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Jennerstown, PA-
The next race for the USAR Hooters ProCup Series Northern
Division will be the ½ mile Jennerstown Speedway in
Jennerstown, PA for the running of the Lucas Oil 250.
Jennerstown was the site of the first Northern Division race
on April 21, Southern division driver Stacy Puryear
collected the win, followed by rookie Donnie Hill, Mike
Herman, Jr., Mardy Lindley, and Mart Nesbitt.
Donnie Hill, driver
of the #00 Architect Glass Chevrolet, hopes that he can
enter the pits at Jennerstown the same way he left it.
“Only this time I want to win
the trophy,” Hill said during an interview. “I look for
this race to be the best race the fans have ever seen. The
track is amazing, you can run two wide all the way around it
and it’s pretty much smooth, and fast.”
The race at Jennerstown was the
first that Hill had competed in with the Hooters ProCup
Series. So far he’s happy with the team’s performance. “My
team is doing much better than I expected. We are finishing
in the top 10 every week, when all I envisioned was just to
qualify for most of the races,” said the resident of
Columbus, OH. “One thing I think has helped this team is,
during our off weekends with the ProCup Series, we race our
late model car at different short tracks around our home.”
“Another thing that has helped
us a lot with the ProCup car are drivers like Bill Plemons,
Jr. who have experience in this Series who have been really
been helpful. When ever you need any information, Bill
Plemons is always there.”
Another driver finding out the
answers to the Series questions is Jason McLellan, driver of
the #3 McLellan Motorsports Pontiac. “Running Jennerstown
Speedway reminds me of running my home track. You setup the
car like you were going to run Varney Speedway, but
Jennerstown is faster,” said the resident of Mt. Forest,
Ontario Canada. Like Hill, McLellan is also very pleased
with how this year is going.
“With this series you have to
adapt with the cars, they are bigger than anything I have
driven before, and it takes you longer to find the groove,
but that is part of the fun,” said McLellan who is currently
10th in Northern Division points and collected a
sixth place finish in Jennerstown. “The team is really
awesome. Every race that we make is one more relief, but my
goal for this year is to finish in the top three positions,
and to keep enough points to make it to the championship
races at the end of the year.”
Practice for the running of the
Lucas Oil 250 begins at 11 a.m., qualifying begins at 5 p.m.
with the pole winner receiving $1,000 from Sunoco. The
green flag for the Lucas Oil 250 will fall at 7 p.m.,
followed by Jennerstown Speedway’s Late Model class. The
night’s finale will be a fireworks display.
For more
information please visit our website at
www.usarprocup.com |
