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Gastonia, NC - April 24, 2009 - Seven-time Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 30-lap Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour feature race during the Parts Plus USCS Thunder in Carolina event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. It was the first USCS feature win of the season for Gray over a talent-laden field of twenty-nine competitors from eleven states that included two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart from...more

Florence, SC – April 18, 2009 - Blaze Martin from Brandon, Florida raced to his third consecutive win in the 2009 Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder Tour Saturday night at Florence Motor Speedway. The 25-year old Martin collected $2100 for his efforts after setting fast time and holding off hard-charging 2008 USCS Rookie of the Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee in the 35-lap Night of Thunder Finale. Martin started from the outside of the front row after Engler...more

Altamahaw, NC – April 17, 2009 - Blaze Martin from Brandon, Florida raced to the win in the 35-lap Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series main event on Friday night at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, North Carolina. The 25-year old Martin got a hand of four aces worth $2200 when he also scored a clean sweep while winning the time trials and seeting a new track record plus the Parts Plus Power Dash and Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race in addition to the main event in his Lee Cipray wrenched #5...more

Monticello, AR April 11, 2009 – Defending Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Mid South Thunder Tour Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas battled past seven-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee on lap five of the 25-lap main event at Drew County Speedway on Saturday night for his second USCS feature win of the season. It was Crawley’s seventh USCS main event win in the last eight attempts dating back to last season in the Ward Racing Boatersports sponsored...more

Columbus, MS - April 4, 2009 - Gary Taylor from Seattle, Washington led the final five laps of the 30-lap Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Championship Finale of the Spring Xplosion at Magnolia Motor Speedway on Saturday night. It was a career-first USCS feature win for Taylor over a talent-laden field of competitors from eleven states. It was, more importantly, the first-ever USCS win for noted sprint car-owner Bobby Sparks from Olive Branch, Mississippi. Taylor started...more

Columbus, MS - April 3, 2009 – Defending Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Mid-South Thunder Tour Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas battled past early race-leaders, Gary Taylor from Seattle, Washington and Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi into the lead on lap thirteen of the twenty-lap preliminary night main event at Magnolia Motor Speedway on Friday night. It was Crawley’s seventh Parts Plus USCS feature win-in-a-row going back to last season when he won eleven times. Crawley...more

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...more

Atlanta, GA - Blaze Martin from Brandon, Florida streaked to the win in the 40-lap Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series main event on Sunday afternoon at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia. Martin passed a former Parts Plus USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkanasas for the lead on lap 5 and never looked back. It was Martin's first USCS feature win and a career-first winged sprint car victory. Martin started from the sixth position after drawing a six in the K&N...more

Atlanta, GA - The Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour has been added to the Friday, April 3rd racing card at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi. The event will be both a National and Mid South Thunder Tour point’s event. The series was already scheduled to compete on Saturday, April 4th and the popular 3/8 mile dirt oval. “This creates a United Speed Contest Sanction (USCS) double, double-header since the Rislone USCS Modifieds are also scheduled for both days...more

Malden, MO - March 21, 2009 – Local favorite Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri charged from the twentieth starting position in the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series 30-lap A-Main into the lead on lap seventeen and held on for the victory over seven time USCS National Champion Terry Gray in the sprint car portion of the 3rd Annual Bootheel 200 on Saturday night. Hull who has won four times in USCS competition at Malden Speedway over the past four seasons put on quite a show for the near...more

March 9, 2009 - Atlanta, GA - 2008 Parts Plus Mid South Thunder Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas leads the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National Point standings after a feature win in the series season-opener at Central Mississippi Speedway on Saturday night. The race which awarded Parts Plus Outlaw Thunder Tour National Championship points as well Parts Plus Mid South Thunder regional series points places Crawley at the top of the standings in both series sas of March 7th...more

Winona, MS March 7, 2009 – Defending Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Mid South Thunder Tour Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas battled past seven time USCS National Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee on lap twelve of the thirty-lap “Frostbuster” Classic main event at Central Mississippi Speedway on Saturday night to capture the win in the 2009 season-opener. It was Crawley’s sixth USCS main event win in-a-row dating back to last season in the Ward Racing Boatersports...more

USCSSo.Thunderlogowsm.jpgMooresville, NC -The United Sprint Car Series (www.uscsracing.com ) honored drivers and teams from six states and Australia during its 4th Annual O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series Champions Awards Banquet held for USCS Southern Thunder regional series Saturday night at Mooresville, North Carolina. A gathering of approximately fifty people honored ten sprint car drivers including Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Gray also won the Southern Thunder...more

January 10, 2009 - Over $75,000 in cash and contingencies were awarded as the United Sprint Car Series (www.uscsracing.com ) honored drivers from six states during its 12th Anniversary O'Reilly USCS Champions Awards Banquet held at the Hilton Memphis Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee on Saturday night. A gathering of 110 people honored seventeen sprint car drivers including Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who captured his seventh O'Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National...more

Greenville Mississippi – Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas won the O’Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series Gumbo Nationals 2008 www.uscsracing.com presented by Lucas Oil at Greenville Speedway on Saturday night. Crawley collected a $4400 paycheck for his efforts while besting a talented field that included drivers from eight states. Crawley completed a clean sweep of the weekend’s events by winning the six-car, six laps Lucas Oil Power Dash to place himself on the K&N Filters Pole for the...more

October 31, 2008 - Greenville Mississippi – Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas in the Boatersports sponsored Ward Racing #88 led the O’Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com presented by Lucas Oil qualifying night event on Halloween Night. Crawley captured the RE Technologies Fast Tine Award in time trial qualifying by turning a lap of 13.87 seconds around the ¼ mile Gumbo clay oval. Crawley’s time was just five one hundredths of a second off the all-time Greenville...more

October 11, 2008 - West Memphis, AR- A.G Rains from West Memphis, Arkansas towed less than five miles from his home to collect a huge win and a $3000 paycheck in the O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil “Trick or Treat” Fall Nationals at Riverside International Speedway on Saturday night. It was Raines first career win in O’Reilly USCS competition and came over a competitive field of 34 cars from five states. Rains led all 35 laps of the main event after winning the drag...more

Malden, MO - 9/13/08 - Tim Crawley from Benton Arkansas drove Mike Ward’s Boatersports/David McCarver powered/Ward Racing #88 to victory lane in the 25-lap O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Missouri State Championship main event on Saturday night at Malden Speedway. It was Crawley's third win in-a-row. his season winning slate went to double digits in the series as he also captured his tenth O'Reilly USCS Mid South Thunder Tour feature win of the season. The 2000 Missouri State Champion,...more

Malden, MO - 9/12/08 - Series points leader, Tim Crawley from Benton Arkansas drove the Boatersports sponsored David McCarver powered Ward Racing #88 to victory lane in the 20-lap Missouri State championship preliminary main event on Friday night at Malden Speedway. It was Crawley's ninth feature win in O'Reilly USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series this season and his second in-a-row. After starting next to K&N Pole Award recipient Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee, rookie Mark...more

August 31, 2008 - Camden, TN – O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Mid South Thunder point’s leader, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas bested a field of drivers from six states in the O’Reilly USCS portion of the 2nd Annual “Sunday Speed Spectacular” at Camden Speedway on Sunday night. Crawley started outside of the front row and beat K&N Filters Pole starter and defending O'Reilly USCS Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee to the first turn and held on for the win and a $2000 paycheck...more

Brasstown, NC – August 30, 2008 - Before the series second capacity crowd in two nights, O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil defending Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee raced to his second feature win in as many nights in Round Three of the O’Reilly USCS King of the Ovals Challenge at Tri-County Race Track in Brasstown, North Carolina on Saturday night. Gray led the final ten laps of the 30-lap main event in his #10 Rislone/CnB Mushroom Farms/Wesmar powered J &...more

Ringold, GA - In front of a capacity crowd on Friday night, six-time and defending O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee raced from his K&N Filters pole position start into victory lane at Boyd’s Speedway in the O’Reilly USCS “Outlaw Thunder” Tour presented by Lucas Oil 30-lap main event. Only young gun T.J. Winegardner’s win in the evening’s Lucas Oil Power Dash prevented a clean sweep for the cagey veteran in his familiar #10 Rislone, CnB Mushroom...more

Greenville, SC – Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina won the O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series "Night of Thunder” 30 lap winged sprint car feature race at historic Greenville Pickens Speedway on Thursday night. It was Bridge's fourth O'Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder win of the season and fourth in the O’Reilly USCS Carolina Thunder mini-series. Johnny Bridges captures O'Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder fair date at Greenville Pickens Speedway Bridges started fourth in the field...more

Atlanta, GA - August 11, 2008 - Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas continues to lead the current O'Reilly (www.oreillyauto.com) United Sprint Car Series Mid-South Thunder point standings with 2004 points after this past weekend's double-header at North Alabama Speedway on Friday and Clayhill Motorpsorts on Saturday. Crawley won the Friday night event and finished in second place behind Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas on Saturday night. Skinner tied Crawley's performance with a...more

August 9, 2008 – Atwood, TN – Former O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas passed series points leader, Tim Crawley on lap nine to gain the lead and then battled wheel-to-wheel with Crawley for the next eleven laps to grab the victory and $2000 first place pay check in the 30-lap O’Reilly USCS main event at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee on Saturday night. Skinner finished with a half straightaway lead over runner-up Tim Crawley...more

August 8, 2008 - Tuscumbia, AL - Current O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series Mid-South Thunder regional series points leader, Tim Crawley from Benton Arkansas won the 30-lap O’Reilly USCS feature at North Alabama Speedway on Friday night before a capacity crowd. Crawley ran his win streak in the tough regional series to two-in-a-row by besting a talented field of drivers from six states. Crawley won the previous O’Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder event during the O’Reilly USCS “Triple Crown...more

July 19, 2008 – Bulls Gap, TN - Six-time and defending O'Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee raced his way to victory lane in the 30-lap O'Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder feature at Volunteer Speedway on Saturday night. Gray who had never raced at Joe Loven’s famed high-banked 4/10 mile East Tennessee red clay oval dominated the evening in his #10 Rislone/Bar’s Leaks sponsored Wesmar powered J&J Auto Racing car. He started the night off by setting a new Volunteer...more

July 18, 2008 - Crossville, TN - Six-time O'Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the first of the twin 20-lap O'Reilly USCS Southern Thunder feature races during the O'Reilly USCS sanctioned winged sprint car "Night of Thunder" at Crossville Raceway on Friday night. Gray started outside the front row and beat K&N Filters Pole Award recipient and the evening's fastest qualifier, Steven Lines from Melbourne, Australia to the first corner and streaked to victory...more

July 10, 2008 - West Memphis, AR- O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Mid-South Thunder point’s leader, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas got two-thirds of the way to the $10,000 top prize in the Lucas Oil Triple Crown Challenge event at Riverside Speedway on Thursday night. Crawley won the Riverside Stock Cars first heat race and dominated the 15-lap feature race in that event. After winning the Lucas Oil Power Dash for the O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series sprint cars Crawley finished fifth in...more

July 3, 2008 - Camden, TN - Defending O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee beat current O’Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder point’s leader, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas to the first turn in Thursday night’s O’Reilly USCS sprint car portion of the Firecracker 100 at Camden Speedway. Gray then held off the hard-charging Crawley through several caution periods that kept Crawley on his rear bumper to collect the $2000 paycheck for the win in the...more

RIVERSIDE TRIPLE CROWN CHALLENGE NEWS: July 1, 2008 - Atlanta, Georgia - The Atlanta, Georgia based United Speed Contest Sanction has created what might be the Ultimate Challenge of short track events. On Thursday, July 10th at historic Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas the sanctioning body offers some pretty serious bread for a driver who can conquer what seems to be the ultimate short track challenge at the high-banked ¼ Gumbo clay oval well known for its torridly...more

Travelers Rest, SC - June 28, 2008 – Steven Lines from Melbourne Australia charged from his outside row four starting position into victory lane in the first of twin 20-lap O’Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil main events on Saturday night at Travelers Rest Speedway. The visiting Lines drove noted Cherryville, North Carolina car owner and crew chief, Jeff McCall’s #23 J&J Auto Racing car to his first O’Reilly USCS feature win and first win on US soil since...more

June 27, 2008 - Gastonia, NC - After setting fast time and a new track record of 13.49 seconds around the 4/10 mile clay oval, local racing hero, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina won the 30-lap O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil main event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. Bridges took the lead on lap three and led the final twenty-seven laps of the race. It was Bridges third O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder Tour and “Thunder in the Carolinas” regional...more

EAST ALABAMA MOTOR SPEEDWAY: June 21, 2008 - Phenix City, AL - On a night to remember, it just couldn’t have been bigger. In what was a storybook finish to a dream come true, Jeremy Scott from Franklin, Georgia battled his way to victory lane in the 1st Annual O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Randy Helton Memorial Race at East Alabama Motor Speedway on Saturday night. It was Scott’s first-ever career feature win in the series he has participated in since 1998. The night’s events commemorated...more

Atlanta, Ga – The 1st Annual Randy Helton Memorial race is scheduled for Saturday, June 21, 2008 at East Alabama Motor Speedway. The high-banked speed-plant located seven miles West of Phenix City, Alabama on US Highway 80 West was the late O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series driver’s favorite race track. The race is so named to commemorate the late Randy Helton from Palmetto, Georgia. Helton, 47, passed away on March 30, 2008. Helton raced regularly with the series for the last decade. Prior to...more

PENTON RACEWAY: June 20, 2008 – Penton, AL –Twenty-two year-old Danny “the Hammer” Martin, Jr. from Sarasota, Florida drove his Martin Structures/CnB Mushroom Farms/Motorheads powered #00 Shaw car to his first O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series feature win of the season at Penton Raceway on Friday night. Martin won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat, then drew the pole in the K&N Filters Pole Draw before leading every lap of the 30-lap O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder event around the...more

June 14, 2008 - Winona, MS: Past O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas scored his first feature win of the 2008 season in the 30-lap O'Reilly USCS Mid South Thunder main event at Central Mississippi Speedway in Winona, Mississippi on Saturday night. Skinner battled his Speedweek 2008 Co-Champion and rival Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas for the entire 30 laps in the thriller. Crawley finished 2 car lengths back in the runner-up...more

SPEEDWEEK NEWS - Atlanta, GA - June 1, 2008 - Two talented Arkansans, three time O’Reilly Speedweek 2008 feature winner, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas and 1999 O’Reilly USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas who finished all six A-Main events with no finish worst than seventh position tied in the final tabulation for the Speedweek title and we’re declared Co-Champions. The 2007 O’Reilly USCS Speedweek Champion, Terry Gray had the points lead slip from his grasp when...more

May 31, 2008 Columbus, MS – 2006 O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the year, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas recovered from a bad night at North Alabama Speedway on Friday to scorch the competition in the 30-lap O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Speedweek 2008 Finale presented by Lucas Oil at Columbus Speedway. The talented seventeen year-old led every lap of main event while racing high on the race track with his right rear tire against the wall most of the distance around the...more

May 30, 2008 Tuscumbia - In what was possibly the most exciting final 10 laps of an O’Reilly United Sprint Car main event or in all of sprint car racing ever, Benton, Arkansas’ fastest citizen, Tim Crawley charged to his third O’Reilly USCS Speedweek 2008 feature win on Friday night at North Alabama Speedway. Crawley, who started ninth in the field made contact with the wall early in the race on lap four and spun out. He then charged from the rear of the talented field back to the front to...more

SPEEDWEEK ROUND #5: - May 29, 2008 Camden, Tennessee - Mustang, Oklahoma’s Wayne Johnson enjoyed his first win on O’Reilly USCS Speedweek 2008 on Thursday on the round banks of Camden Speedway. Starting inside the front row by virtue of the K&N Pole Draw, Johnson beat two-time Speedweek winner Tim Crawley of Benton, Arkansas on the start and was never challenged despite four yellows and one red flag. “This track is awesome!” said Johnson into Jonathan Gowan’s microphone after winning $2000 on...more

SPEEDWEEK ROUND #4: USCS - May 27, 2008 - Clarksville, Tennessee - Benton, Arkansas ace Tim Crawley won a last lap dice with Oklahoma’s Wayne Johnson on Tuesday night at Clarksville Speedway to take his second straight victory of the O’Reilly USCS Speedweek 2008. In the first four of seven rounds, Crawley and car owner Mike Ward have two wins and a second-place. Monday’s meet at Clayhill Motorsports Park was rained out. The A-main lost one charger before the green flag when Talala, Oklahoma’s...more

SPEEDWEEK ROUND #2: Greenville , MS – May 25, 2008 – Wow! Is about all you could say after the 30-lap O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Speedweek Round Two presented by Lucas Oil at Greenville Speedway on Sunday night. The O’Reilly USCS Mid South Thunder point’s leader, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas, and six-time O’Reilly USCS National Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee battled wheel-to wheel for 25-laps around Greenville Speedway’s ¼ mile Gumbo clay surface on Sunday night. The...more

SPEEDWEEK ROUND #1: West Memphis, Arkansas – May 24, 2008 - Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi won the 3rd Annual Rumble at the River 35-lap O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2008 opener on Saturday night at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. It was the young driver’s second career O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series feature win. The hard fought victory came over a tough field of highly ranked drivers from seven states in the first of seven rounds of competition in the 3rd Annual...more

Blue Ridge, Georgia – May 2, 2008 - Twenty-four year-old, T.J. Winegardner from Pierson, Florida scored a win in the O’Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder presented by Lucas Oil victory 30-lap “Shootout at Sugar Creek” sprint car race on Friday night at Sugar Creek Raceway in scenic Blue Ridge, Georgia. Winegardner bested a field of top drivers from seven states including several past series Champions for his career first USCS win. Past TBARA Champion and pavement star, Shane Butler from Bushnell,...more

Six-time O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee scored a photo-finish win in the 20-lap O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil main event on Friday night at Harris Speedway. Gray beat CnB Mushroom Farms fast qualifer Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North, Carolina to the finish-line by about 18 inches in the $1200 to win preliminary feature race of the "Thunder in Carolina" Round One. The series returns to Harris Speedway on Saturday...more

April 19, 2008 – 2004 O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series/ AOAS Champion, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina won the 35-Lap O’Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour main event at Dillon Motor Speedway in Dillon, South Carolina on Saturday nBridges started the evening by setting the fastest time trial qualifying lap around high-banked 4/10ths mile paved oval. After winnning the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race, The win was his third career O’Reilly USCS feature win. Bridges drew a zero...more

April 12, 2008 - Tim Crawley from Benton Arkansas drove Mike Ward’s famed # 88 David McCarver powered car into victory lane in the 30 lap O’Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com Night of Thunder at Checkered Flag Speedway in Hohenwald, Tennessee on Saturday night. It was Crawley’s second O’Reilly USCS win of the young season. Crawley started in the K&N Filters pole position after Engler Machine and Tool First Heat winner and defending champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett,...more

Cordele, GA - March 15, 2008 – 2005 O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Asphalt Thunder Tour Champion, Wayne Reutimann, Jr. from Zephyrhills, Florida won the 35-Lap O’Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder Tour season-opener at Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia on Saturday night. The win was his sixth career O’Reilly USCS feature win. Reutimann, Jr. started the evening by qualifying second fastest in the CnB Mushroom Farms Time Trials after Danny Martin, Jr. from Sarasota, Florida set fast...more

Over $75,000 in cash and contingencies were awarded as the O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series ( www.uscsracing.com ) honored drivers from seven states during its recent 11th Anniversary O'Reilly USCS Champions Awards Banquet held at the Hilton Memphis Convention Center in Memphis, Tennessee. A gathering of nearly 150 people honored seventeen sprint car drivers including Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who captured his sixth O'Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National...more