6/3 Results By JC327

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Columbus, MS - Saturday night marked the return of the USCS Winged Outlaw Sprints to Columbus Speedway. The Premier Ford Columbus Clash brought 24 Sprinter teams to The Bullring on a night that also featured a Late Model Stock Championship event as well as racing in all local divisions including the Super Late Models. 111 race cars participated in the night's action.

As Mike Ford led early on in the USCS Outlaw Sprint feature, "The Texan" Gary Wright would work his way methodically to the front riding the rim of the track, actually racing high above the cushion in turns 3 & 4. Wright would reach second place by lap 16, then begin what turned into a lengthy side-by-side race with Ford for the lead. Wright finally wrestled the lead away with only 4 laps remaining and go on to win over Ford and Jerrod Hull.

The Commercial Dispatch Super Late Model main event would see 5 lead changes in 20 laps of wild action, with Eddie Rickman taking the initial lead only to lose the position to Jim McDuffie on lap 8. McDuffie's engine went up in a cloud of smoke on lap 13, giving the lead back to Rickman with Mike Boland on his heels. By lap 15, last-starting Ronnie Lee Hollingsworth got around Boland for second, then took the lead from Rickman as the field came around to take the white flag only to lose power in turn 2. Boland would get around Rickman to take the lead and go on to the win ahead of Rickman and the legendary Jerry Inmon.

Jason Sanderford grabbed the lead at the start of the Late Model Stock Championship event ahead of a 3-wide pack racing for second place. Billy Franklin would move around Phillip Dean , then close in on Jeremy Glasgow and Stacy Tyler and take over second place on lap 15. Sanderford would go on to take his second consecutive Bullring victory followed by Franklin and Tyler.

Lee Ray would take the win in Open Wheel Modified action, racing hard early on with Eddie Rickman until Rickman spun in turn 4. Chris Glenn would race right on Ray's bumper for much of the rest of the race as he held off a pack of cars racing for third place. Ray would take the checkers ahead of the side-by-side duo of Glenn and Matt Price.

The Stormpy.com Crate Late Models would also have a consecutive race winner as Caleb Myers took the win once again over Thomas McReynolds and Reed Long. Trey Bright would lead Marvin Beard and Danny Gable to the checkers in Street Stock action, and Allen Gilreath claimed the Mini Stock win over Jackie Pendley and Stanley Busbin. Wayne & Jamie Sudduth would take yet another Cruiser victory and Ben Williams continued his domination of his class with the Hot Shot division win.

Racing continues Saturday night at Columbus Speedway with another Weekly Racing Series event. The Crate Late Model class will not be running at The Bullring next weekend as there is a national Stormpay.com event elsewhere in the state, but all other local divisions will be in action including the Rebel Challenge Weekly Racing Series Super Late Models. Stop by www.ColumbusSpeedway.net for schedule, rules, and other details.

Super Late Model
Top 5

1ST 222 MIKE BOLAND
2ND 68 EDDIE RICKMAN
3RD D2 JERRY INMON
4TH 2 MARK STOKES
5TH 86 TERRELL STRIPLING

Late Model Stock
Championship Event
Top 5

1ST 82 JASON SANDERFORD
2ND 65 BILLY FRANKLIN
3RD 7 STACY TYLER
4TH 7 JEREMY GLASGOW
5TH 71 PHILLIP DEAN

Open Wheel Modified
Top 5

1ST 2 LEE RAY
2ND 2X CHRIS GLENN
3RD 17 MATT PRICE
4TH 12D TOBY NICHOLS
5TH 41 BILL SUDDUTH

Stormpay.com Crate Late Model
Top 5

1ST 88 CALEB MYERS
2ND 9 THOMAS MCREYNOLDS
3RD 27 REED LONG
4TH 34 LANCE WILSON
5TH 07 TALBERT GOLDMAN

Street Stock
Top 5

1ST 82 TREY BRIGHT
2ND 20 MARVIN BEARD
3RD 47 DANNY GABLE
4TH 00 TERRY KELLEY
5TH 7 ASHLEY HERRON

Mini Stock
Top 5

1ST 42 ALLEN GILREATH
2ND 157 JACKIE PENDLEY
3RD 6 STANLEY BUSBIN
4TH 5 BRADLEY NICKOLES
5TH 8 BUDDY GLOVER

Two-Person Cruiser
Top 5

1ST 11 WAYNE & JAMIE SUDDUTH
2ND 22 JOHN BEARD & LEE RAY
3RD 13 JACOB STAPP & CLIFF SWEDENBERG
4TH 56 KEVIN MCWILLIAMS & ROBERT COCKRELL
5TH K6 BENJI JONES & CURT SMITH

Hot Shots

1ST 1 BEN WILLIAMS
2ND 2 KALI DELOACH
3RD 171 TREY WRIGHT
4TH 5 PARKER EAVES

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June 3, 2006

Columbus, MS – Gary Wright from Hooks, Texas became the only O’Reilly United Sprint Car Series Speedweek 2006 participant to win multiple features on Saturday night by winning his second feature of the week in the ninth annual “Columbus Clash” at Columbus Speedway in Columbus, Mississippi,. The 30 lap event served as Round Seven and the Grand Finale event of the first annual O’Reilly USCS Speedweek. Although Wright won the battle on this night, Mike Ward from Memphis, Tennessee who finished in the runner-up spot in Saturday’s 30-lap A-Main event, won the week-long war by claiming the O’Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 title.

Ward, a Mid-South open wheel legend with four hundred feature wins, lead the twenty-four car field on lap one of the event around the one third mile high banked clay oval known as the “Baddest Bullring in the South” then started to stretch his lead slightly over Jerrod Hull from Sikeston, Missouri who started on the pole. Wright started tenth and charged into the top five on lap five by taking a line around the top of the track through the cushion instead of below or against it like everyone else. He really had huge momentum through the first and second turns using the line where no one else was racing.

Using a lap-six caution for a four-car tangle to his advantage, Wright then got past hard charging Raymond Stull from Coldwater, Mississippi on lap seven. Then, on lap ten he raced under four time O’Reilly USCS Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee exiting turn two into third place. Caution flags bunched the field twice on laps eleven and twelve but the top five held their positions with Ward leading, Hull in second Wright chasing in third, then Gray and Stull rounding out the top five.

Wright chased Speedweek Round One winner Hull and Ward until lap twenty before getting by Hull into the runner-up spot on lap twenty two and setting his sites on the leader. Then, the caution flag flew for the final time in the race for a tangle involving Brian Thomas from Auburn, Georgia and rookie Brad Bowden from Hernando, Mississippi on lap twenty-two. This placed Wright on the back bumper of Ward who later discovered he had lost a cylinder on approximately lap six. This set-up a showdown between the two veteran drivers for the battle over the $2500 winner’s share. Ward held off the rim-riding and now bottom-running Texan for te next four laps before Wright blasted by on the bottom side of the race track down the front straightaway and into the lead on lap twenty-seven. Wright then bolted the rest of the way home ahead of Ward who faded over the last three laps after being victim of loosing another cylinder on the lap twenty-two restart. Ward held on for second and the Speedweek 2006 title over Hull, Gray and Stull who rounded out the top five.

The Speedweek 2006 Round Three winner, Marshall Skinner from West Memphis, Arkansas was sixth giving him enough points to tie Terry Gray for the runner-up spot in the Speedweek 2006 points standings just six points behind Ward. Nineteen year-old Hoosier tire Young Guns Lee Sowell from Nesbitt, Mississippi and twenty year-old 2004-2005 O’Reilly USCS Championship runner-up Danny Martin, Jr. from Sarasota, Florida followed in seventh and eighth places.

Fifteen year-old Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Year candidate Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas was ninth and seventeen year old O’Reilly USCS star, Matt Tiffany from Daytona Beach, Florida rounded out the top ten finishers. Defending O’Reilly USCS Champion Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida who lead the Speedweek 2006 standings going into the final event was running in the top seven cars on lap eleven when he and Martin collided on the front straightaway causing severe rear axle damage nd ending his race. This relegated him to a twenty-first place finish in the race and ruined his title run. He placed fifth in the final Speedweek 2006 point standings.

Lucas Oil Power Dash points leader, Terry Gray won his sixth Lucas Oil Power Dash six lap shootout of the season. Jerrod Hull won the Engler Tool and Machine First Heat Race. Mike Ward won the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race while Terry Gray captured the FSR Racing Products Third Heat.

Matt Tiffany charged from twenty-second position into tenth place in the tough field from six states past twelve cars was awarded the Huggins Cams Hard Charger award. Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas was the Robison Racing Products Rookie of the Race. Jerrod Hull drew the zero inversion and collected the K&N Filters Pole Award. Lee Sowell was recognized as the Hoosier Tire Young Gun of the Race, which is awarded to the top-finishing driver under twenty-five years old. The Weld Racing Hard Luck award went to Eric White from Horn Lake, Mississippi who left the feature on lap one when a wing support broke.

The O’Reilly USCS Speedweek Round Six at North Alabama Speedway in Tuscumbia, AL was rained out.

O’Reilly USCS Speedweek winners:
Round #1 - Jerrod Hull, Malden Speedway.
Round #2 – Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Riverside Speedway.
Round #3 – Marshall Skinner, Clarksville Speedway.
Round #4 – Gary Wright, Clayhill Motorsports.
Round #5 – Kenny Adams, East Alabama Motor Speedway.
Round #6 – RAIN, North Alabama Speedway.
Round #7 – Gary Wright, Columbus Speedway.

O’Reilly USCS Speedweek 2006 point standings top fifteen:
1st Mike Ward, Memphis, TN 846
2nd Terry Gray, Bartlett, TN 840
tie Marshall Skinner, W. Memphis, AR 840
4th Jerrod Hull, Sikeston, MO 824
5th Kenny Adams, Malabar, FL 814
6th Danny Martin, Jr., Sarasota, FL 808
7th Lee Sowell, Nesbitt, MS 804
8th Matt Tiffany, Daytona Beach, FL 768
9th Tom Winegardner, Jr., Pierson, FL 752
10th Bryn Gohn, Malabar, FL 678
11th Tom Winegardner, Sr., Pierson, FL 676
12th Eric White, Horn Lake, MS 658
13th Gary Wright, Hooks, TX 594
14th Derek Hagar, Marion, AR 586
15th Raymond Stull, Coldwater, MS 564

The next O’Reilly USCS National points event and O’Reilly USCS Mid-South Thunder points event is at Crossville’s Raceway USA this Friday night, June 9th. This is round one of another triple-header weekend that races the following night on Saturday June 10th at Atomic Speedway in Lenoir City, Tennessee. Te South’s busiest racing series then completes the weekend at Rome Speedway in Rome, Georgia on Sunday night June 11th. For more information visit www.uscsracing.com or call 404-886-5913.

OFFICIAL RESULTS - ROUND SEVEN O’REILLY USCS SPEEDWEEK 2006 AT COLUMBUS SPEEDWAY IN COLUMBUS, MS. ON 6/03/06

POS STRT CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN LAPS
1. 10 9 Gary Wright Hooks, Texas 30
2. 2 88 Mike Ward Memphis, TN 30
3. 1 94 Jerrod Hull Sikeston, MO 30
4. 3 10 Terry Gray Bartlett, TN 30
5. 4 21 Raymond Stull Coldwater, MS 30
6. 7 26 Marshall Skinner, Jr West Memphis, AR 27
7. 5 51 Lee Sowell Nesbit, MS 27
8. 11 00 Danny Martin, Jr. Sarasota, FL 28
9. 12 9jr. Derek Hagar Marion, AR 30
10. 22 19T Matt Tiffany Daytona Beach, FL 30
11. 16 1x Matt Linder Hoschton, GA 27
12. 15 4b Bryn Gohn Malabar, FL 25
13. 8 11T Tom Winegardner, Jr Pierson, FL 30
14. 18 67 Brian Thomas Auburn, GA 26
15. 20 11 Tom Winegardner, Sr. Pierson, FL 27
16. 14 86 Buster Dickerson University, MS
17. 13 88z Shane Nelson Chattanooga, TN 26
18. 24 K9 Robert Casada Petal, MS
19. 17 15b Brad Bowden Hernando, MS
20. 9 58 Mike McElya Bartlett, TN
21. 6 4A Kenny Adams Malabar, FL 27
22. 21 25 Ray Bugg Iuka, MS
23. 19 14x Eric White Horn Lake, MS 11
24. 23 3d Marion Jacobs Tuscumbia, AL

LUCAS OIL POWER DASH WINNER: Terry Gray
K & N FILTERS POLE AWARD: Jerrod Hull
HUGGINS CAMS HARD CHARGER: Matt Tiffany (started 22nd and passed 12 cars)
HOOSIER TIRE YOUNG GUN OF THE RACE: Lee Sowell
ROBISON RACING PRODUCTS ROOKIE OF THE RACE: Derek Hagar
JE PISTONS TOP GUNS AWARD: Jerrod Hull (3rd place )
K&N FILTERS 3RD-PLACE AWARD: Hull
BUTLERBUILT 4TH-PLACE AWARD: Gray
OUTLAW DISC BRAKES TOP FIVE AWARD: Stull
SIMPSON SAFETY PRODUCTS 6TH-PLACE AWARD: Skinner
FSR RACING PRODUCTS-7 TH-PLACE AWARD: Sowell
AIR FLOW RESEARCH 9TH-PLACE AWARD: Hagar
FSR TOP 10 AWARD : Tiffany
WELD RACING HARD LUCK AWARD: Eric White
ENTRIES: 24
PROVISIONAL: none
LEAD CHANGES: two
LAP LEADERS: Ward 1-26 Wright 27-30
CAUTIONS: 4

LUCAS OIL POWER DASH - 6 Laps: 1. Terry Gray 2.Danny Martin, Jr. 3.Mike Ward 4. Kenny Adams 5. Tom Winegardner, Jr. 6. Matt Tiffany


HEAT RACES:

ENGLER TOOL AND MACHINE FIRST HEAT: 1. Hull 2. Stull 3. Skinner 4. Wright 5. Nelson 6. linder 7. White 8. Tiffany.

BUTLERBUILT SECOND HEAT: 1. Ward 2. Sowell 3. Winegardner, Jr. 4. Martin 5. Dickerson 6. Bowden 7. Winegardner, Sr. 8. Jacobs.

FSR RACING PRODUCTS TIRD HEAT: 1. Gray 2. Adams 3. McElya 4. Hagar 5. Gohn 6. Thomas 7. Bugg 8. Casada.