O'Reilly USCS OUTLAW SPRINT CAR RACING PRESENTED BY COURTNEY BAKER PLUMBING HEADLINES THE PROGRAM AT FAYETTEVILLE MOTOR SPEEDWAY SATURDAY NIGHT (9/10)
September 1, 2005
FAYETTEVILLE, NC - The O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series will make and 
encore trip to Fayetteville Motor Speedway on Saturday night, September 10. The first visit by the O'Reilly USCS at Fayetteville Motor Speedway on July 16 thrilled the packed house with a new all-time track record, and a first-time winner. Fayetteville Motor Speedway management responded to the fans positive reaction by asking the O'Reilly USCS back to the 4/10-mile clay oval for a second time this season.
The Saturday night September 10 winged outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program that includes test and tune hot laps, 10-lap heat races and a 30-lap A-main event. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Airflow Research Power Dash that showcases the top six cars from the previous USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout.
O'Reilly USCS entries will include a number of the nation's top ranked sprint car drivers including America's winningest sprint car driver since the beginning of the 2000 season, Kenny Adams from Malabar, FL. Adams has 128 feature wins in the last five seasons. He currently leads the point standings in the National Tour, plus the Southern Thunder, Carolina Thunder, and Mid-South Thunder regional tours with 13 wins on the season.
The defending and four-time O'Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, TN, is also among the entrants for the Fayetteville Motor Speedway show. Gray is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past 5 years with over 60 wins, and is currently third in the National points. Nineteen year-old young gun Danny 'Hammer" Martin, Jr. of Sarasota, FL is in second place in the O'Reilly USCS National point standings.
Adams, Gray and Martin finished last season highly ranked in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame "Driver of the Year" poll. Adams was ranked second, Gray was third and Martin, Jr. finished in the fifteenth spot out of 3000+ drivers considered.
Other notable entries include a host of talented SpeedMart Young Guns (drivers under 25) including 19-year-old Bryn Gohn of Malabar, FL, who posted his first O'Reilly USCS career win at Fayetteville Motor Speedway on July 16. Gohn is fourth overall in the O'Reilly USCS National point standings, and also leads the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Year point standings.
Other SpeedMart Young Guns joining Martin and Gohn are 16-year-old Matt Tiffany of Daytona Beach, FL, who is fifth in the O'Reilly USCS National points, second behind Gohn in the Rookie title chase, and 17-year-old R.J. Johnson of Decatur, TN, who was the 2004 O'Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year, and is currently sixth in the 2005 National standings.
Bruce Cline of Apex, NC will lead the Carolina contingent of winged outlaw sprint car drivers to Fayetteville Motor Speedway. Cline, a graduate of the Open-Wheel Modified Division at Fayetteville Motor Speedway, is third in the Carolina Thunder point standings, and also leads the Rookie of the Year points for the Carolina Thunder Tour regional series. Another former Fayetteville Motor Speedway regular now competing with the O'Reilly USCS is Bronzie Lawson of Southern Pines, NC.
Joining Cline and Lawson in trying to defend the home turf will be the ninth and tenth ranked O'Reilly USCS National drivers, Chad Allum of Kannapolis, NC, and Johnny Bridges of Cherryville, NC, along with Brice Wrenn of Lexington, SC, and Dustin Apple of Elon, NC,
Bridges, driving the only Ford-powered winged outlaw sprint car with the O'Reilly USCS, set a new all-time Fayetteville Motor Speedway track record on July 16 with a lap in 15.836 seconds for an average speed of 90.932 miles per hour. Wrenn was fifth in the 2004 O'Reilly USCS National points, and posted his first career series win earlier this season. Apple, a 2005 Rookie of the Year candidate, is fresh off his best finish of the season, a fourth-place effort on August 27 in Laurens, SC.
Fayetteville Motor Speedway is located off I-95 at exit 46, then 1.3 miles Southeast on State Road 87, then 1.5 miles Southwest on Doc Bennett Road. The race track phone number is (910) 223-7223, and the website is www.fayettevillemotorspeedway.net . For USCS "Outlaw Thunder" info call (404) 886-5913, or visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com .
