USAC SPRINTS WEDNESDAY JUNE 3 -- BILLY PAUCH ENTERED IN ZEMCO CAR

Date: 5/27/2009 1050 PM



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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.

Surprisingly +++ advance reaction --> http://www.williamsgrove.com/forum/v...hp?f=1&t=24285

The Hagerstown races were fantastic the past 2 yrs. This is the high point of the year for a lot of us.

Thanks in advance to the teams making the trip. ...now if the weather will just co-operate.

Well last nights practice didn't go to well at the Grove. Doug Esh flipped the car out of the track before he completed one lap. Heard the car was hurt pretty bad, luckly Doug walked away. Cody Darrah never got his car to fire so practice didn't last but half a lap at best.

WHAT THE @Â¥! : DO YOU MEAN I CANT RUN IT IN AS HARD WITHOUT THE WING ? I`LL SHOW YOU ! ! !
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I hope The Grove is smart enough to give the USAC guys a tacky track to run on. Not a dry slick winged Outlaw type track or it will be a big joke.

Jeff unless they do something different for USAC, I don't think we have to worry about the track. The Grove's track has been great for about the last 6 years.

Pine, that's great to hear. It's funny I live 4 miles from the place & I couldn't tell you anything about what goes on there other than what I read on the message boards. It will always be that way with me as long as they run with the tin on top. If I wanted to go to a parade in Mechanicsburg I'd pick the Halloween Parade over that single file parades at The Grove.

Speaking of messages boards, I read Doug Esh turned her over last night on the 1st lap of practice. What was up with that? You'd think if you had no experience running sans wings you'd take it easy at first. They really don't get it around here do they?

I didn't even stick around to watch. I was out at the campfire,( behind turn three), I heard him go into one and then nothing, then you could just hear the crunching. They say he took a nasty one. I heard he went over about 8 times. Barrel rolling and end over end and to quote the late great Phillies announcer Harry Kalas "That Ball is outtttttttaaaaaaaa herrrrrrre" in turn two. Needless to say he went in to turn one, just a little to hot

After Doug flipped, they shutter' down. Darrah didn't even come out....

They had a wingless practice at the Grove last night? Pauch should have shown them how it's done. If I remember correctly Dewease in the Dyer Masonry 461 was second in that USAC race from 96.

You all remember Chris Eash on his first lap put her out in turn 1 !!!