Dead-A-Head Motorsports is excited to announce that the lid will be lifted on the 2018 season in just a few days! The team will compete with the USCS and URC for the North-South Shootout, Friday, April, 6th at Carolina Speedway and Saturday, April, 7th at Lancaster Speedway.
The event will mark the first time Dan Mazy has driven his family-owned car in 4 years. His last full season in URC competition Dan and the Dead-A-Head Motorsports crew made the journey to dual the USCS in the Carolinas. He recorded a hard-charger award in his only start at the Carolina Speedway finishing 10th after starting in the 21st position. It will, however, be Dan's first encounter with the Lancaster Speedway and he is excited about the challenge!
Dan, now a resident of Jacksonville, FL was asked: "Do you feel ready to compete and how will being based in Florida affect your season?"
Dan responded:
"I'm not too sure you're ever ready, it's kinda like a great fight quote from Mike Tyson - Everyone has a fight plan until you get punched in the face.... then it's just a fight! That is how I feel about getting back into a sprint car, I've been over the car 100 times in preparation and now it's just time to hit the track and see what we have! As far as running the team from Jacksonville, FL - It has been a bit different for me. Our main shop is located in Kutztown, PA and that is a pretty good location to go race with the URC on a consistent basis, but I have split the team and during the winter we ship everything to my place in Jacksonville FL. Working with the doors open in December is pretty nice! For this particular race being our first go of the season, we will pack everything up and I'll meet my family in the Carolinas and they will take everything back north. We have our schedule in play now so I will just fly in for race-weekends until later in the season when we will bring it all back down south and do some racing in Florida! All and all it should work out pretty nice."
Dan would like to thank everyone who has made his return back to 360 sprint car competition possible, and the team is looking forward to a year full of fun and excitement!
From Pete Walton
ATLANTA Ga. (January 1, 2018) – The United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters (www.uscsracing.com) and the New Jersey-based Capital Renegade United Racing Club (www.urcsprintcarseries.com) winged sprint car series are set to renew a rivalry that started with two races in the last decade in South Carolina. The two series that are among the oldest and most respected 360 cubic inch sprint car series in North America will contest four nights of co-sanctioned winged sprint car action during the 2018 version of the USCS vs. URC North vs. South Shootout at three tracks in the Carolinas this coming Spring and Fall. The Rounds One and Two of the four-race mini-series of events are scheduled on Friday, April 6th at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, North Carolina and on Saturday, April 7th at Lancaster Motor Speedway in Lancaster, South Carolina for Round Two. The two tracks are less than an hour apart. The second pair of events are scheduled with Round Three returning to Carolina Speedway on Friday, September 21st and on the following night (Saturday, September 22nd) at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, South Carolina. Those two tracks are also less than an hour apart as well. The four events will be Championship points events for both series run under an agreed upon set of rules that will make it easy for both series teams to support. Full details will be forthcoming in the next several weeks.
The two racing series squared off for the first time in the last decade at two now defunct South Carolina Speedways as a pre-cursor of the current revival of the rivalry. Then, again during October of 2014 at Carolina and Cherokee Speedways both series took part in the first USCS vs. URC North vs. South challenge that saw an equal number of drivers from each series come out to compete with 32 cars at Carolina Speedway on the first night. The event created a huge amount of excitement for the teams and fans that carried over to the next night at Cherokee Speedway when 26 teams made it through to the first night to race again. The two events were deemed a huge success by all involved, including the race fans. Both events were won by 2010 USCS Southern Thunder Tour Rookie of the Year, Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina.
USCS Founder and President Pete Walton said, “I was really excited when URC Vice President Curt Michael called me and offered to renew the rivalry in the manner we have set up for the 2018 season. This is quite an opportunity for the fans to see many of the best winged 360 sprint car drivers in the Nation and especially East of the Mississippi River, on one weekend at tracks less than an hour apart (both times) compete with and against one another four times in one season in one season. We both (series) have some of the best drivers in North America competing with our series on a regular basis and it will be great to be a part of this” concluded Walton.
The United Sprint Car Series, founded by Pete Walton in 1997, is the oldest racing sanctioning body operating primarily in the Southeastern United States under the same ownership since its inception. The 2018 season will be the 22nd for the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters. The Capital Renegade United Racing Club is ready to kick off its 71st season under the URC banner making it the oldest racing sanctioning body in the Nation.
For USCS information, please visit the USCS website at www.uscsracing.com or call the USCS presented by K&N Filters at 770-865-6097. For Capital Renegade United Racing Club info please visit www.urcsprintcarseries.com