The United Racing Club 360 winged sprint car series is set to open it's 2023 season on Saturday, April 22nd at the Selinsgrove Speedway. The season lid-lifter will be a 358/360 challenge race which will combine the URC sprint cars and the HJ Towing 358 sprint cars from Williams Grove Speedway in a $2,000 to win main event. The PA Sprint Series 305 sprint cars will also be on the card at Selinsgrove for an open wheel doubleheader. A second challenge race will follow six days later on Friday, April 28th at the Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, PA.
Selinsgrove Speedway has been one of the heaviest scheduled venues for URC the past decade and new promoter Stephanie Baker has scheduled the series a total of four times this season. Other dates are Saturday, June 3rd; Sunday, July 23rd for the Joe Whitcomb Memorial along with the 410 sprint cars; and Sunday, September 17th for the 358/360 National Open. The 358 sprint cars will have a stand-alone event on Sunday, June 18th at Selinsgrove Speedway along with the Appalachian Mountain Late Model Speedweek event.
Following Williams Grove, the series will have a weekend off followed by consecutive Friday events at Bedford Speedway on May 12th and Big Diamond Speedway on May 19th. Following the second trip to Selinsgrove on June 3rd, the series will be at the Port Royal Speedway on Monday, July 3rd as part of Pennsylvania Speedweek. The Monday event has a rain-date of Tuesday, July 4th if necessary.
The United Racing Club 360 stars will then travel north to the Orange County Fair Speedway on Saturday, July 15th. The previous night, Friday, July 14th, the 360 winged sprint cars have been invited to be part of the 410 sprint car show at Clinton County Speedway. The event is a non-points race for URC.
The month of July will close out with a double header on Friday, July 21st and Sunday, July 23rd. Clinton County Speedway will host URC on the 21st in a full points show then the third event at Selinsgrove Speedway will conclude the weekend on Sunday, July 23rd. The 410 sprint cars are also on the program at Selinsgrove.
On Saturday, August 26th, the series returns to one of its home tracks, Grandview Speedway, before heading south to Georgetown Speedway in Delaware for its annual event on Friday, September 8th.
The annual National Open for 358/360 sprint cars has a new date this season. The biggest race of the season will take place at Selinsgrove Speedway on the backend of a big weekend of racing at Selinsgrove. On Saturday, September 16th it's the Jim Nace Memorial for the 410 sprint cars and on Sunday, September 17th, the 358/360 National Open will take place.
The season will again finish up at the Bridgeport Speedway on October 27th through the 29th with SprintOberfest.
All teams planning on racing with URC are reminded to download, print, and complete a W9 tax form and a URC Membership form. These forms, as well as the 2023 rulebook, can be found on the URC website under RULES/FORMS.
http://www.urcsprintcarseries.com/rules/
There is a one-time $150 registration fee for the 2023 season payable prior to your first event.
Also, please note the new Facebook home of URC at: https://www.facebook.com/urcsprintcars
The series officials and the entire organization would like to thank all teams for participating with the oldest traveling sprint car series in the nation.
United Racing Club
President: Dave McGough
Vice President: Rick Weller
Secretary/Treasurer: Denise McGough
Members: Keith Harro, Ryan Stillwaggon, Bob Lillick, Lenny Thompson, Joe Kata, Sr.
- Keith Harro on Mar 20, 2023
- Article Date: 3/20/2023