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JoJo Helberg races to career-first USCS win in the Tim Smith’s CLIMAX Moonshine Sprint Car Shootout at Atlanta Motor Speedway
Hampton, GA - Friday, August 30, 2013 β Top ranked pavement open wheel ace JoJo Helberg from Santa Rosa, California broke a two race streak of bad luck that cost him the Championship in another racing series and raced into victory lane at Atlanta Motor Speedway as the Champion of the United Sprint Car Series sanctioned 50-lap Tim Smith’s CLIMAX Moonshine Sprint Car Shootout. The victory didn’t come easy for the 23 year-old driver who started third on the grid, as he chased veteran pavement hot-shoe and K&N Filters Pole Position starter and Biobased.US Fast Qualifier Brian Gingras from Lakeland, Florida for the first forty-five laps before making the winning pass when the leader (Gingras) encountered a group of lapped cars. Helberg then raced the final five laps into the www.rockauto.com USCS victory lane at Atlanta Motor Speedway to accept the trophy from Moonshiner’s TV series star Tim Smith.
Gingras who raced to a career-first United Sprint Car Series win at Watermelon Capital Speedway on July 20th crossed the finish line just behind Helberg in the runner-up spot. USCS current National point’s leader and nine-time 2013 feature winner 22 year-old Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas finished in the K&N Filters Podium Award third place in his dirt car that he has driven to the series leading nine wins. Michael Miller from Ocean Springs, Mississippi who was also in the same dirt sprint car he leads the point standings in the Southern Outlaw Sprints series standings in followed Hagar in fourth place after 50 laps. Another top ranked pavement sprint car racer, Troy DeCaire from Wesley Chapel, Florida rounded out the top five drivers.
Ten-time USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee led the next group of finishers in sixth place. The only female racer in the field, 20 year-old Morgan Turpen from Cordova, Tennessee chased the those six drivers across the finish line in seventh place. Dirt track and pavement veteran racer, Todd Fayard from Saucier, Mississippi followed in eighth place. 15 year-old Anderson Speedway 2013 Little 500 Rookie of the Year finished in ninth place and USCS young gun Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee who ranks fourth in the current USCS National point standings completed out the top ten.
Brian Gingras claimed the Biobased.US fastest time award posted by company owner Don Wilshe with an all time track record lap of 13.70 seconds around the flat ΒΌ mile paved oval. Morgan Turpen then won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat race. Turpen’s team-mate, Terry Gray completed the qualifying sessions by winning the Butlerbuilt Second Heat. Gingras was then awarded the K&N Filters Pole Award after first heat winner Turpen drew a four in the zero-four or six K&N Filters Pole Award drawing. drew a four in the K&N Filters Pole Award inversion drawling. Todd Fayard advanced the most positions in the main event to earn the Wilwood Disc Brakes Hardcharger Award.
The United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour next event is on Saturday, August 31st at Cleveland Speedway in Cleveland, Tennessee. On the following night the series completes the Labor Day weekend at Toccoa Speedway in Toccoa, Georgia. Both of those tracks are dirt ovals. The www.rockauto.com USCS 600 Sprint Car Series winged mini sprints join the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint cars both nights.
For rules, updated schedules and other info on the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car series 2013 and 17th annual National tour please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-865-6097.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour Main Event β Tim Smith's CLIMAX Moonshine Sprint Car Shootout
Atlanta Motor Speedway β Friday, August 30, 2013
Biobased.US Fast Time Award $250: #1 Brian Gingras, Lakeland, FL 13.70 sec. (1/4 mile flat oval).
Engler Machine and Tool First Heat:
Morgan Turpen, Derek Hagar, Brian Gingras, Garrett Green, Troy DeCaire, Francis Crowder, Jake McLain, Jim Blenkarn, Joe Larkin and Lee Moore.
Butlerbuilt Second Heat: Terry Gray, JoJo Helberg, Michael Miller, Anthony Nicholson, Lance Moss, Tom Paterson, Todd Fayard, Ray Bugg and Jeff Willingham.
USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main event 50-laps:
1. 7 JoJo Helberg, Santa Rosa, CA
2. 1 Brian Gingras, Lakeland, FL
3. 9Jr. Derek Hagar, Marion, AR
4. 4m Michael Miller, Ocean Springs, MS
5. Troy DeCaire, Wesley Chapel, FL
6. 10 Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN
7. 10m Morgan Turpen, Cordova, TN
8. 13 Todd Fayard, Saucier, MS
9. 3 Garrett Green, Valrico, FL
10. 9X Anthony Nicholson, Bartlett, TN
11. 100 Tom Paterson, Argos, IN
12. 67 Jake McLain, Indian Trail, NC
13. 17 Francis Crowder, Panama City, FL
14. 28 Jeff Willingham, Ripley, MS
15 46 Jim Blenkarn, Murfreesboro, TN
16. 23 Lance Moss, Cherryville, NC
17. 25 Ray Bugg, Iuka, MS
18. 1A Lee Moore, Tuscaloosa, AL
19. 33 Joe Larkin, Suwannee, GA
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