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O’Reilly USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS HEADLINE ACTION AT VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY SATURDAY NIGHT (9/29)
Atlanta, GA - Wild and exciting winged outlaw sprint car racing will headline the racing program at Volusia Speedway Saturday night September 29th in the eighth annual O’Reilly USCS Florida State Championship Race. The O’Reilly Auto Parts sponsored United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" Tour (www.uscsracing.com) will roar into the fast 1/2-mile clay oval for event number two of its 11th anniversary season for the Nationally-touring O’Reilly USCS drivers who also race on paved ovals. The O’Reilly USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
This will be the only O’Reilly USCS visit to Volusia Speedway Park this season and will award points in the O’Reilly USCS National point standings and O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder regional series standings. The O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series consists of races in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least four states to the track. The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open wheel O’Reilly 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 O’Reilly USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide rear tires.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing in the outlaw sprint cars that includes test and tune hot laps followed by the CnB Mushroom Farms time trial qualifying. The evening's first sprint car race will be a pair of Lucas Oil Power Dash that showcases the top cars from the previous O’Reilly USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout. Next up will be a series of qualifying heat races and Saturday evening’s finale will be the 30-lap “Florida State Championship” main event.
Five-time O’Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who currently leads the O’Reilly USCS National and Southern Thunder point standings heads the entry list for the Volusia Speedway Park event. Gray is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past 5 years with over 75 feature wins. The “Bartlett Bullet” is also a three time Lucas Oil Super Power Dash Champion at Volusia.
Another potent competitor is twenty-one year-old Hoosier Tire Young Guns (for drivers under 25) points leader Danny 'Hammer" Martin, Jr. of Sarasota, FL who finished in the runner-up spot in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 O’Reilly USCS National point standings Martin was named as the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame’s “Wild Card Driver of the Year’ an honor for outstanding driving performances throughout the season in 2005 and he won his first O’Reilly USCS Florida State Championship Race at Volusia Speedway Park last year. Gray and Martin both finished last season highly ranked in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame “Driver of the Year” poll. Gray was ranked third and Danny Martin, Jr. finished in the eighth spot.
Martin will be joined by a host of other O’Reilly USCS Young Guns including talented young driver, eighteen-year-old Matt Tiffany from nearby Daytona Beach, Florida. Tiffany who is in his third season in sprint cars has at least one win in each of those seasons. Other Young Guns include a pair of 20-year-olds, R.J. Johnson of Decatur, Tennessee who was the 2004 O’Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year and nineteen year old Stephen Darvalics from Venice, Florida. Both are exoected to be up front in the race. Another rookie with past experience in Formula Ford and super-speedway racing is twenty-one year old, Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England. Another pair of Florida young guns Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville and Dakota Stephens from
Riverview are also entered. Kurtz won last Saturday nights Florida Sprint Car Association feature at North Florida Speedway.
Other notable entries include; 2006 East Bay Raceway Champion, Daryl Smith. The field only Ford powered entry will be driven by Matt Stegeman from Tampa.. The Florida contingent will also include veterans Bob Auld from Largo, Frank Carlsson from Oxford, Jerry Jones from Clermont and Danny Statter from nearby Deltona. Statter is in second place in the O’Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder points. Also entered are Danny Jones from Tampa and team-mates Brian Eckley and former East Bay track Champion, Brian Maddox both from Brandon, Florida.
The Jacksonville area will also be well represented with drivers Ryan Partin, a 2007 feature winner with the Florida Sprint Car Association, plus Mark Rule, Barry McCance and Lewis Bedlock.
Volusia Speedway Park is located 15 miles west of I-95 on State Highway 40. The race track’s phone number is: 386-985-4402 and the website is www.volusiaspeedwaypark.com For O’Reilly USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com.
Contacts: PETE WALTON, USCS President (404) 886-5913 petewalton@bellsouth.net WWW.USCSRACING.COM
O’Reilly USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CARS HEADLINE ACTION AT VOLUSIA SPEEDWAY SATURDAY NIGHT (9/29)
Atlanta, GA - Wild and exciting winged outlaw sprint car racing will headline the racing program at Volusia Speedway Saturday night September 29th in the eighth annual O’Reilly USCS Florida State Championship Race. The O’Reilly Auto Parts sponsored United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" Tour (www.uscsracing.com) will roar into the fast 1/2-mile clay oval for event number two of its 11th anniversary season for the Nationally-touring O’Reilly USCS drivers who also race on paved ovals. The O’Reilly USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
This will be the only O’Reilly USCS visit to Volusia Speedway Park this season and will award points in the O’Reilly USCS National point standings and O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder regional series standings. The O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series consists of races in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least four states to the track. The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open wheel O’Reilly 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 O’Reilly USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide rear tires.
Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing in the outlaw sprint cars that includes test and tune hot laps followed by the CnB Mushroom Farms time trial qualifying. The evening's first sprint car race will be a pair of Lucas Oil Power Dash that showcases the top cars from the previous O’Reilly USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout. Next up will be a series of qualifying heat races and Saturday evening’s finale will be the 30-lap “Florida State Championship” main event.
Five-time O’Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee, who currently leads the O’Reilly USCS National and Southern Thunder point standings heads the entry list for the Volusia Speedway Park event. Gray is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past 5 years with over 75 feature wins. The “Bartlett Bullet” is also a three time Lucas Oil Super Power Dash Champion at Volusia.
Another potent competitor is twenty-one year-old Hoosier Tire Young Guns (for drivers under 25) points leader Danny 'Hammer" Martin, Jr. of Sarasota, FL who finished in the runner-up spot in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 O’Reilly USCS National point standings Martin was named as the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame’s “Wild Card Driver of the Year’ an honor for outstanding driving performances throughout the season in 2005 and he won his first O’Reilly USCS Florida State Championship Race at Volusia Speedway Park last year. Gray and Martin both finished last season highly ranked in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame “Driver of the Year” poll. Gray was ranked third and Danny Martin, Jr. finished in the eighth spot.
Martin will be joined by a host of other O’Reilly USCS Young Guns including talented young driver, eighteen-year-old Matt Tiffany from nearby Daytona Beach, Florida. Tiffany who is in his third season in sprint cars has at least one win in each of those seasons. Other Young Guns include a pair of 20-year-olds, R.J. Johnson of Decatur, Tennessee who was the 2004 O’Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year and nineteen year old Stephen Darvalics from Venice, Florida. Both are exoected to be up front in the race. Another rookie with past experience in Formula Ford and super-speedway racing is twenty-one year old, Adam Jackson from Birmingham, England. Another pair of Florida young guns Matt Kurtz from Jacksonville and Dakota Stephens from
Riverview are also entered. Kurtz won last Saturday nights Florida Sprint Car Association feature at North Florida Speedway.
Other notable entries include; 2006 East Bay Raceway Champion, Daryl Smith. The field only Ford powered entry will be driven by Matt Stegeman from Tampa.. The Florida contingent will also include veterans Bob Auld from Largo, Frank Carlsson from Oxford, Jerry Jones from Clermont and Danny Statter from nearby Deltona. Statter is in second place in the O’Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder points. Also entered are Danny Jones from Tampa and team-mates Brian Eckley and former East Bay track Champion, Brian Maddox both from Brandon, Florida.
The Jacksonville area will also be well represented with drivers Ryan Partin, a 2007 feature winner with the Florida Sprint Car Association, plus Mark Rule, Barry McCance and Lewis Bedlock.
Volusia Speedway Park is located 15 miles west of I-95 on State Highway 40. The race track’s phone number is: 386-985-4402 and the website is www.volusiaspeedwaypark.com For O’Reilly USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com.
Contacts: PETE WALTON, USCS President (404) 886-5913 petewalton@bellsouth.net WWW.USCSRACING.COM