{"id":97,"date":"2010-01-08T01:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=97"},"modified":"2010-01-08T01:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T01:30:51","slug":"usac%e2%80%99s-national-sprint-car-series-openers-in-tampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/upcoming-events\/usac%e2%80%99s-national-sprint-car-series-openers-in-tampa\/","title":{"rendered":"USAC\u2019s NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES OPENERS IN TAMPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 USAC National racing calendar opens February 8-10 with three back-to-back National Sprint races at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla. The \u201cBubba Army Sprint Nationals\u201d events are part of the track\u2019s 34<sup>th<\/sup> \u201cWinternationals,\u201d which also includes Feb. 11-13 Sprint races under the sanction of the All Star Circuit of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In an effort to generate maximum participation at what he considers his \u201chome track,\u201d an added bonus for pre-registered USAC car entrants at Tampa will be a free right rear Hoosier tire compliments of Bubba \u201cThe Love Sponge\u201d for any appearing car entrants whose entries were filed prior to the entry deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Defending USAC National Sprint Car Champion Levi Jones of Avon, Ind. is expected to lead a stellar contingent of USAC drivers and other top pilots from across the country into the races which kick off a 2010 series which includes 48 events in nine states.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Each night (Monday through Wednesday) contains a complete racing program capped by a 30-lap feature on the very competitive 1\/3-mile dirt oval located in Gibsonton, a Tampa suburb.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0The events mark USAC\u2019s first Florida appearance since the Silver Crown cars raced at Homestead in 2007. The races are the first for the USAC Sprint cars in the Sunshine State since Dave Steele won on the pavement at Orlando\u2019s Speed World in 2005 and the first on dirt since Rich Vogler\u2019s victory at the Florida State Fairgrounds in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u00a0Other former USAC Sprint winners in Florida include Larry Dickson (two in 1970), and Bob Sweikert, Chuck Weyant and Pat O\u2019Connor in USAC\u2019s initial year, 1956. Sweikert\u2019s win came in the first USAC Sprint race ever held, at Southland Speedway in West Palm Beach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2010 USAC National racing calendar opens February 8-10 with three back-to-back National Sprint races at East Bay Raceway Park in Gibsonton, Fla. The \u201cBubba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}