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Jordon Mallett claims USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters 2017 sprint car National Championship

Atlanta, GA – November 24, 2017 – Jordon Mallett from Greenbrier, Arkansas will wear the crown as the United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters Outlaw Thunder Tour National Champion of the the series’ twenty-first and 2017 racing season. The young sprint car driver made six visits to the www.rockauto.com USCS victory lane as the series feature winner during 2017. Mallett had 24 top five finishes and a total of 34 top ten finishes while he used a record of perfect attendance during the forty events to accumulate the most Championship points. Mallett will collect top honors in two dirt divisions of the USCS points system including the USCS Southern Thunder regional dirt series as well. He finished in second place in the USCS Deep South Thunder Tour and in third place in the USCS Mid-South regional series standings. Mallett finished the National title chase with 5726 National Championship points.

Eleven-time USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee who had 5601 points followed Mallett in the runner-up position in the final standings. Gray also had a solid season with 18 top five finishes and the results found him 32 times in the top ten. As a team owner he faired even better, as his team-mate Morgan Turpen had a series leading nine wins.

In addition to her nine wins, the two-time and the defending series Champion, Morgan Turpen from Cordova, Tennessee had 22 of her finishes in the top five and she had 32 top ten finishes to earn enough points with 5142 points to place her third in the final National point standings although she missed four events. Turpen, who was the series 2010 Rookie of the Year, additionally continued four straight seasons of Championship runs as she did garner titles in both the tough USCS Mid-South and the new USCS Deep South regional series.


The 2012 USCS Rookie of the Year, Jeff Willingham from Ripley, Mississippi finished the 2017 season in fourth position. He will also collect fourth place honors in the USCS Deep South Thunder regional series to go with a top five (5th) in the USCS Southern Thunder Tour and sixth place honors in the USCS Mid-South Thunder regional series during the January USCS banquet in Atlanta.

Ft. Myers, Florida’s traveling sprint car racer Tony Agin possibly towed the most miles to USCS 2017 events in his first full season as a United Sprint Car Series regular. Agin improved on past season performances and garnered enough Championship points along the way to finish in fifth place in the National point standings. Agin will also receive accolades as the fifth-place finisher in the new USCS Deep South Thunder Tour portion of the schedule. He finished sixth in the USCS Southern Thunder and seventh in the USCS Mid-South regional series as well.

Veteran USCS driver, Brian Thomas from Pendergrass, Georgia finished in sixth place in the National point stndings. Thomas also finished in the top five in the USCS Southern Thunder Tour standings in fourth place after a string of top ten finishes and a perfect attendance record in that regional series.

Seventeen year-old Brandon Taylor from Cumming, Georgia, who was the 2013 UCS 600 Sprint Car Series mini sprint Rookie of the Year, garnered the 2017 United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters National Rookie of the Year honors. The award goes annually to the driver who has earned the most Championship points during their first season of competition prior to competing in 25 sprint car events. Taylor had a couple of top five and seven top ten finishes. Taylor aso had some other impressive runs that resulted in DNF’sfor mechabica reasns or he would have finished even higher. The USCS sprint car Rookie of the Year also pulled double duty some nights and had enough points in the USS Mini Sprints to finish sixth in the standings and pickup a win as well.at Senoia Racway.

The 2016 USCS “Rookie of the Year”, fifteen-year-old Danny Sams III from Northport, Florida had a pair of top five finishes in second place and 13 top ten finishes to finish in eighth place in the final National standings while garnering ninth place in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series. The talented young gun would have possibly finished much higher after a third place finish in 2016 in the National standings, but, a mid-season engine failure kept him out of competition for severa weeks.

The 2013 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters National Champion, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas placed ninth in the USCS 2017 National standings, Hagar raced primarily in the Mid-South regional series but, ventured out several times and collected six 2017 feature wins in USCS competition along the way. He had 13 top five and 14 top 10 finishes on the season as well. Hagar finished in second place in the USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour regional series just 19 points behind USCS Mid-South Champion Morgan Turpen. He also finished in sixth place in the new USCS Deep South regional series .

Veteran USCS competitor Joe Larkin from Suwannee, Georgia who mostly competed in the Southern Thunder region, also joined the field for several Mid-South regional series weekends. Larkin drove his #33 Mark Brack wrenched sprint car to a top ten finish in the USCS National point standings in tenth place. Larkin also finished in the eighth position in the USCS Southern Thunder Tour title chase.

In summary after 40 completed events: One hundred and twenty-five different drivers competed in the forty 21st anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters events. A recor- setting seventeen different drivers won during 2017 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour main events. Those included Morgan Turpen, who led the series victory column with nine wins. The 2017 National Champion Jordon Mallett and the 2013 Champ, Derek Hagar from Marion, Arkansas followed her with six wins each. Past series Champions Tim Crawley from Benton, Arkansas and Marshall Skinner from Marion, Arkansas were among a group of two-time winners to follow them. That group also included New Jersey’s Robbie Stillwaggon, Lance Moss from Cherryville, North Carolina and Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, North Carolina who made two visits each to the www.rockauto.com USCS Victory Lane.

Nine other other drivers collected one feature win during the 2017 season including six-time 2016 winner Trey Starks from Puyallup, Washington who won on night one of the season finale at Bubba Raceway Park o November 10th and sprint car racing legend and 3-time World of Outlaws Champion Sammy Swindell from Germantown, Tennessee at Lexington 104 Speedway.

Seven other drivers got their first USCS sprint car win in 2017 including: 3-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion, Tony Stewart, from Columbus, Indiana at Bubba Raceway Parl. Young gun Tyler Clem from Tampa, Florida also won at Bubba Raceway Park on the same weekend. Andy McElhannon from Hernando, Mississippi won at Columbus (MS) Speedway. Rookie contender Scott Hunter from Concord, North Carolina won at Lancaster (SC) Speedway. Dale Howard from Byhalia, Mississippi and Travis Senter picked up their career-first win at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Arkansas during the USCS Fall Nationals. Sunbury, Pennsylvania/s Mark Smith put a cap on the 21st USCS racing season by winning the finale at Bubba Raceway Park.

The United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters would like to gratefully thank its sponsoring partners for their involvement in the 2017 and 21st USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour: K&N Filters, www.rockauto.com,Engler Machine and Tool, Butlerbuilt, Wilwood Disc Brakes, Saldana Racing Products, Pyrotect Racing Cells, DMI/Bulldog Rear Ends. PRO Shocks, KSE Racing Products, DHR Suspensions, Schoenfeld Headers, Bell Helmets, DSR Fuel Systems, Brown and Miller Racing Solutions, Arizona Sport Shirts and Hero Graphics.]

The 2018 (22nd Anniversary) USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour kicks off at Bubba Raeway Park in Ocala,Florida on Friday d Saturday, February 9th and 10th. A full schedule of 2018 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour winged sprint car events will be available soon. For series rules and other info please visit www.uscsracing.com or call the series office at 770-460-7223 or 770-865-6097.

United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters National Championship Final Point Standings:

Pos Car # Name Points
1 14m Jordon Mallett 5726
2 10 Terry Gray 5601
3 10m Morgan Turpen 5142
4 28 Jeff Willingham 4333
5 38 Tony Agin 4165
6 67 Brian Thomas 3112
7 07 Brandon Taylor 2911
8 24D Danny Sams III 2775
9 9jr Derek Hagar 2646
10 33 Joe Larkin 2566
11 1x Scott Hunter 2349
12 26 Marshall Skinner2152
13 42 Andy McElhannon 1937
14 83 Bob Auld 1876
15 1s Joey Schmidt 1836
16 99 Don Warren 1738
17 47 Eric Riggins Jr 1687
18 67 Jake McLain 1680
19 47 Dale Howard 1656
20 4 Danny Smith 1625
21 43 Terry Witherspoon 1611
22 23 Lance Moss 1513
23 88 Tim Crawley 1496
24 21b Brandon McLain 1402
25 27 Curt Terrell 1334
26 44 Ronny Howard 1236
27 44c Chase Howard 1204
28 29a Kyle Amerson 1200
29 99 Tanner Witherspoon 1192
30 89 Robbie Stillwaggon 1171
31 22 Shawn Murray 1116
32 40 Howard Moore 1106
33 1a Lee Moore 1077
34 29 Jeff Oliver 985
35 61 Cody Howard 882
36 93 Jake Knight 850
37 3g Garrett Green 844
38 116 Nick Snyder 835
39 12m Greg Merritt 802
40 39 Brad Bowden 797
41 13 Todd Fayard 794
42 01 Shane Morgan 783
43 82 Matt Kurtz 776
44 24 Danny Martin Jr 767
45 10k Dewayne White 756
Tie 83 Mark Ruel Jr 756
47 3 Sammy Swindell 716
48 21 Butch David 704
49 88r Cody Gardner 691
50 14b Bo Barber 660
51 8 Dan Jones 630
52 14 Tony Stewart 564
53 14 Tyler Clem 560
54 44 Trey Starks 561
55 10b Mitch Brown 553
56 67x Matt Linder 538
57 3a AJ Maddox 517
58 91a Ernie Ainsworth 513
59 58 Nathan Emig 494
60 59 III Johnny Petrozelle 470
61 25 Ray Bugg 468
62 34 Darren Orth 464
63 6s Robbie Smith 452
64 b52 Bill Mason 440
65 111 Brandon Grubaugh 416
66 07 Johnny Bridges 394
Tie 43m Michael Miller 394
68 21 Aubrey Black 390
Tie 94 Jeff Swindell 390
70 31 Justin Webb 389
71 16 Anthony Nicholson 372
72 22g Johnny Gilbertson 354
73 8z Zach Pringle,352
74 88 Brandon Blendon 348
75 92 Nick Woolsey 340
76 1 Matt Carr 330
77 d6 Dakota Gaines 324
78 24 Terry McCarl 305
79 95 Matt Covington 295
80 1x Gary Taylor 286
Tie 5d Zach Daum 286
82 21k Thomas Kennedy 279
83 w20 Greg Wilson 282
84 29 Chad Jones 274
85 5w Ryan Coniam 270
Tie 09 Timmy Thrash 270
87 m1 Mark Smith 260
88 22 Travis Senter 258
89 1 Tyler Cross 254
90 84 Brandon Hanks 252
91 17w Harli White 244
92 0x Clint Weiss 240
93 83 Curt Schumacher 236
94 29w Wade Woolsey 232
95 01T Brandon Olson 230
Tie 52 Cody Karl 230
Tie 1 Micha McCall 230
Tie 23 Seth Bergman 230
99 55 Donny Howard 226
Tie 6 Sean Hosey 226
101 43m AJ Parrish 220
102 121 Jan Howard 210
103 12b Bryan Eckley 206
104 21b Brandon Hinkle 200
Tie c4 Jim Shuster 200
Tie 2one Kevin Hinkle 200
Tie 49 Mallie Shuster 200
108 00 Tristan Lee 134
109 15j Jeremy Middleton128
110 sr4 Charlie Sweetser126
111 4 iv Bronzie Lawson IV 120
Tie 5s Sonny Stroud 120
113 X Bill Moore 116
Tie 44x Marty Meredith 116
Tie 11 Michael Hampton 116
116 24 Nathan Brown 114
117 17 Jacob Necaise 112
118 11 Mike Hampton 108
119 12b Don Ryder 100
Tie 7d Dylan DeJournett 100
Tie 20 Frank Carlsson 100
Tie 43t Gavin Thomas 100
Tie 43jr Richard Beasley Jr 100
Tie 32x Robert Richardson 100
Tie 29s Rusty Stanford 100