Carver collects career-first USCS win at NAS
Tuscumbia, Alabama – August 7, 2009 – Seventeen year-old Rookie point’s leader, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee charged from his outside front row starting position into the lead in the first turn of the race and led the entire distance on his way to victory lane in the 30-lap Parts Plus United Sprint Car
Series Outlaw Thunder Tour main event at North Alabama Speedway on Friday night. Carver’s battled with veterans Terry Gray and Raymond Stull the entire distance to collect his career-first USCS feature win. The 2008 Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee who won the May 24th USCS Speedweek 2009 Round Two at North Alabama
Speedway started in the K&N filters Pole Position after the evening’s passing points
leader, seven-time series Champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee drew a four in the K&N Filters Pole Award inversion drawing
for the top six cars in the feature race. This placed Carver outside the front row beside Nicholson with past series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas inside row two and Gray in the fourth starting position. July 11th Greenville Speedway feature winner Raymond Stull from Independence, Mississippi would start fifth and Ohio
traveler, Ronnie Blair from Troy, Ohio would start sixth for the feature race.
On the start of the race Carver jumped into the lead in turn one and Gray who started fourth was scored in the runner-up spot at the end of the first lap with Nicholson in third, past series Champion Skinner, trailed in fourth and Stull was in fifth place. Three laps later Blair replaced Skinner in the top five.
After two caution periods for first turn spins and on lap eight, the order in the lead pack changed again as Stull moved past Nicholson into third place behind Carver and Gray. On lap fourteen Nicholson brought out the caution when his rear axle broke and he stopped on the back stretch while he was running in the fourth position. That was the final
caution of the event. Carver led the final sixteen laps with Gray and then a rim-riding Stull who passed Gray for the second position on lap twenty-five applying pressure.
On the final lap as Carver entered turn three Stull raced by him in the low groove for what appeared to be the winning move. Stull’s momentum took him high in turn four and the talented rookie drove back past the veteran charger low in turn four and won the drag race to the $2000 paycheck awaiting him in victory lane.
Hard charging Raymond Stull finished in the runner-up spot a car length back. Current series point’s leader, Terry Gray followed in the third position. Ronnie Blair who started sixth finished in the fourth position. Veteran USCS past Champion, Eddie Gallagher from Piperton, Tennessee rounded out the top five after starting twelfth.
Sixteen year-old Brad Greer from Coulterville, Illinois headed the next group in sixth place followed by two rookies, seventeen-year-old Jon Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee in seventh place and Casey Rowland from Nesbit, Mississippi in eighth position. Sixteen year-old female sprint car hot-shoe, Morgan Turpen from Oakland, Tennessee finished ninth
and fourteen year-old first year sprint car racer, Scott Hensley from Olive Branch, Mississippi rounded out the top ten finishers.
Veteran Terry Gray won the six-lap Parts Plus Power Dash in a photo finish over Terry Gray. Gray also won the 10-lap Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Marshall Skinner raced to victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race.
Eddie Gallagher garnered the Lunati “Crank It Up” Award for his charge past seven cars in the main event to finish fifth. The RE Technologies Rookie of race honors went to Carver. The event’s Dynotech hard luck award went to Nicholson.
The next Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series racing event is on Saturday, August 8th at Clayhill Motorsports. For more information on that event please visit www.clayhillmotorsports.com or call 731-669-3939. For rules and info on the Parts Plus USCS please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223 or 404-886-5913.
Parts Plus USCS results at North Alabama Speedway 8/07/09
Parts Plus Power Dash: Terry Gray, Justin Carver, Raymond Stull, Eddie Gallagher, Anthony Nicholson and Morgan Turpen.
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat: Terry Gray, Justin Carver, Anthony Nicholson, Raymond Stull, Scott Hensley, Casey Rowland, Clint Weiss and Lee Moore.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Marshall Skinner, Brad Greer, Ronnie Blair, Morgan Turpen, Jon Stinson, Eddie Gallagher and Ray Bugg.
Parts Plus USCS presented by Bar’s Leaks Feature Race results (30 laps) at
North Alabama Speedway 8/07/09
1 - 24 Justin Carver, Drummonds, TN
2 - 6 Raymond Stull, Independence, MS
3 - 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN
4 - 35 Ronnie Blair, Troy, OH
5 - 1 Eddie Gallagher, Piperton, TN
6 - 3B Brad Greer, Coulterville, IL
7 - 26s Jon Stinson, Memphis, TN - Rookie
8 - c4 Casey Rowland, Nesbit, MS - Rookie
9 - 80 Morgan Turpin, Oakland, TN - Rookie
10 - 40R Scott
Hensley, olive Branch, MS
11 - 16 Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, Tennessee
12 - 26m Marshall Skinner, West Memphis, AR
13 - 1A Lee Moore, Tuscaloosa, AL
14 - 0X Clint Weiss, Fort Knox, KY, Rutherfordton, NC
15 - 25 Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS
PARTS PLUS POWER DASH WINNER: Terry Gray K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Anthony Nicholson LUNATI CRANK IT UP AWARD: Eddie Gallagher (started 12th passed 7 cars) HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Justin Carver RE TECHNOLOGIES ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Justin Carver JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Anthony Nicholson (2nd place) K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD:
Terry Gray BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Ronnie Blair BARS LEAKS TOP FIVE AWARD: Eddie Gallagher
ENTRIES: 15
PROVISIONALS: None
LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Justin Carver
PHOTO #24 and CAPTION: USCS rookie point’s leader Justin Carver won the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Sprint 30-lap main event at North Alabama Speedway on Friday night (USCS Photo)
Parts Plus USCS Mid South Points As of August 8, 2009
Pos. Car# Driver 1 10 Terry Gray 3242 2 26 Marshall Skinner 3045 3 24 Justin Carver 2948 4 26S Jon Stinson 2788 5 16 Anthony Nicholson 2655
Parts Plus USCS National Points as of August 8, 2009
Pos. Car# Driver Points 1 10 Terry Gray 4463 2 24 Justin Carver 3980 3 16 Anthony Nicholson 3521 4 26 Marshall Skinner 3170 5 26S Jon Stinson 2916
Outlaw Thunder Tour will invade Watermelon Capital
Speedway in Cordele, Georgia!
Atlanta, GA – The Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour will invade Watermelon Capital Speedway in Cordele, Georgia for it’s the Summer Speed Spectacular 2009 on Saturday, August 15th at. The race at the three-eighths mile paved oval is sponsored by Hoosier Asphalt Oval South and will post over $15,000 in total prize money.
The sprint car racers compete $2000 to win in cash and merchandise with a clean sweep of the time trials, Parts Plus Power Dash, Qualifying heat race and A-Main could be worth $2500 in cash and merchandise. The pre-entry list includes sprint car drivers from eight states including some of the country’s top pavement and dirt sprint car stars. The
Parts Plus USCS is the only winged Outlaw sprint car series in the World to contest its Championship on dirt and paved ovals. The Parts Plus USCS sprint cars are the World’s most powerful and fastest short track cars. The 700 plus horsepower and 1300 pound cars are expected to reach speeds of nearly 140 miles per hour around Watermelon Capital
Speedway.
In addition to the powerful sprint cars, the racing card will incude Summer Speed Spectacular Championship races for four Watermelon Capital Speedway weekly racing divisions. Those classes include the Super Stock, Pure Stock, Mini Stocks and the popular Claimers.
The pit gates open at 1:00 pm on Saturday for pre-race activities for the sprint cars and at 5:00pm for the weekly racing series divisions. Grandstands open at 5:00pm with sprint car time trials at 7:30 pm and racing action starts promptly at 8:00 pm. The track’s official website is www.watermeloncapitalspeedway.com
Grandstand Adult admission is $20.00 and Youth 6-11yrs. are $5.00. Advanced discounted tickets will be available at the Watermelon Capital Speedway on Thursday, August 13th and Friday, August 14th from Noon until 6:00pm each day. The track is located one half mile West of Interstate 75 at Exit 104 North of Cordele. The track info number is
229-271-9301. For USCS info call 404-886-5913 or visit the official USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com
Parts Plus USCS Asphalt Points as of April 18, 2009
1 5 Blaze Martin 469
2 24 Justin Carver 441
Tie 10 Terry Gray 441
4 16 Anthony Nicholson
5 6 Brad Wickham 420
USCS Media Contact: Pete Walton / USCS (404) 886-5913 pwaltonuscs@comcast.net
