Brett Butler and the #99 Verve Energy Drink Team have shown they are capable of running at the front on several occasions during the 2008 season. Now they are heading into the Championship Series looking to put 4 of those great runs together, and make a serious run at the 2008 National Championship.

“We’ve been fast almost every week,” said Butler. “We’ve led a lot of laps, and that’s been good for us – but we need to put together 4 solid finishes for this Championship Chase.”

Butler and the #99 Verve Energy Drink Team head to Mansfield looking for a similar run to what they had earlier this year at the ˝ mile track.

Tim Bainey Jr. and the #00 Aaron’s Dream Team may have been one of the most impressive team’s of the year in the USAR Hooter’s ProCup Series. A 9th place finish in the final point standings was great, but even that didn’t quite reflect just how well the team performed on the track.

Week after week they posted a string of impressive finishes, but 3 of those finishes “would of, could of” seen them setting well inside the top-5 of the Championship Points heading into the USAR’s Championship Chase.

Tim Jr. had the Aaron’s Dream Machine was leading at Radford when they were taken out by a lapped car, the #00 Aaron’s Dream Team was running 5th with less than 2 laps to go at Jennerstown when they came up short on fuel, and at South Boston they were up to 7th when a clutch went out on the #00.

(Bristol, TN)-- It was exhilarating experience for the Kane Sterling #48 racing team at Bristol Speedway, the fastest half-mile track in the world. Driver Sam Fullone remained cool and confident among an elite cast of drivers on the starting grid, motivated by the backing from marketing partner Kane Sterling in the last race of the regular season.

Kane Sterling jumped onboard last month as an associate sponsor for the remainder of the 2008 season. “I’m so happy to be teaming up with Roy Hayes and Kane Sterling,” said driver Sam Fullone, “It’s an exciting opportunity to work with such a first-class operation.”

CINCINNATI, Ohio (August 27, 2008) - - Ohio native Danny Jackson will head to his final USAR Hooters Pro Cup race for the 2008 racing season at Mansfield Motorsports Park on Saturday, August 30. Jackson will race in the first of the four USAR Championship Series races.

This year, Jackson finished 20th overall in the Northern Division standings.

In his most recent venue, Jackson raced in the regular series finale at Bristol Speedway on August 20th. Jackson started in the 28th position for the Aaron’s 150. Unfortunately, Jackson was collected in one of the several accidents that typically claim machines at the legendary short track. Jackson suffered damage to the right front of his Redbank Transport/Lykins Companies/Greased Lightning Chevrolet which ended his night around lap 42.

“It was a tough race and Bristol is a tough track to race at. It was my first time at the track and I was glad to race on it. It adds to my resume, which is what I am trying to do. I need to get track experience to further my career even though the finishes may not be the outcomes I hope for.”

Mooresville, NC---When you mention "Bristol Motor Speedway", to someone, their eyes light up. Everybody wants to go to Bristol to see a race. It's no different for teams and drivers, except they want to go there and WIN a race. Wednesday night marked the 5th Hooters Pro-Cup Race at Bristol, with 4 different winners. A crash on lap 2 prevented Derek Kale from being the 5th different winner there. However, Kale left Bristol 4th in the Northern Points standings and in a great starting position for the Championship series.

When practice started at 8:15 Saturday morning, the Heritage Motorsports team was ready to work their plan. Their first run was good, but needed a little tweaking on the set-up. The rest of the practice runs were focused on speed and mock qualifying runs.

"I wasn't that happy in practice," Kale said. "I wanted to find some more speed, but I knew my car would be great during the race."

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Bristol, Tenn.-Jay Fogleman survived Bristol Motor Speedway and secured sixth in the USAR Hooters Pro Cup Northern Division point standings.

"We’re in a good position for the Championship Series," said the driver of the Speedco/The Works/Mac Tools/JFco Motorsports Ford Fusion No. 4n. "We were hoping for a better run here, but that’s Bristol – anything can happen, and it happens fast."

The Durham, N.C., racing veteran qualified 12th for the Aarons 150.

Grabs 13^th Place Finish in Aaron’s 150 at Bristol Motor Speedway

Tim Bainey Jr. and #00 Aaron’s Dream Team wrapped up a very impressive 2008 USAR Hooter’s ProCup Northern Division Tour with a 9^th place finish in the Championship Point Standings after coming home with a 13^th place finish in the Aaron’s 150 at Bristol.

 

“It was a really great year for our Aaron’s Dream Team,” said Tim Jr. “We’ve been fast at just about every track, and to wrap it up with a 9^th place finish in the points is great.”

 

As far as Bristol, 48 teams were on the loaded entry list for one of the series premier events of the season - 36 of those teams had already tested at Bristol just last week, and while Tim Jr. and the #00 Aaron’s Dream Team were unable to attend the test they were very impressive in their Bristol Debut with the Hooter’s Series.

End Regular Season with a Solid 14th Place Finish in Championship Point Standings

Brett Butler and the #99 Verve Energy Drink Team were one of the fastest teams at Bristol Motor Speedway during the Aaron’s 150, but a hard crash on lap 41 would end the team’s hopes for another top-10 finish.

“That was a tough way to end our night,” said Butler “Our Verve Energy Drink car was awesome here at Bristol, I think we had a top-5 car tonight if not better – but that was just a tough way to end the night.”

“But - it’s been a really good year so far for our Verve Energy Drink Team,” said Butler. “For our first year together, to end the regular season inside the top-15 of the points chase is pretty awesome.”

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With Bristol behind us we wanted to share some of Tyler’s thoughts on his first race there. When we caught up with Tyler, he and his family were still at Bristol getting ready to head back to the track to watch the Sprint Cup race on Saturday evening.

“It was really cool to race at Bristol,’ Tyler stated. “The place has so much history and their tagline ‘World’s Fastest Half Mile’ is legendary,” he continued. When you look at the qualifying times posted by the USAR ProCup drivers and time the drivers posted for the Cup race there is no doubt that our series has very talented and competitive drivers.

Tyler further commented, “I really enjoyed the race. Every time we would come to a caution I would be catching my breath and Bill (Harkins) would tell me to breath. I was having so much fun in the race I told him I did not have time to breath.”

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Mikey Kile and the Vis Viva team takes home a 6th place finish at the high banks of Bristol Motorspeedway.

On a hot Wednesday afternoon at one of the most sought after race tracks to race, Kile maintained in the top ten most of the morning practices. After qualifying 11th, the entire team was ready to take on the "fastest half mile track".

Caution flag flew early on lap 2 where the Vis Viva team decided to take advantage of the caution and pitted on lap 6 for two left side tires. Complications for the team on pit road caused Kile to loose 14 positions, as the cautions kept coming, so did Kile.