ASCS Midwest Region Invades Junction Motor Speedway This
Friday!
by: Lonnie WheatleyMcCOOL JUNCTION, NE (June 23) - After Mother Nature
intervened in last month's scheduled season opener, the American Sprint Car
Series Midwest Region will make another attempt at Junction Motor Speedway
in McCool Junction, NE, this Friday night.
While North Dakota's Natalie Sather defends her ASCS Midwest Region
championship, Missouri's Brian Brown tries to extend his mastery of Junction
Motor Speedway in the month of June. Brown has topped the ASCS Midwest
Region's June event atop the 3/8-mile McCool Junction dirt oval over each of
the past two years.
Brown, the winningest driver in ASCS Midwest Region history, is out to the
early series points lead after finishing second to Jason Johnson on Saturday
night at Knoxville Raceway.
Sather kicked off her title defense by racing from 21st to thirteenth in
Saturday's Knoxville opener.
Friday's action at Junction Motor Speedway is set to go green at 7:00 p.m.
Junction Motor Speedway is located in McCool Junction, NE, off I-80 Exit
353, then 5.6 miles south on US 81, then 0.3 miles west on CR 4, then north.
For more information, contact the track at 402-724-3100 or 402-773-5538.
The ASCS Midwest Region is currently slated for nine nights of action at
eight different tracks throughout Nebraska and the immediate surrounding
area stretching into Kansas, Missouri and Iowa.
The nation's most prominent Sprint Car sanctioning body with a dozen
different Regions throughout the United States in addition to the O'Reilly
American Sprint Cars on Tour National series, the American Sprint Car
Series' (ASCS) 17th year of activity will include approximately 250 nights
of racing at more than 100 different race tracks throughout 28 different
states and Canada.
Past ASCS Midwest Region Winners at Junction Motor Speedway:
6/29/07 – Brian Brown
5/25/07 – Garry Lee Maier
6/30/06 – Brian Brown
5/26/06 – Jake Peters
5/27/05 – Jason Danley
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available
at www.ascsracing.com .
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