Fort Payne, AL (5/29/18) --- Once again the Fort Payne Motor Speedway is hosting some of the best dirt racers in the country as the United Championship Racing Alliance returns this Saturday night June 2nd for the “Fort Payne 40” $2,000 to-win event.

Races kick off at 7PM CST of the $16,000 Championship season with a unique opportunity for many top ranked 604/Crate raceteams returning since only a handful of weeks since to tour was previously at the 1/3 mile clay banked oval. Marvin Ford’s grown a stout onset of competitors that include previous winner of May’s “Blood, Sweat & Cheers” race 14yo. Sam Seawright, The Northeast Alabama territory racers will be hard to beat, including three time UCRA race winner Kasey Hall from nearby Geraldine, Alabama who’s been dominant in Super Late Model competition this season. Anthony White of Clinton, Tennessee holds the record of second most UCRA wins with four total and seems poised to chase the $5,000 Championship thay Rusty Ballenger has horded for the past two years.

Cleveland’s “Purple Punk” Jimmy Elliott is expected to bring his “Mohawk Nation” tribe that should also bare witness to the Courtney Clan (Michael and 17yo. nephew Kyle “Kidd-Quik”) who leads the alliance points after two races. This years Rookie of the Year $1,000 chase is on between “The BlueRidge Bandit” Devin Stuart from Georgia and Knoxville's Michael Courtney respectively. For more information visit UCRAracing.com or FortPayneMotorSpeedway.com. FPMS raceday phone number is (706)346-3385 and the track is located at 4365 County Road 72, Fort Payne, AL. Tickets are $15 General Admission and $35 Pits. Gates Open Saturday June 2nd at 4PM CST. UCRA is a sanctioning body for Crate Late Model dirt racing and all rights and rules thereof are available to be adhered to on behalf of the United Championship Racing Alliance ©2018.

Fort Payne, Alabama (5/12/18) The United Championship Racing Alliance - UCRA hosted "Blood, Sweat & Cheers" again at Fort Payne Motor Speedway, Saturday night hosting a $2,000 to-WIN 40 lap feature event for 604/Crate Late Models. Local teenaged racing sensation Slammin' Sam Seawright held off North Georgia Bull Dawg Chip Brindle (of Chatsworth) for his second career UCRA win at his home track. Seawright topped 13 other racers Saturday night from his  Pole Position cruising to lead all 40 circuits of the 3/8 mile clay banked dirt track. The 14-year-old outran Brindle and Tennesseeian Kyle Courtney of Knoxville with his white #16 "J&R Lumber, Agcor Steel, Farm Systems, Finish Line Graphics and COR Suspension" sponsored Oliver Racing Engines powered Kryptonie by COR racecar.

Seawright won a $5,000-to-win race (the richest in UCRA history) on Oct. 8, 2016 at Fort Payne Motor Speedway¦ Seven of the starters finished the race, with five completing all 40 laps. Devin Stuart and Kenny Kizzar were each one lap down at the races conclusion Robert Gant and Kenny Hall failed to start the feature. Jeff Helms and Scott Hall each made only one lap before retiring. Series points leader exiting FPMS is now K. Courtney who lead some of the 2017 Rookie of the Year standings last season. The series third event of the season will now be at Tazewell (TN) Speedway, Memorial Day weekend Sunday night May 27th and touts a $3,000 payday for the 50 lap holiday event. For more information visit the www.UCRAracing.com web-site.

1. Sam Seawright 2. Chip Brindle 3. Kyle Courtney 4. Kasey Hall 5. Michael Courtney 6. Devin Stuart 7. Kenny Kizzar 8. Anthony White 9. Jimmy Elliott 10. Mark Sutton 11. Jeff Helms 12. Scott Hall DNS: Robert Gant & Kenny Hall

Races for Saturday May 5th at Wartburg (TN) Speedway are rained out.
The event is rescheduled for Saturday June 16th

Sweetwater, TN (4/12/2018) --- Cory Hedgecock of Loudon, Tennessee won the battle of Round # 1 at Sweetwater’s I-75 Raceway Saturday night Easter weekend, but all eyes were on again the stout field of rookies vying for the $1,000 United Championship Racing Alliance  Rookie of the Year title, to be donned at the end of the 2018 season. (Foto by Nitro photo)

Kentuckian Zane Powell (Junction City) travelled the distance bringing his “Superman” blue # 28P Insane Zane Motorsports “Tarter Farm & Ranch Equipment, Buford Powell Farm Gates, Shorty’s Shocks Service” sponsored Rocket to an 8th place finish topping seven other prominent rookies in the field. Besides Tennessee and KY, Georgia was also represented Saturday within the fifteen (15) car field that opened up the season. Hedgecock commented from Jacky Jones Ford/Lincoln Dealership Victory Lane about the possibility of chasing the $5,000 UCRA Championship in 2018.

Possibilities are very probable a new champion will emerge since two time / back to back UCRA defending champion Rusty Ballenger failed to show up for the opener March 31st. Jimmy Elliott of Cleveland, TN is also poised to strike towards his second championship of 2018, after the recent Winter Shootout, Southern champ ran runner up to Hedgecock. Ruben Mayfield a local I-75 fan favorite is currently third, while the leader of the BOO Crew Josh Henry of Newport sits fourth.

Walking into his hometrack, the DIRTY WHITE BOY Anthony White will be the odds on favorite at the Morgan Co. Mayhem 40 event (at Wartburg Speedway) the first weekend in May for Round #2 of the UCRA season. Last season’s $1,000 rookie chasers “KiDD-QuiK” Kyle Courtney and Jason Manley have advanced into the sophomore seasons with the UCRA while Kyle’s uncle Michael Courtney joins the 2018 hunt. In 2017 eventual $1,000 Rookie of the Year Jesse Lowe rallied from missing two early season events, only to surpass all other rookies and came close to a UCRA points championship, showing that possibilities are not lost on racers that may have missed a race.

UCRA is a sanctioning body for Crate Late Model dirt racing and all rights and rules thereof are available to be adhered to on behalf of the United Championship Racing Alliance ©2018. Click Here to View Latest UCRA Rookie Points

Cory Hedgecock of Loudon, Tenn., drove to his second consecutive season-opening I-75 Raceway/ United Championship Racing Alliance UCRA victory Saturday night. Hedgecock earned $2,000 in outrunning Jimmy Elliott of Cleveland, Tenn., in action packed 40 lap on the track that was reconfigured this off season by owner/promoter Tim Kyle. (Ronnie Barnett photo)

Ruben Mayfield of Lenoir City, Tenn., placing third in a car backed by Kyle, for his best ever UCRA finish. The 25-year-old Hedgecock, won his third overall  victory of his young 2018 campaign, fresh off the birth of his newborn daughter Lily Ann and mom who were all in attendance. Hedgecock’s Rocket Chassis is powered by an Eagle Racing Engine and sponsored by “Cushman, K&P Used Cars, Transport One, Voo-Doo Technology, Sweet Trucking Co., and Rebel Diesel Performance. Jimmy Elliott showed his Cleveland, TN muscle as the recent Winter Shootout champion rallied to a stout runner up finish to Hedgecock. >>Read More

The United Championship Racing Alliance will again boast a $1,000 bonus as a Rookie of the Year to the $15,000 Championship Title campaign beginning with Round # 1 at the Kyle Family’s I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, Tennessee March 31st. Presentations for RotY, will be made at the Championship Luncheon, along with the top drivers that follow the series throughout the 2018 season.

Last year Jesse Lowe of Crossville, TN pocketed the $1,000, for the 2017 RotY honors, narrowly edging teenage sensation Kyle Courtney of Knoxville. A string of competitors are still eligible for the RotY Title including; Cameron Weaver (son of fan favorite East Tenn., racing legend Randy "The Dream" Weaver), Ahnna Parkhurst, Troy Davenport, Kenny Ford, Dustin Harris, Beau Bice, Justin French, and David Duplissey, all of which competed with the UCRA in 2017, yet still meet the RotY guidelines set-forth. Racers can NOT have won any Late Model Series Championship or finished in any Top 10 in points in a series. Also no racer is eligible, if they have won two (2) Late Model Series points races at anytime in their racing career. Series includes; current and defunct status within the United States.

For more information visit www.UCRAracing.com or like the UCRA on Facebook. The UCRA is a sanctioning body for crate motor Late Model type dirt racing and all rights and rules thereof are available to be adhered to on behalf of the United Championship Racing Alliance ©2018.

The United Championship Racing Alliance has released most of it’s 2018 race schedule on the UCRAracing.com web-site.

The UCRA is notably has changed the “C” in the title from Crate to Championship for the 2018 campaign, that will net a $5,000 winning season pay-out, to the Champion at the season’s conclusion.   The UCRA group competes within a 300 mile radius of dirt tracks around Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina. The Kyle Family race track in Sweetwater, Tennessee will again kick-off the 2018 season for Round # 1 opening up with the 2nd annual "Spring-Loaded Easter 40" at I-75 Raceway, Saturday March 31st. Round # 2 of the UCRA season will be three weeks later on Saturday April 21st at the Fort Payne Motor Speedway in Northeast Alabama with the 2nd annual “Blood, Sweat & Cheers” event. The Wartburg (TN) Speedway’s kick off May for the 5th (Cinco de Mayo), with their first sanctioned event in over a year. Memorial Day weekend wraps up the month with the "Badd-Fast Taz" 50 lap special paying $3,000 to-WIN at Gary Hall’s Tazewell Speedway Sunday, May 27th. June will see the 2nd annual “Fort Payne 40” event on opening weekend as Summer begins rolling in, while the series plans on debuting a new East Tennessee “Bull-Ring” sometime in early Summer in Tennessee.

The UCRA “FireCracker Nationals” kick off July with the second annual Independence holiday appearance at the Smoky Mountain Speedway in Maryville, July 7th. >>READ MORE

$15,000 Season Point Fund with $1,000 Rookie of the Year Bonus
UCRA ENTRY FEE $100 (40 Laps) or $120 (50 Laps) Per Event
(Payable to UCRA Racing)

Crate LM Points Fund Based On A Minimal 16 Race Season - To be eligible for any Points Fund Money, Race Bonuses or Event Accolades: must Complete in 80% of the Seasons Races and must be Present at End of the Season Awards Luncheon.

Crate Engine P\N 88958602 2200#
Crate Engine P\N 88598604 2300#
ProMaxx Ford 351 Crate 2350#

2018 to-Start – Money: $50 + Entry Fee, if Less Than 50% of Feature Race Laps Completed
2018 to-Finish – Money: Minimum of Double Paid Entry Fee if 50% or More of Feature Race Laps Completed
Purse Total has remained the same for 2018 with distribution paid back in certain positions stronger

2018 Sportsman Points Fund:  to be determined
Sportsman Points Fund Based On A Minimal 12 Race Season
Track Rules Optional

To be eligible for any Points Fund Money, Race Bonuses or Event Accolades:
Driver must Complete in 80% of the Seasons Races and must be Present at End of the Season Awards Luncheon.
2018 to-Start – Money: Entry Fee, if Less Than 50% of Feature Race Laps Completed
2018 to-Finish – Money: Minimum of Double Paid Entry Fee if 50% or More of Feature Race Laps Completed

OOLTEWAH TN (1/13/18) --- The United Championship Racing Alliance honored the 2017 Champion, Rookie of the Year and other Top 10 alumni, with a buffet luncheon. For the second consecutive season Seymour, Tennessee racer Rusty Ballenger and his “East Tennessee Electric, Diversified. Tennessee Metal Fabricators, Service Plus Garage Doors, Rick’s Handyman, Warrior Shock Service. Mighty Muffler” sponsored T&N powered Warrior raceteam with a $5,000 payday / plus accolades for topping the UCRA points. Jesse Lowe of Crossville, TN, Ballenger’s closest adversary and his 5JMotorsports.com "Xtreme Pressure Washing, Creative Kitchens, Hampton Backhoe, Gondolas Steakhouse, Martel Sign Company, McBurnett Insurance, Mighty Muffler, Twisted Metal, Wyatt Builders,Autozone of Crossville and Crossroads Lawn Care" sponsored CVR Racecar powered by Eagle Racing Engines raceteam will be honored with the runner up prize as well as the $1,000 Rookie of the Year award.

“Kidd-QuiK” Kyle Courtney of Knoxville will be awarded third place honors with Dalton, Georgia’s “BullDawg” Chip Brindle (who garnered the most wins of the season - three) and “Hot” Rod Carroll of Oxford, Alabama receiving Top Five points monies. Sixth-Tenth finishers Jason Manley, Kasey Hall, Jimmy Elliott and Robert Gant were all invited. Tim & Angie Kyle (I-75 Raceway),  Marvin & Janice Ford (Fort Payne Motor Speedway), David Duplissey (Boyd’s Speedway), attended the event to discuss implementation for 2018. Scheduling is still being finalized with the addition of two new tracks joining the Alliance.

Rusty Ballenger claimed the 2017 United Crate Racing Alliance (UCRA) championship. It marked the second-straight series title for the Seymour, Tennessee racer.

Meanwhile Crossville, Tennessee's Jesse Lowe was named the 2017 UCRA Rookie of the Year.