By Pete Walton
Atlanta, GA – The United Sprint Car Series presented by Goodyear www.uscsracing.com kicks off the South Carolina portion of its 2010 Southern Thunder Tour on Saturday, May 8th with the 7th annual USCS “TR Night of Thunder” event at the Travelers Rest Speedway in Greenville suburb of Travelers Rest, South Carolina. The event is loaded with action-packed racing featuring a full program of winged outlaw style sprint car racing plus racing in eight of Travelers Rest Speedway’s weekly racing divisions.
Saturday night’s USCS winged Outlaw sprint car race will award USCS Southern Thunder presented by Goodyear Championship points. The race will additionally award USCS “Outlaw Thunder” Tour National Championship points. The USCS Southern Thunder Tour presented by Goodyear regional series includes races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Northern Georgia and East Tennessee. All of those events will award points toward series’ 14th National Championship.
This event will bring a number of drivers seeking the United Sprint Car Series “Outlaw Thunder” National Championship roaring into the fast 3/8-mile clay oval. The USCS drivers will also race on paved ovals twelve times during the 50-race 2010 season. The USCS is the only winged outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces.
The Travelers Rest Speedway event is expected to bring top winged outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the track from as far away as Virginia, Florida and West Tennessee, . The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open-wheeled USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds. They are pound for pound the World’s most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds over 120 M.P.H. It is not uncommon to see the USCS sprint cars popping “wheelies” or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18-inch wide Goodyear Eagle rear race tires. Those tires are almost twice as wide as the Goodyear Eagles that NASCAR Sprint Cup cars use.
Saturday night’s Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing that includes test and tune hot laps. The evening’s very first sprint car race will be the Goodyear Speed Dash that will showcase the top six cars from the previous event in an edge-of-your-seat six-lap shootout. Next up will be the qualifying heat races that determine the starting positions for the 30-lap “Thunder in Carolinas” Championship finale. In between the sprint car racing elements, eight of the Speedway’s weekly racing divisions will keep the action rolling non-stop on Saturday night’s racing card.
Travelers Rest Speedway is located at 1425 US Highway North, Travelers Rest, SC, 29690. The race track phone number is: (864) 551-1621. The track’s website is www.trspeedway.net For USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com OR call770-865-6097.