USA Raceway Presents Wing Sprints, Super Stocks, X-Mods and Western States Stock Cars
Friday, July 15th, 2011
(Keith Ames) Budweiser and the Territorial Bar are this weeks sponsors of great family entertainment at USA Raceway. Four popular divisions of race cars will be putting it all on the line this Saturday night racing for pride, trophies and purse money. The Sunoco Fuel Wing Sprints will be featured along with the exciting Unifirst Super Stocks, the competitive X-Mods and the Western States Stock Cars.
Fans travel from miles around to see the Wing Sprint Cars especially this week as Las Cruses, New Mexico Star Rick Ziehl attempts to make it four wins in a row as he has an 83 point lead in the Sunoco Fuels ASCS Southwest Region over John Carney II!
El Paso’s John Carney II has a 50 point lead over Phoenix driver Calvin Landis. The rest of the top ten include: Kyle McCutcheon from Almogordo, NM, Joshua Williams from Glendale Arizona, Lance Norick from Scottsdale, Peoria Arizona driver Dalten Gabbard, young Joshua Hodges from Tijeras, NM with Steve Stone from Mesa and Joey Chester from Phoenix rounding out the top ten in ASCS Southwest points.
The Unifirst Super Stocks never fail to bring great racing action everywhere on the fast 3/8′s mile track. Only 49 points separate the top four drivers as Terry Hill leads the pack followed closely by Daniel Stricker just a mere 17 points behind and only 16 points ahead of the talented Sahuarita driver Brian Brown. Rounding out the top four is Dana Boatright who is only 17 points behind Brown. Watch the tight battle unfold in this always exciting division.
The X-Mods is a class that seems to always hve a talented field of up and coming drivers. This class is pretty much a throwback to the modifieds of 15 years ago when modified racing was an affordable class. Rick Butler has a 62 point lead ahead of AJ Huebner and 77 points ahead of Ricky McGuire. Al Peters and DJ Werkmeister round out the top five.
The Western States Stock Car Series, a developing series, has a number of drivers from the greater Phoenix Metropolitan area who travel to USA Raceway and join up with many of the Factory Stock drivers in Tucson. Always exciting racing action in the Western States Stock Car Series.
General admission tickets will go on sale for only $15 for Adults, $12 for Seniors, Students and Military and racing will begin promptly at 6:45pm. Race fans for an additional $5 you my upgrade your ticket to the great indoors and enjoy the races from USA Raceway’s VIP Suite. First come, first serve basis to the first 80 customers.
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USA Raceway is located east of Tucson off I-10 exit 265, then 1.6 miles south on Craycroft Road, which turns into Los Reales. For more information please, contact the track at 520-574-8515 or additional information regarding USA Raceway can be found at www.usaraceway.net
