Adams wins rain-shortened O'Reilly USCS Speedweek Round 5 at East Alabama Motorspeedway

June 1, 2006 Phenix City, AL - Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida became the fifth different O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 feature winner in as many races by winning the rain-shortened 35-lap O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series Round Five A-main event on Thursday night at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, Alabama. Adams started on the pole in a race run under the O'Reilly USCS time-trial format and raced ahead of the field for twenty-seven laps before the rains that had been occurring all evening in the area finally arrived at the track just long enough to spoil the evenings final event. The race was stopped eight laps short on lap twenty-seven, but, it did not spoil Adams' evening as he set an O'Reilly USCS track record of 13.55 seconds around the high-banked 4/10 mile clay oval and lead every lap of the main event to collect a $2000 paycheck and move into the points lead for the O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 title.



Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida won the O'Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 Round #5 event at East Alabama Motor Speedway in Phenix City, AL. on Thursday night. The 7 race tour continues on Friday, June 2nd at North Alabama Speedway. Media contact: Pete Walton 404-886-5913

Mike Ward started outside the front row and held off first four time O'Reilly USCS National Champion, Terry Gray, from Bartlett, Tennessee, then 2005 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame 360 sprint car Driver of the Year, Gary Wright from Hooks, Texas for the runner-up spot. Wright who started eighth was in fourth on lap four and chased Gray until lap thirteen before going high on the track to move into the third position on that lap and was challenging Ward for the runner-up spot when the moisture came. 2005 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame "Wild Card" Driver of the Year, Danny Martin, Jr. from Sarasota, Florida started seventh and finished in fourth place.

Tom Winegardner, Jr. from Pierson, Florida who started eleventh stayed in the top five in the National standings with a fifth place run. Terry Gray rounded out the top five finishers. Seventeen year old Daytona Beach, Florida young Gun, Matt Tiffany was seventh followed by Lee Sowell from Nesbitt, Mississippi who started last after missing his heat race with engine problems. Matt linder from Hoschton, Georgia was ninth and Tom Winegardner, Sr. from Pierson, Florida rounded out the top ten. The race only had one caution and that was for a turn two tangle involving Speedweek Round One winner Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri and Speedweek 2006 Round Three winner and 1999 O'Reilly USCS Dirt Cup Champion Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas.

Lucas Oil Power Dash points leader, Terry Gray won his fifth Lucas Oil Power Dash six lap shootout of the season. Lee Sowell from Nesbitt, Mississippi who charged from the rear of the field to eighth place in the rain-shortened event past ten cars in the tough A-Main field was awarded the Huggins Cams Hard Charger award. Dennis Lykins from Thomaston, Georgia was the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Race.

Adams via his fast time collected the K&N Filters Pole Award. Danny Martin, Jr. was recognized as the Hoosier Tire Young Gun of the Race, which is awarded to the top-finishing driver under twenty-five years old. The Weld Racing Hard Luck award went to Jerrod Hull who had to change an engine after the Lucas Oil Power Dash only to have motor heating problems in the main event.

The next O'Reilly USCS National points event and O'Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder points event is the Speedweek 2006 Round #6 at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, AL on Friday night June 2nd before the grand finale in the "Columbus Clash" at Columbus Speedway in Columbus, MS on Saturday night June 3rd. For info on the O'Reilly USCS visit te official website at www.uscsracing.com

OFFICIAL RESULTS - ROUND FIVE - O'REILLY USCS SPEEDWEEK 2006
AT EASTALABAMA MOTORSPEEDWAY IN PHENIX CITY, AL. ON 6/01/06

PS ST  CR#  DRIVER            	HOMETOWN 	  LAPS
1  17	4A  Kenny Adams 	Malabar, FL 	   27
2  10	88  Mike Ward 	        Memphis, TN 	   27
3   4	 9  Gary Wright 	Hooks, Texas 	   27
4   6	00  Danny Martin, Jr.	Sarasota, FL 	   27
5   5	10  Terry Gray	        Bartlett, TN	   27
6  22	11T Tom Winegardner, Jr Pierson, FL 	   27
7  21	19T Matt Tiffany 	Daytona Beach, FL  27
8   9 	51  Lee Sowell 	        Nesbit, MS 	   27
9  15	1x  Matt Linder	        Hoschton, GA	   27
10      11  Tom Winegardner, Sr	Pierson, FL	   27
11 18	26  Marshall Skinner,Jr	West Memphis, AR   27
12      27  Randy Helton	Palmetto, GA	   26
13 16	67  Brian Thomas	Auburn, GA	   26
14    	88z Shane Nelson	Chattanooga, TN	   26
15      4b  Bryn Gohn 	        Malabar, FL	   25
16 12	94  Jerrod Hull	        Sikeston, MO	   17
17 13	85  Dennis Lykins	Thomaston, GA	   12
18      14x Eric White	        Horn Lake, MS	   11

LUCAS OIL POWER DASH WINNER: Terry Gray
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Kenny Adams
HUGGINS CAMS HARD CHARGER:  Lee Sowell
(started 18th and passed 10 cars)
HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE:
Danny Martin, Jr.
ROBISON RACING PRODUCTS ROOKIE OF THE RACE:
Dennis Lykins
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Mike Ward (2nd place )
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Gary Wright
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Danny Martin, Jr.
OUTLAW DISC BRAKES TOP FIVE AWARD: Terry Gray
SIMPSON SAFETY PRODUCTS 6TH-PLACE AWARD:
T.J. Winegardner, Jr.
FSR RACING PRODUCTS-7 TH-PLACE AWARD:
Matt Tiffany
AIR FLOW RESEARCH 9TH-PLACE AWARD: Matt Linder
FSR TOP 10 AWARD : Tom Winegardner, Sr.
WELD RACING HARD LUCK AWARD: Jerrod Hull
ENTRIES: 18
PROVISIONAL: none
LEAD CHANGES: none
LAP LEADERS: Adams 1-27
CAUTIONS: 1

LUCAS OIL POWER DASH - 6 Laps: 1. Terry Gray 2.Danny Martin, Jr. 3.Mike Ward 4. Kenny Adams 5. Marshall Skinner 6. Jerrod Hull

FAST TIME: Kenny Adams 13.55 seconds.

HEAT RACES: Canceled due to weather/time.