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AMERSON TAKES THIRD USCS WIN OF THE SEASON AT SENOIA RACEWAY SENOIA, GA – August 10, 2024 - Kyle Amerson of Montgomery, AL drove to his third United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters win of the 2024 season on Saturday night at Senoia Raceway. The Racing Doctor took the lead at the start of the 30-lap Feature Race from his outside front row starting spot and went wire-to-wire to the checkered flag. Tyler Blankenship of Bakersfield, CA was the apparent second-place finisher, however,...more

HATTIESBURG, MS – Saturday, August 3, 2024 - Two-time USCS National Champion Morgan Turpen Havener of Cordova, TN won night two of the Summer Sprint Car Shootout for the United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters on Saturday night in the 30-lap Feature Race at Hattiesburg Speedway. Havener went wire-to-wire to lead all 30 laps. The “Queen of the Wings” outran Friday night’s winner former USCS National Champion Jordan Mallett of Greenbrier, AR, who finished second. The defending and...more

HATTIESBURG, MS – FRIDAY, AUGUST 2ND, 2024 - Former USCS National Champion Jordan Mallett of Greenbrier, AR won Night 1 of the United Sprint Car Series Presented By K&N Filters Summer Sprint Car Shootout on Friday night at Hattiesburg Speedway. Mallett took the lead from his outside front row starting spot at the start of the race and led all 25 laps. Two-time USCS National Champion Morgan Turpin Havener of Gallatin, TN took the second spot and Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS started 18th and...more

GASTONIA, NC – August 23, 2024 - Eric Riggins Jr. of Charlotte, NC won the United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters 25-lap Feature Race Friday night at Carolina Speedway. Riggins came from the third starting spot to take the lead from Lance Moss of Cherryville, NC on lap 12 and led the rest of the way in the caution-free race. It was Riggins 23rd career USCS Victory. Moss finished second, as Riggins and Moss set such a fast pace, they were the only two cars on the lead lap. Johnny...more

RIGGINS SWEEPS USCS CAROLINA WEEKEND WITH CHEROKEE WIN... FOR IMMEDIATE GAFFNEY, SC – August 24, 2024. Eric Riggins Jr. of Charlotte, NC posted a clean sweep of the United Sprint Car Series Presented by K&N Filters 25-lap Feature Race on Saturday night at Cherokee Speedway. Riggins led all 25 laps of the Main Event from the pole position, he also won the six-lap Hoosier Racing Tire Speed Dash, and he won the Engler Machine & Tool First Heat Race. It was Riggins’ fifth USCS win of the 2024...more

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

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (Nov. 27, 2019) – Derek Hagar rounded out his 2019 season with nine wins, which will serve as motivation throughout the offseason. “I believe this is only the second season we didn’t earn 10 or more wins,” he said. “I was hoping to do it again, but that isn’t all that defines the year we had.” Hagar finished in the top five 25 times during a 38-race schedule. He would have raced more had Mother Nature not wreaked havoc for a good part...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – CHATHAM, La. (Oct. 22, 2019) – Channin Tankersley scored a pair of top 10s during a USCS Series doubleheader at Chatham Speedway last weekend. The Old School Racing driver began the action on Friday by winning a heat race from the second starting position. He capped the night by recording an eighth-place run in the main event, which was his 10th top 10 of the year. “We were a little off on Night 1,” he said. “We were too snug to run the...more

(Photo by Ron Skinner Photos) Inside Line Promotions – HIGHLANDS, Texas (Oct. 16, 2019) – This season has been arguably the lightest on the race schedule for Channin Tankersley, who is traveling to Louisiana this weekend. The Old School Racing competitor will compete on Friday and Saturday at Chatham Speedway in Chatham, where he last raced during his season-opening doubleheader in March. The races this weekend are with the USCS Series. “We’ve run pretty decent there and we’ve won there in the...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

Inside Line Promotions – LEXINGTON, Tenn. (July 10, 2019) – Derek Hagar earned his fourth win of the season and he added two more podium finishes to his record during a one-week span. It began on Sunday, June 30, when Hagar raced at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, Ala, with the USCS Series. “We were supposed to race there on Saturday, but it got rained out,” he said. “It turned into a day race on Sunday. We started first in the dash and finished second. The heat was better for us, as we...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (July 2, 2019) – Marshall Skinner scored a trio of top-10 finishes in USCS Series action during the last two weekends. Last Sunday Skinner started fourth and finished sixth in an afternoon race at North Alabama Speedway – a race that was postponed from Saturday night. “I started second row outside and there was no way anyone would let me to the bottom right away,” said Skinner, who won his heat race. “I eventually squeezed...more

Inside Line Promotions – BYRAM, Miss. (June 25, 2019) – Derek Hagar won the final two USCS Series Speedweek races last weekend to wrap up the event championship. “We were supposed to race at the Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, Ala., on Thursday night,” he said. “I was bummed it got rained out since we’ve had success there before. I was hoping we’d get a chance to do it again.” Following the rainout, the weekend began on Friday night at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., where...more

(Photo by TeeJay Crawford) Inside Line Promotions – LEXINGTON, Tenn. (May 30, 2019) – Derek Hagar started off the grueling USCS Speedweek with a lot of consistency, which helped him take over the points lead at the midpoint of the spectacle. Four races were run last weekend and the remaining races will pick up once again next week. “Friday night at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Miss., we started fifth in our heat race and ran second,” Hagar said. “We ended up finishing third in the...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – LEXINGTON, Tenn. (May 30, 2019) – A pair of podium finishes at Riverside International Speedway last Saturday night highlighted a busy weekend of racing for Marshall Skinner. Skinner charged from third to first on the opening lap of the USCS Series A Main and then battled with eventual winner Jeff Swindell before finishing second – one spot ahead of Swindell’s brother, Sammy. “Jeff and I had a real good race,” Skinner said. “We swapped...more

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (May 23, 2019) – Sammy Swindell will make his season debut behind the wheel of the A.G. Rains owned No. 3 this weekend during the first four USCS Speedweek races. The team took the car out once this season to shake it down, but the races this Friday at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Miss.; Saturday at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark.; Sunday at Old No. 1 Speedway in Harrisburg, Ark.; and Monday at...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (May 21, 2019) – Derek Hagar is eager to get behind the wheel during the USCS Speedweek, which features four straight nights of racing this week. Rain washed out the Hooker Hood Classic, which he was supposed to run last Saturday. It’s the latest rain out that has kept Hagar from racing. “I was really anxious to race last weekend,” he said. “The weather was looking good and it was going to be a great race. A storm popped up...more

(Photo by Wildlight Motorsports Photography) Inside Line Promotions – GAFFNEY, S.C. (April 8, 2019) – Trey Starks posted the best season-opening result of his sprint car career last Saturday at Cherokee Speedway. After Friday’s USCS Series event at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C., rained out, Starks and Gobrecht Motorsports ventured to Cherokee Speedway for the weekend finale. He advanced from fourth to second place in a heat race before maneuvering from third to second in the main...more

(Photo by Matt Hill Photo) Inside Line Promotions – LEXINGTON, Tenn. (April 2, 2019) – Greg Wilson posted his second straight podium finish last Friday at Lexington 104 Speedway, where he garnered a runner-up result. Wilson and his Hercules Tires, DNC Hydraulics, Ohio Logistics and Gear Off Road sponsored team was strong throughout the USCS Series event. He won the dash from the pole position, but had to start much further back in both the heat race and main event. “It’s all pill draw,” he...more

Inside Line Promotions – PUYALLUP, Wash. (April 1, 2019) – The season begins this weekend for Trey Starks as Gobrecht Motorsports ventures to the East Coast for a USCS Series doubleheader. The team will compete on Friday at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C., and on Saturday at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C. First, Starks will participate in a test session on Wednesday at Carolina Speedway. “It’s been a super long offseason for me it feels like,” he said. “It’s probably the longest...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – TUSCUMBIA, Ala. (March 25, 2019) – Greg Wilson earned his first feature victory in nearly three years last Saturday at North Alabama Speedway, where he won both his heat race and the main event during the USCS Series event. “We were going to go to Little Rock, Ark., but it looked like a pretty good chance of rain,” he said. “The weather looked perfect for the deal in Alabama. After sitting for so many weeks we made the decision to go the...more

(Photo by TeeJay Crawford) Inside Line Promotions – DU QUOIN, Ill. (March 12, 2019) – Derek Hagar isn’t afraid to stand his ground, which is the position he feels he has been put into following a frustrating 4th annual Shamrock Classic last Saturday inside the Southern Illinois Center. “There’s a time and place to stand your ground,” he said. “We had a couple of incidents with teams thinking they can push us around. They’ll have a rude awakening in the future.” Hagar opened the USAC P1...more

(Photo by Ron Skinner Photos) Inside Line Promotions – CHATHAM, La. (March 12, 2019) – Channin Tankersley posted a runner-up result last weekend during the opening event of the season for Old School Racing. The team ventured to Louisiana for a two-day USCS Series event at Chatham Speedway, where Tankersley finished third in a heat race to kick off Friday’s action. That lined him up on the outside of the fifth row for the main event. “I got up to fifth in the first two laps,” he said. “I was...more

Inside Line Promotions – CHATHAM, La. (March 12, 2019) – Jamie Ball and the White Lightning Motorsports team made the most out of a trip to Chatham Speedway last weekend for a two-day USCS Series event, which began with a top-five finish on Friday during the team’s season opener. “It was great to get a night under our belt and shake the rust off,” Ball said. “We had a good night overall to start the year being able to get our first top five of the season.” Ball finished where he started –...more

(Image Credit: Daryl Turford) Bryan Hulbert – OCALA, Fla. (February 14, 2019) Kicking off his 2019 season at Bubba Raceway Park this past weekend in USCS competition, Sam Hafertepe, Jr. collected a pair of podium finishes at the egg-shaped oval. Coming in Friday with a run from seventh to second in his Heat Race, Sam positioned the Hills Racing No. 15h on the pole of the A-Feature. Leading the first 11 rounds, a mid-race restart would allow eventual race winner, Davie Franek, his shot at the...more

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 14, 2019) – Seth Bergman posted a pair of top-10 finishes during a season-opening doubleheader last weekend at Bubba Raceway Park. Bergman, who is coming off one of the best seasons of his career, kicked off the 2019 campaign by recording an eighth-place result on Friday before finishing seventh on Saturday. “It was good to start the season with a pair of top 10s, but our goal is to put ourselves in contention to win races on a...more

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – OCALA, Fla. (Feb. 12, 2019) – Alex Hill’s first-ever visit to Bubba Raceway Park was a challenging experience as she kicked off her 2019 racing season last weekend during a USCS Series doubleheader. A driving miscue was costly on Friday while mechanical woes plagued her on Saturday. “I thought we ran pretty well, although our results didn’t show it,” she said. “I made a mistake on Friday that cost us and we had some mechanical problems on Saturday....more

Bryan Hulbert – OCALA, Fla. (February 5, 2019) Before Sam Hafertepe, Jr. begins his pursuit of a fourth Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series National Tour Championship in as many years, the Sunnyvale, Texas driver will kick off his season in Florida this weekend at Bubba Raceway Park on Friday, February 8 and Saturday, February 9. “We’re going to do Bubba Raceway Park this weekend, then head over to Eastbay for the King of the 360’s. We’ve changed a few things, primarily with the wings going...more

Inside Line Promotions – SIX NATIONS, Ontario, Canada (Feb. 4, 2019) – Alex Hill is excited to open her 2019 racing season this weekend. The 19-year-old will race her 360ci winged sprint car for most of this month in Florida before joining the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour in March for a full season of competition. “I’m really looking forward to getting back on the track this week,” said Hill, who plans to race with the USCS Series at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala this Friday and Saturday. “We’ve...more

Inside Line Promotions – MAPLE GROVE, Minn. (Jan. 4, 2019) – Winter is about to heat up as the United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters ventures south for a 10-race spectacle. The 360ci winged sprint car series visits Florida, Mississippi and Louisiana for the Winter Heat Series, which showcases 10 nights of action at six different tracks. Speed Shift TV will offer live video coverage of eight of those races with the other two being posted to the On-Demand section of the website...more

(Photo by Joe Venus) Inside Line Promotions – GREENBRIER, Ark. (Nov. 19, 2018) – Jordon Mallett recorded a career-high nine victories on his way to winning the USCS Series national championship for the second straight year. The native of Greenbrier, Ark., also earned the Deep South Thunder, Mid-South Thunder and Southern Thunder regional titles that the USCS sanctions. “It means quite a bit to us to win another title,” he said. “We set out last year just to win a title and we did that. This...more

(Photo by DB3 Imaging) Inside Line Promotions – OCALA, Fla. (Nov. 13, 2018) – The season didn’t end the way Trey Starks had hoped as misfortune hampered the Gobrecht Motorsports team during a USCS Series doubleheader at Bubba Raceway Park last weekend. A mechanical problem slowed the team on Friday as Starks placed seventh in a heat race before charging from seventh to second place in the B Main to garner a transfer into the back of the main event. However, he pulled off the track early in the...more

Inside Line Promotions – OCALA, Fla. (Nov. 13, 2018) – Jordon Mallett capped his second consecutive USCS Series national championship by finishing second in the season finale last Saturday at Bubba Raceway Park. Along with the USCS National title, Mallett made it a clean sweep, earning the Deep South Thunder, Mid-South Thunder and Southern Thunder regional titles. “We were tickled to be able to win the national title and the regional championships,” he said. “We are very pleased with how...more

(Photo by Jones Sports Media) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (Nov. 6, 2018) – Derek Hagar registered a half-dozen feature victories this season. “We really didn’t get to do a whole lot of racing,” he said. “To still be competitive with the caliber of cars we raced with says a lot for our team. We had some wins this year in the little amount of races we got in. It wasn’t as much as we’d done in the past couple of years, but to still win six races and not race as much as we had in the...more

(Photo by Mark Funderburk) Inside Line Promotions – CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 5, 2018) – Trey Starks is looking to end the year strong by competing in Florida this weekend with the USCS Series. The Gobrecht Motorsports driver will race on Friday and Saturday at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala, where he was victorious last year during the final weekend of the season. “We’re going to test tomorrow in North Carolina and then we’ll throw a 360 in to run in Florida to see if we can get some momentum to end...more

(Photo by Paul Arch) Inside Line Promotions – GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (Oct. 25, 2018) – Sammy Swindell will likely wrap up his season this Saturday at Riverside International Speedway. Swindell is invading the quarter-mile oval for twin features during a USCS Series event that was postponed earlier this month because of weather. He and car owner A.G. Rains were victorious at the track in July. “We’ll have our work cut out for us because we didn’t have a great heat race run when the event started a...more

(Photo by B Young Photography) Inside Line Promotions – MILTON, Fla. (Oct. 23, 2018) – Jordon Mallett continued his championship chase with the USCS Series last weekend, earning two more top-five finishes as he closes in on his second consecutive title with the Southeast-based series. Mallett began the action last Friday night at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., by charging from the sixth starting spot to finish second in heat race competition, which set him up with a front row...more

(Photo by Jones Sports Media) Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (Oct. 16, 2018) – Derek Hagar has his work cut out for him when the 10th annual USCS Fall Nationals and Flip Flop 54 resumes on Oct. 27. The USCS Series event at Riverside International Speedway began last Friday, when Hagar finished where he started – seventh – in a heat race. “We had a bad draw with a tough heat race and on a trough track to pass on,” he said. “Nothing lined up for us Friday. It made for a short night....more

(Photo by Jones Sports Media) Inside Line Promotions – GERMANTOWN, Tenn. (Oct. 10, 2018) – There has been a change of plans this weekend for Sammy Swindell. Work commitments will keep Thone Motorsports from racing so Swindell will team back up with A.G. Rains to invade Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark., this Friday and Saturday for a USCS Series event. “I got a call this morning that Thone Motorsports wouldn’t be able to race so we’re going to West Memphis instead,”...more