From Bob Miller
Mach 1 Chassis will be the lead sponsor when the Rislone URC Sprint Series make their first visit of the season to the Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, June 7. The winner of the 25 lap Mach 1 Chassis feature event will earn $2,200 for the win. Racing on Friday night will get underway at 8 PM.
Mach 1 Chassis maintains a large inventory of open wheel parts and accessories at their Mechanicsburg, PA shop. They inventory enough parts and products to essentially a complete race-ready roller. Mach 1 fabricates many parts in-house as well as serving as an authorized dealer for many of the sports leading manufacturers. If they don’t have it, Mach 1 will get it for you! Take a tour of the Mach 1 Shop by visiting www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8_
Heat race events will be the method of qualifying with both the URC Sprints and Williams Grove 358 Sprints lined up according to their ranking in their respective point standings. The top 20 in Williams Grove points as of last Friday night, will be seeded into the URC point standing to determine the line-up. The heat races will go 8 laps and the “B” main will go a distance of 12 laps. One the line-ups are posted, qualifying will follow the weekly URC format.
Temporary Permits are not required for the 358 sprints, however, non-registered driver running a 360 in this event will be required to complete on a Temporary permit. General rule for this event include a weight rule of 1,475 with driver, URC engine rules apply for all 360 sprints. URC car specs will apply and all 360 sprints will be required to run the URC American Racer left and right rear tires. The 358 sprints are permitted to use the Track Hoosier left rear and are required to run an American Racer MC 2 on the right rear. The front tires are open. Adjustable wings are permitted, however, no other cockpit adjustable devices will be allowed. All 358 sprints MUST strictly meet the weekly Williams Grove engine rule. All other car specs, including tires, must be legal per the URC rule book.
Brian Carber of Piperville, PA is the current Rislone URC point leader. For Carber, this is his first season with URC and has demonstrated outstanding performance in the first three events of the season. Davie Franek sits second in the point battle followed by Josh Weller, driving this year for Chris Weiss. Defending URC Champion Robbie Stillwaggon is fourth in points with Randy West making up the top five.
For more information on this event, please go to www.urcsprints.com and reference the Competitors page, 2013 Grove URC-358 Challenge event sheet for the payoff and all the details.
2013 Rislone URC Point Standings
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1 |
362 |
Brian Carber |
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2 |
360 |
Davie Franek |
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3 |
331 |
Josh Weller |
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4 |
325 |
Robbie Stillwaggon |
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5 |
310 |
Randy West |
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6 |
305 |
Kevin Darling |
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7 |
303 |
JJ Grasso |
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8 |
279 |
Art Liedl |
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9 |
263 |
Joey Biasi |
|
10 |
260 |
Andy Best |