The USAR Hooters Pro Cup series started transitioning to composite bodies this season.  The cost of these bodies has hurt many low budget race teams.  So earlier this season Mike Kurkowski (USAR team owner) teamed up with Joe Schmalling (business man and former USAR official) with the vision of creating a new series for these soon to be outdated steel bodied race cars.  Their vision is to create a series that keeps costs to a minimum by running 100 lap feature races without pit stops.  So with the help of Sherry Clifton at Hickory Motor Speedway, the first exhibition race was scheduled as part of the Fall Brawl event.  This would be a 50 lap race to show track promoters and potential sponsors good "old school" racing.  Anyone with a steel bodied stock car was invited.  Thirteen cars showed up to the first race.  Most of them were USAR Hooters Pro Cup cars and a couple ARCA cars were also on hand for the event.

Jeremy soon found that he liked the track.  With only two 15 minute practice sessions, Jeremy would run all the laps he could.  In between practice sessions the team made some changes to the car.  Jeremy ran the entire second session and used up his tires.  He found that he liked running the high groove.

Jeremy finally beat his history of bad draws by drawing number one for his starting position.  He started on the pole and had a battle on his hands to get in position to get to the upper groove of the race track.  However, luck wasn't on his side.  Just a few laps into the race the left rear tire went down.  Jeremy came into the pits and Jon was able to get the tire changed with a some help.  The tire had a large cut in the tread where he had hit something on the track. 

On such a short track this put Jeremy quite a few laps down.  He had traveled many miles and wanted to get back out and finish the race.  As he was ready to rejoin the field a caution came out and he was able to restart at the rear of the field.  Jeremy ran the last 30+ laps of the race.  He passed all the cars he could and finished out the race strong.  He was disappointed to finish in the 9th position when he knew he had one of the top cars there.  But Jeremy and his family knew they were there for a fun day and had really enjoyed being part of this event.