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HIS AIM IS TRUE! GRANT GETS HIS RIFLE WITH FIRST HULMAN CLASSIC WIN AT TERRE HAUTE

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y: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Terre Haute, Indiana (October 3, 2025)………Justin Grant had won just about every event the Terre Haute Action Track has to offer over the years under the USAC banner. However, after 15 tries dating back to the year 2010, he had come up snake eyes in terms of capturing victory at the Tony Hulman Classic.

Overall, Grant had reigned victorious five times at the western Indiana 1/2-mile dirt oval between USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and USAC Silver Crown competition. He picked off the Jim Hurtubise Classic in 2019 before grabbing the Don Smith Classic in 2020 and 2023. With the Crown car, he’d won the Sumar Classic twice in 2018 and 2022. Yet, to date, his best Hulman Classic result was a runner-up finish back in 2020.

All that said, it turned out it was the 16th start that was the charm for Grant to finally get his Hulman Classic rifle. No driver in Friday night’s Terre Haute field owned more Hulman Classic feature starts than Grant, and throughout the 30-lap feature, no driver could keep up with Grant and his TOPP Motorsports/NOS Energy Drink – TOPP Industries – LA Poly/Maxim/Kistler Chevy.

Starting fourth on the grid, Grant (Ione, California) charged by Mitchel Moles on the fourth lap and led the remaining 27 laps to earn his sixth career USAC victory at Terre Haute, his series-leading 11th USAC National Sprint Car triumph of the 2025 season, the all-time leading 65th series win of his career, and on this night, most importantly, his first ever Hulman Classic win, which completed yet another task on his personal checklist.

“I’ve been really fortunate to have some success here at Terre Haute, but I’ve never been able to get a rifle,” Grant stated. “I’ve wanted to win the Hulman awfully bad and we’ve been close a few times. This one feels really good tonight.”

Grant’s $10,000 score came on a night in which Pancho Carter was on hand to serve as the grand marshal 50 years after his first Hulman Classic win in 1975. Eventually, Carter won the race again in 1979 to become the first two-time Hulman Classic winner. On Friday night, Pancho was there in victory lane to present the rifle to Grant and officially welcome him into the exclusive Hulman Classic winners club.

“To win the Hulman, especially with Pancho Carter as the grand marshal, that’s really neat. I saw him earlier and I’m glad he’s handing me a rifle now. He’s not nearly as scary as he was back when I first moved back here,” Grant said with a laugh.

Outside front row starter Moles established the early race lead of the 55th annual running of the Hulman Classic, taking the advantage from pole sitter Kevin Thomas Jr. Quickly, though, fourth starting Grant was on the move as he took KTJ for third on the opening lap, then bolted around the outside of C.J. Leary on the second go around to slot into second.

At the end of the second lap, July’s Don Smith Classic winner, Chase Stockon, found trouble after clipping the inside guardrail while running sixth. The resulting contact flattened his left front tire and necessitated a caution as he slowed dramatically in turns three and four. After his crew replaced the tire in the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area, Stockon restarted 21st and worked his way back through the field to finish the race in seventh, earning him Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night honors.

Following the ensuing restart, it didn’t take long for Grant to make his way to the front. On the fourth lap, Grant dove under Moles in turn one and stuck the pass by the time he reached turn two. From there, Grant instantly opened up his lead, growing the interval to nearly three seconds by the end of the 10th circuit.

Through the middle stages, Grant never relented, slicing his way through the tail end of the field. After all, one misplay of traffic can spell doom as the trailing driver can close the gap in no time flat. Grant knew full well there wasn’t any time to “rest” as he grew his lead even more.

“I felt like I was running really, really hard,” Grant explained. “At Terre Haute, it’s so crucial that how you get off (the turns) is based on how well you get in. You’ve got to get in good, get in right and get off good, and if you don’t, you can burn a half-second a lap pretty darn quick. So, running the thing hard adds up and you can get it back really quickly.”

The race became a tug-of-war for second during the final 10 laps as Leary dove under Moles in turn three for the runner-up spot on the 20th lap. But by the time they’d gotten to turn four, Moles turned it down and blazed his way back on by Leary to maintain his grip on second for the time being. That is until Moles’ right rear tire shredded entering turn one with just four laps remaining, sending him to a stop and a disappointing 19th place result after running inside the top-two for the entire duration to that point.

As for Grant, he suddenly had a different feel during the latter stages of the race. But judging by his late race lap times that hovered in the 20.1 to 20.2 second range, it didn’t seem to slow him up much at all.

“I honestly didn’t know if I had a tire going down or if I was just getting tight,” Grant revealed. “The curb kept getting thicker, and there at the end, the wheel was shaking and doing some strange stuff at the end of the straightaway, which made it difficult. Some of my laps toward the end were getting pretty ugly, but I figured that as long as I was running hard, they can be a little ugly.”

Grant had no challengers after the ensuing restart as he distanced himself from the field to the tune of 1.725 seconds as he crossed under Tom Hansing’s twin checkered flags. Leary earned his best career Hulman Classic finish of second while Ricky Lewis equaled his best career series finish with a third. Series point leader Kyle Cummins took fourth while Jake Swanson advanced six positions to round out the top-five.

Lewis went 10th to third to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors with a last lap, last turn surge to grab the final podium spot in the feature in what was just his second start for the 2B Racing team. In fact, that final lap was Lewis’ fastest lap of the race, second fastest among all drivers.

Cummins collected the first Terre Haute quick time of his USAC career during Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying. Topping the charts at 19.662 seconds, it was his second fast qualifying time of the series season and the 19th of his career, tying him with 1967 USAC National Sprint Car champion Greg Weld for 28th place on the all-time list.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: October 3, 2025 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – 55th Tony Hulman Classic

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-19.662; 2. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-19.738; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-19.811; 4. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-19.843; 5. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-19.950; 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-20.075; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-20.103; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-20.124; 9. Ricky Lewis, 2B, 2B Racing-20.172; 10. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-20.287; 11. Wyatt Burks, 16K, Knight-20.366; 12. Chance Crum, 83c, Crum-20.386; 13. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-20.498; 14. Saban Bibent, 98, Wedgewood-20.519; 15. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-20.658; 16. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-20.686; 17. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-20.731; 18. Todd Hobson, 44, Soudrette-20.890; 19. Shane Cottle, 34, Olson-20.918; 20. Tony Helton, 87, Helton-21.216; 21. Adam Taylor, 8T, Doherty-21.958.

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Gunnar Setser, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. C.J. Leary, 4. Jake Swanson, 5. Kyle Cummins, 6. Shane Cottle, 7. Brandon Mattox. 2:45.047

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Chase Stockon, 2. Saban Bibent, 3. Briggs Danner, 4. Hunter Maddox, 5. Mitchel Moles, 6. Wyatt Burks, 7. Tony Helton. 2:44.880

USAC GEAR THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Hayden Reinbold, 3. Todd Hobson, 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Ricky Lewis, 6. Adam Taylor, 7. Chance Crum. 2:45.084

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (4), 2. C.J. Leary (3), 3. Ricky Lewis (10), 4. Kyle Cummins (6), 5. Jake Swanson (11), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 7. Chase Stockon (5), 8. Hayden Reinbold (15), 9. Gunnar Setser (7), 10. Briggs Danner (9), 11. Logan Seavey (8), 12. Shane Cottle (19), 13. Saban Bibent (14), 14. Chance Crum (13), 15. Wyatt Burks (12), 16. Brandon Mattox (16), 17. Adam Taylor (21), 18. Tony Helton (20), 19. Mitchel Moles (2), 20. Hunter Maddox (17), 21. Todd Hobson (18). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Mitchel Moles, Laps 4-30 Justin Grant.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-2944, 2-Mitchel Moles-2607, 3-Logan Seavey-2553, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-2511, 5-Justin Grant-2494, 6-Briggs Danner-2385, 7-C.J. Leary-2307, 8-Jake Swanson-2276, 9-Chase Stockon-1945, 10-Gunnar Setser-1888.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-213, 2-Briggs Danner-144, 3-Gunnar Setser-139, 4-C.J. Leary-132, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-129, 6-Justin Grant-119, 7-Logan Seavey-117, 8-Kyle Cummins-110, 9-Chase Stockon-108, 10-Hayden Reinbold-106.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: October 10-11, 2025 – Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Chase Stockon (19.935)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (19.662)

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Gunnar Setser

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Chase Stockon

USAC Gear Third Heat Winner: Justin Grant

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Ricky Lewis (10th to 3rd)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Chase Stockon

R.J. JOHNSON STAYS HOT WITH USAC CRA AT PERRIS

A.J. Johnson

By Lance Jennings

Perris, California (September 27, 2025)………Leading the final fourteen laps, fifth starting R.J. Johnson claimed his second consecutive Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car victory on Saturday night at Perris Auto Speedway.

Driving the Petty Performance Racing #33p Sherman, the point leader from Laveen, Arizona finished ahead of A.J. Bender, “The Pride of Garden Grove” Brody Roa, hard charger Tommy “Thunder” Malcolm, and a rebounding Ricky Lewis.

For his efforts, Johnson also earned an extra $500 bonus from series title sponsor, Avanti Windows & Doors.

Oxnard, California’s Ricky Lewis opened the program by earning his fifth career Woodland Auto Display / WC Friend Company Access Systems Fast Time Award. The owner/driver of the Mesilla Valley Transportation #41 DRC recorded a time of 16.591 seconds over Johnson, David Gasper, “The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams, “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., and the rest of the 17-car roster.

Brody Roa of Garden Grove, California took the BR Performance #91R DRC to victory in the 10-lap WC Friend Company Access Systems / In Honor of Wiley Miler Sr. & Wiley Miller II / Silbermann Solar First Heat Race. “Bullet” Blake Bower from Brentwood, California topped the In Memory of Jim & Chet Gardner / Sexton Fire Protection / Factory Wraps Second Heat Race in the Tom and Christy Dunkel #17X DRC. For Roa and Bower, the triumphs were their fourth heat race wins of the campaign.

Starting 11th, Yucaipa, California’s Tommy “Thunder” Malcolm earned his second In Memory of Jim and Chet Gardner Hard Charger Award / “Best Passing Job” honors of the campaign. Racing Dino Napier’s #5X Maxim, Malcolm had raced up to third before falling to fourth at the checkered flags after a hard fought battle with Roa.

Next Saturday, October 4th, the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series will hit the road and travel to Mohave Valley Raceway in Mohave Valley, Arizona for their second and last visit on the schedule.

For more information on the series, visit www.usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: September 27, 2025 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, California

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY / WC FRIEND COMPANY ACCESS SYSTEMS QUALIFYING: 1. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-16.591; 2. R.J. Johnson, 33p, Petty-16.736; 3. David Gasper, 18, Kittle/Gasper-16.789; 4. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-16.792; 5. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-16.965; 6. Blake Bower, 17x, Dunkel-16.983; 7. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-16.998; 8. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-17.066; 9. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-17.130; 10. Connor Speir, 57, Speir-17.161; 11. Tommy Malcolm, 5x, Napier-17.179; 12. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-17.417; 13. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-17.535; 14. Bryan Whitley, 22, Whitley-17.719; 15. Jeff Dyer, 39, Cal-Sun-17.743; 16. Brecken Guerrero, 98B, Guerrero-17.911; 17. Elexa Herrera, 5E, Herrera-18.619.

WC FRIEND COMPANY ACCESS SYSTEMS / IN HONOR OF WILEY MILLER SR. & WILEY MILLER II / SILBERMANN SOLAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Brody Roa, 2. Tommy Malcolm, 3. Ricky Lewis, 4. Charles Davis Jr., 5. David Gasper, 6. A.J. Bender, 7. Jeff Dyer, 8. Verne Sweeney, 9. Elexa Herrera. 2:52.93

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER / SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION / FACTORY WRAPS SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Blake Bower, 2. R.J. Johnson, 3. Connor Speir, 4. Austin Williams, 5. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 6. Bryan Whitley, 7. Brecken Guerrero, 8. Connor Lundy. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. R.J. Johnson (5), 2. A.J. Bender (7), 3. Brody Roa (9), 4. Tommy Malcolm (11), 5. Ricky Lewis (6), 6. Charles Davis Jr. (2), 7. Blake Bower (1), 8. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (8), 9. Connor Speir (10), 10. Bryan Whitley (13), 11. Brecken Guerrero (15), 12. Verne Sweeney (12), 13. Elexa Herrera (16), 14. Austin Williams (3), 15. David Gasper (4), 16. Jeff Dyer (14), 17. Connor Lundy (17). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-16 Blake Bower, Laps 17-30 R.J. Johnson.

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER HARD CHARGER: Tommy Malcolm (11th to 4th)

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-1167, 2-Ricky Lewis-1140, 3-Austin Williams-955, 4-A.J. Bender-941, 5-Tommy Malcolm-932, 6-David Gasper-807, 7-Blake Bower-803, 8-Charles Davis Jr.-792, 9-Connor Lundy-680, 10-Eddie Tafoya Jr.-636.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: October 4, 2025 – Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, Arizona

NO 2ND THOUGHTS! CUMMINS ENDS 3-MONTH USAC SPRINT WIN DROUGHT AT BUTLER

Ryan Sellers

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Quincy, Michigan (September 27, 2025)………After three months and 20 starts without a victory, Kyle Cummins was beginning to wonder if he’d ever win again in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition.

Couple that with the fact that he’s finished as the runner-up in seven of his last 10 series starts, the Princeton, Indiana driver was pondering what exactly he could do to push himself back to the top, especially after missing out on a win by mere inches 24 hours earlier.

Yet, Saturday’s event at Quincy, Michigan’s proved to be everything Cummins had wished and hoped it would be, even when it looked like he had let the opportunity slip from his grip for a brief moment during the midway point of the 30-lap feature.

Just as soon as Cummins took over the top spot from Justin Grant on the 13th circuit, he saw his lead escape the following lap. However, Cummins rediscovered his groove once more, then sprinted back by Grant to slot into the lead before patrolling the final 15 laps to earn his eighth victory of the USAC National Sprint Car season.

“Finally, finally! Holy moly,” Cummins exclaimed after capturing his first series win since June 29 of this year at Ohio’s Millstream Speedway. “It felt like a long time coming. We’ve got some wins this year, but when it doesn’t come for a long time, it feels like you might never win again, but we just kept pushing.”

Cummins’ 28th career USAC National Sprint Car win moved him inside the top-20 on the all-time list alongside series champions A.J. Foyt, Don Branson, J.J. Yeley and Levi Jones. While not a USAC National Sprint Car champion yet, Cummins is sure on his way, currently possessing a commanding 297 point lead with seven races remaining this season.

Speaking of lengthy absences, Saturday’s event was the first time USAC had visited Butler’s 3/8-mile since August of 1990, 35 years ago when Hank Lower was victorious in what was his first and only career USAC feature start. Furthermore, it was USAC’s first trip to the state of Michigan in 12 years, dating back to an I-96 Speedway show in 2013.

Starting fourth in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors - Premier Recycling/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy, Cummins lurched forward to third by the end of the opening lap and vaulted into second by lap two as he sped by Hayden Reinbold and Chase Stockon, respectively, while Grant took control up front after starting on the outside of the front row.

Grant paced Cummins for the first 12 laps before the frontrunners reached the tail end of the field. Grant escaped the increasingly closer Cummins as he threaded the needle between the lapped cars of Max Frank and Josh Turner in the third turn, opening up his lead for the time being until a yellow flag was displayed for Aaron Davis (13th) and Steve Irwin (14th) who tangled and spun to a stop in between turns three and four.

With a clear track in front of the leaders on the lap 13 restart, opportunity knocked on Cummins’ door, advising him to shoot his shot. By the time the pair hit turn three, Cummins had dipped a toe on the bottom and stuck with it through the exit of turn four, leading to him edging ahead of Grant by a car length at the stripe. However, Grant got wound up on the outside of Cummins on lap 14 and rode the high line through turns three and four to retake the lead by .009 seconds at the line.

On lap 15, Cummins finally gained the upper hand from Grant and drove back by on the bottom of turns three and four to take command once and for all.

“I felt like I was pacing Justin really well there, and it kind of came down to whoever made a mistake,” Cummins stated. “We got into lapped traffic and he got through them pretty good. After that restart, he got up a little bit and I knew that was my chance. He came back around me on the outside, which actually showed me a little bit. I could move up just a hair in three and I was actually a little better up there. When the time came to pass lapped cars, it might’ve been even better than working the bottom.”

Despite Cummins’ freedom up front, heavy traffic took its toll. Grant was able to close right to the tail of Cummins on the 22nd lap but he couldn’t get any further as any plans to surge ahead of Cummins were thwarted by the gridlock running high, low and middle. But all credit goes to Cummins who made all the right moves down the stretch to disallow Grant from making any credible bid for the lead and the win.

“If Justin doesn’t mess up, I don’t know how we can get around him,” Cummins pondered. “The only thing was lapped traffic and how that was going to work out. There was just a little something down there and he got a little tight. I hit it just right that time and was able to drag race him into one. He kind of passed me back, but luckily, I got back by him there and was trying to make sure I didn’t blow the corner.”

Cummins remained in total control after that, passing under the checkered flag 1.576 seconds ahead at the finish line over Justin Grant, Hayden Reinbold and Mitchel Moles with Chase Stockon rounding out the top-five.

For Cummins, B-U-T-L-E-R spelled R-E-L-I-E-F. After gaining seven wins in his first 21 series starts to begin the year, followed by a 20-race winless stretch, Cummins was feeling pretty satisfied while standing in Butler’s victory lane.

“This is big,” Cummins reiterated. “(Last week) at Eldora, I was pretty sure we figured it out, but it’s a big track, so you’re not sure. The car is right back to where it needs to be. I actually made some adjustments after my crew was on me last night because I really messed up by not getting after the shocks, not trying to loosen up, and then throughout the race, I was trying to tell myself that that I could just give it a little turn to the right, whatever I could do to keep giving it little turns.”

On Saturday, Justin Grant was using a cane to walk around as he continues to nurse his broken left foot. But despite the cane, he was more than able to fulfill the challenge by leading 13 of the 30 laps in the feature on his way to a solid second place result.

One night earlier at Paragon, C.J. Leary was the biggest mover in the feature. On this night at Butler, he did it again by advancing four spots from 11th to seventh to earn his second straight Rod End Supply Hard Charger Award.

Hayden Reinbold stood on the podium for the third time during the 2025 USAC National Sprint Car season tonight with a third place result at Butler. In doing so, he closed the gap in the Rookie of the Year race to three points behind Gunnar Setser with just seven races remaining. Reinbold’s performance was good enough to earn him Inferno Armor USA Fire Move of the Night honors.

Hail! Hail! To Michigan! Thirteenth place finishing Brian Ruhlman was the top-finishing Michigan driver in the feature and collected a $250 bonus posted by USAC CEO Kevin Miller, a native Michigander who got his start in motorsports as a crewman for a Sprints on Dirt (SOD) race team at Butler Motor Speedway. In fact, the top-three finishing Michigan natives all earned bonuses, including Steve Irwin ($150 for 14th) and Josh Turner ($100 for 15th).

To start off the night, Moles turned his 13th fast time of the USAC National Sprint Car season, which now has him just two shy of Kevin Thomas Jr.’s single season series record of 15 set in 2018. Moles’ track record establishing lap was the 28th of his career, moving him past Dave Steele and into sole possession of 16th place all-time.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: September 27, 2025 – Butler Motor Speedway – Quincy, Michigan – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.139 (New Track Record); 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.219; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.270; 4. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-14.294; 5. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.369; 6. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.417; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.465; 8. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-14.529; 9. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.637; 10. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-14.642; 11. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.775; 12. Keith Sheffer II, 2B, 2B Racing-14.777; 13. Isaac Chapple, 6, Chapple/Hall-14.924; 14. Aaron Davis, 11, Davis-15.201; 15. Brian Ruhlman, 49, Ruhlman-15.251; 16. Rob Caho Jr., 78, Caho-15.289; 17. Steve Irwin, 0, Flying Zero-15.443; 18. Josh Turner, 4T, Turner-15.521; 19. Max Frank, 25, Frank-15.568; 20. Jack James, 99, James-15.932; 21. R.J. Payne, 33, Payne-16.301.

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Gunnar Setser, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Mitchel Moles, 4. Hayden Reinbold, 5. Rob Caho Jr., 6. Isaac Chapple, 7. Max Frank. 2:01.539

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Briggs Danner, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Justin Grant, 4. Steve Irwin, 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 6. Aaron Davis, 7. Jack James. 1:58.518 (New Track Record)

USAC GEAR THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Jake Swanson, 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Kyle Cummins, 4. Josh Turner, 5. Brian Ruhlman, 6. Keith Sheffer II, 7. R.J. Payne. 1:59.522

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (4), 2. Justin Grant (2), 3. Hayden Reinbold (3), 4. Mitchel Moles (6), 5. Chase Stockon (1), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 7. C.J. Leary (11), 8. Jake Swanson (7), 9. Gunnar Setser (8), 10. Briggs Danner (9), 11. Logan Seavey (10), 12. Isaac Chapple (13), 13. Brian Ruhlman (15), 14. Steve Irwin (17), 15. Josh Turner (18), 16. Max Frank (19), 17. Aaron Davis (14), 18. Jack James (20), 19. R.J. Payne (21), 20. Rob Caho Jr. (16), 21. Keith Sheffer II (12). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Justin Grant, Lap 13 Kyle Cummins, Lap 14 Justin Grant, Laps 15-30 Kyle Cummins.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-2873, 2-Mitchel Moles-2576, 3-Logan Seavey-2505, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-2450, 5-Justin Grant-2412, 6-Briggs Danner-2336, 7-C.J. Leary-2231, 8-Jake Swanson-2213, 9-Gunnar Setser-1834, 10-Hayden Reinbold-1831.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-213, 2-Briggs Danner-144, 3-Gunnar Setser-139, 4-C.J. Leary-131, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-129, 6-Logan Seavey-117, 7-Justin Grant-116, 8-Kyle Cummins-108, 9-Chase Stockon-108, 10-Hayden Reinbold-99.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: October 3, 2025 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – 55th Tony Hulman Classic

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (14.309)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (14.139)

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Gunnar Setser

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

USAC Gear Third Heat Winner: Jake Swanson

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: C.J. Leary (11th to 7th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Hayden Reinbold

Best Finishing Michigan Driver Bonus: Brian Ruhlman (13th)

Second Best Finishing Michigan Driver Bonus: Steve Irwin (14th)

Third Best Finishing Michigan Driver Bonus: Josh Turner (15th)

PHOTO FINISH! MOLES BREAKS 61-RACE USAC SPRINT CAR WINLESS STREAK IN PARAGON THRILLER

David Nearpass

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Paragon, Indiana (September 26, 2025)……… Mitchel Moles had done just about everything there is to do in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition this season. But a feature win had eluded him time and time again.

Sixty-one races after last reaching victory lane with the series, the Raisin City, California native finally broke through in photo finish fashion by mere inches over Kyle Cummins during Friday night’s Fall Brawl at Indiana’s Paragon Speedway.

As a matter of fact, Moles had finished as the runner-up on five occasions with the series this year alone. The .021 second margin of victory by Moles over Cummins was the closest of the year with the series, and this time, Moles wasn’t about to let this one slip through his fingers.

“We’ve been so close so many times this year,” Moles exhaled after taking his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy to victory lane. “It feels great to finally get the job done. Maybe that means I’ll keep my job next year!”

Moles also quipped that he remained undefeated at Paragon’s 3/8-mile dirt oval in his career. His only other trip to the track in July 2024 resulted in a Leon Gentry Memorial score with the USAC Midwest Thunder Sprint Cars. Overall, it was Moles’ fifth career USAC National Sprint Car victory, and one that is most rewarding in what has been a turnaround year which sees him second overall in the series standings.

“We’ve won some races here and there but crashed a lot and learned a lot from that,” Moles summed up since joining Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports in 2022. “I’m thankful for Tammi and Andy (Reinbold) for being great owners and sticking with a kid that tore up all their equipment and had to buy all new stuff. Hopefully, this is a road to paying it off for them.”

Foreshadowing the feature, Moles was involved in a bit of a dust up during his heat race after attempting to make an outside pass on Chance Crum for the win. At the stripe, Moles and Crum collided, with Crum winning the race while airborne. Meanwhile, Moles careened into the infield, short of the victory, but transferring into the feature with dramatic flair where he earned the fourth starting spot.

The majority of the first half of the 30-lap feature was controlled by Logan Seavey who raced out to the front from his outside front row starting spot and maintained a sturdy advantage at the head of the pack in the first USAC National Sprint Car event held at Paragon since four years earlier in 2021.

On the fourth lap, the feature’s lone caution came out after Carson Garrett and Justin Grant tangled entering turn three. Garrett climbed over Grant’s left side tires and spun backwards to a stop atop the high side of the surface. Garrett returned to the field at the tail but managed only a 17th place finish.

To start the evening, Garrett set a new one-lap track USAC National Sprint Car track record at Paragon with a time of 14.309 seconds in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying. That broke the 29-year-old track record of 14.886 held by Mark Cassella that had stood since 1996.

When the race resumed, Moles began to gain ground. He worked and worked on Hunter Maddox before swiping the second position with an outside turn four pass on lap nine while his rear brake rotor glowed red hot, and on occasion, set off a spectacular shower of sparks.

By then, Seavey had constructed a 1.3 second lead over the field, but that changed quite quickly as he closed in on the tail end of the lead lap cars. That allowed Moles to reel his way into contention to where he was squarely on Seavey’s rear bumper just before the midway point. But as Seavey drifted toward the middle of turn three on the 14th circuit, Moles took heed and slipped under Seavey at the exit of turn four, slid up and burst away into the night.

Almost instantaneously, Cummins appeared in the frame and was there to pounce on lap 18 as he flashed under Seavey on the back straightaway to take over second where he remained eight tenths of a second behind Moles for the lead.

With five laps remaining, Moles’ advantage was a mere two car lengths over Cummins, and it quickly became a duel between two drivers who were exhausted of finishing as the runner-up. Whereas Moles has accumulated five second place finishes overall with the series in 2025, Cummins had recorded six second place results in his nine most recent starts, 10 in totality to date!

On the final lap, Moles initially appeared to have gained some breathing room as he cleared the lapped car of Brandon Mattox and possessed about a seven car length advantage over Cummins heading into turns one and two for the final time.

That lead quickly dissipated by the time the two entered turn three. Moles had closed in right to the tail tank of 14th running Ricky Lewis. Lewis remained on the high side on the same line Moles chose just behind him. Cummins promptly dove to the lower lane and the two were now practically even at the exit of turn four. Moles had nowhere else to go, and was tucked in a couple feet behind Lewis, carrying enough speed to edge Cummins to the line by a margin about the size of a front bumper.

“Every time I feel like I get down and I try to protect and try to take their line away, it doesn’t work out for me, so I just stuck with what I knew,” Moles revealed after his long-awaited triumph. “Honestly, the lapped cars were the hardest thing for me. I didn’t really know where to go there at the line. Kyle was right to the inside of me and I just started pushing Ricky across the line because I didn’t know what else to do.”

Behind Moles was Cummins who, astoundingly, finished second for the seventh time in his last 10 USAC National Sprint Car feature starts, and the 11th time overall this season. Seavey took third after leading the initial 14 laps. Seavey had also led the first seven laps before finishing second in the most recent USAC Sprint Car race at Paragon in 2021. Grant tallied a fourth place finish while Jake Swanson came home fifth for the third consecutive series race over the past nine nights.

C.J. Leary was buried deep in the feature field, but after starting 17th, he dug his way forward 10 positions to land a solid seventh place result to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.

Braxton Cummings experienced a little bit of it all throughout the night. Mechanical issues prevented him from qualifying at the start of the program, but in the semi-feature, his sensational last lap, last turn pass netted him the win and a spot in the feature where he advanced his way up from 24th to 16th. All of that earned him the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

In the track record department, Kevin Thomas Jr. broke a 41-year-old mark during his heat race victory. His eight-lap heat race time of 1:57.475 shattered the USAC National Sprint Car record of 2:06.560 for the distance at Paragon, held by three-time USAC National Sprint Car champion Sheldon Kinser since 1984.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: September 26, 2025 – Paragon Speedway – Paragon, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – Fall Brawl

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Carson Garrett, 2E, Epperson-14.309 (New Track Record); 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.314; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.344; 4. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.350; 5. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.398; 6. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-14.443; 7. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.453; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.482; 9. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.519; 10. Ricky Lewis, 2B, 2B Racing-14.533; 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-14.543; 12. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.555; 13. Jordan Kinser, 75, Tate-14.562; 14. Anthony Nicholson, 16, Nicholson-14.572; 15. Todd Hobson, 77, Wingo-14.586; 16. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-14.678; 17. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-14.710; 18. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-14.712; 19. Chance Crum, 83c, Crum-14.758; 20. Gabriel Gilbert, 10G, GGR-14.863; 21. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-14.947; 22. Matt Westfall, 54, Westfall-14.962; 23. Austin Cory, 00, Cory-15.089; 24. Michael Clark, 8, Clark-15.211; 25. Sam Hinds, 71H, Hinds-15.386; 26. Travis Thompson, 7, Thompson-15.413; 27. Rob Caho Jr., 78, Caho-15.452; 28. Braxton Cummings, 71B, Cummings-NT.

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Brandon Mattox, 4. Carson Garrett, 5. Logan Seavey, 6. Jordan Kinser, 7. Travis Thompson. 1:57.475 (New Track Record)

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Gunnar Setser, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Kyle Cummins, 4. Hunter Maddox, 5. Matt Westfall, 6. Rob Caho Jr., 7. Anthony Nicholson. NT

USAC GEAR THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Chance Crum, 2. Mitchel Moles, 3. Hayden Reinbold, 4. Chase Stockon, 5. Todd Hobson, 6. Braxton Cummings, 7. Austin Cory. 2:00.872

COOKOUT FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Jake Swanson, 3. Trey Osborne, 4. Gabriel Gilbert, 5. Briggs Danner, 6. Sam Hinds, 7. Michael Clark. 2:00.621

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Braxton Cummings, 2. Sam Hinds, 3. Rob Caho Jr., 4. Travis Thompson, 5. Michael Clark, 6. Jordan Kinser, 7. Austin Cory. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (4), 2. Kyle Cummins (5), 3. Logan Seavey (2), 4. Justin Grant (8), 5. Jake Swanson (3), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 7. C.J. Leary (17), 8. Gunnar Setser (9), 9. Hayden Reinbold (14), 10. Chase Stockon (11), 11. Briggs Danner (12), 12. Trey Osborne (16), 13. Chance Crum (10), 14. Ricky Lewis (13), 15. Hunter Maddox (1), 16. Braxton Cummings (24), 17. Carson Garrett (6), 18. Matt Westfall (20), 19. Sam Hinds (21), 20. Todd Hobson (15), 21. Rob Caho Jr. (23), 22. Brandon Mattox (19), 23. Gabriel Gilbert (18), 24. Travis Thompson (22). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Logan Seavey, Laps 14-30 Mitchel Moles.

**Jordan Kinser flipped during the semi.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-2793, 2-Mitchel Moles-2503, 3-Logan Seavey-2457, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-2386, 5-Justin Grant-2337, 6-Briggs Danner-2285, 7-C.J. Leary-2172, 8-Jake Swanson-2156, 9-Chase Stockon-1814, 10-Kale Drake-1811.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-213, 2-Briggs Danner-144, 3-Gunnar Setser-139, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-129, 5-C.J. Leary-127, 6-Logan Seavey-117, 7-Justin Grant-116, 8-Chase Stockon-108, 9-Kyle Cummins-105, 10-Hayden Reinbold-99.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: September 27, 2025 – Butler Motor Speedway – Quincy, Michigan – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kevin Thomas Jr. (14.333)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Carson Garrett (14.309)

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Gunnar Setser

USAC Gear Third Heat Winner: Chance Crum

Cookout Fourth Heat Winner: Justin Grant

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Braxton Cummings

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: C.J. Leary (17th to 7th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Braxton Cummings

UNDERWOOD DASH DEBUTS AT WESTERN WORLD OCT 24-25 AT CENTRAL ARIZONA

Rick Kimball

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Casa Grande, Arizona (October 7, 2025)………The $5,000-to-win Underwood Dash presented by AME Electrical will debut during the 58th annual running of the Western World Championships on October 24-25 at Casa Grande’s Central Arizona Raceway.

The pursuit style event will feature 10 cars competing for 12 laps in a winner-take-all special as part of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship / Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series portion of the program.

The lineup will consist of the top-four finishers from Friday night’s USAC feature starting at the front, followed by Saturday’s three qualifying race winners, followed by the Saturday’s three qualifying race runner-up finishers.

The 12-lap race will take place in four 3-lap segments. After each segment is completed, the last two cars running will be eliminated. Furthermore, if a car stops on the course for any reason, that car is also eliminated.

Four cars will compete in the final segment, and the finishing order among the top-four for the final 3-lap segment will determine the first two rows of Saturday night’s $35,000-to-win feature event.

The Western World at the 3/8-mile dirt oval will pay $7,500 to Friday night’s feature winner while Saturday’s finale will reward the winner with a $35,000 payday, plus $15,000 in lap leader money and a minimum of $1,000 to start the feature.

Also on the event card for both nights is the Sands Chevrolet Wild West 360 Non Wing Sprint Cars.

The Western World Championships are one of the most famed and longest-running sprint car events in the world. The tradition of the event dates back to Bob Cleberg’s victory in 1968. Kyle Cummins enters as the defending Western World champion after winning the main event in 2024.

Tickets for the Western World Championships and Camping spots are available now. Visit https://www.centralazraceway.com/press/article/180179 for more information.

Driver and car registration is now officially open for the 58th annual edition of Western World Championships. Teams can file their entry for the event now at https://usacracing.ticketspice.com/58th-annual-western-world-championships.

USAC Car Owner Steve Phillips Passes Away at 70

Dave Darland

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (October 5, 2025)………Steve Phillips, who earned 19 career wins as a USAC National Sprint Car team owner for drivers Dave Darland and Jason McDougal between 2013-2019, passed away on October 4, 2025. He was 70 years old.

Phillips’ black No. 71p won several marquee events in USAC competition over the years, namely with Darland. Together, they achieved 17 series victories, starting with the Larry Rice Classic in 2013 at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway.

In fact, Darland’s winningest USAC National Sprint Car campaign came in his first season with the Phillips team, winning seven times in total, which included Sprint Car Smackdown at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway and the Oval Nationals at California’s Perris Auto Speedway.

Together, Darland and Phillips won the final night of Smackdown in three consecutive years between 2013-2014-2015. During the 2014 Smackdown, it was Phillips’ car in which Darland drove when he became the all-time winningest driver in USAC National Sprint Car history with his 53rd score. The record has since been surpassed.

Also in 2014, Phillips and Darland won six more times, including the Tony Hulman Classic at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track. During their final season together in 2015, they added four more victories to their USAC win total.

In 2018, Phillips, alongside his wife, Carla, returned to USAC National Sprint Car victory lane with driver Jason McDougal who scored at Missouri’s I-55 Raceway, then in 2019, tallied one more at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, which was the last victory to date for the team.

In all, Phillips’ team made 260 USAC National Sprint Car feature starts between 2010-2025 with drivers Clinton Boyles, Shane Cockrum, Jerry Coons Jr., Shane Cottle, Dave Darland, Justin Grant, Darren Hagen, Jason McDougal, Cannon McIntosh, Billy Puterbaugh Jr., Carson Short, Mike Spencer, Stevie Sussex and Kody Swanson. Most recently, during the 2025 season, the team made eight series starts with Rookie Chelby Hinton.

Born and raised in Phoenix, Phillips was a racer himself, competing as a driver in sprint cars and midgets in his native Arizona. In his Rookie season of 1977, he scored his first career midget feature victory at Manzanita Speedway. In 1990, he captured the Sprint Car Owners Association driving championship.

During the 1990s, Steve moved to Texas, then to Indiana while taking on a new full-time job as a mechanic for the Hall-VDS Racing Indy Car team, which fielded cars for the likes of John Andretti, Teo Fabi and Gil de Ferran.

A member of the Arizona Motorsports Hall of Fame, Phillips also made 13 starts as a USAC Silver Crown team owner with a driver list featuring Billy Puterbaugh Jr., Matt Goodnight, Dave Darland and Jason McDougal. The team’s best result was a fourth with Darland during the 4-Crown Nationals at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in 2017.

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