Motor Mile Speedway
Mooresville, NC 5/20/13- It took two green-white-checker attempts to get the finish of Friday night’s MAHLE 250 at the Kingsport (TN) Speedway in the history books, but it was well worth it for the fans that braved the two and half hour rain delay. Clay Rogers took his #16 Lamb & Robinson Ford Fusion to the outside of Mark McFarland on the final lap of the race to score his third win of the season in the first three events of the 2013 X-1R Pro Cup Series season schedule.
“I was running Mark (McFarland) down there at the end but I figured I’d run out of time, and luckily we got that caution to setup the green-white-checker finish. I was doing all I could on the outside and I guess the #56 got into him and loosened him up and that gave me enough room to get back to the line first for the win,” explained Rogers in victory lane. “People think we’ve been winning these races just by showing up, but every time they get tougher and tougher and this team always brings the best piece we can to the track and rises to the challenge. It feels good to be standing here right now, and to be able to take home this awesome MAHLE piston trophy. It’s definitely one of the coolest ones I’ve ever won.”
Rogers once again qualified deep in the thirteen car field taking the green flag from the seventh position while it was McFarland who set fast time in qualifying winning the MAHLE Pole Award by .006 over Coleman Pressley, who was making his X-1R Pro Cup Series debut. Just as qualifying concluded weather rolled into the Kingsport area delaying the start of the event by some two and half hours. After a spectacular job done by both Kingsport Speedway officials and local division drivers drying the track; the “concrete jungle” was finally ready to welcome the 600 horse power machines.
Speed is There, Now Wilson Hoping to Put Total Package Together in Mahle 250
Mooresville, NC 5/13/13 – After getting washed out at Anderson Motor Speedway two weeks prior, the drivers and teams of the X-1R Pro Cup Series will turn their attention to the track deemed the “concrete jungle”, Kingsport Speedway in Kingsport, Tennessee. The Friday night event will be the series first of two visits to the 3/8th mile concrete track throughout the 2013 season. Unlike the first two events of the season, where series regulars battled amongst themselves to decide a race winner, this weekend’s MAHLE 250 will see at least a pair of area regulars make their bid to take home the $10,000 winner’s check. Blake Jones, driving for last year’s winner Wade Day, and Coleman Pressley, son of track owner Robert Pressley, have both filed entries with plans to give series regulars a “run for their money” once the green flag waives. 
