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SWEETWATER, TN - September 27, 2025 - USCS National Point leader Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS drove to his tenth series win of the season on Saturday night in the 25-lap Main Event for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire at I-75 Raceway. Howard is now closing in on the USCS National Championship with his 36th USCS career win. Howard took the lead from 16-time USCS National Champion and National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee Terry Gray of...more

GUNTOWN, MS - October 3, 2025 - USCS National point leader Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS closed in on the 2025 United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire 2025 National Championship with his third straight series win on Friday night in the 25-lap Feature Race at Pine Ridge Speedway. It was Howard’s 11th USCS win of the 2025 season and his 37th series career win. Derek Hagar of Marion, AR finished second and former USCS National Champion Morgan Havener of...more

GUNTOWN, MS – October 4, 2025 - Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS continued his domination of United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire competition with his second win in as many nights in the 30-lap Feature Race on Saturday at Pine Ridge Speedway. The USCS National Championship point leader posted his 12th win of the season and his 38th career series win. Brad Bowden of Hernando, MS finished second, and Derek Hagar of Marion, AR, took the third spot. Lance...more

October 10, 2025 - WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 10, 2025 - Marshall Skinner of Marion, AR won the 12-lap Pole Scramble on Friday night at Riverside International Speedway and will lead the field to the green flag on Saturday night for the $2500 to win Flip 25, the first of two 25 Feature Races in the Flip Flop 50 for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented by Hoosier Racing Tire. USCS point leader Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS finished second in the Pole Scramble and will start...more

WEST MEMPHIS, AR – October 11, 2025 - Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS won the 25-lap first of the Flip Flop twin features and Brad Bowden of Hernando, MS won the 25-lap Flip Flop 50 Feature #2 for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire on Saturday night at Riverside International Speedway. After starting on the outside of the front row in the Flip (first) Feature Race, Howard led all 25 laps to post his 13th USCS Feature Race win of the 2025 season and...more

SWAINSBORO, GA – October 17, 2025 - Mark Ruel Jr. of Jacksonville, FL took the lead on lap six and never looked back to win the 25-lap United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire Feature Race on Friday night at Swainsboro Raceway. Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS finished second to clinch the 2025 USCS National Championship along with the Southern and Mid-South Regions. Tyler Blankenship started ninth and finished third to claim the Wilwood Disc Brakes Hard Charger of...more

SWAINSBORO, GA - October 18, 2025 - Eric Riggins Jr. of Charlotte, NC won the 25-lap United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire 2025 Season Finale on Saturday night at Swainsboro Raceway. Riggins took the lead at the start of the race and led wire-to-wire for the victory in the caution free race that took 6 minutes and 52.049 seconds to complete. Friday night’s winner Mark Ruel Jr. of Jacksonville, FL finished second and Kelsey Ivy of Fremont, OH took the...more

Atlanta, GA - October 24, 2025- Dale Howard of Byhalia, Mississippi swept the point standings in all three United Sprint Car Series National and regional series categories during the 29th Annual and 2025 USCS racing season. Howard competed in all 40 of the USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National Championship events to best 164 other drivers in his quest for his first series National title. Howard won the National Championship while also capturing his third USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour regional series...more

(Photo courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – PHENIX CITY, Ala. (June 21, 2016) – Derek Hagar has found a home away from home in the Winner’s Circle at East Alabama Motor Speedway. Hagar, who scored his first career sprint car win at the track in 2007, claimed his fifth career victory at the oval last Saturday during the 27-lap Randy Helton Memorial with the USCS Series. “It’s one of those race tracks that a lot of people don’t run the top of,” he said. “It suits my style. I like...more

(Photo by Al Steinberg) Inside Line Promotions – MARION, Ark. (June 14, 2016) – Derek Hagar will return to a familiar track this weekend with the USCS Series. Hagar is set to tackle East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Ala., on Friday and Saturday. It will be his first trip to the track since winning in June 2014. “I love racing in Phenix City,” he said. “I got my first winged sprint car feature win there and we’ve been very successful every time we’ve gone back.” Hagar’s first career...more

The team was finally back in action after multiple rainouts. Crew Chief Bob Thompson had the J&J Auto Racing car set up and fast from the time we unloaded. Hot Laps produced times of 14 second laps. The team has found no luck with pill draws these days and pulled a high number, starting us at the tail of the heat race. Jim was hammer down and never lifting on a track that saw little passing. Jim was able to move up passing three cars and finishing 5th in the heat. Securing enough passing...more

East Alabama Motor Speedway: June 20, 2008 - Phenix City, AL - On a night to remember, twenty year-old Don Young from Bartlett, Tennessee battled his way to victory lane in the 2nd Annual Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series Randy Helton Memorial Race at East Alabama Motor Speedway on Saturday night. It was the 2007 Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the Year driver’s career-first feature win in the series. The night’s events commemorated the racing career of former United Sprint Car Series racer Randy...more

EAST ALABAMA MOTOR SPEEDWAY: June 21, 2008 - Phenix City, AL - On a night to remember, it just couldn’t have been bigger. In what was a storybook finish to a dream come true, Jeremy Scott from Franklin, Georgia battled his way to victory lane in the 1st Annual O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Randy Helton Memorial Race at East Alabama Motor Speedway on Saturday night. It was Scott’s first-ever career feature win in the series he has participated in since 1998. The night’s events commemorated...more

Pheonix City, AL - Immensely talented sixteen year-old Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas charged past seven of the Southeast's and the Nation's top sprint car drivers into the lead on lap twenty-three of the thirty-lap O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series feature race and captured the first win of his young career. Hagar, who was the O'Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year last season, was totally impressive as he charged from his eighth place starting position into victory lane with the...more