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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

Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 6, 2017) – Marshall Skinner is in the hunt for a USCS Series Speedweek championship thanks to a pair of victories. Skinner captured Speedweek wins on May 26 at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., and last Thursday at Talladega Short Track to book end the four completed Speedweek races. “We did really well with it being just me and my wife,” he said. “I drive the truck, I wash the cars, I do everything. It’s a big boost for me since I’m a...more

(Photo by Speedway Shots) Inside Line Promotions – EASTABOGA, Ala. (June 5, 2017) – Sammy Swindell captured his best finish of the season last Thursday when he posted a runner-up result during a USCS Series Speedweek event at Talladega Short Track. “I’d been there maybe three times before and I think I still have the track record with the World of Outlaws,” he said. “We went back to everything with the car and concentrated on some stuff with the motor.” Swindell, who was driving for A.G....more

Inside Line Promotions – ATWOOD, Tenn. (May 31, 2017) – Derek Hagar rebounded from a rough start to the USCS Speedweek by winning Round 4 on Monday at Clayhill Motorsports. The busy week began last Friday at Hattiesburg Speedway in Hattiesburg, Miss., where Hagar won the dash and advanced from fourth to second place in a heat race to start the main event on the pole. “We had a good start and took the lead,” he said. “We led the first four or five laps. We got to traffic pretty quick. Marshall...more

Hattiesburg Speedway- Finished 7th in the feature.Got behind the 8 ball early at Hattiesburg, MS for the opening night of speed week. Had a rock knock a hole in the radiator in hot laps, managed to pinch the tube and slow the leak enough to just make the dash. Finished 4th in the dash, got the radiator changed in time for the heat race, started 4th and finished 3rd. That put us starting 11th in the feature and made it up to 7th on a rubbered up track. Jackson Speedway- Finished 4th in the...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS) Inside Line Promotions – ATWOOD, Tenn. (May 31, 2016) – Derek Hagar is on an absolute tear. Hagar has recorded six wins and 12 podium finishes during his last 13 races, including two wins and four podiums during the first four USCS Speedweek races last weekend. “It feels pretty good because we’ve got to pad the bank account the last four nights of racing,” he said. “Hopefully we can finish Speedweek strong and add more to the bank.” Hagar kicked off the USCS Speedweek...more

ATWOOD, TN - May 26, 2014 (Chris Seelman photo) On Monday night, a Memorial Day visit to www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane victory became special for Marion, Arkansas’ Derek Hagar in more ways than one. Hagar, the defending United Sprint Car Series (USCS) presented by K&N Filters champion, charged from third on the starting grid around K&N poles starter and ten-time USCS champion Terry Gray on lap two of the 30-lap “Memorial Day Meltdown” at Clayhill Motorsports, never looked back while...more

Atwood, TN – June 11, 2009 - Mississippi young gun Lee Sowell from Nesbit, Mississippi charged to his first Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series feature win of the 2009 season over a talent-laden field of drivers from five states to capture the “Thursday Thunder” sprint car portion of the “Clayhill Clash” at Clayhill Motorsports on Thursday night. The victory in the rain-shortened and lightning charged mid-week affair scheduled for 30-laps was Sowell’s third Parts Plus USCS career feature...more

August 9, 2008 – Atwood, TN – Former O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas passed series points leader, Tim Crawley on lap nine to gain the lead and then battled wheel-to-wheel with Crawley for the next eleven laps to grab the victory and $2000 first place pay check in the 30-lap O’Reilly USCS main event at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee on Saturday night. Skinner finished with a half straightaway lead over runner-up Tim Crawley...more

Atwood, Tennessee - Wayne Johnson from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma made a late race pass on Benton, Arkansas sprint car ace Tim Crawley in lapped traffic to win the 30-lap O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com Speedweek 2007 Round Four event on Memorial Day Monday at Clayhill Motorsports in Atwood, Tennessee. Johnson's third O'Reilly USCS win of the season came over a field of 24 drivers from seven states. Crawley lead the first twenty-seven laps before Wayne Johnson made the pass...more