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STILLWAGGON & FRANEK BATTLE FOR URC DRIVER TITLE, KENNEDY & FRANEK SR IN RACE FOR OWNERS TITLE, URC WILL REACH 1,500 ALL TIME EVENTS ON SEPTEMBER 29 AT NEW EGYPT SPEEDWAY

The Rislone URC Sprint Series will invade the New Egypt Speedway (New Egypt, NJ) on Saturday night, September 29 and a torrid battle is in place for the 2012 URC Driver and Owners Championship title. The New Egypt URC event will reach a historic landmark as statistician Steve Barrick reports that this event will mark the 1,500^th URC show in their sixty-five year history. Just two point races remain on the 2012 Rislone URC schedule to include New Egypt on Saturday night, September 29 and the finale to take place at the Grandview Speedway on Saturday night, October 13.

Robbie Stillwaggon now leads the Rislone URC Driver point chase with only a twenty-five point advantage over Davie “no panic” Franek of Wantage, NJ. Stillwaggon has one URC win this season as Franek is seeking his first win of the season. Making up the top five in current URC Driver points is Josh Weller, Kevin Darling and Randy West. Both Stillwaggon and Franek are chasing down their first career URC Championship Driver Title and it is likely that it will all be decided at Grandview on October 13. URC also awards Owner points and in fact, the point fund money will be paid to the top ten car Owners of URC in 2012. Popular URC car owner Fred Kennedy leads the URC Owners point chase with 1,492 points over Dave Franek Sr. with 1,451. Kennedy is the car owner of the #89 driven by Stillwaggon and also owns the #56 driven by Randy West, also in the top five in points. For Kennedy and Franek Sr., this would also mark their first ever URC Owners Championship title.

The season finale at the Grandview Speedway on Saturday, October 13th is sponsored by Pioneer Pole Buildings and will pay the URC feature winner $3,000. This event is part of the Grandview Thunder 5-25’s features only event. The top twenty in URC points will be invited to take part in this unique season finale.

URC is rich in history and now in their sixty-fifth season, the show at New Egypt Speedway will mark their 1,500^th event. Over the past 1,499 events, a total of 256 different drivers were URC feature winners. Glenn Fitzcharles holds the record for the most feature wins in a single season, scoring twenty-one victories in 1987. In 1985, Dave Kelly won nineteen features.

Buck Buckley holds the record for most consecutive winning seasons, Buckley went twelve years in a row winning URC feature events. Hank Rogers still holds the record for most wins in a row, winning nine consecutive features, Buck Buckley and Glenn Fitzcharles both won eight features consecutively.

In the sixty-five year history of URC, there were for ties for the feature win. On 7/3/1954 at the Hatfield Speedway, Bert Brooks and Tony Romit shared victory lane, on 9/12/1959 at the Selinsgrove Speedway, Al Chamberlain and Dave Humphrey ended the race in a photo finish shared win. At the Oswego Speedway on 7/29/1961, Jimmy Maguire and Don Gillette took the checker flag in a tie at the wire and on 9/1/1969 Toby Tobias and Earl Halaquist shared victory lane in URC’s fourth dead heat finish, taking place at the Flemington Fair Speedway.

On the all-time career win ranking, Glenn Fitzcharles holds 81 URC feature wins over Dave Kelly with 76, Kramer Williamson with 67, Buck Buckley with 60 and Earl Halaquist owns 52 career URC wins. Special thanks again to statistician Steve Barrack for these historic news bits.

RISLONE URC SPRINT SERIES POINTS

1	1,492	Robbie Stillwaggon
2	1,467	Davie Franek
3	1,282	Josh Weller
4	1,255	Kevin Darling
5	1,218	Randy West
6	1,202	Ed Aikin
7	1,164	Joey Biasi
8	1,151	Chad Trout
9	1,114	Art Liedl
10	1,060	Tim Hogue

2012 Rislone Sprint Series Race Dates & Event Winners

2012 Wins Career Wins

APR	28	Delaware Intl	Rain Out
MAY	4	Black Rock	Bobby Breen	1	1
MAY	12	Selinsgrove $3,500	Blane Heimbach	1	4
MAY	25	Big Diamond	Kevin Darling	1	1
JUNE	1	Williams Grove	Rain Out
JUNE	9	Delaware Intl	Ryan Bohlke	1	2
JUNE	20	Lincoln (non-points)	Daryn Pittman	1	3
JUNE	22	Potomac	Rain Out
JUNE	23	Winchester, VA	Ed Aikin	1	7
JUNE	30	Delaware Intl	Ed Aikin	2	8
JULY	7	New Egypt $3,000	JJ Grasso	1	21
JULY	21	Grandview	Josh Weller	1	5
AUG	3	Williams Grove $4,000	Tony Stewart	1	1
AUG	4	Lincoln $2,500	Rain Out
AUG	10	Black Rock $4,000	Tony Stewart	2	2
AUG	11	Selinsgrove	Mark Smith	1	3
AUG	24	Williams Grove $2,200	Pat Cannon	1	2
AUG	25	Port Royal	Ryan Wilson	1	1
SEPT	1	Delaware Intl	Robbie Stillwaggon	1	3
SEPT	29	New Egypt
OCT	13	Grandview $3,000 Pioneer Pole Buildings	Feature Only

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