O'Reilly USCS  "ASPHALT THUNDER" SPRINT CARS HEADLINE RACING at MOBILE INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY  
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT (MARCH 11 TH )

March 9, 2006
Irvington , AL - Wild and exciting winged Outlaw sprint car racing returns to Mobile International Speedway to headline the racing program this Saturday night, March 11th. The O'Reilly Auto Parts sponsored United Sprint Car Series "Asphalt Thunder" Tour will roar into the fast and famed 1/2 mile paved oval for its second asphalt event of the season. This will be event number four on the season for the O'Reilly USCS National touring drivers who also race on dirt ovals. 

The O'Reilly USCS is the only winged Outlaw sprint series in the World that races on both dirt and paved surfaces. The event is expected to bring top winged Outlaw sprint car drivers from at least six states to the Speedway . Their exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open wheel cars weight just 1,300 pounds, and will literally fly around the track surface at speeds in excess of 150 miles per hour. It is not uncommon to see O'Reilly USCS sprint cars popping "wheelies" or doing wheel stands because of the brute force of their engines and their huge 18 inch wide rear tires.  Saturday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program that will include time trials, qualifying heat races and A-main event. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Lucas Oil Power Dash that showcases the top cars from the previous O'Reilly USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout.  Also on the bill will be racing action in two of Mobile International Speedway's most popular stock car divisions, the Bombers and Sportsman.

Heavy hitter O'Reilly USCS winged outlaw sprint entries include a number of the nation's top ranked winged sprint car drivers including three of the hottest. Those driers includie Kenny Adams of Malabar , Florida , Terry Gray of Bartlett , Tennessee and Young Gun Danny Martin, Jr. from Sarasota , Florida . Adams is the defending National champion and was the 2000 O'Reilly USCS champion. He is the series all-time leading career feature winner with 93. He has been one of the Winn ingest sprint car drivers in the country over the past six seasons.  "The Malabar Missile" has over 130 feature wins overall since the beginning of the 2000 season. He scored 18 O'Reilly USCS feature wins last season. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame pollsters also named Adams 2000's National Sprint Car Driver of the Year. He finished second in the 2005 NSCHOF poll.

Adams who has won before at Mobile will have his hands full with a host of challengers from across the nation including four-time O'Reilly USCS National Champion Gray and the 19 year old Martin who was the 2004 and 2005 runner-up in the O'Reilly USCS National point standings. Gray is the current National points leader and already has eleven national sprint car titles with three different series to his credit, and over 300 feature wins. Gray finished in the number eight spot at the end of last season in the final National Sprint Car Hall of Fame poll. He is also among the top 25 win leaders in the nation over the last four seasons with over 60 main event wins. Martin is currently eighth in the current USCS national point standings and finished last season ranked ninth in the Nation.

Another young gun, 18-year-old Ryan Myers from Eldora do, Ohio who was the “Cinderella” story of the 2005 O”Reilly USCS pavement season when he used a 10 year old dirt sprint car to finish fourth in the final O'Reilly USCS Asphalt Thunder point standings is entered. Myers finished in second place in the season-opener at Mobile International last season. He will be joined by several other talented USCS Young Guns (drivers under 25 drivers) from the 2005 Asphalt Thunder top ten including 2005 O'Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year, twenty year old Bryn Gohn from Malabar , Florida . Gohn finished fourth in the National standings. Another is sixteen-year-old driving sensation, Matt Tiffany from Daytona Beach , Florida finished 5 th in the National standings and captured a paved track win in 2005. These young speed demons will be joined by another pair of young challengers from the Buckeye State of Ohio. Those include the “Buckeye Bandit” Doug Berryman and his teammate Jason Kemp both from Mansfield , Ohio .

Other notable entries include: What has to be the local favorite, well known stock car ace Dave Mader III from Irvington, Alabama driving the famed #30 Ardis Automotive Special for legendary car owner Johnny Ardis of Mobile. Ageless Hank Lower from Angola , Indiana who has numerous titles and many feature wins over a four-decade career will make the long trip down from the great white North as well for his first USCS event. Driver/owner Scott “Skeeter” Faulconer from Lutz, Florida who finished seventh in the National point standings in 2005 will bring a three-car team to the event. Additional out of state entries expected are : O'Reilly USCS veteran sprint car driver Doug Day from Winder, Georgia who was the runner-up in the 2002 title chase and has numerous top five performances on the asphalt plus “Chargin' Charlie Ladner from Tampa, Florida in the Mac Steele owned #0.  

The Mobile International Speedway is located alongside US 90 West in Irvington . The Speedway 's phone number is 251-957-2026. For O'Reilly USCS "Outlaw Thunder" info call 404-886-5913 or visit the official O'Reilly USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com