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Tulsa Oklahoma (July 4, 2011)- This Saturday night, Oklahoma Sports Park proprietor George Welch presents the exciting, thrilling and always action packed sprint cars of the Tulsa based Oil Capital Racing Series. OSP is hosting OCRS for the second time this season. The previous OCRS tour stop came on May 14^th where Moore’s Whit Gastineau took the third annual Harold Leep Jr. Memorial event. The win was Gastineau’s third of his four OCRS main event triumphs this season.

Collinsville Oklahoma’s Dean Drake Jr. is expected to compete on Welch’s lightning quick 4/10 mile clay oval. Drake Jr. won his career first OCRS main event last Saturday at Mid-America Speedway giving OCRS four different feature winners in the first nine contested on the 2011 OCRS tour. Current point leader for the Harold Leep (Sr.) Championship Trophy is Sean McClelland of Tulsa. McClelland used a fifth place finish to expand his points lead at Mid-America after Gastineau (second in points) struggled to a 14^th place finish. Third in points going into last Saturday’s race, Owasso’s Matt Sherrell, pulled in after only two laps regulating him to a 20^th place run. That, coupled with Stillwell Oklahoma’s Rafe Essary’s third place finish, vaulted Essary passed Sherrell for the third spot on the points chart by 34 points (660-626). Essary also closed to within 22 points of Gastineau for the runner-up position. With the amount of points fund being offered in 2011 with backing by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co; the race for the OCRS championship will be as fierce as ever.

This special event at OSP will be quality entertainment for the entire family and the Welch’s have been producing racing action in the Ada area since 1994. OSP also provides sections of their grandstands with overhead awnings for those who would like to be shaded by the summer sun for your comfort level.

OSP is located just 10 miles northwest of Ada Oklahoma on State Highway 3W.

Track Phone: 580-332-5535 Promoters Phone: 580-332-5383

“Just when I think I’m out, they pull me back in”: Former champ sprint driver and car owner, Rob Forehand, stepped back into a sprint car for the first time in a couple of years when he subbed for the injured Danny Smith in the Same Day Auto Repair number 5$ car. With Forehand only receiving the customary few rounds of hot laps, he ran a respectable 4^th in the first heat at Mid-America then 18^th in the main. Welcome back Robby.

OCRS debut times three: There were three OCRS career debuts at Mid-America last Saturday night with two drivers having never competed in a sprint car at any locale before………………….

Colton Brewer: The Broken Arrow teenager made his debut in the Hampton’s Kustom Works #77 champ sprint. Brewer has been racing in everything from different divisions of micros to e-sprints the past couple of years. In his OCRS debut, Brewer was 3^rd in heat number two and mustered a 15^th in the A feature. The team is well equipped and with chassis guru Wayne Simmons turning the wrenches, Brewer’s future looks bright.

Alex Sewell: Cousin to former OCRS shoe Evan Sewell, Alex, who didn’t learn till the day before he had a sprint ride, sat in the seat of Kenny Walker’s Eagle chassis under the watchful eye of his father Andy and Rob Forehand. Alex fought mechanical difficulties where 7^th in his heat would place him in the B-feature. In that race, he missed an automatic A feature berth by a single spot. Those who have seen Alex wheel a micro know he has the Sewell pedigree to be successful.

Derrek Wilson: Hailing from Chanute Kansas, Wilson arrived with a 1994 Gambler to compete in his first ever sprint car show. Wilson states he has been the points runner up in the factory stock class at Humboldt Speedway the last four years. He still competes there and wanted to give sprint car racing a shot. Wilson fought handling difficulties throughout the night but was excited to participate. Seventh in the B feature would be Wilson’s result. Welcome to the world of sprint cars Derrek!

Season’s Best: Travis “Hollywood” Jenkins will be the first to tell you his season has not been as productive as the team would expect of themselves. Going into the MAS race, the team had still yet collected a top 10 finish. Hollywood earned a ninth last Saturday to break that streak. The result could be the shot in the arm the team needs to return to their normal capabilities.

Andrew Deal’s second at MAS and Shayla Waddell’s sixth were finishes that equaled their personal best results this season. Deal’s peers feel he is just on the verge of his first win while Waddell’s peers know the soft spoken young lady from OKC can run up front with the best as she has demonstrated in the past.