Cordele, GA - March 27, 2009 - Six Memphis and Mid-South area drivers are headed for the 2:00pm Sunday afternoon Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder Tour event at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, GA.
Drivers entered for the paved track season-opener are 7-time USCS Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Gray has Championed the Asphalt Thunder Tour several times and is talented and experienced on the blacktp.
Past USCS Dirt Cup Champion, Marshall Skinner who finished in second place in the Antional standings the past two seasons is entered in the 26M car of Johnny Stinson. Skinner spent one season in 2001 with the series on pavement.
The 2007 USCS Rookie of the Year, 18-year-old Derek Hagar from Marion, AR will travel to Illinois for a Saturday afternoon/ evening Midget race. Hagar will then high-tail it back to Memphis to pick up his dirt sprint car that he has prepared for theSunday USCS pavement race and drive all night to the event. Hagar raced Terry Gray's dirt sprint once last year at Dillon Motor Speedway and finished in third place in his first ever pavement race.
Three other USCS Young Guns driving cars prepared by RE Technologies, and coached Chris Santucci are entered and ready to leave for Georgia on Saturday morning. All three are excited about experiencing their first race on a paved oval in a sprint car.
The three talented young drivers are 2008 Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee and two top 2009 Rookie of the Year candidates, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee nd Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee. Carver finished in third place in the first dirt race of the year at Central Mississippi Speedway. Stinson has ran well and had a top five finish at Crossville USA Raceway on July 18, 2008.
A field of twenty plus winged sprint cars has pre-entered for the paved track series season-opener. Additionally more teams have called and said they are coming now, since the race was moved to Sunday afternoon. The action packed event features the Parts Plus USCS winged Outlaw sprint cars testing the limits of Georgia's fastest 4/10 mile paved oval at speeds expected to approach 140 miles per hour for the exotic cars. In addition to the Parts Plus USCS, the fans will be treated to a full program of racing action in the Watermelon Capital Speedway Super Street, Pure Stock, Mini Stock and Claimer divisions.
The racing program includes time trial qualifying, the Parts Plus Power Dash for the top six sprint cars, sprint car heat races, a B-Main if necessary and a 40-lap Parts Plus USCS sprint car A-Main. The four Watermelon Capital Speedway classes will run a full racing program of qualifying heats and feature races.
Pit gates will open at 10:00 am. The Spectator grandstands at Noon and racing action is at 2:00 pm. Watermelon Capital Speedway is located ½ mile west of Interstate 75 Exit 104 on Farmers Market Rd. in Cordele, GA. For more info please visit www.watermeloncapitalspeedway.com or call 229-271-9301. For information related to the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series please go to www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
Drivers entered for the paved track season-opener are 7-time USCS Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Gray has Championed the Asphalt Thunder Tour several times and is talented and experienced on the blacktp.
Past USCS Dirt Cup Champion, Marshall Skinner who finished in second place in the Antional standings the past two seasons is entered in the 26M car of Johnny Stinson. Skinner spent one season in 2001 with the series on pavement.
The 2007 USCS Rookie of the Year, 18-year-old Derek Hagar from Marion, AR will travel to Illinois for a Saturday afternoon/ evening Midget race. Hagar will then high-tail it back to Memphis to pick up his dirt sprint car that he has prepared for theSunday USCS pavement race and drive all night to the event. Hagar raced Terry Gray's dirt sprint once last year at Dillon Motor Speedway and finished in third place in his first ever pavement race.
Three other USCS Young Guns driving cars prepared by RE Technologies, and coached Chris Santucci are entered and ready to leave for Georgia on Saturday morning. All three are excited about experiencing their first race on a paved oval in a sprint car.
The three talented young drivers are 2008 Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee and two top 2009 Rookie of the Year candidates, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee nd Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee. Carver finished in third place in the first dirt race of the year at Central Mississippi Speedway. Stinson has ran well and had a top five finish at Crossville USA Raceway on July 18, 2008.
A field of twenty plus winged sprint cars has pre-entered for the paved track series season-opener. Additionally more teams have called and said they are coming now, since the race was moved to Sunday afternoon. The action packed event features the Parts Plus USCS winged Outlaw sprint cars testing the limits of Georgia's fastest 4/10 mile paved oval at speeds expected to approach 140 miles per hour for the exotic cars. In addition to the Parts Plus USCS, the fans will be treated to a full program of racing action in the Watermelon Capital Speedway Super Street, Pure Stock, Mini Stock and Claimer divisions.
The racing program includes time trial qualifying, the Parts Plus Power Dash for the top six sprint cars, sprint car heat races, a B-Main if necessary and a 40-lap Parts Plus USCS sprint car A-Main. The four Watermelon Capital Speedway classes will run a full racing program of qualifying heats and feature races.
Pit gates will open at 10:00 am. The Spectator grandstands at Noon and racing action is at 2:00 pm. Watermelon Capital Speedway is located ½ mile west of Interstate 75 Exit 104 on Farmers Market Rd. in Cordele, GA. For more info please visit www.watermeloncapitalspeedway.com or call 229-271-9301. For information related to the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series please go to www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
