Strong Memphis-Mid-South driver contingent headed to Georgia for USCS Asphalt event on Sunday.

Cordele, GA – March 27, 2009 – Six Memphis and Mid-South area drivers
are headed for the 2:00pm Sunday afternoon Parts Plus United Sprint Car
Series Asphalt Thunder Tour event at Watermelon Capital Speedway in
Cordele, GA.

Drivers entered for the paved track season-opener are 7-time USCS
Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Gray has Championed the
Asphalt Thunder Tour several times and is talented and experienced on
the blacktp.

Past USCS Dirt Cup Champion, Marshall Skinner who finished in second
place in the Antional standings the past two seasons is entered in the
26M car of Johnny Stinson. Skinner spent one season in 2001 with the
series on pavement.

The 2007 USCS Rookie of the Year, 18-year-old Derek Hagar from Marion,
AR will travel to Illinois for a Saturday afternoon/ evening Midget
race. Hagar will then high-tail it back to Memphis to pick up his dirt
sprint car that he has prepared for theSunday USCS pavement race and
drive all night to the event. Hagar raced Terry Gray’s dirt sprint once
last year at Dillon Motor Speedway and finished in third place in his
first ever pavement race.

Three other USCS Young Guns driving cars prepared by RE Technologies,
and coached Chris Santucci are entered and ready to leave for Georgia
on Saturday morning. All three are excited about experiencing their
first race on a paved oval in a sprint car.

The three talented young drivers are 2008 Parts Plus USCS Rookie of the
Year Anthony Nicholson from Bartlett, Tennessee and two top 2009 Rookie
of the Year candidates, Justin Carver from Drummonds, Tennessee nd Jon
Stinson from Memphis, Tennessee. Carver finished in third place in the
first dirt race of the year at Central Mississippi Speedway. Stinson
has ran well and had a top five finish at Crossville USA Raceway on
July 18, 2008.

A field of twenty plus winged sprint cars has pre-entered for the paved
track series season-opener. Additionally more teams have called and
said they are coming now, since the race was moved to Sunday afternoon.
The action packed event features the Parts Plus USCS winged Outlaw
sprint cars testing the limits of Georgia’s fastest 4/10 mile paved
oval at speeds expected to approach 140 miles per hour for the exotic
cars. In addition to the Parts Plus USCS, the fans will be treated to a
full program of racing action in the Watermelon Capital Speedway Super
Street, Pure Stock, Mini Stock and Claimer divisions.

The racing program includes time trial qualifying, the Parts Plus Power
Dash for the top six sprint cars, sprint car heat races, a B-Main if
necessary and a 40-lap Parts Plus USCS sprint car A-Main. The four
Watermelon Capital Speedway classes will run a full racing program of
qualifying heats and feature races.

Pit gates will open at 10:00 am. The Spectator grandstands at Noon and
racing action is at 2:00 pm. Watermelon Capital Speedway is located ½
mile west of Interstate 75 Exit 104 on Farmers Market Rd. in Cordele,
GA. For more info please visit www.watermeloncapitalspeedway.com or
call 229-271-9301. For information related to the Parts Plus United
Sprint Car Series please go to www.uscsracing.com or call 770-460-7223
or 404-886-5913.