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
Media Contact: PETE WALTON, USCS President (770) 865-6097
pwaltonuscs@comcast.net WWW.USCSRACING.COM
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
Media Contact: PETE WALTON, USCS President (770) 865-6097
pwaltonuscs@comcast.net WWW.USCSRACING.COM
