2007 USCS O'Reilly News

Gray leads O'Reilly USCS standings after Speedweek 2007 Championship

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Atlanta, GA - After several outstanding performances during last week's O'Reilly United Sprint Car Series Speedweek 2007 Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee leads the O'Reilly USCS National point standings through the first fourteen events by a wide margin over twenty year-old Ryan Myers from Eaton, Ohio in the runner-up spot. Nineteen year-old, 2004 O'Reilly USCS Rookie of the Year R.J. Johnson from Tampa, Florida is in the third position.

Gray who is the defending series Champion had finishes that included two wins, (at Malden Speedway and Clarksville Speedway) two finishes in the runner-up spot (at Camden Speedway and Columbus Speedway) and two more fourth place runs during the week. He only had one finish outside the top ten in the seven events held over nine nights.

Three-time (2004-2006) series Championship runner-up, Danny Martin, Jr. from Sarasota, Florida has moved from way back in the standings (after the twenty-one year-old driver missing several early season events) into the fourth position just three points behind Johnson. Barely sixteen year old 2006 O'Reilly USCS rookie of the Year Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas is now in the fifth position in the National rankings.

Past O'Reilly USCS Champion, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas ranks sixth in the standings just thirteen points South of Hagar's total. Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi is seventh in the national standings. Eighteen year-old Don Young from Bartlett, Tennessee had an outstanding Speedweek 2007 series and moved into eighth place in the rankings. Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida is ninth place in the National standings and Michael Craddock from Olive Branch, Mississippi earns the tenth place spot.

Five of the driver in the top ten are veterans and five are Hoosier Tire Young Guns (drivers under 25 years-old). The next point earning opportunity comes on Friday June 15th at Penton Raceways www.pentonraceways.com in Penton, Alabama. That event will be followed the next evening on Saturday night June 16th in the 11th Annual Alabama Sprint Car Nationals at East Alabama Motor Speedway www.eamsdirt.com in Phenix City, Alabama.

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O'Reilly USCS National point standings
(through 14 National points races as
of 6/02/07 Columbus Speedway)

1. 10 Terry Gray 2100
2. 56R Ryan Myers 1452
3. 71 R.J. Johnson 1304
4. 00 Danny Martin, Jr. 1301
5. 9Jr Derek Hagar 1026
6. 26 Marshall Skinner 1013
7. 21 Raymond Stull 982
8. 75 Don Young 966
9. 4A Kenny Adams 894
10. 31 Michael Craddock 860
11. 4B Bryn Gohn 828
12. 12 Trey Robb 713
13. 11T Tom Winegardner, Jr. 683
14. 51 Lee Sowell 662
15. 58 Wade Oliver 624
16. 44 Ronnie Howard 615
17. 41 Jason Johnson 584
18. 8x Chris Williams 572
19. 88 Tim Crawley 564
20. 15 Brad Bowden 556
21. 59 Dan Statter 530
22. 55R Chad Levingston 523
23. 16 Dewayne Prince 518
24. 94 Wayne Johnson 442
25. 9 Gary Wright 440
26. 29 Travis Rilat 428
27. 39 Charles Ladner 420
28. 40 Troy Lowery 410
29. 19T Matt Tiffany 402
30. 23 Brian Bell 400
31. 98j Jon Kettlewell, 398
32. 32 Stephen Darvalics 394
33. 2m Bryce Vowan 380
34. 24w Kenny Coke 346
35. 44H Jay Adams 342
36. 32B Justin Barger 290
37. 4M Chris Hill 280
38. 1x Matt Linder 278
39. 4 Terry Coddington 276
40. 2d Doug Day 260
41. 96 Nick DeFeo 258
tie 35 Ron Blair 258
43. 86 Buster Dickerson 256
44. 35w Best, Brad 254
45. 5 Dave Thorman 252
46. 31 Tim Sites 246
47. 10s Matt Stegeman 240
tie 71c Jack Helget 240
49. 21v Brent Vonk 238
50. 3d Marion Jacobs 236
51. 43 Witherspoon, Terry 224
tie 17T Taylor, Jeff 224
tie 4x Dusty Rhoades 224
tie 12M Greg Merritt 224
55. 35 Phillip Faulkner 205
56. 44H Donnie Howard 200
57. 57c Chris Schmelzle, 188
58. 20m Luke Hall 178
59. 12 Jeff Swindell 150
60. 68 Terry Vidrine 144
61. 3 A.G. Raines 142
62. 55r Doug Berryman 141
63. 9k Robert Casada 140
64. 81 Dave Baumgartner 138
65. 23 Bryan Dyar 136
66. 40 Ernie Ainsworth 134
67. 27 Randy Helton 132
tie 22 Dustin Barks 132
tie 81 Mike Blake 132
70. 8 Nick Manikis 130
tie 1a Lee Moore 130
tie 69k John Karklin 130
tie 83 Bob Auld 130
74. 81 Daryl Smith 128
tie 00 Matt Reed 128
76. 67 Brian Thomas 126
tie 88z Shane Nelson 126
tie 78 Henry Gustavus, 126
tie 33 Doug Emery, 126
80. 98 Trent Stephens, 122
81. 17 Jeff Leach 120
82. 1 Eddie Gallagher 116
83. 20 Mike Brecht 114
84. 16 Anthony Nicholson 112
85. 7d Dylan DeJournett, 110
86. 1s Wes Michael 100
tie 09 Timmy Thrash 100
tie 12d Christopher Sloan 100
tie 14 Paul Hart 100
tie 11 Kevin Gault 100
tie 7x David DeJournett, 100
92. 5 Damon Tilman 100

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