USAC SPRINTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 -- BILLY PAUCH ENTERED IN ZEMCO CAR
Date: 5/27/2009 10
50 PM
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2009
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USAC SPRINTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 -- BILLY PAUCH ENTERED IN ZEMCO CAR
MECHANICSBURG, PA -- A rich tradition will be renewed when the
United States Auto Club's National Sprint Car Series returns to Williams
Grove Speedway on Wednesday, June 3.
The ARDC midgets will also be on the card and qualifying is
scheduled to begin at 7:00.
Once a regular stop on USAC's national tour, Williams Grove has not
hosted the Indianapolis-based sanctioning body and their wingless sprint
cas in nearly twelve years.
In fact the Grove, known for its weekly diet of winged sprint car
racing, has not held any non-wing sprint car races since 2002.
Some of the all-time greats of the sport won USAC sprint car races
at Williams Grove including the legendary A.J. Foyt along with Parnelli
Jones, Pat Flaharty, Eddie Sachs, Johnny Thomson, Tommy Hinnershitz,
Roger McCluskey, Don Branson, Mitch Smith, Jan Opperman and Dick Tobias.
Defending national champion Jerry Coons, Jr. of Tucson, Arizona,
will lead a strong contingent of USAC regulars into Williams Grove on
June 3.
Former champion and Indiana residents Tracy Hines and Levi Jones
will enter cars owned by NASCAR star Tony Stewart, who is also a former
USAC champion.
NASCAR's Kasey Kahne has also entered a car for his driver, Brad
Sweet, of Grass Valley, California.
Other entries of note include former champion Dave Darland of
Lincoln, IN, and two-time Silver Crown champion Bud Kaeding of Campbell,
CA, along with Chad Boat of Phoenix, Josh Wise, Riverside, CA, Kevin
Swindell, Germantown, TN, Jesse Hockett, Warsaw, MO, Cole Whitt, Alpine,
CA and Damion Gardner of Concord, CA, who won the last wingless sprint
car race at Williams Grove, which was run under SCRA sanction in 2002.
The last USAC race at the Grove was won by Frenchtown, NJ's Billy
Pauch in 1996, and on June 3 Pauch will be reunited with the Zemco team
which helped him to that USAC victory and so many more during the `90's.
In anticipation of the USAC race, two former National Open
champions, Cody Darrah of Red Lion and Lancasater's Doug Esh, will
remove their wings at an open practice session following Friday night's
sprint car/358 racing program at Williams Grove.