CHARLOTTE, NC – October 22, 2016 – Trey Starks of Puyallup, WA was Mr. Perfect in the OneDirt.com World Short Track Championships for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters on both Friday and Saturday nights at The Dirt Track at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Starks capped off the clean sweep of the weekend on Saturday night with the win in the 25-lap Comp Cams sponsored sprint car main event by leading wire-to-wire. It was the fourth win of the season for Starks during the 2016 20th Anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour. In two nights of competition, Starks seemingly had none. Starks started the Friday night action by setting fast time honors with a lap around the 4/10-mile clay oval in 14.748 seconds. After being inverted to the fourth position for the heat race start, he then led all eight laps to win the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. That earned him the pole position for Saturday night’s K&N Filters USCSPole Scramble. Once again, Starks went unchallenged, leading all 12 laps for the win and earning the K&N Filters Pole Award for the A-Main.
Dylan Westbrook of Scotland, ON
Canada took the second spot in the main event and Dane Lorenc of Lancaster, NY
finished third. Lance Moss of Cherryville, NC came home in the fourth
spot and the defending USCSNational Champion Morgan Turpen of Cordova, TN was
fifth.
Kevin Roberts of Washington Court
House, OH finished sixth and Michael Miller of Ocean Springs, MS was
seventh. Jake McLain of Indian Trail, NC took the eighth spot. Brandon
McLain of Indian Trail, NC started 22nd and finished ninth to
earn the Wilwood Disc Brakes Hard Charger Award. Johnny Petrozelle of
Lexington, NC rounded out the top ten.
In other Friday night preliminary
action, the eight-lap Brown and Miller Racing Solutions Second Heat
Race was won by 2015 USCS Rookie of the Year Nick Snyder of Marco
Island, FL. The eight-lap Schoenfeld Headers Third Heat Race was won by Shawn
Murray of Jacksonville, FL.
Starks took the lead at the start of
the race that took three tries due to a false start and a stall by Eric Riggins
Jr. of Charlotte, NC. Following Starks under the flagstand on lap one was
Westbrook, 11-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray of Bartlett, TN,
Moss and Glenn Styres of Oschwegen, ON, Canada.
Once the race got underway, it was
stopped on lap four for debris. Starks remained the leader followed by
Westbrook, Gray, Moss and Styres. The fourth caution flag of the race
came out on lap six when Snyder stalled in turn two. On the restart,
Styres dropped back to the eighth spot, as Roberts, Miller and Lorenc got by him
for the fifth, six, and seventh spots respectively.
Miller passed Roberts for the fifth
spot on lap seven, and then Lorenc took over the fifth spot on lap ten.
Starks, Westbrook, Gray, Moss and Lorenc remained in the top five until lap 16
when Gray suddenly slowed on the race track and brought out the caution flag on
lap 17 with a cut tire. The top five for the restart was Starks,
Westbrook, Moss, Lorenc and Miller.
Turpen passed Miller to move up to
the top five on lap 18, and Lorenc got by Moss for the third spot on lap
20. Starks breezed home during the last five laps of the race to take a
3.784 second margin of victory over Westbrook at the checkered flag.
Eleven-time USCS National
sprint car Champion, Terry Gray gave up the third position in the race and the
National points lead when he had to pit for the tire change on lap seventeen.
Gray recovered to the thirteenth spot by the end of the race, but, that gave
the chase for the National title lead back to his team-mate Morgan Turpen. The
two have been in a see-saw battle since mid-season.
The next event will close out the
2016 20th Anniversary United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder
Tour presented by K&N Filters. The USCS winged outlaw
sprint cars will visit Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, AR on
Friday night, November 11, and on Saturday night, November 12 for the USCS Fall
Nationals.
For rules and updated schedule
information about the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour, please
visit www.uscsracing.com or call the series
office at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097. You
can also like the United Sprint Car Series Facebook page at USCS Racing.
OFFICIAL RESULTS OF NIGHT OF THE
ONE DIRT.COM SHORT
TRACK WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT THE DIRT TRACK AT CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY IN
CHARLOTTE, NC ON 10/21/16:
FEATURE RACE – 25 LAPS:
POS
START CAR #
DRIVER
HOMETOWN
1.
1
23s Trey
Starks
Puyallup, WA
2.
2
47x Dylan Westbrook
Scotland, ON, Canada
3.
11
00 Dane
Lorenc
Lancaster, NY
4.
3
23 Lance
Moss
Cherryville, NC
5.
12
10m Morgan Turpen
Cordova, TN
6.
14
22r Kevin Roberts
Washington Court House, OH
7.
8
4m Michael
Miller
Ocean Springs,
MS
8.
16
67 Jake
McLain
Indian Trail, NC
9.
22
21b Brandon McLain
Indian Trail, NC
10.
18
59 Johnny
Petrozelle
Lexington, NC
11.
6
22 Shawn
Murray
Jacksonville, FL
12.
4
0 Glenn
Styres
Ohsweken, ON, Canada
13.
5
10 Terry
Gray
Bartlett, TN
14.
7
12 Nick
Roberts
Bloomingburg, OH
15.
19
99 Tanner
Witherspoon Jacksonville,
FL
16.
11
38 Tony
Agin
Fort Myers, FL
17.
21
27 Stan
Zanchin
Fort Erie, ON, Canada
18.
10
116 Nick
Snyder
Marco Island, FL
19.
9
1x Scott
Hunter
Concord, NC
20.
17
24 Danny Sams
III
Englewood, FL
21.
13
47 Eric Riggins
Jr.
Charlotte, NC
22.
20
43 Terry Witherspoon
Jacksonville, FL
23.
24
51 Jay
Dunham
Harlem, GA
24.
23
33 Joe
Larkin
Suwanee, GA DNS
UNITED SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE
AWARDS:
Engler Machine and Tool First
Heat: Starks
Brown and Miller Racing Solutions Second Heat: Snyder
Schoenfeld Headers Third Heat: Murray
K&N Filters Pole Award:
Starks
JE Pistons Top Guns Award: (4th place) Moss
K&N Filters Podium (3rd place) Award: Lorenc
Wilwood Disc Brakes Hard Charger Award: Brandon McLain (started 22nd and
finished 9th)
Keizer Aluminum Wheels Top Five Award: Turpen
Saldana Racing Products Super Sixth Award: K. Roberts
Pyrotect Racing Cells Lucky Seven Award: Miller
DHR Suspension 8th-Place Award: Jake McLain
DMI/Bulldog Rear Ends Top Ten Award: Petrozelle
USCS PRESENTED BY K&N
FILTERS FRIDAY NIGHT PRELIMINARY RACE RESULTS:
QUALIFYING:
POS
CAR #
DRIVER
HOMETOWN
TIME
1.
23s Trey
Starks
Puyallup,
WA
14.748
2. 47x
Dylan Westbrook
Scotland, ON, Canada
14.911
3.
00 Dane
Lorenc
Lancaster, NY
15.008
4.
23 Lance
Moss
Cherryville,
NC
15.400
5.
47 Eric Riggins
Jr.
Charlotte,
NC
15.415
6.
10m Morgan
Turpen
Cordova, TN
15.415
7.
1x Scott
Hunter
Concord,
NC
15.561
8.
10 Terry
Gray
Bartlett,
TN
15.582
9.
0 Glenn
Styres
Ohsweken, ON, Canada
15.642
10.
21m Brandon McLain
Indian Trail, NC
15.669
11.
116 Nick
Snyder
Marco Island,
FL
15.765
12.
22 Shawn
Murray
Jacksonville, FL
15.822
13.
38 Tony
Agin
Fort Myers,
FL
15.867
14.
67 Jake McLain
Indian Trail,
NC
15.945
15.
22r Kevin Roberts
Washington Court House, OH
15.953
16.
12 Nick
Roberts
Bloomingburg, OH
15.953
17.
4m Michael
Miller
Ocean Springs, MS
16.002
18.
24 Danny Sams
III
Englewood,
FL
16.120
19.
59 Johnny
Petrozelle
Lexington, SC
16.210
20.
27 Stan
Zanchin
Fort Erie, ON,
Canada
16.238
21.
43 Terry
Witherspoon
Jacksonville,
FL
16.465
22.
33 Joe
Larkin
Suwanee,
GA
17.248
23.
99 Tanner
Witherspoon Jacksonville,
FL
18.368
24.
51 Jay
Dunham
Harlem,
GA
NT
HEAT RACE RESULTS:
Engler Machine & Tool Heat 1 -
(8 Laps): 1. Starks; 2. B. McLain; 3. Moss; 4. Hunter; 5. N. Roberts; 6. Agin;
7. Petrozelle; 8. Larkin DNS.
Brown and Miller Racing
Solutions Heat 2- (8 Laps): 1. Snyder; 2. Gray; 3. Westbrook; 4.
Miller; 5. Riggins; 6. J. McLain; 7. Ta. Witherspoon; 8. Zanchin.
Schoenfeld Headers Heat 3 - (8
Laps): 1. Murray; 2. Lorenc; 3. Turpen; 4. Styres; 5. K. Roberts; 6. Sams;
7. Te. Witherspoon; 8. Dunham DNS.
UNITED SPRINT CAR SERIES PRESENTED
BY K&N FILTERS SATURDAY NIGHT PRELIMINARY RACE RESULTS:
Pole Scramble – (12 Laps): 1.
Starks; 2. Westbrook; 3. Moss; 4. Styres; 5. Gray; 6. Murray; 7. N. Roberts; 8.
Miller; 9. Hunter; 10. Snyder; 11. Lorenc; 12. Turpen; 13. B. McLain-DNS.
The United Sprint Car Series
presented by K&N Filters would like to gratefully thank its sponsoring
partners for their involvement in the 2016 and 20th anniversary USCS Outlaw
Thunder Tour: K&N Filters,www.rockauto.com, Hoosier Race Tires,
Engler Machine and Tool, Butlerbuilt, Wilwood Disc Brakes, Saldana Racing
Products, Pyrotect Racing Cells, DMI/Bulldog Rear Ends. Hero Graphics, KSE
Racing Products, Schoenfeld Headers, DSR Fuel Systems, Brown and Miller Racing
Solutions and DHR Suspensions.
**Photo/Caption
#23; Trey Starks streaked to his 4th USCS Outlaw Thunder
Tour win of the season in the ONEDIRT.com World Short Track Championships
25-lap Comp Cams sprint car main event.
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