Virginia Native Grabs First Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Victory

By Adam Fenwick – adam@carsprocup.com, Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Public Relations Director

Pennsylvania Native Seeking First Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Triumph

By Adam Fenwick – adam@carsprocup.com - Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Public Relations Director

RADFORD, Va. – It has been a bit of an up and down season for Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Rookie of the Year contender Nathan Russell.

The year started off on a high note when the 21-year-old from Curwensville, Pa., scored a second-place finish at South Carolina’s Anderson Motor Speedway. Since then, things haven’t exactly gone as planned.

“We started out real well at the beginning of the season,” Russell said. “Then we kind of just fought with engine problems until it finally gave out and blew up in practice at Orange County (on Sept. 1).”

Russell managed to start the race at Orange County Speedway, but he had to park after two laps. On the plus side, his No. 26 Chevrolet now has a freshly rebuilt engine in it that he hopes will pay dividends when the series heads to Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, Va., for the Heritage Truck Centers 250 this Saturday.

“Now the motor is completely rebuilt and updated so we should be ready to go for the Championship Series,” Russell said.

J.P. Morgan, Tyler Young Lead List of Championship Contenders

By Adam Fenwick – adam@revoilprocup.com,  Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Public Relations Director

Mooresville, N.C. – There is no doubt that J.P. Morgan has been the man to beat this season in the Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series.

Pro Cup Rookie Ready For Championship Series

Bluffton, S.C. – Sept. 6, 2012 – One can only wonder if Gus Dean had run the full Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series schedule this year, where he would be sitting in the point standings after delivering many stout performances in 2012.

Dean, the 18-year-old rookie out of Bluffton, S.C., has run only eight of the 10 races this year and enters the Championship Series on the heels of five top-three and six top-10 finishes and finds himself fifth in points.

The team and driver are getting stronger each week. Leading more than 80 laps in the last event at Orange County, it seems that his first victory is getting closer. Beginning at Motor Mile Speedway on Sept. 22, the points will be reset. That marks the beginning of the Rev-Oil Pro Cup Championship Series, which is very much like NASCAR’s “Chase.”

This will put Dean back within 55 points of series leader J.P. Morgan and five points behind rookie leader Nathan Russell. Even though he will start at a deficit, Dean seems poised and ready.

Sixth Victory Nets J.P. Morgan Six More Contingency Awards

Rev-Oil Pro Cup Championship Leader Cruises To Victory At Orange County

By Adam Fenwick - adam@revoilprocup.com - Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series Public Relations Director

Rougemont, N.C. – Well, that drought didn’t last long.

One week after having a four-race winning streak snapped at Kingsport (Tenn.) Speedway, J.P. Morgan picked up his sixth Rev-Oil Pro Cup Series triumph of the season Saturday night at Orange County Speedway during the Revolution Oil 250 presented by Puryear Race Parts.

Morgan and the No. 23 J&R Racing team were non-factors in the first 125 laps of the event. Tyler Young and rookie Gus Dean swapped the lead multiple times during the first 125 laps, but Dean was scored as the leader at the halfway break after bypassing Young on lap 113.

At that point Morgan was running fourth and was struggling just to keep up with the lead cars.

“I think we might have had a valve stem or a valve core going bad (in the first half),” Morgan said post-race. “We were losing pressure back there and it made the car tight and I used up the tires trying to drive it.”