Morgan Turpen picked up the victory in the USCS Sprint Car feature Sunday night at Toccoa Speedway. Photo courtesy USCS
The only female racer in the field for Sunday night’s USCS Sprint Car feature at Toccoa Speedway in Toccoa, GA, 19 year-old Morgan Turpen, charged her way from the pole position into victory lane in the 25-lap event.
Turpen exited her winged sprint car and leapt to the top of the wing with checkered flag in hand to the roar of the capacity crowd voicing their approval of the young college student’s victory over a talented field of men.
Turpen, who led every lap, held off USCS national point’s leader and twelve-time 2012 USCS feature winner Tim Crawley for the win. Crawley lined up on her back bumper after re-starts on laps 15, 18 and 19, but couldn’t make a move to get past the third year USCS racer. It was Turpen’s first win of the 2012 season. It was the third career USCS feature win for Turpen.
Crawley finished in the runner-up spot just about four car lengths behind the hard charging teenager. Jerod Roller followed in the K&N Filters Podium Position third place. Michael Miller finished in fourth place. Anthony Nicholson rounded out the top five drivers.
Derek Hagar chased the top five across the finish line in sixth place after starting outside the eighth row. The defending and ten-time series Champion, Terry Gray, raced back to seventh place at the end of the main event. Todd Fayard finished eighth. The evening’s Engler Machine and Tool First Heat winner, Clint Weiss, followed in ninth place and Rookie of the Year contender Jeff Willingham completed the top ten drivers.
Crawley kicked off the evening’s USCS action with a win in the 6-lap Goodyear Speed Dash. Clint Weiss charged to a win in the Engler Machine and Tool First Heat Race. Crawley also got the victory in the Butlerbuilt Second Heat Race. Hagar passed the most cars (10) in the main event to earn the Wilwood Engineering Hard Charger Award. Jeff Willingham garnered the Goodyear Rookie of Race honors. Turpen claimed the JE Pistons Top guns Award for her first place finish in the main event.
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USCS Sprint Car Series
Toccoa Speedway – Toccoa, GA
Race Results – Sept. 2, 2012
1. 80 Morgan Turpen
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3. 5 Jerod Roller
4. 4m Michael Miller
5. 16 Anthony Nicholson
6. 23 Derek Hagar
7. 10 Terry Gray
8. 13 Todd Fayard
9. 0x Clint Weiss
10. 28 Jeff Willingham
11. 96d Nick DeFeo
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13. 43 Terry Witherspoon
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15. 07 Johnny Bridges
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