ASCS Midwest at I-80 Speedway on Friday!
by: Lonnie Wheatley
GREENWOOD, NE (August 31) - This coming Labor Day Holiday weekend kicks off
with the American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region taking to Nebraska
Raceway Park’s I-80 Speedway on Friday night.
Friday’s card atop
the 4/10-mile dirt oval marks one last tune up opportunity prior to the
Nebraska Cup weekend on September 10-12 that includes events at Warrensburg,
MO, McCool Junction, NE, and then Eagle, NE.
Friday’s card marks
the fifth night of ASCS Midwest action at I-80 Speedway, where the series
will finish off the 2010 season with championship night on September 24.
Thus far, four
different drivers have reached ASCS Midwest victory lane in as many events
at I-80 in 2010, with Dustin Morgan, Jack Dover, Shane Stewart and Brian
Brown each collecting Greenwood cash.
Eric Lutz of Sioux
Falls, SD, leads the way in the ASCS Midwest title chase entering Friday’s
action with a 221-point edge over Waverly, Nebraska’s Doug Lovegrove. Jack
Dover, Tyler Drueke and defending ASCS Midwest champ Jason Danley round out
the current top five in points, with the rest of the top ten including Lee
Grosz, Brian Brown, Gage Dorr, Chad Humston and Ryan Roberts.
Friday’s action at
I-80 Speedway fires off at 7:00 p.m.
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.
The ASCS Midwest
Region has completed 15 nights of competition in 2010 at seven different
tracks throughout Nebraska and the surrounding areas of Missouri, South
Dakota and Iowa, with just five nights of competition remaining.
In its 19th
year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing, the American Sprint Car Series brings
the best of Sprint Car racing to approximately 100 different tracks
throughout 30 states and Canada. Anchored by the Lucas Oil Sprint Car
Series presented by K&N Filters, ASCS also consists of ten different Regions
throughout the nation.
Past ASCS Regional
Winners at I-80 Speedway:
7/2/10 – Brian
Brown (Midwest)
5/27/10 – Shane
Stewart (Midwest)
4/17/10 – Jack
Dover (Midwest)
4/16/10 – Dustin
Morgan (Midwest)
7/2/09 – Brian
Brown (Midwest)
5/21/09 – Chad
Humston (Midwest)
4/11/09 – Jonathan
Cornell (Midwest)
4/10/09 – 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)
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