Lucas Oil ASCS Invades Cottage Grove This Weekend!
TULSA, Okla. (July 20, 2009) -- The Lucas Oil ASCS
Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters resumes its inaugural
tour of the Northwest by invading Oregon's Cottage Grove Speedway this
weekend.
Rapidly establishing itself as the nation's premier touring Sprint Car
series, the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series takes to the racy 0x00bc-mile clay
oval for two full nights of action on Friday and Saturday, with
Saturday's victor collecting the $6,000 winner's share.
And, with the fifth of five consecutive weekends of series competition,
Texas' Gary Wright and Louisiana's Jason Johnson are deadlocked atop the
series point charts as the chase for the $60,000 championship continues.
The series made its Northwest debut this past weekend with Oregon's Roger
Crockett besting the touring aces with a Friday night win and then
appearing to have completed the weekend sweep on Saturday night only to
fall light at the scales. Travis Rilat then picked up the Saturday night
win.
While Wright and Johnson are tied atop the point charts, Oklahoma's Shane
Stewart is still within striking distance just 26 points out of the lead
with Texas shoe Travis Rilat and Arkansas ace Tim Crawley rounding out
the top five.
Kansas' Tony Bruce, Jr., enters the weekend ranked sixth, with the
balance of the top ten including California native Paul McMahan,
Oklahoma's Danny Wood, 19-year-old Cornhusker rep Jack Dover and
Missouri's Jesse Hockett, who knocked off the Northwest forces for the
ASCS Northwest Speedweek title.
Just outside the top ten is Oklahoma's Sean McClelland, whose journey to
the Northwest has been a one-man operation, with other top touring
contenders including Washington natives Gary Taylor and Seth Bergman,
Ohio's Darren Long, Colorado's Chad Corken and Oklahoma's Kenneth Walker
and Gavin Punch.
The ASCS Northwest points race is also being hotly contested right now,
with Jared Ridge just eight points ahead of Steven Tiner, with Crockett
just another six points back. Other top-ten ASCS Northwest contenders
include Mitch Olson, Henry Van Dam, Chad Groves, Randy Pierce, Justyn
Cox, Jay Cole and Colin Baker.
Among the ASCS Northwest reps, Crockett gets another shot at the National
aces in his backyard this weekend after finishing fourth in last week's
ASCS Northwest stop at Cottage Grove. "We were junk that night too, we
just missed the setup," Crockett explained of the track he has mastered
on many occasions. "As bad as we were, we were still just as fast as
Shane (Stewart) and Jesse (Hockett). If we hit it right, we'll put it on
'em at Cottage Grove."
Averaging 52.7 cars per event thus far in 2009, the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint
Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters moves on to the 19th Annual ASCS
Knoxville Nationals on August 6-8 after this weekend's Cottage Grove
Speedway double.
The Series:Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters
When & Where:
Friday night, July 24 at 6:45 p.m. -- Cottage Grove Speedway
Saturday night, July 25 at 6:45 p.m. -- Cottage Grove Speedway
Track Information: Cottage Grove Speedway (Cottage Grove, OR) -- 0x00bc-mile, semi-banked
clay oval located off I-5 Exit 174, one block south on Gateway, then one
block south on North 19th Street, then right for 0.3 miles on Ostrander
Lane, then 0.4 miles north on Douglas (next to the fairgrounds). For
more information, contact the track at 541-942-7561 or 541-510-0757.
Lucas Oil ASCS Cottage Grove Speedway: A staple on the ASCS Northwest Regional Tour, this weekend marks the
first Lucas Oil ASCS National venture into the State of Oregon.
Grays Harbor Raceway ASCS National winners include: None; first event.
Lucas Oil ASCS on the Web:
Those unable to catch all the action in person can listen to every Lucas
Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters live at
www.racinboys.com.
Also, the Lucas Oil ASCS Show airs on www.racinboys.com each Tuesday
night at 8:00 p.m. ET, recapping the previous week's events while also
previewing upcoming action.
Official results, championship point updates, photos and race notes will
be available at www.ascsracing.com.
Lucas Oil ASCS on TV:
The Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters will
be featured in ten one-hour shows broadcast on a tape-delayed basis on
the VERSUS Network
The American Sprint Car Series, in its 18th year of sanctioning Sprint
Car racing events, brings the best of Sprint Car racing to nearly 100
different tracks throughout 25 states and Canada in 2009. Anchored by
the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS
also consists of a dozen different Regions throughout the nation.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is
available at www.ascsracing.com.
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