FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
OUTLAW SPRINT CARS AND LATE MODELS DOUBLE THE ACTION AT ROME SPEEDWAY THIS SUNDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 5
Atlanta, GA – (September 1, 2010) The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear returns to historic Rome Speedway in Rome, Georgia this Sunday, September 5th for the annual “Rome Boss” speed spectacular event. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a $3000 to win forty-lap Rome Boss Super Late Model Championship Race along with Limited Late Models, Crate Late Models, Super & Econo Bombers, Cruisers, and Pony Stocks. In addition to stock car racing fans will see a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing.
Sunday night’s USCS winged Outlaw sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear regional 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 World’s fastest 1/2-mile clay track. 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 Rome Speedway holiday weekend 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.
Sunday 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 “Rome Boss Sprint Car Shootout” 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 five times in 2010 UCSC competition and is a four time Dixie Speedway, 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 is always a threat to win. Another expected potent competitor is twenty-three year-old young gun Danny 'Hammer" Martin, Jr. of Sarasota, Florida. Martin was the runner-up in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 National title chases. He was named as the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame’s 2005 “Wild Card Driver of the Year’ an honor for outstanding driving performances.
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 Rome 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 in fourth place in last weekend’s USCS main event at New Senoia Raceway and has a number of top five finishes on the season.
Additionally expected are two-time 2010 USCS feature winner and the 2009 Dixie Speedway Sprint Car Nationals Champion, Matt Linder from Hoschton, Georgia. Linder score a win in last weekend’s Randy Helton Memorial Race at New Senoia Raceway. Also expected are USCS sprint car veterans, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia, 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, additional young drivers include 15 year-old Rookie of the Year candidate, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina ho had impressive runner-up finishes in the last two USCS main events and 2009 USCS Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year Brandon Rekow from Mooresville, North Carolina plus 21 year-old, 2008 Southern Thunder rookie of the Year Lee Moore from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 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 #X will a rare utilize a Roush-Yates Ford power plant.
Other expected out of state entries include: Mike Hampton from McKenzie, Tennessee,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, 18 year-old, 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 and brothers Darren And David Clark from Huntersville, North Carolina..
Grandstand Adult admission is $17 with children 8 and under free, children 9-17 yr. are $6. Trackside/Tailgate parking is also available for $20 per adult. Rome Speedway is located at 1900 Chulio Rd., Rome, GA, 30161. The race track phone number is: (706) 235-2541. The track’s website is www.raceromespeedway.com For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com.
