ATLANTA – Veteran sprint car racer and defending United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour presented by K&N Filters national champion Terry Gray has made his plans known for next year.

A 13-time USCS national champion from Bartlett, Tenn., Gray has announced plans to set his sights on another USCS title during the tour’s 25th season.

Gray has competed regularly with the United Sprint Car Series since the 2001 season and has only missed three events during his USCS career. He won the series’ inaugural event at Talladega Short Track on April 25, 1997.

Since that time, he has amassed 94 USCS victories and multiple USCS regional titles in addition to his 13 national championships.

“I have had tremendous success as a competitor with USCS and I look forward to coming back for the schedule that USCS promoter Pete Walton has put together for the upcoming season,” Gray noted. “I have new J&J Auto Racing cars going together for myself and teammate Morgan Turpen. Our Wesmar power plants are almost done. We couldn’t do all this without our great sponsors, including Chatham Speedway and Fat Larry’s Barbeque.

“I am also looking forward to the two-day 25th Anniversary USCS Celebration event at Talladega on their NASCAR weekend in April. That’s going to be really cool,” Gray added. “I won the very first USCS race ever held there and would like to do that again.”

Although he went winless this past season for only the second time in the two decades he has competed with the USCS, Gray was able to take the point lead mid-year after early season point leader Mark Smith missed several races due to a mid-season hiatus.

Gray then continued to string together consistent finishes while holding off National Rookie of the Year Conner Leoffler’s late season charge for the title.

Gray bested Leoffler by just 41 points on the final race weekend of the year to capture his 13th title in 20 seasons competing in the United Sprint Car Series. He had to best a total of 150 different drivers during the season to wear the series’ 2020 crown.

The 25th anniversary USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour season kicks off at Hendry County Motorsports Park in Clewiston, Fla., on Feb. 5-6.