by Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. -- Just one day from the opening round of the 17th Annual F&J Construction ASCS Speedweek featuring the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters, a look at Speedweek History by the Numbers is in order.

ASCS Speedweek kicks off Friday night at Texarkana 67 Speedway before moving on to Little Rock's I-30 Speedway on Saturday night. Ensuing stops include Creek County Speedway (Tuesday), Devil's Bowl Speedway (June 11), State Fair Speedway (June 12) and Lawton Speedway (June 13).

by Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. -- For the past 16 years, some of the most memorable moments in American Sprint Car Series history, both on and off the track, have taken place during the series' annual Speedweek.

That tradition continues when the 17th Annual ASCS Sizzlin' Summer Speedweek featuring the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters fires off next Friday night, June 5, with the first of six events at six different tracks throughout Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas.

For the second year in a row, ASCS Speedweek fires off atop the tight confines of Texarkana 67 Speedway on the Arkansas side of the state line. The following night, Saturday June 6, it's up Interstate 30 to Little Rock's I-30 Speedway for Round Two of ASCS Speedweek.

After two nights off, a third consecutive ¼-mile bullring is on tap with Creek County Speedway near Tulsa, OK, hosting Round Three on Tuesday night, June 9.

by Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. -- He's won just about everything imaginable in Sprint Car racing. Of course, when a guy piles up more than 600 feature wins over the course of a career, that's just about inevitable. And he's not done yet.

Sammy Swindell will try to add yet another major win to the ledger this Friday night when he takes on the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, IL.

The Germantown, TN, racer isn't a complete stranger to either Tri-City Speedway or the American Sprint Car Series. But, when he unloads the Tom Rolfe Racing No. 10 Maxim this Friday night, it will mark his first visit to Tri-City Speedway since its reconfiguration prior to the 2007 season and his first dose of ASCS competition since 1995.

Albeit, Swindell's previous taste of ASCS competition was successful to the tune of a Devil's Bowl weekend sweep in September of 1995. And, the Sprint Car racing legend enjoyed his share of success atop Tri-City Speedway's former ½-mile oval, cracking victory lane on eleven different occasions.

by Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. -- It will be a new look American Sprint Car Series when the Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters invades Little Rock's high-banked, ¼-mile clay oval this Saturday night.

True, ASCS has frequented the cozy confines of I-30 Speedway for many a year now. In fact, the track hosted the first officially dubbed ASCS National Tour event back in 1993.

But, with few exceptions, the thousands of fans that flock to I-30 Speedway haven't seen the latest rendition of the premier ASCS series, the one bolstered by Lucas Oil and K&N Filters.

This year's Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Series will feature a loaded field of entries battling it out for Saturday night's $6,000-to-win share, with $500 just to start the feature.

Saturday night's card atop the I-30 clay also marks Round Three in the $60,000 Lucas Oil ASCS Championship points chase, with $250,000 to be distributed among the series top 15 in final points at season's end.

by Lonnie Wheatley
TULSA, Okla. -- The much-anticipated initial pair of events for the all-new American Sprint Car Series Lone Star Region is just days away now as the series is set for its inaugural weekend of competition this Friday and Saturday.

The ASCS Lone Star Region lifts off with Friday night's card atop Waco's 1/3-mile Heart O' Texas Speedway clay oval. Then, on Saturday night, it's up the road to complete the series' opening weekend of action atop Cowtown Speedway's high-banked ¼-mile near Fort Worth.

Both tracks have been regular Regional stops in recent years, with Heart O' Texas often hosting the ASCS Gulf South Region and Cowtown Speedway a standard ASCS Sooner Region stop.

But, with the emergence of the new Lone Star Region, a more fitting pair of ovals couldn't have been selected for the opening weekend.

Heart O' Texas Speedway will also host the Gulf South Region on June 5, with a Lone Star vs. Gulf South Shootout to follow on July 31 after both Regional Tours have had a look at the speedway.