A lot is in the offering! Two thousand dollars awaits the feature winner on Friday night and Saturday night the Fourth Annual Hoosier Sprint Nationals will pay $10,000 to the winner. The total purse for the two nights of racing will be the most offered so far any weekend this season. The Hoosier Sprint Nationals title is also a big addition to any driver's career resume. The three Nationals held have produced three different winners.

Friday night's Paducah event will showcase the MSCS Sprints along with support from some of the classes that race the track regularly. MSCS does not qualify but the excitement begins with hot lap sessions beginning at 6:30 and racing to follow at 7:30. Forty-five different sprint drivers have tested the high banks at Paducah in the two seasons MSCS has competed there.

The honor of winning MSCS features so far this season has belonged to a select group of three drivers. Jon Stanbrough has won three, Robert Ballou has won two, and Daron Clayton has a single win. Mother Nature has prevented three others from being held. Robert Ballou led the way back in June when the MSCS sprints were last at Paducah. In 2007 Cory Kruseman took the PIR feature in an infrequent appearance with the MSCS series that included a stop at the Hoosier Sprint Nationals in Indiana the next night where he finished fourth.

MSCS racing at Paducah International Raceway has displayed a California connection. It's evident that Golden State drivers have been prospecting for wins in the Bluegrass country. Robert Ballou, who is from Rocklin, California, now races out of Camby, IN. Cory Kruseman is from San Jose, California. But drivers will be expected from all over the country as teams embark to race MSCS all of Hoosier Sprint Nationals weekend.

In 2008 the Midwest Sprint Car Series has enjoyed driver support from 5 adjoining Midwestern states as well as from states as far away as California on the West Coast and New York on the East Coast. Non-wing sprint car racing is a coast to coast attraction best exemplified by the extreme, wheel to wheel racing right here in the Midwest. To offset some of that travel expense MSCS pays $100 tow money to all drivers that do not make the feature on a given evening.

The fourth annual Hoosier Sprint Nationals will be a fifty lap race just like its predecessors. The added distance adds to the challenge. That is 200 turns the leader has to take on dirt without error and valuable, extra laps for drivers deep in the field to move up. Last year Hunter Schuerenberg took the $10,000 prize and the Hoosier Sprint Nationals title. Hunter is coming off of another big career win as he just won the Indiana Sprint Week finale in USAC competition at Tri-State Speedway July 19th.

In the brief but exciting history of the Hoosier Sprint Nationals current MSCS Points leader Daron Clayton won the race in 2006. Shane Cottle was second that year as well as in 2007. Kevin Briscoe won
the Hoosier Sprint Nationals the first year which was 2005. Clayton's June 7th, 2008 victory at Tri-State Speedway propelled him into the lead on the MSCS All Time Feature Win List with 8.

MSCS is Racing the first weekend of August! It is a MUST SEE WEEKEND! Racing will be on the big 3/8's mile Paducah International Raceway the first night and for the big prize of $10,000 at Haubstadt the second night.


Provided by Eldon Butcher, MSCS Information & Publicity