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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Terry Gray claims 11th USCS presented by K&N Filters sprint car National Championship Atlanta, GA – November 22, 2014 – Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee captured his 11th United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters National Championship during the series’ eighteenth and 2014 racing season. The veteran sprint car driver made just two visits to the www.rockauto.com USCS victory lane as the series feature winner, but he used a record of perfect attendance and steady top five finishes including nine 2nd place and seven 3rd place tallies in his total of 26 top five finishes during thirty-five events to accumulate the most Championship points. Gray will collect top honors in all three dirt divisions of the USCS points system including two USCS regional dirt series (Mid South and Southern) as well. He finished in second place in the USCS “Road to Atlanta” Hoosier Race Tire Asphalt Series. Gray finished the National title chase with 4571 National Championship points followed by team-mate and USCS “Road to Atlanta” Hoosier Race Tire Asphalt Series Champion, Morgan Turpen from Cordova, Tennessee who had 4434 points. Turpen also had quite a year with two USCS feature wins that included one at Southern National Motorsport Park on pavement in the USCS Road to Atlanta Series on April 26th. Her second win of the season came on dirt during the USCS vs. URC North vs. South Shootout at Cherokee Speedway on October 4th. Her runner-up finish in the standings came after she accumulated points from the two victories plus an impressive total of twenty top 5 finishes and twenty eight finishes in the top ten in 35 starts. She additionally finished in the runner-up spot in both regional series behind her team-mate (Terry Gray). The 2012 USCS Rookie of the Year, Jeff Willingham from Ripley, Mississippi improved his placement in the top ten driver standings in the series by moving up four positions in the final standings over his finish last season. Willingham who finished seventh in the 2013 standings, finished the 2014 season ranked third on the National standings with 3415 points. He will also collect fourth place honors in the USCS Mid South Thunder regional series and sixth place honors in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series during the January 24th USCS banquet in Atlanta The 2008 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Anthony Nicholson, also from Bartlett, Tennessee, finished in fourth place in the 2014 USCS National sprint car standings with 3260 points, but, the story doesn’t end there. Nicholson had a total of six stops at the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane to pick up the winner’s pay check. 2014 was a career-best USCS season in feature wins for Nicholson who’s previous season best was two wins. His season finale win at Poplar Bluff Speedway on October 18th was his 10th career USCS win. Nicholson, who ran a limited National schedule, and missed the first USCS Mid South Thunder regional series event at Magnolia Motor Speedway, also finished in third place in the Mid South regional series. Had Nicholson not missed that first event he most likely would have finished higher in both series standings. The 2012 USCS National Champion, Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas accumulated enough points to finish fifth in the USCS National standings. Crawley started the season slowly, but reeled off a streak of six wins in eight races during July and August including five stops in a row for a photo opportunity in the www.rockauto.com USCS victory Lane. The other two finishes were both in 2nd place during that period. Crawley who was the 2013 USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series Champion, participated in fifteen of the nineteen USCS Mid South regional series events and his finishes were good enough to finish fifth in those regional standings as well in 2014. Crawley was followed in the standings by Terry Witherspoon from Jacksonville, Florida who accumulated enough points in the National standings to finish sixth with 2045 points in the USCS National point standings. Witherspoon, who mostly competed in the Southern Thunder region, also joined the field for several Mid South regional series weekends and finished in the fifth position in the USCS Southern Thunder Tour title chase. Three-time 2014 USCS feature winner Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina who was the 2010 USCS Southern Thunder regional series Rookie of the Year finished in seventh place in the final USCS National sprint car standings with 1891 points. Riggins won on August 30th at Harris Speedway and then visited the www.rockauto.com USCS victory lane twice on back-to-back nights in September when the nineteen year-old driver had a sweep of the 5th Annual Senoia Summer Nationals at Senoia Raceway. The 2014 USCS “Rookie of the Year”, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina, who competed in the USCS Southern Thunder region and in all five USCS Road to Atlanta Hoosier Tire Asphalt Series events accumulated 1843 National points to finish eighth in those standings. McLain fared much better in the USCS Southern Thunder presented by K&N Filters regional series with a third place finish in the standings behind Terry Gray and Morgan Turpen. He also had a third place finish in the USCS pavement series final point standings. Two Nesbit, Mississippi drivers, Greg Merritt with 1810 points and Ronny Howard with 1539 points rounded out the top ten drivers in the National point standings. Merritt competed primarily in the Mid South regional series as did Howard. USCS Mid South Thunder Tour regional series: The 2013 and defending United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas ran a limited USCS schedule in 2014. Hagar won eight out of ten USCS events. He also won the USCS Sprint Car Speedweek 2014 title after winning the first three races. Hagar had 1229 regional series points and finished in tenth position in the USCS Mid South Thunder regional series. Five different drivers won USCS Mid South presented by K&N regional series races during the 2014 season. Derek Hagar won six times. Tim Crawley also won six of the regional series events and Anthony Nicholson won five times. Terry Gray and Jerod Roller from Nesbit, Mississippi each won once in Mid South regional series competition. One hundred and three different drivers competed in USCS Mid South presented by K&N regional series 2014 events. USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series: Jeff Willingham from Ripley, Mississippi competed in enough USCS Southern Thunder presented by K&N Filters to earn 1372 points and finish sixth in the final standings. USCS regular, Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia collected 1352 points to finish just behind Willingham in seventh place. Larkin was followed by rookie Nicholas Snyder from Marco Island, Florida who will compete for United Sprint Car Series Rookie of the Year honors in 2015 with 1290 points in eighth place. Another rookie driver who was a veteran Late Model racer, Jay Dunham from Grovetown, Georgia followed in ninth place with 1231 points. Veteran sprint car driver, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia rounded out the Southern regional series point standings with 1096 points. USCS “Road to Atlanta” Hoosier Asphalt Series: The 2014 USCS Rookie of the Year, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, North Carolina followed the talented Tennessee veteran duo in third place with 711 points. McLain had an impressive three top five and five top ten finishes in the five races. Tom Patterson from Argos, Indiana with 703 points was just behind McLain in fourth place in the title chase. Tim Perry from Mooresville, North Carolina rounded out the top five in the standings with 692 points accumulated in the all paved track five race USCS mini-series. Rookie Jay Dunham finished with 673 points in sixth place. Mount Ulla, North Carolina veteran sprint car racer Bill Moore finished in seventh place with 661 points. Past USCS regional series Champion, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina finished in eighth place in the standings with just 605 points. Before Bridges’ season was cut short after two motor failures he won the asphalt series opener at Anderson Motor Speedway on April 25th then had a pair of runner-up finishes plus a tenth place. Bridges did not get to compete in the August 29th Atlanta Motor Speedway series finale. Another stellar performance came from Jake McLain, who missed the series opener at Anderson, then went on to score four top five finishes and tally 596 points to finish ninth in the standings. Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia also missed a race and finished with 498 points to round out the top ten in the standings. Joey “The Ace” Aguilar from Tampa, Florida jumped in late and only competed in three events. Had the Florida driver started earlier it might have been a whole different story as he made a stop in the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane at Anderson Motor Speedway on both nights during a two-night USCS Road to Atlanta Hoosier Asphalt Series weekend at the track on July 25th and 26th. He then led all 50 laps of the series August 29th finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway before an assembled crowd of approximately 30,000 spectators. In summary after 35 completed events: One hundred and twenty-nine different drivers competed in the thirty-five 18th anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters events. Eleven different drivers won 2014 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main events. Those included Derek Hagar, who led the series victory column with eight wins. Hagar was followed by Tim Crawley and Anthony Nicholson with six feature wins each. Eric Riggins, Jr. and pavement ace, Joey Aguilar from Tampa, Florida were next with three wins apiece. Terry Gray, Morgan Turpen and Cherryville, North Carolina’s Johnny Bridges made two visits each to the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane. Three other drivers collected one feature win during the 2014 season. Those included: Jerod Roller from Hernando, Mississippi at Poplar Bluff Speedway on March 22nd, Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina at Lancaster Speedway on April 12th and Michael Miller on Sunday, September 1st at Toccoa Speedway. The eighteenth anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters kicked off on Friday, March 1st at Magnolia Motor Speedway and concluded at Poplar Bluff Speedway on Saturday, October 18th. For complete and archived results from these events please visit the series Official website at www.uscsracing.com . The United Sprint Car Series thanks the 2014 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour supporting sponsors including: K&N Filters, Hoosier Racing Tire, and USCS victory lane sponsor www.RockAuto.com plus Arizona Sport Shirts, Brown and Miller racing Solutions, Bulldog Rear Ends/DMI, DSR Fuel Systems, Engler Machine and Tool, JE Pistons, Keizer Aluminum Wheels, KSE Racing Products, Pyrotect Racing Cells, Safety-Kleen, Saldana Racing Products, Schoenfeld Headers, Simpson Racing Products, Something Inked and Wilwood Engineering. The 2015 (19th Anniversary) USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour kicks off at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi on Friday, February 27th and Saturday, February 28th . A full schedule of 2015 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car events will be available soon. For series rules and other info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call the series office at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097. Final 2014 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters National point standings (35 events) Pos Car # Name Points Final 2014 USCS MID SOUTH THUNDER Sprint Car Points Final 2014 USCS Road to Atlanta Points (5 races)
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