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ASCS
Midwest Region Ready for Nebraska Double
by: Lonnie Wheatley
GREENWOOD, NE (May 18, 2009) – The American Sprint Car Series
Midwest Region gets a jump start on the upcoming Memorial Day weekend
festivities with a pair of events in Nebraska on Thursday and Friday.
On Thursday night,
the series takes to Nebraska Raceway Park's I-80 Speedway in Greenwood.
Then, on Friday night, the ASCS Midwest Region makes its first stop of the
year at McCool Junction's Junction Motor Speedway.
The ASCS Midwest
Region kicked off the 2009 campaign on April 10-11 with a pair of events
versus the ASCS Northern Plains Region at I-80 Speedway with Lincoln's Billy
Alley and Sedalia, Missouri's Jonathan Cornell splitting victory honors.
Alley, the
inaugural ASCS Midwest champion in 2005, escaped the weekend with a
two-point advantage over Cornell, who claimed his first career ASCS win.
Fargo's Wade Nygaard exited opening weekend third in points, with all-time
leading ASCS Midwest feature win leader Brian Brown of Grain Valley, MO,
just six points out of the lead in fourth.
While there have
been five different winners in the last five ASCS Midwest events at I-80
Speedway, Brian Brown has topped three of the series last four stops at
Junction Motor Speedway.
The Thursday-Friday
ASCS Midwest double marks the opening half of four consecutive nights of
ASCS competition in the area, as the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series
presented by K&N Filters takes to the Jetmore Motorplex in southwest Kansas
on Saturday and Sunday for the $10,000 to win Steve King Memorial.
Defending ASCS
Midwest Region champion Jack Dover of Springfield, NE, will be aboard the
Gary Swenson No. 24a entry for both nights of Nebraska competition before
shifting to the seat of the family No. 53 for National action at Jetmore.
Racing action is
slated to get under way at 7:30 p.m. on both Thursday and Friday night.
Nebraska Raceway
Park's I-80 Speedway is located in Greenwood, NE, between Lincoln and Omaha
off I-80 Exit 420, then 0.4 mile north on SR 63 then west. For more
information, contact the track at 402-944-2233.
Junction Motor
Speedway is located 5.6 miles south of York, NE, off I-80 Exit 353 on US 81,
then 0.3 miles west on CR 4. For more information, contact the track at
402-773-5538.
The ASCS Midwest
Region is slated for 13 nights of competition at a half dozen tracks
throughout Nebraska and the surrounding areas of Missouri and South Dakota.
The American Sprint
Car Series, in its 18th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing events, brings
the best of Sprint Car racing to nearly 100 different tracks throughout 25
states and Canada in 2009. Anchored by the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt
Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS also consists of a dozen different
Regions throughout the nation.
Past ASCS Regional
Winners at I-80 Speedway:
4/11/08 – Jonathan
Cornell (Midwest)
4/10/08 – Billy
Alley (Midwest)
8/14/07 – Jack
Dover (Midwest)
4/15/07 – Chuck
Swenson (Midwest vs. Northern Plains)
4/14/07 – Brian
Brown (Midwest vs. Northern Plains)
8/15/06 – Billy
Alley (Midwest)
7/3/06 – Jake
Peters (Midwest vs. Northern Plains)
4/8/06 – Brian
Brown (Midwest vs. Northern Plains)
8/3/05 – Brian
Brown (Midwest vs. National)
7/8/05 – Brian
Brown (Midwest)
4/15/05 – Terry
McCarl (Midwest)
Past ASCS Midwest
Region Winners at Junction Motor Speedway:
6/27/08 – Brian
Brown
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
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