URSS ready
for Sprint Car Mania at RPM Speedway, Hays KS, and WaKeeney
Speedway
OBERLIN, Kan.
— Darren
Bowman couldn't be happier about making a return trip to RPM
Speedway in Hays.
That's because the last time
the driver from Kinsley competed at the track, he walked away
with a feature win with the United Rebel Sprint Series.
On Friday, Bowman is hoping
for a repeat performance as the Rebels kick off a pair of URSS-sanctioned
races during the Memorial Day weekend beginning at RPM Speedway
in Hays. On Sunday, the URSS will compete at WaKeeney Speedway.
“I hope to start out
and get going good this weekend and get some momentum carried
over,” Bowman
said about hopefully returning to the winner's circle at RPM
Speedway.
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Williams
wins by inches at Lamar Speedway
LAMAR, Colo.
– Ty Williams
would rather forget the start to the night. What he'd like to
focus on is the finish.
And what a finish it was for the sprint car
driver in the United Rebel Sprint Series. Williams, a former
URSS national champ, won at the line Saturday night at Lamar
Speedway in Lamar, Colo.
“We were junk early in the night,”
Williams said. “We
actually changed about everything, and it worked for once.
Usually when we change that much, we go backwards. Man, it was
so close at the line.”
Williams started ninth and began working his
way through the field of drivers on the 3/8-mile dirt oval. Late
in the race, Williams found something to his liking as the track
started to rubber up.
“The track got better as the night went on,” said
Williams, who said he found the rubber on the track with
approximately five laps to go.
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Herbert
Handles United Rebel Sprint Cars at DCRP!
Lonnie
Wheatley, DODGE CITY, Kan. (May 11, 2013) – Brian Herbert made
the most of an opportunity to race in front of his home town
crowd by driving to victory lane in Saturday night’s 25-lap
United Rebel Sprint Series feature event atop the 3/8-mile Dodge
City Raceway Park clay oval.
Herbert, the
defending series champion, took the lead away from Jerry
Caldwell on the third round then held off his chasers in the
final laps through traffic for his first win of the year.
“I was a
little concerned there, I didn’t have any way of knowing if
anyone was close or not there at the end,” Herbert commented.
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Jeff Radcliffe
Grabs Second Win At Elmwood Park Speedway
The Heartland Sprint Series made its third appearance at the
famed half mile oval in Norton Kansas and the ‘Hill City Hot
Shoe’ Jeff Radcliffe motored his way to the win. Several of the
regular Heartland Sprint Series drivers including North Platte
racers Tom Belsky and Tommy Williams as well as McCook’s Darren
Berry missed the show due to several incidents the previous
weekend races.
Oberlin Kansas driver Aaron Ploussard led the field to the green
with Howard VanDyke jumping to lead with Norton Kansas’s Ron
Hadley, Radcliffe, Mike Madden and Ploussard rounding out the
top five after the first circuit. VanDyke started to open up the
lead over second place Hadley as he used the high side to his
advantage. Radcliffe was inching his way up on the second
running Hadley as the pair kept the leader in their sights.
Radcliffe made the pass for the runner up spot on lap five.
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Radcliffe motors to URSS win at
Lexington
LEXINGTON, Neb.
— This time,
lap traffic wasn't going to stop Jeff Radcliffe.
The Hill City
Hotshoe made his way through the traffic and grabbed the win at
Dawson County Raceway on Sunday night in Lexington, Neb.
A night earlier,
Radcliffe got passed by Luke Cranston in lap traffic, but this
time Radcliffe picked and chose his passing lanes perfectly en
route to the win.
“When I got
into lap traffic, it was a lot easier than the night before,”
Radcliffe said. “I
could pass them one at a time.”
Radcliffe started
sixth while Mark Walinder held the lead during the early portion
of the race before the Hill City driver made his way to the
front.
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Dazzling move helps Cranston win
John Keenan Memorial
OBERLIN, Kan.
— It was a
move people were talking about after the race and even a day
later.
And the move Luke
Cranston put on Jeff Radcliffe and lap traffic propelled him to
another United Rebel Sprint Series victory Saturday night at the
John Keenan Memorial race at Decatur County Speedway in
Oberlin.
Radcliffe had the top
spot as he and Cranston entered lap traffic. But when the
front-runners approached three lap cars, Cranston made a nifty
move to take the lead.
“I dove under
him and a lap car, and I made it work somehow,”
Cranston said. “It
was one of those things where I wasn't sure it was going to
work.”
The move helped seal the win for Cranston.
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Crane wins first URSS feature
LIBERAL, Kan. — For a few
seconds, there was a feeling of deja
vu for Barry Crane.
The race was shaping up like the
early season race a year earlier. He
was leading the pack and coming up
on lap traffic. That night ended
with a vicious wreck that destroyed
his sprint car and ended his 2012
season.
On Saturday night, though, things
went differently, and Crane piloted
his United Rebel Sprint Series
sprint car into victory lane —
capturing his first URSS career
victory.
“It was a nice way to start off,
especially with the way we started
off last year,” Crane said.
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Luke Cranston Takes The Win At Elmwood Park
Speedway
The Heartland Sprint Series rolled back into Norton Kansas
Saturday to
complete the rain shortened March 30th inaugural event after
Mother Nature
called the program just as the first heat race was completed.
Sixteen teams
made the haul to the historic half mile oval with Plains
Kansas's Luke
Cranston claiming the victory.
Cranston lead the field to the green flag and jumped to the lead
as Ty
Williams vaulted from his fourth starting position to grab the
runner-up
spot. With Koby Walters, Jake Bubak and Howard VanDyke rounding
out the top
five at the end of lap one. Bubak took over the third position
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Jeff
Radcliffe Claims Convincing Win At Elmwood Park Speedway
The
Heartland Sprint Series drivers hit big half mile at
Elmwood Park
Speedway Saturday night Jeff Radcliffe drove away
from the competition to
claim the victory. An overflow night of racing
caused the racing surface to
slick off making track position a premium and The
"Hill City Hot Shoe" made
the most of his outside front starting position to
grab the 20 lap caution
free win.
Koby Walters led the field to the green with outside
pole-sitter Jeff
Radcliffe jumping into the lead with Walters, Zach
Blurton, Tom Belsky and
Jake Bubak rounding out the top five after lap one.
Bubak and Darren Berry
quickly making their way past Belsky on lap two.
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The Heartland Sprint Series made their 2013 debut at McCook Speedway and it
didn't take long for the fans to experience the thrills and spills of Open
Wheeled Sprint Cars. Twelve Cars checked in for the night's action on the
3/8's mile oval with McCook Nebraska's own Darren Berry grabbing the win.
The 20 lap Feature got off to a rocky start as Norton Kansas's Ron Hadley
led the field to the green flag, after two attempts were called off the
third time was the charm as Darren Berry took advantage of his outside front
starting spot to jump to the lead. But the race was quickly red flagged as
North Platte's John Webster jumped the cushion and left the track in turns
one and two flipping into the catch fence ending his evening.
