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SAMMY SWINDELL PICKS UP USCS BUCKSHOT WIN CLANTON, AL - August 31, 2024 - Sammy Swindell of Germantown, TN won the United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters 30-lap Alabama State Sprint Car Championship Race on Saturday night at Buckshot Speedway. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee came from the fourth starting spot to take the lead on lap 11 and held off the field over the final ninteen laps to the checkered flag. Hayden Martin of Olive Branch, MS finished second after...more

EASTABOGA, AL - September 1, 2024 - Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS drove to victory on Sunday night in the United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters 30-lap Sunday of Speed Sprint Car Shootout at Talladega Short Track. Howard collected the $3000 winner's check plus $1500 in lap prize money for a $4500 pay day. Howard drew the K&N Filters Pole Position in the Top 6 Redraw to start up front for the main event. Former, two-time USCS National Champion Jordan Mallet of Greenbrier, AR finished...more

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: FAYETTEVILLE, GA - September 20, 2024 - Lane Whittington of Denham Springs, LA won the 25-lap Feature Race Friday night for the United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters. Whittington led every lap, and won every race he entered Friday night. He earned the Pole Position by winning the six-lap Hoosier Racing Tire Speed Dash, and he also won the eight-lap Engler Machine & Tool First Heat. The defending and 15-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray of Bartlett, TN...more

MILTON, FL - September, 21 2024 - Lane Whittington of Denham Springs, LA won his second straight United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters 25-lap feature race Saturday night at Southern Raceway. Whittington, who led every lap and won every race he competed in on Friday night, started where he left off on Saturday night. Whittington won the Engler Machine and Tool first eight-lap lap Heat Race, and then earned the pole position for the main event by winning the six-lap Hoosier Racing...more

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 12, 2024 - Derek Hagar of Marion, AR made history on Saturday night by becoming the first driver to win both the Flip and Flop 25-lap Feature Races in the 16th Annual Bobby Martin Memorial Flip Flop 50 for the United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters at Riverside International Speedway. Hagar started on the outside front row for the Flip 25-lap Feature Race and cruised to victory. Then, the field was flopped for the start of the second 25-lap Feature Race,...more

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 11, 2024 - Two-time USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National Champion, Jordon "The Jet" Mallett of Greenbrier, AR earned the pole position on Friday night for Saturday night’s 16th Annual Bobby Martin Memorial Flip Flop 50 Sprint Car Shootout at Riverside International Speedway that pays a possible $10,000-to-win. Mallett won the 12-lap Pole Scramble made up of the top ten drivers from Heat Race passing points. Derek Hagar of Marion, AR finished second and Dale Howard of...more

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 18, 2024 - Derek Hagar of Marion, AR started tenth and made a bold move to come from third to first on a lap 11 to take the lead and go on to win Night 1 of the World Short Track Challenge for the United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filter and the American Sprint Car Series. Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS finished second and Kyle Jones of Kennedale, TX took the third spot after starting 13th to earn the Wilwood Brakes Hard Charger of the Race Award. Matt...more

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 19, 2024 - Derek Hagar of Marion, AR swept the World Short Track Challenge co-sanctioned by the United Sprint Car Series and the American Sprint Car Series on Saturday night at Riverside International Speedway. Hagar’s fifth straight USCS win at RIS was worth $10,000. The win was Hagar’s 82nd victory in USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour competition. Hagar came from the fifth starting spot to pass early race leader Jordon Mallett of Greenbrier, AR for the point on lap 34 of...more

Atlanta, GA - November 11, 2024 - This is a tentative USCS Winter Heat Series 2025 schedule. We are still working on completing a couple more dates. We just thought since so many people from near and far away had been asking about the schedule for this popular series We started a few years back we would throw it on out there so everyone can starting getting ready for that first weekend at Hendry County Motorsports Park in Clewiston, Florida on Friday, February 7th ($2000 to win) and Saturday,...more

Steve Huggins: Legendary Camshaft manufacturer has passed away. Olive Branch, MS – November 9, 2024 – Legendary camshaft manufacturer Steve Huggins from Olive Branch, Mississippi has unexpectedly passed away at age 70. The innovative camshaft specialist, who’s products almost completely dominated 360-winged sprint car racing Championships and the winners circle in the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) and United Sprint Car Series (USCS) and other series over the last three decades passed away...more

SWEETWATER, TN – November 1, 2024 - In his first visit to I-75 Raceway, Sterling Cling of Tempe, AZ dusted off the top groove of the 3/8-mile clay oval and drove to victory in the 25-lap United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters Feature Race on Friday night. Cling swept the program by winning the Butlerbuilt Beat #2, then leading every lap of the main event. While Cling camped out on the point all night, there was plenty of action behind him with many movers and shakers battling...more

CLING SWEEPS USCS CHAMP WEEKEND AT I-75 RACEWAY SWEETWATER, TN – November 2, 2024 - Sterling Cling of Tempe, AZ swept the United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters Championship Weekend on Saturday night at I-75 Raceway with his second win in as many nights in the 30-lap Feature Race. Over two nights of racing, Cling led every lap in every race he competed in. Cling won the 25-lap Feature Race on Friday night on the 3/8-mile clay oval, leading every lap, for 55 straight laps of...more

Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (Sept. 4, 2019) – Derek Hagar captured a trio of top-five finishes last weekend, capping it with a feature victory. Hagar started off the long Labor Day Weekend with a Mid-South Sprint Car Association 305ci sprint car race at Crowley’s Ridge Raceway in Paragould, Ark, on Friday. The win was almost in his grasp, but slipped away at the last second. “I was driving for Cody and Allison Hayes in their sprint car,” he said. “We started second and ran second...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (Sept. 5, 2018) – Jordon Mallett add two more wins to his ever-growing season tally last weekend, bringing his total to nine triumphs as he chases his second consecutive USCS Series title. Mallett was victorious in the weekend opener at I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, Tenn., on Friday and he followed that up with another win on Sunday at Talladega Short Track. In between, he finished second in the finale at I-75 Raceway. “I...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (June 6, 2018) – Marshall Skinner placed second in the USCS Speedweek standings thanks to a trio of top-10 finishes out of the four races that were held after the series was shortened from seven races because of rainouts. “We did pretty good,” he said. “I was pretty consistent.” Skinner had solid runs at Jackson Motor Speedway in Byram, Miss., on May 26, when he finished second, and last Thursday at Talladega Short...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (June 5, 2018) – Derek Hagar highlighted a trio of USCS Series Speedweek races last weekend with his first feature victory of the season. The tripleheader began on Thursday at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., where Hagar maneuvered from sixth to third place in a heat race before he took the lead early in the A Main. “We led a good margin of the race early on Thursday at Talladega,” he said. “When you have...more

(Photo by Joe Venus) Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (June 5, 2018) – Jordon Mallett earned four top-10 finishes during the recent USCS Speedweek. The mini-series was scheduled to compete seven times in nine nights, but rain was victorious on three occasions. Following a rainout at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., on May 25, Speedweek began the following night at Jackson Motor Speedway in Byram, Miss., where Mallett finished seventh. “We just couldn’t get the car where...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (June 4, 2018) – Sammy Swindell earned his first feature win of the season last Thursday to extend his winning streak to a whopping 48 straight years. Swindell has won at least one race during each season he has competed dating back to 1971 when he was 15-years-old. “It’s something I never figured would happen, still being as competitive as I am at this age,” he said. “I thought if I make it to the 40s. Then if I can...more

(Photo by Mark Funderburk) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (May 30, 2018) – Derek Hagar is hopeful for dry weather this weekend when he will tackle the final three USCS Series Speedweek shows. Hagar had planned on competing at all but the first Speedweek race, but rain wiped out most of last weekend. Hagar skipped the lone Speedweek race that was contested because of a long haul and a high percentage of predicted rain. “It’s about a four-and-a-half-hour ride and it was 60 to 80 percent...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (Nov. 14, 2017) – Derek Hagar is scheduled to wrap up his sprint car season this Saturday at Talladega Short Track with the USCS Series. Hagar enters the event needing a victory to extend his winning streak at the oval in Eastaboga, Ala., to three straight seasons. “We have a good track record at Talladega so hopefully we can end our season in Victory Lane,” he said. Hagar placed fourth at the track earlier this season during...more

Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 6, 2017) – Marshall Skinner is in the hunt for a USCS Series Speedweek championship thanks to a pair of victories. Skinner captured Speedweek wins on May 26 at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., and last Thursday at Talladega Short Track to book end the four completed Speedweek races. “We did really well with it being just me and my wife,” he said. “I drive the truck, I wash the cars, I do everything. It’s a big boost for me since I’m a...more

(Photo by Speedway Shots) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 5, 2017) – Sammy Swindell captured his best finish of the season last Thursday when he posted a runner-up result during a USCS Series Speedweek event at Talladega Short Track. “I’d been there maybe three times before and I think I still have the track record with the World of Outlaws,” he said. “We went back to everything with the car and concentrated on some stuff with the motor.” Swindell, who was driving for A.G....more

Hattiesburg Speedway- Finished 7th in the feature.Got behind the 8 ball early at Hattiesburg, MS for the opening night of speed week. Had a rock knock a hole in the radiator in hot laps, managed to pinch the tube and slow the leak enough to just make the dash. Finished 4th in the dash, got the radiator changed in time for the heat race, started 4th and finished 3rd. That put us starting 11th in the feature and made it up to 7th on a rubbered up track. Jackson Speedway- Finished 4th in the...more

(Photo by Chris Seelman Photography) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 7, 2016) – Derek Hagar garnered his second USCS Speedweek championship in the last three years last weekend with a runner-up performance at Talladega Short Track on Thursday. Hagar advanced from fifth to third place in the dash and from fifth to second place in a heat race. That lined him up on the outside of the front row for the main event. “We fell back to third on the first lap and had a couple of...more

(Photo Courtesy of USCS) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (Oct. 13, 2015) – A new track was no problem for Derek Hagar last Saturday at Talladega Short Track. Hagar won during his debut at the track, which gives him 15 podium finishes in his last 16 races. It also marked his 12th victory of the season. “We had a real good weekend,” he said. “We got the lead on the start of the heat race and led the whole thing. It was a slick race track. It was kind of hard to see the top because the...more

(Photo by Seth Lacewell) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (Oct. 6, 2015) – Derek Hagar is hopeful the weather forecast for this weekend stays positive. Hagar plans to compete on Saturday at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., with the USCS Series. “I’ve never been there so it’s a new race track for us,” he said. “I’m pretty excited to go there. Every time we’ve tried to go there it’s been rained out.” Hagar is seeking his seventh USCS triumph of the season and his 12th win overall...more

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (Sept. 9, 2021) – Derek Hagar earned two more podium finishes last weekend to give him 10 top fives this season. Hagar placed second on Saturday during his debut at ECM Speedway in Bremen, Ala., before he posted a third-place result on Sunday at Talladega Short Track. “I’m pleased with the weekend,” he said. “It’d have been nice to get a couple of wins, but things didn’t fall our way. Two solid podium finishes helps us get geared up...more

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