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MILTON, FL – September 19, 2025 - Lance Moss of Cherryville, NC led all 25-laps to win the Main Event for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire on Friday night at Southern Raceway. The victory was the fourth USCS win of the season for Moss and his ninth career series win. USCS point leader Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS finished second and Jadan Bowling of Holden Beach, NC took the third spot. Coen McDaniel of Gaffney, SC was fourth, and Trey Meredith...more

MILTON, FL - September 20, 2025 - USCS National Point leader Dale Howard of Byhalia, MS took his ninth win of the 2025 season on Saturday night in the 30-lap Feature Race for the United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire at Southern Raceway. Howard took the lead on lap three and never looked back to post his 35th career USCS victory. Coen McDaniel of Gaffney, SC finished second and 16-time USCS National Champion, and National Sprint Car Hall of Fame...more

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

CLEWISTON, FL – February 6, 2026 - It was No Panic Davie Franek of Wantage, NJ that led 23 of 25 laps to win the Feature Race on Friday night to open the 30th season for the United Sprint Car Series Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire Outlaw Thunder Tour at Hendry County Raceway Park. It was also Night 1 of the King of the 360s and Round 1 of the USCS Winter Heat Series. “We’ve been good here, and every time we come here, we seem to get better,” Franek said. “My hat’s off to the track crew...more

CLEWISTON, FL – February 7, 2026 - Davie Franek of Wantage, NJ swept the weekend for the United Sprint Car Series Presented By Hoosier Racing Tires Outlaw Thunder Tour by winning the 30-lap King of the 360 Feature Race and pocketing $10,000 on Saturday night at Hendry County Raceway Park. Franek won the opening night of the USCS Winter Heat Series at the same track on Friday night. “The car didn’t feel good early and I was looking around to see which groove was going to be the fast way...more

MILTON, FL – Davie Franek of Wantage, NJ went wire-to-wire Friday night in the caution-free 25-lap United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tires Feature Race at Hunt The Front Southern Raceway. Franek won his third straight USCS race in Round 3 of the Winter Heat Shootout. “I’m out of breath after that one, but the track was good on this new surface,” Franek said. “You could move around on it and go just about wherever you want to. I’ve got a fulltime crew...more

Inside Line Promotions – PUYALLUP, Wash. (April 1, 2019) – The season begins this weekend for Trey Starks as Gobrecht Motorsports ventures to the East Coast for a USCS Series doubleheader. The team will compete on Friday at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C., and on Saturday at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C. First, Starks will participate in a test session on Wednesday at Carolina Speedway. “It’s been a super long offseason for me it feels like,” he said. “It’s probably the longest...more

(Photo by Joe Venus) Inside Line Promotions – LANCASTER, S.C. (July 25, 2018) – Jordon Mallett picked up two more top-10 finishes last weekend as he continues to chase his second straight USCS Series title. The native of Greenbrier, Ark., finished sixth on Friday at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C., and he charged from the tail of the field to run ninth in just three laps on Saturday at Lancaster Speedway. The weekend began with Mallett finishing second in the dash and third in a heat race...more

(Photo by Gary Colgan) Inside Line Promotions – GASTONIA, N.C. (April 11, 2018) – Jordon Mallett has had an eventful last two weeks of racing. It all began on March 31 when he tackled a local sprint car show at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark. “We were running late already, but then we got ready to load the car and the ramp door wouldn’t come down,” he said. “By the time we got that issue resolved we showed up after they’d run heat races and everything. We didn’t get there until about 30...more

The Dead-A-Head Motorsports team made it's return to 360 sprint car competition this past weekend in the Carolina's during the North-South Shootout featuring the USCS and URC sanctioning bodies racing Friday night at the Carolina Speedway and Saturday night at the Lancaster Speedway. Friday night was the first winged sprint car competition driver Dan Mazy has had in four years. The last time Dan and the team competed at the Carolina Speedway was 2013. Dan was credited with the hard charger...more

By USCS (Gstonia, NC) -- USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters and the United Racing Club presented by Capital Renegade.at Carolina Speedway on Friday, April 6, 2018.results: Heat 1 - Engler Machine & Tool (8 Laps) 47-Eric Riggins Jr.[3] ; 2. 63-Josh Weller[4] ; 3. 89-Robbie Stillwaggon[6] ; 4. 5-Justin Barger[5] ; 5. 5G-Curt Michael[7] ; 6. X-Dan Mazy[2] ; 7. 30-Duane Moore[1] Heat 2 - BMRS (Race Hose & Fittings) (8 Laps) 1x-Scott Hunter[1] ; 2. 1s-Joey Schmidt[4] ; 3. 4-Danny...more

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....more

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After almost two full seasons of being away from any real full-time sprint car racing, I am happy to announce that Dead-A-Head Motorsports is planned to be back on track in September of 17'! Our goal is to compete with the ASCS Souther Outlaw Sprints and the USCS Souther Thunder Tour. We are once again back to JnJ chassis, DMI components, Wilwood Brakes, Weld Wheels, Bell Racing Products and now for the first time Wesmar Racing Engines. We couldn't be more excited to pair a familiar car...more

(Photo Courtesy of Trey Starks Racing) Inside Line Promotions – LANCASTER, S.C. (April 11, 2016) – Trey Starks earned a victory for the second straight weekend thanks to last Saturday’s triumph at Lancaster Super Speedway. Starks, who made his season debut driving for Jeff McCall last weekend during the USCS doubleheader, took the lead on Lap 10 and he cruised to a satisfying victory following a sour start to the weekend. “We were really good every time we hit the track,” he said. “We were...more

Tuesdays with TMAC – 21st State in the Books! (Bill W) November 10, 2015 – Terry McCarl’s win in USCS action at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, North Carolina on October 30 gave the Altoona, Iowa driver victories in 21 states. The two week trip to the Carolina’s culminated in the World of Outlaws World Finals brought an end to a successful 2015 campaign that saw ten wins. The USCS events October 30 and 31 were an improvisation. “We had planned on going to the Short Track Nationals (in Little...more

(Photo Courtesy of USCS Series) Inside Line Promotions – GAFFNEY, S.C. (Nov. 2, 2015) – Trey Starks captured another big win to cap last weekend’s USCS doubleheader on the East Coast. Starks and car owner Jeff McCall put together a pair of podium finishes during the weekend, which wrapped up with a dominating performance at Cherokee Speedway on Saturday. The event began with Starks charging from eighth to a runner-up result during a heat race. “We had a really good start and were up to third...more

(Photo by Chris Seelman Photography) Inside Line Promotions – PUYALLUP, Wash. (Oct. 25, 2015) – Trey Starks has a change of plans for this week. Starks, who will drive for Jeff McCall, will compete with the USCS Series on Friday at Carolina Speedway in Gastonia, N.C., and Saturday at Cherokee Speedway in Gaffney, S.C. It will mark his debut at both tracks. “We had planned on racing at the Short Track Nationals, but due to unforeseen circumstances we need to race closer to Jeff’s shop in North...more

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The URC / USCS North South Shootout this past weekend was a huge success. Packed grandstands and excited fans made for an electric atmosphere at both the speedways. URC had a strong contingency head south. Among them Dan Mazy, URC's 2012 rookie of the year made the 530 plus mile trek south from Kutztown, PA. In his first ever showing at the carolina speedway, In his first event with the USCS he advanced 10 positions in A main coming from the 20th starting spot to finish 10th, claiming the DMI...more

Gastonia, NC – June 26, 2009 - Seven-time Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 30-lap Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main-event during the Parts Plus USCS “Thunder in Carolina” event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. It was Gray’s second USCS feature win at the speedy 4/10 mile Carolina clay oval this season. Gray drove his Rislone Oil Treatment sponsored #10 J&J Auto Racing car past early race leader Matt Linder’s #1x into...more

Gastonia, NC - April 24, 2009 - Seven-time Parts Plus United Sprint Car Series National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee won the 30-lap Parts Plus USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour feature race during the Parts Plus USCS Thunder in Carolina event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. It was the first USCS feature win of the season for Gray over a talent-laden field of twenty-nine competitors from eleven states that included two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart from...more

June 27, 2008 - Gastonia, NC - After setting fast time and a new track record of 13.49 seconds around the 4/10 mile clay oval, local racing hero, Johnny Bridges from Cherryville, North Carolina won the 30-lap O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series presented by Lucas Oil main event at Carolina Speedway on Friday night. Bridges took the lead on lap three and led the final twenty-seven laps of the race. It was Bridges third O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder Tour and “Thunder in the Carolinas” regional...more