51 Lee Sowell. Nesbit, MS
20 - 21 Eric Todd, Falcon
21 - 25 Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS
22 - 23 Brian Bell Cordova, TN
Did not Start:
6k Jared Kelly, Millington, TN (Rookie)
7 Chuck Tilley, Essex, MO (Rookie)
7d Dylan DeJournett, Essex, MO
7H Wade Human, Marion, AR
7x David DeJournett, Essex, MO
D12 Doc Sloan, Imperial, MO
99 Jimmy Davies, Oquewka, IL
GOODYEAR SPEED DASH WINNER: Raymond Stull
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Marshall Skinner
KSE Racing Products HARDCHARGER Award : Jerrod Hull (started 16th passed 8 cars)
GOODYEAR TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Derek Hagar
RE TECHNOLOGIES ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Morgan Turpen
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Marshall Skinner (1st place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Jim Moughan
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Tommy Worley, Jr.
DYNOTECH TOP FIVE AWARD: Chris Williams
ENTRIES: 29
PROVISIONALS: ONE - Morgan Turpen
LAP LEADERS: Marshall Skinner Laps 1-30.
USCS announces Hall of Fame Classic Weekend July 1st through 4th
Atlanta, GA – March 13, 2010 - The United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com presented by Goodyear and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame have announced the 1st annual USCS Hall of Fame Classic Weekend, The four-night open wheel spectacular will take place at four tracks in three Mid South states over the Independence Day Holiday weekend from Thursday July 1st through Sunday July 4th.
Over the four nights the popular winged sprint car series will keep history in the fore front and travel to a minimum for the fans and race teams. On Thursday, July 1st the Hall of Fame Classic Weekend opens at the historic Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas, with the 1st annual Hooker Hood Hall of Fame Sprint Car Shootout. The race at America’s oldest continuously operating weekly racing facility will honor the legendary Clarence “Hooker” Hood from Memphis, Tennessee. Hooker Hood terrorized Mid South ovals for over four decades while winning over 500 career sprint and Super Modified feature races. The event will feature racing in both USCS Winged and Non-Winged sprint cars. The action-packed event also serves as the kickoff event for the USCS Modified Speedweek 2010 as well.
For round two of the combination of horsepower and history, the high-speed entourage travels just two hours North of Memphis to Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri on Friday, July 2nd for their portion of the 2nd Annual Freedom 200. On Saturday, July 3rd the mini-series travels across the Mississippi river into Tennessee to the high banks of Thunderhill Raceway in Summertown, Tennessee for ” Thunder on the High banks”. The Hall of Fame Classic Weekend concludes on Sunday, July 4th (Independence Day) with the 4th annual USCS “Firecracker 100” at Camden Motor Speedway in Camden, Tennessee.
Nearly $50,000 in total prize money is guaranteed with one sprint car driver able to win $10,000 including bonuses for a Hall of Fame Classic Weekend sweep. Each event will pay $2000 to win with a Minimum of $250 to start the A-Main. The mighty USCS Modifieds join the sprint cars for a USCS Double-Header during each of the Hall of Fame Classic events for the first four rounds of their seven-night USCS Modified Speedweek 2010.
Fans will be treated to an appearance of the current National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum show car at each of the events. They will also have a chance to purchase raffle tickets to win the car itself. Fans will also have a chance to win NSCHOF and United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear souvenirs and memorabilia each night. They will additionally be able to register and become a member of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame if they desire. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame is dedicated to the preservation of history and artifacts of sprint car racing and is located behind the backstretch of the famed Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa home of the 2010 Goodyear 50th Knoxville Nationals.
For the full 2010 USCS schedule, rules and more information about the USCS please visit the series official website www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223. For additional information on the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame please visit www.sprintcarhof.com
USCS Sprint Car Mid South and National season-opener Sat. 3/20/10 at Malden
Malden, MO - Saturday night March 20th the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear and the USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour kick off the 2010 season for both when Malden Speedway in Malden, MO hosts the USCS (www.uscsracing.com). The event will pay $2000 to win and it is possible for one driver to win $2200 by winning the Goodyear Speed Dash, heat race and A-feature.
This event is part of Malden Speedway's March 19th and 20th, 4th annual "Bootheel 200" event. Entries are expected from at least six states for the first of 54 nights for the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National points chasers. The race also kicks off competition for the USCS Mid-South Thunder regional Championship schedule of 28 events.
The USCS sprint cars will run their complete program during Saturday's portion of the the two-day event that features lots of side by side racing in seven divisions including the USCS winged sprint cars, USCS Modified Touring Series, Malden's Crate Late Models, Hobby Stock, Street Stock, E-MOD and Mini Stock classes. In total there are over 200 laps of Championship main events.
The USCS sprint car drivers and teams will also have a pre-season practice opportunity at Malden Speedway on Friday night, March 19th. The practice session is scheduled to make time available for the sprint car drivers three times during the Friday evening pole-qualifying rounds for the other six divisions.
The event will feature a USCS double-header including a $2000 to win the 30-lap USCS Modified Touring Series "Bootheel 200 "Championship A-Main. With posted bonuses, $2200 is possible to win in the USCS Modified division.
Goodyear Racing sprint car tires and methanol will be available at the speedway both nights.
For more info on the United Sprint Car Series and USCS Modifieds please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
4th Annual "Bootheel 200" at Malden Speedway (2010)
MALDEN Speedway - Malden, Missouri (3/8 mile clay oval)
Friday - March 19th Pits Open 3:00 pm Friday (Drivers meeting 6:00 pm) Racing 7:00 pm
Saturday - March. 20th: Pits Open 2:00 pm - Drivers Meeting 5:00 pm - Racing 6:00 pm
Friday Night Racing: Practice for USCS Sprint Cars and Pole Qualifying Night for the USCS Modifieds, Late Models, Hobby, Street, Mini Stock and E-Mods.
Saturday Night Racing:= Full racing program for USCS sprint cars and includes Dashes, B-Mains & A-Main plus finales in all 6 classes qualified on Friday.
USCS Sprint Cars: Season Opening Practice on FRIDAY NIGHT FULL RACING PROGRAM ON SATURDAY! $2200 to win possible!
PAYOFF Sat: $2000 to win then: 1200,800,600,500,450,400,350,325,300,275,250 and $250 thru last place. B Main: Transfer spots then $150,140,130,120,110,$100 and $100 thru last place. USCS Power Dash $100 to win Clean Sweep Bonus $100 to win: Power Dash, your qualifying race and the sprint car A-Feature.
MALDEN SPEEDWAY - BOOTHEEL 200 EVENT SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 2010
"Bootheel 200" Pole Night: 4:00 pm Pit Gates Open 5:30 pm Grandstands Open 6:15 pm Drivers Meeting 6:30 pm Hot Laps
7:30pm racing
Saturday March 20th Schedule: Pit Gates open (Saturday) at 3:00 pm!
Grandstands 4:00 pm Saturday Drivers Meeting - 4:45 pm Hot laps - 5:00 pm Races 6:00 pm
USCS announces 54-race 2010 Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear
Atlanta, GA – February 20, 2010 - The United Sprint Car series presented by Goodyear has announced its’ fifty-four (54) night 2010 Outlaw Thunder Tour schedule of events. The schedule includes races on both dirt and paved ovals. The USCS is the only winged sprint car series in the World that competes for a National Championship on both racing surface types. The schedule will take the versatile USCS winged sprint car drivers to twenty-seven different speedways in nine states.
The season opener is on dirt at Malden Speedway in Malden, Missouri as part of the 4th annual Bootheel 200 on Saturday, March 20th. A pre-season practice session is scheduled for Friday, March 19th at Malden Speedway. The season closes eight months later at Watermelon Capital Speedway on pavement on Friday and Saturday, November 26th and 27th.
Special events include the USCS Sprint Car Speedweek 2010 with six races over eight days from May 29th until June 5th. Additionally the series will contest another mini-Speedweek from July 1st until July 8th with another five races over eight days. Additional special events include the 4th Annual Gumbo Nationals at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi on November 4th-6th and the 2nd Annual USCS Fall Nationals at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas on November 12th-13th highlight the Fall racing schedule.
For additional information and trhe Mid South Tour and Southern Thunder Tour regional schedules please visit www.uscsracing.com . You may also call the USCS office at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented by Goodyear
2010 (ALL RACE) Sprint Car Schedule as of 2/19/10
Month
Day and Date….Track and Location
March
Saturday 20 Malden Speedway Malden, MO
Friday 26 Magnolia Motor Speedway Columbus, MS
Saturday 27 Magnolia Motor Speedway Columbus, MS
April
Friday 9 Anderson Motor Speedway Anderson, SC - Asphalt
Saturday 10 Lanier National Speedway Braselton, GA - Asphalt
Friday 23 Carolina Speedway Gastonia, NC
Saturday 24 Travelers Rest Speedway Travelers Rest, SC
Friday 30 To be announced
May
Saturday 1 Jackson Motor Speedway Byrum, MS
Saturday 8 Watermelon Capital Speedway Cordele, GA - Asphalt
Friday 14 Westminster Speedway Westminister, SC
Saturday 15 Lavonia Speedway Lavonia, GA
Saturday 29 Riverside Int. Speedway W. Memphis, AR
Sunday 30 No. Alabama Speedway Tuscumbia, AL
Monday 31 Clayhill Motorsports Atwood, TN
June
Thursday 3 Beebe Speedway Beebe, AR
Friday 4 Malden Speedway Malden, MO (Tenative)
Saturday 5 Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS
Thursday 10 Hickory Motor Speedway Newton, NC - Asphalt
Saturday 12 Lonesome Pine Raceway Coeburn, VA - Asphalt
Friday 18 Carolina Speedway Gastonia, NC
Saturday 19 Fayetteville Motor Speedway Fayetteville, NC
Friday 25 TBA
Saturday 26 TBA
July
Thursday 1 Riverside Int. Speedway W. Memphis, AR
Friday 2 Malden Speedway Malden, MO
Saturday 3 Thunderhill Raceway Summertown, TN
Sunday 4 Camden Speedway, Camden, TN
Thursday 8 TBA
Saturday 17 Dixie Speedway Woodstock, GA
Friday 23 Travelers Rest Speedway Travelers Rest, SC
Saturday 24 I-77 Speedway Chester, SC
August
Friday 6 No. Ala. Speedway Tuscumbia, AL
Saturday 7 Clayhill Motorsports Atwood, TN
Friday 13 Anderson Motor Speedway Anderson, SC - Asphalt
Saturday 14 TBA Asphalt
Friday 27 Senoia Raceway Senoia, GA
Saturday 28 Senoia Raceway Senoia, GA
Sept.
Friday 3 Boyd's Speedway Ringgold, GA
Saturday 4 Lavonia Speedway Lavonia, GA
Saturday 11 Lanier National Speedway Braselton, GA - Asphalt
Friday 17 Beebe Speedway Beebe, AR
October
Friday 1 Carolina Speedway Gastonia, NC
Saturday 2 Carolina Speedway Gastonia, NC
Saturday 9 Columbus Speedway Columbus, MS
Friday 22 Hickory Motor Speedway Newton, NC - Asphalt
Saturday 23 Hickory Motor Speedway Newton, NC - Asphalt
Nov.
Thursday 4 Greenville Speedway, Greenville, MS
Friday 5 Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS
Saturday 6 Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS
Friday 12 Riverside Int. Speedway W. Memphis, AR
Saturday 13 Riverside Int. Speedway W. Memphis, AR
Friday 26 Watermelon Capital Speedway Cordele, GA - Asphalt
Saturday 27 Watermelon Capital Speedway Cordele, GA - Asphalt
USCS Southern Thunder sprint car awards and meeting - Feb.13th at Elliot's in Matthews, NC
USCS Southern Thunder sprint car awards and meeting - Feb.13th in Matthews, NC Atlanta, GA - January 29, 2010 - The United Sprint Car Series 2009 Southern Thunder awards ceremony and 2010 pre-season meeting are scheduled for Saturday, February 13th at 7pm. in the banquet hall at Elliot's Barbecue in Matthews, North Carolina. The event was previously from Saturday, January 30th due to the snow storm on that weekend.
The Parts Plus USCS Champion's awards ceremony will honor drivers and teams that finished in the top ten positions in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder regional series and will recognize drivers who finished in the top of the standings in the 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour paved track point standings.
Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee captured the 2009 regional series Championship. Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida is the 2009 Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion. Brandon Rekow from Moorsville, North Carolina will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
All drivers, car owners, team members and interested race fans are invited to the USCS Champion's Awards Dinner-Banquet on February 13th. Elliot's Barbecue is located at 9727 E. Independence Blvd., Matthews, NC 28105. The Phone number is : 704-847-6000. Tickets for the USCS Southern Thunder Champions awards ceremony are $10 each. For additional info and for answers to your questions please call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097 (Mobile).
United Sprint Car Series to compete on Goodyear racing tires beginning with the 2010 season
Atlanta, GA - Feb. 1, 2009 — The United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) announced today it has entered into a multi-year agreement with The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company to be the Official Tire supplier to the United Sprint Car Series “Outlaw Thunder” Tour presented by Goodyear.
The United Sprint Car series joins the World of Outlaws, All Star Circuit of Champions and a number of top race tracks and series throughout the country including Knoxville Raceway (home of the 2010 Goodyear Knoxville Nationals) that are partnering with Goodyear starting in 2010.
“Goodyear recognizes Sprint Car racing as one of the elite forms of motorsports,” said Justin Fantozzi, Goodyear’s Marketing Manager of Global Race Tires. “We have a strong history in sprint car racing at all levels. As an example, our tires have carried drivers to 19 of 30 championships in World of Outlaws sprint car series. “We look forward to working with the United Sprint Car Series and accomplishing similar results with the USCS as well.
Goodyear sprint car race tires will be available prior to and during the 14th Anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour 2010 season beginning with the Bootheel 200 at Malden Speedway on March 20th, 2010. Goodyear will supply USCS competitors with multiple tire compounds. The tires will have stiffer construction than previously supplied in order to achieve the desired results of reduced traction, increased drive-ability and even greater racing for USCS Sprint Car fans.
United Sprint Car series competitors will be able to enjoy a significant burn-off period to be able to use their old tire inventory at USCS dirt track events through the end of June, 2010. After July 1, 2010 teams will be required to race with Goodyear race tires on the left rear and right rear wheel positions at USCS “Outlaw Thunder” Tour dirt track events.
Goodyear is making a significant investment in the United Sprint Car Series and in the sport of Sprint Car racing in general “, said United Speed Contest Sanction Founder and President. Pete Walton. “Goodyear is committed to providing our race teams with world class tires that will produce the best racing possible, while also adding major promotional support through a number of different marketing programs.”
USCS Southern Thunder awards and meeting - postponed until Feb.13th
Atlanta, GA - January 29, 2010 - Due to the Winter storm effecting travel in the Charlotte, NC metro area, the United Sprint Car Series has postponed the 2009 Southern Thunder awards ceremony and 2010 pre-season meeting scheduled for Saturday, January 30th until Saturday, February 13th at 7pm. The event will still be held in the banquet hall at Elliot’s Barbecue in Matthews, North Carolina.
The Parts Plus USCS Champion's awards ceremony will honor drivers and teams that finished in the top ten positions in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder regional series and will recognize drivers who finished in the top of the standings in the 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour paved track point standings. Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee captured the 2009 regional series Championship. Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida is the 2009 Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion. Brandon Rekow from Moorsville, North Carolina will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
All drivers, car owners, team members and interested race fans are invited to the USCS Champion's Awards Dinner-Banquet on February 13th. Elliot’s Barbecue is located at 9727 E. Independence Blvd., Matthews, NC 28105. The Phone number is : 704-847-6000. Tickets for the USCS Southern Thunder Champions awards ceremony are $10 each. For additional info and for answers to your questions
Parts Plus USCS Sprint Car Banquet on Feb. 6th in Memphis, Tennessee
Atlanta, GA - The United Speed Contest Sanction has announced the 2009 Champion's Awards Dinner-Banquet for the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series will be held in Memphis Tennessee at the Holiday Inn Select - Memphis East on Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 7pm.
The Parts Plus USCS Champion's awards banquet will honor drivers and teams that finished in the top ten positions in the Parts Plus USCS National Championship division, the Mid-South Thunder regional series and the USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour paved track point standings. Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee repeated as the National Champion. Gray will also be honored as the Parts plus USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour Champion. Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion.
Eighteen year-old Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee finished in the runner-up spot in the National and Mid-South point standings and will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year. Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
The banquet will be in conjunction with the Rislone USCS Modified Touring Series and USCS Modified Weekly Racing Series banquets. All drivers, car owners, team members and interested race fans are invited to the USCS Champion's Awards Dinner-Banquet on Feb. 6th.
The Holiday Inn Select Memphis East is located at 5795 Poplar Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee 38119 (just off I-240 at Exit #15). The hotel phone number is 901-682-7881.
Tickets for the USCS Champions Awards Dinner-Banquet are $35 each and should be purchased in advance. Please mail your ticket request and check to United Speed Contest Sanction at 175 Antebellum Way, Fayetteville, GA 30215 . For additional information, please call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097 as soon as possible.
Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Awards ceremony and meeting - January 30th - Matthews, North Carolina
Atlanta, GA - The United Sprint Car Series has announced that the awards ceremony and 2010 pre-season meeting for the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Southern Thunder regional series will be held in Matthews, North Carolina in the banquet hall at Elliot's Barbecue on Saturday, January 30th at 7:00 pm.
The Parts Plus USCS Champion's awards ceremony will honor drivers and teams that finished in the top ten positions in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder regional series and will recognize drivers who finished in the top of the standings in the 2009 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour paved track point standings.
Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee captured the 2009 regional series Championship. Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida is the 2009 Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion. Brandon Rekow from Moorsville, North Carolina will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
All drivers, car owners, team members and interested race fans are invited to the USCS Champion's Awards Dinner-Banquet on January 30th. Elliot's Barbecue is located at 9727 E. Independence Blvd., Matthews, NC 28105. The Phone number is : 704-847-6000. Tickets for the USCS Southern Thunder Champions awards ceremony are $10 each. For additional info and for answers to your questions please call 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097 (Mobile).
Blaze Martin charges to Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Championship
Atlanta, GA - December 5, 2009 - Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida charged to the Championship in the 2009 Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder Tour. Martin won three of the series four paved track races held this season. Martin who finished in the runner-up spot in the only race he didn't win, beat defending pavement series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee by sixteen points in the final 2009 point standings. Martin won the series opener at Watermelon Capital Speedway on March 29th. He then had back-to-back wins at Ace Speedway on April 17th and at Florence Motor Speedway on Saturday April 18th.
Martin finished in the runner-up spot in the series final race at Hickory Motor Speedway on October 3rd, won by veteran Terry Gray. Martin also set fast time at three of the four events (Watermelon Capital Speedway, Ace Speedway and Hickory Motor Speedway). Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina had the fastest lap at Florence Motor Speedway to keep Martin from a perfect record in the time trial qualifying portion of the series.
Terry Gray finished in the runner-up spot in the 2009 Asphalt Thunder Tour final standings with 601 points. Gray won the series finale at Hickory Motor Speedway on October 3rd. He also had a second and third place in two other events.
2008 USCS National Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson also from Bartlett, Tennessee finished six points behind Gray in third place in the standings with 595 points. Nicholson showed great promise on pavement while finishing in second place at Florence, third place in the finale at Hickory and in fourth place at Ace Speedway. In his March pavement debut at WCS he was eighth.
2009 USCS National Rookie of the Year, eighteen year-old Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee followed Nicholson just six points back with 589 points. Carver finished in the runner-up position in the National point standings. During the series paved track events he finished in the sixth position three times and had a fourth place finish at Florence Motor Speedway on April 17th.
The 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Tour region Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina rounded out the top five drivers in the Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour 2009 point standings with 537 Championship points.
The 2008 USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Adam Jackson from Timmonsville, South Carolina led the next group pf drivers in sixth place with 448 points. Jackson Had three finishes in the top three positions. Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina with two top ten and one top five finish followed behind Jackson in seventh place with 420 points. Former series Champion, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina placed eighth in the standings with 412 points. Just a scant one point behind Bridges was another pavement rookie driver Brian Carter from Concord, North Carolina with 411 points.
Veteran David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina rounded out the top ten drivers in the mini-series standings with 394 Championship points.
Justin Carver tallied the most points of any rookie driver in the National, Mid-South Thunder, Southern Thunder and Asphalt Thunder Tour series and will be crowned with title of Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year at the series banquet in January. For his outstanding performances, rookie driver Brandon Rekow will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Southern
Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
Thirty-three different drivers competed in the four Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour events held at four different tracks in three states.
The 13th annual Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour kicked off on Sunday, March 29th at Watermelon Capital Speedway and ended on Saturday, October 3rd at Hickory Motor Speedway. The Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour series competes in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and East Tennessee. For complete and archived results from these events please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com . For series info call, 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
The United Sprint Car Series thanks its' 2009 Asphalt Thunder Tour sponsors including: Parts Plus, Bar's Leaks, DSR Fuel Systems, Dynotech, Engler Machine and Tool, FSR Racing Products, JE Pistons, Hoosier Race Tire, K&N Filters, Lunati, KSE Racing Products, Pro Shocks, Raceceiver, R.E.Technologies, Rislone, Schoenfeld Headers and Simpson.
******Photo/Caption: Car#5:
Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida captured the 2009 Parts Plus USCS asphalt Thunder Tour title. Martin is pictured in victory lane with Crew Chief Lee Cipray.
(USCS photo)
Final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder point standings:
Pos. Car# Driver Points
1 5 Blaze Martin 617 Champion
2 10 Terry Gray 601
3 16 Anthony Nicholson 595
4 24 Justin Carver 589
5 67 Jake McLain 537
6 46 Adam Jackson 448
7 6 Brad Wickham 420
8 7 Johnny Bridges 412
9 6 Brian Carter 411
10 5 David Thorman 394
11 69 Brandon Rekow 380
12 59 Dan Statter 374
13 27 David Adkins 268
14 11 Tom Paterson 260
15 21A Amanda Ferguson 258
16 46 Jim Blenkarn 242
17 18 Shane Butler 148
18 26 Marshall Skinner 144
19 16F Ben Fritz 142
20 15 Billy Boyd 138
21 10T Morgan Turpin 136
22 9 C J Miller 132
23 26S Jon Stinson 130
Tie 33 Joe Larkin 130
25 1a Lee Moore 128
26 6X Mike Suhy 126
Tie 79 Dakotah Stephens 126
28 58 Sonny O'Sullivan 120
Tie 2D Doug Day 120
30 17S Greg Leonard 118
31 19 Keith Butler 100
Tie 5V Nick DeFeo 100
Tie 21B Brandon McLain 100
Terry Gray races to eighth Parts Plus USCS National Championship in 2009
Atlanta, GA - Perennial Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee added another National Championship to his legacy during the 2009 season. The "still potent after all the years" veteran sprint car racing legend drove his familiar black #10 Rislone Engine Treatment sponsored, Wesmar powered, J&J Auto Racing car to a season-best nine wins. He had 29 top five and 33 top ten finishes. That was enough to earn his eighth Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National title. That is eight titles in just nine years of racing full-time with the USCS.
Gray earned the title in his usual fashion. The cagey veteran goes out to win (and is capable) every single night. If that doesn't work then he just finishes in the top three to five positions 95% of the time and Championships just keep happening. Gray, who is almost perfect in his car preparation and race car maintenance, only finished outside the top ten twice because of mechanical woes all season. On those two occasions he broke the U-Joint in his car and did not finish. The second U-Joint failure broke his foot. He was back the very next week and finished second behind Tim Crawley in the Missouri State Championship race at Malden Speedway. He finished the season with 5508 National points.
Gray beat out sensational 18 year-old rookie driver Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee to capture the National title, his fourth in a row. He won the Championship in the potent Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series. That series had twenty-seven events with sixteen different winners including Gray with three feature wins. The season long battle for the Mid South crown between the two drivers ( Gray and Carver) was decided by 37 points at the final race of the season during the inaugural Hensley Suzuki USCS Fall Nationals presented by Union Auto Parts" on November 13-14th at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
The veteran (Gray) also captured the Championship in the Parts Plus Southern Thunder regional series that contests its' events primarily in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. Carver the 2009 Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the Year was his closest competitor in that series as well. The Southern Thunder Championship was decided by just 71 points. Gray additionally finished in the runner-up spot in the Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour mini-series consisting of four paved track events. He won the final pavement event at Hickory Motor Speedway.
Carver, who was in his first full year of competition in winged sprint cars, showed tremendous talent and poise for a teenager. He collected his career-first Parts Plus USCS feature win at North Alabama Speedway on August 7th. The determined rookie driver had an impressive thirteen top-five finishes. He also finished twenty-six times in the top ten positions in Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main events. Carver finished in the runner-up spot in the National point standings with 5279 Championship points. He also finished the season in second place in both the Mid South Thunder and Southern Thunder 2009 final standings. He finished in fourth place in the final Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder paved track points.
The 2008 United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the third position in the Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour final National standings. Nicholson also grabbed a career-first Parts Plus USCS feature win at North Alabama Speedway on May 24th in the Parts Plus USCS Speed week 2009 Round Two. The twenty-tow year-old Nicholson sat out two races waiting on an engine repair but, still had thirteen top-five finishes in the division including the win and two runner-up spots. His 2009 season scorecard showed twenty-three top-ten finishes. He finished with 4670 National Championship points.
Past series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas finished in the fourth position. Skinner also had some outstanding 2009 performances in 2009. Those included two Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder tour wins at Riverside Speedway on June 13th and at Clayhill Motorsports on August 8th. He placed in the top five positions sixteen times and in the top ten seventeen times. He finished the season with 3754 National points.
Eighteen year-old rookie driver, Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee who was Skinner's team-mate, rounded out the top five drivers in 2009 Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour final standings. Stinson showed promise for the future with nine top ten finishes during the 2009 season. He had a fifth place finish in the Gumbo Nationals Championship race on November 7th at Greenville Speedway. He finished the season with 3557 points.
Sixteen year-old rookie female sprint car racer, Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee nailed down the sixth position in the National standings with 2210 points while running a limited schedule. Raymond Stull from Independence, Mississippi finished seventh in the National standings with 2208 points. Stull collected his career-first and second feature Parts Plus USCS main event wins. Both of Stull's wins came at Greenville Speedway. Ageless and timeless open wheel veteran Ray Bugg from Iuka, Mississippi finished eighth in the standings with 2086 points. Veteran sprint car racer, Brad Wickham from Rutherfordton, North Carolina finished in the ninth position with 2049 points. Another talented and young standout rookie driver, fourteen year-old Scott Hensley from Olive Branch, Mississippi rounded out the top ten in the standings with 2032 points.
Justin Carver tallied the most National points of any rookie driver in the National, Mid-South Thunder, Southern Thunder and Asphalt Thunder series and will be crowned with title of Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year at the series banquet in January. Both rookies Morgan Turpen and Scott Hensley ran a limited schedule in 2009 to remain eligible for USCS Rookie of the Year contention during the 2010 season.
One hundred and fifty-six different drivers competed in the thirty-eight Parts Plus Outlaw Thunder Tour events held at fourteen different tracks in eight states. Twenty different drivers won 2009 Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder tour main events. Those included Terry Gray and Tim Crawley who led the series with nine wins each. They were followed by 2009 Asphalt Thunder Champion, Blaze Martin, Paul McMahan, Marshall Skinner and Raymond Stull with two wins each. Drivers Jerrod Hull, Gary Taylor, Anthony Nicholson, Shane Stewart, Lee Sowell, Don Young, Brady Bacon, Justin Carver, Eddie Gallagher, Johnny Bridges, Jeff Swindell and Sammy Swindell each had one USCS feature win in 2009.
The thirteenth anniversary Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour kicked off on Saturday, March 7th at Central Mississippi Speedway and concluded at Riverside Speedway on Saturday, November 14th. For complete and archived results from these events please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com . For series info call, 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
The United Sprint Car Series thanks the 2009 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour sponsors including: Parts Plus, Bar's Leaks, DSR Fuel Systems, Dynotech, Engler Machine and Tool, FSR Racing Products, JE Pistons, Hoosier Race Tire, K&N Filters, Lunati, KSE Racing Products, Pro Shocks, RACEceiver, R.E.Technologies, Rislone, Shoenfeld Headers and Simpson.
Final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder tour point standings (after 38 events)
Pos. Car# Driver Points
1 10 Terry Gray 5508
2 24 Justin Carver 5279
3 16 Anthony Nicholson 4670
4 26 Marshall Skinner 3754
5 26S Jon Stinson 3557
6 80 Morgan Turpen 2210
7 6Red Raymond Stull 2208
8 25 Ray Bugg 2086
9 6 Brad Wickham 2049
10 40R Scott Hensley 2032
11 88 Tim Crawley 1988
12 67 Jake McLain 1902
13 2m Bryce Vowan 1870
14 C4 Casey Rowland 1740
15 5 Dave Thorman 1698
16 44 Ronny Howard 1634
17 58 Wade Oliver 1604
18 1X Matt Linder 1599
19 67 Brian Thomas 1548
20 1a Lee Moore 1540
21 75 Don Young 1402
22 8X Chris Williams 1350
23 7 Johnny Bridges 1349
24 1 Eddie Gallagher 1338
25 51 Lee Sowell 1320
26 78 Henry Gustavus 1256
27 69 Brandon Rekow 1204
28 6 Brian Carter 1171
29 9 Justin Sturch 1094
30 40 Ernie Ainsworth 1081
31 46 Adam Jackson 1054
32 4M Michael Miller 1052
33 12 Jeff Swindell 972
34 9 C J Miller 925
35 12 Jerrod Hull 904
36 92 Matt Kurtz 894
37 6X Dennis Lykins 849
38 33 Joe Larkin 824
39 28 Coby Adams 815
40 39 Brad Bowden 810
41 A12 Tommy Worley 807
42 4C Tyler Godwin 779
43 9Jr Derek Hagar 764
44 3D Paul McMahan 720
45 3B Brad Greer 718
46 1 Jeremy Newkirk 706
47 47 Eric Riggins 663
48 35 Ronnie Blair 658
49 24X Nick Bashford 646
50 5 Blaze Martin 626
51 36 Tim Perry 620
52 0X Clint Weiss 618
53 16P DeWayne Prince 600
54 23 Brian Bell 594
55 12D Dalton Davis 578
56 87 Kent Buckley 558
57 3 A G Rains 554
58 57 Shane Stewart 553
59 21 Troy Dow 534
60 1G Cody Gardner 490
61 32 Gary Bell 484
62 6K Jared Kelley 476
63 11 Kevin Gault 452
64 4 T W Parkinsons 448
65 7H Wade Human 414
66 27 David Adkins 398
Tie 77 Jesse Hockett 398
68 0 Andy McElhannon 387
69 4B Bryn Gohn 381
70 21 Tim Sites 379
71 59 Dan Statter 374
Tie 23 Lance Moss 374
73 8Z Zach Pringle 372
74 46 Jim Blenkarn 360
75 24 Greg Leonard 358
76 7D Dylan DeJournett 356
77 7X David DeJournett 344
78 6N Dain Naida 338
79 12 T Joe Young 332
80 21 Aubrey Black 328
81 1X Chad Pitts 326
82 44X Wesley Shephard 310
83 73 Kramer Williamson 299
84 40R Ricky Stenhouse 272
85 88 Rory Janney 266
86 11 Tom Paterson 260
87 21A Amanda Ferguson 258
88 49 Brady Bacon 256
Tie 22 Dustin Barks 256
90 63 Josh Weller 254
91 14 Paul Hart 252
92 9 Timmy Thrash 250
93 47D Michael Dubert 248
94 86 Josh Fisher 240
Tie 2 D J Vanderley 240
96 33 John Karklin 238
Tie 3 Mark Shirshekahn 238
98 83 Bob Auld 234
Tie 7 Chuck Tilley 234
100 7H Lewis Jenkins, Jr 232
Tie 2 Todd Fayard 232
102 14F Tyler Brown 230
103 57 Dude Garrett 226
Tie 6X Mike Suhy 226
Tie 0 Ed Lee 226
106 10W Tony Wilson 222
107 86 Buster Dickerson 216
108 9X Brad Yoder 214
Tie 21B Brandon McLain 214
110 39 Drake Moore 200
Tie 5V Nick DeFeo 200
Tie 20 Tyler Carter 200
113 91 Gary Taylor 159
114 18 Shane Butler 158
115 16F Ben Fritz 150
116 10S Sammy Swindell 148
117 15S Nick Smith 146
Tie 4X Jan Howard 146
119 9X Gary Wright 144
120 4 Robbie Standridge 142
121 5 David Thorman 141
122 15 Billy Boyd 138
123 94 Danny Wood 136
Tie 31 Michael Craddock 136
Tie 99 Ricky Hood 136
126 2 Josh Grimes 126
Tie 79 Dakotah Stephens 126
128 7H Jon Corbin 124
129 11S Brian Smith 122
Tie 21T Eric Todd 122
Tie 7S Paul Sides 122
132 D12 Christopher Sloan 120
Tie 16A Koty Adams 120
Tie 58 Sonny O'Sullivan 120
Tie 2D Doug Day 120
136 7 Daren Long 118
Tie 12G Johnny Gardner 118
138 22 Kevin Kilpatrick 114
Tie 20 Tony Stewart 114
140 3N Dennis Nolan 112
Tie 45 Chuck Hebing 112
142 OK Jim Eubanks 110
Tie 7 Phillip Faulconer 110
144 14K Kyle Bellum 108
145 19 Keith Butler 106
146 4 Brad Graham 100
Tie 22 Bubba Jones 100
Tie 241 Daniel Turbeville 100
Tie 2B Frank Beck 100
Tie 10R Jerod Roller 100
Tie 33 Josh Baker 100
Tie 19 Klint Angelette 100
Tie 21M Marty Merridith 100
Tie 7 Wes Michael 100
Tie 14T Jimmy Bridgeman 100
Tie 76 William Holder 100
Gray claims Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Championship
Atlanta, GA - Eight-time Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee added another championship to his resume by claiming the 2009 Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series Championship. Gray bested 2009 National Rookie of the Year, eighteen year-old Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee by only 71 points to clinch the title. The Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional winged sprint car series competes primarily in Georgia, East Tennessee and North and South Carolina.
Gray, who is the 2009 Parts Plus USCS National Champion, had seven feature wins in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder regional series. Those came on back-to-back nights at Carolina Speedway and Harris Speedway on April 24th and 25th and at Penton Raceway on June 19th. He then won back-to-back at Carolina Speedway and Travelers Rest Speedway on June 26th and 27th to run his total to five before July 1st. The veteran sprint car driver won again at Carolina Speedway on October 2nd and followed with another win during the Southern Thunder season finale on October 3rd at the paved Hickory Motor Speedway.
In addition to his seven victories, Gray finished in the runner-up spot four times too. He finished a total of eleven times in the top five after starting all thirteen races. He only finished out of the top ten twice. Both of those times he did not finish the main event due to a broken U-Joint. He finished with 1777 total Championship points.
Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee who was in his first full year of competition in winged sprint cars, showed tremendous talent. Carver had some outstanding finishes at tracks he had never seen before the 2009 season. The talented and determined rookie had an impressive eight top-five finishes. He also finished eleven times in the top ten positions in Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour main events. Carver finished in the runner-up spot in the regional standings with 1706 Championship points. Carver actually grabbed a career-first winged sprint car win in USCS competition in the Parts Plus Mid-South Thunder Tour regional series at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Alabama on August 7th .
The 2008 USCS National Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the third position just 42 points behind Carver with 1664 Championship points. Nicholson had some outstanding 2009 performances as well, including a Parts Plus USCS feature win in the other USCS regional series (Mid-South Thunder Tour) during the Parts Plus USCS Speed Week 2009 at North Alabama Speedway. Nicholson placed in the top five positions eight times with the highest finishes being a runner-up finish on the paved 4/10 mile Florence Motor Speedway oval on April 18th. He also had another on September 5th at the Georgia red dirt 4/10 mile Lavonia Speedway. He finished in the top ten a total of ten times during Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour events.
Rutherfordton, North Carolina veteran sprint car driver, Brad Wickham finished in the fourth position in the final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour standings with 1567 points. Wickham fielded at two-car race team most of the 2009 season. Wickham finished the 2008 series final standings ranked seventh. He improved his standing for the 2009 season via eight top ten finishes.
The 2008 United Sprint Car Series Southern Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Jake McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina, finished just one single point behind Brad Wickham in the fifth position in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour final standings with 1566 points. McLain, who had to sit out one race at Harris Speedway waiting on an engine repair, had seven top-ten finishes in the division including a season best fifth place finish at Carolina Speedway on June 26th.
A pair of veteran Parts Plus USCS regulars, David Thorman from Greenville, South Carolina and Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia finished tied for sixth place in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder regional series standings with 1490 points each. Another open wheel veteran Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia finished eighth in the final Southern Thunder point standings with 1437 points. A past series Champion, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina ran a limited schedule of ten events, but, still managed four top-five and six top-ten finishes including a feature win at Harris Speedway on July 25th. Bridges collected 1349 Championship points to finish in ninth place. Rookie driver, Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina rounded out the top ten drivers in the final Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour point standings with 1204 points.
As announced at the 2008 USCS Southern Thunder Tour banquet and pre-season 2009 meeting in January. The 2009 Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Championship points were awarded /tabulated so that a driver could mathematically be able to win the Championship by racing only the ten dirt races on the schedule. As a bonus for the drivers who also raced the paved track portion, they were allowed to substitute a better finish at a pavement race for a dirt race where they collected less points. Therefore the Championship points earned actually included their best ten finishes (dirt or pavement) from the thirteen Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder events held in 2009.
Justin Carver tallied the most points of any rookie driver in the National, Mid-South Thunder, Southern Thunder and Asphalt Thunder Tour series and will be crowned with title of Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year at the series banquet in January. For his outstanding performances, rookie driver Brandon Rekow will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year.
Fifty-seven different drivers competed in the thirteen Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour events held at ten different tracks in five states. Five different drivers won 2009 Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder main events. Those drivers included 2009 series Champion Terry Gray with seven wins. The 2009 Parts Plus Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion Blaze Martin from Tampa, Florida and Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas had two wins each. Don Young from Memphis, Tennessee and Johnny Bridges each had one feature win apiece in USCS Southern Thunder Tour competition.
The 13th annual Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour kicked off on Friday, April 17th at Ace Speedway and ended on Saturday, October 3rd at Hickory Motor Speedway. The Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series competes in Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and East Tennessee. For complete and archived results from these events please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com . For series info call, 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
The United Sprint Car Series thanks its' 2009 Outlaw Thunder Tour sponsors including: Parts Plus, Bar's Leaks, DSR Fuel Systems, Dynotech, Engler Machine and Tool, FSR Racing Products, JE Pistons, Hoosier Race Tire, K&N Filters, Lunati, KSE Racing Products, Pro Shocks, Raceceiver, R.E.Technologies, Rislone, Shoenfeld Headers and Simpson.
Final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder point standings (after 13 events):
Pos. Car# Driver Points
1 10 Terry Gray 1777
2 24 Justin Carver 1706
3 16 Anthony Nicholson 1664
4 6 Brad Wickham 1567
5 67 Jake McLain 1566
6 5 David Thorman 1490
Tie 1X Matt Linder 1490
8 67 Brian Thomas 1447
9 7 Johnny Bridges 1349
10 69 Brandon Rekow 1204
11 6 Brian Carter 1171
12 46 Adam Jackson 1054
13 9 C J Miller 925
14 6X Dennis Lykins 849
15 28 Coby Adams 815
16 33 Joe Larkin 724
17 47 Eric Riggins 663
18 24X Nick Bashford 652
19 4C Tyler Godwin 639
20 92 Matt Kurtz 626
21 36 Tim Perry 620
22 40R Scott Hensley 553
23 26 Marshall Skinner 511
24 75 Don Young 495
25 26S Jon Stinson 479
26 5 Blaze Martin 467
27 4 T W Parkinsons 448
28 80 Morgan Turpen 422
29 4M Michael Miller 400
30 27 David Adkins 398
31 23 Lance Moss 374
32 24 Greg Leonard 358
33 88 Tim Crawley 310
34 73 Kramer Williamson 299
35 4B Bryn Gohn 281
36 88 Rory Janney 266
37 11 Tom Paterson 260
38 63 Josh Weller 254
39 59 Dan Statter 250
Tie OX Clint Weiss 250
41 6N Dain Naida 238
Tie 33 John Karklin 238
43 83 Bob Auld 234
44 6X Mike Suhy 226
45 21B Brandon McLain 214
46 1a Lee Moore 200
47 2 Josh Grimes 126
Tie 79 Dakotah Stephens 126
49 46 Jim Blenkarn 124
Tie 2D Amanda Fergusson 124
51 11S Brian Smith 122
52 2D Doug Day 120
53 20 Tony Stewart 114
54 112 Aubrey Black 112
Tie 45 Chuck Hebing 112
56 39 Drake Moore 100
Tie 5V Nick DeFeo 100
2009 USCS Southern Thunder Tour
Race#/Day/Date Track & Location Surface Winner
1 Friday - April 17th Ace Speedway - Altamahaw, NC Asphalt Blaze Martin
2 Saturday - April 18th Florence Motor Speedway - Florence, SC Asphalt Blaze Martin
3 Friday - April 24th Carolina Speedway - Gastonia, NC Dirt Terry Gray
4 Saturday - April 25th Harris Speedway - Harris, NC Dirt Terry Gray
5 Friday - June 19th Penton Raceway - Penton, AL Dirt Terry Gray
6 Saturday - June 20th East Alabama Motor Speedway - Phenix City, AL Dirt Don Young
7 Friday - June 26th Carolina Speedway - Gastonia, NC Dirt Terry Gray
8 Saturday - June 27th Travelers Rest Speedway - Travelers Rest, SC Dirt Terry Gray
9 Saturday - July 25th Harris Speedway - Harris, NC Dirt Johnny Bridges
10 Friday - Sept.4th Boyd's Speedway - Ringold, GA Dirt Tim Crawley
11 Saturday - Sept.5th Lavonia Speedway - Lavonia, GA Dirt Tim Crawley
12 Friday - Oct. 2nd Carolina Speedway - Gastonia, NC Dirt Terry Gray
13 Saturday - Oct. 3rd Hickory Motor Speedway - Newton, NC Asphalt Terry Gray
Justin Carver garners Parts Plus USCS National "Rookie of the Year" honors with outstanding performances
Atanta, GA - November 21, 2009 - Eighteen year-old rookie sensation, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee has captured the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National "Rookie of the Year" Championship for the 2009 season. Carver is one of the most accomplished rookie drivers to ever race in the Parts Plus USCS. Carver used a number of outstanding performances throughout the season on dirt and paved surfaces including a feature win to propel him to the coveted Parts Plus USCS National "Rookie of the Year" title.
In addition to scoring his first feature win during his rookie season, Carver was competitive in each of the Parts Plus USCS divisions. He finished in the runner-up spot in the National title chase. He had 13 top five and 26 top ten finishes in 38 starts in the National title contest. He also finished in the runner-up position twice and in third place three times. Carver garnered his first winged sprint car feature win in the Parts Plus USCS at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Alabama on August 7th.
In the highly competitive Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series Carver finished in the runner-up spot in the point standings and was only thirty-seven points from winning that regional series title. Carver also did well enough while traveling away from his region participating in the Parts Plus USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series to also finish in the runner-up position in that series. He was just seventy-one points back in that division.
He had three top ten and one top five finishes in the Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour mini-series and finished in fourth place in the standings in that series.
For a complete listing of the final 2009 Parts Plus USCS season point standings in every sprint car division please visit www.uscsracing.com For more information on Justin Carver please visit his Official website at www.carverracing.com
Photo caption #24 (Justin w/car) - Eighteen year-old Justin Carver from Drummonds, TN is the 2009 Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year.
Carver used one win, 13 top fives and 26 top tens to race to the runner-up position in the Parts Plus USCS National point standings.
Photo/Caption #24 driver & crew: 18 year-old Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the Year, Justin Carver from Drumonds, TN is pictured after his career-first feature win at No.Ala. Speedway on August 7th.
Gray edges out Carver for Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour Championship
Atlanta, GA - Veteran Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series past champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee added another championship to his legacy during the 2009 season. Gray edged out sensational rookie driver Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee by only 37 points to capture the title in the potent Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series. The season long battle for the crown between the two drivers was decided at the final race of the season during the inaugural Hensley Suzuki USCS Fall Nationals presented by Union Auto Parts" on November 13-14th at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas.
The veteran (Gray) and the rookie (Carver) came into the final race only eighteen points apart. After the evenings 6-cars, 6-laps Parts Plus Power Dash comprised of the top six cars from the previous event, the two drivers were only eleven points apart. The Championship would be decided in the final A-Main of the 2009 season. Carver unfortunately got collected in a first lap, first turn tangle and finished twenty-third in the inal A-Main. Gray started third in the same A-Main but finished tenth, still collecting enough Championship points to clinch the title.
Gray who is also the 2009 Parts Plus USCS National Champion, had four feature wins in the Parts Plus USCS Mid-South regional series. Those came over a three-weekend span at Penton Raceway on June 19th, Camden Speedway on July 2nd , Malden Speedway on July 3rd and at Batesville Motor Speedway on July 10th. In addition to the four victories Gray finished in the runner-up spot eight times as well. He finished six more times in the top three positions and sixteen times in the top five after starting twenty-five races. He additionally had a total of twenty-three top ten finishes. He was only out of the top ten twice. He finished with 3686 total points. He also earned the Parts Plus USCS Speedweek 2009 Championship.
The eighteen year-old Carver, who was in his first full year of competition in winged sprint cars, showed tremendous talent and poise for a teenager. He collected his career-first Parts Plus USCS feature win at North Alabama Speedway on August 7th. The determined rookie driver had an impressive seven top-five finishes. He also finished seventeen times in the top ten places in Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour main events. Carver finished in the runner-up spot in the regional standings with 3649 Championship points.
Past series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas finished in the third position just 20 points behind Carver with 3629 points. Skinner had some outstanding 2009 performances including two Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder tour wins at Riverside Speedway on June 13th and at Clayhill Motorsports on August 8th. He placed in the top five positions fifteen times and in the top ten sixteen times.
Eighteen year-old rookie driver, Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee who was Skinner's team-mate, finished in the fourth position in the final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour standings. Stinson showed promise for the future with nine top ten finishes during the 2009 season. He had a fifth place finish in the gumbo Nationals Championship race on November 7th at Greenville Speedway. He finished the season with 3429 points.
The 2008 United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee finished in the fifth position in the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour final standings. Nicholson also grabbed a career-first Parts Plus USCS feature win at North Alabama Speedway on May 24th in the Parts Plus USCS Speedweek 2009 Round Two.. Nicholson who had to sit out two races waiting on an engine repair also had seven top-five finishes in the division including the win and two runner-up spots. His scorecard showed twelve top-ten finishes. He finished with 3199 Mid South Championship points.
Raymond Stull from Independence, Mississippi finished sixth in the regional series with 2238 points. Stull collected his career-first and second feature Parts Plus USCS main event wins. Both of Stull's wins came at Greenville Speedway. Ageless and timeless open wheel veteran ray Bugg from iuka, Mississippi finished seventh in the standings with 2092 points. Veteran sprint car racer, Bryce Vowan from Forrest City, Arkansas finished in the eighth position with 1870 points. Sixteen year-old rookie female sprint car racer, Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee nailed down the ninth position while running a limited schedule with 1782 points. Another talented rookie driver, nineteen year-old Casey Rowland from Nesbit, Mississippi rounded out the top ten in the standings with 1740 points.
Justin Carver tallied the most points of any rookie driver in the National, Mid-South Thunder, Southern Thunder and asphalt Thunder series and will be crowned with title of Parts Plus USCS National Rookie of the Year at the series banquet in January. For his outstanding performances, rookie driver Jon Stinson will be honored as the Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series rookie of the Year. Both Morgan Turpen and Casey Rowland ran a limited schedule in 2009 to remain eligible for USCS Rookie of the Year contention during the 2010 season.
One hundred and twenty-one different drivers competed in the twenty-seven Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder Tour events held at fourteen different tracks in five states. Sixteen different drivers won 2009 Parts Plus USCS Mid South Thunder main events. Those included Tim Crawley with seven wins, Terry Gray with three wins, Paul McMahan, Marshall Skinner and Raymond Stull with two wins each. Drivers Jerrod Hull, Gary Taylor, Anthony Nicholson, Shane Stewart, Lee Sowell, Don Young, Brady Bacon, Justin Carver, Eddie Gallagher, Jeff Swindell and Sammy Swindell had one feature win each.
The fifth annual Mid South Thunder Tour kicked off on Saturday, March 7th at Central Mississippi Speedway and concluded at Riverside Speedway on Saturday, November 14th. The Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour regional series competes in Alabama, Arkansas , Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee. For complete and archived results from these events please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com . For series info call, 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
The United Sprint Car Series thanks the 2009 Outlaw Thunder Tour sponsors including: Parts Plus, Bar's Leaks, DSR Fuel Systems, Dynotech, Engler Machine and Tool, FSR Racing Products, JE Pistons, Hoosier Race Tire, K&N Filters, Lunati, KSE Racing Products, Pro Shocks, Raceceiver, R.E.Technologies, Rislone, Shoenfeld Headers and Simpson.
Final 2009 Parts Plus USCS Mid-South Thunder point standings (after 26 events)
Pos. Car# Driver Points
1 10 Terry Gray 3686
2 24 Justin Carver 3649
3 26 Marshall Skinner 3629
4 26S Jon Stinson 3429
5 16 Anthony Nicholson 3199
6 6 Raymond Stull 2238
7 25 Ray Bugg 2092
8 2m Bryce Vowan 1870
9 80 Morgan Turpen 1782
10 C4 Casey Rowland 1740
11 88 Tim Crawley 1675
12 44 Ronny Howard 1634
13 58 Wade Oliver 1604
14 40R Scott Hensley 1470
15 1a Lee Moore 1412
Tie 75 Don Young 1412
17 51 Lee Sowell 1364
18 8X Chris Williams 1350
19 1 Eddie Gallagher 1338
20 78 Henry Gustavus 1256
21 40 Ernie Ainsworth 1103
22 9 Justin Sturch 1102
23 4M Michael Miller 1052
24 12 Jeff Swindell 972
25 12 Jerrod Hull 904
26 A12 Tommy Worley 807
27 9Jr Derek Hagar 764
28 3D Paul McMahan 746
Tie 92 Matt Kurtz 746
30 3B Brad Greer 718
31 39 Brad Bowden 710
32 1 Jeremy Newkirk 706
33 35 Ronnie Blair 658
34 1X Matt Linder 618
35 16P Dewayne Prince 600
36 6 Brad Wickham 595
37 23 Brian Bell 594
38 67 Brian Thomas 578
Tie 12D Dalton Davis 578
40 87 Kent Buckley 558
41 3 A G Rains 554
42 57 Shane Stewart 553
43 21 Troy Dow 534
44 1G Cody Gardner 490
45 32 Gary Bell 484
46 6K Jared Kelley 476
47 5 Dave Thorman 460
48 6X Dennis Lykins 454
Tie 21B Jake McLain 454
50 11 Kevin Gault 452
51 4 T W Parkinsons 448
52 7H Wade Human 414
53 77 Jesse Hockett 398
54 0 Andy McElhannon 387
55 21 Tim Sites 379
56 4C Tyler Godwin 374
57 8Z Zach Pringle 372
58 0X Clint Weiss 368
59 7D Dylan DeJournett 356
60 7X David DeJournett 344
61 12 T Joe Young 332
62 1X Chad Pitts 326
63 44X Wesley Shephard 310
64 99 Ricky Stenhouse 272
65 49 Brady Bacon 256
Tie 22 Dustin Barks 256
67 14 Paul Hart 252
68 9 Timmy Thrash 250
69 86 Buster Dickerson 248
Tie 47D Michael Dubert 248
71 86 Josh Fisher 240
Tie 2 D J Vanderley 240
73 3 Mark Shirshekahn 238
74 83 Bob Auld 234
Tie 7 Chuck Tilley 234
76 7H Lewis Jenkins, Jr 232
77 14F Tyler Brown 230
78 21 Aubrey Black 228
79 57 Dude Garrett 226
Tie 0 Ed Lee 226
81 10W Tony Wilson 222
82 9X Brad Yoder 214
83 20 Tyler Carter 200
84 91 Gary Taylor 159
85 10S Sammy Swindell 148
86 15S Nick Smith 146
Tie 4X Jan Howard 146
88 9X Gary Wright 144
89 4 Robbie Standridge 142
90 94 Danny Woods 136
Tie 31 Michael Craddock 136
Tie 99 Ricky Hood 136
93 6N Dain Naida 130
94 7H Jon Corbin 124
95 21T Eric Todd 122
Tie 7S Paul Sides 122
97 12 Christopher Sloan 120
Tie 16A Koty Adams 120
99 7 Daren Long 118
Tie 46 Jim Blenkarn 118
Tie 12G Johnny Gardner 118
102 22 Kevin Kilpatrick 114
103 3N Dennis Nolan 112
104 OK Jim Eubanks 110
Tie 7 Phillip Faulconer 110
Tie 2 Todd Fayard 110
107 14K Kyle Bellum 108
108 4 Brad Graham 100
Tie 4B Bryn Gohn 100
Tie 22 Bubba Jones 100
Tie 2 Daniel Grimes 100
Tie 241 Daniel Turbeville 100
Tie 2B Frank Beck 100
Tie 98 Jarod Roller 100
Tie 33 Joe Larkin 100
Tie 33 Josh Baker 100
Tie 19 Klint Angelette 100
Tie 21M Marty Merridith 100
Tie 7 Wes Michael 100
Tie 14T Jimmy Bridgeman 100
Tie 76 William Holder 100
Race/Date Track Location Region/Series Winner
1 March 7th Central Mississippi Speedway Winona, MS Mid South Tim Crawley
2 March 21st Malden Speedway Malden, MO Mid South Jerrod Hull
3 April 3rd Magnolia Motor Speedway Columbus, MS Mid South Tim Crawley
4 April 4th Magnolia Motor Speedway Columbus, MS Mid South/Nat Gary Taylor
5 April10th Camden Speedway Camden, TN Postponed until July 2nd
6 April11th Drew County Speedway Monticello, AR Mid South Tim Crawley
7 May 23 Riverside Int. Speedway West Memphis, AR Speedweek Rained Out
8 May 24 North Alabama Speedway Tuscumbia, AL Speedweek Anthony Nicholson
9 May 25 Clayhill Motorsports Atwood, TN Speedweek Rained Out
10 May 28th I - 30 Speedway Benton, AR Speedweek Tim Crawley
11 May 29th Drew County Speedway Monticello, AR Speedweek Paul McMahan
12 May 30th Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS Speedweek Shane Stewart
13 June 11th Clayhill Motorsports Atwood, TN Mid South Lee Sowell
14 June 13th Riverside Int. Speedway West Memphis, AR Mid South Marshall Skinner
15 June 19th Penton Raceway Penton, AL MidSo vs Sou Terry Gray
16 June 20th East AL Motor Speedway Phenix City, AL MidSo vs Sou Don Young
17 July 2nd Camden Speedway Camden, TN Mid South Paul McMahan
18 July 3rd Malden Speedway Malden, MO Mid South Terry Gray
19 July 9th Riverside Int. Speedway W. Memphis, AR Non Wing Mid South Brady Bacon
20 July 10th Batesville Motor Speedway Batesville, AR Mid South Terry Gray
21 July11th Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS Mid South Raymond Stull
23 August 1 Drew County Speedway Monticello, AR Mid South CANCELLED
24 August 6th Riverside Int. Speedway West Memphis, AR Mid South Tim Crawley
25 August 7th North Alabama Speedway Tuscumbia, AL Mid South Justin Carver
26 August 8th Clayhill Motorsports Atwood, TN Mid South Marshall Skinner
27 Sept. 11th Malden Speedway Malden, MO Mid South Tim Crawley
28 Sept. 25th Beebe Speedway Beebe, AR Mid South Tim Crawley
29 Nov. 6th Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS Mid South Raymond Stull
30 Nov. 7th Greenville Speedway Greenville, MS Mid South Edie Gallagher
31 Nov. 13th Riverside Int. Speedway West Memphis, AR Mid South Jeff Swindell
32 Nov. 14th Riverside Int. Speedway West Memphis, AR Mid South Sammy Swindell
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