Atlanta, GA – May 2, 2017– The 21st Anniversary United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters winged sprint cars invade Lavonia Speedway on this Saturday night (May 6th) at 7:30 pm for the USCS Saturday of Speed Sprint Car Spectacular SPECIAL EVENT. The track has been a USCS driver and fan favorite over the past 20 seasons and was on the series original schedule on July 4, 1997.
The series last visited
Lavonia Speedway last season on Labor Day weekend of 2016 when 1998 USCS Rookie
of the Year and series veteran driver, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North
Carolina was the first to reach the finish line and parked his mount in the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane after
the USCS main event. Bridges is among the expected entries for Saturday night’s
event.
Although not a winner
at Lavonia Speedway yet, the defending USCS National Champion and 2017 wins leader
is Morgan Turpen from Cordova, Tennessee who made history as the first woman to
ever win a major sprint car series Championship during both the 2015 and seasons
is an expected entry. Turpen has won five time in eight 2017 USCS events she
has entered and is currently one of the hottest drivers in the Nation riding a
four race win streak.
Entries also include
eleven-time series Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who is also a
previous multi-time winner at Lavonia Speedway is currently in second position
in the USCS National point standings. and. Gray’s team-mate and. Gray and Turpen both have wins already this
season in USCS series competition. Gray has over 90 USCS feature wins on his
resume. Turpen who was the 2010 USCS Rookie of the Year, has a career USCS
total of 14.
Other expected potent
USCS sprint car driver entries include Lance Moss from Cherryville, North
Carolina and 201 USCS Rookie of the Year and 2016 NSL National Champ. Mallett
leads the point standings in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series that
includes track like Lavonia Speedway and others in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. Mallett also is a scant dozen points
out of first place in the National point standings behind Gray. These five drivers
are expected to lead a strong contingent of drivers from at least six states
into Saturday’s speed contest at the famed Northeast Georgia oval looking for a
chance to park in the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane.
A pair of teenage
entries who have shown some outstanding performances include fourteen-year-old 2016
USCS Rookie of the Year Danny Sams III from Englewood, Florida and seventeen-year-old
Brandon Taylor from Cumming, Georgia who was the Rookie of the Year points
leader for the 2016 season when he had to quit during a series of mid-season
bad luck incidents in 2016.
Five other drivers from
the state of Georgia are entered as well. Those are veterans, Brian Thomas from
nearby Pendergrass, GA who is ranked 4th in the current USCS Southern
Thunder Tour point standings and Joe Larkin from Suwannee who is 5th
in those regional standings. Also entered is Aubrey Black from Lookout
Mountain. Making their first appearance of the season at Lavonia Speedway on
Saturday night will be Jay Dunham from Grovetown, GA and California transplant
and USCS newcomer Chase Wood from Atlanta, GA
North Carolina is expected
to send five or more drivers as well to Lavonia Speedway this weekend including
Bridges and Moss who are cousins. The other three expected entries include 2014
USCS Rookie of the Year, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail and brother Jake
McLain who is a past Carolina Racesaver Sprint Series Champion. Also expected
are two 2017 USCS Rookie of the Year contenders, Scott Hunter from Concord,
North Carolina and Bronzie Lawson IV from Southern Pines, North Carolina.
Tony Agin from Ft.
Myers, Florida tops the list of several other drivers on the pre-entry
list. Agin is in fifth place in the
series National point standings and sixth in the current USCS Southern region
standings. In addition to Agin, a former Southern Thunder Rookie of the Year,
Lee Moore from Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Bob Auld from Largo, Florida are
expected entries as well.
Joining the USCS sprint
cars at Lavonia Speedway on Saturday night’s busy racing card will be the Limited
Late Models, Crate Late Models, Hobby 602, Stock Eight, Stock Four and Modified
Street.
For info on Lavonia
Speedway please visit their website at www.lavoniaspeedway.net or call
706-340-4781. For USCS information on the event you may also call the USCS
series office at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097. For USCS rules, info and updated
schedules please visit www.uscsracing.com
USCS
Outlaw Thunder Tour sprint pre-entry list for:
Lavonia
Speedway event – Saturday, May 6 2017
No….Car#...Driver
/ Hometown
1.
1a Lee
Moore, Tuscaloosa, AL
2.
1x Scott
Hunter, Concord, NC
3.
4V Bronzie
Lawson IV, Southern Pines, NC
4.
6 Chase
Wood, Atlanta, GA
5.
07 Johnny
Bridges, Cherryville, NC
6.
07T Brandon
Taylor, Cumming, GA
7.
10 Terry
Gray, Bartlett, TN
8.
10m Morgan
Turpen, Cordova, TN
9.
14 Jordon
Mallett, Greenbrier, AR
10.
21 Aubrey Black, Lookout Mtn., GA
11.
21B Brandon
McLain, Indian Trail, NC
12.
23 Lance
Moss, Cherryville, NC
13.
24d Danny
Sams III, Englewood, FL
14.
28 Jeff
Willingham, Ripley, MS
15.
33 Joe
Larkin, Suwanee, GA
16.
38 Tony
Agin, Ft. Myers, FL
17.
40 Howard
Moore, Memphis, TN
18.
51 Jay
Dunham, Grovetown, GA
19.
67 Jake
McLain, Indian Trail, NC
20.
67 Brian
Thomas, Pendegrass, GA
21.
83 Bob
Auld, Largo, FL
USCS Media contact:
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