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ASCS Midwest Region Invades Junction Motor Speedway This Friday!
by: Lonnie Wheatley

McCOOL JUNCTION, NE (June 23) - After Mother Nature intervened in last month's scheduled season opener, the American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region will make another attempt at Junction Motor Speedway in McCool Junction, NE, this Friday night.

While North Dakota's Natalie Sather defends her ASCS Midwest Region championship, Missouri's Brian Brown tries to extend his mastery of Junction Motor Speedway in the month of June. Brown has topped the ASCS Midwest Region's June event atop the 3/8-mile McCool Junction dirt oval over each of the past two years.

Brown, the winningest driver in ASCS Midwest Region history, is out to the early series points lead after finishing second to Jason Johnson on Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway.

Sather kicked off her title defense by racing from 21st to thirteenth in Saturday's Knoxville opener.

Friday's action at Junction Motor Speedway is set to go green at 7:00 p.m.

Junction Motor Speedway is located in McCool Junction, NE, off I-80 Exit 353, then 5.6 miles south on US 81, then 0.3 miles west on CR 4, then north. For more information, contact the track at 402-724-3100 or 402-773-5538.

The ASCS Midwest Region is currently slated for nine nights of action at eight different tracks throughout Nebraska and the immediate surrounding area stretching into Kansas, Missouri and Iowa.

The nation's most prominent Sprint Car sanctioning body with a dozen different Regions throughout the United States in addition to the O'Reilly American Sprint Cars on Tour National series, the American Sprint Car Series' (ASCS) 17th year of activity will include approximately 250 nights of racing at more than 100 different race tracks throughout 28 different states and Canada.

Past ASCS Midwest Region Winners at Junction Motor Speedway:
6/29/07 – Brian Brown
5/25/07 – Garry Lee Maier
6/30/06 – Brian Brown
5/26/06 – Jake Peters
5/27/05 – Jason Danley

Additional information regarding the American Sprint Car Series is available at www.ascsracing.com .