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Return
to Franklin County Marks Second Attempt for SCSCS to Commence with
2023 Season
Statesville,
North Carolina (May 31, 2023) – Two weeks after originally
anticipated, the Super Cup Stock Car Series teams and drivers are
itching to get up to speed. Saturday,
June 3rd will kick off the 2023 campaign at a facility that once
started the season, but a distant 12 years ago.
Franklin County
Speedway will host the SCSCS for the first time since 2011.
The track situated in the normally quiet town of Callaway,
Virginia, 25 miles south of Roanoke and 10 miles west of Rocky
Mount, will mark another return home for a couple competitors who
are some of the only ones who previously ran during the last series
visit. Not only that,
but both have also won outside of SCSCS competition there before.
2016 series
champion Harvey Harrison set the SCSCS track record and finished
third the opening night of 2011, but his first triumph at FCS came
at the age of 15 in a Street Stock.
The Renick, West Virginia driver then had to wait until 16
years later to visit victory lane in a Late Model in the early
1990s.
Harvey’s
son Brian Harrison will also be back in competition at the track in
which he took the checkered flag in a feature a few years ago.
His uncle (Harvey’s brother) Joe won multiple times at the
track a few decades back too. Brian
looks forward to the series return to the speedway dubbed as the
“World’s Fastest 3/8-mile Oval” featuring 22-degree banking in
the corners along with banked straightaways.
“We are good to
go for Franklin County Speedway,” Brian Harrison remarked.
“I grew up with (Langley Austin) who’s running the show
now. He’s a heck of a
promoter. We have a lot
of memories there.”
The offseason has
not been necessarily easy after issues under the hood sidelined
Brian from Pulaski County Motorsports Park in August 2022 and Harvey
from Dominion Raceway last October.
“Mainly engines
and mechanical stuff, tuning up,” Brian Harrison indicated.
“We were working on that up until the middle of (the
originally scheduled Pulaski County season opener) week.”
2023’s outlook
for Harrison’s Motorsports is similar to past seasons, but Brian
Harrison hopes a solid yet relatively uneventful performance this
weekend can carry momentum into the following event.
“We’ll take it
one at a time, but I want to go to Jennerstown so bad I can’t
stand it,” Harrison, still searching for his first points paying
SCSCS victory, commented. “I’ve
been so close (to winning) there.”
Saturday’s event,
named in memory of longtime local racer Calvin Brooks, will be the
first time various other competitors will be seeing the speedway.
Petersburg, West Virginia’s Brent Nelson was only in his
second season in the SCSCS back in 2011 and 
skipped
the FCS race that year. He
plans to be back in the driver seat after recovering from a couple
broken ribs recently.
2021 series
champion Ben Ebeling from Hickory, North Carolina along with
Pennsylvania teammates Bill
Ashton and Mike
Senica have never ventured to Franklin County before and are hopeful
for some first-time luck.
The most recent
SCSCS race at FCS resulted in a new winner to the series, his debut
in the SCSCS as a matter of fact.
Additional drivers will be expected on hand, joining Senica
and Brian Harrison in that category of hopefuls.
Grandstand gates
will open at 4:30 p.m. with a practice starting at 5:00 p.m.
Qualifying is slated for shortly after 6:30 p.m. with a full
docket of racing getting underway at 7:00 p.m.
More information
can be found on the Super Cup Stock Car Series official web site supercupstockcarseries.com
with interactive updates throughout race day available on Facebook
(search Super Cup Stock Car Series), Twitter (@SCSCSRacing), and
Instagram (SCSCS_Racing).
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