The 2007 Season came to a close Sunday afternoon as the United Rebel Sprint Series made their debut at the McCook Speedway.  The URSS Rebels hit the 3/8’s mile high bank track with several positions in the Season Points still up for grabs. When the checkers flew, Justin Schwien picked up his third win of the 2007 URSS Season.

 

Leading the field to the green was McCook Nebraska's Darren Berry with Lenora Kansas' Cody Keiswetter on the outside pole. Berry took the lead with Corey Lutters, Keiswetter, Cody Salem and eighth starter Justin Schwien rounding out the top five at the end of lap one.  Tenth place starter Rick Salem moved up to challenge Cody Salem for the fourth spot on lap two as the Father and Son duo battled for several laps until the Elder Salem took the position on lap Five and set his sights on third place Schwien. Lap seven saw Schwien and Rick Salem pass Corey Lutters for the second and third spots respectively and set their sights on the leader Darren Barry.

 

Lap ten saw Cody Salem make the pass for the fourth spot, as he once again set off to challenge for the third spot with his father. Lap twelve saw Schwien use the low line to his advantage as he grabbed the lead away from Berry with Rick and Cody Salem hot on his heels. The caution flag flew on lap thirteen for a spin in turn one and URSS Point leader Smokey Fairbank headed to the pits with a flat left front tire on his mount. Fairbank got back on track after some quick work by his fellow competitors to rejoin the field.

 

On the restart, Rick Salem made his move to take the second spot from Berry as Brian Herbert starting applying the pressure on Berry for the third spot.  With three to go Herbert grabbed the spot and set off to try and catch the leaders. Schwien was working his way through traffic with Salem in his tire tracks, Salem found some grip on the bottom and was making up ground on the leader. Schwien moved to the bottom as the checkers fell it was Schwien picked up his third URSS Win on the 2007 Season with Rick Salem, Brian Herbert, Berry and Cody Salem rounding out the top five.

 

The Weld Racing wheels "Hard Charger Award" went to Rick Salem who came from his tenth starting spot to grab the runner up spot.

 

Heat 1: 1- R. Salem, 2- Schwien, 3- C. Salem, 4- K. Lutters, L. Radcliffe DNS, J. Radcliffe DNS

Heat 2: 1- Berry, 2- Herbert, 3- Keiswetter, 4- Fair, 5- Hays, 6- Davis

Heat 3: 1- Fairbank, 2- R. Bantam, 3- C. Lutters, 4- Perkins, 5- Bernbeck

 

A-Main - 1- Justin Schwien, 2- Rick Salem, 3- Brian Herbert, 4- Darren Berry, 5- Cody Salem, 6- Corey Lutters, 7- Ken Lutters, 8- Randy Bantam, 9- Reed Bernbeck, 10- Cody Keiswetter, 11- Tim Perkins, 12- Larry Radcliffe, 13- Bill Hays, 14- Lance Davis, 15- Smokey Fairbank, 16 - Dennis Fair, Jeff Radcliffe DNS