Sport Allen picks up O'Reilly USCS win and Bounty at East Bay

November 03, 2006, Tampa, FL - Former East Bay Raceway track champion, Sport Allen from Pinellas Park, Florida picked up the win on night one of the 5th Annual O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series Fall Brawl at East Bay Raceway Park in Tampa, Florida on Friday night. Allen also collected a bounty of $500 posted for any driver who could win the A-main event with Danny Martin, Jr. who had a five race win streak going coming into the event, still in the field at the finish. Allen who also won the events Friday night preliminary in 2005, raced from his pole-position start into turn one of the race and held on through two cautions and a lap thirteen red flag to capture his fourth career O'Reilly USCS feature win. Allen won the inaugural Fall Brawl finale in 2000.



PHOTO / CAPTION: Sport Allen from Pinellas Park, Florida won his first O'Reilly Auto Parts United Sprint Car Series feature race of the season in Friday night's 20 lap preliminary feature in the 5th Annual O'Reilly USCS "Fall Brawl" at East Bay Raceway Park. Allen also collected a $500 bounty on Danny Martin, Jr. events in a row. (photo by Pete Walton). Media contact: Pete Walton 404-886-5913

Last week's East Bay Raceway Park feature winner, Gene Lasker from Tampa, Florida started beside Allen in the front row and chased him for the entire twenty laps to finish in the runner-up spot. Four time O'Reilly Auto Parts / United Sprint Car Series www.uscsracing.com National champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee followed in third place. Danny Martin, Jr. who set fast time with a lap of 13.712 seconds around the tacky 1/3 mile dirt oval finished fourth and Defending O'Reilly USCS National Champion Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida rounded out the top five.

Tom "T.J." Winegardner, Jr. from Pierson, Florida headed the second five in sixth place. Newly crowned 2006 track champion and second-generation sprint car driver Daryl Smith from Gibsonton, Florida was seventh and Winegardner's team-mate, Greg Leonard from Tampa, Florida was eighth in the finishing order. 1999 O'Reilly USCS Champ, Marshall Skinner who started sixteenth followed in ninth and twenty-two year old Hoosier Tire Young Gun, Ryan Grubaugh from St. John, Michigan who won the 12 lap Huggins Cams B-Main and started seventeenth in the feature, rounded out the top ten.

Danny Martin, Jr. started off the evening by winning the six-lap Lucas Oil Power Dash. Daryl Smith was the winner in the Engler Tool and Machine First Heat. Tom Winegardner, Jr. captured the Butlerbuilt Second Heat race. His team-mate Greg Leonard won the JE Pistons Third Heat and Kenny Adams streaked to the win in the FSR Racing Products Fourth Heat. Ryan Grubaugh won the 12 lap B-Main event.

Sport Allen grabbed the K&N Filters Pole Award after first heat winner Daryl Smith drew him to the pole with a six inversion draw. Terry Gray received the evenings JE Pistons Top Guns Award for his third place finish. Bryan Eckley was declared the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Race. Matt Linder garnered the events Huggins Cams Hard Chargerafter starting 21st and passing nine cars. 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 Dale Blaney from Hartford, OH after he blew and engine and was unable to start the A-main in his spot.

The next O'Reilly USCS National points event and O'Reilly Southern Thunder points event will be on Saturday night at East Bay Raceway Park in Brunswick. For more info visit www.eastbayracewaypark.com or www.uscsracing.com Next weekend the O'Reilly USCS Oultaw Thunder Tour is in action at Columbus Speedway in Columbus, MS on Friday, November 10th and Saturday, November 11th.

OFFICIAL RESULTS - ROUND FORTY-FOUR
O'REILLY USCS OUTLAW THUNDER TOUR AT
EAST BAY RACEEWAY PARK ON NOV. 3RD, 2006

PS ST   CR# 	DRIVER 	          HOMETOWN 	  LAPS
1   1	42x	Sport Allen	  Pinellas Park,FL 20
2   2	02	Gene Lasker	  Tampa, FL	   20
3   5	10 	Terry Gray 	  Bartlett, TN 	   20
4   6	00 	Danny Martin,Jr	  Sarasota, FL 	   20
5   8	4A	Kenny Adams	  Malabar, FL	   20
6  10	11T 	Tom Winegardner	  Pierson, FL 	   20
7  12	3	Daryl Smith	  Gibsonton, FL	   20
8  11	11T	Greg Leonard	  Tampa, FL	   20
9  17	26	Marshall Skinner  W. Memphis, AR   20
10 18	00x	Ryan Grubaugh	  St. John, MI	   20
11 16	32	Stephen Darvalics Venice, FL	   20
12 21	1x	Matt Linder	  Atlanta, GA	   20
13 14	20	Frank Carlsson	  Oxford, FL	   20
14 19	4B	Bryn Gohn	  Malabar, FL	   19
15 21	71	R.J. Johnson	  Decatur, TN	   19
16  9	4c	Tyler Godwin 	  Tampa, FL 	   13
17 13	8m	Tim Holston	  Tampa, FL	   13
18 15	1b	Brian Maddox	  Brandon, FL	   13
19  4	15 	Sam Hafertepe,Jr  Sunnyvale, TX	   12
20 23	56R	Ryan Myers 	  Eaton, OH	   11
21  7	1	Frank Beck	  Tampa, FL	   10
22 22	19	Jerry Jones	  Clermont, FL	    8
23 20	12B	Bryan Eckley- R	  Tampa, FL	    5


C&B Mushroom Farms Fast Time: Danny Martin, Jr.  13.712
LUCAS OIL POWER DASH WINNER: Danny Martin, Jr.
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Sport Allen
HUGGINS CAMS HARD CHARGER: Marshall Skinner 
(started 21st and passed 9 cars)
HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Danny Martin, Jr..
ROBISON RACING PRODUCTS ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Bryan Eckley
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Terry Gray. (3rd place)
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Terry Gray
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Danny Martin, Jr.
OUTLAW DISC BRAKES TOP FIVE AWARD: Kenny Adams
SIMPSON SAFETY PRODUCTS 6TH-PLACE AWARD: Tom Winegardner, Jr.
FSR RACING PRODUCTS-7 TH-PLACE AWARD: Daryl Smith
AIR FLOW RESEARCH 9TH-PLACE AWARD: Marshall Skinner
FSR TOP 10 AWARD : Ryan Grubaugh
WELD RACING HARD LUCK AWARD: Dale Blaney
ENTRIES: 32
PROVISIONAL: Myers
LEAD CHANGES: none
LAP LEADERS: Sport Allen 1-20
CAUTIONS: three (one red)

LUCAS OIL POWER DASH - 6 Laps: 1. Danny Martin; 2. Marshall Skinner; 3. Tom Winegardner; Sr. 4.Sport Allen; 5. Stephen Darvalics 6. Jerry Jones;

HEAT RACES: Engler Tool and Machine1st Heat: 3-Daryl Smith, 4cTyler Godwin, 6- Dale Blaney, 00-Danny Martin Jr,, 26-Marshall Skinner, 71-RJ Johnson, 92-Matt Kurtz, 07-Rob Hartman..

Butlerbuilt 2nd Heat: 11t-Tom Winegardner Jr, 10-Terry Gray, 42-Sport Allen, 8m-Tim Holsten, 00x-Ryan Grubaugh, 77-Danny Curry, 1x-Matt Linder, 56r-Ryan Meyers..

JE Pistons 3rd Heat: 11-Greg Leonard, 15 -Sam Hafertepe Jr, 20-Frank Carlson, 1-Frank Beck, 4b-Bryn Gohn, 19-Jerry Jones, 56- Doug Berryman, 59-Danny Stater.

FSR Racing Products 4th Heat : 4a-Kenny Adams, 1b-Brian Maddox, 02-Gene Lasker, 32-Steven Darvalics, 12b-Brian Eckley, 99-Danny Jones, 6-Mike Schroder, 2d-Doug Day (DNS).

Huggins Cams B-main - (12 laps): 00x-Ryan Grubaugh, 4b-Bryn Gohn, 12b-Brian Eckley, 71-R.J. Johnson, 1x-Matt Linder, 19-Jerry Jones, 99-Danny Jones, 77-Danny Curry, 56-Doug Berryman, 6-Mike Schroeder, 59-Dan Statter, 56R-Ryan Myers, 07-Rob Hartman(DNS), 2d-Doug Day (DNS).