Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) is loaded up and ready to roll south to Kyle, Texas, for Saturday s (April 7) Allstate Texas Lightning 100 at Thunder Hill Raceway. While the Nos. 20 and 21 TSR/Chevrolet/Beast teams are prepared to do battle on the track, they re hoping they won t have to fight the one competitor they re already in the hole against this season. Mother Nature already has one “W” in the win column this year, and TSR and the rest of the USAC National Midget Car Series competitors are hoping that she won t provide an encore performance at Thunder Hill Raceway on Saturday, much like she did at last year s two-day event finale.
Levi Jones, driver or the No. 20 Chevrolet for Tony Stewart Racing, enters this weekend s event ranked sixth in the USAC National Midget Car Series point standings. Saturday s Allstate Texas Lightning 100 will mark his second appearance at the facility for TSR. In last year s preliminary feature, Jones was credited with a 17th-place finish after mechanical failure ended his day prematurely.
The 2005 USAC National Sprint Car Series champion had a solid run in this year s USAC National Midget Car Series opener at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix on Feb. 9, earning a ninth-place finish. The 2007 season also marks the beginning of Jones second full year of USAC National Midget Car Series competition. He earned a sixth-place championship finish in 2006.
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