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Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. enters USCS Fall Nationals Parts Plus “Flip Flop 50” at Riverside 11/13-14th West Memphis, AR- November 11, 2009 – Home town hero and NASCAR Nationwide Series driver Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. from Cornelius, North Carolina and October 24th Riverside International Speedway Trick or Treat Fall Nationals 2009 winged sprint car Champion is officially entered for this coming weekend's $50,000 Hensley Suzuki USCS Fall Nationals presented by Union Auto Parts at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. The second-generation sprint car star will once again return to his roots to thrill USCS Fall Nationals fans this weekend. Stenhouse started his open wheel racing career at Riverside Speedway in the winged sprint cars that he will be competing in this coming weekend. He also competed in the Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series for several seasons with a career total of seven feature wins. He was named as the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Rookie of the Year at the age of fifteen years old in 2003. Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. will compete in the Parts Plus United Sprint Series winged sprint cars against an entry list of 30+ talented sprint car drivers confirmed and expected to participate from at least 8 states at the legendary Speedway's high banked 1/4 mile Gumbo clay oval track know for its’ tacky racing surface. He will be the senior driver of the two-car Stenhouse Motorsports race team and will be joined by talented 14-year old protégée Scott Hensley from Olive Branch, Mississippi. Both drivers will utilize J&J Auto Racing cars with Dynotech power. For more information and a complete bio on Ricky Stenhouse, Jr. please visit www.stenhousejr.com The Parts Plus USCS winged sprint cars headline the USCS Fall Nationals event with $10,000 up for grabs in the Flip Flop 50 (twin 25-lap main event) contest. The first of the double main events composing the Parts Plus USCS “Flip Flop 50” on Saturday night will start straight-up with the top qualifier from Friday night in the K&N Filters Pole Position. Both main events pay $2500 to the winner. The second main event for the winged sprint cars will start fully inverted from the finish of the first main event with the winner of the first 25-lap feature starting 22nd in the field. There is a $5000 Bonus posted for the driver who can win the first main-event and repeat with a win the second main event from the rear of the 22 car field. Joining the Parts Plus USCS winged sprint cars on the action-packed racing card both nights will be the Rislone USCS Modifieds, Wingless 305 Sprint Cars, 600cc Mini sprints and the popular Riverside Stock Cars Adult grandstand admission tickets for Friday, November 13th are $15 for adults. Adult grandstand admission tickets for Saturday, November 14th are $20. Youth 7-12 years old are $5 each night. Children 6 years and under are FREE both nights. Two-day passes are $28 at Hensley Suzuki. Saturday November 14th: For Immediate Release Contact: Kevin Kovac With a racing vacation to Sin City, of course. Mars, 37, of Menomonie, Wis., is headed to The Dirt Track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Nov. 20-21 for the inaugural ‘Silver State DIRTcar Championships,' a two-day meet featuring a 50-lap ‘topless' DIRTcar Late Model A-Main that pays $5,000 to win. UMP DIRTcar Modifieds are also part of the weekend, contesting a 30-lap headliner with a $2,000 top prize alongside the Late Model feature on Sat., Nov. 21. Both divisions will compete in complete preliminary programs on Fri., Nov. 20, to kick off the festivities. After last month becoming the first driver in dirt Late Model racing history to capture three $50,000-to-win events in a single season, Mars certainly brings the highest national profile to a weekend extravaganza that will see him take on the best competitors from DIRTcar Racing's Western Allstars, Northwest I-5 and Southwest Dirt Racing Association (SWDRA) series. “I'm excited to go out there,” Mars said of the gorgeous half-mile oval that's more than a 25-hour drive (1,700-plus miles) from his shop in the Badger State. “That track is so fun to race on, so when I saw the race was scheduled I figured, ‘Let's go out and enjoy ourselves a little.' “We're looking at the trip as more of a celebration of our season than anything. Obviously we want to win, but this is more about having a little fun in Vegas and going racing at a real top-notch facility too.” Mars and his wife actually had a getaway to a Mexican resort planned for the weekend before Thanksgiving, but they canceled those reservations and booked flights to Vegas following the announcement of the Silver State DIRTcar Championships. They are flying out to Vegas early with several friends to spend a couple days on the Strip before Mars meets his self-owned race team at The Dirt Track on Fri., Nov. 20. Yes, Mars is bringing his own potent MB Custom No. 28 to LVMS for the first time. He entered three two-day events at the track over the 2007-2008 seasons – winning four of the six features he started – but all those runs came behind the wheel of a Wyoming-based machine that he showed up to drive with helmet in hand. “I have a sponsor who will cover the fuel (cost) to travel out there and a couple of guys who help us here said they'd drive the hauler out,” said Mars. “I want to try our new car out there on that big track and see how it goes, and everything worked out for us to make the trip.” Mars enters the Silver State DIRTcar Championships as arguably the hottest dirt Late Model driver in the country this season. He has 17 wins in 44 overall starts in 2009, including the unprecedented trio of $50,000 scores in the USA Nationals at Cedar Lake Speedway in New Richmond, Wis.; the North-South 100 at Florence Speedway in Union, Ky.; and the Dirt Track World Championship at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway. His '09 resume also sports a $30,000-plus victory in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series Firecracker 100 at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa., and a $10,000 triumph in the UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury (Ill.) American Legion Speedway. What's more, Mars owns a sparkling performance record at the state-of-the-art, half-mile LVMS. He swept a double-feature card sanctioned by the Western Allstars DIRTcar Late Model Series in March 2007; finished first and second in twin ‘Duel in the Desert' A-Mains in November 2007; and captured a Western Allstars event in February 2008 (a 22nd-place finish in that weekend's other WAS feature is the only blemish on his LVMS ledger). “I love racing at Vegas,” said Mars, whose career year has come driving cars he designed with his brother Chris and superstar dirt Late Model driver Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa. “And with everything else there is to do for fun out there, you can't ask for a better weekend.” The Silver State DIRTcar Championships will mark the first time in the history of LVMS that Super Late Models will compete without fiberglass roofs, allowing fans a clear view of the drivers wrestling their 800-horsepower machines. The top-four finishers in the feature events on Fri., Nov. 20 ($1,000-to-win for Late Models, $400-to-win for Modifieds) will transfer directly to Saturday night's dashes, which will determine starting spots in the Championship A-Mains. Action on Sat., Nov. 21, will include a slate of qualifying events leading up to the 50-lap Silver State DIRTcar Championship for the Super Late Models, which pays $500 to start, and the UMP DIRTcar Modified Western Shootout – the first-ever UMP DIRTcar-sanctioned Modified event at LVMS. The weekend of racing, which also includes support-division events for the INEX Legends cars and LVMS Bombers, carries a two-day ‘Super Saver' general-admission ticket for the price of $29. Two-day passes are $24 for Seniors/Military and $9 for Juniors (ages 6-12), with kids 5-and-under admitted free. Single-day general admission tickets are available for $19 (adults), $15 (Seniors/Military) and $5 (Juniors). Tickets can be purchased on-line at www.lvms.com or by calling 1-800-644-4444. Racing is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. each evening. For competitor entry-form information, visit www.DIRTcar.com or www.westernallstars.com. Additional info on all of the series, sanctioning and member tracks of DIRTcar Racing is available at www.DIRTcar.com. For Immediate Release Marion, Arkansas (11/11/09) –Jan Howard will return to action this weekend at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas for his final events of the 2009 season. Last weekend Jan entered the 22nd Annual O'Reilly Short Track Nationals at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Arkansas. With 101 Sprint Cars on hand for the event, Howard would battle the setup on his #4x Lofton Motorsports/Maxim/Howard Racing Engine Sprinter all weekend. He would fail to transfer to the preliminary feature event on his qualifying night on Friday night. On Saturday night Jan would battle for the final transfer spot in his qualifier, but would finish in the second position at the checkered flag, and with only the winner transferring to the feature, his weekend came to an early end. This weekend, November 13th-14th Jan will be pulling double duty in his final events of the 2009 season as he enters the O’Reilly USCS Fall Nationals at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. The two day event boasts a $10,000 possible to win purse for the 360 Winged Sprint Car division as well as a $1,000 to win purse for the 305 Wingless Sprint Car division. On Friday night, time trials, heat races, and the pole scramble will be held for the O’Reilly USCS Sprint Cars. On Saturday night, b-mains and twin 25 lap, $2,500 to win features will be held, and if a driver can win both features, he will get a $5,000 bonus. The 305 Wingless Sprint Car division will see heat races and the pole scramble on Friday night with b-mains and the main event on Saturday night. For more information, please visit www.USCSRacing.com and www.RiversideInternationalSpeedway.com . Jan would like to thank all of his sponsors including Brim's Snack Foods, Carpenter Steel Erectors, K&N Filters, Mason Water Wells, Hinchman of Indy, Trumann Paramedics, Interior Trim Works by Jay Henderson, Carpenter Homes, Skull Covers By Gator, Lofton Motorsports, Ray's Auto Collision, Truck Parts Specialists, A.T.R.O.M. Transmissions, Parts Plus, Sanders Pest Control, www.WideOpenWorldTravel.com, Cole & Desmon, special thanks to Kristy and Tony Graves, Joe Todd Auto Sales (West Memphis, AR), HJS Performance, Tipton County Coatings, NAPA, and MSRMafia.com .
Sammy Swindell enters USCS Fall Nationals at Riverside 11/13-14th West Memphis, AR- November 10, 2009 - Three-time World of Outlaws Sprint Car Champion and five-time Chili Bowl midget Champion Sammy Swindell from Germantown, Tennessee is officially entered for this coming weekend's $50,000 Hensley Suzuki USCS Fall Nationals presented by Union Auto Parts at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas. Swindell will compete in the Parts Plus United Sprint Series winged sprint car division that headlines the USCS Fall Nationals event with $10,000 up for grabs in the Flip Flop 50 (twin 25-lap) contest. The first of the double main events composing the Parts Plus USCS “Flip Flop 50” on Saturday night will start straight-up with the top qualifier from Friday night in the K&N Filters Pole Position. Both main events pay $2500 to the winner. The second main event for the winged sprint cars will start fully inverted from the finish of the first main event with the winner of the first 25-lap feature starting 22nd in the field. There is a $5000 Bonus posted for the driver who can win the first main-event and repeat with a win the second main event from the rear of the 22 car field. Joining the Parts Plus USCS winged sprint cars on the action-packed racing card both nights will be the Rislone USCS Modifieds, Wingless 305 Sprint Cars, 600cc Mini sprints and the popular Riverside Stock Cars Adult grandstand admission tickets for Friday, November 13th are $15 for adults. Adult grandstand admission tickets for Saturday, November 14th are $20. Youth 7-12 years old are $5 each night. Children 6 years and under are FREE both nights. Two-day passes are $28 at Hensley Suzuki. Saturday November 14th: For Immediate Release Tony Knowles Finishes 15th at Mag; New Shirts Available Tyrone, Georgia (11/11/09) – Over the course of last weekend Tony Knowles competed in the 6th Annual Southern Belle Cotton Pickin’ 100 at Magnolia Motor Speedway in his #26 SAE Parts/RSD Enterprises/Rocket/Custom Racing Engine Super Late Model and came away with a 15th place finish. TKR traveled to Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi for the $15,000 to win/$1,000 to start, Cotton Pickin' 100. With sixty Super Late Models in action, Tony qualified fastest in his group to earn the pole starting position for his heat race. Knowles would battle to a third place finish to earn the 14th starting position for the 100 lap feature. He would battle around midpack in the feature before settling for a 15th place finish by the time that the checkered flag dropped on the event. Complete results can be found at www.MagnoliaMotorSpeedway.net . This weekend, Tony is scheduled to enter a trio of events. Action will get underway on Friday, November 13th at Screven Motor Speedway in Screven, Georgia with a $4,000 to win event, which will be sanctioned by the Southern All Star Super Late Models. For more information on the event, please visit www.Southern-AllStars.com . On Saturday, November 14th, the team will travel to Monty Morrow’s Cleveland Speedway in Cleveland, Tennessee for the Turkey Rumble, which boasts a $5,000 to win top prize. The event was originally slated for North Georgia Speedway, but persistent rains forced the event to be moved to Cleveland Speedway. For more information, on the event, please visit www.ClevelandSpeedway.com . On Sunday, November 15th, Knowles is tentatively scheduled to compete in the $10,000 to win, annual Blue Gray 100 at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina. Race fans also please note that the brand new t-shirts from Tony Knowles racing are now available and can be viewed and purchased online at www.TonyKnowles26.com . Tony Knowles Racing would like to thank all of their sponsors including RSD Enterprises, SAE Parts, Hoosier Race Tires, VP Racing Fuel, Simpson Race Products MSRMafia.com, Rocket Chassis, Hunter Electric, Aquatic Solutions, GW Performance, Ohlins Racing Suspension, and All Star Graphix. Tony Knowles Racing is always looking for new sponsors and marketing sponsors. If you or your company is interested on becoming a member of TKR please visit www.TonyKnowles26.com . For more information on TKR Motorsports, please visit www.TonyKnowles26.com . Sam Hafertepe Jr. And Pancho’s Racing Products Can’t Recover From Slow Star at World Finals Daryl Turford Sunnyvale, Texas-Sam Hafertepe and the Pancho’s Racing Products team got off to a slow start this past weekend and were never able to recover from a pair of bad qualifying efforts at The World Finals at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sam sat in the car for the first time on Thursday night just before warm-ups. Following the 3 lap session Sam would turn in 2 very disappointing time trial runs that put him behind for the rest of the week as he timed in 33rd and 36th. “We didn’t have much time and we weren’t able to get the car and the motor quite the way we wanted in time trials”, explained Sam. “We only needed like 1 more warm-up session but we knew going in that this deal would be tough with so few laps together. Pancho, Tab and Mike had the car very well prepared which did make it a lot easier though”. Friday night saw Sam line up for the opening heat race in the 9th position. Sam didn’t get the start he wanted and needed at the drop of the green flag and was only able to improve his position 1 spot. The lightening fast surface did nothing to help Sam’s cause and after a successful slide job in turns 3 and 4 on Mark Smith Sam would have to settle for 7th. “The car was really fast in the heat”, said Sam. “I went to go low on the start and didn’t expect anyone to be down there, unfortunately when I committed there the guy in front of me did too and it killed our momentum. We had one of the fastest cars in the heat races but starting where we did with the competition we had in front of us we just couldn’t quite get it done”. Sam was buried in a stellar B Main but on the opening lap showed he meant business as he charged towards the front. Hafertepe started 13th and was up to 7th when another car broke in front of him. Sam went to grab the brakes only to find that he didn’t have any. Following some desperate measures Hafertepe recovered but was now running 10th. Hafertepe tried desperately to claw his way into the A Feature despite the lack of brakes and was able to pass quality cars including Mark Smith, Chad Layton and Jessica Zemken but he would come up short finishing 7th. “Our car was awesome again in the B Main”, said Sam. “I believe 100% that if we’d have had brakes that we’d have made it through the B with absolutely no problems whatsoever. I have no doubt in my mind”. The team was able to immediately identify and resolve the brake problem for Saturday night and The Pancho’s Racing Products team was locked and loaded. Once again Sam would start in the 9th position but soon a questionable call would make things more difficult. “On the initial start the leaders took off and I went straight to the bottom like I had the night before”, explained Sam. “The guys behind the leaders were asleep and I got a great run and exited turn 2 in a transfer spot. That’s when the race went yellow and they penalized me 1 row for jumping the start”. The angry Sunnyvale, Texas native took his emotions out on the field on the next start when he made an identical start to work his way up to 8th. Sam then worked his way past Todd Kane and into 7th. 1 lap later Kane returned the favour with a slider in turns 1 and 2. Sam and Kane were battling with 2 laps remaining when Greg Hodnett blew a tire to move Sam into 7th on the restart. The restart saw Sam waste little time in dispatching of Kane as he set his sights on Keith Baxter and the final transfer spot as he blasted under the white flag. Hafertepe closed the gap but could not get close enough to make an attempt for the transfer spot as he crossed the line in 6th. “The Outlaws pretty much cost us a shot at transferring when they penalized us”, said the upset driver. “I asked them why they let the second start go when I did the same thing as I did in the first and they said there was a 10 foot difference in when I hit the throttle on the start. I got to see it on television later that night and it just confirmed what a bad call it was in my opinion”. As a result of Sam’s weak qualifying effort he once again had to line up at the back of the pack on a less than stellar, tire eating track surface. Hafertepe did what he could but could only get a few cars on the opening lap before he settled into line and couldn’t move forward for the rest of the race. “The track conditions were terrible”, explained Sam. “We burned off an SC 15 right rear which is usually the tire we go to when the track is taking rubber in the feature. I hadn’t seen a track tear up tires like that all year”. Despite the disappointing results Sam was quite pleased with his team’s efforts. “Pancho, Tab and Mike had that car incredibly well prepared”, said Sam. “They gave me absolutely everything they could. I even told Pancho that we should go with used tires in the Saturday night B Main given where we were starting and he didn’t hesitate to throw new one’s on again. Every detail was taken care of to the best of their ability and I had absolutely no worries when I hopped into their car. I can’t thank those guys enough because they are the first team to ever take a chance on me and they did everything 100% and didn’t leave anything out there. I’m just sorry I couldn’t get them some better results”. Sam will now once again return home and perform double duty at Cowtown Speedway this weekend. Following a stellar 2nd place run in his modified qualifier Sam will now line up 4th for an 100 lap feature on Thursday night. The following two days will see Sam compete in both his regular 360 sprint car as well as the modified. “I’m looking forward to getting back home”, said Sam. “I have a blast running the modified and I’m going to try to do everything I can to lead all 100 laps. We’ve been kind of snake bitten in the 360 though and I can’t think of a better way to make up for that by earning our way into victory lane in front of my home town crowd”. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE SAM’S PRESS RELEASE SENT DIRECTLY TO YOUR E-MAIL PLEASE SEND AN E-MAIL TO: sam15press@gmail.com Support the people who support Sam: G-H Plumbing, Keizer Aluminum Wheels, AFCO Shocks, Wings Unlimited and Smiley’s Race Products For Immediate Release Dewitt, AR (11/11/09) – Clay Fisher entered the 3rd Annual Gumbo Nationals at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi over the weekend in his #99 Fisher Recycling/Mastersbilt By Stuckey/CMS Racing Engine Super Late Model, and after getting off to a slow start, raced his way to a solid finish. Fisher Motorsports entered the 3rd Annual Gumbo Nationals at Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi over the weekend. With a $5,000 top prize on the line and 36 Super Late Models on hand, Clay finished one spot short of a transfer to the feature in his heat race on Friday night, and as a result he had to run a b-main event on Saturday night. In the b-main event, Fisher advanced to a second place finish, which earned him the 20th starting spot in Saturday night's, 40 lap finale. Clay would battle his way to an 11th place finish during the course of the feature event. Clay and the team are currently uncertain if they will compete in anymore events in 2009, although they are considering the Bama Super Series event at North Alabama Speedway (Tuscumbia, Alabama) on November 21st and the 9th Annual Possum Town Grand Prix at Columbus Speedway (Columbus, Mississippi) on November 27th-28th. For the latest news and schedule information, please visit www.ClayFisher99.com . Fisher Motorsports would like to thank all of their sponsors, which include Fisher Transportation Services, Stuckey Enterprises, CMS Racing Engines, Horton Diesel Repair, Fisher Recycling, Palmer Fisher Trucking, & MSRMafia.com. For more information on Clay Fisher and Fisher Motorsports, please visit the official team website at www.ClayFisher99.com . 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