The X-1R Pro Cup Series heads to Motor Mile Speedway on June 8th for the Heritage Truck Centers 250. The .416 mile track, established in 1952, is the fourth race of the season for the X-1R Series.

The X-1R Pro Cup Series is proud to announce that they will be giving away 20,000 free tickets for the Heritage Truck Centers 250 to fans and local businesses for the race event. Fans can pick up free tickets by visiting local businesses within 50 miles of the track. If fans are unable to reach out to local businesses for tickets, they can print free tickets at home by visiting http://www.X1RProCup.com .

Gary Kale, owner of Heritage Truck Centers is excited about sponsoring the event and giving away free tickets to 20,000 lucky fans.

By Robert Walden, Kingsport Speedway Media/Public Relations

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (May 17) - You don't have to lead the most laps, because all that really matters is being out front to take home the big money on the final lap when the checkered flag waves. Clay Rogers of Mooresville, N.C., never led a lap Friday night in the CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series Mahle 250 at Kingsport Speedway, until the final circuit.

Mark McFarland had led the most laps and appeared headed to his first victory of the season, but a late race caution on lap 244 when defending series champion J.P. Morgan's engine went up in smoke gave Rogers a shot at recording his third straight victory to start the season. Rogers capitalized on the opportunity, as he got around McFarland on the white flag lap on the second attempt at a green-white-checkered run to take the $10,000 victory at "The Concrete Jungle."

With the National Weather Service predicting possible severe thunderstorms to move into East Tennessee between 6-7 p.m. Friday evening, just after pole qualifying wrapped up indeed heavy rain began to fall in the Model City. Pro Cup Series officials were determined to wait the storm out, and once rain stopped track drying efforts got underway. After a rain delay for a little over three hours, drivers strapped in for start of the event just prior to 11 p.m.

McFarland set fast-time at 15.332 seconds to capture the pole position for the Mahle 250, with Coleman Pressley second-quickest at 15.338 to nail down the outside front row starting berth.

Speed is There, Now Wilson Hoping to Put Total Package Together in Mahle 250

HUNTERSVILLE, NC (May 14, 2013) - Two races into his rookie season in the CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series, 16-year-old Reid Wilson has run the gamut of first experiences. He has raced wheel-to-wheel with some of the most accomplished drivers in all of short track racing. He set fast time in qualifying for his second-ever Pro Cup start last month at Hickory, becoming the second-youngest pole winner in series’ history behind only Joey Logano. He was also quick in the Pro Cup practice rounds at South Carolina’s Anderson Speedway two weeks ago before that event was rained out.

Now as the series turns to Kingsport Speedway in Tennessee for the Mahle 250 on Friday, May 17, Wilson is hoping to build on his early-season highs such as the ones in Hickory and Anderson. Doing so will put the mechanical issues that plagued his Reid Wilson Racing team at race-time in the first two events of the season far in the rear-view mirror.

“We’ve worked all that stuff out,” said Wilson as he and the team prepared the Bojangles’ Chicken n’ Biscuits No. 66 Chevrolet for the Kingsport event. “We knew for sure that by the time we got to Anderson, we weren’t going to have any problems. At Dillon (in the Pro Cup season opener) and Hickory, the first two races of the year, we kind of knew something was coming. We’d get to the racetrack, find something and know that we couldn’t fix it until we got back to the shop. Now, everything is as good as we need it to be and we’re ready for Kingsport.”

By Chris Ragle, CARS X-1R Pro Cup Media

Mooresville, NC 5/13/13 – After getting washed out at Anderson Motor Speedway two weeks prior, the drivers and teams of the X-1R Pro Cup Series will turn their attention to the track deemed the “concrete jungle”, Kingsport Speedway in Kingsport, Tennessee. The Friday night event will be the series first of two visits to the 3/8th mile concrete track throughout the 2013 season. Unlike the first two events of the season, where series regulars battled amongst themselves to decide a race winner, this weekend’s MAHLE 250 will see at least a pair of area regulars make their bid to take home the $10,000 winner’s check. Blake Jones, driving for last year’s winner Wade Day, and Coleman Pressley, son of track owner Robert Pressley, have both filed entries with plans to give series regulars a “run for their money” once the green flag waives.

MAHLE 250 Notes and Quotes
NOTES:
Track/Location: Kingsport Speedway-Kingsport, TN Track Size: .375
Event Name: MAHLE 250 Laps/Distance: 250 Laps/ 94 Miles
Event Schedule: Series Standings: AFR Rookie Standings:
Practice: 1:30-2:30pm, 3-4pm 1) Clay Rogers 340 1) Eric Gerchak 275
Qualifying: 6:30pm 2) J.P. Morgan -60 2) Brady Boswell -38
Autograph Session: 7:15pm 3) Eric Gerchak -65 3) Reid Wilson -82
Race: 8:30pm 4) Dalton Hopkins -87
5) Brady Boswell -103

By Robert Walden, Kingsport Speedway Media/Public Relations

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — The Championship Auto Racing Series X-1R Pro Cup Series (formerly Hooters Pro Cup Series) will make their first of two scheduled visits in 2013 to Kingsport Speedway on Friday, May 17 for running of the $10,000-to-win Mahle 250 at "The Concrete Jungle." Local support class divisions racing will be Pure 4, Rookie Pure 4 and Legends.

Clay Rogers of Mooresville, N.C., is perfect to start the Pro Cup Series season having visited victory lane on two occasions, at Dillon (S.C.) Motor Speedway and Hickory (N.C.) Motor Speedway. Rogers has series championships in 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2010, along with over 40 NASCAR Nationwide Series and NASCAR Camping World Truck Series starts on his resume. Rogers' 32nd career Pro Cup Series victory a couple of weeks ago at Hickory tied him for second-most series wins with Benny Gordon, while Bobby Gill sits at top of the victories list with 46.

Rogers will lead a strong Pro Cup Series field into the Model City, with other drivers possibly expected to be in action including defending series champion J.P. Morgan of Ether, N.C.; Eric Gerchak of Mooresville, N.C.; Dalton Hopkins of Avondale, W.Va.; Brady Boswell of Watkinsville, Ga.; Gus Dean of Bluffton, S.C.; Rusty Skewes of Bluefield, Va.; Andrew Smith of Pooler, Ga.; John Gibson of Statesville, N.C.; Reid Wilson of Charlotte, N.C.; Joey Jones of Fredericksburg, Va.; R.S. Senter of Oakwood, Ga.; Rich Gould of New Brunswick, N.J.; Stacy Puryear of South Boston, Va.; Lucas Ransone of Madison, N.C., along with other competitors.

Episode # 8 of The Roll Cage. This week's featured guest is Rusty Skewes, driver of the #41 Ford for Top Gun Motorsports.

CARS Series PR

Mother Nature won this weekend. After getting one practice session in today, officials were forced to cancel today's running of the Palmetto State 250 at Anderson Motor Speedway. The make up date will be Saturday, October 5th making it a fifth championship series event on the 2013 schedule.

Mooresville, NC 4/30/13 – The CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series is set to make their first of two visits this season to Anderson Motor Speedway located just south of Greenville, South Carolina, off Interstate 85. This weekend’s race will be just the second in series history at the 3/8 mile track; with the inaugural event coming at the same race a year ago. Defending race winner J.P. Morgan will be looking for his first win of the season after Clay Rogers and his No. 16 Lamb & Robinson race team swept the first two events in 2013 thus far. While the two drivers may be considered heavy favorites, the door is wide open behind them. Morgan is the only driver expected to compete at Anderson that finished in the top five a season ago. Local favorite and series rookie Brady Boswell, whose Watkinsville, Georgia home is just an hour south of the track, should be in the mix as the laps wind down. Boswell, while new to the Pro Cup machines, has made more than his fair share of starts at the South Carolina track behind the wheel of a Legends car.

Mooresville, N.C. - (May 2, 2013) Tyler Young will be among those chasing their first CARS X-1R Pro Cup Series victory of the year on Saturday in the Palmetto State 250 at Anderson Motor Speedway in Williamston, South Carolina.

Tyler made his first start at Anderson in last year's Pro Cup race. He was the fastest qualifier and started first but contact with a competitor cost him a top five and a shot at the race win.

"We are definitely excited to go back to Anderson," Tyler said. "We were fast there last year but we got the wrong end of a deal with someone else and didn't get the result we wanted. We ran well two weeks ago at Hickory toward the end the race and finished third so I think we have a good piece to take to Anderson and get our first win of the season down there!"

Tyler says the Pro Cup Series is more competitive than it may appear at first glance.