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Contact: Ben Shelton (msrmafia@gmail.com)
June 24, 2016

Eddie Carrier Jr. to Scale Back His Racing Program

Salt Rock, West Virginia (06/24/16) – Effectively immediately, Eddie Carrier Jr. and Grover Motorsports have made the tough decision to close the doors on their racing operation. This brings to an end a 13-year run for the team.

“This has really been a tough decision for myself and the Grover family, but honestly it was the only choice to make,” said Carrier Jr. “We have had an amazing run over the past 13 years, but the decline in the economy has forced us to bring it to an end.”

Eddie is quick to note that the ceasing of operations for the race team in no way is a reflection of any issues between himself and the Grover family.

“Carl and Annette are like family to me and my wife, Jamie. In fact, we will both remain full-time employees with Engines Inc. The only change is that Grover Motorsports just won’t be fielding cars anymore.”

Eddie plans to still race some for other teams from time to time, but as of now has nothing locked in stone. As dates start to come together they will be posted on his website at www.EddieCarrierJr.com .

“I want to thank Carl and Annette Grover from the bottom of my heart for this amazing opportunity that they’ve given me for the past 13 years,” Carrier Jr. thoughtfully stated. “We’ve accomplished so much together, and there’s so many memories I’ll always cherish. I also want to thank all of the fans for their amazing support. This isn’t the end of my racing career, but it is definitely a change in my path.”

Eddie Carrier Jr. would like to thank his sponsors and marketing partners including Carl Grover Motorsports, Grover Racing Engines, Cox Wrecker Service, Hess Stewart and Campbell PLLC, Blue Ridge Machinery and Tools, Integra Shocks and Springs, Port City Racing, Hoosier, Rocket, Sunoco Race Fuels, CV Products, Poske's  Performance Parts, Dyers Top Rods, Octane Racing Products, Race Tec Pistons, COMP Cams, Wiles Racing Drive Shafts, Pro Fabrication, PRO FABrication Racing Exhaust Systems, Rapture Carburetors, Cizmar Racing, All Star Performance, Frankland Rear Ends, Jones Racing Products, Brinn Transmissions, Schaeffer's Racing Oil, Real Racing Wheels, Hinchman Racewear, ASi Racewear, Impact Sign & Apparel, The Joie of Seating, Powers Performance Starters, B&D Trucking, Shain Custom Signs & Graphics, Bazell Race Fuels, and MSRMafia.com Marketing Services.

For the latest information on Eddie Carrier Jr., please visit www.EddieCarrierJr.com .

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Ben Shelton (msrmafia@gmail.com)
June 24, 2016

Todd Morrow Finishes 2nd at North Georgia; MSCCS at TST Next

Chattanooga, Tennessee (09/22/15) – After battling bad luck the past few weeks Todd Morrow was able to bounce back on Saturday evening at North Georgia Speedway, where he recorded a runner-up finish in his Platinum Chassis #T1 Phantom Racing Engine Super Late Model.

“I was starting to wonder if we were ever going to catch a break because our luck has been just terrible this season,” laughed Morrow. “I know we have a really good car with this new Platinum Chassis, and hopefully things are starting to go our way now.”

Piloting the A-Plus Collison Center #T1 Super Late Model, Todd Morrow traveled to North Georgia Speedway (Chatsworth, Georgia) on Saturday night for the weekly event. Drawing 15-entries, Todd earned a front row, starting spot for the feature after he recorded the second quickest time in qualifying. After making several challenges for the top spot throughout the feature, Morrow settled into a runner-up finish when the checkers flew.

Full results from this event are available at www.NorthGASpeedway.net .

Next on tap for the team is a trip to Talladega Short Track (Eastaboga, Alabama) this Saturday, June 25 for a $2,500-to-win event with the Mississippi State Championship Challenge Series (MSCCS) Super Late Models. For more information on the event, please visit www.StateSeries.com .

Todd Morrow Racing would like to thank all of their sponsors, which include A-Plus Collision Center, Allen's Pools LLC, COR Suspension Technology, A-1 Towing & Service Center, A&K Transport, Andy Dill Trucking, Old Man's Garage, CRS Starters and Alternators, Performance Masters Incorporated, Coulter Racecars and Parts, Phantom Racing Engines by Junior Weisgarber, Stealth Racing Carburetors, and MSRMafia.com Marketing Services.

For more information on Todd Morrow Racing, please visit the official team website at www.ToddMorrowRacing.com and also follow the team on social media at www.facebook.com/toddmorrowracing and www.twitter.com/toddmorrowt1 .

Reutzel Dirt Cup Ready after Challenging Speedweek

Lonnie Wheatley, CLUTE, Texas (June 23, 2016) – It wasn’t exactly the ASCS Speedweek that reigning Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour champion Aaron Reutzel had hoped for, so this weekend’s Dirt Cup at Washington’s Skagit Speedway may just be just what the doctor ordered for the Clute, TX, racer.

Reutzel and the Shark-powered Dissolvalloy Downhole Revolution/BC Fundz No. 87 Triple-X Sprint Car came into Speedweek off a runner-up finish at South Dakota’s Badlands Speedway the previous Sunday night, June 5.

And a runner-up finish in the Speedweek opener at Amarillo’s Route 66 Motor Speedway on June 12 bode well for the Wren Motorsports/Momentum Racing Suspensions team, though Reutzel was looking for more than runner-up finishes. 

“The second place finishes are kind of frustrating, especially when we were in position to probably win both of those races,” Reutzel commented.  “It’s good to know we’re in position though, we have to carry that forward.”

The balance of Speedweek was rough on Reutzel and the Danny Sander Construction/ButlerBuilt team with a sixth-place run at Lawton Speedway the only finish among the top ten with 11th place showings at Creek County Speedway and Sedalia to follow before making an early exit at Lucas Oil Speedway.

“It was a week of hell,” Reutzel sums up. “Just no luck at all.”

“We’re just not catching breaks in heat races,” Reutzel explains of the challenging week.  “When we do draw good, then we get qualifiers and then get bottled up in those.”

It very nearly all started with a win at Amarillo.  “We should have won hands down.  I took the lead on the top, then I saw Sam (Hafertepe, Jr.) under me a couple of times,” Reutzel recalls.  “I probably took the lead a little too early, but I handed it over to him.”

It was his second consecutive runner-up finish after a possible Badlands win got away six nights earlier.  “I ran into the back of a lapped car, that gave Tim (Kaeding) a shot,” Reutzel said.  “We banged wheels, I tried to block going into the final corners and he passed me in the infield.”

That’s what led into Amarillo.  And from there, it got tougher after a Devil’s Bowl rainout.

“We were kinda okay at Lawton in the “A”, and then it laid rubber,” Reutzel says of a sixth-place finish.

Creek County looked promising for the Wright Way Logistics/Walker Performance Filtration team after the heat races.  “We were sitting good after the heats, then our row got bottled up in the qualifier,” Reutzel explains.  “That put us 12th in the feature, Blake (Hahn) spun on the first lap and knocked the nose wing down so all we could do was ride around.”

At Sedalia, the team opted to change engines after just missing the feature cut and was relegated to the tail of the “B” Main.  Reutzel responded by rallying from 18th to make a transfer position.  “We got there somehow, I’m not even sure how.”

Reutzel then worked from the tail of the field to salvage a second 11th-place finish in as many nights.  “The first couple of laps, you couldn’t see anything for all the dust,” Reutzel comments.  “We got going pretty good then and were up to about tenth early before the rubber came back in.”

Then, after winning his qualifier at Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night, his feature came to an early end with engine woes.  “We started 12th, we were up to 10th on the start and broke a valve spring retainer,” Reutzel says. “That’s just how the week was.”

With ASCS Speedweek in the rearview mirror and the cross-country trek to Washington on the horizon, Reutzel took the time to rejoin forces with the Shane Liebig No. 55L team for Sunday night’s World of Outlaws tilt at Aberdeen, South Dakota’s Brown County Speedway where he knocked off another 11th-place finish.

“We were a little tight in hot laps, but we didn’t tighten up as much as we should have for qualifying,” Reutzel explains.  “We qualified 13th, so that’s pretty much how you’re night is going to go racing with those guys.”

“We fell back to 15th at the start,” Reutzel says of the feature event.  “I got the wing back and started running some good lines and got back to 11th.”

“The car was good,” Reutzel says of the Liebig No. 55L.  “They just keep getting it better and better every time out.”

Now, it’s time for Skagit Speedway’s Dirt Cup in Alger, WA.  The $15,000-to-win event is scheduled to start tonight, weather permitting, with ensuing action on Friday and Saturday.

“I’m looking forward to it,” Reutzel says.  “The track was awesome last year.  It’s tough with so many cars, last year we started 12th and raced up to second.  Maybe our luck will turn around and we can get that $15,000.”

2016 Quick Stats:  46 races, 3 wins, 12 top-fives, 22 top-tens.

Up Next:

Thursday, Friday and Saturday – Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour at Skagit Speedway’s “Dirt Cup” in Alger, WA

Keep Track:  Keep track of Aaron Reutzel’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.aaronreutzelracing.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Aaron-Reutzel-Racing/117666254913127 or on Twitter at @AaronReutzel.  You can also e-mail Aaron at aaronreutzel@yahoo.com.

If you would like Aaron Reutzel Racing press releases e-mailed directly to you, send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Runner-Up Finish Highlights Bellm’s ASCS Speedweek

Lonnie Wheatley, NIXA, Mo. (June 23, 2016) – Kyle Bellm enjoyed his best run of the 2016 Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour campaign by racing to a runner-up finish in the second leg of last week’s Sizzlin’ Summer Speedweek at Creek County Speedway near Tulsa, OK.

And, after finishing out Speedweek in the Resource Asset Management Solutions (RAMS) No. 14k Sprint Car, the Nixa, MO, shoe jumped into David Korte’s No. 75 Sprint Car on Sunday night and picked off his second podium finish in as many tries in recent weeks at California, Missouri’s Double X Speedway.

Bellm and the PPG Automotive Finishes/Colorvision team will forego the initial portion of the ASCS National Tour’s Northwest swing, instead taking in a pair of Regional weekends closer to home before rejoining the Tour.

“There are two three-race weekends coming up close to home, we’re going to regroup this weekend and then focus on those before getting back to National competition,” Bellm commented.  “We should be able to get some good finishes and hopefully some wins over the next couple of weeks.”

Bellm comes off an ASCS Speedweek in which he started all five feature events with a sixth night rained out early in the week at Devil’s Bowl Speedway.

The highlight of the week for Bellm and the Schure Built Suspensions/Christian County Collision Repair team was clearly the second round of competition at Creek County Speedway last Thursday night, June 16.

Bellm ran second in his heat race and then won his qualifier to earn a front row starting position for the 30-lap feature aboard the Bybee Lawn Care/Dynotech Racing Engines machine.

Bellm led the way into the opening pair of corners only to surrender the point to Bryan Clauson a half lap later.  Bellm chased Clauson the rest of the way and kept a hungry host of chasers at bay to secure the runner-up finish.

“We had a really good car, I wish we would have had a good chance to get into traffic and see what we might have had for him (Clauson),” Bellm said afterward.  “He was tough though, he was the class of the field all night.”

The initial caution after a dozen or so laps wasn’t what Bellm was looking for.  “We didn’t need that, we were about where we needed to be to give it a shot,” Bellm explained.

A caution soon after benefitted Bellm.  “The second caution helped, I made a mistake that let Sam (Hafertepe, Jr.) get by, so that one saved us.”

Bellm securely held the runner-up position the rest of the way in the Schaeffer Oil/Prater Designs/Racinboys entry.

Finishing off the Speedweek that started with Bellm’s first trip to Amarillo were events closer to home in Missouri at Sedalia and Lucas Oil Speedway with Bellm in the feature field each night, albeit lacking the best of luck.

“Speedweek was really the highest of highs and the lowest of lows,” Bellm summed up.

On Sunday night, Bellm jumped into the David Korte No. 75 for a second time in recent weeks for some ASCS Warrior Region competition at Double X Speedway and was in the mix for the lead before settling for a third-place finish at the stripe.

“We raced with Jonathan Cornell and Randy Martin the entire race,” Bellm said of Sunday’s battle.  “It laid a little rubber late, I think we might have had something for them if not for the rubber.  It was fun though, I always enjoy racing at Double X.”

Bellm and crew will take this weekend off before coming back at full force with next weekend’s ASCS Warrior Region “Red, White and Blue Tour” on July 1-3 at Callaway Raceway, Randolph County Raceway and Double X Speedway.

2016 Quick Stats:  21 races, 1 win, 6 top-fives, 7 top-tens.

Up Next: ASCS Warrior Region “Red, White and Blue Tour” on July 1-3 at Callaway Raceway (Fulton, MO), Randolph County Raceway (Moberly, MO) and Double X Speedway (California, MO).

Keep Track:  Keep track of Kyle Bellm’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.kylebellm.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KyleBellmRacing?fref=ts or on Twitter at @kylebellmracing.

If you would like Kyle Bellm Racing press releases e-mailed directly to you, send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.