Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (September 2, 2008) – The American Sprint Car
Series Midwest Region is set to put the wraps on the 2008 season with a pair
of events in Nebraska over this coming weekend.
On Friday night, the series makes its annual stop at the high-banked,
3/8-mile Butler County Motorplex in Rising City, NE. Then on Sunday night,
the ASCS Midwest Region's season championship finale takes place with Eagle
Raceway's fabled Nebraska Cup event atop the high-banked, 1/3-mile clay
oval.
Originally slated for three nights of action, the weekend triple was reduced
to a double by the late cancellation of the event scheduled for Saturday
night at Minneapolis Speedway in Minneapolis, KS. The Minneapolis event
will not be rescheduled.
Trying to put the clamps on the ASCS Midwest Region championship this
weekend in his home state is 18-year-old Springfield, NE, shoe Jack Dover,
who carries a cushy 108 point lead over Bobby Becker into the weekend.
Three of Dover's six overall ASCS feature wins this season have come in ASCS
Midwest Region action, with five top-five runs in a half-dozen Midwest
features.
Becker holds down the runner-up spot, just ten points ahead of Crete's Mike
Boston, with Missouri's Brian Brown and North Dakota's Natalie Sather
rounding out the current top five.
Boston wrapped up his third straight Eagle title last Sunday night, Brown
ranks as the winningest driver in ASCS Midwest Region history and Sather was
the 2007 ASCS Midwest Region champion.
Both events feature a $1,500 winner's share.
Another $1,500 will be doled out among the top eight drivers in passing
points at Sunday's Nebraska Cup at Eagle Raceway in the form of a Dash for
Cash. The winner will pocket an extra $500. The runner-up collects a $300
bonus, with $200 for third and then $100 for positions four through eight in
the dash.
Friday's action at the Butler County Motorplex goes green at 8:00 p.m., with
Sunday's card at Eagle Raceway firing off at 6:00 p.m.
The Butler County Motorplex is located near Rising City, NE, eight miles
south of US 30 on US 81, then two miles east on CR 38, then 0.7 miles south
on CR C, then east. For more information, contact the track at
402-542-2222.
Eagle Raceway is located near Lincoln, NE, off I-80 Exit 420, then eleven
miles south on SR 63, then west. For more information, contact the track at
402-781-2243 or 402-238-2595.
The ASCS Midwest Region will contest eight nights of action at seven
different tracks in 2008 throughout Nebraska and the immediate surrounding
area stretching into Missouri and Iowa.
The nation's most prominent Sprint Car sanctioning body with a dozen
different Regions throughout the United States in addition to the O'Reilly
American Sprint Cars on Tour National series, the American Sprint Car
Series' (ASCS) 17th year of activity will include approximately 250 nights
of racing at more than 100 different race tracks throughout 28 different
states and Canada.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available
at www.ascsracing.com.
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