USCS Winged Outlaw Sprint Cars and USCS Modifieds headline Special "Fast Friday" racing card at Jack

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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 at one of the Mid-South's most
popular 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 Media contact: Pete Walton pwaltonuscs@comcast.net
 




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