Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 16, 2010) – Another one of those coveted Golden Driller trophies is going back to Tennessee. This time though, it’s not in Sammy’s hands as Kevin Swindell topped Saturday night’s 50-lap Lucas Oil Chili Bowl Nationals main event that wrapped up a full slate of Rockstar Energy Drink championship feature events atop the QuikTrip Center’s Tulsa Expo Raceway.

by David Smith, Jr.
MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- It will be a busy month of May for the Wichita, Kansas based O'Reilly/National Championship Racing Association as five of the series six divisions have at least one event scheduled. The NCRA 360 sprint cars and the new NCRA 305 sprint car series kicks off the first of the month with the modified and new sport modifieds competing in their second of events of the year. To climax the month of May, the NCRA late models will take to the track for the first time in 2009 with a pair of events scheduled.

The NCRA 360 sprint car division kicks off their 20th season on Saturday night (May 2) at Dodge City Raceway Park in Dodge City, Kansas. It will be the first of two stops on the tour at the beautiful 3/8ths mile clay oval which will be billed as the "Steve King Foundation Sprint Car Nationals." Drivers, fans and officials will then head east to the series home, 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas for a Sunday night event. Veteran Mike Peters of Wichita, Kansas comes in as the reigning champion and will be back to defend his title.

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. -- After months of anticipation, it's just about here as the quest for the 2009 Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car Dirt Series presented by K&N Filters championship kicks off with this weekend's 36th Annual Devil's Bowl Speedway Spring Nationals in Mesquite, TX.

A staggering field of approximately 70 or so entries is expected for the two-night stand atop the famed Devil's Bowl clay on Friday and Saturday as the VERSUS Network cameras take in all the action for a tape-delayed telecast.

This weekend's event kicks off a new era of Sprint Car racing, launching a much-anticipated season under the Lucas Oil banner that was announced last August. A whopping $250,000 point fund is in place, with $60,000 earmarked for the series 2009 champion.

Gunning for a second consecutive title is Louisiana's Jason Johnson, who held off four-time series king Gary Wright to take top honors in 2008. The duo of Johnson and Wright has combined to win nine of the last ten ASCS National feature events at Devil's Bowl Speedway.

by Rich Vleck
TULSA, Okla. -- In what is shaping up to be the biggest season in ASCS Patriot history, a 27-race schedule filled with increased purses and multiple point funds that have been established.

The active tour, this year with title advertising support from Lucas Oil Products, includes three new racetracks, two facilities not on the schedule last year and another three that had their 2008 events rained out. Fans of those seven facilities, plus the nine returning speedways are sure to be thrilled by what is in store for this year.

The season will kick off for the third straight season at the famous Fulton Speedway. In the 2008 lid-lifter, rain forced the postponement of the A-feature to this year. Twenty-two drivers have a chance to take home some extra cash before starting the 2009 season later in the night. Fulton will also host the first A-Verdi King of Central New York event of the year, a series that will help to comprise the “Five Crown Tour”, featuring multiple regional point funds.