Lonnie
Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (September 15, 2009) - After a
break to avoid the worst of the Arizona summer heat, the
American Sprint Car Series Southwest Region championship
battle heats back up with Saturday's night card at
Tucson's USA Raceway.
Saturday's action is also the sixth round of the Discount
Tire Co. ASCS Challenge, a select slate of eight events
including both winged Southwest events and wingless Canyon
Region events.
Although shut out of victory lane thus far in 2009 after
posting eight ASCS Southwest wins last year, Ben Gregg of
Peoria, AZ, holds the edge in the ASCS Southwest
championship points race.
Gregg's lead is a slight one though, as defending series
champion Rick Ziehl of Las Cruces, NM, is just six points
off of Gregg's lead pace.
In fact, the bunched-up points race has only fifty points
separating the top seven drivers, with John Gaston
(Peoria, AZ), Mike Martin (Yuma, AZ), Joshua Hodges
(Tijeras, NM), Charles Davis, Jr. (Buckeye, AZ) and Ronnie
Clark (Tucson, AZ) all still within reach of first place.
A pair of racy ladies, Kaylene Verville of Avondale, AZ,
and Tucson's Jessica Van Dyke, are eighth and ninth in
points, with Tucson's John Van Horn completing the current
top ten.
While Ziehl tries to overtake Gregg for the top spot in
Southwest points, he currently holds a 20-point advantage
in the Discount Tire Co. ASCS Challenge Series over
Charles Davis, Jr., with Ronnie Clark, Mike Martin and
Joshua Hodges rounding out the current top five.
Saturday's ASCS Southwest Region event at USA Raceway goes
green at 7:00 p.m.
The 3/8-mile USA Raceway clay oval is located east of
Tucson off I-10 Exit 268, then 1.6 mile south on Craycroft
Road, which turns into Los Reales. For more information,
contact the track at 520-574-8515.
The ASCS Southwest Region is currently scheduled for
eleven nights of competition, with ten of those events at
USA Raceway.
The American Sprint Car Series, in its 18th year of
sanctioning Sprint Car racing events, brings the best of
Sprint Car racing to nearly 100 different tracks
throughout 25 states and Canada in 2009. Anchored by the
Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N
Filters, ASCS also consists of a dozen different Regions
throughout the nation.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car
Series is available at www.ascsracing.com.
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