Terry Gray scored two wins on the season, and came home with the USCS Sprint Car National Championship for 2014. Photo by Chris Seelman
ATLANTA, GA –Terry Gray from Bartlett, TN captured his 11th United Sprint Car Series presented by K&N Filters National Championship during the 2014 racing season.
The veteran sprint car driver made just two visits to victory lane as the series feature winner, but he used a record of perfect attendance and steady top five finishes including nine second place and seven third place tallies in his total of 26 top five finishes during thirty-five events to accumulate the most Championship points.
Gray will collect top honors in all three dirt divisions of the USCS points system including two USCS regional dirt series (Mid South and Southern) as well. He finished in second place in the USCS “Road to Atlanta” Hoosier Race Tire Asphalt Series.
Gray finished the National title chase with 4571 National Championship points followed by teammate and USCS “Road to Atlanta” Hoosier Race Tire Asphalt Series Champion Morgan Turpen from Cordova, TN, who had 4434 points. Turpen also had quite a year with two USCS feature wins that included one on pavement at Southern National Motorsport Park in the USCS Road to Atlanta Series on April 26. Her second win of the season came on dirt during the USCS vs. URC North vs. South Shootout at Cherokee Speedway on October 4. Her runner-up finish in the standings came after she accumulated points from the two victories plus an impressive total of 20 top five finishes and 28 finishes in the top ten in 35 starts.
Jeff Willingham from Ripley, MS improved moved up four positions in the final standings over his finish last season. Willingham, who finished seventh in the 2013 standings, finished the 2014 season ranked third on the National standings with 3415 points. He will also collect fourth place honors in the USCS Mid South Thunder regional series and sixth place honors in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series during the January 24 USCS banquet in Atlanta.
Anthony Nicholson, also from Bartlett, TN, finished in fourth place in the 2014 USCS National sprint car standings with 3260 points, but, the story doesn’t end there. Nicholson had a total of six stops in Victory Lane during the season. 2014 was a career-best USCS season in feature wins for Nicholson who’s previous season best was two victories. His season finale win at Poplar Bluff Speedway on October 18 was his 10th career USCS win.
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Crawley was followed in the standings by Terry Witherspoon from Jacksonville, FL who accumulated enough points in the National standings to finish sixth with 2045 points in the USCS National standings. Witherspoon, who mostly competed in the Southern Thunder region, also joined the field for several Mid South regional series weekends and finished in the fifth position in the USCS Southern Thunder Tour title chase.
Eric Riggins, Jr. from Charlotte, NC finished in seventh place in the final USCS National sprint car standings with 1891 points. Riggins won on August 30th at Harris Speedway and then visited victory lane twice on back-to-back nights in September when he swept of the 5th annual Senoia Summer Nationals at Senoia Raceway in Senoia, GA.
The 2014 USCS Rookie of the Year, Brandon McLain from Indian Trail, NC, who competed in the USCS Southern Thunder region and in all five USCS Road to Atlanta Hoosier Tire Asphalt Series events, accumulated 1843 National points to finish eighth in those standings. McLain fared much better in the USCS Southern Thunder presented by K&N Filters regional series with a third place finish in the standings behind Gray and Turpen. He also had a third place finish in the USCS pavement series final point standings.
Two Nesbit, MS drivers, Greg Merritt with 1810 points and Ronny Howard with 1539 points rounded out the top ten drivers in the National point standings. Merritt competed primarily in the Mid South regional series as did Howard.
The 2015 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour kicks off at Magnolia Motor Speedway in Columbus, MS on Friday, February 27 and Saturday, February 28. For more information, visit USCSRacing.com.
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