2/25/2021
USCS United Sprint Car Series
USCS Sprints and Mods top 13th annual Frostbuster 150 card at Magnolia Motor Speedway Saturday 2/27
USCS Sprint Cars headline Magnolia Motor Speedway's 13th annual USCS Frost Buster 150 season opener on Saturday, February 27th at 6 PM.
Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2021 - The USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters winged sprint cars invade Magnolia Motor Speedway this Saturday night at 6:00 pm to headline the 13th annual "Frost Buster 150” presented by www.RockAuto.com The event will be the 6th round of the 2021 USCS Winter Heat Series 12-race early season mini-series. And the 6th event of a 60+ race schedule for the series twenty-fifth anniversary season of competition. The USCS Outlaw Modified Series join the USCS sprint cars to create a USCS double-header.
The event is the Magnolia Motor Speedway 2021 season-opener and is a literal "Smorgasbord of Speed" featuring a full night of high-speed action at one of the Mid-South's most popular venues. Race teams and race fans will be treated to a full menu of early season speed contests with racing in eight of the area's most popular racing divisions for just one ticket price. The event typically has fields of over 100 race cars.
The event includes one of only two scheduled 2021 season appearances for the USCS "Outlaw Thunder" Tour presented by K&N Filters winged sprint cars at Magnolia Motor Speedway. The racing action features approximately 250 laps of racing around the 3/8 mile clay oval including 150+ laps of Championship main events.
Action kicks off on Saturday evening at 5:00 pm with hot laps and a full racing program in all divisions including The 125 mile per hour USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters winged sprint cars, the Crate Racin’ USA Dirt Late Models, the USCS Outlaw Modified Series, the CRUSA Street Stock, CRUSA 602 Late Model Sportsman, CRUSA Modified Sportsman, Factory Stock and Hot Shot divisions.
Sprint car drivers from 7 or 10 states are pre-entered for the initial 2021 appearance of the USCS sprint cars to Magnolia Motor Speedway. Those pre-entered include several of the nation’s top ranked drivers like the winnigest 360 sprint car driver Mark Smith from Sunbury, Pennsylvania who won 20 times during the Covid-19 shortened 2020 season including 14 stops in the www.RockAuto.com USCS Victory Lane.
Also entered the defending and thirteen-time USCS National Champion, Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee. Both the 2020 USCS Mid-South Thunder Tour regional series Champion, Dale Howard from Byhalia, Mississippi and the 2020 USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series Champ, 16-year-old Connor Leoffler from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina are early entries as is the 2015 and 2016 USCS National Champion Morgan Turpen, from Cordova, Tennessee. Also entered are National Sprint Hall of Fame2015 inductee Danny Smith from Chillicothe, Ohio and 2019 Patriot Sprint Tour Champion, Davie Franek from Sussex, New Jersey.
The second USCS racing division on the action-packed racing card is the USCS Outlaw Modified Series open wheel modified cars. Drivers for that division are expected from five states. Hunter Wilbanks from Lakeland, Tennessee was 2017 National Champion in the division. That was the last of 12 previous seasons that the USCS Outlaw Modified Series competed before being brought back into action for 2021.
NASCAR Veteran and Dirt Track legend Ken Schrader is scheduled to compete in the USCAS Outlaw Modified Series. Schrader has two previous USCS Modified feature wins at Magnolia Motor Speedway. He is also expected to do double duty and race in the CRUSA Modified Sportsman division as well.
For info on the United Sprint Car Series or www.rockauto.com USCS Outlaw Modified Series please visit www.uscsracing.com or call 770-865-6097.The USCS also has a Facebook page at USCS Racing and may be followed on Twitter as @uscsracing
Magnolia Motor Speedway gates open Pit Gates Open at 2:00pm and Grandstands and turn parking at 3:00pm.
Admission is $20 Adult Grandstands and $35 Adult Pit Area
Magnolia Motor Speedway is located just West of Columbus, Mississippi at the junction of US Highway 82 and US Highway 45 South. For more info and for directions to Magnolia Motor Speedway please visit www.magnoliadirt.com or call 662-240-3478 (or 662-574-2572).
Media contact: Pete Walton 770-865-6097 or email peteuscs@att.net
Article Credit: Pete Walton
