O’Reilly USCS “CLASH ON THE COAST” OUTLAW SPRINT CARS HEADLINE THE RACING ACTION

April 21, 2006


AT GOLDEN ISLES SPEEDWAY FRIDAY NIGHT (4/21) & SATURDAY NIGHT (4/22)

Atlanta, GA – The O’Reilly Auto Parts www.oreillyauto.com United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com is in action again this weekend with a multi-regional two-day event at Golden Isles Speedway near Brunswick, Georgia on this Friday and Saturday nights. The O’Reilly USCS” Clash on the Coast” serves as the kickoff event for the O’Reilly USCS Carolina Thunder Tour regional series and will be race number three and four for the O’Reilly USCS Southern Thunder regional series as well. Both nights will also award O’Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder National Championship points. Additionally both of these races are found on the O’Reilly USCS Dirt Cup schedule. The Dirt Cup is a series within the O’Reilly USCS Outlaw Thunder National Championship that will declare an all dirt race champion in 2006.

The O’Reilly USCS Carolina Thunder regional series has races scheduled in North and South Carolina plus Georgia and East Tennessee. The Southern Thunder Tour regional series consists of races in Alabama, Georgia, Florida and Eastern Tennessee.

The two series schedules overlap several times in 2006 to bring the best drivers from both regions together for the fans. Event Most of the events in both regions also are on the National schedule as well.

The event will bring the O’Reilly Auto Parts sponsored United Sprint Car Series "Outlaw Thunder" National Tour drivers roaring into the fast 1/2-mile clay oval for their events number eight and nine of its 10th anniversary season for the Nationally touring O’Reilly USCS drivers who also race on paved 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 track. The exotic fire breathing, alcohol burning, 700 horsepower open wheel O’Reilly USCS sprint cars weight just 1,300 pounds, and are pound for pound the World’s most powerful short track race cars. The cars will literally fly around the track surface at speeds over 140 M.P.H. 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.

Friday night's Outlaw sprint car action will feature a full program of racing in the outlaw sprint cars that includes test and tune hot laps followed by time trial qualifying when the all-time Golden Isle Speedway track record is expected to fall. The evening's first sprint car race will be the Lucas Oil Power Dash that showcases the top six cars from the previous O’Reilly USCS main event in an edge-of-your-seat six-car shootout. Next up will be qualifying heat races and the evening’s finale will be a 20-lap “Clash on the Coast” preliminary main event. On Saturday night, the racing action kicks off with a double points Lucas Oil Power Dash, then moves into another full program of sprint car racing that features a pair of semi-final B Main events before the 30-lap “Clash on the Coast” Championship Race. The Speedway’s weekly racing divisions are on the program both nights as well.

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, the defending O’Reilly USCS National Champion, has 134 feature wins in the last five seasons, including 94 with the O’Reilly USCS. He is currently second in the National point standings. Adams has won twice already in 2006 USCS competition.

Four-time O’Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, TN, who currently leads the O’Reilly USCS National and Southern Thunder point standings, is heads the entry list for the Golden Isles Speedway event. Gray is also among the top twenty-five drivers in the Nation in feature wins over the past 5 years with over 65 feature wins. The “Bartlett Bullet” is also a three time Lucas Oil Power Dash Champion. Another potent competitor is twenty year-old young gun Danny 'Hammer" Martin, Jr. of Sarasota, FL who is in third place in the O’Reilly USCS National point standings. Martin was the runner-up in 2004 and 2005 National title chases. Martin was named as the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame’s “Wild Card Driver of the Year’ an honor for outstanding driving. 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 eighth and Danny Martin, Jr. finished in the ninth spot.

Martin will be joined by a host of other O’Reilly USCS Young Guns including 20-year-old Bryn Gohn of Malabar, FL, who was the 2005 O’Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year. Gohn is currently seventh in the National points. Another talented young driver is sixteen-year-old Matt Tiffany of Daytona Beach, FL who is currently third in the O’Reilly USCS National points. Tiffany was impressive enough to be one of only five first year sprint car drivers nominated for National Rookie of the Year honors in 2005 by the pollsters of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. Also look for 19-year-old R.J. Johnson of Decatur, TN, who was the 2004 O’Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year plus 21 year old Tom Winegardner, Jr. from Pierson, FL who is fifth in the current standings and nineteen year old Stephen Darvalics from Venice, Florida who is in eighth in the standings to be up front in the race.

Other notable entries include; Georgia Gang members, Randy Helton from Palmetto, GA, Jeremy Scott from Franklin, GA Brian Thomas from Auburn, GA. The Florida contingent will also Tom Winegardner, Sir from Pierson, FL who is ninth in the National point standings and veterans Frank Carlsson from Oxford, Bruce Durden and Tommy Denton from nearby Jacksonville and Jerry Jones from Clermont, Florida. Also entered are team-mates Brian Eckley and Brian Maddox from Tampa, Florida, Paul “Worldwide” Sides from Bartlett, Tennessee and East Bay Raceway track champion, Sport Allen from Largo, Florida

Golden Isles Speedway is located 12 miles west of I-95 and just off US 82. The race track phone number is: (912) 778-3767, and the website is http://www.goldenislsesspeedway.com/. For O’Reilly USCS info visit the USCS web site at www.uscsracing.com Contacts: PETE WALTON, USCS President (404) 886-5913 petewalton@bellsouth.net WWW.USCSRACING.COM