ASCS
Midwest Region 2010 Schedule is Released
Lonnie
Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (January 29, 2010) – Continuing to gain momentum as the
new decade dawns, the American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region is gearing up
for an ambitious 2010 slate of 23 events.
The
fifth season of racing action in Nebraska and the surrounding areas currently
consists of 23 nights of competition at nine different
tracks.
Fourteen
of the series’ scheduled events are in Cornhusker territory, with another
half-dozen in Missouri and three in South Dakota.
The
ASCS Midwest Region kicks off the 2010 season with the annual two-night stand
versus the ASCS Northern Plains Region at Nebraska Raceway Park’s I-80 Speedway
on April 9-10, the first of a handful of events in which the Midwest squares off
with the Northern Plains.
Greenwood’s
I-80 Speedway will host the ASCS Midwest Region for a total of seven nights in
2010, including the season-ending double on September
24-25.
Other
Nebraska venues for the ASCS Midwest Region include Eagle Raceway, where the
Midwest forces take on the Lucas Oil National Sprint Car Series on June 11-12
before returning for the Nebraska Cup on September 12.
The
series will also take to McCool Junction’s Junction Motor Speedway on a pair of
occasions, with single stop at Rising City’s Butler County Motorplex and
Albion’s Boone County Raceway.
Boone
County is one of three new stops for the ASCS Midwest Region in 2010, with the
series also breaking new ground at a pair of Missouri dirt ovals including
Warrensburg’s Central Missouri Speedway and Wheatland’s Lucas Oil
Speedway.
Other
Show Me State events include three stops atop the lightning-fast, high banks of
Cameron’s U.S. 36 Raceway.
The
series also ventures north to Hartford, South Dakota’s I-90 Speedway on three
occasions, including a July 10 card in tandem with the Lucas Oil Sprint Car
Series.
Nebraska’s
Jason Danley became the first driver in ASCS history to capture two different
Regional titles in the same year by topping both the ASCS Midwest and ASCS
Northern Plains point charts in 2009.
In its
19th year of sanctioning Sprint Car racing, the American Sprint Car
Series brings the best of Sprint Car racing to approximately 100 different
tracks throughout 30 states and Canada.Anchored by the Lucas Oil Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters,
ASCS also consists of a dozen different Regions throughout the
nation.
Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series
is available at www.ascsracing.com.
2010 ASCS Midwest and ASCS Northern
Plains Schedules:
April
9 – I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest vs. Northern
Plains
April
10 – I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest vs. Northern
Plains
April
30 – Central Missouri Speedway (Warrensburg, MO) –
Midwest
May 1
– Lucas Oil Speedway (Wheatland, MO) – Midwest
May 27
– I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest
May 28
– Junction Motor Speedway (McCool Junction, NE) –
Midwest
* June
11 – Eagle Raceway (Eagle, NE) – Midwest
* June
12 – Eagle Raceway (Eagle, NE) – Midwest
June
18 – U.S. 36 Raceway (Cameron, MO) – Midwest
June
25 – I-90 Speedway (Hartford, SD) – Midwest vs. Northern
Plains
July 1
– Junction Motor Speedway (McCool Junction, NE) –
Midwest
July 2
– I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest
* July
10 – I-90 Speedway (Hartford, SD) – Midwest vs. Northern
Plains
July
11 – Boone County Raceway (Albion, NE) – Midwest
July
16 – U.S. 36 Raceway (Cameron, MO) – Midwest
July
23 – I-90 Speedway (Hartford, SD) – Midwest vs. Northern
Plains
August
27 – U.S. 36 Raceway (Cameron, MO) – Midwest
September
3 – I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest
September
10 – Central Missouri Speedway (Warrensburg, MO) –
Midwest
September
11 – Butler County Motorplex (Rising City, NE) – Midwest
September
12 – Eagle Raceway (Eagle, NE) – Midwest
September
24 – I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) – Midwest
September
25 – I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE) - Midwest
