Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. (March 29, 2010) – The winged forces of the American Sprint Car Series Southwest Region are set for 2010 championship Round Two this Saturday night with the series taking to Tucson’s USA Raceway.
The ASCS Southwest Region kicked off its third season of competition just a couple of weekends ago with a familiar face in victory lane, as two-time and reigning champion Rick Ziehl of Las Cruces, NM, took top honors.
Although Ziehl has finished among the top ten in 18 of the last 19 ASCS Southwest feature events, it was only his third series feature win as he has broken into victory lane just once over each of the past two seasons.
Ziehl posted one win in 2008 when he bested Shawn Sander by 22 points for the title and then added a second win last year while edging Ben Gregg by just seven points to make it back-to-back championships.
Breaking out of the gates quickly in 2010, Ziehl holds the early lead over Calvin Landis, an Arizona native that has called Iowa home in recent years. R.J. Johnson, John Gaston and Kaylene Verville round out the balance of the current top five in ASCS Southwest points, with the rest of the top ten including Mike Martin, Steve Stone, Perry McMillin, Cole Boyd and Ronnie Clark.
Saturday’s ASCS Southwest Region action at USA Raceway is slated to go green at 6:45 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 slated for 17 overall nights of competition in 2010, including 11 nights in Arizona and three New Mexico weekend doubles.
In its 19th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing, the American Sprint Car Series brings the best of Sprint Car racing to approximately 100 different tracks throughout 30 states and Canada. Anchored by the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS also consists of eleven different Regions throughout the nation.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at www.ascsracing.com.