For immediate release: Stewart, Franek and Mark Smith top USCS National and Deep South regional sprint point standings as of Feb. 23rd

Atlanta, GA – February 27, 2019 – After five 2019 events including a win for himself, Tony Stewart from Columbus, Indiana still leads the United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters point standings in the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National and USCS Deep South regional series divisions. Stewart, who was the February 22^nd winner at Southern Raceway in Milton, Florida last Friday, February 22^nd and the runner-up in the 30-lap A-Main at Southern Raceway on Saturday, February 23^rd maintains a scant 11 point lead over Sussex, New Jersey driver Davie Franek who was a winner earlier in the season at Bubba Raceway Park on Friday, February 8^th.Franek is followed in the standing by two-time 2019 USCS sprint car feature winner Mark Smith from Sunbury, Pennsylvania, who moved up a notch into third place after a strong weekend at Southern Raceway with a runner-up finish behind Stewart on Friday night. He then held off Stewart in Saturday night’s main event for his second win of the season in the series. He was the February 9^th winner at Bubba Raceway Park.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour sprint car racing invades Chatham Speedway on March 8th and 9th for the inaugural “Bayou State Sprint Car Nationals” and USCS Winter Heat 2019 Rounds #7 and #8

Atlanta, GA – February 28, 2019 – Chatham Speedway will host one of its most exciting and certainly most high-speed events of their 2019 racing season when, the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters winged sprint cars invade the one-third mile clay oval in Chatham, Louisiana. The USCS winged sprint cars headline a two-night weekend of racing action entitled the USCS “Bayou State Sprint Car Nationals” at the track on Friday and Saturday, March 8^th and 9th for Rounds #7 and #8 of the 2^nd annual USCS “Winter Heat” mini-series. The events which be the first-ever for the United Sprint Car Series in the state of Louisiana, will also be the 7^th and 8^th events on the 64-event 23^rd season schedule for the Atlanta, Georgia based racing series.

Milton, Florida - February 23, 2019 - Mark Smith from Sunbury, Pennsylvania won the USCS "Battle at the Beach"  weekend Filnale that doubled as the Round # 5 of the USCS Winter Heat Series presented by FireAde 30-lap USCS Outlaw Thunderr Tour presented by K&N Filters main event for winged sprint cars. Smith had to hold off the previous night's main-event winner and series points leader, Tony Stewart from Columbus, Indiana for his 2nd trip to the www.RockAuto.com USCS Victory Lane of the 2019 season. Stewart finished in the runner-up spot to keep his series points lead over Sussex, New Jersey's Davie Franek who followed Stewart t the line in the K&N Fiters Podium Award third spot.

Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina had his best finish so far in 2019 with a fourth place finish. Veteran sprint car racer Jim Shuster  from Newville, Pennsylvania who also won the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat earlier, had his season best main-event finish by rounding out the top five drivers. 

Tony Stewart won Friday night's USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters Winter Heat presented by FireAde main event at Southern Raceway. Mark Smith. Kyle Amerson, Nick Snyder and Davie Franek completed the top five.

USCS Outlaw Thunde Tour presented by K&N Filters Winter Heat presented by FireAe winged sprintcars Round #5 at Southern Raceway  on FRIDAY, February 22, 2019 results:

DASH - Hoosier Racing Tire (6 Laps) 1. m1-Mark Smith[1] ; 2. 83-Mark Ruel Jr[2] ; 3. 28f-Davie Franek[3] ; 4. 22G-Johnny Gilbertson[4] ; 5. 38-Tony Agin[5] ; 6. 14-Tony Stewart[6]

Ocala, FL – February 9, 2019 – Mark Smith from Sunbury, Pennsylvania raced to a career-fifth United Sprint Car Series (USCS) Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters win in the USCS Winter Heat Series Round #4 main event at Bubba Raceway Park on Saturday night. Smith who had three previous USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour wins at Bubba Raceway Park during 2017 and 2018 was the evening’s best from an international field of 42 drivers from 16 United States, Canada and England for his first win of the 2019 season.