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The 2008 USPRO Cup Series Season is shaping up very nicely as the Season Opener in Toledo, Ohio is less than Two months away!

Lexington, Michigan (02/20/2008): The ASA Late Model Series Presented by GM Performance Parts 2008 racing season within its’ three divisions is shaping up to be the best season yet in the series six-year history! The Lexington, Michigan based series is also very proud to welcome back the exciting return of the USPRO Cup Series.

The USPRO Cup Series will be a support division to the ASALMS Challenge and Northern Divisions in races conducted in the series home state of Michigan as well as Ohio and parts of Indiana and Illinois in 2008. A very user friendly, Six (6)-race schedule is now complete!

The 2008 season opener for the USPRO Cup Series will be on Friday and Saturday April 11-12, 2008 as the fast 0.500 Mile High-Banked Paved Oval of the Toledo (OH) Speedway, located right on the Michigan / Ohio state line in Toledo, Ohio will host the triumphant return of the USPRO Cup Series with the running of the Welcome Back / Glass Breaker 75.

The USPRO Cup Series teams will join the ASALMS Northern Division, who will serve as head-liners for the weekend with their 2008 Season Opener, the Glass Breaker 125. Also on hand will be the Fortville, Indiana based O’Reilly Auto Parts USA Modifieds Series to complete an action packed Three in One show!

The Welcome Back / Glass Breaker 75 Entry Form will be available beginning on Wednesday March 19, 2008. Once the Toledo USPRO Cup Series Entry Form becomes available, it will be due at the ASALMS Home Offices in Lexington, Michigan by Monday April 7, 2008 to avoid late fees.

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To register for the upcoming 2008 season within the USPRO Cup Series, you’ll need to download the 2008 ASALMS License Application and Registration Forms, which are all available with sections for the USPRO Cup Series.

These forms will continue to be available throughout the 2008 season and you can download those forms by clicking on the link provided: http://www.asalatemo...pplication2.pdf

To view the Registered Teams for the upcoming 2008 season, and see what numbers are still available within the USPRO Cup Series, (Those numbers already reserved are located at the bottom of the list), click on the link provided:
http://www.asalatemo...sp?StoryID=7429

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The 2008 USPRO Cup Series Rulebook is available! To download the 2008 USPRO Cup Series Rulebook, click on the link provided: http://www.asalatemo..._2008_RULES.pdf

The USPRO Cup Series Drivers will be running on Hoosier Racing Tires in 2008 and will be utilizing the Hoosier 1080 rubber.

The USPRO Cup Series will also reinstate the Two (2) Tire rule for the 2008 season. Payouts and Purses for the USPRO Cup teams will be posted on the ASALMS Challenge and Northern Division websites as soon as they become available.

For the 2008 racing season, Richmond, Michigan based R.V. Performance, which is owned and operated by Co-Founders / Presidents, Bob and Gretchen Varney, will once again serve as the Official Hoosier Racing Tires Distributor for all three ASALMS divisions as well as the USPRO Cup Series for the 2008 season.

As a special bonus to all 2008 ASALMS / USPRO Cup Registered Teams and in an effort to jump start every teams' 2008 racing season; Throughout the month of February, R.V. Performance is offering $5.00 off of any and all ASALMS Tires!

Whether it’s the ASALMS Challenge Division Radial Tires ASALMS6040 and ASALMS6060) or the ASALMS Northern and Southern Division Bias-Ply Tires (ASALMS35 and ASALMS45) or the USPRO Cup Series compound (Hoosier 1080s), all tires throughout the month of February will be discounted by $5.00.

R.V. Performance is taking Hoosier Tire orders for the upcoming 2008 campaign. To place an order, please call R.V. Performance, during normal business hours at: 1 (586) 615-8763 or you can also fax in your order at: 1 (586) 727-5237.

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All 2008 USPRO Cup Series Drivers, Owners, Sponsors, and Teams; Please view your Driver Profile on the ASALMS Driver Profiles Page: http://www.asalatemo....com/driver.asp

If you are a registered driver for the upcoming 2008 season in the USPRO Cup Series and need your profile updated as well as be included in the “Meet the USPRO Teams” Feature, please send those updates to the ASA Late Model Series, the sanctioning body of the USPRO Cup Series.

You can send your updates by using the form provided. Just copy and paste into your writing program: http://www.asalatemo...sp?StoryID=7517

Then send those completed forms to the e-mail address provided:
mprieur@asalatemodels.com

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For the 2008 season, the USPRO Cup Series will be required to adorn there machines with the Official 2008 USPRO Cup Series Decal Package, which are available at the ASALMS Home Offices in Lexington, Michigan.

Just call the offices during normal business hours and all ASALMS/USPRO Registered Teams for the 2008 season will get there divisions’ respective decal package(s). Once the racing season starts, all decals and decal packages will be available in the ASALMS Tech Trailer.

The Decal Diagram Must be followed to the letter when it comes to placement of those stickers. The ASALMS reserves portions of every ASALMS and USPRO car and there’s plenty of room for all of the decals to be placed in the correct order.

The USPRO Cup Series Decal Placement Chart is available at the following link:
http://www.asalatemo...der_Layout1.pdf

Also, all USPRO Cup Series teams will only need to have One (1) Patch on their uniform for the 2008 racing season and that is the “ASA Late Model Series” patch itself. The other Five patches are optional for the USPRO Cup Series teams only.

If however a USPRO Cup Series team does run in one of the three ASALMS divisions during the season, they will need all Six Patches that are mandated on every uniform by the ASALMS for ASALMS competition.

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It is also mandated the drivers name be centered in the window valance area, of the top of the front windshield. Name must be in block style, all capital letters. This identifies the drivers with the fans in the grandstands in addition to the traditional name on the roof.

The ASALMS and USPRO also mandates a five-inch (5”) tall car number, white in color; lettering style optional, be located in upper right corner of passenger side window valance; the right-front air damn area and the right-rear bumper cover.

No numbers are permitted in the area of the headlights or tail lights. Car numbers must be centered on the left and right side door panels, a minimum six inches (6”) rearward of edge of vent window.

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The USPRO Cup Series now has several web pages dedicated to just the 2008 season within the USPRO Cup Series. They are all located within the ASALMS Northern Division website and have been reserved exclusively for the USPRO Cup Series. You can get to those pages by clicking on the following links:

For Press Releases pertaining to the USPRO Cup Series, go to:
http://www.asalatemo...ndex.php?cat=13

For the 2008 USPRO Cup Series Schedule and Race Event Information, go to:
http://www.asalatemo...hp?page_id=1058

Finally for the 2008 USPRO Cup Series Points Standings, click on this link:
http://www.asalatemo...hp?page_id=1059

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This is the Final 2008 Schedule for the USPRO Cup Series for the 2008 racing season;

2008 USPRO Cup Series Schedule
1. FRI/SAT April 11-12 Toledo Speedway-Toledo, OH
2. SAT April 26 O’Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis-Clermont, IN
3. SUN May 25 Grundy County Speedway-Morris, IL
4. SAT June 14 Berlin Raceway-Marne, MI
5. SAT June 28 Mansfield Motorsports Park-Mansfield, OH
7. SAT August 16 Dixie Motor Speedway-Birch Run, MI

Just like in all three divisions of the ASALMS, there will be a 2008 USPRO Cup Series Champion and Rookie of the Year at the conclusion of the season and they will be honored at the 2008 ASALMS Awards Banquet and Weekend of Champions along with the top drivers in the final points standings.

In addition and for future seasons, drivers who make the transition from the USPRO Cup Series to either the ASALMS Northern or Southern Divisions, will be eligible for the respective Rookie of the Year titles providing they fall under the guidelines set forth for Rookie Eligibility under the ASALMS.

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There were Three (3) Sneak Preview races conducted during the 2007 season. In those three events and in unofficial points standings that were tabulated, Richmond, Michigan veteran, Bob Varney accumulated the most points earned based on the current ASALMS points system.

The 38-year-old, one of the original members of that USPRO Cup Series Class of 2003, showed the potential of the returning series and the excitement that the series will surely bring in 2008. Varney led all 50 laps of the Winchester / Sneak Peek 50 on Saturday October 13, 2007 at the famed high-banks of the Winchester (IN) Speedway in Winchester, Indiana.

Here is a look back at the three USPRO Cup Series races conducted in 2007 including the rained out show at one of the founding tracks from that 2003 season, the Owosso (MI) Speedway. Plus the two Sneak Preview races at the Winchester Speedway.

Race #1; Owosso / Sneak Peek 35-Saturday August 18, 2007; Owosso (MI) Speedway-Ovid, Michigan.

Mother Nature paid a visit to the historic 0.375 Mile High-Banked Paved Oval in Ovid, Michigan and would unfortunately take all of the racing action including the return of the USPRO Cup Series and its’ returning event!

Before the rains came, in USPRO Cup Series Qualifying, one of the original USPRO Cup Series members from the inaugural 2003 season, Saginaw, Michigan Driver, Shaun Whitney in his Teamtech Motorsports / Chevrolet Monte Carlo turned in the fastest lap of the day as he toured the Mid-Michigan speed plant at a 15.473 which equals out to 93.065 MPH.

13 teams signed in for the return of the series as 2007 Bollhoff Rivnut Super Pro Series Champion, Tommy Cook was second quick and was followed by Dave Gentile Jr., Dennis Rederstorf, and Josh Nelms, the Top Five.

Race #2; Winchester / Sneak Peek 35-Monday September 3, 2007; Winchester (IN) Speedway-Winchester, Indiana.

In the first official race for the USPRO Cup Series in their Sneak Preview 2007 season, Fort Wayne, Indiana veteran, Al Cook Jr., took the win in the USPRO Cup Series Winchester/Sneak Peek 35 Part One held over the Labor Day Holiday Weekend over a slim Seven-Car field.

After Fast Qualifier, Jason Dietsch scrapped the wall trying to pass Cook Jr., for the lead and fell out of the race, Cook Jr., would check out on the rest of the field and easily steer his Bollhoff Rivnut Incorporated / Pontiac Grand Prix into victory lane after winning the USPRO Cup Series Winchester/Sneak Peek 35 Part One.

Tommy Cook fought off a hard-charging Bob Varney to finish second while Varney settled for third. Bob Sibila Jr., came home fourth as 17-year-old Royce Mason II completed the Top Five. Jason Dietsch established the USPRO Cup Series Track Record with a 16.421, which measures out to a fast 109.616 MPH.

Race #3; Winchester / Sneak Peek 50-Saturday October 13, 2007; Winchester (IN) Speedway-Winchester, Indiana.

In the final Sneak Peek race of the 2007 season for the USPRO Cup Series, and in a caution free 50-lap affair at the historic high-banks in Eastern Indiana; Richmond, Michigan veteran, Bob Varney overtook Pole-Sitter and Fast Qualifier, Michael Gaier on the opening lap and pulled away from the rest of the pack to score the Feature win in his R.V. Performance / Chevrolet Monte Carlo.

Varney led all 50 laps for the convincing win as Wes Griffith Jr., finished a season high second after a miserable 2007 season in ASALMS North competition while Labor Day USPRO Feature Winner, Al Cook Jr., recorded the final podium finish in third. Kevin Todd finished a solid fourth over 17-year-old Royce Mason II who rounded out the Top Five. 11 cars participated in the final 2007 Sneak Preview race for the USPRO Cup Series.

Gaier won the USPRO Cup Series Fast Qualifier Award with a lap time of a 16.170 which measures out to 111.317 MPH. The Coldwater, Michigan driver shattered the previous USPRO Cup Series track record by nearly .3 tenths of a second, which was held by Jason Dietsch back on Labor Day Weekend.

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For more information about the 2008 racing seasons within all four divisions of the ASALMS including the USPRO Cup Series, you can call the ASALMS home offices during normal business hours Monday through Friday 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. (EST) at: 1 (800) 385-2503.

You can also log onto any of the three websites. For the Challenge Division, go to: http://www.asalatemodels.com For the Northern Division and USPRO Cup Series, log in at: http://www.asalatemodelsnorth.com and finally for the Southern Division click on: http://www.asalatemodelssouth.com