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CUMMINS
COLLECTS TRI-STATE FINALE;
By:
Richie Murray - USAC Media
Haubstadt, Indiana (August
2, 2020).........Sunday's NOS Energy Drink Indiana
Sprint Week finale at Tri-State Speedway turned out to
be a homecoming of sorts for a pair of drivers who
reside within a stone's throw of the Haubstadt, Ind.
track.
Kyle Cummins, about 15
minutes down the road in Princeton, continued his
mastery of the quarter-mile dirt oval by winning
Sunday's 30-lap feature all while putting his name atop
the leaderboard in terms of USAC AMSOIL National Sprint
Car feature victories at Tri-State with five, alongside
Daron Clayton and Kevin Thomas, Jr.
Meanwhile, the series'
Ironman in consecutive feature starts at 310, Chase
Stockon, hails from Fort Branch, a literal seven-minute
drive northbound on US 41 from the track. Of those 310
consecutive USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car starts,
perhaps few have generated the same type of personal
satisfaction as did capturing his first Indiana Sprint
Week title after a decade-straight of trying.
Entering Sunday's feature,
six drivers remained mathematically eligible to secure
the Indiana Sprint Week title. Stockon trailed Justin
Grant by just five points, and those two, along with
Brady Bacon, C.J. Leary, Chris Windom and Logan Seavey,
were separated by a mere 35 points between them.
Cummins, who had been
eliminated from ISW title contention following the heat
races earlier in the evening, now simply had visions of
a feature win dancing on his mind and was slotted to
start the feature event from the pole position. Stockon,
meanwhile, started 7th and Grant 11th.
The initial two attempts of
taking the green flag resulted in a pair of stackups,
the first of which saw a four-car turn one pile-up
involving between Kent Schmidt, Jadon Rogers, Stevie
Sussex and Critter Malone. The ensuing try saw Bacon,
Malone and Aric Gentry stop on the front straightaway
prior to hitting the start/finish line. Bacon, who
trailed the ISW points by nine entering the feature,
pulled off to the work area under yellow and briefly
returned, only to drop to the infield prior to the
race's resumption to finish 23rd.
The third start was the
charm, but this time Chris Windom, 5th in the ISW
standings coming into the A, ripped around Cummins from
his outside front row starting position to lead the
opening lap. Cummins didn't allow Windom to distance
himself too far and roared to the lead past Windom on
the second lap with a turn three slider. Fourth
starting Shane Cottle mimicked the turn three maneuver
past Windom a lap later for 2nd while Garrett Aitken
slotted himself into 3rd.
By lap seven, Cummins had
established a full-straightaway lead over Cottle, and by
lap nine, was amidst a flurry of traffic at the tail end
of the lead lap. However, a yellow for 6th running Tony
DiMattia, making his first series start of 2020, rode
the top of the turn four wall before coming to a rest on
all fours back on the racing surface, which halted the
action on the 10th lap.
Aitken, making the best run
of his USAC Sprint Car career in just his sixth series
start, threw his hat into contention with a turn one
slide job for 2nd by Cottle on the 11th lap. A lap
later, Aitken tagged the wall in turn two causing him to
lose a couple spots while, behind him, four drivers on
the fringes of the top-ten - Carson Short, Kevin Thomas
Jr., C.J. Leary and Brandon Mattox - were stacked deep
and stopped in turn one.
The timely yellow for Aitken
put the Paris, Ill. driver back in second behind Cummins
where he proceeded to slide by Cummins for the race lead
in turn one. Quickly, Cummins cut back under Aitken at
the exit of turn two to retain the lead, then slid
himself through turn three to disavow any countermeasure
from Aitken for the time being.
Following a plethora of
precipitation that fell in recent days, Cummins
hypothesized that the track had a much different feel
than on this night than he is accustomed to. In
response, Cummins found comfort up top that gained him a
straightaway lead just prior to the yellow. Then came
Aitken.
"I was being patient, not
doing anything crazy, and all of a sudden here he comes,
and I was like 'oh,' it's time to step it up a little
bit," Cummins recalled. I just turned down and got him
back. I could tell I was really going to have to step
it up, and after that, I kind of moved my line around on
the track a little bit. I moved a little bit more down
to the bottom, then I got super tight, so I was grabbing
shocks. Every yellow, I kept loosening it up, loosening
it up. Even at the end I was still super tight."
For virtually the entire
second half of the race, Cummins' progress was unimpeded
at the front, and a watchful eye was turned toward the
ISW title race. Point leader Grant, who had yet to
finish outside the top-10 in his first 15 series starts
to the season, was mired back in 13th. Simultaneously,
Stockon was surging down the stretch, to 4th by Windom
with three laps remaining and to 3rd two laps from the
finish by Aitken, who began to run out fuel just prior
to losing the second position to Cottle.
Cummins finished off his
masterpiece with a 1.423 margin of victory in picking up
his 7th career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car win,
equaling the likes of Kevin Doty, Darren Hagen, Kenny
Irwin, Jr., Doug Kalitta, Jim Keeker, Bobby Santos,
Brady Short, Kevin Thomas, Bobby Unser and Josh Wise. Cottle,
Stockon, Aitken and Windom rounded out the top-five at
the finish.
Following a one-race winless
"streak" in sprint car competition at Tri-State back in
June, Cummins has since gotten off the schneid by
picking up back where he left off, winning an MSCS race
there on Independence Day Weekend, then winning Sunday
night's USAC return despite having to search and find
the winning combination throughout the evening aboard
his Rock Steady Racing/Mid-America Safety Solutions -
Greenwell Auto Body - Lucas Oil Center/Mach-1/Foxco
Chevy.
"We didn't get that last
USAC win here because of some motor problems," Cummins
remembered. "We won the time after, although I didn't
feel great, and even the beginning of the night tonight,
I didn't feel like I normally feel here. We changed a
couple things. Like in the beginning of the week, we'd
kind of been trialing a little bit. Since COVID, we
didn't really get any testing, really."
For Stockon, his raceday
morning began at 6:30am watching his son, Parker,
compete on a dirt bike in the 50 JR class of the
Southern Indiana Grand Prix Series at Red Fox T-N-T in
Tennyson, Ind. Young Parker finished second in the race
that had a gate drop of 8:20am. Around 13 hours later
that same day, Chase was back in his starring role
behind the wheel, capturing his long-coveted Indiana
Sprint Week driving championship in the KO Motorsports/Hutson
John Deere - Ravens Manufacturing - AMSOIL/Velocity/Fisher
Chevy.
"This is pretty sweet,"
Stockon admitted. "It probably won't sink in until
tomorrow or Wednesday or something this week, but we're
going to bask in the glory of it right now."
After nearly capturing
victory at the Terre Haute Action Track in the previous
Indiana Sprint Week race which ran to completion,
Stockon and the KO Motorsports team, which he joined on
a full-time basis just one month prior, bounced back
with authority.
It was a week Chase
classified as a trying week with the missed
opportunities, both on-track and due to mother nature,
despite being the only driver in the series to finish
within the top-five in all five ISW feature races in
2020, a consistent run that made him the third-straight
driver to win ISW without the aid of a feature win, and
the 12th overall in the 33-year history of the series
along with Randy Kinser (1988), Gary Trammell (1990).
Bob Kinser (1991), Tony Elliott (1999), Levi Jones
(2004-08-12), Robert Ballou (2015), Brady Bacon (2016),
Chris Windom (2018) and C.J. Leary (2019).
"It's been a trying week for
us," Stockon said. "This is a lot of redemption for us.
We were really good here tonight, just trying to be
careful and trying to win a race at the same time. It's
all big picture for us. I got to thank my guys and
everybody on the side of this car that made it all
possible. I think it just shows how strong we are as a
team. Nobody got down and everybody kept their chin up.
We just powered forward."
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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: August 2, 2020 -
Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana - 1/4-Mile Dirt
Oval - NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week
FATHEADZ EYEWEAR QUALIFYING
FLIGHT ONE: 1. Tony DiMattia, 50, TDM-13.933; 2. Garrett
Aitken, 32, Aitken-13.938; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3R, Rock
Steady-13.943; 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9K, KT-13.986; 5.
Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-13.991; 6. Robert Ballou, 12,
Ballou-14.083; 7. Brady Short, 11p,
Short/Pottorff-14.229; 8. Dakota Jackson, 17, On The
Gass-14.237; 9. Jonathan Vennard, 54, KO-14.254; 10.
Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-14.275; 11. Stevie Sussex, 77w,
Wingo-14.465; 12. Brayden Fox, 53, Fox-14.516; 13.
Chayse Hayhurst, 20, Hayhurst-14.584; 14. Kendall Ruble,
17K, Ruble/Martin-14.637; 15. Chris Phillips, 6p,
Phillips-14.781; 16. Stan Beadles, 84, Beadles-14.844;
17. Dustin Smith, 77, LG-15.166; 18. Logan Hupp, 69JM,
Gindling-15.231; 19. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-15.379; 20.
Sam Scott, 7s, Scott-15.693; 21. Eric Perrott, 45,
Perrott-16.393.
FATHEADZ EYEWEAR QUALIFYING
FLIGHT TWO: 1. Logan Seavey, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.854;
2. Shane Cottle, 74x, Hodges-13.879; 3. Chris Windom,
19, Hayward-13.882; 4. Chase Stockon, 5s, KO-13.899; 5.
Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-13.929; 6. Jadon Rogers, 61m,
Edwards-13.950; 7. Chase Johnson, 68, Thomas-14.013; 8.
Max Adams, 37, Felker-14.063; 9. Carson Short, 71p,
Daigh/Phillips-14.133; 10. Critter Malone, 7,
Seven-14.133; 11. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.155; 12.
Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-14.272; 13. Dave Darland,
36d, EZR/Curb-Agajanian-14.399; 14. Kent Schmidt, 5K,
KO-14.439; 15. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-14.540; 16.
Max Guilford, 79BT, Goodnight-14.618; 17. Brandon Morin,
98, Morin-14.765; 18. Anthony D'Alessio, 01,
D'Alessio-15.461; 19. Michael Clark, 8, Clark-15.689;
20. Ryan Bond, 7R, Bond-15.703; 21. Robert Bell, 71,
Bell-17.099.
SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST
HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle
Cummins, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Tony DiMattia, 4. Brady
Short, 5. Stevie Sussex, 6. Chayse Hayhurst, 7. Chris
Phillips, 8. Kurt Gross, 9. Jonathan Vennard, 10. Eric
Perrott, 11. Dustin Smith. NT
COMPETITION SUSPENSION (CSI)
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1.
Robert Ballou, 2. Aric Gentry, 3. Dakota Jackson, 4.
Garrett Aitken, 5. Kendall Ruble, 6. Brayden Fox, 7.
Stan Beadles, 8. Logan Hupp, 9. Sam Scott, 10. Kevin
Thomas Jr. NT
AUTOMETER THIRD HEAT: (10
laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. C.J. Leary, 2.
Logan Seavey, 3. Justin Grant, 4. Chris Windom, 5. Eddie
Tafoya Jr., 6. Dave Darland, 7. Chase Johnson, 8.
Brandon Morin, 9. Michael Clark, 10. Robert Bell, 11.
Carson Short. NT
INDY RACE PARTS FOURTH HEAT:
(10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase
Stockon, 2. Critter Malone, 3. Shane Cottle, 4. Jadon
Rogers, 5. Brandon Mattox, 6. Kent Schmidt, 7. Max
Adams, 8. Max Guilford, 9. Ryan Bond. NT
C-MAIN: (10 laps, top-4
transfer to the semi) 1. Stan Beadles, 2. Max Guilford,
3. Dustin Smith, 4. Ryan Bond, 5. Michael Clark, 6. Kurt
Gross, 7. Sam Scott, 8. Robert Bell, 9. Eric Perrott.
2:29.074
INDY METAL FINISHING SEMI:
(12 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase
Johnson, 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3. Carson Short, 4. Kent
Schmidt, 5. Stevie Sussex, 6. Brandon Mattox, 7. Dave
Darland, 8. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 9. Dustin Smith, 10.
Chayse Hayhurst, 11. Chris Phillips, 12. Brayden Fox,
13. Max Guilford, 14. Ryan Bond, 15. Jonathan Vennard,
16. Stan Beadles, 17. Kendall Ruble. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps, starting
positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (1), 2. Shane
Cottle (4), 3. Chase Stockon (7), 4. Garrett Aitken (3),
5. Chris Windom (2), 6. Robert Ballou (8), 7. Dakota
Jackson (16), 8. Carson Short (17), 9. Critter Malone
(18), 10. Jadon Rogers (13), 11. Brady Short (15), 12.
Logan Seavey (6), 13. Justin Grant (11), 14. Tony
DiMattia (5), 15. Dave Darland (23), 16. Brandon Mattox
(21), 17. C.J. Leary (9), 18. Kent Schmidt (22), 19.
Aric Gentry (19), 20. Chase Johnson (14), 21. Dustin
Smith (24), 22. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 23. Brady Bacon
(12), 24. Stevie Sussex (20). NT
**Stan Beadles flipped
during the semi.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1
Chris Windom, Laps 2-30 Kyle Cummins.
USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-1,079,
2-Chase Stockon-1,002, 3-Chris Windom-996, 4-Brady
Bacon-980, 5-C.J. Leary-965, 6-Carson Short-871, 7-Kevin
Thomas Jr.-817, 8-Dave Darland-717, 9-Logan Seavey-655,
10-Brandon Mattox-642.
FINAL NOS ENERGY DRINK
INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Chase Stockon-367,
2-Justin Grant-345, 3-Chris Windom-332, 4-Kyle
Cummins-326, 5-C.J. Leary-322, 6-Brady Bacon-322,
7-Logan Seavey-312, 8-Shane Cottle-298, 9-Carson
Short-286, 10-Robert Ballou-266.
OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING
MASTER POINTS: 1-Chris Windom-79, 2-Tanner Thorson-58,
3-Logan Seavey-57, 4-Justin Grant-52, 5-Robert
Ballou-43, 6-Andrew Layser-44, 7-Daison Pursley-42,
8-Chase Stockon-39, 9-Thomas Meseraull-38, 10-Shane
Cottle-35.
FINAL NOS ENERGY DRINK
INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Robert
Ballou-26, 2-Shane Cottle-25, 3-Carson Short-17, 4-Matt
Westfall-17, 5-Kyle Cummins-14, 6-Thomas Meseraull-14,
7-Chris Windom-12, 8-Justin Grant-11, 9-Chase
Stockon-11, 10-Chase Johnson-10.
NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: August 26, 2020 - Kokomo
Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval - #GYATK
Night (Non-Points Special Event)
CONTINGENCY AWARD
WINNERS:
ProSource Indiana Sprint
Week Passing Master Champion: Robert Ballou
Fatheadz Eyewear Fast
Qualifier: Logan Seavey
Simpson Race Products First
Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins
Competition Suspension, Inc.
Second Heat Winner: Robert Ballou
AutoMeter Third Heat Winner:
C.J. Leary
Indy Race Parts Fourth Heat
Winner: Chase Stockon
Indy Metal Finishing Semi
Winner: Chase Johnson
KSE Racing Products / B & W
Auto Mart Hard Charger: Dakota Jackson (16th to 7th)
Wilwood Brakes 13th Place
Finisher: Justin Grant
Saldana Racing Products
First Non-Transfer: Dave Darland
Roger & Barb Tapy
13th Fastest Qualifier: Max Adams
Jim Spridgeon / Rich Murray
Hard Work Award: Kent Schmidt
Jerry Medlin Last Running
Car in the Semi: Brayden Fox
Everything Dirt Racing Hard
Luck Award: Stevie Sussex
ISW AT TRI-STATE POSTPONED TO SUNDAY, AUG. 2
Saturday night's NOS Energy
Drink Indiana Sprint Week event at Tri-State Speedway has
been postponed by rain until Sunday, August 2. Stay tuned
for another update at 2:30pm ET today based on another round
of rain.
No campers will be permitted in
the grass at Tri-State Speedway. Limited spots are available
for campers. The starting times will be an hour earlier on
Sunday at Tri-State with qualifying at 5:30pm Central and
racing at 6:30 pm.
The Indiana Sprint Week event at
Bloomington Speedway has been canceled due to flooding and
saturated grounds.
USAC, Tri-State Speedway and
Lincoln Park Speedway/Bloomington will work closely over the
next several hours to develop a plan for the completion of
Indiana Sprint Week on Sunday/Monday.
LINCOLN PARK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK RAINED OUT
Thursday night's NOS Energy
Drink Indiana Sprint Week USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National
Championship event from Lincoln Park Speedway has been
rained out.
Spiker Promotions is currently
evaluating conditions at both Lincoln Park Speedway and
Bloomington Speedway, where this Friday's ISW event is
scheduled, and where they also received even more rain.
Updates on the statuses of both ISW events will be posted
soon.
NETS FINAL LAP VICTORY AT
TERRE HAUTE
By: Richie Murray - USAC Media
Terre Haute, Indiana (July 29, 2020)........."I just ran every lap
harder than the last one. I figured if I didn't get it done on the
last one, I must need to run this thing harder. Finally, I worked
my courage up to run it hard enough to finally get by him."
Those are the words of Justin Grant who capitalized on a pair of
late-race cautions and an "overtime" period to score a last lap USAC
AMSOIL National Sprint Car victory Wednesday night during the
Dorsett Automotive Don Smith Classic at the Terre Haute Action Track
in round four of NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week.
A succession of unfortunate timing led to race leader Chase
Stockon's ultimate misfortune in the final two green-white-checkered
restarts. The last of which, Grant drove around Stockon in the
second turn and raced to victory for the fourth time with the series
this season, taking over the ISW point lead by a mere six points
over Stockon and 10 points over 3rd place Brady Bacon with three
races remaining over the next three nights.
"We want to win this championship badly," Grant exclaimed. "I want
to win races, I like trophies, I like wheelies, bicycles, running
above the cushion and I'm here to make money. This is how I feed my
kids. This is how I pay my bills. This is my life. Fortunately,
points and dollars earned correlate pretty closely. Tonight, the
safe move would've been to run second. But, god, I love winning
races. So, we said, 'screw it,' let's win this race. We were wide
open above the curb getting in, wheelieing, bicycling, and getting
trophies."
Taking a line a car width or two above Stockon just before the first
and second yellow near the end of the main event, Grant wasn't able
to get the oomph off turn two to make the move stick. The third
time proved to be a charm, however, as the Ione, Calif. lived up to
the refrain, "if at first you don't succeed, try, try again" for his
20th career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car win.
Stockon, the 2016 Don Smith Classic winner, led the opening lap of
the 30-lap event before Bacon, himself a two-time Terre Haute winner
with the series, charged to the point on the bottom of turn four on
the second lap. Grant, starting 4th meanwhile, put his bid in for
2nd, riding the bottom rail between turns three and four to the
runner-up spot on the seventh lap.
Bacon had upped his lead to 2.5 seconds when Max Adams suffered a
flat right rear tire to bring out the yellow with 12 laps
remaining. With the field bunched up for the restart, Bacon's lead
wasn't long for the world as he slid through the middle of turn one,
henceforth opening the door on the bottom for Grant to drive by
while Stockon followed suit on the bottom at the exit of turn two to
glide into second.
Grant's run up front was short lived as, just one lap later, Stockon
stuck the bottom of turns one and two to snag the lead from Grant.
Stockon extended his lead to three-quarters of a second, but that
lead tediously dwindled when Grant closed to within a car length
trying to make an outside pass in turn two, to no avail. At that
point, victory was seemingly in the bag for Stockon as he rounded
turn three only to find a yellow flag and the 20th place car of Nate
McMillin spun backwards, facing his direction and in motion at the
exit of turn four.
By rule, caution periods that occur on the white flag lap will
result in a two-lap, green-white-checkered finish. Subsequently,
second running Grant and now third-place Windom had an additional
opportunity, much to the chagrin of Stockon. The restart was nearly
identical to the final lap before the McMillin caution with Grant
trying with all his might to get around Stockon who was perfect on
the bottom line.
Just as Stockon began to exhale and a feature win seemed imminent,
lightning struck again for the Fort Branch, Ind. native as he swept
through turn three only to see the yellow once again for the spun
car of Dennis Gile in turn two, running 15th at the time.
As the leader, Stockon had to be perfect, especially with the sense
of not being able to see the angles of attack with which his
closest competitors were utilizing behind him. In essence, Grant,
in second, only had to be perfect just this once. After one lap of
trailing Stockon around the half-mile on what wound up as being lap
31, Grant got a big run off turn four headed to the white flag.
Being stuck high in the crumbs on the exit of two during his last
attempts there, Grant had an alternate plan.
"I entered below the lip and didn't want to turn over on the lip
getting in," Grant recalled. "The only way this thing's going to
work is if I run right over that lip wide open, get enough bite on
entry and drive across the slick and get back to the good stuff off
two. And, by god, it worked!"
With Grant tucked right behind Stockon at the start/finish line, the
two tagged bumpers. Stockon, now possibly carrying too much speed
into turn one, slid straight up to the middle, losing momentum and
opening up the expressway at the top for Grant and the bottom for
Windom who both raced on by for first and second, respectively.
Grant executed the last half-lap of the distance as the frontrunner,
going on to win his second career series race at Terre Haute by a
margin of two car lengths, or 0.257 of a second, over Windom,
Stockon, C.J. Leary and Shane Cottle.
On this particular evening, the late cautions which caused
misfortune and much consternation for some, happened to play into
the hands of Grant who made his third and final effort the payoff
pitch.
"Tonight, it played in our favor, but sometime this season, it
won't," Grant admitted. "It's just one of those things. Tonight,
it didn't play in Chase's favor, but at some point this year, it
will. Like it or not, it's part of the game and you've got to play
the game how it's played. We know what the gig is coming in and
that's part of the gig. It doesn't matter if it's not your favorite
part, it's part of it. And you've got to do what you've got to do."
In other notes, during Fatheadz Eyewear Qualifying, C.J. Leary
earned his 27th career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car fast
qualifying time, equaling him with both Dave Steele and Chase
Stockon for 12th on the all-time list.
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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: July 29,
2020 - Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - 1/2-Mile
Dirt Oval - NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week / Dorsett
Automotive Don Smith Classic
FATHEADZ EYEWEAR QUALIFYING FLIGHT ONE: 1. C.J. Leary, 30,
Leary-19.933; 2. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-20.126; 3. Chase Stockon, 5s,
KO-20.152; 4. Chris Windom, 19, Hayward-20.156; 5. Logan Seavey,
19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-20.162; 6. Chase Johnson, 68,
Thomas-20.351; 7. Dave Darland, 36d, EZR/Curb-Agajanian-20.369; 8.
Kyle Cummins, 3R, Rock Steady-20.389; 9. Tyler Thomas, 17GP,
Dutcher-20.506; 10. Clinton Boyles, 57, Hazen-20.506; 11. Brandon
Mattox, 28, Mattox-20.606; 12. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-20.683;
13. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-20.715; 14. Matt Westfall, 33m,
Marshall-20.739; 15. Chris Phillips, 6p, Phillips-20.860; 16. Dustin
Clark, 75, Clark-20.965; 17. Brandon Morin, 98, Morin-21.074; 18.
Tye Mihocko, 5T, Mihocko-21.080; 19. Anthony D'Alessio, 01,
D'Alessio-21.138; 20. Kendall Ruble, 17K, Ruble/Martin-21.161; 21.
Steve Thomas, 27, Thomas-22.182.
FATHEADZ EYEWEAR QUALIFYING FLIGHT TWO: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9K,
KT-19.974; 2. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-20.120; 3. Jake Swanson,
34AZ, Team AZ-20.357; 4. Dennis Gile, 13, Gile-20.377; 5. Carson
Short, 71p, Daigh/Phillips-20.380; 6. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T,
Tafoya-20.582; 7. Shane Cottle, 74x, Hodges-20.601; 8. Bill Rose, 6,
Rose-20.791; 9. Jadon Rogers, 61m, Edwards-20.837; 10. Matt
Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-20.924; 11. Anton Hernandez, 5,
Baldwin-20.974; 12. Max Adams, 5m, Adams-21.012; 13. Max Guilford,
79BT, Goodnight-21.014; 14. Dustin Smith, 77, LG-21.116; 15. Nate
McMillin, 24, McMillin-21.128; 16. Mitch Wissmiller, 29, RMB-21.206;
17. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-21.311; 18. Sterling Cling, 34,
Cling-21.351; 19. Logan Hupp, 69JM, Gindling-21.485; 20. Chayse
Hayhurst, 20, Hayhurst-21.577; 21. Dakota Jackson, 17, On The Gass-NT.
SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the
feature) 1. Chase Stockon, 2. Brandon Mattox, 3. Dave Darland, 4.
C.J. Leary, 5. Robert Ballou, 6. Tyler Thomas, 7. Logan Seavey, 8.
Chris Phillips, 9. Brandon Morin, 10. Anthony D'Alessio, 11. Steve
Thomas. 2:47.870
COMPETITION SUSPENSION (CSI) SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to
the feature) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Charles Davis Jr.,
4. Kyle Cummins, 5., Clinton Boyles, 6. Chase Johnson, 7. Matt
Westfall, 8. Tye Mihocko, 9. Kendall Ruble, 10. Dustin Clark.
2:45.154
AUTOMETER THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1.
Shane Cottle, 2. Carson Short, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Jake Swanson,
5. Nate McMillin, 6. Anton Hernandez, 7. Jadon Rogers, 8. Max
Guilford, 9. Logan Hupp, 10. Dakota Jackson, 11. Kurt Gross.
2:50.048
INDY RACE PARTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature)
1. Brady Bacon, 2. Max Adams, 3. Dennis Gile, 4. Dustin Smith, 5.
Mitch Wissmiller, 6. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 7. Bill Rose, 8. Sterling
Cling, 9. Chayse Hayhurst. 2:50.156
C-MAIN: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the semi) 1. Dustin Clark, 2.
Brandon Morin, 3. Tye Mihocko, 4. Mitch Wissmiller, 5. Kendall
Ruble, 6. Sterling Cling, 7. Anthony D'Alessio, 8. Kurt Gross, 9.
Chayse Hayhurst, 10. Steve Thomas. 3:42.874
INDY METAL FINISHING SEMI: (12 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature)
1. Logan Seavey, 2. Clinton Boyles, 3. Robert Ballou, 4. Chase
Johnson, 5. Matt Westfall, 6. Nate McMillin, 7. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 8.
Chris Phillips, 9. Anton Hernandez, 10. Max Guilford, 11. Jadon
Rogers, 12. Bill Rose, 13. Tye Mihocko, 14. Dustin Clark, 15.
Brandon Morin, 16. Tyler Thomas, 17. Mitch Wissmiller. 4:21.266
FEATURE: (32 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin
Grant (4), 2. Chris Windom (7), 3. Chase Stockon (2), 4. C.J. Leary
(6), 5. Shane Cottle (8), 6. Brady Bacon (3), 7. Logan Seavey (10),
8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 9. Dave Darland (13), 10. Robert Ballou
(19), 11. Kyle Cummins (14), 12. Jake Swanson (1), 13. Charles Davis
Jr. (17), 14. Carson Short (11), 15. Brandon Mattox (16), 16. Matt
Westfall (20), 17. Nate McMillin (22), 18. Clinton Boyles (15), 19.
Dennis Gile (9), 20. Dustin Smith (21), 21. Chase Johnson (12), 22.
Max Adams (18). NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Chase Stockon, Laps 2-18 Brady Bacon, Lap
19 Justin Grant, Laps 20-31 Chase Stockon, Lap 32 Justin Grant.
USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin
Grant-1,034, 2-Brady Bacon-950, 3-Chris Windom-929, 4-Chase
Stockon-927, 5-C.J. Leary-923, 6-Carson Short-820, 7-Kevin Thomas
Jr.-791, 8-Dave Darland-680, 9-Brandon Mattox-610, 10-Logan
Seavey-597.
NOS ENERGY DRINK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-291,
2-Chase Stockon-285, 3-Brady Bacon-281, 4-C.J. Leary-265, 5-Chris
Windom-260, 6-Logan Seavey-244, 7-Kyle Cummins-238, 8-Carson
Short-225, 9-Shane Cottle-210, 10-Robert Ballou-193.
OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Chris Windom-79, 2-Tanner
Thorson-58, 3-Logan Seavey-57, 4-Justin Grant-52, 5-Andrew
Layser-44, 6-Robert Ballou-43, 7-Daison Pursley-42, 8-Thomas
Meseraull-38, 9-Jerry Coons Jr.-36, 10-Shane Cottle-35.
NOS ENERGY DRINK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Robert
Ballou-24, 2-Shane Cottle-23, 3-Matt Westfall-17, 4-Kyle Cummins-14,
5-Thomas Meseraull-14, 6-Chris Windom-12, 7-Justin Grant-11, 8-Chase
Johnson-10, 9-Carson Short-8, 10-A.J. Hopkins-8.
NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 30,
2020 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana - 5/16-Mile Dirt
Oval - NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week
CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:
Fatheadz Eyewear Fast Qualifier: C.J. Leary
Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Chase Stockon
Competition Suspension, Inc. Second Heat Winner: Chris Windom
AutoMeter Third Heat Winner: Shane Cottle
Indy Race Parts Fourth Heat Winner: Brady Bacon
Indy Metal Finishing Semi Winner: Logan Seavey
KSE Racing Products / B & W Auto Mart Hard Charger: Robert Ballou
(19th to 10th)
Wilwood Brakes 13th Place Finisher: Charles Davis Jr.
Saldana Racing Products First Non-Transfer: Eddie Tafoya Jr.
Roger & Barb Tapy 13th Fastest Qualifier: Kyle Cummins
Jim Spridgeon / Rich Murray Hard Work Award: Nate McMillin
Jerry Medlin Last Running Car in the Semi: Brandon Morin
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LANCO EASTERN MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW
By: Richie Murray - USAC Media
Newmanstown,
Pennsylvania (August 3, 2020).........During the
USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget debut at
Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway back in
2016, Tanner Thorson needed all the heroics he
could muster to pull off a last-lap, last corner
pass to take the victory.
In
2017, the Minden, Nev. native repeated the feat
as a Lanco victor once again at the 1/8-mile
bullring in Newmanstown, Pa. This time,
however, it was a relative comfort cruise,
comparatively speaking, as Thorson led all 40
laps from start to finish.
Thorson led the
first ever USAC Midget laps at Lanco in 2016,
leading the first three, then the final one en
route to victory. The 2016 USAC National Midget
champion led flag to flag in 2017 and remains
undefeated on Lanco soil in his career.
Forty lappers are
somewhat a rarity these days compared to the
more-standard 30-lap events that make up the
majority of the schedule. Forty laps can add
extra variables and intangibles throughout the
duration, especially at the extreme bullring
that is Lanco, where the series visits this
Saturday night, August 8, for the Eastern Midget
Week finale.
It's an elbows up,
always on the toes affair at Lanco that makes it
entertaining for those of us who are watching
and a thrill a second pursuit for competitors.
Saturday at Lanco
will mark the fourth 40-lap feature on the
schedule this season. While Thorson has won
three 40-lappers in his USAC career, no driver
owns more wins this season in that distance with
the series (2) than reigning series champion
Tyler Courtney (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Among drivers
expected in the Lanco field, none have more than
Courtney at five, including victories at Port
City Raceway in Tulsa, Okla. and Jefferson
County Speedway in Fairbury, Neb. Rich Vogler
leads all driver with a seemingly unreachable
record of 33 career 40-lap USAC National Midget
feature triumphs.
Courtney
(Indianapolis, Ind.) has finished on the
"podium" twice at Lanco, taking 3rd in 2017 and
2nd in 2019. In 2018, Courtney flipped early
while running 6th, then returned to the field
and drove to a 10th place result.
Justin Grant (Ione,
Calif.) has joined Petry Motorsports on their
tour of the east in a third car alongside Tanner
Carrick and Emerson Axsom. Grant's only two
previous Lanco appearances have been a little
rocky. He won his heat in 2017, then flipped on
the opening lap of the feature. His second
attempt in 2018 also saw him flip with 15 laps
remaining. The current USAC AMSOIL National
Sprint Car point leader got back up on the horse
and battled back to a 7th place finish. Grant
owns two career 40-lap USAC Midget victories,
adding one this past May in Port City.
Carrick (Lincoln,
Calif.) captured his lone career USAC National
Midget feature win a 40-lapper during the 2019
season at Sweet Springs, Mo. The 2019 USAC
National Most Improved driver has finished
inside the top-ten in all three of his Lanco
starts, 8th (2017), 6th (2018) and 9th (2019).
Rookie Axsom (Franklin, Ind.), has onoly made
five career series starts, but has finished
inside the top-8 in each of the last four.
Kevin Thomas Jr.
(Cullman, Ala.), who'll reside in Heffner
Racing's Midget throughout Eastern Midget Week,
led the first 16 laps in his 2018 debut before
being involved in a turn three crash while
leading that knocked him out of the race. He
recovered nicely in 2019 with a solid 4th place
result.
Chad Boat has
assumed the owner's role for the 2020 season,
but as a driver, he's made all four Lanco starts
this year. He won his heat and finished 6th in
2016, was 6th again in 2017, 11th in 2018 and
10th in 2019 after leading the first eight
circuits. His driver lineup for Lanco includes
series point leader, Chris Windom (Canton,
Ill.), a heat race victor and 6th place finisher
in 2019.
Andrew Layser, a
product of Collegeville, Pa., has been solid in
each of his past two starts after taking 17th in
2013 as an ARDC regular. The 2019 USAC National
Midget Rookie of the Year charged from 19th to
8th in 2019, then elevated to a 7th place finish
in 2019. Along with Windom and Layser in the
Tucker-Boat Motorsports stable for the week is
Dillon Welch, the 2009 USAC Kenyon Midget champ
and former "voice of USAC."
The No. 39BC from
Clauson-Marshall Racing won the event in 2018
with driver Zeb Wise. Cole Bodine (Rossville,
Ind.) has the reigns of the ride this year as he
makes his first Eastern Midget Week appearance.
Ethan Mitchell returns for a second Lanco
adventure after a 14th place finish in 2018.
Kyle Cummins, a recent winner of the NOS Energy
Drink Indiana Sprint Week finale at Tri-State
Speedway on August 2, will venture east in Jack
Yeley's midget for the final two nights of
Eastern Midget Week at Path Valley and Lanco.
Royersford,
Pennsylvania's Steve Buckwalter took 11th in his
singular Lanco appearance in 2016. Adam Pierson
(East Corinth, Vt.) finished 16th at Lanco in
2017, but it was there that he also recorded his
best career USAC National Midget feature finish
with a 4th in 2018. Kevin Woody Jr. notched a
17th place finish at Lanco in 2018 while Steve
Drevicki took 14th in 2019.
Keith
Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports have won three
of the four Lanco USAC Midget races, in 2016-17
with Thorson and again in 2019 with Logan
Seavey. The team will be bringing its talented
group who'll all be making their Lanco USAC
debuts - Penngrove, California's Buddy Kofoid
(3rd in points), Bixby, Oklahoma's Cannon
McIntosh (5th in points) and Locust Grove,
Oklahoma's Daison Pursley (7th in points.).
Pit gates open for
trailer parking at 1pm ET, Pit admission sales
begin at 3:30pm, gates open for advance ticket
holders at 3:30pm, gates open for general
admission ticket holders at 4:30pm, Midget
drivers' meeting at 5:30pm, with midgets on
track at 6pm followed by qualifying and racing.
Wingless Micros are also on the event card.
Adult (ages 13 +)
general admission tickets are $20, children
(ages 6 - 12) general admission is $5 and
children (under 6) general admission is free.
Advance adult (ages 13 +) grandstand admission
is $25 and advance children (ages 6 -12) general
admission tickets are $7. Pit passes are $30
for members and $35 apiece for non-members.
Advance general
admission tickets will also be sold on the day
of the race from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the pit
shack. While all seats will be general
admission, purchasing tickets in advance will
permit fans to enter at 3:30 p.m. - one hour
prior to everyone else. Blankets, seat cushions,
etc. may be put down upon entering the spectator
seating area to reserve your seats (we will not
allow seats to be saved prior to 3:30 p.m.).
Fans with advance tickets may then walk down to
the pit area, where they will have approximately
two hours (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.) to tour the pits
and meet the USAC stars. The pits will be
cleared of spectators at 5:30 p.m.
PAST USAC NOS
ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS AT LANCO'S
CLYDE MARTIN MEMORIAL SPEEDWAY:
2016-Tanner Thorson, 2017-Tanner Thorson,
2018-Zeb Wise, 2019-Logan Seavey.
SUNDAY'S BILL HOLLAND
CLASSIC MARKS
USAC SILVER CROWN DEBUT
AT SELINSGROVE
By: Richie Murray - USAC Media
Selinsgrove,
Pennsylvania (August 4,
2020).........Each of the USAC Silver
Crown division's previous 14 visits to
the state of Pennsylvania have produced
14 different race winners. Could
another new winner emerge in the Silver
Crown debut at the half-mile dirt oval
of Pennsylvania's Selinsgrove Speedway
this Sunday night, August 9, in the Bill
Holland Classic?
The three
most recent Pennsylvania-bred Silver
Crown races have been captured by a trio
of USAC National champions, all at
Williams Grove Speedway: Chris Windom
(2016), Kody Swanson (2017) and Brady
Bacon (2019). They're all entered for
Sunday's 74-lap event that honors
Holland, the man who won the inaugural
race at Selinsgrove on July 20, 1946 -
74 years ago.
A 2005
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
inductee, Holland earned the 1941 AAA
East championship and took second in the
National AAA title race in 1947.
Retiring in 1959, Holland scored 53
sprint car triumphs during his career
under AAA sanction as well as in
unsanctioned events.
His champ
car career spanned nearly two decades
between 1936 and 1954 and included more
than 150 "podium" finishes, including,
perhaps, one of the greatest strings of
Indianapolis 500 results ever put
together during a four-year span between
1947 and 1950 in Lou Moore's Blue Crown
Spark Plug Special: a 2nd in 1947,
2nd in 1948, 1st in 1949 and 2nd in
1950.
Pennsylvania
itself is steeped in history with the
USAC Silver Crown division, serving as
the host of the first-ever race in
series history at Nazareth National
Speedway in 1971, won by Jim McElreath.
That same 1971 season also marked the
first, and most recent, visit by USAC at
Selinsgrove, when local standout Mitch
Smith raced to victory in a National
Sprint Car event.
Forty-nine
years later, USAC returns to
Selinsgrove, with a stacked field of
today's racing heroes, including Silver
Crown's only five-time champion in
2014-15-17-18-19, and 29-time race
winner and 29-time pole winner, Kody
Swanson of Kingsburg, Calif., plus
additional National Champions, 8-time
Silver Crown winner and 2016 Silver
Crown / 2017 AMSOIL National Sprint
champ Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.), plus
C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.), twice a
Silver Crown race winner and the
reigning USAC AMSOIL National Sprint
titlist.
Brady Bacon
(Broken Arrow, Okla.), twice a USAC
National Sprint champ in 2014 and 2016,
and the most recent Pennsylvania Silver
Crown winner at Williams Grove in 2019,
is entered. Logan Seavey (Sutter,
Calif.), the 2018 USAC NOS Energy Drink
National Midget champ is entered for his
USAC Silver Crown debut, part of a
talented group of wheelmen planning to
make their first series start this
Sunday along with 7-time USAC National
Sprint feature winner Kyle Cummins
(Princeton, Ind.), 2017 USAC West Coast
Sprint champ Jake Swanson (Anaheim,
Calif.).
Joey Biasi
(Mary D, Pa.) and Carmen Perigo
(Stoystown, Pa.) are frequent front
runners with USAC's Rapid Tire East
Coast Sprint Car series, both of whom
will be making their first appearance in
a Silver Crown car this Sunday.
They're also among the four
Pennsylvanians on the entry list
alongside series veterans Mike
Haggenbottom (Levittown, Pa.) and Dave
Berkheimer (Mechanicsburg, Pa.).
Experienced
Silver Crown race winners make up a
third of the field. Along with the
previously mentioned USAC National
champions of Bacon, Windom, Swanson and
Leary, Silver Crown winners in the
Selinsgrove lineup include David Byrne
(Shullsburg, Wisc.), Shane Cockrum
(Benton, Ill.), Shane Cottle (Kansas,
Ill.) and current USAC AMSOIL National
Sprint Car point leader Justin Grant
(Ione, Calif.).
Six-time All
Star Circuit of Champions titlist Chad
Kemenah (Alvada, Ohio) is back for his
second Silver Crown season on the dirt
after making his first four series
starts in 2019. Twenty-seven-time USAC
National Sprint Car winner Kevin Thomas
Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) has finished
2nd five times in his Silver Crown
career and is seeking to bump that up
one more spot for his first victory with
the series.
Past Silver
Crown Rookies of the Year, New Castle,
Indiana's Kyle Robbins (2018) and
Pleasant Hill, Ohio's Matt Westfall
(2002) are set for their Selinsgrove
debuts while series veterans Austin
Nemire (Sylvania, Ohio), Travis Welpott
(Pendleton, Ind.), Matt Goodnight
(Winchester, Ind.), Ronnie Wuerdeman
(Cincinnati, Ohio) and Jake Simmons
(Terre Haute, Ind.) are geared for
another season of Silver Crown
competition.
Sunday marks
a USAC doubleheader with USAC's Rapid
Tire East Coast Sprint Car series also
on the card. Pit gates open at 3pm ET,
grandstands at 4:30pm (4pm for advance
ticket holders), drivers meeting at
5:30pm and practice at 6pm, followed by
qualifying and racing.
Adult
general admission tickets for Sunday at
Selinsgrove are $25 with students ages
12 - 17 priced at $15. Kids ages 11 and
under are free. Pit passes are $40.
Reserved seats for all ages are an
additional $2 and can be purchased by
emailing
promoter@selinsgrovespeedway.com
with contact information.
SELINSGROVE USAC SILVER CROWN ENTRY
LIST: (24 cars)
3 JAKE
SIMMONS/Terre Haute, IN
6 BRADY
BACON/Broken Arrow, OK
7 KYLE
ROBBINS/New Castle, IN
9 KEVIN
THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL
10 JAKE
SWANSON/Anaheim, CA
15 CHAD
KEMENAH/Alvada, OH
16 AUSTIN
NEMIRE/Sylvania, OH
17 CHRIS
WINDOM/Canton, IL
18 TRAVIS
WELPOTT/Pendleton, IN
20 KODY
SWANSON/Kingsburg, CA
22 LOGAN
SEAVEY/Sutter, CA
24 MIKE
HAGGENBOTTOM/Levittown, PA
30 C.J.
LEARY/Greenfield, IN
31 DAVE
BERKHEIMER/Mechanicsburg, PA
33 RONNIE
WUERDEMAN/Cincinnati, OH
39 MATT
GOODNIGHT/Winchester, IN
40 DAVID
BYRNE/Shullsburg, WI
52 CARMEN
PERIGO/Stoystown, PA
53 SHANE
COCKRUM/Benton, IL
54 MATT
WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH
69 KYLE
CUMMINS/Princeton, IN
81 SHANE
COTTLE/Kansas, IL
PENNSYLVANIA USAC SILVER CROWN WINS:
1-Brady
Bacon, Chris Windom, Eddie Leavitt, Gary
Bettenhausen, Jason Leffler, Jim
McElreath, Jimmy Horton, Kasey Kahne,
Keith Kauffman, Kody Swanson, Russ
Gamester, Sheldon Kinser, Tracy Hines &
Tyler Walker
PENNSYLVANIA USAC SILVER CROWN WINNERS:
1971: Jim
McElreath (6/20 at Nazareth National
Speedway)
1980:
Sheldon Kinser (7/5 at Williams Grove
Speedway)
1981: Eddie
Leavitt (7/5 at Williams Grove Speedway)
1982: Keith
Kauffman (12/4 at Nazareth National
Motor Speedway)
1983: Gary
Bettenhausen (3/26 at Nazareth National
Motor Speedway)
1983: Jimmy
Horton (7/3 at Nazareth National Motor
Speedway)
1999: Jason
Leffler (7/17 at Nazareth Speedway)
2000: Tracy
Hines (4/8 at Nazareth Speedway)
2001: Russ
Gamester (5/5 at Nazareth Speedway)
2003: Kasey
Kahne (8/24 at Nazareth Speedway)
2004: Tyler
Walker (8/29 at Nazareth Speedway)
2016: Chris
Windom (6/10 at Williams Grove Speedway)
2017: Kody
Swanson (6/16 at Williams Grove
Speedway)
2019: Brady
Bacon (6/14 at Williams Grove Speedway)
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BRIDGEPORT EASTERN MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW
By: Richie Murray - USAC Media
Bridgeport, New Jersey (July 31, 2020).........It's
been 31 years since the USAC NOS Energy Drink
National Midgets have visited the Garden State of
New Jersey, but this coming Thursday, August 6, the
three-plus decade hiatus comes to a close as the
highly-competitive series makes its debut at
Bridgeport Speedway for round three of Eastern
Midget Week, the first time the mini-series has
ventured outside of the state of Pennsylvania in its
six year history.
USAC series have competed at the track in recent
years with Bridgeport hosting the Eastern Storm tour
for the AMSOIL National Sprint Cars in both 2018-19
as well as the Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Cars in
that same time frame.
For those individuals who've competed with the
national series at Bridgeport over the last couple
of seasons, they will be greeted by a newly
reconverted 4/10-mile dirt oval. Those past events
have been held on the former 3/8-mile dirt oval
which was located inside of the now-defunct 5/8-mile
dirt track.
With that said, all past experience at the track is
out the window with the new layout. However, a
handful of name drivers do have experience, and
their share of successes, at Bridgeport in its
previous iteration.
Kevin Thomas Jr., who'll be competing for Heffner
Racing throughout Eastern Midget Week, was the
fastest qualifier and the winner of the USAC AMSOIL
National Sprint Car debut at Bridgeport in 2018.
The Cullman, Ala. driver followed up with a
runner-up finish during his last series visit in
2019.
USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget point leader
Chris Windom led 11 laps and finished 2nd after his
involvement in a memorable back-and-forth tussle
throughout the 30-lap distance between he, Thomas
and Tyler Courtney, all of whom will be competing
throughout the entirety of Eastern Midget Week.
Windom, the 2016 USAC Silver Crown and 2017 AMSOIL
National Sprint Car champion from Canton, Ill.
collected an 8th place finish at Bridgeport in 2019.
Reigning USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget
champion Tyler Courtney finished 3rd in his USAC
Sprint Car visit to Bridgeport in 2018. The
Indianapolis, ind. native captured a heat race win
in 2019 before moving from the 10th starting
position to a 6th place feature finish.
Justin Grant has been tabbed as the driver of the
Petry Motorsports No. 5 throughout Eastern Midget
Week. The current USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car
point leader from Ione, Calif. finished 8th in 2018
before upping his performance to a 3rd in 2019 in
USAC Sprint competition at Bridgeport.
Thomas Meseraull (San Jose, Calif.) is always a
thrill show at any venue he participates. Twice a
non-point special event winner with the USAC
Midgets, Meseraull made a charge during his debut at
Bridgeport in a sprint car during Eastern Storm
2018, cutting through the field to 9th after
starting 18th on the grid.
Steven Drevicki (Reading, Pa.) just this past week
reigned victorious in a USAC SpeedSTR feature at
Bridgeport by about a foot on a last lap, last
corner pass for the win. The two-time USAC Rapid
Tire East Coast Sprint Car champion also owns two
career top-five finishes with the series there, a
2nd in 2018 and a 5th in 2019. During Eastern Storm
at Bridgeport in 2019, Drevicki collected a
12th place result.
Several drivers within the top-ten of the current
USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget point
standings are each making their debuts at
Bridgeport, including top Rookie, Penngrove,
California's Buddy Kofoid (3rd in the standings);
along with 2016 series champ and two-time Eastern
Midget Week feature winner Tanner Thorson of Minden,
Nev. (4th); 2019 Shamrock Classic victor, Cannon
McIntosh of Bixby, Okla. (5th); 2019 USAC National
Most Improved Driver Tanner Carrick of Lincoln,
Calif. (6th), Rookie Daison Pursley of Locust Grove,
Okla. (7th), Rossville, Indiana's Cole Bodine (8th)
and Pennsylvania's own Andrew Layser (9th), the 2019
series Rookie of the Year from Collegeville.
USAC's National Midget history dates back more than
six decades ago when 1957-58 Indoor Midget champion
Chuck Rodee scored a 100-mile victory at the
Fairgrounds in Trenton. The longest midget races in
USAC history took place in the state of New Jersey
in 1959 and 1960 when Jiggs Peters and Bobby
Marshman/Jimmy Davies each won 250-mile races at
Trenton, respectively. The Marshman/Davies combo
win was the only time in series history that two
drivers were credited with a shared victory.
Seven of New Jersey's previous 14 USAC National
Midget events have been held at Trenton, with two at
Wall Stadium in 1963, the first night of which was
won by Parnelli Jones, who was fresh off his
Indianapolis 500 win. Old Bridge Speedway hosted
the series in 1964 while Flemington Speedway was the
venue for the three most recent in 1971-86-89, the
final two of which were won by John Heydenreich, who
remains active as a driver to this day.
The Foley Cat Modifieds will also be on the event
card. Pits open for Bridgeport at 3pm Eastern with
front gates opening at 4:30pm and hot laps at 6pm.
General admission tickets are $28 for
adults, $15 for kids age 10-15 and free for kids age
9 & under. Pit passes are $35 apiece. Tickets can be
purchased at the gate or on
www.bridgeportspeedway.thundertix.com
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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET
WINS IN NEW JERSEY:
2-Bobby Marshman & John Heydenreich
1-Billy Vukovich, Bob Harkey, Jimmy Davies, Chuck
Rodee, Eddie Johnson, Jiggs Peters, Jimmy Kirk,
Johnny Parsons, Mel Kenyon, Parnelli Jones & Tom
Bigelow
USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK
MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Chris
Windom-1,035, 2-Tyler Courtney-928, 3-Buddy
Kofoid-919, 4-Tanner Thorson-906, 5-Cannon
McIntosh-809, 6-Tanner Carrick-713, 7-Daison
Pursley-677, 8-Cole Bodine-629, 9-Andrew Layser-598,
10-Justin Grant-489.
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VALLEY EASTERN MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW
By: Richie Murray - USAC Media
Spring Run, Pennsylvania (August 1,
2020).........Chad Boat may have been Arizonian-born
and bred, but his prowess of Eastern Midget Week of
late has made the Keystone State sort of another
adopted state when the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget
National Championship arrives in the late summer as
they will once again on Friday night, August 7,
during the five race, five track, five day stretch
for the series at Path Valley Speedway Park in
Spring Run, Pennsylvania.
Boat, who now actually resides in Mooresville, North
Carolina, endured a lap-after-lap attack from Zeb
Wise for much of the middle of the 2019 30-lapper at
Path Valley to win his first of the year. In fact,
it was his first victory with the series since the
Eastern Midget Week finale almost exactly one year
earlier.
The victory was Boat's second-straight at the
quarter-mile dirt oval of Path Valley dating back to
his last visit in 2017. His four career Eastern
Midget Week triumphs elevated him past Mel Kenyon in
2019 to make him the winningest USAC National Midget
driver of all-time in the state of Pennsylvania.
The victory was extra special due to the fact that
Chad equaled his father on the all-time USAC NOS
Energy Drink feature win list with nine. Dad, Billy
Boat, is a three-time "Turkey Night Grand Prix"
Midget winner in 1995-96-97 and won the pole for the
Indianapolis 500 in 1998.
Shortly following that win, Chad stepped aside from
the driver's role and into the role of crew chief
and team owner for Tucker-Boat Motorsports, which
has quickly developed into a force on the USAC NOS
Energy Drink National Midget scene in 2020.
Two of his drivers reside inside the top-10 of the
series standings. Chris Windom leads and Andrew
Layser is 9th, while Dillon Welch will occupy a
third car for the team throughout all five races of
Eastern Midget Week, August 4-8. Each time TBM has
competed at Path Valley in 2017 and 2019, the team
has won, giving them an inside edge at the racy
bullring.
Current series point leader Windom (Canton, Ill.)
finished 2nd behind Boat during his Path Valley
debut in 2019. Collegeville, Pa.'s Andrew Layser,
the 2019 USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year,
made his first series start at Path Valley in 2017
back when he was a regular with ARDC. There, he
finished 17th, but his most recent result of 10th in
2019 serves as his best thus far. Welch (Carmel,
Ind.), the 2009 USAC Kenyon Midget champion, holds
USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget one-lap track
records at both Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway and
California's Placerville Speedway.
Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports captured its
first Path Valley USAC Midget victory in 2015 with
driver Rico Abreu. This year, KKM, 10-time USAC
National Midget championship team with the
second-most victories in series history (110), has
brought a highly talented Rookie crop who are all
making their Eastern Midget Week debuts, but are
also seeking to earn the team its first USAC victory
of 2020.
Top Rookie, Penngrove, California's Buddy Kofoid
(3rd in the standings), who recently swept to a pair
of wing sprint car victories last weekend in Ohio at
Attica and Fremont, is joined by 2019 Shamrock
Classic victor, Cannon McIntosh of Bixby, Okla.
(5th) and Rookie Daison Pursley of Locust Grove,
Okla. (7th), all of whom are seeking to repeat Abreu
and Kunz's Path Valley mastery back in 2015.
Tanner Thorson, leader among all series regulars in
feature wins with the division in 2020, was the
fastest qualifier at Path Valley in 2015. That same
year, he led the first 13 laps of the feature before
being passed by Abreu on a mid-race restart. While
battling for 2nd, Thorson and Kevin Thomas Jr. made
contact, sending Thorson spinning to a stop, and
ultimately finishing 9th.
In 2017, Thorson was in position to win again at
Path Valley, pacing the field for 18 laps and was
leading when contact between he and Tyler Courtney
in turn four coming to the checkered flag sent
Thorson spinning out of the lead. An ultimately
better result came about for Thorson in 2019 with a
4th place finish.
Defending series champion Tyler Courtney, meanwhile,
has made two previous appearances at Path Valley.
In 2017, the 2019 USAC Super License titlist won his
heat race and finished 2nd in 2017. Two years
later, in 2019, he once again finished on the
"podium," taking a 3rd place result. Courtney's
Clauson-Marshall Racing teammate Cole Bodine
(Rossville, Ind.) will make his Path Valley debut.
His car, the CMR #39BC, owns the series' one-lap
track record at Path Valley, a 11.057 set by Zeb
Wise in 2019.
Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) has made two USAC
Midget starts at Path Valley, winning his heat race
and finishing 3rd in 2015, then took 14th in the
latest round there in 2019. Thomas, meanwhile,
recently vacated the Petry Motorsports No. 5, which
he had driven on the USAC Midget trail since late
2017. Making his USAC debut in the ride for Eastern
Midget Week is Justin Grant, the current USAC AMSOIL
National Sprint Car point leader and May's T-Town
Midget Showdown winner at Port City Raceway in
Tulsa, Okla.
Grant (Ione, Calif.) has made one previous Path
Valley appearance, winning his heat, then finishing
15th in the 2017 feature. The result was not
indicative of his performance, however, as he was
running 4th on the final lap when he flipped while
getting caught up in the aforementioned late-race
skirmish between Thorson and Courtney.
Along with Grant on the three-car Petry fleet for
Eastern Midget Week is 2019 USAC National Most
Improved Driver Tanner Carrick (Lincoln, Calif.),
twice a top-ten finisher with the series at Path
Valley. The 2017 USAC National Midget Rookie of the
Year finished a personal best 7th in 2017, then won
his heat and finished 8th in 2019. Carrick is
joined by impressive Rookie Emerson Axsom (Franklin,
Ind.), who has made five career series starts, but
has finished inside the top-8 in each of the last
four.
The mini-series in the east always provides a local
flair with the Eastern contingent. Two-time USAC
Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Car champ (2018-19) and
ARDC Midget titlist (2014-15) Steven Drevicki
(Reading, Pa.) will compete for the entirety of
Eastern Midget week with the Randy Heckman-owned
team. Drevicki won the semi-feature and finished
10th in the A-Main at Path Valley in 2015. In 2019,
he was 16th.
Steve Buckwalter (Royersford, Pa.) remains the most
recent Pennsylvanian to win a USAC National Midget
feature, which he did in 2010 at Gas City (Ind.)
I-69 Speedway. He was 20th in 2015. Buckwalter's
teammate, Kevin Woody Jr. (Victor, N.Y.) took
17th in 2019. Adam Pierson (East Corinth, Vt.), a
three-time USAC DMA Midget champion where he's won
33 career races, is entered for his first Eastern
Midget Week run in a couple of years.
USAC
NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
POINTS: 1-Chris
Windom-1,035, 2-Tyler Courtney-928, 3-Buddy
Kofoid-919, 4-Tanner Thorson-906, 5-Cannon
McIntosh-809, 6-Tanner Carrick-713, 7-Daison
Pursley-677, 8-Cole Bodine-629, 9-Andrew Layser-598,
10-Justin Grant-489.
PAST USAC NOS ENERGY
DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS AT PATH VALLEY
SPEEDWAY PARK: 2015: Rico Abreu, 2017: Chad
Boat, 2019: Chad Boat
2020 EASTERN
MIDGET WEEK SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, August 4: Grandview Speedway
(Bechtelsville, PA)
Wednesday, August 5: Action Track USA (Kutztown,
PA)
Thursday, August 6: Bridgeport Speedway
(Bridgeport, NJ)
Friday, August 7: Path Valley Speedway Park
(Spring Run, PA)
Saturday, August 8: Lanco's Clyde Martin
Memorial Speedway (Newmanstown, PA)
Sunday, August 9: Selinsgrove Speedway
(Selinsgrove, PA) **SILVER CROWN**
ACTION
TRACK USA EASTERN MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW
By:
Richie Murray - USAC Media
Kutztown, Pennsylvania (July
30, 2020).........A new first-time winner will emerge at
Action Track USA on Wednesday, August 5, in the second
race of 2020 Eastern Midget Week when the USAC NOS
Energy Drink Midget National Championship invades the
quarter-mile dirt oval in Kutztown where the competition
truly lived up to the track's moniker in the series'
2019 debut.
Among them are series point
leader Chris Windom, defending champion Tyler Courtney,
2016 champion Tanner Thorson and 2013 titlist
Christopher Bell, along with young guns like Buddy
Kofoid and Cannon McIntosh who are making their first
trip with the series to the east.
Last year, young Zeb Wise
looked the part of a savvy, seasoned veteran having to
hold off a relentless attack from Kyle Larson
lap-after-lap-after-lap, down to the final corner. An
inch or two was all Wise needed to fend off the
hard-charging Larson on the final corner, bouncing off
the outside concrete to break free on the outside and
beat Larson to the line by a half-car length at the
finish line, 0.078 of a second to be exact.
In his Action Track USA
debut, Courtney (Indianapolis, Ind.), twice a USAC
AMSOIL National Sprint Car winner in Pennsylvania,
established the track record in qualifying at 11.313,
then proceeded to win his heat race. He'd finish 5th in
the feature after starting 6th.
Series point leader Windom
(Canton, Ill.), a six-time Eastern Storm winner, was the
hard charger during the 2019 main event at Action Track
USA, driving from his 12th starting position to a
3rd place result behind Wise and Larson. He is a
one-time USAC Midget winner in the Keystone State in the
2019 opener at Grandview.
Thorson (Minden, Nev.) is
the lone multi-time USAC National Midget winner in
Pennsylvania among the contingent expected to compete at
Action Track USA. He finished 4th last year at Action
Track but owns a pair of victories at Lanco in
Newmanstown, Pa. in both 2016 and 17.
Local standout Andrew Layser
made his debut in a full-size midget at Action Track USA
in 2019, along with everyone else. The 2019 USAC
National Midget Rookie of the Year captured a heat race
win and was a big mover in the 30-lap feature, charging
from the 14th starting position to finish 7th.
Reading, Pennsylvania's
Steven Drevicki finished 15th in his first USAC National
Midget feature run at Action Track in 2019. The
two-time USAC Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Car champion
in 2018-19, Drevicki won what was dubbed the "race of
the season" for the All Pro SpeedSTRs at Action Track on
July 28. The two-time ARDC Midget champion in both 2014
and 2015 recently captured a feature victory in a
non-sanctioned midget feature at Abbottstown, Pa.'s
Lincoln Speedway.
Layser, along with Windom,
will team up NASCAR Cup regular Christopher Bell
(Norman, Okla.) and Dillon Welch (Carmel, Ind.) on the
Tucker/Boat Motorsports team for Action Track USA. The
team, with Chad Boat behind the wheel at the time, has
won USAC National Midget feature events in Pennsylvania
three years in a row. Boat himself led five laps last
year at Action Track.
A one-time USAC National
Sprint winner in the state of Pennsylvania, Kevin Thomas
Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) who will compete for the Heffner
Racing team throughout Eastern Midget Week, took
9th last year at Action Track. Lincoln, California's
Tanner Carrick (11th) and Mooresville, North Carolina's
Ethan Mitchell (22nd) will return for their second
Action Track appearances.
Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian
Motorsports standouts making their debuts at Action
Track USA include top series Rookie, Penngrove,
California's Buddy Kofoid (3rd in points), Bixby,
Oklahoma's Cannon McIntosh (5th in points) and Locust
Grove, Oklahoma's Daison Pursley (7th in points.).
USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Chris Windom-1,035,
2-Tyler Courtney-928, 3-Buddy Kofoid-919, 4-Tanner
Thorson-906, 5-Cannon McIntosh-809, 6-Tanner
Carrick-713, 7-Daison Pursley-677, 8-Cole Bodine-629,
9-Andrew Layser-598, 10-Justin Grant-489.
PAST USAC NATIONAL MIDGET
WINNERS AT ACTION TRACK USA: 2019-Zeb Wise
GRANDVIEW EASTERN MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW
By:
Richie Murray - USAC Media
Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania
(July 29, 2020).........Four past USAC National champions -
Christopher Bell, Tanner Thorson, Chris Windom and Tyler
Courtney, among several other talented competitors, are
expected to compete at Grandview Speedway on Tuesday, August
4, when the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National
Championship makes the trip to 1/3-mile dirt oval in
Bechtelsville, Pa. for the kickoff to the five-race in
five-night series known as Eastern Midget Week.
It took 102 starts for Chris
Windom to reach USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget
victory lane for the first time in his career in June of
2019. It took just six more for the Canton, Illinois native
to get there for the second time in the 2019 Eastern Midget
Week opener at Grandview Speedway.
Since that first series win over
a year ago, the current USAC NOS Energy Drink National
Midget point leader has won four more times in 34 starts,
including three in 2020 in Ocala, Fla., Putnamville, Ind.
and Fairbury, Neb.
In last year's Grandview tilt,
Windom fought Tyler Courtney for the win on the final lap,
losing the lead via a Courtney slider in turn one, then
outdueled him into turn three to retake the position before
sealing the deal to win in the series' first visit to the
1/3-mile dirt oval in three decades.
Courtney, last year's Grandview
runner-up finisher, heat race winner and reigning USAC NOS
Energy Drink National Midget driving champion, is second in
the series standings behind Windom following a recent surge
in the Great Plains tour in mid-July following a recent
victory at Jefferson County Speedway in Fairbury, Neb. The
2018 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champ will be teamed
with Cole Bodine (Rossville, Ind.) for Clauson-Marshall
Racing.
Minden, Nevada's Tanner Thorson,
the 2016 series champion, was last year's Grandview hard
charger, starting 15th and finishing 4th and was also a heat
race winner. He leads all drivers in the series with 138
laps led throughout the 2020 season. He leads all series
regulars with four feature scores in Ocala, Du Quoin, Ill.,
Kokomo, Ind. and Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla.
Tanner Carrick, the 2019 USAC
National Most Improved Driver from Lincoln, Calif., moved up
to a 3rd place finish at Grandview after starting 7th on the
grid. The 2017 USAC National Midget Rookie of the year and
one-time feature winner is 6th in the standings coming in.
Kevin Thomas Jr. will be
wheeling a midget for Pennsylvania's Heffner Racing
throughout Eastern Midget Week. Thomas (Cullman, Ala.)
holds the one-lap USAC National Sprint Car track record at
Grandview, set in 2012. He finished 3rd in last year's
midget feature event at Grandview.
No Pennsylvania driver has won a
USAC National Midget feature since Royersford's Steve
Buckwalter in 2010. Buckwalter, the 2010 ARDC Midget champ,
won that year during the Indiana Midget Week round at Gas
City and will join the Grandview field on Tuesday after
finishing 18th there a year ago.
Fellow Pennsylvanian Andrew
Layser (Collegeville, Pa.) finished 13th at Grandview in
2019 during his USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year
campaign and is 9th in the standings this year as a
Tucker-Boat Motorsports teammate to 2019 Grandview winner
Windom.
Reading, Pennsylvania's Steven
Drevicki is a perennial winner on the USAC Rapid Tire East
Coast Sprint Car circuit, winning the last two year's
titles, and has already tallied two victories this season
and is the leader once again in the standings. He is
equally successful in the Midgets as well, capturing ARDC
championships in both 2014 and 2015. The recent
non-sanctioned midget winner at Abbottstown, Pa.'s Lincoln
Speedway, finished 17th with the USAC Midgets at Grandview
in 2019.
Victor, New York's Kevin Woody
Jr., an Army combat veteran and government bodyguard, has
been a regular of Eastern Midget Week over the past couple
of summers and will be behind the wheel for the event once
again this year beginning at Grandview as a teammate to
Steve Buckwalter. Woody finished 19th in 2019 at Grandview.
Among the competition expected
are 2013 USAC National Midget champion and NASCAR Cup Series
regular Christopher Bell (Norman, Okla.), who'll be teamed
up with Windom, Layser and Kokomo/Placerville USAC Midget
track record holder, Dillon Welch (Carmel, Ind.).
Three drivers from the Keith
Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports stable are also expected to
make their Grandview Midget debuts, including top series
Rookie, Penngrove, California's Buddy Kofoid (3rd in
points), Bixby, Oklahoma's Cannon McIntosh (5th in points)
and Locust Grove, Oklahoma's Daison Pursley (7th in points).
2017 Lincoln Speedway Eastern
Storm winner Thomas Meseraull (San Jose, Calif.) has
victory experience in the state of Pennsylvania with the
USAC Sprint Cars and will be paired with 2018 Gas City, Ind.
sprint car track champion and RMS teammate Clinton Boyles
(Greenwood, Mo.) for Grandview.
Plus, mix in 2019 HARF Driver of
the Year, Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.), who is a major
star in Sprint Cars in the state of Indiana and a 5th place
USAC Midget finisher in his most recent series start in June
at Kokomo.
Adam Pierson (East Corinth, Vt.)
and Jeff Champagne (Westfield, Mass.) have each been
standouts in USAC's DMA Midget division which finds its home
at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, Vt. Pierson is a
33-time winner with the series (most all-time) and a
three-time champ in 2014-15-16 who tied Billy Boat for the
longest win streak in USAC racing history at 11 straight in
2016. Champagne, meanwhile, is four-time winner with the
series.
Both coasts are well represented
with Ethan Mitchell (Mooresville, N.C.) riding up the east
coast to take on Eastern Midget Week while Chase Johnson
(Penngrove, Calif.) has made the trip out for Indiana Sprint
Week and will continue moving eastward for Grandview.
Robert Dalby (Anaheim, Calif.) has relocated to Indiana for
the 2020 season and is set to face his first Eastern Midget
Week appearance.
USAC National Midget racing has
occurred only three times at Grandview. The debut in 1988
was won by Rich Vogler while the follow up in 1989 was
captured by Russ Gamester. Both drivers also won the USAC
National Midget championship in those same years. Chris
Windom won the series' return to Grandview in 2019.
Pits open at 2:30pm ET on
raceday, Tuesday, August 4, at Grandview. The front gates
open at 5pm with the drivers meeting at 6pm and midgets on
track at 6:20pm.
Adult admission tickets are $28,
children age 6 to 11 are $10 and children age 5 and under
will be admitted free. The pit fee is $40 and a license is
not required. Advance tickets are available by calling
(443) 513-4456. Advance ticket holders may enter the
grandstands early at 4:30pm.
USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET
NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Chris Windom-1,035, 2-Tyler
Courtney-928, 3-Buddy Kofoid-919, 4-Tanner Thorson-906,
5-Cannon McIntosh-809, 6-Tanner Carrick-713, 7-Daison
Pursley-677, 8-Cole Bodine-629, 9-Andrew Layser-598,
10-Justin Grant-489.
PAST USAC NATIONAL MIDGET
WINNERS AT GRANDVIEW SPEEDWAY: 1988-Rich Vogler, 1989-Russ
Gamester, 2019-Chris Windom.
PREVIEW: BLOOMINGTON INDIANA SPRINT WEEK
By: Richie
Murray - USAC Media
Bloomington, Indiana (July 28,
2020).........Bloomington Speedway and NOS Energy Drink
Indiana Sprint Week have been synonymous for over three
decades. Only the quarter-mile red clay can lay claim to
being on the ISW schedule every year since 1988.
That tradition continues this
week for a 33rd straight year on Friday night, July 31, for
the Sheldon Kinser Memorial when the USAC AMSOIL National
Sprint Cars make their 39th ever visit to the uber-scenic
southern Indiana facility, which often seems to play a role
in the ISW championship outcome.
Eleven times has the Bloomington
ISW winner gone on to win Indiana Sprint Week that same
year, but not since Kevin Thomas Jr. in 2017. No driver
owns more ISW victories at Bloomington than the Cullman,
Ala. with three, a number equaled by both Kevin Briscoe and
Bryan Clauson.
Thomas led three different times
for a total of 13 laps in last year's ISW feature at
Bloomington, but it was one final lap that decided his
fate. After swapping the lead multiple times down the
stretch, on the final lap, Thomas rocketed around the
outside of Jason McDougal in turns one and two, locked up
the bottom in three and four and raced to his third victory
in the event following triumphs in 2012 and 2017.
Bloomington holds a special
place in Thomas' career as the 2012 race marked his first
career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car win, of which he now
owns 27 (17th all-time in series history). He's finished
inside the top-four in his last four ISW Bloomington races,
wins in 2017 & 2019, a 2nd in 2018 and a 4th in 2016.
Thomas was also the fastest qualifier in 2018.
Bloomington Speedway's USAC
Sprint Car track record holder at 10.685, C.J. Leary
(Greenfield, Ind.) was the 2018 ISW winner at Bloomington
where he dominated all 30 laps in the process. The
defending ISW and USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion
was 4th in both 2014 and during his title run of 2019,
picked up a 6th in 2016 and a 10th in his second full-time
USAC season of 2013.
Brent Beauchamp (Fairland, Ind.)
was victorious at Bloomington in an unpredictable 2016
Indiana Sprint Week which featured four first-time USAC
National Sprint Car winners. Beauchamp was one of those
four, emerging as the victor in a battle with three-time ISW
champion Dave Darland that saw seven lead changes in 30
laps. Beauchamp also took home finishes of 3rd in 2012 and
10th in 2018.
Darland (Lincoln, Ind.) has an
incomprehensible 20 top-ten finishes at Bloomington during
Indiana Sprint Week dating to 1990. Among those are 11
top-five finishes, including a win in 2007; 2nd place
finishes in 2005-11-12; 3rd place results in 2008-14-16;
4th place runs in 1995 & 2001; and a pair of fifths in both
1993 & 2003 for good measure. The USAC Triple Crown champ
posted the fastest qualifying time in 2011 and has won three
times total in his USAC Sprint career at Bloomington.
Past Indiana Sprint Week and
USAC National Sprint Car champions Brady Bacon (Broken
Arrow, Okla.) and Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.) have each won
USAC Sprint features at Bloomington, but not so as of yet
during ISW. Bacon, the 2016 ISW champ, won at the track in
the Spring of 2019 in new track record fashion at 6:47.18
for 30 laps. His ISW resume at Bloomington includes a pair
of fast times, during the rain-abbreviated event in 2015,
and again in 2019. He was also 2nd in 2016, 3rd in 2013,
4th in 2007, 6th in 2018 and 7th in 2019.
Windom (Canton, Ill.),
meanwhile, won a Springtime USAC Sprint race at Bloomington
in May of 2011. The 2011 and 2018 ISW titlist owns a total
of six top-ten Bloomington ISW runs in his career with a
3rd in 2018 as his best, followed by a 4th in 2013, 5th in
2014, 7th in both 2010 and 2017 and a 9th place result in
his Rookie campaign of 2007. He was the fastest qualifier
at the ISW race in 2013.
Shane Cottle (Kansas, Ill.),
likewise, has been a USAC National winner at Bloomington,
but it came behind the wheel of a Midget back during 2010
Indiana Midget Week. His ISW Bloomington runs have peaked
thus far at a 4th place finish in 2008. He took 7th in 2011
and was 9th in 2012 while also picking up fast qualifying
honors that same night. His first top-ten run in the event
came in 2007, a 10th.
Robert Ballou (Rocklin, Calif.)
has returned to Indiana Sprint Week in 2020 after missing
out on all of last year's summertime event due to a severe
arm injury. During ISW at Bloomington, the 2015 Indiana
Sprint Week champion has a best finish of 3rd during his
Rookie season of 2003. His most recent top-five run in the
event came back in 2017 with a 5th. The driver/owner
champion of USAC's AMSOIL National Sprint Car division in
2015 also tallied a 6th in the race in 2014, 7th in 2008,
8th in 2018 and 10th place results in both 2012 and 2016.
Chase Stockon (Fort Branch,
Ind.) finished as high as 2nd during ISW at Bloomington in
2013 behind winner Bryan Clauson. For the 2019 Jason
Leffler Memorial Award recipient, that has been his only
top-five run in the event to date. He's also garnered
finishes of 6th in 2012 and 2019, a 7th in 2018 and a 9th in
2017 for top-ten finishes there in each of the past three
races.
USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car
point leader Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) earned his best
Bloomington ISW result one year ago, finishing 3rd. A pair
of seventh-place finishes were in order for the 2010 USAC
AMSOIL National Sprint Car Rookie of the year in both 2013
and 2014.
Thomas Meseraull (San Jose,
Calif.) has recorded a pair of top-five finishes during the
ISW round in Bloomington. His first such being a 5th in
2016 with his best result thus far coming in 2018 with a
4th. Most recently, the two-time ISW feature winner
collected a 10th place result in 2019.
Additionally, of note, Pleasant
Hill, Ohio's Matt Westfall was 4th in ISW at Bloomington in
2004; Marion, Ill. native Carson Short was the fastest
qualifier in 2017; Collinsville, Oklahoma's Tyler Thomas
picked up a 3rd place result in 2017; and Terre Haute,
Indiana's Brandon Mattox earned his best career USAC
National Sprint Car feature finish of 5th there in 2019.
Tickets for all Indiana Sprint
Week events are available while supplies last, exclusively
at
www.usactickets.com. Adult
general admission tickets for Bloomington are $25 while kids
age 10 & under are free. Pit passes are $30 apiece.
All online ticket purchasers
will be allowed an early 3:30pm (local time) entry into the
grandstand. Front gate entry is open to all spectators at
4:30pm. Hot laps begin at 6:30pm with racing to immediately
follow.
Spectator tickets for all of the
33rd annual edition of ISW are also on sale at
www.usactickets.com. ISW
tickets will be sold exclusively online and there will be a
limited availability based on COVID-19 criteria that is in
place at each venue on the schedule for all ISW event
throughout the Hoosier state. There is no guarantee of
on-site ticket sales at any of the tracks if pre-determined
attendance limits are met beforehand.
BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY INDIANA SPRINT WEEK HISTORY
31 RACES, 1 RAIN OUT (1988-2019)
FEATURE WINNERS: 1988 - Kelly
Kinser (Kinser 4k), 1989 - Chuck Amati (Tate 66), 1990 -
Kevin Briscoe (Briscoe 5), 1991 - Danny Smith (Gohr 56),
1992 - Bob Kinser (Bayless 17b), 1993 - Cary Faas (Faas
37), 1994 - Kelly Kinser (Kinser 4k), 1995 - Kevin Thomas
(Applebee 3), 1996 - Kevin Thomas (Applebee 3), 1997 - Brad
Fox (Fox 53), 1998 - Tony Elliott (Vance/Walker 2), 1999 -
Cory Kruseman (Ellis 21), 2000 - Jay Drake (Kunz 67), 2001 -
A.J. Anderson (Edison 10), 2002 - Kevin Briscoe (Briscoe 5),
2003 - J.J. Yeley (Stewart 20), 2004 - Kevin Briscoe
(Briscoe 5), 2005 - Tracy Hines (Dynamics 69), 2006 - Brady
Short (Short 36), 2007 - Dave Darland (Pace 44), 2008 -
Jerry Coons, Jr. (Dynamics 69), 2009 - Bryan Clauson (Tucker
7), 2010 - Jon Stanbrough (Fox 53), 2011 - Hunter
Schuerenberg (Byram 35), 2012 - Kevin Thomas, Jr. (Black
Jack 9k), 2013 - Bryan Clauson (Stewart/Curb-Agajanian 20),
2014 - Bryan Clauson (Stewart/Curb-Agajanian 20), 2015 -
Rained Out, 2016 - Brent Beauchamp (Olson 34), 2017 - Kevin
Thomas, Jr. (KT 9K), 2018 - C.J. Leary (Leary 30), 2019 -
Kevin Thomas, Jr. (Hayward/Thomas 19)
MOST ISW FEATURE WINS AT
BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY: 3 - Kevin Briscoe, Bryan Clauson &
Kevin Thomas Jr.
RACE WINNERS WHO HAVE GONE ON TO
WIN THE INDIANA SPRINT WEEK TITLE THAT YEAR: 11 - Chuck
Amati (1989), Kelly Kinser (1994), Kevin Thomas (1995 &
1996), Jay Drake (2000), J.J. Yeley (2003), Dave Darland
(2007), Jon Stanbrough (2010), Bryan Clauson (2013 & 2014) &
Kevin Thomas, Jr. (2017)
USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY:
3-Dave Darland & Kevin Thomas
Jr.
2-Kevin Briscoe & Tony Elliott
1-A.J. Anderson, Bob Kinser,
Bobby East, Brad Fox, Brady Bacon, Brady Short, Brent
Beauchamp, C.J. Leary, Chad Boespflug, Chris Windom, Cory
Kruseman, Hunter Schuerenberg, J.J. Yeley, Jack Hewitt, Jay
Drake, Jerry Coons, Jr., Jon Stanbrough, Kevin Thomas, Larry
Martin, Rich Vogler, Rick Hood, Sheldon Kinser & Tracy Hines
BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY INDIANA SPRINT WEEK ENTRY LIST: (48
cars)
04 A.J. HOPKINS/Brownsburg, IN
(Jerry Burton)
1H KORBYN HAYSLETT/Troy, OH (Kim
& Dave Hayslett)
1x KURT GROSS/Washington, IN
(Kurt Gross)
2E THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA
(Epperson Racing)
3R KYLE CUMMINS/Princeton, IN
(Rock Steady Racing)
4 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (TOPP
Motorsports)
5 ANTON HERNANDEZ/Arlington, TX
(Baldwin Brothers Racing)
5m MAX ADAMS/Loomis, CA (Scott
Adams)
5s CHASE STOCKON/Fort Branch, IN
(KO Motorsports)
5T TYE MIHOCKO/Phoenix, AZ (Tye
Mihocko)
6p CHRIS PHILLIPS/Plainfield, IN
(Chris Phillips)
9 BOBBY GRIFFITTS/Bloomington,
IN (Bobby Griffitts)
9K KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL
(KT Motorsports)
12 ROBERT BALLOU/Rocklin, CA
(Ballou Motorsports)
13 DENNIS GILE/Phoenix, AZ (Gene
Gile Racing)
17 DAKOTA JACKSON/Elizabethtown,
IN (On The Gass Racing)
17GP TYLER THOMAS/Collinsville,
OK (Michael Dutcher Motorsports)
19 CHRIS WINDOM/Canton, IL
(Hayward Motorsports)
19AZ LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA
(Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)
20 JAKE BLAND/Bloomington, IN
(Jake Bland)
22v SHELBY VanGILDER/Terre
Haute, IN (JR & Debbie VanGilder)
28 BRANDON MATTOX/Terre Haute,
IN (Brandon Mattox Racing)
30 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN
(Leary Racing)
33m MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill,
OH (Ray Marshall Motorsports)
34 STERLING CLING/Tempe, AZ
(Sterling Cling Racing)
34AZ JAKE SWANSON/Anaheim, CA
(Team AZ Racing)
34x BRENT BEAUCHAMP/Fairland, IN
(Jeff Olson)
36d DAVE DARLAND/Lincoln, IN
(EZR/Curb-Agajanian Racing)
39 MATT GOODNIGHT/Winchester, IN
(Goodnight Racing)
47 CHARLES DAVIS JR./Buckeye, AZ
(Davis Race Team)
50 TONY DiMATTIA/Malvern, PA
(Tony DiMattia Motorsports)
51T EDDIE TAFOYA JR./Chino
Hills, CA (Eddie Tafoya)
52 ISAAC CHAPPLE/Willow Branch,
IN (LNR/Isaac Chapple Racing)
53 BRAYDEN FOX/Avon, IN (Fox
Brothers Racing)
54 JONATHAN VENNARD/Vincennes,
IN (KO Motorsports)
61m JADON ROGERS/Worthington, IN
(Randy Edwards)
68 CHASE JOHNSON/Penngrove, CA
(Shawn Thomas)
69 BRADY BACON/Broken Arrow, OK
(Dynamics, Inc.)
69JM LOGAN HUPP/Columbus, IN
(Evan Gindling)
71 ROBERT BELL/Colfax, IA
(Robert Bell)
71p CARSON SHORT/Marion, IL
(Daigh-Phillips Motorsports)
74x SHANE COTTLE/Kansas, IL
(Hodges Motorsports)
75 DUSTIN CLARK/Washington, IN
(Dustin Clark Racing)
77 DUSTIN SMITH/Russiaville, IN
(LG Motorsports)
77c SHANE COCKRUM/Benton, IL
(Wingo Brothers Racing)
77s TRAVIS BERRYHILL/American
Canyon, CA (Tyler Sturgeon Racing)
79BT MAX GUILFORD/Auckland, NZ
(Goodnight Racing)
98 BRANDON MORIN/Jasonville, IN
(Steve Morin)
TRI-STATE
SPEEDWAY INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PREVIEW
By:
Richie Murray - USAC Media
Haubstadt, Indiana (July 28,
2020).........The finale. The climax. The
culmination. Whatever you want to call it, the last
race of NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week is the
ultimate payoff when we discover who has displayed their
excellence most consistently throughout the entirety of
the seven-race series.
Not to mention, we will also
will be witnesses to a field of 48 whose main goal is to
win the night - 30 laps of supremacy that lie ahead for
a driver and team to reach one of the pinnacles of USAC
AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing, to reign victorious
during Indiana Sprint Week.
Kyle Cummins knows that
feeling all too well. Last year, in 2019, Cummins
qualified for all ISW eight features, finishing in the
top-ten in seven and was in contention
night-after-night, finishing with a flourish after a
victory two nights prior at Lincoln Park, a near win the
night before at Bloomington and closing out the
week-plus series with a triumph at Tri-State Speedway
after trailing for the first 26 laps.
The Princeton, Ind. driver
was literally unbeatable at Tri-State in 2019, going
9-for-9 in Sprint Car competition, including two USAC
victories, one of which came during ISW. It was his
second in ISW at TSS after earlier winning in the event
during the summer of 2017, half of his four total USAC
victories at quarter-mile dirt oval in southwestern
Indiana. The 2019 HARF Driver of the Year has also
finished as the runner-up during ISW at TSS in 2014 and
2016, was 7th in both 2015 and 2018, and 10th in 2012.
ISW's all-time king in terms
of victories (20), Dave Darland of Lincoln, Ind., broke
through for his first TSS win during 2018 ISW with a
late-race pass of Chris Windom. Darland has two other
"podium" finishes in the event, a runner-up result in
2001 and a 3rd in 2010, while also gathering a fast
qualifying time in 2012, plus a 6th in 2008, an 8th 2006
and a 10th in 2005.
Carson Short (Marion, Ill.)
is among the rare breed who've won both his first USAC
AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature and World of Outlaws
Sprint Car event at the same venue. Short captured the
ISW win at TSS in USAC's 10,000th race in 2016 and also
mastered WoO's visit this past June. He was also a
10th place TSS ISW finisher in 2017.
Brady Short (Bedford, Ind.),
no relation to Carson, has long had a mastery of
Tri-State Speedway for the better part of 15 years. His
2015 TSS ISW score is among his two wins at the track
and set a new USAC track record for the 30-lap
distance. His 5th place run in 2011 served as his
second best result in the event while also garnering a
7th in 2008 and a pair of 10th's in 2006 & 2009.
Robert Ballou (Rocklin,
Calif.) notched his still lone Tri-State USAC victory
during ISW in 2014. His results at the track have
progressively gotten better and better over the years
with his first top-ten, a 10th, with ISW at TSS in 2008,
then bumping up to a 9th in 2009, 8th in 2012, 4th in
his ISW title season of 2015-16 and 6th in 2017.
Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman,
Ala.) is equaled with Daron Clayton as the all-time
winningest driver in USAC National Sprint Car
competition at Tri-State with five triumphs during his
career. However, none of those five for the 2017 ISW
titlist have come during ISW. He's been as close as you
can get on multiple occasions with runner-up results in
2015 and 2017, a 4th in 2018 and a 9th in 2016. He
captured fast qualifying honors during that 2018 race.
Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.)
won the Spring opener at TSS in 2017. Like Thomas,
however, that first ISW victory at TSS has thus far
eluded the 2011 & 2018 Indiana Sprint Week champ. His
2nd place result in 2018 has been his best so far, with
a 3rd in 2015, an 8th in 2010, a 9th in 2012 and a
10th in 2011 to his credit.
Another ISW champ, Brady
Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.), has also been a Springtime
USAC Sprint winner at Tri-State during the 2015 season.
The 2016 ISW champion has flirted with the edges of the
top-five in the past half-decade of ISW races at TSS
with a 6th in 2014 and a 7th in 2016 before breaking
through for his first top-five run in the event in 2019,
tallying a 5th.
Chase Stockon's proximity to
Tri-State Speedway, living in nearby Fort Branch, Ind.,
mirrors his proximity to victory lane during ISW at TSS
over the years. The Spring 2016 Tri-State USAC Sprint
victor was 3rd during ISW at TSS in both 2016 and 2018,
4th in 2019 and 5th in both 2012 and 2015.
USAC AMSOIL National Sprint
Car point leader Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) has been
the dominator of qualifying in Indiana Sprint Week
events at Tri-State, taking home the honor on four
separate occasions over the last decade in
2010-15-17-19. He earned his best result in the event
in the most recent TSS ISW feature during the Summer of
2019. He's also been a 4th place runner in 2017, 6th in
2018 and 8th in 2015.
Reigning ISW and USAC AMSOIL
National Sprint Car champion C.J. Leary (Greenfield,
Ind.) has won on multiple occasions with MSCS at
Tri-State in his career, but that first USAC victory at
the track has not yet been pocketed. His 5th in 2018 is
the best on his TSS ISW resume thus far with another
trio of top-tens on his tab, a 9th in 2014 and
10th place runs in 2015 and 2019.
Thomas Meseraull (San Jose,
Calif.) nearly collected a USAC NOS Energy Drink
National Midget victory in the Fall of 2019 at
Tri-State. His ISW record there includes a 5th in 2017
and a 9th in 08. Shane Cottle (Kansas, Ill.) was a best
of 6th in 2007; Critter Malone (Pittsboro, Ind.) earned
a solid 6th in 2016. Kurt Gross (Washington, Ind.)
snared his best career Indiana Sprint Week result with a
7th in 2010. Kendall Ruble (Vincennes, Ind.) collected
an 8th on his ISW run at TSS in 2019.
Tickets for all Indiana
Sprint Week events are available while supplies last,
exclusively at www.usactickets.com. Adult
general admission tickets for Tri-State are $25 while
kids age 13-18 are $20 and children 12 & under are
free. Pit passes are $30 apiece.
Pits open at 3pm CT. All
online ticket purchasers will be allowed an early 3pm
(local time) entry into the grandstand. Front gate
entry is open to all spectators at 4pm. Hot laps begin
at 6:30pm with racing to immediately follow.
Spectator tickets for all of
the 33rd annual edition of ISW are also on sale at
www.usactickets.com.
ISW tickets will be sold exclusively online and there
will be a limited availability based on COVID-19
criteria that is in place at each venue on the schedule
for all ISW event throughout the Hoosier state. There
is no guarantee of on-site ticket sales at any of the
tracks if pre-determined attendance limits are met
beforehand.
TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY
INDIANA SPRINT WEEK HISTORY
19 RACES, 1 RAINOUT
(2000-2019)
FEATURE WINNERS: 2000 - Cory
Kruseman (Potter 3p), 2001 - Jay Drake (Kunz 67), 2002 -
Cory Kruseman (Kunz 67), 2003 - J.J. Yeley (Stewart 20),
2004 - Cory Kruseman (Stewart 21), 2005 - Cory Kruseman
(Kunz 67), 2006 - Jon Stanbrough (Fox 53), 2007 - Daron
Clayton (Walker/Guiducci 11d), 2008 - Hunter
Schuerenberg (Walker/Guiducci 11), 2009 - Levi Jones
(Stewart 20), 2010 - Blake Fitzpatrick (Fitzpatrick
10f), 2011 - Damion Gardner (DG 71), 2012 - Jon
Stanbrough (Roberts/Tate 21x), 2013 - Rained Out, 2014 -
Robert Ballou (Ballou 12x), 2015 - Brady Short (Pottorff
11p), 2016 - Carson Short (Short 21), 2017 - Kyle
Cummins (Byram 3R), 2018 - Dave Darland
(Goodnight/Curb-Agajanian 36D), 2019 - Kyle Cummins
(Rock Steady 3R)
MOST FEATURE WINS AT
TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY: 4 - Cory Kruseman
RACE WINNERS WHO HAVE GONE
ON TO WIN THE INDIANA SPRINT WEEK TITLE THAT YEAR: 5 -
Cory Kruseman (2002 & 2005), J.J. Yeley (2003), Jon
Stanbrough (2006) & Levi Jones (2009)
TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY USAC
NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS
1. (5) Daron Clayton & Kevin
Thomas, Jr.
3. (4) Kyle Cummins & Cory
Kruseman
6. (2) Hunter Schuerenberg,
Brady Short & Jon Stanbrough
9. (1) Brady Bacon, Robert
Ballou, Steve Butler, Dave Darland, Jay Drake, Tony
Elliott, Blake Fitzpatrick, Damion Gardner, Tracy Hines,
Kenny Jacobs, Levi Jones, Casey Riggs, Stephen Schnapf,
Carson Short, Chase Stockon, Chris Windom & J.J. Yeley
TERRE HAUTE INDIANA
SPRINT WEEK RACE PREVIEW
By: Richie Murray
- USAC Media
Terre Haute, Indiana (July 27, 2020).........One of the most tenured
and treasured stops on the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car calendar
greets the tour for the 164th points race in series history at the
famed Wabash Valley Fairgrounds half-mile known as the Terre Haute
Action Track on Wednesday night, July 29, for the resumption of the
"second-half" of the 33rd annual NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint
Week schedule - the Dorsett Automotive Don Smith Classic.
Terre Haute has held 17 previous Indiana Sprint Week races since its
debut on the slate in 1997. Three drivers who've won the event in
recent years are entered for Wednesday's edition, including Chris
Windom (2011), Kevin Thomas Jr. (2013) and Chase Stockon (2016).
Windom (Canton, Ill.) comes in 8th overall in the current ISW
standings, but his prowess at the Action Track shows no bounds with
a Silver Crown victory and five overall USAC National Sprint Car
feature wins there, including the most recent on July 1 of this year
in the 50th annual Tony Hulman Classic. In ISW competition there,
following his win in 2011, he garnered additional 5th place runs in
2014 and 2019, plus a 6th in both 2016 and 2018, a 9th in 2013 and a
10th in 2012.
Stockon (Fort Branch, Ind.), along with Windom, has won each of the
"big three" USAC National Sprint Car events at Terre Haute,
including the Tony Hulman Classic, Jim Hurtubise Classic and the Don
Smith Classic during ISW in 2016. Among Stockon's ISW runs at THAT
are, in addition to his triumph, a 5th in both 2013 and 2015, plus a
9th in 2019 and a 10th all the way back in 2010. The series'
"ironman," now with 308 consecutive series starts and is third in
this year's ISW points, was the fastest qualifier during ISW at THAT
in 2018.
Thomas (Cullman, Ala.) has twice been a USAC Sprint winner at Terre
Haute. The now 27-time USAC Sprint winner's first such score came
amidst a three-race winning streak during the 2013 Indiana Sprint
Week event in which he emerged as the victor in a furious last lap
battle with Dave Darland. Thomas also scored a 3rd in 2019 and a
5th in 2018 to go along with the 2013 victory at the place in which
he also won a USAC Sprint race in late 2017.
One driver has a chance to become the first individual since Thomas
to win three-in-a-row during ISW. That's C.J. Leary (Greenfield,
Ind.) who's won the past two ISW events over the weekend at Kokomo
and Lawrenceburg. Leary, thus far, has a pair of top-10 Terre
Haute ISW performances - a 10th in 2016 and a 6th in 2019. It was
during the 2016 season, however, that Leary won his first career
USAC Silver Crown race during the Sumar Classic at Terre Haute. He
rides in fourth in the ISW standings, 17 behind point leader Brady
Bacon.
Terre Haute's USAC Sprint Car one-lap track record holder at 19.225,
Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.), the 2016 ISW champion, hasn't won yet
this week, but his consistency has been the key with finishes of
8th, 2nd and 3rd through the first three. The same type of
consistency has rung true throughout the 2014 & 2016 USAC AMSOIL
National Sprint Car champion's ISW career at THAT with 3rd place
results in 2013 and 2014, 4th place finishes in 2016-18-19 and a
7th in 2015. He's won twice at Terre Haute in his career during
late season runs in both 2014 & 2018.
Darland (Lincoln, Ind.) leads practically every single statistical
category of ISW. He's made an appearance in every single Indiana
Sprint Week event at Terre Haute since 1997, a night where he
finished 3rd. The 1999 USAC National Sprint Car champ possesses
two series wins at THAT, in 1993 and 2014, but has come oh-so-close
a number of times throughout his career at the track during ISW.
He finished 2nd in 2010, was 3rd in 1997, 2005, 2009 & 2015 as
well as 5th in 2004 among his six top-fives and 11 top-tens in the
event.
The same has been the case with Robert Ballou (Rocklin, Calif.), a
two-time USAC Sprint winner at THAT in late 2015 and early 2016, but
none as of yet during ISW. He's surrounded victory of Terre
Haute's ISW race annually over the past decade and is looking to
make the next step to the pinnacle. The 2015 ISW champ has been
the ISW THAT runner-up finisher during the last four times he's
entered the event in 2014-15-16-18. The event was rained out in
2017 and he was absent in 2019 while recuperating from a serious
arm injury. You'd have to go back over a decade to find the last
time he's finished outside the top-ten with ISW at Terre Haute, also
scoring 4th place finishes in 2011 & 2013 and 6th in 2012. He was
also the fastest qualifier in 2014.
Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) leads the overall USAC AMSOIL National
Sprint Car standings coming in, but at the moment, he sits just five
points behind Bacon in pursuit of the ISW championship with four
races remaining. Grant captured his first Terre Haute USAC Sprint
win last Fall in 2019 and has also won in Silver Crown competition
there during the 2018 Sumar Classic. His THAT ISW record includes
"podium" finishes in each of the last two events, a 3rd in 2018 and
a 2nd in 2019, which goes along with a 6th in 2014 and an 8th in
2015.
Current ISW ProSource Passing Master point leader, Shane Cottle
(Kansas, Ill.) topped off with a runner-up finish during the 2005
Terre Haute ISW round, adding another top-five with a 5th in 2011.
The veteran driver who's already won in USAC Sprint competition
earlier this July in Putnamville, Ind., was 9th at THAT ISW in 2014,
plus 10th in both 2013 and 2015.
Bill Rose, whose lone Indiana Sprint Week victory came during the
summer of 1997, has entered for Terre Haute's ISW round on Wednesday
night. The Plainfield, Ind. native was the fastest qualifier in
the event in 2000. Likewise, Mitch Wissmiller (Saybrook, Ill.) was
the top dawg in time trials there during the event in 2015.
Buckeye, Arizona's Charles Davis Jr., making his first Indiana
Sprint Week run in several years, was a 10th place ISW THAT finisher
in 2003. Other combatants who've raced their way top-tens at Terre
Haute in the busiest week of USAC Sprint Car racing all year long in
the Hoosier state include Pleasant Hill, Ohio's Matt Westfall
(7th in 2004), Marion, Illinois' Carson Short (7th in 2019), Loomis,
California's Max Adams (8th in 2019) as well as Princeton, Indiana's
Kyle Cummins (9th in 2019) who's 5th in the ISW standings coming in.
Indiana Sprint Week continues with round four of the series on
Wednesday, July 29 at the Terre Haute Action Track. Pits open at
3pm ET as does a dvance ticket entry for spectators. Walk-up entry
beginning at 4pm. Hot Laps are scheduled for a 6:30pm start with
racing to immediately follow.
Tickets for all Indiana Sprint Week events are available, while
supplies last, at
www.usactickets.com . Adult
general admission tickets for Terre Haute are $25. Infield tickets
are $15. Kids age 11 and under are free. Remaining tickets, if
available, will also be available at the gate on raceday. Pit
passes are $25 apiece for USAC members and $30 for non-members.
USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin
Grant-954, 2-Brady Bacon-883, 3-Chris Windom-853, 4-Chase
Stockon-853, 5-C.J. Leary-851, 6-Carson Short-778, 7-Kevin Thomas
Jr.-731, 8-Dave Darland-628, 9-Brandon Mattox-570, 10-Logan
Seavey-541.
INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-215, 2-Justin Grant-210,
3-Chase Stockon-208, 4-C.J. Leary-198, 5-Kyle Cummins-192, 6-Logan
Seavey-188, 7-Carson Short-183, 8-Chris Windom-179, 9-Thomas
Meseraull-149, 10-Robert Ballou-148.
TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK HISTORY:
17 RACES, 4 RAINOUTS (1997-2006 & 2009-2019)
FEATURE WINNERS: 1997 - J.J. Yeley (Yeley 4j), 1998 - Rained Out,
1999 - Terry Pletch (Pletch 29), 2000 - Jay Drake (Kunz 67), 2001 -
Rained Out, 2002 - Cory Kruseman (Kunz 67), 2003 - Tracy Hines
(Dynamics 69), 2004 - J.J. Yeley (Stanton 75), 2005 - Levi Jones (2B
Racing 2b), 2006 - Rained Out, 2009 - Brad Sweet (Kahne/Curb 9),
2010 - Jon Stanbrough (Fox 53), 2011 - Chris Windom (Baldwin 5x),
2012 - Daron Clayton (Clayton 92), 2013 - Kevin Thomas, Jr.
(Dutcher/RW/Tri-Star 17rw), 2014 - Bryan Clauson
(Stewart/Curb-Agajanian 20), 2015 - Aaron Farney (Farney #15F), 2016
- Chase Stockon (32 TBI 32), 2017 - Rained Out, 2018 - Tyler
Courtney (Clauson/Marshall/Newman 7BC), 2019 - Tyler Courtney
(Clauson/Marshall/Newman 7BC)
MOST FEATURE WINS AT TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK: 2 - Tyler Courtney &
J.J. Yeley
RACE WINNERS WHO HAVE GONE ON TO WIN THE INDIANA SPRINT WEEK TITLE
THAT YEAR: 6 - J.J. Yeley (1997), Jay Drake (2000), Cory Kruseman
(2002), Jon Stanbrough (2010), Chris Windom (2011) & Bryan Clauson
(2014)
DON SMITH CLASSIC WINNERS:
2011: Chris Windom (7/13)
2012: Daron Clayton (7/18)
2013: Kevin Thomas, Jr. (7/17)
2014: Bryan Clauson (7/16)
2015: Aaron Farney (7/15)
2016: Chase Stockon (7/17)
2017: Kevin Thomas, Jr. (10/14)
2018: Tyler Courtney (7/25)
2019: Tyler Courtney (7/24)
TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK USAC SPRINT
CAR WINS: (163 Points Races & 1 Special Event)
1. (8) Gary Bettenhausen & Jack Hewitt
3. (6) Bubby Jones, Sheldon Kinser & J.J. Yeley
6. (5) Jim Hurtubise, Levi Jones, Jon Stanbrough, Rich Vogler &
Chris Windom
11. (4) Bud Kaeding & Roger McCluskey
13. (3) Don Branson, Steve Butler, Pancho Carter, Daron Clayton,
Jerry Coons, Jr, Tyler Courtney, Jay Drake, Cary Faas, Tracy Hines,
Rick Hood, Joe Saldana & Chase Stockon
25. (2) Brady Bacon, Robert Ballou, Rollie Beale, Tom Bigelow, Dave
Darland, Cory Kruseman, Johnny Rutherford, Dick Tobias, Kevin
Thomas, Jr., Bruce Walkup & Greg Weld
36. (1) Billy Cassella, Steve Chassey, Bryan Clauson, Mel Cornett,
Larry Dickson, Ed Elisian, Tony Elliott, Aaron Farney, A.J. Foyt,
Justin Grant, Richard Griffin, Chuck Gurney, Tommy Hinnershitz, Tray
House, Chet Johnson, Tony Jones, Doug Kalitta, Frankie Kerr, Steve
Kinser, Eddie Leavitt, Andy Linden, Bobby Marshman, Charlie Masters,
Rusty McClure, James McElreath, Jim McElreath, Jim McWithey, Jan
Opperman, Terry Pletch, Larry Rice, Eddie Sachs, Sam Sessions, Ron
Shuman, George Snider, Robbie Stanley, Brad Sweet, Kevin Thomas &
Bobby Unser
TERRE HAUTE INDIANA SPRINT WEEK
ENTRY LIST: (46 cars as of July 27)
01 ANTHONY D'ALESSIO/Apollo Beach, FL (D'Alessio Motorsports)
1x KURT GROSS/Washington, IN (Kurt Gross)
2E THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA (Epperson Racing)
3R KYLE CUMMINS/Princeton, IN (Rock Steady Racing)
4 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (TOPP Motorsports)
5 ANTON HERNANDEZ/Arlington, TX (Baldwin Brothers Racing)
5m MAX ADAMS/Loomis, CA (Scott Adams)
5s CHASE STOCKON/Fort Branch, IN (KO Motorsports)
5T TYE MIHOCKO/Phoenix, AZ (Tye Mihocko)
6 BILL ROSE/Plainfield, IN (Bill Rose Racing)
6p CHRIS PHILLIPS/Plainfield, IN (Chris Phillips)
9K KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL (KT Motorsports)
12 ROBERT BALLOU/Rocklin, CA (Ballou Motorsports)
13 DENNIS GILE/Phoenix, AZ (Gene Gile Racing)
17 DAKOTA JACKSON/Elizabethtown, IN (On The Gass Racing)
17K KENDALL RUBLE/Vincennes, IN (Ruble-Martin Motorsports)
17GP TYLER THOMAS/Collinsville, OK (Michael Dutcher Motorsports)
19 CHRIS WINDOM/Canton, IL (Hayward Motorsports)
19AZ LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)
20 CHAYSE HAYHURST/Evansville, IN (Chayse Hayhurst)
22 SCOTTY WEIR/Marion, IN (Goodnight Racing)
24 NATE McMILLIN/Rosedale, IN (Kenny McMillin)
27 STEVE THOMAS/Ludlow, IL (Steve Thomas)
27x EVAN MOSLEY/Lapel, IN (Aaron Mosley)
28 BRANDON MATTOX/Terre Haute, IN (Brandon Mattox Racing)
29 MITCH WISSMILLER/Saybrook, IL (RMB Motorsports)
30 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN (Leary Racing)
33m MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH (Ray Marshall Motorsports)
34 STERLING CLING/Tempe, AZ (Sterling Cling Racing)
34AZ JAKE SWANSON/Anaheim, CA (Team AZ Racing)
36d DAVE DARLAND/Lincoln, IN (EZR/Curb-Agajanian Racing)
39 MATT GOODNIGHT/Winchester, IN (Goodnight Racing)
47 CHARLES DAVIS JR./Buckeye, AZ (Davis Race Team)
51T EDDIE TAFOYA JR./Chino Hills, CA (Eddie Tafoya)
57 CLINTON BOYLES/Greenwood, MO (Paul Hazen)
61m JADON ROGERS/Worthington, IN (Randy Edwards)
68 CHASE JOHNSON/Penngrove, CA (Shawn Thomas)
69 BRADY BACON/Broken Arrow, OK (Dynamics, Inc.)
69JM LOGAN HUPP/Columbus, IN (Evan Gindling)
71 ROBERT BELL/Colfax, IA (Robert Bell)
71p CARSON SHORT/Marion, IL (Daigh-Phillips Motorsports)
74x SHANE COTTLE/Kansas, IL (Hodges Motorsports)
75 DUSTIN CLARK/Washington, IN (Dustin Clark Racing)
77 DUSTIN SMITH/Russiaville, IN (LG Motorsports)
79BT MAX GUILFORD/Auckland, NZ (Goodnight Racing)
98 BRANDON MORIN/Jasonville, IN (Steve Morin)
LINCOLN PARK
INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PREVIEW
By:
Richie Murray - USAC Media
Putnamville, Indiana (July 27, 2020).........Lincoln Park
Speedway made its debut on the NOS Energy Drink Indiana
Sprint Week schedule in 1988, the first year of the series
when it was a five-race championship for winged sprint car
racing.
These days, on this occasion in mid-summer, Indiana Sprint
Week at Lincoln Park is home to the best of the best from
USAC's AMSOIL National Sprint Car division. For years upon
years, many of the most memorable ISW moments and races can
lay claim to have taken place at the 5/16-mile dirt oval in
Putnamville, Ind.
One year ago, on a night when the lights went out around
Lincoln Park Speedway, Princeton, Indiana's Kyle Cummins was
"lights out" in his performance, leading from start to
finish and wiring all 30 laps from the pole to win. It
remains his only top-five finish at LPS during his ISW
career.
By far, the dominant figure throughout ISW history at
Lincoln Park is 1990-91 track champion Dave Darland. The
Lincoln, Ind. driver has amassed six of his 20 career ISW
victories at LPS in 1990-98-99-2005-12-18. That's the most
Indiana Sprint Week wins by any driver at a single track.
Darland, the 1998, 2001 & 2007 ISW champion, was also the
fastest qualifier in both 1991 and 2004, and finished 2nd in
2001, 3rd in 1991 and 5th in 2014 among his nine top-fives
and 13 top-tens.
Kevin Thomas Jr., the 2017 ISW champ, has been the fastest
qualifier on three occasions during ISW at Lincoln Park in
2013-17-19. The Cullman, Ala. driver has finished in the
top-five in each of his past three LPS ISW appearances and
in the top-10 five years running. He was the runner-up in
both 2012 and 2015, 4th in 2018 and 5th in 2017 and 2019.
Shane Cottle, a recent USAC Sprint winner at Lincoln Park on
July 3, nearly won Lincoln Park's ISW race in 2012, leading
26 of the 30 laps before finishing 4th for his best result
in the event. The Kansas, Illinoisan took 7th in 2014 and
2016 and was 9th most recently in 2019.
Brady Bacon captured the victory on night two of LPS' Bill
Gardner Sprintacular on July 4 at LPS with the Broken Arrow,
Oklahoma driver charging from the 8th starting position to
victory. The 2016 ISW champ was victorious in his 2015 LPS
ISW trip and 2nd in 2019, plus 6th in 2013 and 9th in 2014.
Twice he has recorded the fast qualifying time in the event
in the years of 2014 and 2018.
Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.) has also declared victory at
Lincoln Park in 2020 during June's USAC NOS Energy Drink
National Midget show during Indiana Midget Week. A similar
winning effort has yet to come to fruition for the two-time
ISW champ in 2011 & 2018 champ who earned his best LPS
finish of 2nd that same year. Windom took 5th in 2013, plus
an 8th, 9th and 10th in the odd numbered years of
2015-17-19, respectively.
If you're into even more number games, every three-year span
seems to be Robert Ballou's year at Lincoln Park during
ISW. His 2014 and 2017 victories mark two his three USAC
Sprint wins at LPS. The mind ponders what ISW 2020 at LPS
will bring for the 29-time USAC National Sprint Car feature
winner. At LPS ISW, the 2015 Indiana Sprint Week titlist's
performances have been solid with a 4th in 2016, 6th in 2015
and 7th in 2013.
Fort Branch, Indiana's Chase Stockon has five top-tens to
his credit during ISW at LPS. He finished 10th thrice in a
three-year span between 2013-14-15 before collecting a best
of 2nd in 2016 behind winner Brady Short. Stockon also
earned a 9th in 2018. Lincoln Park was the location that
Stockon made his USAC debut for his now full-time team on
the tour, KO Motorsports, which occurred during the
two-night tilt in the month of July.
Thomas Meseraull (San Jose, Calif.) has finished inside the
top-five twice in his ISW career at LPS with a best of
3rd in 2014, a 5th in 2016 and 10th place run in 2010.
Brent Beauchamp (Fairland, Ind.) and Shane Cockrum (Benton,
Ill.) are the two Lincoln Park Sprint Car track champions
represented in the 48-car field on Thursday. Beauchamp, the
2012 & 2017 LPS champ and one-time ISW winner at
Bloomington, was the fastest qualifier in USAC Sprint
competition at LPS in July, his first fast time with the
series in eight years. He ran 9th in 2013 for his best LPS
ISW result. Shane Cockrum, meanwhile, a three-time USAC
Silver Crown winner, has been a standout on a weekly basis
in the LPS Sprint Car division, winning track titles in
2016-18-19.
USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car point leader Justin Grant
(Ione, Calif.) has finished inside the top-five just once in
the past decade of ISW visits to LPS, a 5th in 2018. He
also finished 6th in 2017 and 8th in 2019 at the event. His
2nd and 3rd place runs in his two Lincoln Park USAC Sprint
starts this year were the best of his career at the track.
A.J. Hopkins (Brownsburg, Ind.) is a towering presence at
Lincoln Park with numerous weekly wins over the past several
seasons. He ran 3rd at LPS during ISW in 2018 to go along
with a 2nd earlier that same month.
Carson Short (Marion, Ill.) rolled a pair of sixes in both
the 2018 and 2019 event while C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.),
a winner at Kokomo and Lawrenceburg during rounds two and
three of this past weekend's ISW was a 7th and 3rd place
finisher over the last two years at LPS ISW in 2018 and
2019. Brandon Mattox (Terre Haute, Ind.) had a successful
7th in 2019. Jadon Rogers (Worthington, Ind.), who recently
took over the wheel of the Randy Edwards No. 61m after June
Haubstadt, Ind. USAC winner Stephen Schnapf stepped out of
the ride, was the fastest qualifier with USAC on July 3 at
LPS, his first career quick time with the series.
Tickets for all Indiana Sprint Week events are available
while supplies last, exclusively at
www.usactickets.com. Adult
general admission tickets for Lincoln Park are $25 while
kids age 10 & under are free. Pit passes are $30 apiece.
All online ticket purchasers will be allowed an early 3:30pm
(local time) entry into the grandstand. Front gate entry is
open to all spectators at 4:30pm. Hot laps begin at 6:30pm
with racing to immediately follow.
Spectator tickets for all of the 33rd annual edition of ISW
are also on sale at www.usactickets.com. ISW
tickets will be sold exclusively online and there will be a
limited availability based on COVID-19 criteria that is in
place at each venue on the schedule for all ISW event
throughout the Hoosier state. There is no guarantee of
on-site ticket sales at any of the tracks if pre-determined
attendance limits are met beforehand.
LINCOLN PARK
SPEEDWAY INDIANA SPRINT WEEK HISTORY:
21 RACES, 1 RAINOUT (1988-1992, 1997-2005 & 2012-2019)
FEATURE WINNERS: 1988 - Tim Gee (Gee 88), 1989 - Danny Smith
(Gohr 56), 1990 - Dave Darland (Darland 36d), 1991 - Jack
Hewitt (Hampshire 63), 1992 - Kevin Thomas (Hazen 57), 1997
- Jack Hewitt (Hampshire 63), 1998 - Dave Darland (Dynamics
69), 1999 - Dave Darland (Dynamics 69), 2000 - Jay Drake
(Kunz 67), 2001 - Jon Stanbrough (Hazen 57h), 2002 - Cory
Kruseman (Kunz 67), 2003 - Jay Drake (Kunz 67), 2004 - Cory
Kruseman (Stewart 21), 2005 - Dave Darland, 2012 - Dave
Darland (Walker 11), 2013 - Bryan Clauson
(Stewart/Curb-Agajanian 20), 2014 - Robert Ballou (Ballou
12x), 2015 - Brady Bacon (Dynamics 69), 2016 - Brady Short
(Pottorff 11p), 2017 - Robert Ballou (Ballou 12), 2018 -
Dave Darland (Goodnight/Curb-Agajanian 36D), 2019 - Kyle
Cummins (Rock Steady 3R)
MOST ISW FEATURE WINS AT LINCOLN PARK SPEEDWAY: 6 - Dave
Darland
RACE WINNERS WHO'VE GONE ON TO WIN THE ISW TITLE THAT YEAR:
5 - Kevin Thomas (1992), Dave Darland (1998), Jay Drake
(2000), Cory Kruseman (2002) & Bryan Clauson (2013)
ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL SPRINT
CAR WIN AT LINCOLN PARK SPEEDWAY:
(6) Dave Darland
(5) Sheldon Kinser
(3) Robert Ballou
(2) Brady Bacon, Steve Butler, Jerry Coons Jr., Jay Drake,
Cory Kruseman & Jon Stanbrough
(1) Chuck Amati, Chad Boespflug, Bryan Clauson, Shane
Cottle, Tyler Courtney, Kyle Cummins, Brad Fox, Dickie
Gaines, Jack Hewitt, Kelly Kinser & Brady Short
LINCOLN PARK INDIANA SPRINT
WEEK ENTRY LIST: (48 cars)
04 A.J. HOPKINS/Brownsburg, IN (Jerry Burton)
1x KURT GROSS/Washington, IN (Kurt Gross)
2E THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA (Epperson Racing)
3R KYLE CUMMINS/Princeton, IN (Rock Steady Racing)
4 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (TOPP Motorsports)
5 ANTON HERNANDEZ/Arlington, TX (Baldwin Brothers Racing)
5c COLTEN COTTLE/Kansas, IL (Rick Cottle)
5m MATT McDONALD/Brownsburg, IN (Darrell McDonald)
5s CHASE STOCKON/Fort Branch, IN (KO Motorsports)
6p CHRIS PHILLIPS/Plainfield, IN (Chris Phillips)
9K KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL (KT Motorsports)
12 ROBERT BALLOU/Rocklin, CA (Ballou Motorsports)
13 DENNIS GILE/Phoenix, AZ (Gene Gile Racing)
16 HARLEY BURNS/Brazil, IN (Burns Racing)
17 DAKOTA JACKSON/Elizabethtown, IN (On The Gass Racing)
17GP TYLER THOMAS/Collinsville, OK (Michael Dutcher
Motorsports)
19 CHRIS WINDOM/Canton, IL (Hayward Motorsports)
19AZ LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Reinbold-Underwood
Motorsports)
20 CHAYSE HAYHURST/Evansville, IN (Chayse Hayhurst)
20B JAKE BLAND/Bloomington, IN (Jake Bland)
22 SCOTTY WEIR/Marion, IN (Goodnight Racing)
22v SHELBY VanGILDER/Terre Haute, IN (JR & Debbie VanGilder)
24 NATE McMILLIN/Rosedale, IN (Kenny McMillin)
28 BRANDON MATTOX/Terre Haute, IN (Brandon Mattox Racing)
30 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN (Leary Racing)
33m MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH (Ray Marshall
Motorsports)
34 STERLING CLING/Tempe, AZ (Sterling Cling Racing)
34AZ JAKE SWANSON/Anaheim, CA (Team AZ Racing)
34x BRENT BEAUCHAMP/Fairland, IN (Jeff Olson)
36d DAVE DARLAND/Lincoln, IN (EZR/Curb-Agajanian Racing)
37 MAX ADAMS/Loomis, CA (A.J. Felker)
39 MATT GOODNIGHT/Winchester, IN (Goodnight Racing)
47 CHARLES DAVIS JR./Buckeye, AZ (Davis Race Team)
51T EDDIE TAFOYA JR./Chino Hills, CA (Eddie Tafoya)
53 BRAYDEN FOX/Avon, IN (Fox Brothers Racing)
54 JONATHAN VENNARD/Vincennes, IN (KO Motorsports)
57 CLINTON BOYLES/Greenwood, MO (Paul Hazen)
61m JADON ROGERS/Worthington, IN (Randy Edwards)
68 CHASE JOHNSON/Penngrove, CA (Shawn Thomas)
69 BRADY BACON/Broken Arrow, OK (Dynamics, Inc.)
69JM LOGAN HUPP/Columbus, IN (Evan Gindling)
71 ROBERT BELL/Colfax, IA (Robert Bell)
71p CARSON SHORT/Marion, IL (Daigh-Phillips Motorsports)
74x SHANE COTTLE/Kansas, IL (Hodges Motorsports)
75 DUSTIN CLARK/Washington, IN (Dustin Clark Racing)
77 DUSTIN SMITH/Russiaville, IN (LG Motorsports)
77c SHANE COCKRUM/Benton, IL (Wingo Brothers Racing)
79BT MAX GUILFORD/Auckland, NZ (Goodnight Racing)
2020 NOS ENERGY DRINK INDIANA
SPRINT WEEK SCHEDULE:
Fri., July 24: Gas City I-69 Speedway - Gas City, Indiana
Winner: Logan Seavey (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19AZ)
Sat., July 25: Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana
Winner: C.J. Leary (Leary Racing #30)
Sun., July 26: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana
Winner: C.J. Leary (Leary Racing #30)
Wed., July 29: Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute,
Indiana
Advance Ticket Entry: 3pm ET, Walk-Up Sales: 4pm, Hot Laps:
6:30pm
Thu., July 30: Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana
Advance Ticket Entry: 3:30pm ET, Walk-Up Sales: 4:30pm, Hot
Laps: 6:30pm
Fri., July 31: Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, Indiana
Advance Ticket Entry: 3:30pm ET, Walk-Up Sales: 4:30pm, Hot
Laps: 6:30pm
Sat., August 1: Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana
Advance Ticket Entry: 3pm CT, Walk-Up Sales: 4pm, Hot Laps:
6pm
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Trimble Triumphant in
URSS Belleville 305 Nationals Finale!
Lonnie Wheatley,
BELLEVILLE, Kan. (August 2, 2020) – Adam Trimble cashed in to the tune
of $7,000 by winning Sunday afternoon’s Third Annual United Rebel Sprint
Series Belleville 305 Sprint Car Nationals 20-lap finale atop the ½-mile
Belleville High Banks clay oval.
Trimble wrestled the lead
away from Stu Snyder on the sixth round and then survived a
green-white-checkered restart after the race’s lone caution by holding
off Snyder and Luke Cranston to post the win.
“We lost a brake rotor
last night,” the Pueblo , CO , racer explained in victory lane. “I
don’t think I took a breath for the entire 20 laps.”
While Trimble led the
feature field to the green flag with Cranston alongside, it was
sixth-starter Snyder working the extreme upper portion of the High Banks
to race into the lead on the opening round.
As Snyder continued to
work the top, Trimble began nibbling at his advantage by working the low
side. Trimble pulled alongside after five laps and then took command on
the sixth circuit aboard the No. 43 Sprint Car.
Snyder soon moved to the
bottom as well before surrendering second to Cranston on the 13th lap.
Snyder began to surge in the final handful of laps, reclaiming second on
the 17th lap and turning up the heat on Trimble until the race’s only
caution flew for a Buddy Tubbs flat right rear tire with 19 laps in the
books.
Snyder and Cranston kept
the pressure on during the green-white-checkered run, but Trimble was up
for the task. Snyder and Cranston settled for second and third,
respectively, with Jason Martin making a lap 13 move into fourth that
stuck for the rest of the race.
Trevor Grossenacher
rounded out the top five with Jeff Stasa, Friday night preliminary
winner Zach Blurton, Jordan Knight, 15th-starter Jake Martens earned the
Keizer Wheels Hard Charger and Jed Werner completing the top ten.
Martens would also earn the Keizer Wheels Hard Charger award with his
performance.
With a revised format in
place to accommodate daytime track conditions, J.D. Johnson established
the overall quick time of 16.998 seconds in group qualifying with
Cranston , Blurton, Grossenbacher and Knight winning the heat races.
Tubbs and Ty Williams topped “B” Main action.
The day came to an early
end for both J.D. Johnson and Cody Ledger when the duo collided in turn
two while battling the fourth and final transfer position midway through
the first heat race. Both went for a tumble with Ledger sailing out of
the part over the turn two retaining fence.
Forty-six different
drivers took part in the third rendition of the Belleville 305 Sprint
Car Nationals.
Third Annual Belleville
305 Sprint Car Nationals Finale
Sunday, August 2, 2020
Results:
Qualifying:
Group One: 1. 98-J.D.
Johnson 16.998, 2. 91-Jeff Stasa 17.069, 3. 5x-Jason Martin 17.085, 4.
11b-Luke Cranston 17.114, 5. 12-Tyler Drueke 17.133, 6. 47-Cody Ledger
17.146, 7. 53-Jack Dover 17.149, 8. 911x-17.205, 9. 2b-Brett Becker
17.368, 10. 88J-Jeremy Huish 17.392
Group Two: 1. 11-Zach
Blurton 17.002, 2. 50-Jed Werner 17.133, 3. 17x-Taylor Velasquez 17.275,
4. 12n-Neil Nekolite 17.342, 5. 95-Buddy Tubbs 17.363, 6. 82c-Christian
Kinnison 17.462, 7. 9-John Webster 17.533, 8. 0-Steven Richardson
17.627, 9. 7-Toby Chapman, 10. 75-Nick Nichols NT.
Group Three: 1. 88-Mike
Woodruff 17.253, 2. 43-Adam Trimble 17.503, 3. 45-Lonnie Cox 17.505, 4.
95T-Trevor Grossenbacher 17.582, 5. 911-Ty Williams 17.586, 6. 17-Todd
Plemons 17.644, 7. 05-Brandon Allen 16.725, 8. 17s-Chad Salem 17.785, 9.
74-Howard Van Dyke 18.105, 10. 28-Tom Belsky 18.338.
Group Four: 1. 5-Stu
Snyder 17.334, 2. 27b-Jake Martens 17.338, 3. 7x-Shane Sundquist 17.446,
4. 10-Jordan Knight 17.475, 5. 72-Ray Seemann 17.489, 6. 45x-Kyler
Johnson 17.517, 7. 9d-Lance Davis 17.744, 8. 57b-Boyd Peterson 17.768,
9. 27h-Fred Holz 17.781, 10. 6-Jett Carney 18.009, 11. 21-Jody Reeves
18.835.
Heat Races (Top 4 Advance
to A Main ; Balance to Two B Mains):
Heat One (8 Laps): 1.
11b-Luke Cranston, 2. 5x-Jason Martin, 3. 91-Jeff Stasa, 4. 12-Tyler
Drueke, 5. 53-Jack Dover, 6. 911x-Matt Covington, 7. 88J-Jeremy Huish,
8. 2b-Brett Becker, 9. 47-Cody Ledger, 10. 98-J.D. Johnson.
Heat Two (8 Laps): 1.
11-Zach Blurton, 2 50-Jed Werner, 3. 82c-Christian Kennison, 4.
17x-Taylor Velasqeuz, 5. 12n-Nick Nekolite, 6. 95-Buddy Tubbs, 7. 9-John
Webster, 8. 0-Steven Richardson, 9. 7-Toby Chapman, 10. 75-Nick Nichols
(DNS).
Heat Three (8 Laps): 1.
95T-Trevor Grossenbacher, 2. 45-Lonnie Cox, 3. 43-Adam Trimble, 4.
05-Brandon Allen, 5. 911-Ty Willams, 6. 17-Todd Plemons, 7 17s-Chad
Salem, 8. 74-Howard Van Dyke, 9. 28-Tom Belsky, 10. 88-Mike Woodruff.
Heat Four (8 Laps): 1.
10-Jordan Knight, 2 7x-Shane Sundquist, 3. 5-Stu Snyder, 4. 27b-Jake
Martens, 5. 72-Ray Seemann, 6. 45x-Kyler Johnson, 7. 9d-Lance Davis, 8.
6-Jett Carney, 9. 57b-Boyd Peterson, 10. 27h-Fred Holz, 11. 21-Jody
Reeves.
“B” Mains (Top 4 from
each advance to “A” Main)
“B” Feature One (10
Laps): 1. 95-Buddy Tubbs, 2. 72-Ray Seemann, 3. 53-Jack Dover, 4.
0-Steven Richardson, 5. 17-Todd Plemons, 6. 57b-Boyd Peterson, 7. 9-John
Webster, 8. 17s-Chad Salem, 9. 74-Howard Van Dyke, 10. 27h-Fred Holz,
11. 88-Mike Woodruff (DNS), 12. 47-Cody Ledger (DNS), 13. 75-Nick
Nichols (DNS).
“B” Feature Two (10
Laps): 1. 911-Ty Williams, 2. 45x-Kyler Johnson, 3. 12n-Nick Nekolite,
4. 2b-Brett Becker, 5. 7-Toby Chapman, 6. 88J-Jeremy Huish, 7. 9d-Lance
Davis, 8. 28-Tom Belsky, 9. 6-Jett Carney, 10. 911x-Matt Covington , 11.
98-J.D. Johnson (DNS), 12. 21-Jody Reeves (DNS).
Belleville 305 Sprint Car
Nationals “A” Main
“A” Main (20 Laps): 1.
43-Adam Trimble (1), 2. 5-Stu Snyder (6), 3. 11b-Luke Cranston (2), 4.
5x-Jason Martin (8), 5. 95T-Trevor Grossenbacher (5), 6. 91-Jeff Stasa
(7), 7. 11-Zach Blurton (3), 8. 10-Jordan Knight (4), 9. 27b-Jake
Martens (15), 10. 50-Jed Werner (9), 11. 12-Tyler Drueke (13), 12.
7x-Shane Sundquist (11), 13. 72-Ray Seemann (19), 14. 17x-Taylor
Velasquez (14), 15. 911-Ty Williams (18), 16. 2b-Brett Becker (24), 17.
05-Brandon Allen (16), 18. 45-Lonnie Cox (10), 19. 82c-Christian
Kinnison (12), 20. 45x-Kyler Johnson (20), 21. 95-Buddy Tubbs (17), 22.
53-Jack Dover (21), 23. 12n-Nick Nekolite (22), 24. 0-Steven Richardson
(23)
Lap Leaders: Stu Snyder
1-5, Adam Trimble 6-20.
Blurton Wires the Field in URSS Belleville 305 Nationals
Preliminary Feature!
Lonnie Wheatley, BELLEVILLE, Kan. (July 31, 2020) – Zach Blurton kicked
off the Third Annual Belleville 305 Sprint Car Nationals by wiring the
field in Friday night’s 20-lap preliminary feature to take the $2,500
winner’s share atop the ½-mile Belleville High Banks clay oval.
Blurton gunned into the lead from the third starting position in the
opening pair of corners and then paced the field throughout aboard the
J&K Trucking No. 11 Maxim Sprint Car.
After charging past front row starters Jed Werner and J.D. Johnson at
the outset, the Quinter racer weathered just one caution after two
circuits for Ty Williams, who suffered race-ending damage after getting
a piece of the turns one and two retaining fence.
Blurton sailed on the high side throughout, lapping up to 13th and took
the checkered flag with four lapped cars separating himself from
runner-up Johnson. It was Blurton’s best Belleville 305 Nationals
showing since placing sixth in the Saturday portion of the Inaugural
event in 2018.
Goddard’s Johnson, the current United Rebel Sprint Series points leader,
survived a perilous turn two encounter to post runner-up honors with
Nebraska’s Stu Snyder filling out the podium in third.
Codell’s Jed Werner crossed the stripe fourth with Jetmore’s Jeremy
Huish rounding out the top five. Jason Martin was sixth with Steven
Richardson, 15th-starter Cody Ledger, Jeff Stasa and 20th-starter Matt
Covington completing the top ten.
Jordan Knight, Blurton, Richardson, Johnson and Tyler Knight topped heat
race action for the 45-car field with Jack Dover, Kyler Johnson, Toby
Chapman and Blurton victorious in Qualifying Race action before Tyler
Drueke and Jake Martens topped the “B” Mains.
Neil Nekolite and Connor Atkinson both flipped in separate heat four
incidents. Neklolite returned to action while Atkinson was done for the
night.
The Third Annual Belleville 305 Sprint Car Nationals wraps up with
Saturday night’s $7,500-to-win tilt getting under way at 7:30 p.m.
Third Annual Belleville 305 Sprint Car Nationals Night One
July 31, 2020 Results:
Heat Races:
Heat One (8 Laps): 1. 10-Jordan Knight, 2. 911-Ty Williams, 3. 9-John
Webster, 4. 91-Jeff Stasa, 5. 47-Cody Ledger, 6. 6-Jett Carney, 7.
74-Howard Van Dyke, 8. 05-Brandon Allen, 9. 28-Tom Belsky.
Heat Two (8 Laps): 1. 11-Zach Blurton, 2. 5-Stu Snyder, 3.
82c-Christian Kinnison, 4. 7-Toby Chapman, 5. 53-Jack Dover, 6. 12-Tyler
Drueke, 7. 27h-Fred Holz, 8. 2b-Brett Becker, 9. 21-Jody Reeves.
Heat Three (8 Laps): 1. 0-Steven Richardson, 2. 45-Lonnie Cox, 3.
5x-Jason Martin, 4. 9d-Lance Davis, 5. 88J-Jeremy Huish 6. 95T-Trevor
Grossenbacher, 7. 57b-Boyd Peterson, 8. 17s-Chad Salem, 9. 1o-Michael
Oliver.
Heat Four (8 Laps): 1. 98-J.D. Johnson, 2. 27b-Jake Martens, 3. 88-Mike
Woodruff, 4. 95-Buddy Tubbs, 5. 45x-Kyler Johnson, 6. 33s-Jeremy
Schultz, 7. 4-Josh Poe, 8. 74x-Connor Atkinson, 9. 12n-Neil Nekolite.
Heat Five (8 Laps): 1. 11k-Tyler Knight, 2. 50-Jed Werner, 3. 72-Ray
Seemann, 4. 17x-Taylor Velasquez, 5. 11b-Luke Cranston, 6. 911x-Matt
Covington, 7. 43-Adam Trimble, 8. 17-Todd Plemons, 9. 75-Nick Nichols.
Qualifying Races (Top 16 in combined finishing/passing points from Heats
and Qualifiers to “A” Main/Balance to two “B” Mains)
Qualifier One (8 Laps): 1. 53-Jack Dover, 2. 72-Ray Seemann, 3.
0-Steven Richardson, 4. 9-John Webster, 5. 5-Stu Snyder, 6. 11b-Luke
Cranston, 7. 27b-Jake Martens, 8. 43-Adam Trimble, 9. 05-Brandon Allen,
10. 12n-Neil Nekolite, 11. 21-Jody Reeves, 12. 74x-Connor Atkinson
(DNS).
Qualifier Two (8 Laps): 1. 45x-Kyler Johnson, 2. 91-Jeff Stasa, 3.
98-J.D. Johnson, 4. 5x-Jason Martin, 5. 911x-Matt Covington, 6.
82c-Christian Kinnison, 7. 2b-Brett Becker, 8. 11k-Tyler Knight, 9.
27h-Fred Holz, 10. 6-Jett Carney, 11. 1o-Michael Oliver.
Qualifier Three (8 Laps): 1. 7-Toby Chapman, 2. 50-Jed Werner, 3.
911-Ty Williams, 4. 47-Cody Ledger, 5. 12-Tyler Drueke, 6. 10-Jordan
Knight, 7. 9d-Lance Davis, 8. 17-Todd Plemons, 9. 74-Howard Van Dyke,
10.75-Nick Nichols, 11. 57b-Brody Peterson.
Qualifier Four (8 Laps): 1. 11-Zach Blurton, 2. 88J-Jeremy Huish, 3.
17x-Taylor Velasquez, 4. 95-Buddy Tubbs, 5. 95T-Trevor Grossenbacher, 6.
45-Lonnie Cox, 7. 28-Tom Belsky, 8. 33s-Jeremy Schultz, 9. 4-Josh Poe,
10. 17s-Chad Salem, 11. 88-Mike Woodruff.
“B” Mains (Top 4 from each advance to “A” Main)
“B” Feature One (12 Laps): 1. 12-Tyler Drueke, 2. 82c-Christian
Kinnison, 3. 17x-Taylor Velasquez, 4. 43-Adam Trimble, 5. 11k-Tyler
Knight, 6. 6-Jett Carney, 7. 57b-Brody Peterson, 8. 75-Nick Nichols, 9.
1o-Michael Oliver, 10. 33s-Jeremy Schultz, 11. 74-Howard Van Dyke, 12.
45-Lonnie Cox, 13. 2b-Brett Becker (DQ – Failed to meet minimum weight),
14. 88-Mike Woodruff (DNS), 15. 74x-Connor Atkinson (DNS).
“B” Feature Two (12 Laps): 1. 27b-Jake Martens, 2. 911x-Matt Covington,
3. 95-Buddy Tubbs, 4. 95T-Trevor Grossenbacher, 5. 17-Todd Plemons, 6.
9d-Lance Davis, 7. 28-Tom Belsky, 8. 17s-Chad Salem, 9. 05-Brandon
Allen, 10. 12n-Neil Nekolite, 11. 21-Jody Reeves, 12. 11b-Luke Cranston,
13. 27h-Fred Holz, 14. 4-Josh Poe.
Belleville 305 Sprint Car Nationals Preliminary “A” Main
“A” Main (20 Laps): 1. 11-Zach Blurton (3), 2. 98-J.D. Johnson (2), 3.
5-Stu Snyder (4), 4. 50-Jed Werner (1), 5. 88J-Jeremy Huish (8), 6.
5x-Jason Martin (7), 7. 0-Steven Richardson (5), 8. 47-Cody Ledger (15),
9. 91-Jeff Stasa (12), 10. 911x-Matt Covington (20), 11. 27b-Jake
Martens (18), 12. 45x-Kyler Johnson (11), 13. 82c-Christian Kinnison
(19) 14. 12-Tyler Drueke (17), 15. 95-Buddy Tubbs (22), 16. 95T-Trevor
Grossenbacher (24), 17. 10-Jordan Knight (16), 18. 72-Ray Seemann (9),
19. 17x-Taylor Velasquez (21), 20. 43-Adam Trimble (23), 21. 9-John
Webster (14), 22. 53-Jack Dover (10), 23. 7-Toby Chapman (13), 24.
911-Ty Williams (6).
Lap Leaders: Zach Blurton 1-20.
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United Rebel Sprint Series Heads
to Sherman County Speedway This Sunday
GOODLAND, Kansas (August 3,
2020) – The POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel
Hambelton Ford Racing is coming off a busy weekend with the
Belleville 305 Nationals, but the action doesn’t stop there. The
month of August is action-packed and eventful for United Rebel
Sprint Series competitors.
On Sunday, August 9th
series’ competitors will head to the 3/8-mile dirt track of
Sherman County Speedway in Goodland , Kansas . Sunday’s fair
race will also feature IMCA Hobby Stocks, Modifieds, Sport
Modifieds, and Stock Cars. Hot laps are slated to begin at 4PM
with green flag racing set to start at 5PM.
Looking ahead, the POWRi United
Rebel Sprint Series Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing will
prepare for a double-header weekend on August 14th
and 15th at Oberlin Speedway in Oberlin , Kansas . In
2019, Jake Bubak and Jason Martin victorious at the 3/8-mile
semi-banked dirt track.
The Dodge City Raceway Park
Nationals will take place on August 20-22 and tentatively
rounding out the month of August will see the United Rebel
Sprint Series at Phillips County Speedway in Holyoke , Kansas on
August 28th.
For more information on rules,
results, schedules, and more please visit the URSS official
website www.unitedrebelsprintseries.com. To stay up-to-date,
visit their Facebook page: United Rebel Sprint Series (URSS).
URSS Prepared
to Take on Belleville 305 Nationals Friday and Saturday
BELLEVILLE,
Kansas (July 27, 2020) – The POWRi United Rebel Sprint Series
Presented by Mel Hambelton Ford Racing are in full preparation
for the 3rd Annual Belleville 305 Nationals set to take place
this Friday, July 31st and Saturday, August 1st. The United
Rebel Sprint Series and historic Belleville High Banks will host
one of the most thrilling and highest-paying RaceSaver Sprint
Car shows in the nation, with a purse of over $65,000. To date,
more than 55 drivers across the United States have registered
for competition. This is an event you won’t want to miss!
Thursday, July
30th drivers will have the option to participate in an
open-practice starting at 6:30PM. Pit passes for practice will
be $20 and entry to the grandstands will be free.
Friday, July
31st all competitors will participate in night one of the 3rd
Annual Belleville 305 Nationals. The feature winner of the
Friday show will take home a $2,500 pay day. Second place will
pay $1,500, third-place $1,200, fourth-place $1,100, and
fifth-place $1,000. Friday’s feature will pay $350 to start.
Non-transfers from the B-Feature will earn between $125 and $250
dependent upon finishing position, and all other non-qualifiers
will earn $100 for their efforts.
Saturday,
August 1st will begin a new show, however competitors that did
not attempt Friday’s portion will not be able to start any
further forward than 11th place in Saturday’s feature event.
Saturday night’s feature winner will seize a $7,000 pay day.
Second place will take home $3,500, third-place $3,000,
fourth-place $2,500, and fifth-place $2,000. The feature event
will pay $1,000 to start on Saturday. Non-transfers finishing
5th to 10th in the B-Feature will receive between $300 and $425
dependent upon finish, with all other non-qualifiers receiving
$250 for their efforts.
An added bounty
of $1,000 has been put up for both nights (Friday and Saturday)
to beat the two-time and defending champion, Jake Bubak.
Hot laps are
slated to begin at 6:30PM on Friday and Saturday, with racing
set to begin at 7:30PM. General admission on Friday is $15 with
reserved seating available for $20. General admission for
Saturday’s show is $25 with reserved seating available for $25.
Kids 12 and under are $10, and children 6 and under are free
admission both Friday and Saturday.
For more
information on rules, results, schedules, and more please visit
the URSS official website www.unitedrebelsprintseries.com. To
stay up-to-date, visit their Facebook page: United Rebel Sprint
Series (URSS). Additional information about the 3rd Annual
Belleville 305 Nationals can be found on the Belleville High
Banks official website, www.bellevillehighbanks.org.
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states auto club |
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rebel sprint series |
2020 USAC SILVER CROWN SCHEDULE
May 21: (D) Terre Haute Action Track
(Terre Haute, IN)
May 22: (P) Lucas Oil Raceway (Brownsburg,
IN)
Jun 12: (D) Williams Grove Speedway
(Mechanicsburg, PA)
Jun 19: (P) Madison International Speedway
(Oregon, WI)
Aug 2: (P#) World Wide Technology Raceway
(Madison, IL)
Aug 9: (D) Selinsgrove Speedway
(Selinsgrove, PA)
Aug 15: (P) Salem Speedway (Salem, IN)
Aug 22: (D#) Illinois State Fairgrounds
(Springfield, IL)
Sep 6: (D) Du Quoin State Fairgrounds (Du
Quoin, IL)
Sep 25-26: (D) Eldora Speedway (Rossburg,
OH)
Oct 4: (P#) Toledo Speedway (Toledo, OH)
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2020 USAC
AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SCHEDULE
Feb 13: Bubba Raceway Park (Ocala, FL)
Feb 14: Bubba Raceway Park (Ocala, FL)
Feb 15: Bubba Raceway Park (Ocala, FL)
Apr 4: Lawrenceburg Speedway (Lawrenceburg,
IN)
Apr 17: Bloomington Speedway (Bloomington, IN)
Apr 18: (M) Tri-State Speedway (Haubstadt, IN)
May 1: Lakeside Speedway (Kansas City, KS)
May 2: Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55
(Pevely, MO)
May 8: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
May 9: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
May 20: Terre Haute Action Track (Terre Haute,
IN)
May 29: Jackson Motorplex (Jackson, MN)
May 30: Jackson Motorplex (Jackson, MN)
Jun 9: Grandview Speedway (Bechtelsville, PA)
Jun 10: Bridgeport Speedway (Swedesboro, NJ)
Jun 11: BAPS Motor Speedway (York Haven, PA)
Jun 13: Port Royal Speedway (Port Royal, PA)
Jun 14: Weedsport Speedway (Weedsport, NY)
Jun 26: Plymouth Speedway (Plymouth, IN)
Jun 27: I-96 Speedway (Lake Odessa, MI)
Jul 4: Lincoln Park Speedway (Putnamville, IN)
Jul 9: I-80 Speedway (Greenwood, NE)
Jul 10: (A) (W) Knoxville Raceway (Knoxville,
IA)
Jul 11: (A) (W) Knoxville Raceway (Knoxville,
IA)
Jul 15: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
Jul 24: Gas City I-69 Speedway (Gas City, IN)
Jul 25: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Jul 26: Lawrenceburg Speedway (Lawrenceburg,
IN)
Jul 29: Terre Haute Action Track (Terre Haute,
IN)
Jul 30: Lincoln Park Speedway (Putnamville,
IN)
Jul 31: Bloomington Speedway (Bloomington, IN)
Aug 1: Tri-State Speedway (Haubstadt, IN)
Aug 26: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN) (SE)
Aug 27: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Aug 28: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Aug 29: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Sep 18: Terre Haute Action Track (Terre Haute,
IN)
Sep 19: (M) Tri-State Speedway (Haubstadt, IN)
Sep 24: Gas City I-69 Speedway (Gas City, IN)
Sep 26: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
Oct 3: Lawrenceburg Speedway (Lawrenceburg,
IN)
Nov 5: (C) (S) Perris Auto Speedway (Perris,
CA)
Nov 6: (C) (S) Perris Auto Speedway (Perris,
CA)
Nov 7: (C) (S) Perris Auto Speedway (Perris,
CA)
Nov 13: (C) (S) Arizona Speedway (San Tan
Valley, AZ)
Nov 14: (C) (S) Arizona Speedway (San Tan
Valley, AZ)
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(M) = Co-sanctioned by the Midwest Sprint Car
Series
(A) = Event awards appearance points only
(W) = Co-sanctioned by WAR
(C) = Co-sanctioned by USAC/CRA
(S) = Co-sanctioned by the USAC Southwest
2020 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK
NATIONAL MIDGET SCHEDULE
Feb 7: Bubba Raceway Park (Ocala, FL)
Feb 8: Bubba Raceway Park (Ocala, FL)
Mar 7: (A) Southern Illinois Center (Du
Quoin, IL)
Apr 10: Riverside International Speedway
(West Memphis, AR)
Apr 11: Riverside International Speedway
(West Memphis, AR)
Apr 24: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Apr 25: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
May 15: Port City Raceway (Tulsa, OK)
May 16: Port City Raceway (Tulsa, OK)
Jun 2: Paragon Speedway (Paragon, IN)
Jun 3: Gas City I-69 Speedway (Gas City,
IN)
Jun 4: Lincoln Park Speedway (Putnamville,
IN)
Jun 5: Bloomington Speedway (Bloomington,
IN)
Jun 6: Lawrenceburg Speedway
(Lawrenceburg, IN)
Jun 7: Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, IN)
Jun 20: Dirt Oval 66 (Joliet, IL)
Jul 1-2: (A) The Dirt Track at IMS
(Speedway, IN)
Jul 17: Jefferson County Speedway
(Fairbury, NE)
Jul 18: Jefferson County Speedway
(Fairbury, NE)
Jul 21: Red Dirt Raceway (Meeker, OK)
Aug 4: Grandview Speedway (Bechtelsville,
PA)
Aug 5: Action Track USA (Kutztown, PA)
Aug 6: Bridgeport Speedway (Swedesboro,
NJ)
Aug 7: Path Valley Speedway Park (Spring
Run, PA)
Aug 8: Lanco's Clyde Martin Memorial
Speedway (Newmanstown, PA)
Sep 4: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex
(Sweet Springs, MO)
Sep 5: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex
(Sweet Springs, MO)
Sep 25: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
Sep 26: Eldora Speedway (Rossburg, OH)
Oct 9: (A) Wayne County Speedway (Wayne
City, IL)
Oct 10: Tri-State Speedway (Haubstadt, IN)
Nov 13: Arizona Speedway (San Tan Valley,
AZ)
Nov 14: Arizona Speedway (San Tan Valley,
AZ)
Nov 17: Bakersfield Speedway (Bakersfield,
CA)
Nov 19: (A) Placerville Speedway
(Placerville, CA)
Nov 20: (A) Placerville Speedway
(Placerville, CA)
Nov 21: (A) Placerville Speedway
(Placerville, CA)
Nov 25-26: Ventura Raceway (Ventura, CA)
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(A) = Appearance Points Only
2020 USAC .25 NATIONAL MIDGET
SCHEDULE
Feb 5-9: Daytona International Speedway
(Daytona, FL) (P)
Apr 30-May 3: Road Runner QMA
(Albuquerque, NM) (P)
Jun 11-14: Hagerstown QMA (Hagerstown, MD)
(D)
Jun 25-28: Richmond Raceway (Richmond, VA)
(P)
Jul 9-12: Northwest Ohio QMRA (Toledo, OH)
(P)
Jul 30-Aug 2: Terre Haute QMA (Terre
Haute, IN) (D)
Aug 13-16: Montgomery County QMRC
(Phoenixville, PA) (D)
Sep 3-6: Portland International Raceway
(Portland, OR) (P)
Sep 17-20: Christian County QMA
(Taylorville, IL) (D)
Oct 22-25: Texas Motor Speedway (Fort
Worth, TX) (P)
**TBA Dirt National Race - Location &
Date TBA
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URSS 2020 TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
MARCH
THUR 26 RPM SPEEDWAY HAYS, KS (PRACTICE)
FRI 27 RPM SPEEDWAY HAYS, KS
SAT 28 RPM SPEEDWAY HAYS, KS
APRIL
SAT 4 DCRP DODGE CITY, KS
FRI 24 WEST TEXAS RACEWAY LUBBOCK , TX
SAT 25 ROUTE 66 MOTOR SPEEDWAY AMARILLO
,TX
MAY
SAT 2 DRIVING SEMINAR WAKEENEY SPEEDWAY
WAKEENEY , KS
FRI 29 WAKEENEY SPEEDWAY , WAKEENEY , KS
SAT 30 THOMAS COUNTY SPEEDWAY COLBY, KS
JUNE
THURS 18 DCRP DODGE CITY , KS
FRI 19 DCRP DODGE CITY , KS
SAT 20 DCRP DODGE CITY, KS
SAT 27 EL PASO COUNTY SPEEDWAY CALHAN, CO
JULY
FRI 3 BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS BELLEVILLE ,
KS
SAT 4 JEFFERSON COUNTY RACEWAY FAIRBURY, NE
SAT 11 RPM SPEEDWAY HAYS, KS
SUN 12 RPM SPEEDWAY HAYS, KS
FRI 17 PHILLIPS CO. RACEWAY, HOLYOKE, CO
SAT 25 RUSH COUNTY SPEEDWAY LACROSSE, KS
SUN 26 RUSH COUNTY SPEEDWAY LACROSSE, KS
THURS 30 BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS BELLEVILLE
, KS (PRACTICE)
FRI 31 BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS BELLEVILLE ,
KS
AUGUST
SAT 1 BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS BELLEVILLE ,
KS
FRI 14 OBERLIN SPEEDWAY OBERLIN , KS
SAT 15 OBERLIN SPEEDWAY OBERLIN, KS
SEPTEMBER
FRI 4 RACESAVER NATS
SAT 5 RACESAVER NATS
SUN 6 RACESAVER NATS
FRI 11 SALINA SPEEDWAY SALINA , KS
SAT 12 81 SPEEDWAY WICHITA , KS
SAT 19 DCRP DODGE CITY, KS
SAT 26 WAKEENEY SPEEDWAY , WAKEENEY , KS
SUN 27 WAKEENEY SPEEDWAY , WAKEENEY , KS
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outlaw sprint series |
2020 BOSS NON WING
SCHEDULE
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Saturday, March 28 -
Waynesfield Raceway Park ; Waynesfield, OH - ($3,000 to win)
Saturday, April 25 - Atomic
Speedway ; Alma, OH
Friday, May 1 - Moler Raceway
Park ; Williamsburg, OH
Saturday, May 2 - Fremont
Speedway ; Fremont, OH Friday,
May 15 - Limaland Motorsports
Park; Lima, OH
Saturday, May 16 -
Lawrenceburg Speedway ; Lawrenceburg, IN
Friday, May 29 - Gas City
Speedway ; Gas City, IN
Saturday, May 30 - Twin
Cities Raceway Park ; North Vernon, IN
Friday, June 12 - I-96
Speedway ; Lake Odessa, MI
Saturday, June 13 - Fremont
Speedway ; Fremont, OH
Friday, June 19 - Moler
Raceway Park ; Williamsburg, OH
Saturday, June 20 - Richmond
Raceway ; Richmond, KY
Thursday, July 2 -
Waynesfield Raceway Park ; Williamsburg, OH (Hewitt Classic)
Saturday, July 4 - Atomic
Speedway ; Alma, OH
Saturday, July 18 -
Pittsburgh's PA Motor Speedway ; Imperial, PA
Saturday, August 8 - Fremont
Speedway ; Fremont, OH
Saturday, August 15 -
Oakshade Raceway ; Wauseon, OH
Saturday, August 22 -
Waynesfield Raceway Park ; Williamsburg, OH
Saturday, August 29 - Kokomo
Speedway (Smackdown)
Friday, October 9 - Moler
Raceway Park ; Williamsburg, OH |
 midwest
sPrint car series
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| Saturday,
Apr 18 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Sunday, Apr 26 |
Terre Haute Action Track
|
Terre Haute, IN |
| Saturday, May 16 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Friday, May 22 |
Bloomington Speedway
|
Bloomington, IN |
| Saturday, May 23 |
Lincoln Park Speedway
|
Putnamville, IN |
| Sunday, May 24 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Friday, May 29 |
Paragon Speedway
|
Paragon, IN |
| Saturday, Jun 13 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Friday, Jun 19 |
Paragon Speedway
|
Paragon, IN |
| Saturday, Jun 20 |
Brownstown Speedway
|
Brownstown, IN |
| Saturday, Jun 27 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Friday, Jul 3 |
Lincoln Park Speedway
|
Putnamville, IN |
| Saturday, Jul 11 |
Twin Cities Raceway |
North Vernon |
| Saturday, Jul 18 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Saturday, Aug 15 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Sunday, Aug 16 |
Terre Haute Action Track
|
Terre Haute, IN |
| Saturday, Aug 22 |
Lincoln Park Speedway
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Putnamville, IN |
| Friday, Sep 4 |
Bloomington Speedway
|
Bloomington, IN |
| Sunday, Sep 6 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Saturday, Sep 19 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
| Saturday, Oct 10 |
Tri-State Speedway
|
Haubstadt, IN |
 midwest
opem wheel association |
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Fri, Apr 17
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Sat, May 23
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Sat, Jun 20
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Fri, Jul 17
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Sat, Jul 18
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Fri, Jul 31
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Sat, Aug 1
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Fri, Aug 28
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Fri, Sep 11
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Sat, Sep 12
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Fri, Oct 2
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