Hot shoe number

two is current USCS national points leader Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tenn.

Gray is the two-time defending USCS national champion and has nine national

championships to his credit with three different series. He has over 300

feature wins.

Gray finished

in the runner-up spot in the Sprint Car Hall of Fame poll in 2001 and

had 14 wins on the season. Gray won six USCS paved track events in 2002

and he had 10 wins in series competition last season and 16 overall wins,

ranking him among the top in the nation in 2002. He has five USCS wins

so far this season and 10 wins overall.

Also entered

is "Georgia Gang" leader Jim Raptis of Marietta. Raptis trails

Gray by just 98 points in the National title chase. He is a fifth-year

sprint car driver after a long stint in stock cars in the Southern All

Star, All-Pro, Busch and Winston Cup circuits. Several of Raptis' wins

came at Senoia Speedway.

The likeable

but, race ready

"I'm coming

to Senoia ready for another visit to victory lane, this time in a sprint

car," said Raptis. "This has been our best year in USCS and

we are looking to make it better at Senoia as it's one of my favorite

tracks."

Other entries

include: Aubrey Black from Lookout Mountain, Ga., who is fourth in the

national point standings; 2002 USCS top rookie driving sensation Randy

Weaver from Powder Springs, who is fifth in the National standings; and

the traveling series' 1999 USCS top rookie, 20-year-old Chris Rogers from

Winston, Ga., who has been tough lately with several top three finishes

in the last five events will also be ready for action.

Other Georgia

entries include Ted Williams from Atlanta, who ranks fourth in the USCS

"Asphalt Thunder" points, and USCS sprint car veteran Jim Mackenzie

from Buford.

For Alabama

favorites, Skip Andrews from Huntsville, who will be making debut weekend

on asphalt, is entered. Doug Fitzwater from Birmingham is another expected

entry.

Several rookies

vying for USCS 2003 top rookie honors are entered including Chase Taylor

from Montgomery, Tex., and two South Carolina rookie standouts: Jimmy

Taylor from Greenville and Will Ragsdale from Easley. David Thorman from

Berea, S.C., and Brad Davis from Mooresville, N.C., are entered as are

several others.

The sprint

cars will join a program that includes several Senoia Speedway stock car

divisions for a full night of family entertainment. Senoia Speedway gates

open Friday at 5 p.m. and racing action starts at 8 p.m.

The track phone

number is 770-599-6161.

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