ASCS Midwest Season Finale Friday at I-80!
by: Lonnie Wheatley
GREENWOOD, NE (September 20) – The American Sprint Car Series Midwest
Region puts the wraps on a big 2010 season by taking to Nebraska Raceway
Park’s 4/10-mile I-80 Speedway dirt oval this Friday night.
And, when Friday’s
final ASCS Midwest checkered flag of 2010 has flown, Eric Lutz of Sioux
Falls, SD, will officially enter the record books as this year’s ASCS
Midwest champion.
Lutz, a perennial
contender for the Northern Plains title with rankings among the top three
over each of the past four season, has amassed an insurmountable 325 point
lead through the opening 19 events of the season.
Along the way, Lutz
picked off his fourth career ASCS Regional triumph with a June 25 win at
Hartford, South Dakota’s I-90 Speedway. In five previous ASCS Midwest
events at I-80 Speedway this season, a pair of fourth-place runs are the
best of three top-tens for Lutz.
Lutz leads the ASCS
Midwest points race over Jack Dover, Doug Lovegrove, Brian Brown and Lee
Grosz.
Eleven different
drivers have posted at least one ASCS Midwest win thus far in 2010, with
Missouri’s Brian Brown setting the standard with five wins including a pair
at I-80 Speedway. Jason Johnson has three Midwest wins to his credit, Dover
and Shane Stewart have two wins, with single triumphs posted by Lutz, Chad
Humston, Ryan Roberts, Bronson Maeschen, Jake Peters, Dustin Morgan and
Danny Wood.
Dustin Morgan and
Dover opened the 2010 ASCS Midwest campaign with April wins at I-80 Speedway
and Shane Stewart took a Memorial Day weekend victory at I-80 before Brown
topped both the Fourth of July weekend and Labor Day weekend events at
I-80.
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 402-342-3453 or 402-659-3301.
The ASCS Midwest
Region has completed 16 nights of competition in 2010 at seven different
tracks throughout Nebraska and the surrounding areas of Missouri, South
Dakota and Iowa, with just one night of competition remaining after this
weekend’s triple.
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:
9/3/10 – Brian
Brown (Midwest)
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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