Mooresville, NC - On Saturday night January 17th at the series banquet, American Outlaw Action Series (AOAS) President, Bob Wood announced that on Friday, January 16, 2004, the Fayetteville, Georgia based United Sprint Car Series (USCS)had acquired the assets of the American Outlaw Action Series.
Wood also announced that he and his wife Sherry Wood will both stay on with the USCS for at least the 2004 season and will help with the transition.
USCS President and Founder Pete Walton was on hand for the announcement and to welcome the AOAS drivers and teams into the USCS and invite them to the series opener at Volusia Speedway Park on Tuesday February 3rd and Wednesday, February 4th. Walton also announced that NASCAR racing great, Ernie Irvan had become affiliated with the ownership and management of the series and will be very involved in future marketing efforts of the USCS.
"The two series will immediately merge our management teams and our efforts to continue the growth of sprint car racing for drivers and teams based in the Southeastern United States" said Walton. "We are so excited about the future of this merger with the drivers and teams of the AOAS and excited about working with Bob and Sherry. We are very thankful for the additional experience the Woods' bring to our USCS team" concluded Walton.
Those merged efforts showed both a powerful combined scheduling effort and created a new four state dirt series within the eight state USCS national dirt series. For identification purposes the new four state series will be temporarily called the USCS "Sunbelt Thunder" Series and a handed out schedule showed 13 of the 18-20 races on the schedule already booked with the balance to be finished up next week said Walton.
Walton announced that the series would be on USCS rules effective immediately and that included a change to Hoosier tires for 2004 with a four race burn off period. Walton fielded other questions and distributed schedules and 2004 awards programs.
