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NEXT DESTINATION - UNION COUNTY - JULY THIRD
Haubstadt, IN. - June 30. In addition to a short work week, add the availability of a quick start to a great holiday racing weekend. Get ready for a Thursday night race! Promoter Tom Wieck at Union County Speedway is offering sprint car and open wheel modified fans just such an opportunity.
The Fourth of July is on a Friday this year. On the eve of our country's 232nd birthday the Hoosier Tire Midwest Sprint Car Series will be rocketing into a speedway located at two of the most appropriately named places ever envisioned to hold a Fourth of July weekend special event. Union County Speedway is just 3.3 miles west of LIBERTY, Indiana, on Highway 44. It is south of Richmond and northwest of Cincinnati. But get there any way you can! That is July 3rd.
This will be the next destination of the major MSCS sprint car teams. It is another stop on the "Road to Destiny" for race drivers engaged in close point battles for the 2008 MSCS Series Championship sponsored by Hoosier Tire Midwest. Following last weekends racing Daron Clayton moved up to the top spot replacing teammate Thomas Meseraull as the points leader. Kyle Cummins turned in his best performances of the season to move up to second spot in the standings. Cummins was third in the feature the night before at Paducah. Meseraull dropped to third in overall points after a B-Main incident took him out of competition Saturday night. He was running second at the time and working on a sure transfer spot to the main event.
The six feature races conducted so far this year have produced three different winners. Jon Stanbrough has 3 wins in his four appearances and was second in the other feature. Robert Ballou has been a factor on the bigger tracks. He has two wins. The first came at Terre Haute on the half mile and the second at Paducah this past Friday on a three eighths mile. Union County Speedway is a 3/8's mile banked configuration. Daron Clayton has the other win. That win on 6/07 at Tri-State Speedway against KISS competition propelled him into the lead in the MSCS All Time Feature Winners list with eight(8).
The MSCS car count varied a bit this past weekend with 24 Friday and 41 Saturday. But both races were held in the face of uncertain weather. The existing quality of the regulars enhanced with some new faces made for some exciting match-ups. The average car count for the season is 35 and different tracks in different regions attract more and more competitors anxious to take on the MSCS travelers. MSCS has a payoff policy that provides $100 to every driver failing to qualify for the feature. That has to help offset travel expenses with diesel fuel now climbing towards 5 bucks a gallon at the pump.
The race at Union County pays $2,000 to win. The timing of this race at Union County at the mid season mark provides a level playing field for participants. Very few drivers in the series have turned many if any laps on that oval. The feature is set to go for 25 laps. Gates will open at 4:30 P.M. Hot laps are at 7:30. Racing begins at 8:15. There is plenty of time to get to the races after work and not miss a single, exciting lap.
Provided by Eldon Butcher for MSCS.
Current Hoosier Tire Midwest Sprint Car Series Points
Standings include the June 28th race.
Release Date: 6-29-08
1 10c Daron Clayton IN 281
2 3c Kyle Cummins IN 276
3 10t Thomas Meseraull IN 268
4 11w Ricky Williams OH 255 R
5 14 Hud Cone IN 254
6 98 Chad Boespflug IN 250
7 34 A.J. Anderson IN 236
8 81 Robert Ballou IN 229 .
8 53 John Stanbrough IN 229 Tie
10 9k Kevin Thomas Jr. AL 225
11 4m John Memmer IN 207
12 14g Coleman Gulick NY 205 R
13 3 Danny Holtsclaw IN 196
14 21s Jeff Bland Jr. IN 194
15 11 Hunter Schuerenberg MO 182
16 32 Chase Stockon IN 172
17 36 Brady Short IN 159
18 0 Kyle Wissmiller IL 151
19 17jr Jerry Ruble IN 142
20 22 Kenny Biro IN 139 .R
20 23 Mitch Wissmiller IL 139 Tie
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