Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (June 27, 2006) –

The American Sprint Car Series Midwest Region fires back into action over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Friday night, the series takes to the super fast 3/8-mile Junction Motor Speedway dirt oval in McCool Junction. It marks the second stop of the season for the ASCS Midwest Region at JMS. Sioux Falls driver Jake Peters won the May 26th event at Junction Motor Speedway.

Brian Brown of Missouri enters the weekend with a 23-point lead over 19-year-old Giltner, NE, racer Chad Humston. South Dakota's Chuck Swenson is five more points back in third, while Lincoln's Toby Chapman jumped to fourth in points with his first career ASCS Midwest Region feature win last Friday night at U.S. 36 Raceway in Cameron, MO. Ness City, KS, contender Luke Cranston and 16-year-old Springfield, NE, shoe Jack Dover are tied for fifth in points, just 46 points off the lead pace. The balance of the current top ten includes Jason Danley (Lincoln, NE), Jake Peters (Sioux Falls, SD), Rick Ideus (Silver City, IA) and Mike Chadd (Lincoln, NE).

Friday's card at Junction Motor Speedway fires off 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 (Lushton Road), then north. For more information, contact the track at 402-773-5538, ext 9.

The 2006 ASCS Midwest Region slate consists of thirteen events at eight different events throughout Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa and Missouri.

GOTRA, the Nebraska based Good Old Time Racing Association will join Friday nights ASCS Midwest sprint car field. The vintage sedans and coupes will assist in the night of open wheel only competition at JMS. One may learn more about this group at www.gotra.com