Atlanta, GA - March 31, 2009 – The United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) invades Magnolia Motor Speedway with a sprint car and Modified double-header this Friday, April 3rd and Saturday, April 4th for the Parts Plus USCS Spring Xplosion “Smorgasbord of Speed” featuring two full nights of high speed action in seven racing divisions at one of the Mid-South’s most popular venues.
Race teams and race fans will be treated to a literal smorgasbord of speed with racing in six of the area’s most popular divisions plus the first ever appearance of the Parts Plus USCS “Outlaw Thunder” Tour winged sprint cars at Magnolia Motor Speedway. The event features over 500 laps of racing around the 3/8 mile clay oval including 250 laps of Championship main events
The Magnolia Motor Speedway racing program turns up the tempo with the addition of the 700+ horsepower, 1300 pound Outlaw style sprint cars of the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series for two full nights of action. The world’s most powerful short track cars are expected to reach speeds exceeding 130 M.P.H. around the “Mag”. Top winged sprint car drivers from 8 states are already pre-entered for the first ever appearance of the Parts Plus USCS sprint cars to Magnolia Motor Speedway. The event is also the only scheduled sprint car appearance for either Columbus area track for the 2009 season.
Racing divisions featured in back-to-back nights in the cavalcade of racing include the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series winged sprint cars, the mighty Rislone USCS Modified Series, Nesmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Weekly Racing Series, plus the Magnolia Motor Speedway weekly racing series Super Late Models, Late Model Stock, Street Stock and Stinger racing divisions.
Friday night’s racing program will feature the first chance of the 2009 season for the racers in the Nesmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series to gain weekly racing series Championship points. Just like the opening weekend of “Deer Season” this special double-dip, double-shot is expected to bring out plenty of hunters who get to race for WRS points two nights in a row at the same track.
The event also gives the open wheel modified division racers a chance to score points in the new Rislone USCS Weekly Racing Series on Friday night and then, try to improve their standings in Saturday night’s $1200 to win Rislone USCS Modified Touring Series Championship event.
Super Late Model racers and fans can also settle in for back-to-back weekly racing series events in the “Black Ice” Twin 25’s. Super Late Models will contest two full nights of racing with $1000 guaranteed to win the main event each night and a $500 bonus up for grabs for any driver who can win both halves of the Black Ice Twin 25’s. Additionally the Late Model Stock, Street Stock and Stinger divisions will contest a full racing program each night.
Magnolia Motor Speedway is located just West of Columbus, Mississippi at the junction of US Highway 82 and US Highway 45 South.