By Bob Miller
The Rislone URC Sprint Series is gearing up for a huge two race weekend in Central Pennsylvania with stops at the Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, August 23rd followed by a visit to the Port Royal Speedway on Saturday night, August 24. Without a doubt, these two events are often the most popular stops on the URC schedule. The Friday night event at the Williams Grove Speedway is sponsored by MACH 1 Chassis and will offer at $2,200 first place prize to the winner of the twenty-five lap feature event. The following night at Port Royal, the winner will collect $2,000. URC competitors will chase in excess of $21,000 for the two race weekend.
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 assemble 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_
The Mach 1 URC/358 sprint challenge will blend the best drivers of URC and the best of the Williams Grove 358 sprints, seeding drivers from the top twenty in points for the heat race line-ups. Mark Smith was the recent winner of the Rislone Nationals at Williams Grove and is an expected entry for this event on Friday night, August 23.
In addition to this great racing program, Williams Grove Speedway and URC will offer a silent auction for the benefit of the Kramer Williamson family. Williamson lost is life following a sprint car accident at the Lincoln Speedway on Saturday night, August 3. The silent auction will begin at 5:30 PM and close at 8:30 PM and will take place outside the tunnel in the race track infield. A huge variety of items will be donated for the auction and all items will be of interest to race car drivers, car owners and race fans. There will be something for everyone. We encourage everyone to bring cash or checks since we are unable to accept credit cards. Please bring proper identification as well.
The following night, Saturday, August 24, the Rislone URC Sprints head to the Port Royal Speedway. URC has a heated point battle underway with JJ Grasso on top by a narrow margin over Davie Franek and Josh Weller. Randy West and Chad Trout round out the top five in points and these two drivers are enjoying their best season with URC. Grasso has three wins this season as Robbie Stillwaggon is a four time winner. Stillwaggon was the winner of the $4,000 to win URC/PST co-sanctioned event Friday night at the Black Rock Speedway. Grasso scored his third win of the season Saturday night winning at the Selinsgrove Speedway.
More news to come on both of these events, but for now, plan to be at the Williams Grove Speedway Friday night, August 23 and the Port Royal Speedway on Saturday night, August 24.
For more information, please visit our website at www.urcsprints.com
RISLONE URC POINTS (unofficial)
|
1 |
1,613 |
JJ Grasso |
|
2 |
1,506 |
Davie Franek |
|
3 |
1,476 |
Josh Weller |
|
4 |
1,268 |
Randy West |
|
5 |
1,242 |
Chad Trout |
|
6 |
1,231 |
Brian Carber |
|
7 |
1,057 |
Kevin Darling |
|
8 |
1,045 |
Dan Mazy |
|
9 |
971 |
Troy Betts |
|
10 |
962 |
Art Liedl |
RISLONE URC SPRINT SERIES REMAINING EVENTS
| AUG |
23 |
Williams Grove |
$2,200 To Win |
| AUG |
24 |
Port Royal |
$2,000 To Win |
| AUG |
31 |
Delaware International |
$2,000 To Win |
| SEPT |
7 |
Utica Rome–non-points |
$7,000 To Win |
| SEPT |
14 |
New Egypt |
$2,000 To Win |
| SEPT |
28 |
Selinsgrove 40 Laps |
$8,000 To Win |
| OCT |
4 |
Carolina Gastonia, NC |
$2,000 To Win |
| OCT |
5 |
Cherokee, Gafney, SC |
$2,000 To Win |
| OCT |
19 |
Grandview |
$2,000 To Win |