Sprint Invaders Preview: Lee County Speedway
By Jake Croxton

BURLINGTON, IA (June 27, 2006) – The Ideal Ready Mix Sprint Invaders will kick off a busy Independence Day holiday with the third 2006 visit to the Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa. The venue known as “The Home Track” of the Sprint Invaders will host its nineteenth series event since its inception in 2002 with the running of the “Olson Bros. Custom Shop / Budweiser 25.”

Matt Sutton enters the Wednesday, June 28th event as the points leader. The Macomb, Ill. driver currently holds a 32-point advantage over Ryan Jamison. Sutton
has experienced both highs and lows at the Lee County Fairgrounds 3/8-mile in 2006. In the series’ first visit back in April, Sutton earned his first-career Invaders victory and took the points lead for the first time. Then, in May, Sutton was battling for position near the top 10 and ended his night against the turn 1 guardrail, relegated to a 20th place finish.

For Jamison, consistency has put the Young’s Auto Mart / Ostrich / F5 into the runner-up position in points for the first time. After a slow start, the Mediapolis, Iowa veteran is still gunning for his first series win.

“Each time I don’t do it, I’m getting hungrier for the (darn) thing,” Jamison said in a recent interview. “tried some new stuff with this F5 car. I’m the only guy running them around here…We’ve had some new-style radius rods in the rear that I tried because he thought they’d really work, but I think I handicapped the guys the first four races trying to play with stuff when I didn’t know what I was doing. We tore the things off…and it looks like a totally different car from the start of the season.”

Korey Weyant dropped a spot to third in the standings after Memphis. Two consecutive rough outings have Weyant 36 points out of the lead. After winning the B-Main in Memphis, Weyant rebounded to pick up the KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Award but still was unable to stay ahead of Jamison.

The Lee County event kicks off with Hot Laps at 7 p.m. Racing will follow at 7:30. A $500 to win Hobby Stock feature and a $100 to win Wild Things feature will
fill out the support card. Grandstand admission is $12 for Adults, $10 for Students and Seniors, and Free for Kids 10 and under. Pit passes are $25.

Sprint Invaders Top 10
1. 3 Matt Sutton 1,284
2. 51J Ryan Jamison 1,252
3. 99W Korey Weyant 1,248
4. 25 Nick Eastin 1,169
5. 14P Randy Plath 1,154
6t. 35 Brian Hetrick 1,104
6t. 53 Dave Anderson 1,104
8. 36 Justin Newberry 1,095
9. 15 Bobby Mincer 1,062
10. 2 John Schulz 1,054