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eDWARDS TOPS STOOPS STAR SPANGLED SHOWDOWN ON BC39 OPENING NIGHT AT IMS

josh james

By: Paul Kelly – Indianapolis Motor Speedway


 

Speedway, Indiana (June 30, 2026)………Checkout time came early Tuesday night for Drake Edwards at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


 

Edwards drove from the fourth starting spot to the lead on lap 7 and never trailed thereafter to win the 30-lap Stoops Star Spangled Showdown feature in his No. 40D Chase McDermand Racing/GR8 Company – Rexroad Racing/Spike/Speedway Toyota machine. It was the second career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory for Edwards, from Peoria, Arizona.


 

“It’s pretty surreal,” Edwards said. “Very cool to be standing here. I knew there was a shot coming to the smaller tracks, but I felt pretty solid all night long. So, I think it’s really cool.”


 

Kevin Thomas Jr. finished a distant second in the No. 14 4 Kings Racing car on the 1/5-mile dirt oval, followed by pole sitter Gavin Miller in the No. 97 Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports entry. Zach Wigal was fourth in the No. 1 Pat O’Dell car, with BC39 rookie Jake Swanson rounding out the top five in the No. 14K 4 Kings Racing entry.


 

The 30-lap feature was the climax of the opening night of the two-night BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors, which will culminate in a 39-lap feature paying $20,039 to win Wednesday night on the track inside turn three of the storied IMS asphalt oval.


 

There were only two suspenseful moments for Edwards, 23, the 2024 USAC Western States Midget Rookie of the Year.


 

The first came on lap six when Edwards, charging toward the front, drove into the rear of teammate Briggs Danner in the No. 40x Chase McDermand Racing car in a duel for second place behind Miller. Edwards continued, but Danner spun and triggered a caution period.


 

“First and foremost, I want to apologize to Briggs,” Edwards said.


 

On the lap seven restart, Edwards drove under Miller in turns three and four to take a lead he never surrendered despite multiple caution periods.


 

Edwards stretched the lead to 4.2 seconds over Thomas – a huge gap on a short track – by lap 22 as he could place his car on any spot of the dirt oval and find speed almost at will.


 

“I was just watching him up there,” Thomas said of Edwards. “Honestly, I was enjoying the show. I know he’s pretty talented, but I was like, ‘There ain’t no way he makes 30 laps without a crash.’ It’s pretty remarkable, and they had a great race car. He did a phenomenal job.”


 

Leading by approximately four seconds, Edwards rocketed around thick lapped traffic on the high line of the oval in the last 10 laps. But Thomas’ prediction of possible calamity for Edwards almost came true with three laps to go in the second dramatic moment on his drive to victory lane.


 

Edwards approached a lapped car that changed lines in turn three and four, and he had to slow quickly to avoid a collision. But Edwards safely avoided that near-miss and cruised to the victory in a car owned by McDermand, who picked up his only career USAC National Midget win during a 2024 BC39 preliminary feature, but cruelly lost a BC39 championship night victory with less than two laps remaining that same weekend when his car got hung up in ruts in turn four while leading.


 

“I didn’t know where to go half the time,” Edwards said. “But luckily, we made it through there pretty good, and I felt like I got through them all right.”


 

Edwards took over the lead from Miller with a turn three slider on lap seven, and it was all Edwards from there as he led the final 24 circuits of the 30-lap feature to earn the K & N Filters Clean Air award.


 

It's been quite some time since you could last call Jake Swanson a Rookie. But tonight, in his first career BC39 appearance, he raced to a superb fifth place result, making him the Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Race.


 

Gunnar Setser made the biggest move of the night in the feature. Starting 21st, the Columbus, Indiana racer advanced 10 spots to finish 11th and earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 30, 2026 – The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Speedway, Indiana – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors / Stoops Star Spangled Showdown


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (#14 4 Kings) (3), 2. Drake Edwards (#40D McDermand) (6), 3. Ethan Mitchell (#19m Bundy Built) (1), 4. Kaylee Bryson (#11 Abacus) (5), 5. Alex Midkiff (#05 Midkiff) (4), 6. Joel Myers Jr. (#19H Hayward) (7), 7. Adam Taylor (#7T ATM) (2). NT


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (#67 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) (1), 2. Justin Grant (#87 CBI) (6), 3. Hayden Reinbold (#19AZ Reinbold-Underwood) (7), 4. Logan Julien (#3N O’Dell) (4), 5. Alex Sewell (#32A Tessier) (5), 6. Jake Robinson (#5u Trifecta) (2), 7. Devon Dobie (#23 Dobie) (3), 8. Austin Wood (#27 Horn) (8). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kale Drake (#4 RMS) (2), 2. Gavin Miller (#97 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) (8), 3. Brecken Reese (#20Q Reese) (1), 4. Drew Sherman (#19 Reinbold-Underwood) (3), 5. Frank Flud (#81F Rosenboom) (5), 6. Jeffrey Abbey (#8B Miller) (6), 7. Cameron Hagin (#33 RayPro) (4), 8. Jason Tessier (#32J Tessier) (7). 1:42.351


 

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bradley Cox (#45 Mason) (3), 2. Briggs Danner (#40x McDermand) (7), 3. Wesley Smith (#5p Rossi-Petty) (1), 4. Adyn Schmidt (#19x Cox) (5), 5. Gunnar Setser (#43 Arnold) (8), 6. Karter Sarff (#7u Trifecta) (4), 7. Brandon Carr (#98K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) (6), 8. Matt Lux (#5L Lunsford-Lux) (2). 1:43.029


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Steven Snyder Jr. (#89 CBI) (2), 2. Jake Swanson (#14K 4 Kings) (5), 3. J.J. Yeley (#3J Rossi-Petty) (3), 4. Colton Robinson (#67K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) (6), 5. Jonathan Beason (#36 Rosenboom) (8), 6. Josh Hodge (#35 Hodge) (7), 7. Tyler Watkins (#7w Watkins) (1), 8. Mack Leopard (#40L McDermand) (4). 1:44.058


 

TJ FORGED SIXTH HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (#71K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) (1), 2. Ricky Thornton Jr. (#1R Rossi-Petty) (8), 3. Kade Taylor (#T21 Mounce-Stout) (2), 4. Daison Pursley (#86 CBI) (6), 5. Cody Weisensel (#20w Burrington) (7), 6. Eric Heydenreich (#32 OMR-Rase) (5), 7. Christian Miller (#8XL Miller) (4), 8. Robert Carson (#99K Carson) (3). NT


 

K & N FILTERS SEVENTH HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (#63 Dooling/Curb-Agajanian) (2), 2. Jakeb Boxell (#54 4 Kings) (3), 3. Kyle Cummins (#3G Styres) (6), 4. Logan Seavey (#57 Abacus) (8), 5. Rylan Gray (#22H Gray) (7), 6. Riley Kreisel (#19K Cox) (5), 7. Cooper Miller (#8L Miller) (4), 8. Kyle Jones (#7TX Engler) (1). 1:44.150


 

INDY POWERSPORTS EIGHTH HEAT: (8 laps, passing points, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Peck (#3p Rossi-Petty) (2), 2. Zach Wigal (#1 O’Dell) (6), 3. Zach Daum (#5D Taylor) (5), 4. Wout Hoffmans (#14J Rosenboom) (3), 5. Dodge Carlbert (#1m Montgomery) (4), 6. Cord Kisthardt (#21K Kisthardt) (7), 7. Chris Hartman (#35s Hodge) (1). 1:46.835


 

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Mitchel Moles (#19R Reinbold-Underwood)


 

C-MAIN: (10 laps, top 4 transfer to the semis, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brandon Carr (1), 2. Cooper Miller (4), 3. Mack Leopard (9), 4. Kyle Jones (11), 5. Adam Taylor (5), 6. Cameron Hagin (2), 7. Christian Miller (3), 8. Tyler Watkins (7), 9. Jason Tessier (6), 10. Chris Hartman (8), 11. Matt Lux (10), 12 Austin Wood (12). 2:10.762


 

FIRST FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. J.J. Yeley (5), 2. Kyle Cummins (1), 3. Gunnar Setser (4), 4. Kaylee Bryson (6), 5. Drew Sherman (10), 6. Colton Robinson (3), 7. Karter Sarff (16), 8. Brandon Carr (17), 9. Wesley Smith (8), 10. Alex Sewell (11), 11. Joel Myers Jr. (13), 12. Alex Midkiff (12), 13. Mack Leopard (18), 14. Rylan Gray (9), 15. Ethan Mitchell (7), 16. Eric Heydenreich (15), 17. Cord Kisthardt (14), 18. Jakeb Boxell (2). NT


 

SECOND FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Zach Daum (2), 2. Jonathan Beason (4), 3. Logan Seavey (1), 4. Brecken Reese (7), 5. Daison Pursley (3), 6. Wout Hoffmans (10), 7. Adyn Schmidt (6), 8. Frank Flud (11), 9. Riley Kreisel (15), 10. Kyle Jones (18), 11. Cody Weisensel (8), 12. Logan Julien (9), 13. Dodge Carlbert (12), 14. Kade Taylor (5), 15. Cooper Miller (17), 16. Jeffrey Abbey (14), 17. Josh Hodge (13), 18. Jake Robinson (16). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Drake Edwards (4), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 3. Gavin Miller (1), 4. Zach Wigal (6), 5. Jake Swanson (9), 6. Justin Peck (14), 7. Hayden Reinbold (10), 8. Cannon McIntosh (16), 9. Zach Daum (18), 10. Jacob Denney (15), 11. Gunnar Setser (21), 12. Justin Grant (5), 13. Kale Drake (11), 14. Briggs Danner (3), 15. Jonathan Beason (20), 16. Steven Snyder Jr. (12), 17. Kaylee Bryson (23), 18. Colton Robinson (26-P), 19. J.J. Yeley (17), 20. Brecken Reese (24), 21. Cale Coons (13), 22. Jakeb Boxell (25-P), 23. Bradley Cox (8), 24. Ricky Thornton Jr. (2), 25. Logan Seavey (22), 26. Kyle Cummins (19). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter.


 

**Devon Dobie flipped during the second heat. Mack Leopard flipped during the fifth heat. Jakeb Boxell flipped during the first semi.


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Gavin Miller, Laps 7-30 Drake Edwards.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-482, 2-Justin Grant-480, 3-Jacob Denney-480, 4-Jakeb Boxell-467, 5-Zach Wigal-460, 6-Kale Drake-433, 7-Gavin Miller-422, 8-Logan Seavey-412, 9-Gunnar Setser-406, 10-Hayden Reinbold-384.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-81, 2-Hayden Reinbold-80, 3-Robert Ballou-70, 4-Cale Coons-64, 5-Briggs Danner-61, 6-Justin Grant-57, 7-Jacob Denney-57, 8-Chase Stockon-50, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Seavey-39.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 1, 2026 – The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Speedway, Indiana – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Steven Snyder Jr. (12.565)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Jacob Denney


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Bradley Cox


 

K1 RaceGear Fifth Heat Winner: Steven Snyder Jr.


 

TJ Forged Sixth Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

K & N Filters Seventh Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

Indy Powersports Eighth Heat Winner: Justin Peck


 

Cook Out C-Main Winner: Brandon Carr


 

First Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: J.J. Yeley


 

Second Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Zach Daum


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Drake Edwards (24 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Gunnar Setser (21st to 11th)


 

Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Race: Jake Swanson (5th)

 

BACK 2 BACK AT BUTLER! CUMMINS REPEATS IN MICHIGAN

Rich Forman

Kyle Cummins captured his second consecutive Butler Speedway USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature victory on Saturday night in Quincy, Michigan.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Quincy, Michigan (June 27, 2026)………You could say that Kyle Cummins seemingly had everything going his way entering Saturday night’s USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship event at Quincy, Michigan’s Butler Motor Speedway.


 

The Princeton, Indiana racer was fresh off a USAC Eastern Storm championship and possessed a pretty hefty point lead in the season-long USAC National Sprint Car standings. Oh yeah. He was also revisiting a racetrack that he had won at exactly nine months earlier to the day.


 

Cummins and his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy No. 3p kept it rolling, leading all 30 laps to capture his second consecutive USAC victory on Butler's 3/8-mile dirt oval.


 

Furthermore, Cummins is the first driver to win back-to-back USAC National Sprint Car feature events in the state of Michigan since Jack Hewitt in 1994-1995.


 

Cummins’ 36th career USAC National Sprint Car victory moved him into sole possession of 14th place all-time, ahead of 35-time winners Rich Vogler, Jon Stanbrough, and Logan Seavey. Cummins is now just one win shy of 1977-81-82 champion Sheldon Kinser at 37.


 

Whereas Cummins’ 2025 Butler triumph was a barnburner duel between himself and Justin Grant, the 2026 edition was all Cummins from start to finish.


 

Cummins was initially slated to start on the outside of the front row. However, when pole sitter C.J. Leary was ruled to have jumped the start, he was penalized one row, back to the inside of row two. Therefore, Cummins was moved to the pole position with Keith Sheffer II outside.


 

Taking control from the outset, Cummins led the opening lap while Sheffer was duking it out for the second spot with Mitchel Moles. That particular battle didn’t last long as Sheffer, a Michigan native, stumbled and biked atop the turn two cushion on the second lap and flipped over. Sheffer was able to restart at the tail before pulling off just 10 laps into the race with a 24th place result.


 

Cummins’ main challenger throughout the 30-lap main event was lapped traffic. In the first half of the race, Cummins took his lead to roughly 1.5 seconds but was forced to do most of his work on the high side. With gridlock occupying the bottom and middle lines, Cummins had to find a place where they weren’t.


 

“I just had to make it work,” Cummins stated. “It would feel good through the middle, and then once you hit the dust, man, you were just along for the ride, and luckily, I was able to get around them.”


 

A brief reprieve from traffic came on lap 13 when Jason Ferguson (21st) and Abby Hohlbein (23rd) tangled and stopped in turn two to bring out the yellow flag and cleared the path in front of the leaders for the time being.


 

From there, Cummins sailed away again to the tune of 1.5 seconds. That is, until lap 20, when he met the back of the field once again, and Cummins was in a spot where he had to simultaneously pounce while practicing patience through traffic, lest he be prey for the likes of Stockon and Moles running second and third.


 

“I think the lapped cars actually slowed me down enough to get a little bit lower to hit the bottom, especially in one and two,” Cummins explained. “If I slowed down to their speed on entry, my car would just roll around the bottom really good. So, I would just wait. It felt like if you missed it a little bit, you hung out. So, I would just kind of follow them and follow them, and surely, have a little bit of pressure and they'd slide up. So, if I slid up, I could just shoot the gap, and even if I wasn't as good coming off, I could at least get in front of him. It was definitely one of those where you're riding the brakes and just hoping nothing happens.”


 

That said, Stockon managed to get within five car lengths of Cummins with three to go. But it was a bit of a mirage as Cummins had just gotten around the lapped car of Brian Ruhlman and had freedom ahead of them. Meanwhile, Stockon and Moles were running side-by-side for position while also trying to stay away from the lapper fray.


 

That was all fine and dandy with Cummins who finished off the job, taking the checkered flag by a 0.968 second margin with Stockon beating Moles to the line for second. Briggs Danner made a late surge on the high wire to fourth past Leary with three laps remaining. Robert Ballou followed suit past Leary moments later to round out the top five.


 

By leading each and every one of the 30 laps en route to his sixth feature win of the USAC National Sprint Car season, Cummins was feted as the K & N Clean Air Award recipient.


 

Justin Grant’s time of 14.872 seconds landed him LearnLab Fast Qualifying honors for the night. It was his second quick time in a row with the series after also achieving the same feat last Sunday at Action Track USA in Kutztown, Pennsylvania. His sixth USAC National Sprint Car fast time of the season is tied for the most alongside Cummins, and the 45th of his career puts him sixth most all-time in series history.


 

Hayden Reinbold was stacked deep in the feature field. Starting 22nd in the field of 24, he made a fine run up through the field to finish 13th. His plus-nine made him the evening’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger.


 

Also of note, Kevin Thomas Jr. made his USAC National Sprint Car debut with the BBI Motorsports team, with which he won in USAC CRA and USAC Southwest Sprint Car competition in 2026. KTJ and the Rock Steady Racing team parted ways following Eastern Storm last Sunday. Thomas finished 11th at Butler.


 

KTJ’s former ride, the No. 3R, was in competition at Butler. Well, kind of. Harley Burns utilized his own car and equipment, which just so happened to formerly be owned by the Rock Steady team. For entrant points purposes, Burns ran the car with a No. 3R on the nose and tail tank and entered it under Rock Steady Racing. The end result was his best career USAC finish of ninth.


 

 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 27, 2026 – Butler Motor Speedway – Quincy, Michigan – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.872; 2. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.927; 3. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-15.122; 4. Keith Sheffer II, 86, Sheffer-15.135; 5. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-15.137; 6. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-15.144; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.206; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-15.235; 9. Harley Burns, 3R, Rock Steady-15.241; 10. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-15.270; 11. Kevin Thomas Jr., 15, BBI-15.272; 12. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-15.315; 13. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-15.567; 14. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-15.567; 15. Gavin Miller, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-15.638; 16. Beau Brandon, 21BB, Brandon-15.659; 17. Josh Turner, 4T, Turner-15.661; 18. Rylan Gray, 1, Gray-15.704; 19. Ryan Barr, 21B, Barr-15.798; 20. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-15.893; 21. Tony Helton, 87, Helton-16.083; 22. Aaron Davis, 11, Davis-16.115; 23. Abby Hohlbein, 11A, Hohlbein-16.125; 24. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-16.133; 25. Brian Ruhlman, 49, Ruhlman-16.224; 26. Kole Kirkman, 18K, Dice-16.274; 27. Jack James, 99, James-16.483; 28. Max Frank, 25, Frank-16.492; 29. Jason Ferguson, 33F, Ferguson-17.106; 30. Chad Wilson, 6w, Wityk-NT (time of 16.538 disallowed due to illegal tire).


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (5), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Zack Pretorius (3), 4. Tony Helton (1), 5. Brian Ruhlman (7), 6. Harley Burns (4), 7. Jason Ferguson (8), 8. Josh Turner (2). 2:08.862


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Robert Ballou (4), 3. Trey Osborne (3), 4. C.J. Leary (5), 5. Rylan Gray (2), 6. Kole Kirkman (7), 7. Aaron Davis (1), 8. Chad Wilson (8). 2:05.955


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (5), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Chase Stockon (6), 4. Ryan Barr (2), 5. Abby Hohlbein (1), 6. Jack James (7), 7. Gavin Miller (3). 2:06.459


 

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (2), 2. Jake Swanson (4), 3. Briggs Danner (5), 4. Keith Sheffer II (6), 5. Hayden Reinbold (1), 6. Beau Brandon (3), 7. Max Frank (7). 2:04.124


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Gavin Miller (2), 2. Harley Burns (1), 3. Beau Brandon (3), 4. Jason Ferguson (8), 5. Kole Kirkman (4), 6. Aaron Davis (6), 7. Chad Wilson (10), 8. Jack James (5), 9. Josh Turner (9), 10. Max Frank (7). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (2), 2. Chase Stockon (4), 3. Mitchel Moles (5), 4. Briggs Danner (9), 5. Robert Ballou (11), 6. C.J. Leary (1), 7. Justin Grant (6), 8. Logan Seavey (7), 9. Harley Burns (10), 10. Jake Swanson (13), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 12. Gavin Miller (16), 13. Hayden Reinbold (22), 14. Cale Coons (8), 15. Zack Pretorius (14), 16. Trey Osborne (15), 17. Ryan Barr (19), 18. Rylan Gray (18), 19. Beau Brandon (17), 20. Brian Ruhlman (23), 21. Tony Helton (20), 22. Jason Ferguson (24), 23. Abby Hohlbein (21), 24. Keith Sheffer II (3). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Kyle Cummins.


 

**Jason Ferguson flipped during qualifying. Keith Sheffer II flipped on lap 2 of the feature.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1724, 2-Mitchel Moles-1634, 3-Justin Grant-1614, 4-Briggs Danner-1535, 5-Chase Stockon-1407, 6-Jake Swanson-1407, 7-Logan Seavey-1374, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1351, 9-C.J. Leary-1331, 10-Robert Ballou-1294.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Hayden Reinbold-77, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.-76, 3-Robert Ballou-70, 4-Cale Coons-64, 5-Briggs Danner-61, 6-Justin Grant-57, 7-Jacob Denney-52, 8-Chase Stockon-50, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Seavey-39.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: July 3-4, 2026 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Indiana – Sprintacular – 5/16-Mile Dirt Track

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Chase Stockon (15.079)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (14.872)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Gavin Miller


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Hayden Reinbold (22nd to 13th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Kyle Cummins (30 laps led)

 

 

 

FRIDAY’S MILLSTREAM USAC SPRINT CAR EVENT RAINED OUT

 

Findlay, Ohio (June 26, 2026)………Friday’s June 26th USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship event at Ohio’s Millstream Speedway has been rained out.


 

Heavy overnight rain and forecasted showers on race day have forced cancellation of the event.


 

The 2026 USAC National Sprint Car season resumes this Saturday night, June 27, at Quincy, Michigan’s Butler Motor Speedway.

 

 

 

 

DAKODA DOMINATION! ARMSTRONG FLEXES AT IRP’S HOOSIER HUNDRED

 

David Nearpass

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Brownsburg, Indiana (June 25, 2026)………Admittedly, Dakoda Armstrong hasn’t had the most reciprocal relationship with Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park over the years.


 

Since 2008, he’s raced Midgets, Sprint Cars, Stock Cars, Trucks, and Silver Crown cars at the Brownsburg, Indiana .686-mile paved oval, but had never achieved a victory.


 

The New Castle, Indiana racer’s time finally arrived during Thursday night’s USAC Silver Crown event when he swiftly moved from his fourth starting position to the top spot within the first 10 laps, then led the remaining 91 circuits to capture his first ever IRP triumph.


 

“I love this place,” Armstrong exclaimed. “I've been coming here almost 18 years, off and on. I've always loved it, but it has not loved me. But finally, tonight, it gave us a little kiss of luck.”


 

The icing on the cake for Armstrong was that it occurred at the 69th running of the Hoosier Hundred, one of the most historic and prestigious races in American open wheel racing, and now Armstrong has his name on its win list.


 

“It’s just a historic event,” expressed Armstrong. “Since it moved to pavement, that became a checkmark for me to try to get one. The fact that we did it is awesome, especially here. I love this place, but I have not had the best luck. To finally put it all together after all these years, man, we finally did it.”


 

Starting from the outside of the second row, Armstrong momentarily bided his time as front row occupants C.J. Leary and Bobby Santos duked it out for the initial seven laps with the two swapping the lead four different times in that timeframe. Santos led the opening lap before giving way to Leary on lap two. Santos hustled back to the front on lap three until Leary returned to the front on the seventh go around.


 

Meanwhile, Armstrong began to surge. First he ducked under Santos for second on the pylon in turn three. He stalked Leary for the next two laps until taking his shot in turn three on lap 10, as he dove to the bottom and stuck the pass. When all was said and done, it turned out to be the winning move at the wheel of his C & A Motorsports/Meristem – Armstrong Farms/Beast/Stanton Chevy No. 5.


 

“Normally, I like to ride, but man, these guys have been so good about setting a pace early, and then it gets late and your tires are burned and there's nothing you can do with them,” Armstrong explained.


 

Throughout the first half of the race, the driver making the biggest move was Russ Gamester, who was making his record-extending 31st career Hoosier Hundred start dating back to 1989. Starting 18th, he had picked his way into the top five past defending series champion Justin Grant on lap 46. When fourth running Briggs Danner’s car went up in smoke on lap 55, Gamester moved up one more spot on the board to fourth.


 

For Armstrong, he had to contend with two sorts challenges at the front of the pack. That being lapped traffic and second running Leary, who trailed Armstrong by 1.5 seconds, but was able to chip away and whittle the interval down to a half second as Armstrong attempted to weave his way in and around the backmarkers.


 

“C.J. would not leave me alone,” Armstrong stated. “(My spotter) kept telling me how far back he was. I didn't want to drive the car that hard, but it kept taking it. This place is just so hard. I tell everyone all the time, this place is hard to get ahold of. But this thing was just a rocket all night.”


 

But every time Leary seemingly drew nearer to the lead, Armstrong thwarted all of it, keeping Leary behind him in the range of one to one-and-a-half seconds down to stretch. There was no waiting around for Armstrong on this night whether it was in the early stages or the latter stages of the race. If he saw a chance, he took it. Because it was all on him.


 

“We went so hard early,” Armstrong said. “I didn't know how much tire I was going to have and I just didn't have time to wait. He would capitalize sometimes if I was slow on passing. But we were good enough to get around all of them, and we made it work.”


 

As it turned out, Armstrong got around most of the field, lapping all but the top five finishers in the 100-lap race. Ultimately, Armstrong crossed the finish line 2.105 seconds ahead of runner-up Leary. Reigning Hoosier Hundred winner Tyler Roahrig took third with Gamester an impressive fourth and Grant fifth.


 

Armstrong led 91 of the 100 laps to receive the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Gamester was a passing machine this evening. Starting 18th on the grid, the 61-year-old Peru, Indiana native raced his way up to a fourth place result. His +14 run made him the night’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger.


 

Leary was the LearnLab Fast Qualifier with a time of 20.962 seconds to capture a USAC Silver Crown pole position for the 11th time in his career, which moved him past Rich Vogler and Bobby East for sole possession of eighth place on the all-time list.


 

Brian Tyler and Robert Tyler completed a rare feat during the program. They became the sixth father and son to compete in the same USAC Silver Crown race. They joined a group that also includes David & Mike McCreary, Jim & James McElreath, Wayne Reutimann Jr. & Sr., Ken & Davey Hamilton, and Davey Hamilton Jr. & Sr. Brian finished 13th and Robert 16th.


 

 

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 25, 2026 – Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park – Brownsburg, Indiana – .686-Mile Paved Oval – 69th Hoosier Hundred


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. C.J. Leary, 21, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-20.962; 2. Bobby Santos, 98, DJ-21.124; 3. Briggs Danner, 77, Doran/Swanson-21.160; 4. Dakoda Armstrong, 5, C & A-21.205; 5. Tyler Roahrig, 41, Newman-21.206; 6. Justin Grant, 91, Hemelgarn-21.293; 7. Kyle Hamilton, 6, Klatt-21.368; 8. Mario Clouser, 20, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-21.407; 9. Davey Hamilton Jr., 14, Hamilton/DB-21.408; 10. Nathan Byrd, 40, Meyer/Byrd-21.431; 11. Colton Bettis, 26, Pierce-21.563; 12. Jackson Macenko, 124, Hayes-21.611; 13. Chelby Hinton, 80, Breidinger-21.641; 14. Jake Trainor, 126, Pierce-21.748; 15. Kaylee Bryson, 11, Abacus/Droplight-21.850; 16. Brian Tyler, 81, BCR-22.121; 17. Kyle Steffens, 8, Steffens-22.290; 18. Kevin Studley, 57, Studley-22.337; 19. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-23.542; 20. Robert Tyler, 75, Tyler-23.717; 21. Gregg Cory, 32, Williams/Cory-NT; 22. Ryan Newman, 92, Kazmark-NT; 23. Dave Berkheimer, 31, Berkheimer-NT.


 

FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Dakoda Armstrong (4), 2. C.J. Leary (1), 3. Tyler Roahrig (5), 4. Russ Gamester (18), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Bobby Santos (2), 7. Mario Clouser (8), 8. Davey Hamilton Jr. (9), 9. Chelby Hinton (13), 10. Colton Bettis (11), 11. Nathan Byrd (10), 12. Kaylee Bryson (14), 13. Brian Tyler (15), 14. Jackson Macenko (12), 15. Gregg Cory (21), 16. Robert Tyler (20), 17. Briggs Danner (3), 18. Kyle Hamilton (7), 19. Dave Berkheimer (22), 20. Kevin Studley (17), 21. Ryan Newman (23), 22. Jake Trainor (19), 23. Kyle Steffens (16). 40:48.815


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Bobby Santos, Lap 2 C.J. Leary, Laps 3-6 Bobby Santos, Laps 7-9 C.J. Leary, Laps 10-100 Dakoda Armstrong.


 

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-C.J. Leary-220, 2-Justin Grant-190, 3-Mario Clouser-178, 4-Kyle Steffens-152, 5-Briggs Danner-134, 6-Bobby Santos-122, 7-Gregg Cory-121, 8-Dakoda Armstrong-119, 9-Dave Berkheimer-105, 10-Jackson Macenko-99.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-75, 2-Hayden Reinbold-68, 3-Robert Ballou-64, 4-Cale Coons-64, 5-Justin Grant-57, 6-Briggs Danner-56, 7-Jacob Denney-52, 8-Chase Stockon-48, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Seavey-39.


 

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 5, 2026 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 1/2-Mile Dirt Oval – Sumar Classic

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kyle Hamilton (21.215)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: C.J. Leary (20.962)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Dakoda Armstrong (91 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Russ Gamester (18th to 4th)

 

 

DANNER WINS ACTION TRACK USA FINALE, CUMMINS IS USAC’S EASTERN STORM CHAMP

 

 John Hisel

Sunday June 21st-  Briggs Danner scored the feature victory in Sunday's USAC Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine finale at Pennsylvania's Action Track USA

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kutztown, Pennsylvania (June 21, 2026)………The 2026 edition of USAC Eastern Storm began with Briggs Danner and Kyle Cummins in the headlines. At the end of Sunday night’s series finale at Action Track USA, the same two names were in the headlines once again.


 

Danner took the lead for good with 25 laps remaining to cap off the week with a feature victory on the 1/5-mile Kutztown, Pennsylvania dirt oval in his Hogue Racing Enterprises/E. Schneider & Sons – Keystone Cap/DRC/Rider Chevy No. 39.


 

Meanwhile, Cummins finished second to Danner in the main event to erase a 20-point deficit on the final evening of the five-race series to capture his first career USAC Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine championship by a mere two points over Mitchel Moles.


 

Cummins’ triumph came one year after he finished the week with the same number of points as Justin Grant but lost out on the Eastern Storm title due to a tiebreaker.


 

“This is worth two feature wins tonight,” Cummins stated after pocketing the championship as well as $15,000 on the night. “Last year after tying and not winning because of the tiebreaker, that was a long trip home. Tonight, I'm going to take a shower and I'm just going to truck her on home. I'm pretty excited.”


 

During the first race of the 19th running of Eastern Storm on Tuesday at Grandview Speedway, Cummins and Danner banged wheels amid a battle for the lead with a little over a lap remaining. The resulting contact spun Danner while Cummins continued onward to win the race. Danner wound up finishing 16th and spent an entire week trying to dig himself out of a hole to get back into the championship race.


 

Danner finished off the week in much more pleasant circumstances to earn his third career Eastern Storm feature victory, his second of the week, his fourth on the 2026 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season, and the 11th of his USAC National Sprint Car career, moving him into 50th place all-time alongside Daron Clayton, Elmer George, Tommy Hinnershitz and Greg Leffler.


 

Action Track USA is a home away from home for Danner in his native Keystone State, located only a half-hour drive away from his Allentown, Pennsylvania home. He was a USAC SpeedSTR champion at the track in 2021, and over the years, has compiled numerous volumes of major wins there, including three USAC East Coast Sprint Car features. Safe to say, he has a fond familiarity of the place.


 

“Hometown racing on this kind of stage is a lot of fun and we enjoy it,” Danner exclaimed. “(Experience) plays a lot. With track work and stuff, the track changes every time you hit it, and with these cars on this small of a track, there are a lot of things that you’ve got to do to try to get it to rotate. Then, if it goes away, you're really not good. It changed a lot there in the heat race and we figured we were really close. The curb getting into one and two was freaking huge. I actually started cheating it there. I don't know if I had a tire going down or what, but after that restart, I just could not enter. I just felt down on the right rear, and the frame rails were dragging.”


 

Danner started from the pole position but was initially beat to the punch by outside front row starter Ricky Lewis who led the initial circuit of the 40-lap feature.


 

Behind Danner, though, a major kerfuffle and shake-up occurred that began at the end of lap one when Charles Davis Jr. (20th) kicked up an infield tractor tire with his own left front tire at the exit of turn four.


 

Simultaneously, further ahead of the tractor tire incident, Eastern Storm point leader Mitchel Moles (8th) was, all of a sudden, stopped backwards in between turns one and two. Moles appeared to offer his umbrage in the direction of Robert Ballou who he was running side-by-side with entering turn one. Moles was shuffled to the back of the 22-car field but was not quite finished yet.


 

Lewis led the initial lap after the ensuing restart before walloping the turn one wall on lap three, which dropped him back to fourth as Danner, Jake Swanson, and Cummins all shot by for first, second and third in the running order, respectively.


 

Danner paced the field for the next seven laps, but as is always the case at Action Track USA, lapped traffic was just a blink of an eye away at all times. As Danner attempted to navigate his way past Brett Rose, Swanson reeled Danner in, then dipped under Danner off turn two to take the top spot away on lap 10.


 

Danner remained on the chase over the next six laps, then executed his winning move by backing his car deep into the first turn on lap 16, rooster tailing the sky-blue wall with dirt before lasering down to the bottom of turn two to take over up front. On the tight confines of Action Track USA, when you find the room to maneuver, it’s like hitting a barn door with a banjo. Very satisfying.


 

“It was pretty tough because you don't really have many choices when you’ve got lapped traffic in front of you,” Danner explained. “You’ve just got to go where they're not and try to make it happen. I knew Jake was pretty good and the bottom of one and two was a little bit better than three and four. I kind of showed him my nose in one and two there, and then he moved to the bottom on both ends, and I could get the top going in four and try to make it happen. That cushion was up on the wall, and it was pretty sketchy. I didn't want to enter too hot on that. That's for sure.”


 

The second major melee that had a direct impact on the Eastern Storm title race occurred on lap 19 when fourth running Justin Grant half-spun in turn four. Moments later, Bacon (5th) hit Grant and came to a stop, while also collecting Ballou (6th), Chase Stockon (7th), and Olivia Thayer (17th), all of whom came to a stop, except for Grant.


 

As they were running at the time of the accident, Bacon was leading the Eastern Storm standings. However, that door was immediately closed after his car was towed to the pits, out of the race with a 19th place result. Ballou, Stockon and Thayer, meanwhile, restarted at the tail.


 

For the second half of the race, it was all Danner who continually grew his lead and was up more than a second on the field with 10 laps remaining. At the same time, Moles had carved his way up through the field to the ninth spot and had to be within five spots of Cummins to get the Eastern Storm crown. That said, Cummins gained himself a bit of elbow room on lap 30 when he scurried under Swanson in turns one and two to swipe the all-important runner-up spot.


 

Danner went unchallenged the rest of the way for a 0.748 second margin of victory over Cummins, who clinched the Eastern Storm title with a second-place finish. Swanson crossed the stripe in third with Grant fourth and Kevin Thomas Jr. rounding out the top five after starting 12th.


 

Moles grabbed one more position on the final lap to get to eighth in the final running order but took the checkered flag roughly four car lengths behind seventh place finisher Steven Drevicki, putting Moles just two points one single on track position short of his second career Eastern Storm championship after previously winning it in 2024.


 

Danner had two different leading stints in the feature, from laps 3-9, then a second wave of running at the head of the pack from laps 16-40. By leading the most laps of the feature (32), Danner earned the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Robert Ballou passed 26 cars throughout the five-race miniseries during the past week, which ensured him the Eastern Storm Parallax Group Passing Master title. He picked up an extra $500 bonus for his efforts.


 

Logan Seavey raced his way up eight positions from 14th to sixth to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger accolades.


 

Justin Grant recorded the 44th fast qualifying time of his USAC National Sprint Car career with a time of 10.565 in LearnLab Qualifying. His total ranks sixth on the all-time list.


 

 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 21, 2026 – Action Track USA – Kutztown, Pennsylvania – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine – 1/5-Mile Dirt Track


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-10.565; 2. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-10.694; 3. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-10.756; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-10.791; 5. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-10.855; 6. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-10.870; 7. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-10.889; 8. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-10.892; 9. Steven Drevicki, 19s, DeGre-10.916; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-10.947; 11. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-10.950; 12. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-10.957; 13. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-11.001; 14. Ronald Helmick, 22R, Helmick-11.182; 15. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-11.244; 16. Christian Bruno, 3BC, JMO-11.249; 17. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-11.259; 18. Scott Frack, 39x, PLP-11.366; 19. Brett Rose, 45R, Rose-11.680; 20. Dirk Rimrott, 1x, Rimrott-11.847; 21. Olivia Thayer, 39T, Thayer-12.033; 22. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (5), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 4. Chase Stockon (4), 5. Logan Seavey (2), 6. Brett Rose (7), 7. Christian Bruno (1). 1:53.605


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (3), 2. Mitchel Moles (4), 3. Brady Bacon (6), 4. Ricky Lewis (5), 5. Charles Davis Jr. (1), 6. Dirk Rimrott (7), 7. Ronald Helmick (2). 1:50.964


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (2), 2. Briggs Danner (5), 3. Steven Drevicki (4), 4. Hayden Reinbold (3), 5. Jake Swanson (6), 6. Scott Frack (1), 7. Olivia Thayer (7). 1:55.779


 

FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (1), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Jake Swanson (4), 4. Justin Grant (6), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 6. Logan Seavey (14), 7. Steven Drevicki (11), 8. Mitchel Moles (10), 9. Cale Coons (8), 10. Hayden Reinbold (13), 11. Charles Davis Jr. (15), 12. Ronald Helmick (19), 13. Robert Ballou (7), 14. Scott Frack (16), 15. Chase Stockon (9), 16. Brett Rose (17), 17. Olivia Thayer (21), 18. Dirk Rimrott (18), 19. Brady Bacon (5), 20. Ricky Lewis (2), 21. Christian Bruno (20), 22. C.J. Leary (22). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Ricky Lewis, Laps 3-9 Briggs Danner, Laps 10-15 Jake Swanson, Laps 16-40 Briggs Danner.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1644, 2-Mitchel Moles-1557, 3-Justin Grant-1549, 4-Briggs Danner-1468, 5-Jake Swanson-1357, 6-Chase Stockon-1330, 7-Logan Seavey-1317, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1303, 9-C.J. Leary-1270, 10-Robert Ballou-1229.


 

USAC YOKOHAMA TIRE EASTERN STORM PRESENTED BY LEVAN MACHINE POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-366, 2-Mitchel Moles-364, 3-Justin Grant-355, 4-Briggs Danner-354, 5-Brady Bacon-333, 6-Jake Swanson-307, 7-Robert Ballou-285, 8-Chase Stockon-280, 9-Cale Coons-260, 10-C.J. Leary-243.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-75, 2-Hayden Reinbold-68, 3-Robert Ballou-64, 4-Cale Coons-64, 5-Justin Grant-56, 6-Briggs Danner-56, 7-Jacob Denney-52, 8-Chase Stockon-48, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Seavey-39.


 

USAC EASTERN STORM PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Robert Ballou-26, 2-Mitchel Moles-25, 3-Christian Bruno-24, 4-Briggs Danner-19, 5-Brady Bacon-17, 6-Chase Stockon-15, 7-Logan Seavey-13, 8-Steven Drevicki-13, 9-Kyle Cummins-11, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-11.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 26, 2026 – Millstream Speedway – Findlay, Ohio – Racers Reunion – 4/10-Mile Dirt Track

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

USAC Eastern Storm Champion: Kyle Cummins


 

USAC Eastern Storm Parallax Group Passing Master Champion: Robert Ballou (26)


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Mitchel Moles (10.609)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (10.565)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Robert Ballou


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Logan Seavey (14th to 6th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Briggs Danner (32 laps led)


 

Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Scott Frack (14th)


 

Second Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Brett Rose (16th)

 

 

MOLES MAKES IT TWO-STRAIGHT, WINS AT WILLIAMS GROVE

 

Rich Forman

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania (June 19, 2026)………”I never thought I’d say I won at Williams Grove.”


 

For Mitchel Moles, that fact became a reality on Friday night at Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania’s Williams Grove Speedway.


 

A mere 24 hours after capturing his first career USAC Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine feature victory, the Raisin City, California native made it two-in-a-row at the helm of his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy.


 

At The Grove’s 1/2-mile dirt oval, Moles took advantage of a lapped traffic logjam, passing Justin Grant for the lead with nine laps remaining to win the race, and also elevate himself to the top of the Eastern Storm standings with just two events remaining.


 

In his first four years of USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car competition, which encompassed 153 career feature starts between 2022-2025, Moles had accrued just five victories. In year five on the trail with Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports, it’s all paid off for the driver and team as the latest win was Moles’ sixth of the season, surpassing his entire career total within the first 23 races of the 2026 campaign.


 

“Well, I have to keep winning these races to pay (car owner) Andy (Reinbold) back for all the shit I’ve torn up over the years,” Moles quipped. “We’re still a long way away from covering that bill. So, I’ve just got to keep digging at that and keep clicking off these wins.”


 

Moles entered the feature in a tie with Brady Bacon for the Eastern Storm point lead, and wouldn’t you know it? The pair were slotted to start the night’s 30-lap feature side-by-side in row two. Starting fourth, Moles had one simple message for his car owner leading into it.


 

“I just told Andy, ‘Do whatever the hell you want to it, and I’ll make the rest work.’”


 

Grant established the initial lead from his pole starting position and instantly took control. But on the second lap, a near catastrophe occurred on the front straightaway when Brady Bacon (4th) and Jake Swanson (5th) touched wheels on the front straight. Swanson ramped over Bacon’s left rear tire at the flag stand, then landed on all four wheels and slid backwards all the way into turn one, all while facing eye to eye with nearly the entire field bearing down on him! No further contact was made, and miraculously, Swanson was able to restart at the tail of the field but resorted to a disappointing 14th place finish.


 

On the ensuing restart, Briggs Danner and Moles duked it out side-by-side for nearly three-straight laps until Danner drifted high off turn four on the fourth lap. Moles took advantage, and raced on by to the second position, but still had 1.5 seconds worth of ground to make up on Grant for the lead.


 

Aggressively working his way through lapped traffic at the halfway point, both Moles and Danner lassoed Grant as Moles now only trailed Grant by single car length. Grant maintained his position throughout, but with less than 10 laps to go, Grant encountered a high/low battle for position between Ed Aikin (16th) and Hayden Reinbold (17th) at the tail of the running order.


 

For Grant, the road became entirely blocked in turn two. While Grant sought a path forward, Moles used the bottom of the racetrack to roll by Grant, who finally got around the outside of Reinbold moments later. However, by that point, it was too late. Moles was the leader and he was pulling away.


 

“I think, if you’re in Justin’s shoes there, you’re going to try and run a higher entry like he was doing and make speed through the center,” Moles explained. “I just had enough time to pace him through traffic and ended up catching him between lapped cars and I was able to sneak by him. I knew that when I got to the lead, all I pretty much had to do was not mess up. It was pretty technical, and it piled up pretty good off two and piled up pretty good off four.”


 

For Moles, the timing was impeccable in making it happen and putting himself into the perfect position to capitalize when the moment arose.


 

“It was definitely hard to pass,” Moles admitted. “Then, I had to go to the bottom there for a lap. I passed a car in the heat race down there and then I saw the wing cars going through there. I assumed they just wore out the entry of it when no one could stick it. So, I just slowed down there and got it that one time.”


 

Moles sealed the deal from there on, cruising under flag man Warren Alston’s twin checkered flags to a 4.962 second triumph over runner-up Justin Grant while Bacon finished third for an astonishing fourth consecutive Eastern Storm race this week. Kyle Cummins took fourth with Danner rounding out the top five. Incidentally, all five drivers constituting the top five in the finishing order also currently reside inside the top five of the Eastern Storm standings.


 

As for Moles, things are fun right now, and wins are arriving in droves with his fourth victory in his last six series starts. It’s all finally coming together for Moles, and according to him, much of it can be chalked up to the team chemistry they possess at this very moment.


 

“I feel like we have a really good racecar right now,” Moles stated. “My guys are working well together and we’re having a lot of fun. That’s the most important part, I feel like. When you’re having fun, success just brews.”


 

For a while, Grant appeared to be headed for his milestone 100th career USAC national victory. However, lapped traffic snarled his run with nine laps to go, ending his bid for the win. He led a race high 21 laps on the night, however, and picked up the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Robert Ballou once again earned Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors for the second consecutive evening. He advanced 15th to sixth the previous night at Big Diamond Speedway, then went 14th to sixth at Williams Grove on Friday.


 

Swanson was the night’s LearnLab Fast Qualifier at a time of 20.061 seconds, snapping Danner’s run of three consecutive Eastern Storm fast times this week. Swanson’s 14th career USAC National Sprint Car fast time puts him 37th on the all-time list alongside Billy Cassella, Tyler Courtney, and Damion Gardner.


 

 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 19, 2026 – Williams Grove Speedway – Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-20.061; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-20.216; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-20.229; 4. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-20.252; 5. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-20.358; 6. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-20.381; 7. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-20.439; 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-20.453; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-20.457; 10. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-20.510; 11. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-20.564; 12. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-20.617; 13. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-20.701; 14. Steven Drevicki, 19s, Drevicki-20.751; 15. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-20.756; 16. Christian Bruno, 3BC, JMO-20.942; 17. Ed Aikin, 7, Aikin-20.992; 18. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-21.020; 19. Ronald Helmick, 22R, Helmick-21.543; 20. Joey Crilly, 51, Kelly-22.145; 21. Brett Rose, 45R, Rose-22.208; 22. Olivia Thayer, 39T, Thayer-22.213; 23. Dirk Rimrott, 1x, Rimrott-23.145.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (2), 2. Logan Seavey (3), 3. C.J. Leary (4), 4. Brady Bacon (5), 5. Christian Bruno (1), 6. Jake Swanson (6), 7. Ronald Helmick (7), 8. Olivia Thayer (8). 2:47.717


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ed Aikin (1), 2. Robert Ballou (3), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr (4), 4. Briggs Danner (5), 5. Kyle Cummins (6), 6. Steven Drevicki (2), 7. Joey Crilly (7), 8. Dirk Rimrott (8). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Charles Davis Jr. (2), 2. Cale Coons (3), 3. Chase Stockon (4), 4. Mitchel Moles (6), 5. Hayden Reinbold (1), 6. Justin Grant (5), 7. Brett Rose (7). 2:50.260


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (4), 2. Justin Grant (1), 3. Brady Bacon (3), 4. Kyle Cummins (5), 5. Briggs Danner (2), 6. Robert Ballou (14), 7. C.J. Leary (10), 8. Ricky Lewis (7), 9. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 10. Chase Stockon (12), 11. Christian Bruno (17), 12. Cale Coons (15), 13. Logan Seavey (13), 14. Jake Swanson (6), 15. Steven Drevicki (16), 16. Ed Aikin (9), 17. Hayden Reinbold (18), 18. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 19. Ronald Helmick (19), 20. Brett Rose (21), 21. Joey Crilly (20), 22. Olivia Thayer (22), 23. Dirk Rimrott (23). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 Justin Grant, Laps 22-30 Mitchel Moles.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1578, 2-Mitchel Moles-1492, 3-Justin Grant-1485, 4-Briggs Danner-1408, 5-Jake Swanson-1297, 6-Chase Stockon-1269, 7-Logan Seavey-1257, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1243, 9-C.J. Leary-1207, 10-Robert Ballou-1167.


 

USAC YOKOHAMA TIRE EASTERN STORM PRESENTED BY LEVAN MACHINE POINTS: 1-Mitchel Moles-293, 2-Brady Bacon-287, 3-Kyle Cummins-272, 4-Justin Grant-267, 5-Briggs Danner-266, 6-Chase Stockon-231, 7-Robert Ballou-228, 8-Jake Swanson-225, 9-C.J. Leary-207, 10-Cale Coons-196.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-68, 2-Hayden Reinbold-65, 3-Robert Ballou-64, 4-Cale Coons-64, 5-Briggs Danner-56, 6-Justin Grant-54, 7-Jacob Denney-52, 8-Chase Stockon-48, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Calderwood-39.


 

USAC EASTERN STORM PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Christian Bruno-24, 2-Robert Ballou-24, 3-Mitchel Moles-21, 4-Briggs Danner-16, 5-Chase Stockon-15, 6-Brady Bacon-14, 7-Hayden Reinbold-8, 8-Steven Drevicki-8, 9-Jake Swanson-7, 10-Cale Coons-7.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 20, 2026 – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal, Pennsylvania – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine / USAC Eastern Blast – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Brady Bacon (20.634)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Jake Swanson (20.061)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Ricky Lewis


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Ed Aikin


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Charles Davis Jr.


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Robert Ballou (14th to 6th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Justin Grant (21 laps led)


 

Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Brett Rose (20th)


 

Second Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Joey Crilly (21st)

 

 

WIGAL GOES WIRE-TO-WIRE AT WAYNESFIELD

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Waynesfield, Ohio (June 18, 2026)………Zach Wigal led all 20 laps to win Thursday night’s USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget non-points special event feature at Ohio’s Waynesfield Raceway Park.


 

Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) took the lead on the start from the outside of row one and paced the field from green to checkered in a race that saw only one caution.


 

Finishing the dominant victory by a 3.2 second margin, Wigal beat outpaced runner-up Luke Hall. Bryce Massingill took third with Chett Gehrke fourth and Trisdon Brown rounding out the top-five.


 

Wigal was also the fastest qualifier with a lap of 13.833 seconds.


 

Hall won the Jeff Hill Trailer Sales first heat race. Gehrke scored the victory in Stiefel’s Home & Auto heat race two. Brown captured the Hoosier Auto Racing Fans third heat race.


 

Massingill was the Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger of the feature. After drawing the number eight pill in the redraw, Massingill advanced five positions to finish third in the feature.


 

Ian Creager earned the Wilwood Disc Brakes Tough Brake award for pulling the number nine pill for the feature redraw after finishing third in heat one. Creager also received the LynK Chassis bonus for finishing 10th in the feature.


 

 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 18, 2026 – Waynesfield Raceway Park – Waynesfield, Ohio‍ - Non-Points Special Event


 

FAST QUALIFIER: Zach Wigal, 18, Wigal-13.833.


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Luke Hall (#74H Heitmeyer), 2. Zach Wigal (#18 Wigal), 3. Ian Creager (#36 Creager), 4. Gunnar Lucius (#22 Lucius), 5. Buddy Hollmeyer (#11 Taylor), 6. Derrick Noffsinger (#18N Noffsinger). NT


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Chett Gehrke (#21G Fedorczyk), 2. Bryce Massingill (#35 Massingill), 3. Jalen Cox (#11x Cox), 4. Stratton Briggs (#71 Briggs), 5. Ashley Schloss (#11s Schloss), 6. Jason Shaffer (#40J Shaffer). NT


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Trisdon Brown (#2 Briggs), 2. Jonathon Decker (#5D Decker), 3. Carl Peterson (#49 Peterson), 4. Cole Morgan (#7m Morgan), 5. Taten Long (#99L Long), 6. Jon Watson (#2w Watson). NT


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FEATURE: (20 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Zach Wigal (2), 2. Luke Hall (4), 3. Bryce Massingill (8), 4. Chett Gehrke (1), 5. Trisdon Brown (3), 6. Jalen Cox (5), 7. Jonathon Decker (7), 8. Stratton Briggs (11), 9. Gunnar Lucius (10), 10. Ian Creager (9), 11. Carl Peterson (6), 12. Ashley Schloss (14), 13. Buddy Hollmeyer (13), 14. Derrick Noffsinger (16), 15. Taten Long (15), 16. Cole Morgan (12), 17. Jason Shaffer (17), 18. Dylan Trost (#21 Trost) (19), 19. Jon Watson (18). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-20 Zach Wigal.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE: July 10, 2026 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana

 


 

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Fast Qualifier: Zach Wigal (13.833)


 

Jeff Hill Trailer Sales First Heat Winner: Luke Hall


 

Stiefel’s Home & Auto Second Heat Winner: Chett Gehrke


 

Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Third Heat Winner: Trisdon Brown


 

Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger: Bryce Massingill (8th to 3rd)


 

LynK Chassis 10th Place Finisher: Ian Creager


 

Wilwood Tough Brake: Ian Creager

 

 

 

TURNAROUND! DANNER GETS USAC EASTERN STORM REDEMPTION AT BRIDGEPORT

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By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Swedesboro, New Jersey (June 17, 2026)………How can you mend a broken heart? Well, if you’re Briggs Danner, you simply jump back on the horse, get back to work, and do what you do best.


 

During Wednesday night’s second round of USAC Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, Danner did exactly that.


 

Starting sixth, the Allentown, Pennsylvania native raced to the front past Robert Ballou on lap nine, then paced the remaining 22 laps to capture his second career Eastern Storm feature victory.


 

During Tuesday’s Eastern Storm opener at Grandview, Danner made a bid for the lead coming to the white flag, but touched wheels with Kyle Cummins and subsequently spun out, losing out on a chance at victory.


 

Needless to say, 24 hours later, Danner earned every bit of redemption, vindication, validation, and celebration, on a turnaround evening at the wheel of his Hogue Racing Enterprises/E. Schneider & Sons – Keystone Cap/DRC/Rider Chevy.


 

“Last night stung a little bit,” Danner acknowledged. “Tonight was tough too. We'd be in really good shape right now for Eastern Storm points, but we can't really take a look at that like that. You’ve got to keep moving forward, and tonight was a great night.”


 

The latest score by Danner was his third of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season, and the 10th of his career with the series, moving him to 54th place on the all-time series win list alongside Thomas Meseraull, Eddie Sachs, Tony Stewart, and Johnny Thomson.


 

Danner also did the deed at the very same Bridgeport 4/10-mile dirt oval where he made his first ever sprint car start of any kind, a USAC East Coast event back in 2020, which, oh by the way, he won. Since then, he’s garnered eight career USAC East Coast wins at Bridgeport, but Wednesday night produced his first USAC national victory at the track.


 

But early on in the night, Bridgeport had a different feel than Danner was accustomed to. And in the end, the result was once again pretty much the same with Briggs back in victory lane.


 

“It came around more to a little bit normal Bridgeport,” Danner revealed. “The top was there with a cushion to support a little bit. It was just real fluffy, real fine. I didn't mind it at all; I thought it was good. But I was worried about the tire a little bit, but it lasted well. I knew I was using it pretty heavy early on. I was a little skeptical of what was going to happen there, but the top built up really nice and looked wide and racy. I knew it was kind of important to try and get to the lead early and it ended up working out.”


 

In his heat race, things weren’t quite so hunky dory for Danner. He finished sixth after setting quick time earlier in the night during LearnLab Qualifying for the second night in a row and for the eighth time in his USAC National Sprint Car career, tying him for 60th place all-time alongside Shane Cottle, Bubby Jones, Kelly Kinser, Pat O’Connor, and Hunter Schuerenberg. As for his heat race, it wasn’t quite as smooth of a ride.


 

“We were trying a little bit in the in the heat race just because we had to finish in the top six, and we had a bad vibration problem and didn't really get to learn anything,” Danner explained. “We were kind of nervous with how not good the car was in the heat race.”


 

Danner put those concerns to rest quite quickly in the 30-lap feature, advancing sixth to fourth on the opening lap while Robert Ballou led the first third of the race. Ballou moved from the outside of the front row to the pole after original pole sitter Brady Bacon was deemed to have jumped the initial start, and was hit with a one row penalty, restarting third.


 

By lap three, Danner had hustled his way up to third with an outside move around Moles in turn two. One lap later, Danner dove underneath Coons in turn three to get the spot. Now, all that was left was chasing down Ballou.


 

Danner initially slid Ballou for the top spot in turn three on the eighth lap, but Ballou checkmated the move by countering back under at the exit of turn four and nipping Danner at the stripe by a wheel. But by turn one, Danner gained the upper hand around the outside, and from there, it was all Danner from lap nine onward.


 

By the halfway mark, Danner’s lead was continuously growing, and by lap 23, stood at a full straightaway margin of 4.666 seconds when he very nearly got caught up in another catastrophe. Danner put 13th running Christian Bruno a lap down with a turn three slide job. Once Bruno was cleared, Bruno slipped sideways right into the path of 15th running Steven Drevicki who t-boned Bruno’s machine in turn four. The impact knocked both drivers out of the race with eight laps to go.


 

The close call wasn’t lost on Danner who wasn’t keen on getting his heart broken for the second night in a row during the latter stages of a potential victory.


 

“I was actually a little nervous in lapped traffic there,” Danner admitted. “It gets so dirty, you can't really see the racetrack in front of you. When you're sitting on dust, it sucks you up quick. So, I knew I could enter really good on it, but at the center, it got thin, and coming off, it got pretty dusty. There were times when I'd fall off the shelf a little bit at the top and I just felt like I was kind of sitting there, but I was happy to not hear anybody. I think Robert was behind me. I’m just happy to be able to drive away clean after that yellow, one I didn't want to see come out, obviously.”


 

Following the restart, all the action took place behind Danner as Mitchel Moles took second from Ballou on lap 25, while Bacon advanced to third past Ballou on lap 27. As for Danner, it was all him down the stretch as he put the finishing touches on a 2.305 second margin of victory over Moles, Bacon, and Chase Stockon, with Justin Grant rounding out the top five.


 

By leading the most laps in the feature (22), Danner also earned the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Stockon was on the move from the word “go,” gaining five spots on lap one from his 12th place starting position. He then continued his surge all the way up to a fourth-place result to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. His plus-eight run was his fourth top five finish in six career Eastern Storm starts at Bridgeport.

 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 17, 2026 – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine – 4/10-Mile Dirt Track


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-15.244; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-15.363; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-15.422; 4. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-15.460; 5. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-15.555; 6. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-15.580; 7. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-15.631; 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-15.634; 9. Steven Drevicki, 19s, Drevicki-15.673; 10. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-15.696; 11. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-15.715; 12. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-15.753; 13. Christian Bruno, 3BC, JMO-15.767; 14. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.799; 15. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-15.807; 16. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-15.813; 17. Ronald Helmick, 22R, Helmick-16.052; 18. Ed Aikin, 7, Aikin-16.653; 19. Shane Braxton, 35, Braxton-17.000; 20. Olivia Thayer, 39T, Thayer-17.487; 21. Dirk Rimrott, 1x, Rimrott-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (1), 2. Jake Swanson (4), 3. Chase Stockon (3), 4. Christian Bruno (2), 5. Cale Coons (5), 6. Briggs Danner (6). 2:08.328


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (2), 2. Robert Ballou (5), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 4. Kyle Cummins (6), 5. C.J. Leary (3), 6. Ronald Helmick (1), 7. Olivia Thayer (7). 2:12.528


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Charles Davis Jr. (2), 3. Brady Bacon (5), 4. Hayden Reinbold (3), 5. Steven Drevicki (4), 6. Ed Aikin (1), 7. Dirk Rimrott (7). 2:15.632


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (6), 2. Mitchel Moles (4), 3. Brady Bacon (1), 4. Chase Stockon (12), 5. Justin Grant (8), 6. Kyle Cummins (5), 7. Robert Ballou (2), 8. Cale Coons (3), 9. Jake Swanson (9), 10. Hayden Reinbold (14), 11. Logan Seavey (7), 12. Charles Davis Jr. (16), 13. C.J. Leary (13), 14. Ronald Helmick (17), 15. Christian Bruno (15), 16. Steven Drevicki (11), 17. Olivia Thayer (19), 18. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 19. Ed Aikin (18), 20. Dirk Rimrott (20). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-8 Robert Ballou, Laps 9-30 Briggs Danner.


 

**Shane Braxton flipped during qualifying.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1447, 2-Justin Grant-1346, 3-Mitchel Moles-1334, 4-Briggs Danner-1265, 5-Jake Swanson-1200, 6-Logan Seavey-1187, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1169, 8-Chase Stockon-1156, 9-C.J. Leary-1109, 10-Robert Ballou-1044.


 

USAC YOKOHAMA TIRE EASTERN STORM PRESENTED BY LEVAN MACHINE POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-141, 2-Brady Bacon-141, 3-Mitchel Moles-135, 4-Jake Swanson-128, 5-Justin Grant-128, 6-Briggs Danner-123, 7-Chase Stockon-118, 8-C.J. Leary-109, 9-Robert Ballou-105, 10-Cale Coons-103.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-68, 2-Hayden Reinbold-61, 3-Cale Coons-59, 4-Justin Grant-54, 5-Briggs Danner-52, 6-Jacob Denney-52, 7-Robert Ballou-47, 8-Chase Stockon-46, 9-Brady Bacon-44, 10-Logan Calderwood-39.


 

USAC EASTERN STORM PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Christian Bruno-14, 2-Mitchel Moles-12, 3-Chase Stockon-11, 4-Brady Bacon-10, 5-Briggs Danner-9, 6-Robert Ballou-6, 7-Jake Swanson-5, 8-Jason Cherry-5, 9-Logan Seavey-4, 10-Hayden Reinbold-4.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 18, 2026 – Big Diamond Speedway – Pottsville, Pennsylvania – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kyle Cummins (15.203)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Briggs Danner (15.244)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Chase Stockon (12th to 4th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Briggs Danner (22 laps led)

 

 

CUMMINS OPENS USAC EASTERN STORM WITH GRANDVIEW VICTORY

Michael Fry

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania (June 16, 2026)………One year ago, Kyle Cummins lost out on the 2025 Eastern Storm championship on a tiebreaker.


 

On Tuesday night, he came back east with a vengeance at Grandview Speedway.


 

The Princeton, Indiana racer led all 40 laps of Tuesday’s Jesse Hockett Classic and prevailed in a dog fight with Briggs Danner throughout the second half of the race to capture victory on night one of USAC’s Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine at the Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania 1/3-mile dirt oval.


 

Cummins’ latest victory was his fifth of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season and the 35th of his career, tying himself with Logan Seavey, Jon Stanbrough, and Rich Vogler for 14th place on the all-time list.


 

The triumph was also the third of Cummins’ Eastern Storm career, and places him as the early point leader of USAC Eastern Storm following the first of six rounds.


 

Cummins started from the pole position behind the wheel of his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy. He flexed his muscles from the get-go, running his lead out to 2.4 seconds by the 10th lap.


 

Danner, meanwhile, was stifled in fourth for the first 14 laps, but on the 15th going around, he finally found an alley to race by Jake Swanson on the back straightaway on lap 15. One lap later on the 16th go around, Danner slid Leary for the runner-up spot in turn three.


 

Within a three-lap span after that, Cummins’ advantage up front dropped from 2.4 seconds to where Danner was right on his tail tank, chiefly due to lapped traffic, which stifled Cummins and came to the benefit of Danner.


 

“It's hard to pass the lap cars without just taking them out, and this is one of those places where I really struggle,” Cummins explained. “I don't want to just run through them. It was almost like they were the same speed, just enough to where I couldn't get a good slide on them. If I hit the bottom, I was terrible, and I was like, ‘man, somebody has to be passing me anytime.’


 

Cummins’ assessment was spot on. On lap 19, Danner slid past Cummins in the first turn to take over the lead. But as it turned out, it was all for naught. At the very same moment, Brenden Hires (18th) slowed dramatically to necessitate a yellow flag. By rule, scoring reverts back to the last completed lap on those particular occasions. Thus, Cummins was placed back in front of Danner for the restart just before the midway point.


 

Despite having no traffic in front of him for the time being, 1001 questions still ran through Cummins’ mind as he had Grandview’s favorite son, Pennsylvania native Danner right behind him. He was also fully cognizant that he would most likely encounter traffic once again before the race’s conclusion.


 

“We made a couple laps and I felt decent, then it started taking rubber and I was a nervous wreck because even the lapped cars were running the same speed in three and four and entering a little bit lower,” Cummins described. “So, I really wasn't sure what to do there. I just knew that if I hit it good, it would feel good if I got up over the stuff. I wasn't sure if that was better or not; I just really wasn't sure where to go. Even after the restart there, I just wasn't sure if it was cleaned off and I was hanging so bad up there. I felt like, down the backstretch, I could get a good run, but where do I go?’”


 

While Danner gave chase, he nearly clobbered the turn two outside wall on lap 27. As he fought to regather himself, he saw his deficit to Cummins climb to 1.7 seconds. With 10 laps remaining, Cummins’ lead was still a half-straightaway, but traffic changed that in a hurry.


 

Coming to the white flag, Danner was draped all over the back of Cummins, like white on rice. Entering turn three on lap 39 of 40, Danner went for it all, but as he slid up the track, he touched wheels with Cummins. The contact sent Danner into a 360-degree spin, which by rule, meant that the yellow flag was displayed and Danner was going to be relegated to the tail of the field.


 

It was a heartbreaking result for Danner, who wound up finishing 16th after being in position to make a dramatic pass for the victory. But on the flip side, it was a victory cincher for Cummins.


 

“I hated it for Briggs,” Cummins admitted. “I know he's a fan favorite and it was just close racing. It's just tough to pass, right? When every car is fast, you’ve got to take an advantage when you can, and sometimes, it's just got to be close. He's too good and he can make stuff happen out here. When he's got a good racecar, he's tough to beat. He's tough in Indiana, and he's even tougher out here.”


 

For the final two-lap dash to the finish line, Cummins still had an uneasy feeling no matter who was behind him.


 

“I really wasn't sure what was going on,” Cummins stated. “I didn't know if anyone had moved the bottom or not. Really, for the last two laps, I was like, I’m just going to run the top, and if I get passed, it's just what happens.”


 

Newsflash. Cummins did not get passed as he finished off the victory by a .655 second margin over Jake Swanson, Brady Bacon, and C.J. Leary, with Christian Bruno impressively rounding out the top five.


 

For leading each and every one of the 40 laps, Cummins was the night’s K & N Filters Clean Air Award recipient.


 

What a debut it was for Bruno who advanced 14 spots, starting 19th and finishing fifth in what was his first career USAC National Sprint Car appearance. The USAC East Coast Sprint Car point leader was honored as the evening’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger.


 

Danner's first career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time came at Grandview back in 2021. On Tuesday, he laid down a lap of 13.787 seconds to earn fast time honors in LearnLab Qualifying.


 

 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 16, 2026 – Grandview Speedway – Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine / Jesse Hockett Classic – 1/3-Mile Dirt Track


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-13.797; 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-13.915; 3. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-13.921; 4. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.035; 5. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.052; 6. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.060; 7. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-14.186; 8. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.199; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.241; 10. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.261; 11. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-14.291; 12. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-14.347; 13. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.647; 14. Joe Kata, 10, Kata-14.665; 15. Steven Drevicki, 19s, Drevicki-14.728; 16. Christian Bruno, 3BC, Franckowiak-14.730; 17. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-14.842; 18. Ronald Helmick, 22R, Helmick-14.877; 19. Brenden Hires, 2, Danner-14.960; 20. Matthew Swift, 03, Swift-15.469; 21. Olivia Thayer, 39T, Thayer-15.630; 22. Joey Crilly, 22, Vahlsing/Crilly-15.764; 23. Jason Cherry, 67c, Cherry-15.776; 24. Dirk Rimrott, 1x, Rimrott-16.119; 25. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (2), 2. Briggs Danner (6), 3. Brady Bacon (4), 4. Logan Seavey (3), 5. Justin Grant (5), 6. Brenden Hires (7), 7. Joey Crilly (8), 8. Christian Bruno (1). NT


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (1), 2. Mitchel Moles (4), 3. Charles Davis Jr. (3), 4. C.J. Leary (5), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 6. Joe Kata (2), 7. Jason Cherry (7). 2:31.980


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (4), 2. Steven Drevicki (2), 3. Ronald Helmick (1), 4. Kyle Cummins (5), 5. Jake Swanson (6), 6. Robert Ballou (3), 7. Olivia Thayer (7), 8. Dirk Rimrott (8). 2:35.591


 

FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (1), 2. Jake Swanson (4), 3. Brady Bacon (10), 4. C.J. Leary (2), 5. Christian Bruno (19), 6. Justin Grant (3), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 8. Mitchel Moles (11), 9. Logan Seavey (12), 10. Chase Stockon (7), 11. Robert Ballou (14), 12. Cale Coons (8), 13. Hayden Reinbold (9), 14. Steven Drevicki (16), 15. Charles Davis Jr. (13), 16. Briggs Danner (6), 17. Jason Cherry (22), 18. Joe Kata (15), 19. Olivia Thayer (20), 20. Ronald Helmick (17), 21. Joey Crilly (21), 22. Brenden Hires (18), 23. Dirk Rimrott (23). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-40 Kyle Cummins.


 

**Matthew Swift flipped during qualifying.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1382, 2-Justin Grant-1280, 3-Mitchel Moles-1255, 4-Briggs Danner-1186, 5-Jake Swanson-1147, 6-Logan Seavey-1138, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1136, 8-Chase Stockon-1089, 9-C.J. Leary-1068, 10-Robert Ballou-983.


 

USAC YOKOHAMA TIRE EASTERN STORM PRESENTED BY LEVAN MACHINE POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-76, 2-Jake Swanson-75, 3-Brady Bacon-70, 4-C.J. Leary-68, 5-Justin Grant-62, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-61, 7-Christian Bruno-59, 8-Mitchel Moles-56, 9-Logan Seavey-51, 10-Chase Stockon-51.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-68, 2-Cale Coons-59, 3-Hayden Reinbold-57, 4-Jacob Denney-52, 5-Justin Grant-51, 6-Briggs Danner-47, 7-Robert Ballou-47, 8-Brady Bacon-44, 9-Logan Calderwood-39, 10-Chase Stockon-38.


 

USAC EASTERN STORM PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Christian Bruno-14, 2-Brady Bacon-8, 3-Mitchel Moles-5, 4-Jason Cherry-5, 5-Briggs Danner-4, 6-Jake Swanson-3, 7-Logan Seavey-3, 8-Chase Stockon-3, 9-Robert Ballou-3, 10-Steven Drevicki-2.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 17, 2026 – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey – Yokohama Tire Eastern Storm Presented by Levan Machine / Jesse Hockett Classic – 4/10-Mile Dirt Track


 

 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jake Swanson (13.483)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Briggs Danner (13.787)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Chase Stockon


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Christian Bruno (19th to 5th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Kyle Cummins (40 laps led)


 

Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Jason Cherry (17th)


 

Second Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Joe Kata (18th)


 

Third Highest Finishing 360 c.i. Driver: Joey Crilly (21st)

 

USAC IMW Finale Rained Out, Sarff is the Champ

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By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kokomo, Indiana (June 14, 2026)………Afternoon storms have forced cancellation of Sunday’s June 14 22nd annual USAC Indiana Midget Week finale at Kokomo Speedway.


 

The event will not be rescheduled.


 

With the cancellation of Kokomo, Karter Sarff of Mason City, Illinois is the USAC Indiana Midget Week champion for the first time in his career. He earns a $15,000 prize for his efforts in the five-race series.


 

Earlier this week on Wednesday night at Paragon Speedway, Sarff became a first-time USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship event feature winner.


 

The 2026 USAC National Midget season resumes with the BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors on June 30 & July 1 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


 

The USAC season resumes with a full week of USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing in Pennsylvania and New Jersey June 16-21, starting on Tuesday night at Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania’s Grandview Speedway.

 

SWEEP DREAMS! GRANT PERFECT AT TRI-STATE’S USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK ROUND

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   justin Grant became the first driver in eight years to sweep an entire USAC Indiana Midget Week program during Saturday night's round at Tri-State Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Haubstadt, Indiana (June 13, 2026)………It took Justin Grant seven years to go from his first career USAC Indiana Midget Week win to his second. It took just another two nights for him to go from victory number two to three.


 

The Ione, California native brought his broom to Saturday night’s penultimate round of IMW by setting quick time in qualifying before winning his heat race, then concluded the evening by reigning triumphantly in the 30-lap feature.


 

Grant is the first driver to sweep an entire night of events during a USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship event since Ryan Timms at Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway in 2023. To add to that, Grant is the first driver since Kyle Larson at Montpelier Motor Speedway in 2018 to sweep an entire USAC Indiana Midget Week program.


 

Racing his way from sixth to first in the span of the first six laps of the feature, Grant overtook both Logan Seavey and Jakeb Boxell in one fell swoop, then led the remaining 25 laps to become the first multi-time winner of this year’s Indiana Midget Week, and the first three-time USAC National Midget winner on the year at the wheel of his CB Industries/NOS Energy Drink/Spike/Speedway Toyota.


 

“This car that (car owner) Chad (Boat) and all the guys at CB Industries gave me is an awesome race car,” Grant celebrated. “It's been really good all week. We've had just a couple of things go on but to get to victory lane twice during the week is awesome.”


 

Furthermore, the occasion marked the 99th career USAC national main event victory for Grant, combined across National Midget, National Sprint Car, and Silver Crown competition. He’s now just one win shy of the century mark, which would join him with A.J. Foyt (159), Rich Vogler (134), Mel Kenyon (111) and Dave Darland (106) in the 100 USAC national wins club.


 

“I just keep trying to tick them off,” Grant said. “I can't believe I have one national USAC win, let alone 99. Coming up on 100 just feels incredible, and it’s all thanks to the great teams like CB Industries, like TOPP Motorsports, like Hemelgarn and all my great sponsors like NOS Energy Drink across the board. I can't thank everybody enough who makes it possible for me to come do this. It's a lot of hard work; it's hot and these guys bust their tails for me, and I really appreciate all their work, all our partners’ work, and the fact that I get to come out here and do this and stand on the front stretch. I just I love driving racecars and I love winning races and I wouldn't rather be anywhere else.”


 

Additionally, Grant’s second career Tri-State USAC National Midget win also provided Boat with his 50th victory as a USAC National Midget car entrant. Boat is now just one of nine entrants to hold that distinction: Keith Kunz Motorsports (164), Mike Curb (163), Cary Agajanian (149), Steve Lewis (133), Doug Caruthers (97), Don & Mel Kenyon (93), Wilke Racers (84), and Howard Linne (69).


 

Out of those 50, however, this is the first for Boat and his team at Tri-State’s tricky 1/4-mile dirt oval.


 

“It feels really good to get Chad a win here,” Grant beamed. “They've always been really, really good here but struggled to pull one off in the feature. So, I feel like I've become a bit of a Haubstadt guy, and he's got really good race cars here. This is definitely one that I know I had circled on the calendar, and I think he did as well. It’s one that we thought we should just go ahead and win.”


 

Grant’s third career USAC Indiana Midget Week triumph was the 22nd overall of his USAC National Midget career, putting him 28th place on the all-time list alongside Tom Bigelow, Bobby East, and Shorty Templeman.


 

Boxell established the early lead from his outside front row starting position, but soon, he had plenty of company. Logan Seavey advanced to the second position as he went under Cannon McIntosh on the fourth lap. Grant followed suit a lap later to slot into third.


 

But the move that dictated the fate of the race came on lap six when Grant went two-for-one, passing both Seavey and Boxell with one move on the bottom of turns one and two. From there, everybody was chasing Grant for the balance of the feature as he built his lead to more than a straightaway over the course of the next several laps.


 

However, with eight laps remaining on the 23rd lap, leading USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year contender Colton Robinson spun to a stop in between turns three and four to bring out the yellow flag and promptly erase Grant’s 4.393 second lead.


 

Even with the field bunched up, nobody could match Grant, although Seavey kept him in check, as he commandeered the final stretch, crossing the finish line 0.621 seconds ahead of Seavey in the runner-up spot with Boxell third, Drake Edwards fourth and Kevin Thomas Jr. rounding out the top-five.


 

For leading the most laps (25 of 30), Grant was named the night’s K & N Filters Clean Air Award winner. Also, Grant’s fast time of 14.097 seconds in LearnLab Qualifying was his first in USAC National Midget action in over a year, and was the 13th of his career, tying him with Jimmy Knight and J.J. Yeley for 47th place all-time.


 

Gavin Miller put together his best run of USAC Indiana Midget Week so far. Starting 14th, he moved up six spots to slot into the eighth position at the finish line. For his performance, he was the event’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: RACE: June 13, 2026 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-14.097, 2. Karter Sarff, 71m, May-14.126, 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.257, 4. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-14.310, 5. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-14.330, 6. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.336, 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-14.390, 8. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-14.420, 9. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.437, 10. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-14.490, 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.566, 12. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-14.579, 13. Zach Wigal, 1, O'Dell-14.604, 14. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.610, 15. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.624, 16. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-14.635, 17. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-14.681, 18. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.692, 19. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-14.808, 20. Matt Sherrell, 2D, Harris-14.862, 21. Drew Sherman, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-14.898, 22. Alex Midkiff, 05, Midkiff-14.941, 23. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-15.088, 24. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-15.094, 25. Jeff Schindler, 8x, Schindler-15.377, 26. Mack Leopard, 40L, McDermand-NT, 27. Eric Webber, 48, Webber-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top 6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (6), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Trevor Cline (1), 4. Gunnar Setser (3), 5. Zach Wigal (2), 6. Drake Edwards (5), 7. Bradley Cox (7), 8. Alex Midkiff (8), 9. Jeff Schindler (9). 2:23.034


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top 6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brandon Carr (2), 2. Kyle Jones (4), 3. Karter Sarff (6), 4. Mack Leopard (9), 5. Jakeb Boxell (5), 6. Adam Taylor (1), 7. Hayden Reinbold (3), 8. Ethan Mitchell (8), 9. Matt Sherrell (7). 2:23.130


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top 6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kale Drake (3), 2. Gavin Miller (2), 3. Jacob Denney (4), 4. Logan Seavey (6), 5. Colton Robinson (1), 6. Cannon McIntosh (5), 7. Brecken Reese (8), 8. Drew Sherman (7), 9. Eric Webber (9). 2:24.661


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top 6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bradley Cox (2), 2. Hayden Reinbold (1), 3. Brecken Reese (3), 4. Matt Sherrell (7), 5. Drew Sherman (4), 6. Alex Midkiff (5), 7. Ethan Mitchell (6), 8. Jeff Schindler (8), 9. Eric Webber (9). 2:29.159


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (6), 2. Logan Seavey (4), 3. Jakeb Boxell (2), 4. Drake Edwards (3), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 6. Cannon McIntosh (1), 7. Karter Sarff (5), 8. Gavin Miller (14), 9. Kale Drake (7), 10. Gunnar Setser (12), 11. Jacob Denney (11), 12. Zach Wigal (13), 13. Mack Leopard (17), 14. Kyle Jones (10), 15. Colton Robinson (16), 16. Bradley Cox (18), 17. Brandon Carr (8), 18. Brecken Reese (20), 19. Ethan Mitchell (25-P), 20. Hayden Reinbold (19), 21. Drew Sherman (22), 22. Adam Taylor (15), 23. Trevor Cline (24), 24. Matt Sherrell (21), 25. Alex Midkiff (23). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter.


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Jakeb Boxell, Laps 6-30 Justin Grant.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jakeb Boxell-444, 2-Justin Grant-441, 3-Jacob Denney-437, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-415, 5-Zach Wigal-399, 6-Kale Drake-396, 7-Logan Seavey-389, 8-Gunnar Setser-365, 9-Gavin Miller-358, 10-Hayden Reinbold-332.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Karter Sarff-346, 2-Logan Seavey-343, 3-Cannon McIntosh-331, 4-Jakeb Boxell-306, 5-Justin Grant-294, 6-Jacob Denney-287, 7-Kale Drake-281, 8-Zach Wigal-268, 9-Kevin Thomas Jr.-266, 10-Gunnar Setser-256.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-68, 2-Cale Coons-59, 3-Hayden Reinbold-57, 4-Jacob Denney-52, 5-Justin Grant-51, 6-Briggs Danner-47, 7-Robert Ballou-44, 8-Logan Calderwood-39, 9-Chase Stockon-38, 10-Brady Bacon-37.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-43, 2-Cannon McIntosh-33, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-32, 4-Justin Grant-25, 5-Colton Robinson-24, 6-Brandon Carr-21, 7-Logan Seavey-19, 8-Karter Sarff-19, 9-Jakeb Boxell-18, 10-Gavin Miller-18.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 14, 2026 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (13.927)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (14.097)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Brandon Carr


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Bradley Cox


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Justin Grant (25 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Gavin Miller (14th to 8th)

 

 

R.J. SHOWS THE WAY

TO USAC SW SPRINT VICTORY LANE AT SHOW LOW

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Show Low, Arizona (June 13, 2026)………R.J. Johnson led all 30 laps to win Saturday night’s USAC Avanti Southwest Sprint Car feature at Deuce of Clubs Thunder Raceway in Show Low, Arizona.


 

Starting third on the grid, Johnson (Laveen, Arizona) catapulted past both front row occupants Koen Crawford and Brody Wake on the bottom of turns one and two, then checked out from the field to win his second series feature of the year.


 

The win was the 52nd of Johnson’s USAC Southwest Sprint Car career in his Petty Performance Racing No. 33p. Furthermore, he upped his series point lead to 32.


 

Johnson was followed to the stripe by PPR teammate Elijah Gile in second. Stevie Sussex took third ahead of Daylin Perreira in fourth, while Nathan High rounded out the top-five.


 

Dayton Shelton was the fastest qualifier with a time of 13.148 seconds. Heat races were won by Crawford, Wake, and Johnson.


 


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS SOUTHWEST SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 13, 2026 – Deuce of Clubs Thunder Raceway – Show Low, Arizona


 

FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Koen Crawford, 48, Crawford-14.789; 2. Dylan Schaadt, 88G, Schaadt-14.976; 3. A.J. Hernandez, 72, Hernandez-15.072; 4. Chloe High, 01AZ, Wichter-15.135; 5. Mike Waddle, 25w, Waddle-15.165; 6. Elijah Gile, 13p, Petty-15.257; 7. J.W. Henderson, 57, Henderson-15.554.


 

SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Bruce St. James, 1AZ, St. James-13.947; 2. Daylin Perreira, 21p, Perreira-14.232; 3. Wayne Siddle, 007, Siddle-14.279; 4. Brody Wake, 78, Wake-14.401; 5. Dan Klinder, 30K, Klinder-15.283; 6. Jordan Stetson, 8AZ, Stetson-15.959; 7. Rickey Kinney Jr., 81K, Kinney-16.305.


 

THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Dayton Shelton, 4D, Shelton-13.148; 2. Stevie Sussex, 2y, Yeley-13.329; 3. R.J. Johnson, 33p, Petty-13.354; 4. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-13.542; 5. Leland Fuller, 3, Fuller-14.341; 6. Mickey Gile, 23AZ, Gile-14.341; 7. Nathan High, 01, Wichter-14.341.


 

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Koen Crawford (4), 2. Elijah Gile (6), 3. A.J. Hernandez (2), 4. Chloe High (1), 5. Dylan Schaadt (3), 6. J.W. Henderson (7), 7. Mike Waddle (5). NT


 

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brody Wake (1), 2. Daylin Perreira (3), 3. Wayne Siddle (2), 4. Bruce St. James (4), 5. Jordan Stetson (6), 6. Rickey Kinney Jr. (7), 7. Dan Klinder (5). NT


 

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. R.J. Johnson (2), 2. Dayton Shelton (4), 3. Stevie Sussex (3), 4. Nathan High (7), 5. Connor Lundy (1), 6. Leland Fuller (5), 7. Mickey Gile (6). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. R.J. Johnson (3), 2. Elijah Gile (4), 3. Stevie Sussex (9), 4. Daylin Perreira (5), 5. Nathan High (12), 6. Brody Wake (2), 7. Koen Crawford (1), 8. Bruce St. James (11), 9. Connor Lundy (15), 10. Dayton Shelton (6), 11. Dylan Schaadt (13), 12. A.J. Hernandez (7), 13. Jordan Stetson (14), 14. Rickey Kinney Jr (17), 15. Leland Fuller (18), 16. Dan Klinder (20), 17. J.W. Henderson (16), 18. Wayne Siddle (8), 19. Chloe High (10), 20. Mike Waddle (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 R.J. Johnson.


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS SOUTHWEST SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-525, 2-Stevie Sussex-493, 3-Bruce St. James-480, 4-Daylin Perreira-455, 5-Koen Crawford-406, 6-Dayton Shelton-404, 7-A.J. Hernandez-381, 8-Jordan Stetson-378, 9-Connor Lundy-359, 10-Charles Davis Jr.-340.


 

NEXT USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS SOUTHWEST SPRINT CAR RACES: July 17-18, 2026 – Deuce of Clubs Thunder Raceway – Show Low, Arizona

 

 

 

YANTIS GETS 3RD STRAIGHT USAC WS MIDGET WIN AT PLAZA PARK

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Visalia, California (June 12, 2026)………Jett Yantis took over the lead with six laps remaining to win his third consecutive USAC Avanti Windows & Doors Western States Midget feature on Friday night at Plaza Park Raceway in Visalia, California.


 

Yantis (Bakersfield, California) had previously won at Plaza Park and Ventura Raceway in May before running his streak to three aboard the Rusty Carlile owned No. 4.


 

Prior to Yantis, the last driver to win three USAC Western States Midget features in a row was Kyle Larson in 2019.


 

Outside front row starter Caden Sarale led the opening 15 circuits of the 30-lap feature before yielding to Jake Andreotti, who paced the next eight laps. From there, a wild scramble ensued that saw the lead change hands between three different drivers over the next three laps.


 

Andreotti led lap 23 before Sarale roared back to the front on the 24th lap. On the following trip around Plaza Park, Yantis took over for good, leading laps 25-30 to grab his fourth victory of the series season and sixth of his career, which moved him to 37th place on the all-time list alongside Rico Abreu, Christopher Bell, Bryan Clauson, Johnathon Henry, Kyle Larson, Ken Nichols, Brad Noffsinger, Caden Sarale, and Dave Strickland Jr.


 

Sarale finished second with Andreotti third, Cade Lewis fourth and Broedy Graham fifth.


 

Heat races were won by Sarale and Chris Rahe. Graham was the fastest qualifier with a lap of 11.278 seconds.


 


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 12, 2026 – Plaza Park Raceway – Visalia, California


 

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Broedy Graham, 66, BGR-11.278; 2. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-11.377; 3. Jett Yantis, 4, Carlile-11.383; 4. Cade Lewis, 101, Alexander-11.542; 5. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-11.554; 6. Drake Cardey, 17, Dunkel-11.595; 7. Preston Norbury, 77AZ, Norbury-11.624; 8. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-11.811; 9. Connor Speir, 14, Streeter/Graunstadt-11.889; 10. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-11.928; 11. Adam Weisberg, 15, Weisberg-12.016; 12. Chris Rahe, 5, Rahe-12.158; 13. Hailey Lambert, 55, Lambert-12.289; 14. Michael Faccinto, 13, Faccinto-NT.


 

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Caden Sarale (4), 2. Preston Norbury (3), 3. Jett Yantis (5), 4. Broedy Graham (6), 5. Adam Weisberg (1), 6. Hailey Lambert (7), 7. Connor Speir (2). NT


 

ROY MILLER FREIGHT LINES SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Chris Rahe (1), 2. Jake Andreotti (6), 3. C.J. Sarna (3), 4. Michael Faccinto (7), 5. Cade Lewis (5), 6. Drake Cardey (4), 7. Randi Pankratz (2). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jett Yantis (4), 2. Caden Sarale (2), 3. Jake Andreotti (5), 4. Cade Lewis (3), 5. Broedy Graham (6), 6. Preston Norbury (1), 7. Michael Faccinto (14), 8. Drake Cardey (8), 9. Connor Speir (10), 10. Chris Rahe (7), 11. Randi Pankratz (11), 12. C.J. Sarna (9), 13. Adam Weisberg (12), 14. Hailey Lambert (13). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 Caden Sarale, Laps 16-23 Jake Andreotti, Lap 24 Caden Sarale, Laps 25-30 Jett Yantis.


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET POINTS: 1-Drake Cardey-410, 2-Broedy Graham-409, 3-C.J. Sarna-367, 4-Jett Yantis-317, 5-Connor Speir-293, 6-Adam Weisberg-288, 7-Dane Culver-256, 8-Hailey Lambert-250, 9-Caden Sarale-220, 10-Cade Lewis-214.


 

NEXT USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE: June 13, 2026 – Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, California

 

R.J. SHOWS THE WAY

TO USAC SW SPRINT VICTORY LANE AT SHOW LOW

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Elida, Ohio (June 12, 2026)………Luke Hall raced to victory in Friday night’s USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget Mike Streicher Memorial feature at Elida, Ohio’s Limaland Motorsports Park.


 

The third-place starting Hall (Ludlow Falls, Ohio) took the lead from Rookie Landen Francis on lap 16, then led the final 10 laps while holding off the rim-riding Bryce Massingill and Chett Gehrke on the way to his eighth career points-paying victory with the series in his Kyle Heitmeyer-owned No. 74.


 

Ian Creager had another solid run to take fourth in the feature while 2025 series champion Tyler Nelson rounded out the top five. Francis led the first 15 circuits but fell out of contention and finished 19th.


 

Matt Lux was the fastest qualifier with a lap of 13.904 seconds.


 

Bryce Massingill won the Jeff Hill Trailer Sales first heat race. Creager was victorious in the Stiefel’s Home & Auto second heat. Stratton Briggs captured victory in the Hoosier Auto Racing Fans third heat. Francis picked up his first heat race win in the Performance Electronics fourth heat. Hall won the Velocita by Borsos Racing fifth heat.


 

Kole Kirkman was the Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger in Mike Magic’s No. 5m, advancing from 21st to seventh in the feature. Earlier in the night, Kirkman transferred his way into the feature after winning the semi.


 

Brayden Schwartz received the Rosewood Machine and Tool Company Precision Move of the Race by advancing two positions on the final lap to take the seventh spot in the feature. Schwartz advanced five positions from his 12th starting spot, second most among all competitors.


 

Drew Rader received the Wilwood Disc Brakes Tough Brake certificate after drawing the number eight pill in the feature redraw after finishing second in his heat race.


 

Rookie Jonathon Decker was the recipient of the LynK Chassis bonus as the first non-qualifier out of the semi-feature. Decker started 13th and advanced eight positions to finish fifth, just one position outside of the final transfer spot.


 


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 12, 2026 – Limaland Motorsports Park – Elida, Ohio‍ - Mike Streicher Memorial


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Ryan Moran, 01, Moran-14.427; 2. Bryce Massingill, 35, Massingill-14.496; 3. Trisdon Brown, 2, Briggs-14.570; 4. Drew Rader, 74H, Heitmeyer-14.673; 5. Jon Watson, 2w, Watson-15.334; 6. Jim Jones, 97, Jones-15.465; 7. Bryce Dues, 0H, Sniper-15.578.


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Ian Creager, 36, Creager-14.379; 2. Buddy Hollmeyer, 11, Taylor-14.502; 3. Brayden Schwartz, 55s, Schwartz-14.723; 4. Cole Morgan, 7m, Morgan-14.907; 5. Chris Hartman, 35s, Hartman-15.485; 6. Derrick Noffsinger, 18N, Noffsinger-15.544; 7. Jimmy McGrath, 5JR, McGrath-15.561.


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Stratton Briggs, 71, Briggs-13.953; 2. Jalen Cox, 11x, Cox-14.692; 3. Dylan Trost, 21, Trost-14.823; 4. Tyler Watkins, 7T, Watkins-14.983; 5. Jonathon Decker, 5D, Decker-15.153; 6. Troy Borsos, 21T, Borsos-15.347; 7. Taten Long, 99L, Long-15.456.


 

PERFORMANCE ELECTRONICS FOURTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Matt Lux, 5, Wells-13.904; 2. Tyler Nelson, 91N, Nelson-14.146; 3. Chase Hodge, 7c, Hodge-14.185; 4. Landen Francis, 85L, Francis-14.447; 5. Alex Watson, 3w, Watson-14.748; 6. Ashley Schloss, 11s, Schloss-15.150.


 

VELOCITA BY BORSOS RACING FIFTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Kole Kirkman, 5m, Magic-14.114; 2. Luke Hall, 74, Heitmeyer-14.173; 3. Gunnar Lucius, 22, Lucius-14.397; 4. Chett Gehrke, 21G, Fedorczyk-14.616; 5. Parker Perry, 7G, Gresham-14.623; 6. Carl Peterson, 49, Peterson-14.856; 7. Luke Lemons, 33L, Lemons-NT.


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bryce Massingill (3), 2. Drew Rader (1), 3. Trisdon Brown (2), 4. Ryan Moran (4), 5. Bryce Dues (7), 6. Jim Jones (6), 7. Jon Watson (5). NT


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ian Creager (4), 2. Cole Morgan (1), 3. Brayden Schwartz (2), 4. Buddy Hollmeyer (3), 5. Jimmy McGrath (7), 6. Derrick Noffsinger (6), 7. Chris Hartman (5). NT


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Stratton Briggs (4), 2. Dylan Trost (2), 3. Jalen Cox (3), 4. Taten Long (7), 5. Tyler Watkins (1), 6. Troy Borsos (6), 7. Jonathon Decker (5). NT


 

PERFORMANCE ELECTRONICS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Landen Francis (1), 2. Tyler Nelson (3), 3. Alex Watson (5), 4. Ashley Schloss (6), 5. Chase Hodge (2), 6. Matt Lux (4). NT


 

VELOCITA BY BORSOS RACING FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (3), 2. Chett Gehrke (1), 3. Gunnar Lucius (2), 4. Parker Perry (5), 5. Carl Peterson (6), 6. Kole Kirkman (4), 7. Luke Lemons (7). NT


 

SEMI: (12 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kole Kirkman (10), 2. Tyler Watkins (3), 3. Carl Peterson (5), 4. Jon Watson (11), 5. Jonathon Decker (13), 6. Chase Hodge (4), 7. Derrick Noffsinger (7), 8. Troy Borsos (8), 9. Chris Hartman (12), 10. Luke Lemons (14), 11. Matt Lux (9), 12. Bryce Dues (1). NT


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (3), 2. Bryce Massingill (6), 3. Chett Gehrke (5), 4. Ian Creager (7), 5. Tyler Nelson (4), 6. Kole Kirkman (21), 7. Brayden Schwartz (12), 8. Drew Rader (10), 9. Stratton Briggs (9), 10. Jalen Cox (13), 11. Gunnar Lucius (15), 12. Trisdon Brown (11), 13. Cole Morgan (8), 14. Alex Watson (14), 15. Parker Perry (20), 16. Taten Long (18), 17. Carl Peterson (23), 18. Dylan Trost (2), 19. Landen Francis (1), 20. Tyler Watkins (22), 21. Buddy Hollmeyer (17), 22. Jon Watson (24), 23. Ryan Moran (16), 24. Ashley Schloss (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 Landen Francis, Laps 16-25 Luke Hall.


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET POINTS: 1-Tyler Nelson-301, 2-Ian Creager-283, 3-Matt Lux-265, 4-Bryce Massingill-252, 5-Kole Kirkman-248, 6-Stratton Briggs-206, 7-Buddy Hollmeyer-201, 8-Landen Francis-183, 9-Parker Perry-183, 10-Brayden Schwartz-183.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE: June 18, 2026 – Waynesfield Raceway Park – Waynesfield, Ohio‍


 


 

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Fast Qualifier: Matt Lux (13.904)


 

Jeff Hill Trailer Sales First Heat Winner: Bryce Massingill


 

Stiefel’s Home & Auto Second Heat Winner: Ian Creager


 

Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Third Heat Winner: Stratton Briggs


 

Performance Electronics Fourth Heat Winner: Landen Francis


 

Velocita by Borsos Racing Fifth Heat Winner: Luke Hall


 

Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger: Kole Kirkman (21st to 7th)


 

LynK Chassis First Non-Transfer: Jonathon Decker


 

Rosewood Machine & Tool Precision Move of the Race: Brayden Schwartz


 

Wilwood Tough Brake: Drew Rader

CARDEY CAPITALIZES, WINS USAC WS MIDGET RACE AT SANTA MARIA

 

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Nipomo, California (June 13, 2026)………Drake Cardey led the final 29 laps to win Saturday night’s USAC Avanti Western States Midget feature at Nipomo, California’s Santa Maria Speedway.


 

Starting fifth, Cardey (Riverside, California) worked his way up to third by the end of the first lap. But on the second lap, race leader Jett Yantis spun to a stop on his own in turn one to bring out the caution. Yantis was vying for his fourth consecutive series win.


 

On the ensuing lap two restart, Cardey raced under Chris Rahe on the back straightaway, then went virtually unchallenged the rest of the way en route to a dominant 5.951 second victory.


 

Cardey, who is a Rookie with the series, recorded his second victory of the season and the second of his career in his Tom Dunkel Racing ride, and extended his championship point lead to 17 in the process.


 

Cardey was followed to the checkered by runner-up Connor Speir, Preston Norbury, and Woodland Auto Display Fast Qualifier Cade Lewis, with Broedy Graham rounding out the top-five.


 

Heat races were won by Yantis and Speir.


 


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 13, 2026 – Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, California


 

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Cade Lewis, 101, Alexander-15.603; 2. Drake Cardey, 17, Dunkel-15.636; 3. Preston Norbury, 77AZ, Norbury-15.711; 4. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-15.741; 5. Broedy Graham, 66, BGR-15.742; 6. Connor Speir, 14, Streeter/Graunstadt-15.900; 7. Jett Yantis, 4, Carlile-15.925; 8. Chris Rahe, 5, Rahe-16.109; 9. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-16.355; 10. Ron Hazelton, 15, Hazelton-16.826; 11. Hailey Lambert, 55, Lambert-16.849; 12. Adam Weisberg, 15x, Weisberg-17.278.


 

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Jett Yantis (3), 2. Cade Lewis (6), 3. Broedy Graham (4), 4. Preston Norbury (5), 5. Hailey Lambert (1), 6. Randi Pankratz (2). NT


 

ROY MILLER FREIGHT LINES SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Connor Speir (4), 2. Drake Cardey (6), 3. Chris Rahe (3), 4. C.J. Sarna (5), 5. Ron Hazelton (2), 6. Adam Weisberg (1). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Drake Cardey (5), 2. Connor Speir (3), 3. Preston Norbury (7), 4. Cade Lewis (6), 5. Broedy Graham (4), 6. Jett Yantis (2), 7. C.J. Sarna (8), 8. Randi Pankratz (9), 9. Chris Rahe (1), 10. Hailey Lambert (11), 11. Adam Weisberg (12), 12. Ron Hazelton (10). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Jett Yantis, Laps 2-30 Drake Cardey.


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET POINTS: 1-Drake Cardey-492, 2-Broedy Graham-475, 3-C.J. Sarna-427, 4-Jett Yantis-380, 5-Connor Speir-369, 6-Adam Weisberg-332, 7-Hailey Lambert-297, 8-Cade Lewis-288, 9-Dane Culver-256, 10-Caden Sarale-220.


 

NEXT USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE: June 27, 2026 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California

 

 

SEAVEY SAILS TO BLOOMINGTON USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK SCORE

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Bloomington, Indiana (June 12, 2026)………He’d run third this week. He’d finished second this week. But on Friday night at Bloomington Speedway, it was finally Logan Seavey’s turn to stand in the number one spot on the podium.


 

The Sutter, California racer took over lead from series Rookie Bradley Cox on lap four, then led the remaining 29 laps of the overtime extended 32-lap feature to win round four of the 22nd annual USAC Indiana Midget Week series.


 

Seavey’s five career Indiana Midget Week triumphs ranks as the third most all-time alongside Christopher Bell and Tanner Thorson, and his 20th overall USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature score ties him with A.J. Foyt for 36th place on the all-time list.


 

In a similar vein to his performances this week, Seavey’s Indiana Midget Week resume consisted of finishes of second in 2019, third in 2023, and fourth in 2024, but neglected to include a victory until he brought the Abacus Racing/Indy Powersports – Desnuda Tequila – Prime 47 – Droplight/Spike/Stanton SR-11x to victory lane for the first time in 2026.


 

Interestingly, Seavey and team initially didn’t plan to run the entire Indiana Midget Week slate in order to make preparation for next week’s Eastern Storm series featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship. But they now find themselves right in the thick of the IMW title race with two events remaining at Tri-State Speedway on Saturday and Kokomo Speedway on Sunday. Needless to say, a change in plans is afoot.


 

“We weren't planning on being here and now we're kind of in the hunt,” Seavey revealed. “Karter (Sarff) and Cannon (McIntosh) are obviously doing a good job and they're going to be hard to catch, but I feel really good about Haubstadt tomorrow and these next couple races are going to be good.”


 

Starting fourth on the grid for the feature, Seavey had a blueprint for how he wanted to run his race on the 1/4-mile red clay oval.


 

“I feel like every time I come here, my car's really good and I just don't get to the lead early enough, and the bottom in one and two lately has been really, really fast. So, it's kind of hard to pass the leader once they get in a rhythm,” Seavey explained. “I knew that if I was going to win this race, I had to get the lead early and get that rhythm. I felt really good about my line, even if they were a little bit better. I thought it would be really hard to get by us the way my line was with where my car was working the best.”


 

Seavey’s plan came to fruition in the early stages. Initially, Cox led the first three laps of his USAC career from his pole starting position along the bottom. But on lap four, Sarff suddenly surged to the lead in turns one and two, but it proved to be short lived. Moments later, Seavey got rolling on the high line, and vaulted from third to first past both Cox and Sarff off turn four to lead the lap.


 

Meanwhile, much further back in the pack, previous night’s feature winner Justin Grant was enduring turmoil. Initially slated to start on the outside of row nine, his CB Industries team swapped to a backup car for the feature due to an engine issue. Lining up 24th and last in the field, Grant had already advanced seven positions up to 17th by lap four when he became entangled with Kyle Jones, resulting in Grant flipping over in turns three and four. After a stint in the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area, Grant was relegated back to the tail of the field once more.


 

No less than eight stoppages halted the race, but all the while, Seavey was unfazed at the head of the field. However, it did create numerous restart opportunities, all of which Seavey was game for.


 

“Starting on the top was better for me to get into one with a big arc and I wasn't very good at running in there slow and getting on the right front,” Seavey said of his restart plans. “I was really wanting to start on the top as much as I could but I knew there were a few times where I'd try to change it up and get them racing behind me a little bit, or something else.”


 

McIntosh was among those who put themselves into contention as he worked his way from 12th at the start, then took over third with an inside move on Kale Drake on lap 19 while Seavey and Sarff continued to run one-two.


 

Seavey’s lead was a solid eight car lengths on the 30th lap with the checkered flag just within sight. However, Mack Leopard (8th) got into the back bumper of Hayden Reinbold (7th) entering turn one, sending Reinbold spinning backwards while facing oncoming traffic. All managed to avoid contact with Reinbold. However, Matt Sherrell (9th) and Grant, who had hustled back from 24th to 10th, were also caught up in the melee, ending both their evenings right on the spot.


 

Re-racked for a green-white-checkered restart, Seavey once again left the field in the distance and was headed for the final set of turns one last time, seemingly. But eighth running Leopard slowed suddenly and stopped on the other side of the turn four banking, resulting in a caution and one more restart opportunity for Seavey and his challengers.


 

However, Seavey was pretty certain he wasn’t going to be taken for the lead this time, or anytime, on this night.


 

“This car was good enough to where I could get away – I don't know if I was getting away or not – but I felt good enough about my line to where I was running the bottom and protecting in one, then sliding myself in three,” Seavey offered. “So, they had to do something really different to get by me there. My car just felt so good doing what I was doing that I wasn't going to change anything up.”


 

Seavey was 100 percent correct in his assertion and finally crossed the finish line on the 32nd lap by a 0.452 second margin over Sarff, McIntosh, Jacob Denney and Drake Edwards. There were no complaints from Seavey on this one.


 

“I've been complaining a lot about my racecar the last couple of days,” Seavey admitted. “(The crew) has been working really hard and I just had to go out there and drive it and quit complaining and just do what I can do.”


 

Furthermore, for the second consecutive night, Seavey led the most laps. The night before at Lincoln Park Speedway, Seavey led 16 circuits and finished third. This time around at Bloomington, he paced the final 29 laps to score both the victory and the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

It doesn’t seem to matter where Denney starts; he always seems to find his way to the front. Bloomington was no exception. This time, he advanced 15 positions after starting 19th and finishing fourth to earn the Rod End Supply Hard Charger award for the second time this week. He also moved from 19th to fifth at Paragon Speedway two nights earlier.


 

Zach Wigal started his night off at Bloomington by grabbing his third career USAC National Midget fast qualifying award with a lap of 11.955 seconds during LearnLab Qualifying. Wigal also made a solid bounce back in the feature after spinning off the turn three banking while running seventh early in the going. Starting at the back of the pack, he raced his way back from 24th to finish 10th. That earned him the Sober Joe Coffee Company Recovery of the Night.


 

Sarff’s incredible streak of five-straight fast qualifying times in Indiana Midget Week competition dating back to 2025 came to an end at Bloomington after timing in fourth fastest. However, he was able to extend his Indiana Midget Week point lead to 11 with two rounds remaining.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: RACE: June 12, 2026 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Zach Wigal, 1, O'Dell-11.955; 2. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-12.069; 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.069; 4. Karter Sarff, 71m, May-12.090; 5. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-12.104; 6. Mack Leopard, 40L, McDermand-12.115; 7. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-12.124; 8. Matt Sherrell, 2D, Harris-12.222; 9. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-12.227; 10. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.244; 11. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.245; 12. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-12.248; 13. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-12.249; 14. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-12.280; 15. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-12.305; 16. Levi Hinck, 21H, TKH-12.306; 17. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-12.318; 18. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-12.325; 19. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-12.347; 20. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.350; 21. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.371; 22. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-12.374; 23. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.380; 24. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.560; 25. Mike Unger, 67u, Frederiksen/Unger-12.992; 26. Robert Carson, 99K, Carson-NT; 27. Drew Sherman, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-NT (time of 12.429 disallowed due to missing scales).


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kale Drake (2), 2. Cannon McIntosh (3), 3. Karter Sarff (5), 4. Zach Wigal (6), 5. Justin Grant (7), 6. Bradley Cox (4), 7. Adam Taylor (8), 8. Levi Hinck (1), 9. Mike Unger (9). 2:07.147


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brecken Reese (1), 2. Jakeb Boxell (6), 3. Hayden Reinbold (5), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (8), 5. Gavin Miller (3), 6. Matt Sherrell (4), 7. Ethan Mitchell (2), 8. Jacob Denney (7), 9. Drew Sherman (9). 2:10.084


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Drake Edwards (3), 2. Kyle Jones (1), 3. Gunnar Setser (4), 4. Colton Robinson (7), 5. Trevor Cline (2), 6. Logan Seavey (6), 7. Mack Leopard (5), 8. Brandon Carr (8), 9. Robert Carson (9). 2:09.162


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mack Leopard (1), 2. Jacob Denney (5), 3. Brandon Carr (6), 4. Drew Sherman (8), 5. Adam Taylor (3), 6. Levi Hinck (4), 7. Ethan Mitchell (2), 8. Mike Unger (7), 9. Robert Carson (9). 2:10.203


 

FEATURE: (32 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (4), 2. Karter Sarff (3), 3. Cannon McIntosh (12), 4. Jacob Denney (19), 5. Drake Edwards (7), 6. Kale Drake (8), 7. Colton Robinson (16), 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (17), 9. Brandon Carr (20), 10. Zach Wigal (6), 11. Bradley Cox (1), 12. Gavin Miller (13), 13. Gunnar Setser (11), 14. Jakeb Boxell (5), 15. Levi Hinck (23), 16. Hayden Reinbold (2), 17. Kyle Jones (15), 18. Drew Sherman (21), 19. Mack Leopard (18), 20. Matt Sherrell (10), 21. Justin Grant (24), 22. Adam Taylor (22), 23. Trevor Cline (14), 24. Brecken Reese (9). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Bradley Cox, Laps 4-32 Logan Seavey.


 

**Justin Grant flipped on lap 4 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-390, 2-Jakeb Boxell-374, 3-Justin Grant-357, 4-Zach Wigal-356, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-350, 6-Kale Drake-342, 7-Gunnar Setser-317, 8-Logan Seavey-313, 9-Hayden Reinbold-307, 10-Gavin Miller-302.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Karter Sarff-283, 2-Cannon McIntosh-272 3-Logan Seavey-267, 4-Jacob Denney-240, 5-Jakeb Boxell-236, 6-Kale Drake-227, 7-Zach Wigal-225, 8-Hayden Reinbold-212, 9-Justin Grant-210, 10-Gunnar Setser-208.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-64, 2-Cale Coons-59, 3-Hayden Reinbold-57, 4-Jacob Denney-52, 5-Briggs Danner-47, 6-Justin Grant-46, 7-Robert Ballou-44, 8-Logan Calderwood-39, 9-Chase Stockon-38, 10-Brady Bacon-37.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-42, 2-Cannon McIntosh-33, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-26, 4-Colton Robinson-23, 5-Brandon Carr-20, 6-Jakeb Boxell-18, 7-Karter Sarff-16, 8-Logan Seavey-15, 9-Justin Grant-15, 10-Hayden Reinbold-13.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 13, 2026 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Hayden Reinbold (11.885)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Zach Wigal (11.955)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Brecken Reese


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Drake Edwards


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Mack Leopard


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Logan Seavey (29 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jacob Denney (19th to 4th)

 

ALL HALL AT LIMALAND’S STREICHER MEMORIAL

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Elida, Ohio (June 12, 2026)………Luke Hall raced to victory in Friday night’s USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget Mike Streicher Memorial feature at Elida, Ohio’s Limaland Motorsports Park.


 

The third-place starting Hall (Ludlow Falls, Ohio) took the lead from Rookie Landen Francis on lap 16, then led the final 10 laps while holding off the rim-riding Bryce Massingill and Chett Gehrke on the way to his eighth career points-paying victory with the series in his Kyle Heitmeyer-owned No. 74.


 

Ian Creager had another solid run to take fourth in the feature while 2025 series champion Tyler Nelson rounded out the top five. Francis led the first 15 circuits but fell out of contention and finished 19th.


 

Matt Lux was the fastest qualifier with a lap of 13.904 seconds.


 

Bryce Massingill won the Jeff Hill Trailer Sales first heat race. Creager was victorious in the Stiefel’s Home & Auto second heat. Stratton Briggs captured victory in the Hoosier Auto Racing Fans third heat. Francis picked up his first heat race win in the Performance Electronics fourth heat. Hall won the Velocita by Borsos Racing fifth heat.


 

Kole Kirkman was the Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger in Mike Magic’s No. 5m, advancing from 21st to seventh in the feature. Earlier in the night, Kirkman transferred his way into the feature after winning the semi.


 

Brayden Schwartz received the Rosewood Machine and Tool Company Precision Move of the Race by advancing two positions on the final lap to take the seventh spot in the feature. Schwartz advanced five positions from his 12th starting spot, second most among all competitors.


 

Drew Rader received the Wilwood Disc Brakes Tough Brake certificate after drawing the number eight pill in the feature redraw after finishing second in his heat race.


 

Rookie Jonathon Decker was the recipient of the LynK Chassis bonus as the first non-qualifier out of the semi-feature. Decker started 13th and advanced eight positions to finish fifth, just one position outside of the final transfer spot.


 


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 12, 2026 – Limaland Motorsports Park – Elida, Ohio‍ - Mike Streicher Memorial


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Ryan Moran, 01, Moran-14.427; 2. Bryce Massingill, 35, Massingill-14.496; 3. Trisdon Brown, 2, Briggs-14.570; 4. Drew Rader, 74H, Heitmeyer-14.673; 5. Jon Watson, 2w, Watson-15.334; 6. Jim Jones, 97, Jones-15.465; 7. Bryce Dues, 0H, Sniper-15.578.


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Ian Creager, 36, Creager-14.379; 2. Buddy Hollmeyer, 11, Taylor-14.502; 3. Brayden Schwartz, 55s, Schwartz-14.723; 4. Cole Morgan, 7m, Morgan-14.907; 5. Chris Hartman, 35s, Hartman-15.485; 6. Derrick Noffsinger, 18N, Noffsinger-15.544; 7. Jimmy McGrath, 5JR, McGrath-15.561.


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Stratton Briggs, 71, Briggs-13.953; 2. Jalen Cox, 11x, Cox-14.692; 3. Dylan Trost, 21, Trost-14.823; 4. Tyler Watkins, 7T, Watkins-14.983; 5. Jonathon Decker, 5D, Decker-15.153; 6. Troy Borsos, 21T, Borsos-15.347; 7. Taten Long, 99L, Long-15.456.


 

PERFORMANCE ELECTRONICS FOURTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Matt Lux, 5, Wells-13.904; 2. Tyler Nelson, 91N, Nelson-14.146; 3. Chase Hodge, 7c, Hodge-14.185; 4. Landen Francis, 85L, Francis-14.447; 5. Alex Watson, 3w, Watson-14.748; 6. Ashley Schloss, 11s, Schloss-15.150.


 

VELOCITA BY BORSOS RACING FIFTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Kole Kirkman, 5m, Magic-14.114; 2. Luke Hall, 74, Heitmeyer-14.173; 3. Gunnar Lucius, 22, Lucius-14.397; 4. Chett Gehrke, 21G, Fedorczyk-14.616; 5. Parker Perry, 7G, Gresham-14.623; 6. Carl Peterson, 49, Peterson-14.856; 7. Luke Lemons, 33L, Lemons-NT.


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bryce Massingill (3), 2. Drew Rader (1), 3. Trisdon Brown (2), 4. Ryan Moran (4), 5. Bryce Dues (7), 6. Jim Jones (6), 7. Jon Watson (5). NT


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ian Creager (4), 2. Cole Morgan (1), 3. Brayden Schwartz (2), 4. Buddy Hollmeyer (3), 5. Jimmy McGrath (7), 6. Derrick Noffsinger (6), 7. Chris Hartman (5). NT


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Stratton Briggs (4), 2. Dylan Trost (2), 3. Jalen Cox (3), 4. Taten Long (7), 5. Tyler Watkins (1), 6. Troy Borsos (6), 7. Jonathon Decker (5). NT


 

PERFORMANCE ELECTRONICS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Landen Francis (1), 2. Tyler Nelson (3), 3. Alex Watson (5), 4. Ashley Schloss (6), 5. Chase Hodge (2), 6. Matt Lux (4). NT


 

VELOCITA BY BORSOS RACING FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (3), 2. Chett Gehrke (1), 3. Gunnar Lucius (2), 4. Parker Perry (5), 5. Carl Peterson (6), 6. Kole Kirkman (4), 7. Luke Lemons (7). NT


 

SEMI: (12 laps, top 4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kole Kirkman (10), 2. Tyler Watkins (3), 3. Carl Peterson (5), 4. Jon Watson (11), 5. Jonathon Decker (13), 6. Chase Hodge (4), 7. Derrick Noffsinger (7), 8. Troy Borsos (8), 9. Chris Hartman (12), 10. Luke Lemons (14), 11. Matt Lux (9), 12. Bryce Dues (1). NT


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (3), 2. Bryce Massingill (6), 3. Chett Gehrke (5), 4. Ian Creager (7), 5. Tyler Nelson (4), 6. Kole Kirkman (21), 7. Brayden Schwartz (12), 8. Drew Rader (10), 9. Stratton Briggs (9), 10. Jalen Cox (13), 11. Gunnar Lucius (15), 12. Trisdon Brown (11), 13. Cole Morgan (8), 14. Alex Watson (14), 15. Parker Perry (20), 16. Taten Long (18), 17. Carl Peterson (23), 18. Dylan Trost (2), 19. Landen Francis (1), 20. Tyler Watkins (22), 21. Buddy Hollmeyer (17), 22. Jon Watson (24), 23. Ryan Moran (16), 24. Ashley Schloss (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 Landen Francis, Laps 16-25 Luke Hall.


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET POINTS: 1-Tyler Nelson-301, 2-Ian Creager-283, 3-Matt Lux-265, 4-Bryce Massingill-252, 5-Kole Kirkman-248, 6-Stratton Briggs-206, 7-Buddy Hollmeyer-201, 8-Landen Francis-183, 9-Parker Perry-183, 10-Brayden Schwartz-183.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE: June 18, 2026 – Waynesfield Raceway Park – Waynesfield, Ohio‍


 


 

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Fast Qualifier: Matt Lux (13.904)


 

Jeff Hill Trailer Sales First Heat Winner: Bryce Massingill


 

Stiefel’s Home & Auto Second Heat Winner: Ian Creager


 

Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Third Heat Winner: Stratton Briggs


 

Performance Electronics Fourth Heat Winner: Landen Francis


 

Velocita by Borsos Racing Fifth Heat Winner: Luke Hall


 

Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger: Kole Kirkman (21st to 7th)


 

LynK Chassis First Non-Transfer: Jonathon Decker


 

Rosewood Machine & Tool Precision Move of the Race: Brayden Schwartz


 

Wilwood Tough Brake: Drew Rader

 

 

7 YEAR ITCH! GRANT GRABS LINCOLN PARK FOR FIRST USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK WIN SINCE 2019

David Nearpass

  

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Putnamville, Indiana (June 11, 2026)………Seven years after capturing his one and only USAC Indiana Midget Week triumph to date, Justin Grant returned to victory lane with the series on Thursday night at Putnamville, Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway.


 

Grant, aboard his CB Industries/NOS Energy Drink/Spike/Speedway Toyota, led early but relinquished the top spot by lap four to Logan Seavey. However, with 11 laps remaining, Grant fought his way back to the front to win his first Indiana Midget Week feature since the Gas City round of 2019.


 

“USAC Midget racing, it’s wild,” Grant exclaimed. “You've always got a chance, even when you can't see it sometimes. So, you keep digging.”


 

The seven season span between victories is the longest by a driver in the 22-year history of Indiana Midget Week. The event at Lincoln Park also marked the 100th Indiana Midget Week race held since the series debuted in 2005.


 

Grant’s 22nd career USAC National Midget victory also tied him for 28th place on the all-time series win list alongside Tom Bigelow, Bobby East and Shorty Templeman. Additionally, the Ione, California native’s 98th career USAC national victory across the Midget, Sprint Car and Silver Crown disciplines puts Grant just two away from the century mark.


 

The latest score by Grant also vaulted him to the top of the USAC National Midget standings as he pursues his first career driving title with the series, which would complete the career USAC Triple Crown.


 

Starting from the pole position, Grant led the opening three circuits of the 30-lap feature as he gained the early upper hand. In 10 starts, Grant’s previous top Lincoln Park Indiana Midget Week finish was a second in 2018. Entering the night, his lone USAC victory of any kind at LPS’ 5/16-mile dirt oval came with the AMSOIL National Sprint Cars in 2022.


 

That said, Seavey was moving. On the fourth lap, he charged around the outside of Grant on the back straightaway to lead lap four, and remained in total control throughout the middle stages of the race as he split the difference through lapped traffic. Grant fell to second, but soon, found his groove.


 

“I knew I was really, really good in three and four, and I felt like I just wasn’t running one and two right,” Grant explained. “I was just trying to make sure I got the moisture of two. I knew it was important because there was so much of it. Once Logan got by me, I went to work on trying to figure out how to do it. I know he kept getting tight on the curb up there and I thought, ‘well, if I keep hanging this, I might end up sneaking by him.’ Then, it was fading, so I got to where I was kind of touching it and turning across. It was tricky to figure out how to do it. If you didn't touch it enough, you hung. If you touched it too much, you'd push. It was a lot of fun; just more bottom than I'm probably used to. (Car owner) Chad (Boat) gets her stuck and glued into the racetrack and it likes it when it's like that.”


 

All the while, Grant never allowed Seavey to slip out of the frame. When Seavey stumbled atop the turn two cushion on lap 20, Grant was in position to pounce. Moments later, Grant raced under Seavey on the back straightaway to reclaim the top spot.


 

“(Seavey) was kind of getting tight in the middle of one and two, and I saw that he could get in pretty smooth,” Grant recalled. “So, I just kind of started following his entry, and then turned across, and it felt like I was able to put together the best parts of his corner and the best parts of my corner and work them out there.”


 

Tenth place running Kevin Thomas Jr.’s car went up in smoke on the 23rd lap, bringing out the caution and setting up a restart with eight laps remaining that very well could decide the outcome.


 

Seavey got a run on Grant, and slid past him entering turn one on the restart. But Grant was ready for it, and promptly pointed his steering wheel back to the inside to get the position back from Seavey off the exit of turn two. Just behind the top-two, Cannon McIntosh performed the very same maneuver on Karter Sarff in the tussle for third.


 

Once more with five laps to go, Seavey briefly overtook Grant for the lead with a turn one slider. But once more, Grant flicked the wheel toward the bottom of turn two and reclaimed the lead once and for all.


 

“On those restarts there, I knew I was just kind of a sitting duck to get slid getting into one,” Grant noted. “But I could get such a run down the hill. It was kind of like, ‘okay, just let him through and then go.’ Logan's a good race car driver. He was changing where he landed, and trying to get me to land behind him. It's a lot of fun racing like that.”


 

Grant finished off the job for his second USAC National Midget win of the 2026 season by a 1.684 margin over McIntosh, who slid Seavey for the runner-up spot in turn one on the final lap. Seavey took third with Sarff fourth and Jacob Denney rounding out the top-five for the second night in a row.


 

McIntosh raced his way up seven positions from his ninth starting spot to finish second in the feature, sealing the deal for Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 

Seavey led laps 4-19 on the road to finishing third in the feature. His 16 laps led were the most, earning him the evening’s K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Meanwhile, Sarff continued his amazing run of qualifying mastery. Over the past five USAC Indiana Midget Week events, Sarff has been the fastest qualifier in every single one of them dating back to 2025! He's also now three-for-three on LearnLab Fast Qualifying times over the first three nights on Indiana Midget Week in 2026.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: RACE: June 11, 2026 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Indiana – 5/16-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Karter Sarff, 71m, May-12.643; 2. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-12.668; 3. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-12.687; 4. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.814; 5. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-12.816; 6. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-12.835; 7. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.865; 8. Mack Leopard, 40L, McDermand-12.919; 9. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.922; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.960; 11. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-12.961; 12. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.008; 13. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-13.020; 14. Matt Sherrell, 2D, Harris-13.024; 15. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.028; 16. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-13.079; 17. Zach Wigal, 1, O'Dell-13.085; 18. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.124; 19. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-13.149; 20. Rylan Gray, 81G, Gray-13.232; 21. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.310; 22. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-13.321; 23. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-13.350; 24. Drew Sherman, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-13.478; 25. Levi Hinck, 21H, TKH-13.551; 26. Tony Helton, 22H, Gray-13.609; 27. Mike Unger, 67u, Frederiksen/Unger-13.863; 28. Jeff Schindler, 8x, Schindler-13.886; 29. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Zach Wigal (2), 2. Jakeb Boxell (3), 3. Jacob Denney (4), 4. Karter Sarff (6), 5. Brecken Reese (5), 6. Colton Robinson (1), 7. Levi Hinck (7). 2:13.399


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (5), 2. Ethan Mitchell (2), 3. Trevor Cline (6), 4. Matt Sherrell (3), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 6. Adam Taylor (1), 7. Tony Helton (7). 2:13.401


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Gunnar Setser (2), 2. Kale Drake (4), 3. Cannon McIntosh (5), 4. Hayden Reinbold (6), 5. Gavin Miller (3), 6. Bradley Cox (1), 7. Mike Unger (7). 2:13.847


 

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (6), 2. Kyle Jones (3), 3. Mack Leopard (5), 4. Brandon Carr (4), 5. Drew Sherman (1), 6. Jeff Schindler (7), 7. Rylan Gray (2). NT


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Adam Taylor (3), 2. Bradley Cox (4), 3. Colton Robinson (2), 4. Levi Hinck (6), 5. Tony Helton (7), 6. Mike Unger (8), 7. Jeff Schindler (5), 8. Rylan Gray (1). 2:20.305


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (1), 2. Cannon McIntosh (9), 3. Logan Seavey (3), 4. Karter Sarff (6), 5. Jacob Denney (11), 6. Hayden Reinbold (4), 7. Zach Wigal (7), 8. Trevor Cline (5), 9. Gunnar Setser (8), 10. Jakeb Boxell (15), 11. Gavin Miller (17), 12. Brecken Reese (2), 13. Mack Leopard (10), 14. Brandon Carr (14), 15. Matt Sherrell (16), 16. Kyle Jones (18), 17. Kale Drake (13), 18. Adam Taylor (21), 19. Colton Robinson (20), 20. Ethan Mitchell (19), 21. Bradley Cox (22), 22. Drew Sherman (23), 23. Levi Hinck (24), 24. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Justin Grant, Laps 4-19 Logan Seavey, Laps 20-30 Justin Grant.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-330, 2-Jacob Denney-327, 3-Jakeb Boxell-327, 4-Zach Wigal-302, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-296, 6-Kale Drake-279, 7-Gunnar Setser-274, 8-Hayden Reinbold-268, 9-Gavin Miller-259, 10-Brecken Reese-256.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Karter Sarff-207, 2-Cannon McIntosh-201, 3-Logan Seavey-190, 4-Jakeb Boxell-189, 5-Justin Grant-183, 6-Jacob Denney-177, 7-Hayden Reinbold-173, 8-Zach Wigal-171, 9-Brecken Reese-167, 10-Gunnar Setser-165.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-57, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-55, 4-Briggs Danner-47, 5-Robert Ballou-44, 6-Justin Grant-43, 7-Logan Calderwood-39, 8-Chase Stockon-38, 9-Brady Bacon-37, 10-Jacob Denney-37.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-24, 2-Cannon McIntosh-23, 3-Jakeb Boxell-14, 4-Karter Sarff-13, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-13, 6-Logan Seavey-12, 7-Bradley Cox-12, 8-Hayden Reinbold-11, 9-Gavin Miller-11, 10-Matt Sherrell-11.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 12, 2026 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week



 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Trevor Cline (12.760)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Karter Sarff (12.643)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Zach Wigal


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Gunnar Setser


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Logan Seavey


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Logan Seavey (16 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Cannon McIntosh (9th to 2nd)

 

SHARK TALE! SARFF SNAGS FIRST CAREER USAC MIDGET WIN AT PARAGON

 Josh James

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Paragon, Indiana (June 10, 2026)………Throughout his brief but highly successful USAC Indiana Midget Week career, Karter Sarff has displayed a tremendous knack for qualifying.


 

On Wednesday night during round two of IMW at Paragon Speedway, the Mason City, Illinois native successfully translated his time trial prowess into his first career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory.


 

The sixth place starting Sarff, nicknamed “The Shark,” slipped through the pack and into the lead past Jakeb Boxell on the 14th lap, then led the remaining 17 circuits to snag the victory aboard his Paul May Motorsports/Peffley & Hinshaw Wrecker Service – Factory 71/Ripper/Speedway Toyota.


 

With the win, Sarff became the first driver since Gavin Miller in 2023 to win his first USAC feature during Indiana Midget Week. Furthermore, Sarff is now the first driver since John Andretti in 1985 to win his first ever USAC National Midget race at Paragon.


 

“It doesn't even feel real,” Sarff stated. “It's kind of emotional, honestly, with just how hard we've been working and I’m so thankful for Paul letting me come out here and have a little fun. Paul and I work together really well, and obviously, it shows. We just needed to put a whole night together, and once I got the lead there, I felt like tonight was our night and I was going to give it my all. A huge thank you to everyone who's been a part of my journey and helped me get here. It's pretty badass to get my first USAC win.”


 

To start off the evening, Sarff was the fastest qualifier for the fourth consecutive Indiana Midget Week event, a streak that began at Paragon one year ago. His lap of 15.383 seconds in LearnLab Qualifying set the tone for the night, and slotted him on the outside of row three for the 30-lap feature.


 

For the second straight night, Zach Wigal started from the pole position and led the opening lap. Unfortunately for him, just like in the IMW opener at Circle City the night before, it was the only lap he led. On the second lap, Wigal slipped sideways off turn four, allowing Gunnar Setser to shoot past to the lead. Wigal, meanwhile, fell back to fourth as Setser, Boxell and Sarff all drove by.


 

The evening’s lone red flag was displayed on the fourth lap when Kyle Jones (14th) flipped upside down in turn four. After being pushed back to the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area for repairs, Jones restarted at the tail and completed the race a lap down in the 18th position.


 

Once the race resumed, a duel formed at the front of the field between Setser and Boxell. After his lap six slider attempt was thwarted by Setser in turns three and four, Boxell gathered it up and went topside around Setser off turn two to become the new race leader on the seventh go around.


 

Cue the Jaws music. Sarff followed suit on the ninth lap, going toe-to-toe with Setser in turns three and four before emerging with the second position on lap nine. Twice, Sarff executed a turn one slide job on Boxell on laps 13 and 14, but each time, Boxell countered back underneath to retake the spot midway down the back straight.


 

But on the 14th lap, Sarff smelled blood in the water and successfully diamonded turns three and four to snare the top spot from Boxell, and took complete command of the race from there on, just one lap before the halfway mark.


 

“I kind of found that line there early,” Sarff admitted. “I don't know if I did it on purpose or about spun out. However, I found it, and it worked the whole race. I’m just thankful for God showing me that line. I just felt like it was our night and it just feels really, really good.”


 

Sarff wasn’t quite out of the woods yet during the second half of the race as lapped traffic occupied the high, low and middle lanes at times. But all the while, Sarff remained on attack mode to push his lead to nearly two seconds in the latter stages.


 

“I definitely was getting a little nervous there,” Sarff admitted. “I felt like I kept getting slowed down and couldn’t quite run the line I wanted to run. There were cars all over the place where the good line was. So, I just had to try and bite my tongue there and not do anything stupid, but at the same time, everyone's closing in on you. It was super stressful, and I'm just so relieved right now.”


 

Nothing spells stress relief like a victory, and Sarff delivered, crossing under the checkered flag 2.274 seconds ahead runner-up Jakeb Boxell with Cannon McIntosh third, Kale Drake fourth and Jacob Denney fifth.


 

Sarff also led the most laps (17 of 30) en route to victory, earning himself K & N Filters Clean Air Award honors.


 

Furthermore, not only was the win the first in USAC National Midget competition for Sarff, it was also the first for car owner Paul May, the veteran sprint car racer from Terre Haute, Indiana.


 

“It’s special,” Sarff exclaimed. “There's all the fans that are here and just being in the state of Indiana. All these tracks are pretty difficult and they're not all that similar, I feel, to most of the tracks I run full-time at with POWRi. I'm kind of at a loss for words and just super grateful. Thank you to Paul May and Toyota and everyone on Paul's car who helps make it happen.”


 

It was another stellar performance for Jacob Denney at Paragon. Last year, he won the feature going away. But, this time around, he had to start his race from the 10th row. He made the most of it, advancing 14 positions from his 19th starting spot to finish fifth and earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 

Gavin Miller set a new Paragon Speedway eight-lap USAC National Midget track record during his victory in the first heat race of the night. His time of 2:07.379 broke the former record of 2:10.840, held by Jason McDougal since 2021.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: RACE: June 10, 2026 – Paragon Speedway – Paragon, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Karter Sarff, 71m, May-15.383; 2. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-15.448; 3. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-15.465; 4. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.483; 5. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-15.487; 6. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-15.502; 7. Zach Wigal, 1, O'Dell-15.592; 8. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.644; 9. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-15.675; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-15.687; 11. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-15.716; 12. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.732; 13. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-15.741; 14. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-15.756; 15. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-15.843; 16. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.848; 17. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-15.905; 18. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.907; 19. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.944; 20. Drew Sherman, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-15.949; 21. Matt Sherrell, 2D, Harris-15.966; 22. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-16.191; 23. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-16.378; 24. Chris Serle-Thrussell, 75AU, Griffiths-16.759; 25. Mike Unger, 67u, Frederiksen/Unger-16.934; 26. Sammy Males, 4AU, Males-17.806; 27. Mack Leopard, 40L, McDermand-NT (time of 16.109 disallowed due to missing scales).


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Gavin Miller (1), 2. Kyle Jones (2), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 4. Zach Wigal (4), 5. Karter Sarff (6), 6. Logan Seavey (7), 7. Jacob Denney (5), 8. Bradley Cox (8), 9. Mike Unger (9). 2:07.379 (New Track Record)


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Kale Drake (5), 3. Hayden Reinbold (1), 4. Trevor Cline (3), 5. Brecken Reese (6), 6. Drew Sherman (7), 7. Colton Robinson (4), 8. Adam Taylor (8), 9. Sammy Males (9). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (3), 2. Gunnar Setser (5), 3. Ethan Mitchell (2), 4. Jakeb Boxell (6), 5. Matt Sherrell (7), 6. Mack Leopard (9), 7. Drake Edwards (4), 8. Brandon Carr (1), 9. Chris Serle-Thrussell (8). NT


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (1), 2. Drake Edwards (3), 3. Bradley Cox (5), 4. Colton Robinson (2), 5. Brandon Carr (4), 6. Adam Taylor (6), 7. Sammy Males (8), 8. Mike Unger (7). 2:12.791


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Karter Sarff (6), 2. Jakeb Boxell (4), 3. Cannon McIntosh (7), 4. Kale Drake (3), 5. Jacob Denney (19), 6. Gunnar Setser (2), 7. Justin Grant (8), 8. Brecken Reese (5), 9. Gavin Miller (9), 10. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 11. Zach Wigal (1), 12. Matt Sherrell (17), 13. Logan Seavey (15), 14. Trevor Cline (11), 15. Bradley Cox (21), 16. Colton Robinson (22), 17. Ethan Mitchell (13), 18. Kyle Jones (12), 19. Hayden Reinbold (14), 20. Brandon Carr (23), 21. Drake Edwards (20), 22. Mack Leopard (18), 23. Drew Sherman (16), 24. Adam Taylor (24). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Zach Wigal, Laps 2-6 Gunnar Setser, Laps 7-13 Jakeb Boxell, Laps 14-30 Karter Sarff.


 

**Kyle Jones flipped on lap 4 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jakeb Boxell-277, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.-269, 3-Jacob Denney-263, 4-Justin Grant-251, 5-Kale Drake-243, 6-Zach Wigal-242, 7-Gunnar Setser-220, 8-Gavin Miller-214, 9-Brecken Reese-211, 10-Hayden Reinbold-204.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Jakeb Boxell-139, 2-Karter Sarff-135, 3-Cannon McIntosh-128, 4-Kale Drake-128, 5-Brecken Reese-122, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-120, 7-Logan Seavey-115, 8-Jacob Denney-113, 9-Zach Wigal-111, 10-Gunnar Setser-111.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-57, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-55, 4-Briggs Danner-47, 5-Robert Ballou-44, 6-Justin Grant-43, 7-Logan Calderwood-39, 8-Chase Stockon-38, 9-Brady Bacon-37, 10-Kyle Cummins-34.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-17, 2-Cannon McIntosh-14, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-13, 4-Colton Robinson-10, 5-Matt Sherrell-10, 6-Karter Sarff-9, 7-Hayden Reinbold-9, 8-Bradley Cox-9, 9-Jakeb Boxell-8, 10-Gunnar Setser-8.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 11, 2026 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Indiana – 5/16-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Mack Leopard (15.583)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Karter Sarff (15.383)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Gavin Miller


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Jacob Denney


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Karter Sarff (17 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jacob Denney (19th to 5th)

 

REINBOLD REIGNS AT CIRCLE CITY USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK OPENER

 

 

 

Indy Racing Images

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Indianapolis, Indiana (June 9, 2026)………On a night when the race was on to defeat Mother Nature, Hayden Reinbold beat both the field and the weather during Tuesday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis.


 

Starting seventh, the Gilbert, Arizona native cruised the bottom of the 1/4-mile dirt oval, taking the lead from Brecken Reese on lap 19 of 30 to capture his first career USAC Indiana Midget Week victory.


 

The win was Reinbold’s second career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory in his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME Electrical – JUGO Super Foods/Spike/Stanton SR-11x. Last fall, he grabbed his first USAC victory at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway.


 

Furthermore, Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports has now won a feature event in all three USAC national divisions in 2026. Reinbold has won once each with the Silver Crown series and the National Midgets. Meanwhile, Mitchel Moles has punched tallied four USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car main events this season, including two-straight last weekend.


 

Under threatening skies, the program was in hurry-up mode all night long. As it turned out, Reinbold was in his own personal hurry-up mode. But first, he had to wade his way through the pack, which saw front row combatants Zach Wigal and Reese duke it out in the early stages.


 

Wigal paced lap one from the pole while outside front row starter Reese used the high line to hustle around the outside of Wigal for the lead on the second go around at the exit of turn four. Wigal kept after him and slid in front of Reese in the fourth turn on lap eight. But Reese denied his request as he dove back under Wigal to retain the lead.


 

Halfway in, Reese began to work lapped traffic, while opening up his lead to a commanding 1.644 second margin as he sought his first career USAC feature victory.


 

However, on lap 17, Justin Grant (3rd) put all four wheels atop the turn three cushion as he attempted a diamond maneuver with a downward trajectory to the bottom of turn four. As he came off the cushion, though, his car slipped sideways. Jacob Denney (4th) plowed into the left front of Grant’s car, resulting in Denney flipping over on his side.


 

Grant’s machine took the brunt of the damage and exited to the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area before returning to the grid. Denney’s ride was tipped back on its wheels, but had to restart at the tail. Denney, who came in as the USAC National Midget point leader, finished 11th while Grant crossed the line in 15th.


 

With Grant and Denney now out of the picture, it was Reese, Wigal and Reinbold running one-two-three. While Reese and Wigal sort of drifted through the middle in turns one and two, Reinbold stayed glued to the bottom. Reinbold breezed by Wigal at the exit of turn two on the 17th lap resumption. Two laps later, Reinbold stuck to his guns on the low line to pick off Reese for the race lead.


 

“I started running the bottom-middle and everyone was sliding themselves through one and two. That’s when I could get a run off (turn) two on them,” Reinbold recalled. “The car was super, super good.”


 

After the lapped cars of Adam Taylor and Bradley Cox tangled and stopped on lap 21, the ensuing restart saw Logan Seavey follow Reinbold’s lead as he too went to the low side to pass Reese for second. But as Seavey fought a tooth and nail battle with Reese, Reinbold had lengthened his lead to nearly two seconds over the next handful of laps.


 

“It started getting super slick and I was kind of getting nervous because the bottom was really good,” Reinbold explained. “Then, the whole track started to slow down. I didn’t know if I had to move up or move to the middle. I even started hitting the (infield) tires towards the end there.”


 

Reinbold was in total control from that point forward, building his advantage to 2.836 seconds as he crossed under Tom Hansing’s dual checkered flags with Seavey second, a surging Kevin Thomas Jr. in third, Wigal in fourth and Reese rounding out the top-five.


 

After the checkered, Boxell and Cannon McIntosh had a bit of a post-race tangle in turn two as both came to a stop adjacent from each other. But their results were already set in stone with Boxell slotted sixth and McIntosh eighth.


 

Just a little over five minutes after the checkered flag waved, the skies opened up and deluged the Circle City Raceway property. But the race was complete, just in the nick of time.


 

Kevin Thomas Jr. vaulted into the USAC National Midget point lead with a 14th to third run that landed him a podium finish, plus Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors by advancing 11 positions.


 

Brecken Reese led a race-high 17 laps. Although he came up just shy of his first career USAC victory, his fifth place finish still proved to be his best career USAC Indiana Midget Week result to date. By leading the most laps, he was also the K & N Filters Clean Air Award winner.


 

Karter Sarff recorded his fourth career USAC National Midget LearnLab Fast Qualifying time with a lap of 12.620 seconds. Incredibly, he’s been the fastest qualifier in each of the past three Indiana Midget Week events dating back to last season.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: RACE: June 9, 2026 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Karter Sarff, 71m, May-12.620; 2. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-12.636; 3. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-12.662; 4. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.689; 5. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-12.712; 6. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-12.741; 7. Zach Wigal, 1, O'Dell-12.761; 8. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-12.792; 9. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-12.793; 10. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-12.821; 11. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.830; 12. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.855; 13. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.864; 14. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.878; 15. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-12.904; 16. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.969; 17. Rylan Gray, 81G, Gray-13.033; 18. Matt Sherrell, 2D, Harris-13.037; 19. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.050; 20. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.097; 21. Mack Leopard, 40L, McDermand-13.115; 22. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-13.119; 23. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-13.132; 24. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-13.133; 25. Drew Sherman, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-13.356; 26. Chris Hartman, 35s, Hodge-13.736; 27. Robert Carson, 99K, Carson-13.880; 28. Mike Unger, 67u, Frederiksen/Unger-13.891.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mack Leopard (1), 2. Cannon McIntosh (3), 3. Karter Sarff (6), 4. Rylan Gray (2), 5. Kale Drake (5), 6. Gunnar Setser (4), 7. Drew Sherman (7). 2:09.979


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (4), 2. Matt Sherrell (2), 3. Colton Robinson (3), 4. Brecken Reese (5), 5. Adam Taylor (1), 6. Chris Hartman (7), 7. Drake Edwards (6). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (4), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Brandon Carr (2), 4. Kyle Jones (3), 5. Zach Wigal (5), 6. Bradley Cox (1), 7. Robert Carson (7). NT


 

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jakeb Boxell (1), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Ethan Mitchell (2), 4. Logan Seavey (6), 5. Gavin Miller (3), 6. Trevor Cline (5), 7. Mike Unger (7). 2:13.835


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Drake Edwards (1), 2. Gunnar Setser (3), 3. Trevor Cline (2), 4. Bradley Cox (4), 5. Drew Sherman (6), 6. Chris Hartman (5), 7. Mike Unger (8), 8. Robert Carson (7). 1:49.747 (New Track Record)


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (7), 2. Logan Seavey (4), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (14), 4. Zach Wigal (1), 5. Brecken Reese (2), 6. Jakeb Boxell (10), 7. Kale Drake (3), 8. Cannon McIntosh (15), 9. Gunnar Setser (13), 10. Karter Sarff (6), 11. Jacob Denney (8), 12. Colton Robinson (16), 13. Gavin Miller (18), 14. Kyle Jones (17), 15. Justin Grant (5), 16. Mack Leopard (9), 17. Matt Sherrell (20), 18. Brandon Carr (21), 19. Trevor Cline (12), 20. Ethan Mitchell (22), 21. Adam Taylor (23), 22. Drake Edwards (11), 23. Bradley Cox (24), 24. Rylan Gray (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Zach Wigal, Laps 2-18 Brecken Reese, Laps 19-30 Hayden Reinbold.


 

**Jacob Denney flipped on lap 17 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-220, 2-Jakeb Boxell-201, 3-Jacob Denney-199, 4-Zach Wigal-196, 5-Justin Grant-191, 6-Hayden Reinbold-173, 7-Kale Drake-173, 8-Gavin Miller-160, 9-Gunnar Setser-157, 10-Brecken Reese-153.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Hayden Reinbold-78, 2-Logan Seavey-75, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-71, 4-Zach Wigal-65, 5-Brecken Reese-64, 6-Jakeb Boxell-63, 7-Kale Drake-58, 8-Cannon McIntosh-56, 9-Karter Sarff-55, 10-Jacob Denney-49.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-57, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-55, 4-Briggs Danner-47, 5-Robert Ballou-44, 6-Justin Grant-42, 7-Logan Calderwood-39, 8-Chase Stockon-38, 9-Brady Bacon-37, 10-Kyle Cummins-34.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.-13, 2-Hayden Reinbold-9, 3-Cannon McIntosh-8, 4-Gunnar Setser-5, 5-Gavin Miller-5, 6-Logan Seavey-4, 7-Jakeb Boxell-4, 8-Colton Robinson-4, 9-Justin Grant-4, 10-Karter Sarff-3.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 10, 2026 – Paragon Speedway – Paragon, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Oval – 22nd Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (12.433)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Karter Sarff (12.620)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Mack Leopard


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Jacob Denney


 

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Jakeb Boxell


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Drake Edwards


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Brecken Reese (17 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kevin Thomas Jr. (14th to 3rd)

 

 

 

SUNDAY DRIVE! LEARY GETS HIS KICKS IN ROUTE 66 CLASSIC AT WWT RACEWAY

Rich Forman

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Madison, Illinois (June 7, 2026)………Twenty-nine years ago in 1997, Chuck Leary christened the then-brand-new World Wide Technology Raceway (then known as Gateway Motorsports Park) by capturing the pole position for the inaugural USAC Silver Crown event at the track.


 

Twenty-nine years later, on a Sunday afternoon, Chuck’s son, C.J. Leary, established his own mark at the 1.25-mile paved oval by not only repeating his dad’s feat of starting on the pole, but then took it another step further by going on to win the main event.


 

C.J., from Greenfield, Indiana, took the lead when Davey Hamilton Jr.’s car overheated on the back straightaway on lap 22. Leary then led the final 45 laps en route to victory lane at the slightly shortened OUTFRONT Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling.


 

Leary’s sixth career USAC Silver Crown win moved him to 21st place on the all-time list alongside Tom Bigelow, Russ Gamester, Kenny Irwin Jr., Jason Leffler, Ken Schrader and Al Unser. Plus, Leary is now the Silver Crown point leader as he remains on the hunt for his first career series title.


 

The race concluded one lap short of the scheduled 66-lap distance due to a combination of oil being laid down on the racing surface on the final lap as well as time constraints, which required the race to go checkered at 4:00pm sharp.


 

Yet, whether it was 65 laps or 66 laps, Leary had the field covered aboard his Team AZ-Petty-Rossi/Curb Agajanian Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – Curb Records/DRC/Stanton Chevy.


 

“I'm out of breath,” Leary exhaled. “We unloaded fast. Thanks to Corey (Fillip) with Advanced Racing Shocks for coming up with a new shock program versus what we had on last year, which was still pretty good. Thanks to the Burkhart family and Joe Devin, who has really taken on the crew chief role, at least on my car. This thing was a rocket ship.”


 

That said, it was outside front row starter Bobby Santos who initially found the front as he got out in front of Leary to lead the opening lap. That didn’t last long as fourth starting Davey Hamilton Jr. surged to the front on the second lap by going three-wide alongside Leary and Santos down the back straightaway.


 

On the fourth lap, the left front spindle broke on the car of 14th running Brent Yarnal, who was making his WWTR debut. His contact with the outside turn three wall resulted in significant damage to the left side of his car as well as the SAFER barrier. Yarnal was conscious and alert and was later transported to a local hospital for further evaluation.


 

Upon the restart, Leary made his way back up to second as he dove under Santos entering turn one on lap 15. Utilizing the draft off of Hamilton’s car, Leary immediately began to close up the 1.2 second gap for the lead. However, that gap instantly went to nil on lap 21 when Hamilton’s engine overheated, sending him into the pits and out of the race for good.


 

With Leary the new leader, he was set on cruise control. However, another factor began to weigh on his and the team’s mind, which altered their strategic thought process a bit.


 

“I knew that the 14 (Hamilton) couldn't keep up that pace on the start and I was trying to conserve,” Leary explained. “Then, on that red, we were talking about maybe a time limit. So, I just got up on the wheel and got after it.”


 

Attrition was an issue for many front runners throughout the midsection of the race. Second place runner Briggs Danner, making his first USAC pavement start, pulled off the pace when smoke began billowing from his ride on the 30th lap. Armstrong was the next victim while running second as he too slowed dramatically before stopping on lap 35.


 

Jackson Macenko, who started 16th in the field after changing a right rear tire following qualifying, made his way into third as he beat Santos in a drag race to the entry of turn one on lap 45.


 

Leary continuously upped the interval over Grant during the last 20 laps, where it sat at 3.532 seconds over Grant. Macenko kept his incredible charge going on the bottom of turn one when he took the second spot from Grant on lap 57. Moments later, Grant began to fall off the pace and then fell out of the race with a magneto failure. Now occupying second, Santos moved up another position in the pecking order from as he breezed by Macenko on the back straight on lap 63.


 

All the while, Leary was setting the pace to the tune of 4.5 seconds. But by then, a slight disturbance came into play. Although, Leary seemed comfortably in control by that point.


 

“We picked up a pretty good vibration there towards the end of the race and tried to milk it home,” Leary revealed. “We were getting a little free, then the 6 blew up going into three and laid oil down on the track.”


 

The 6 was Michael Lewis who was making his first USAC Silver Crown start in 20 years! He started fifth and finished seventh, completing every lap but the last one in his return.


 

With the yellow and checkered flags waving simultaneously, Leary crossed the line as the winner for the third time in his USAC career on pavement.


 

Santos finished second as Macenko earned Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors with a career best series finish in his +13 run to third. Kyle Steffens posted a fourth place result for the second straight series race while Mario Clouser rounded out the top-five.


 

Leary didn't lead early, but he led often. Overall, he led the most lap (45 of 65) to grab accolades as the K & N Filters Clean Air Award. Furthermore, Leary’s pole run of 30.641 seconds (146.862 mph average) was the 10th of his USAC Silver Crown career, placing him eighth all-time alongside Bobby East and Rich Vogler.


 


 

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 7, 2026 – World Wide Technology Raceway – Madison, Illinois – 1.25-Mile Paved Oval – OUTFRONT 100 Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. C.J. Leary, 21, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-30.641; 2. Bobby Santos, 98, DJ-30.667; 3. Briggs Danner, 77, Doran/Swanson-30.958; 4. Davey Hamilton Jr., 14, Hamilton/DB-31.016; 5. Michael Lewis, 6, Klatt-31.070; 6. Mario Clouser, 20, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-31.180; 7. Dakoda Armstrong, 5, C & A-31.272; 8. Kyle O'Gara, 92, Kazmark-31.434; 9. Kyle Steffens, 8, Steffens-31.442; 10. Justin Grant, 91, Hemelgarn-31.450; 11. Jackson Macenko, 124, Hayes-31.628; 12. Colton Bettis, 26, Pierce-32.060; 13. Kaylee Bryson, 11, Abacus/Droplight-32.141; 14. Gregg Cory, 32, Williams/Cory-33.711; 15. Brent Yarnal, 29, Yarnal-33.827; 16. Dave Berkheimer, 31, Berkheimer-35.834; 17. Jake Trainor, 126, Pierce-NT.


 

FEATURE: (65 laps, shortened from 66 laps due to time constraints, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (1), 2. Bobby Santos (2), 3. Jackson Macenko (16), 4. Kyle Steffens (9), 5. Mario Clouser (6), 6. Kaylee Bryson (12), 7. Michael Lewis (5), 8. Justin Grant (10), 9. Dakoda Armstrong (7), 10. Briggs Danner (3), 11. Davey Hamilton Jr. (4), 12. Dave Berkheimer (15), 13. Gregg Cory (13), 14. Kyle O'Gara (8), 15. Brent Yarnal (14), 16. Colton Bettis (11). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Bobby Santos, Laps 2-20 Davey Hamilton Jr., Laps 21-65 C.J. Leary.


 

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-C.J. Leary-140, 2-Justin Grant-122, 3-Kyle Steffens-122, 4-Mario Clouser-116, 5-Briggs Danner-95, 6-Gregg Cory-78, 7-Hayden Reinbold-70, 8-Dave Berkheimer-70, 9-Bobby Santos-67, 10-Jackson Macenko-64.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-51, 3-Briggs Danner-47, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-44, 5-Robert Ballou-44, 6-Justin Grant-42, 7-Logan Calderwood-39, 8-Chase Stockon-38, 9-Brady Bacon-37, 10-Kyle Cummins-34.


 

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 20, 2026 – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal, Pennsylvania – 1/2-Mile Dirt Oval – USAC Eastern Blast


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: C.J. Leary (30.596)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: C.J. Leary (30.641)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: C.J. Leary (45 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jackson Macenko (16th to 3rd)

 

 

ILLINOIS SWEEP! MOLES BACKS IT UP AT RED HILL FOR $10,000 PAYDAY

Rich Forman

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Sumner, Illinois (June 6, 2026)……For Raisin City, California’s Mitchel Moles, Red Hill Raceway officially became a home away from home this weekend.


 

After winning Friday night’s feature at the Sumner, Illinois 3/8-mile dirt oval, Moles backed it up on Saturday night to win the inaugural Illinois Sprint Car Championship, co-sanctioned by both the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series.


 

For the second consecutive night, Moles charged from his sixth place starting position to take over the lead just one lap prior to the halfway point. Moles then paced the final 16 laps, then had to pass and repass Briggs Danner after a restart with two laps remaining to pick up the $10,000 victory.


 

It was just like dιjΰ vu for Moles, but this time, he stuck the celebratory cage stand in victory lane after losing his balance following Friday’s triumph. After all, he’s gotten accustomed to winning of late in his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy.


 

“What a great experience; ten thousand dollar richer,” Moles beamed. “They always say that when you get one, you can just keep them rolling. Well, I got one and then it kind of just never really happened. I got another one, and it still never really happened. But I can feel the momentum rolling now. I’m very excited for what's to come.”


 

Moles’ fourth victory of the 2026 USAC National Sprint Car season has already doubled his previous season high, and his ninth career series win lifted him to 58th place on the all-time list alongside Mario Andretti, Briggs Danner, Pat O’Connor, Hunter Schuerenberg and Robbie Stanley.


 

“Like I told (car owner) Andy (Reinbold), if we could ever start winning these races from sixth, we'd be good,” Moles said. “Really, all we've done is I've just turned it up a little bit myself. We've got cars pretty similar and everything's really the same. I just kind of started pushing. I crashed a lot there for a little while, so I’m kind of inching back towards pushing again.”


 

With it, Moles became the first multi-time USAC National Sprint Car winner at Red Hill in six tries. It’s a track he likens to a supersized version of another venue in his native California where he cut his teeth racing micro sprints, bringing a little slice of life with him to southeastern Illinois.


 

“I grew up racing at a place called Plaza Park and it’s like a miniature version of this,” Moles explained. “We used to run a bunch up above the cushion like that all the time. It's great to finally see something from that. Nothing's really transferred from California for me out here. I feel like this track just really suits my driving style with the way you have to get above the cushion and turn down and run a bunch of throttle in qualifying.”


 

Initially, Cale Coons got the jump from the outside of the front row and led the opening two laps. But on lap three, disaster struck for the leading Rookie of the Year contender as he biked on the entry into turn one, slammed the outside wall and helicoptered around a few times before coming to a rest on all fours, ending his race and his bid for a first career USAC national victory. As a consolation prize, Coons was the weekend’s Parallax Group Passing Master titlist, advancing a total of 13 positions throughout the two nights of racing.


 

Jake Swanson took over as the new leader, but soon thereafter, Moles was already surging. Moles took fifth from Justin Grant midway down the back straightaway on the ninth lap. By lap 13, Moles had his patented Red Hill high-low line working to perfection, and made up significant ground in turn two to rein in Kyle Cummins and Swanson for the lead.


 

On lap 15, Moles first rocketed by Cummins on the bottom of turn one, then dove low under Swanson in turn three a half lap later to reach the front of the pack. It was a type of line he basically had all to himself.


 

“It was just kind of the same thing as last night,” Moles acknowledged. “The turn down lane was good for me and none of those guys were using it. Then, I kind of showed it to Kyle (Cummins) and he was just too low on entry. He wasn't getting up above it like I was.”


 

Moles grew his lead to three seconds with five laps remaining while Danner went to second a lap later as he throttled around the outside of Swanson at the exit of turn four.


 

But for the second night in a row, Chase Stockon (5th) slowed with a shredded right rear tire with two laps to go. This time, it occurred on the back straight amid a bevy of traffic. Seventh running Jadon Rogers, a runner-up finisher on Friday, had no place to go and plowed into Stockon’s ride, sending Rogers spinning to a stop and Stockon to the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area.


 

That set up another duel featuring Moles at the front of the line for a two-lap shootout to decide the win. Danner took his shot with a slider in turn three on the white flag lap, which Moles countered by slicing back under Danner off the exit of turn four to retain the lead.


 

Moles answered yet again on the final lap when Danner drove it in deep on the bottom of turn one, then slid up in front of Moles to nab the lead ever so briefly. Midway through turns one and two, however, Moles turned and pointed his car to the bottom at the exit of turn two to rip away the lead just like that.


 

“You don't want to go do something you haven't been doing the whole race, especially down in turn one,” Moles said. “It's so slick on entry and Andy was telling me under yellow that I had a decent lead. But I did go to the top. It was hard to get off two. If he slid me there, I'd have a better shot. But it was definitely harder to get off two than it was off four. I knew if he slid me over there, I could turn down.”


 

For the final time in turn three, Moles got ahead of the curve, using the same line to bolt from the top to the bottom off turn four to secure the victory to the tune of a 0.530 second margin.


 

Danner took second with Kevin Thomas Jr. advancing seven positions from his 10th starting spot to finish third and earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. Swanson led 12 laps and grabbed fourth while Hayden Reinbold was fifth, up seven spots from his 12th starting position.


 

“That was the lane I've been running all night. Especially on the last corner, that's why I went up there,” Moles stated. “I buried it in there and I said, ‘if Briggs is here, he can have it and take it all.’ Hats off to them. I think he started right behind me. He did a really good job, and those guys are clicking too. I’m so excited to see what's to come. We’re two of the younger guys. So, I’m excited for what's to come for the sport.”


 

For the second straight night, Moles captured the K & N Filters Clean Air Award after leading the most laps (16). To open the night, Moles recorded his 33rd career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time, moving him into a tie with Chase Stockon for 12th place all-time after a quick lap of 14.615 in LearnLab Qualifying.


 

For it all, Moles gave major props to the crew who sets up the No. 19AZ.


 

“Andy just makes the right calls,” Moles pinpointed. “Right before qualifying tonight, he walked over and said, ‘hey, I need to do this. What do you think?’ And I'm like, ‘do it.’ And it was light years better. Hats off to my guys. They work so freaking hard and they've dealt with a lot of adversity with me, especially Andy. He's been here through the whole thing and it's going to make me emotional, but I’ll try not to do that.”


 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 6, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois –Illinois Sprint Car Championship – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.615; 2. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.696; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.698; 4. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.714; 5. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.771; 6. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.797; 7. C.J. Leary, 24x, Maddox-14.945; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.981; 9. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.992; 10. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.071; 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-15.134; 12. Wesley Smith, 44, WSR-15.142; 13. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-15.286; 14. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-15.303; 15. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-15.322; 16. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-15.452; 17. J.J. Hughes, 76J, Hughes-15.600; 18. Kent Schmidt, 5K, Schmidt-15.763; 19. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-15.782; 20. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-15.823; 21. Michael Clark, 8, Clark-NT; 22. Steve Thomas, 20, Thomas-NT.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Charles Davis Jr. (2), 2. Jadon Rogers (1), 3. Logan Seavey (3), 4. Mitchel Moles (6), 5. C.J. Leary (4), 6. Justin Grant (5), 7. Aric Gentry (7). 2:07.282


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (4), 2. Cale Coons (5), 3. J.J. Hughes (1), 4. Chase Stockon (6), 5. Hayden Reinbold (3), 6. Troy Carey (7), 7. David Gasper (2). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (6), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Jake Swanson (5), 4. Wesley Smith (3), 5. Robert Ballou (2), 6. Kent Schmidt (1). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Briggs Danner (7), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 4. Jake Swanson (1), 5. Hayden Reinbold (12), 6. Justin Grant (3), 7. Robert Ballou (14), 8. Kyle Cummins (4), 9. C.J. Leary (9), 10. Logan Seavey (11), 11. Chase Stockon (5), 12. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 13. Jadon Rogers (15), 14. J.J. Hughes (16), 15. Aric Gentry (19), 16. Wesley Smith (13), 17. Troy Carey (18), 18. Kent Schmidt (17), 19. Steve Thomas (20), 20. Cale Coons (2), 21. Michael Clark (21). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Cale Coons, Laps 3-14 Jake Swanson, Laps 15-30 Mitchel Moles.


 

**David Gasper flipped during the second heat.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1306, 2-Justin Grant-1218, 3-Mitchel Moles-1199, 4-Briggs Danner-1142, 5-Logan Seavey-1087, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1075, 7-Jake Swanson-1072, 8-Chase Stockon-1038, 9-C.J. Leary-1000, 10-Robert Ballou-939.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-51, 3-Briggs Danner-47, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-44, 5-Robert Ballou-44, 6-Justin Grant-40, 7-Logan Calderwood-39, 8-Chase Stockon-38, 9-Brady Bacon-37, 10-Kyle Cummins-34.


 

FINAL ILLINOIS SPRINT CAR CHAMPIONSHIP PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-13, 2-Mitchel Moles-12, 3-Hayden Reinbold-10, 4-Aric Gentry-10, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-9, 6-Briggs Danner-8, 7-Kyle Cummins-8, 8-Robert Ballou-8, 9-Troy Carey-8, 10-Steve Thomas-8.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 6, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois –Illinois Sprint Car Championship – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Cale Coons (14.741)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (14.615)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Charles Davis


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kevin Thomas Jr. (10th to 3rd)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Mitchel Moles (16 laps led)


 

Illinois Sprint Car Championship Parallax Group Passing Master Champion: Cale Coons (13)

 

 

 

BRUNO IS UNSTOPPABLE, WINS 3RD STRAIGHT WITH USAC EAST COAST AT SELINSGROVE

Steve Koletar

 

By: Kurt Bettler


 

Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (June 5, 2026)………Coming into 2026 with a handful of victories already under his belt, Christian Bruno has elevated his game to another level.


 

On Friday night at Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Speedway, he took it up another notch with his third consecutive USAC East Coast Sprint Cars Presented by Baer Den Farms feature victory.


 

With three consecutive wins, the Deptford, New Jersey standout, driving for Gene Franckowiak, continues to cash big checks and build even bigger expectations as the calendar turns towards Eastern Storm.


 

The front row for the feature belonged to Rookie Joey Crilly and Ed Aikin following the redraw, while Bruno and Steven Drevicki earned heat race victories earlier in the evening.


 

When the green flag waved, it was Aikin showing exactly why experience matters. The veteran immediately took command, hustling around the Snyder County half-mile and holding off the charging pack in the opening laps.


 

But the battle at the front quickly intensified as Drevicki and Bruno reeled in the No. 7 machine. Racing side-by-side with the leader, Bruno found speed where few could, ripping around the outside groove to seize the lead on lap seven.


 

Starting eighth, Bruno looked poised to drive away from the field, but Kenny Miller III had no intention of making it easy. The “Thriller” attacked the cushion with reckless abandon, carrying the front wheels high and chasing the 3BC through every corner as the crowd roared its approval.


 

For a time, it appeared Miller might have something for the leader, but traffic ultimately played into Bruno’s hands. Navigating through slower cars with precision, Bruno found clean air and gradually stretched his advantage.


 

Behind the leaders, Kyle Spence quietly worked his way into contention while Drevicki remained within striking distance of the battle for the top spot. Aikin continued his impressive run near the front, and rookie points leader Kata stayed firmly in the mix as the race unfolded.


 

As the laps clicked away, Spence worked his way past Aikin for fourth while Kata climbed into sixth. Rookie Brendan Hires made a late-race move around Ronald Helmick, while Jason Cherry maintained a solid run inside the top ten throughout the feature.


 

At this point, the hottest driver in the division is undeniable. Three straight victories, relentless speed, and the confidence to charge from eighth to first have made Christian Bruno the man everyone is chasing as the summer racing season begins to heat up. The rest of the field may be closing in, but right now the road to victory lane runs straight through Bruno and the 3BC team.


 


 

USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE RESULTS: June 5, 2026 – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

E. SCHNEIDER & SONS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Steven Drevicki (#19 Drevicki), 2. Ronald Helmick (#22R Helmick), 3. Ed Aikin (#7 Aikin-Butler), 4. Joey Crilly (#51 Kelly), 5. Jason Cherry (#67 Cherry), 6. Steve Downs (#12 Downs), 7. Brett Rose (#45R Rose), 8. Shane Braxton (#35 Braxton). NT


 

BDB GRAPHICS SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Christian Bruno (3BC Franckowiak), 2. Kyle Spence (#42 Fraker), 3. Kenny Miller III (#23m Miller), 4. Joe Kata (#10 Kata), 5. Brendan Hires (#2 Danner), 6. Olivia Thayer (#39T Thayer), 7. Dale Schweikart (#78 Schweikart), 8. Greg Shepsis (#75 Shepsis). NT


 

MALLEY POOL WATER FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Christian Bruno (8), 2. Kenny Miller III (7), 3. Steven Drevicki (5), 4. Kyle Spence (6), 5. Ed Aikin (2), 6. Joe Kata (4), 7. Brendan Hires (10), 8. Ronald Helmick (3), 9. Jason Cherry (9), 10. Olivia Thayer (12), 11. Steve Downs (11), 12. Brett Rose (13), 13. Dale Schweikart (14), 14. Shane Braxton (15), 15. Joey Crilly (1), 16. Greg Shepsis (16). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Ed Aikin, Laps 7-25 Christian Bruno.


 

NEXT USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE: June 27, 2026 – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

RAD Hot Lap Fast Time: Christian Bruno


 

Bitner Automotive Hot Lap Fast Time: Steven Drevicki


 

Hoosier Tire Poker Chip: Jason Cherry


 

C & C Landscape Hard Charger: Christian Bruno (8th to 1st)


 

JPA Hard Luck Award: Joey Crilly


 

J & W Home Improvement Best Crate or 305: Greg Shepsis

 

 

DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS! MOLES RISES TO VICTORY AT RED HILL

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By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Sumner, Illinois (June 5, 2026)……In sickness and in health, Mitchel Moles has had quite the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season thus far in 2026.


 

During Friday night’s Illinois Sprint Car Championship weekend opener at Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Illinois, Moles set a new career high in USAC National Sprint Car wins for a season with his third triumph of the year after fending off an attack from Jadon Rogers down the stretch to the checkered.


 

For Moles, this one had a bit of a different feeling as well as a different landing than usual. The Raisin City, California native reported he had been a bit under the weather this past week. Then, as he climbed from the car to celebrate the triumph with a cage stand in victory lane, he promptly lost his footing and fell to the ground.


 

Moles didn't quite stick the landing, but he sure stuck his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy in victory lane.

“While I was racing, I probably didn’t look like I was sick. But when I did that cage stand there, it definitely looked like my equilibrium was off a little bit,” Moles admitted. “I've been sick all week and I haven't seen these guys since Knoxville last week, really. I'm still not feeling 100 percent. They pretty much did all the work tonight. I didn't do anything other than just drive the thing.”


 

The eighth career USAC National Sprint Car win for Moles moved him into a share for 63rd place on the all-time series win list alongside Mike Bliss, Chet Fillip, Johnny Rutherford, Joe Saldana and Jake Swanson.


 

Moles, who owns Red Hill’s USAC National Sprint Car one-lap track record, lined up sixth in the 25-lap feature in an event that was co-sanctioned by both USAC and the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series. Robert Ballou, just as he did in USAC’s early April race at Red Hill, established the early lead after starting on the pole position.


 

By lap seven, Ballou’s lead had ballooned to 1.5 seconds when Briggs Danner (5th) got sideways in turn two. Rogers had no place to go and wound up tapping Danner’s rear bumper, which sent Danner spinning to a stop and brought out the first caution. Danner restarted at the tail of the 23-car field, and managed to drive all the way back to finish ninth.


 

Following the restart, Moles turned it up. Slotting into the fourth spot, Moles made his way to third when he dove under Logan Seavey in turn three on lap seven, then grabbed the second position on lap nine as he whistled underneath Leary entering turn one.


 

Moles quickly erased Ballou’s lead, and on lap 12, made his move for the lead as he split between Ballou to his outside and the lapped car of Collin Jackson to his inside entering turn one. Yet, at the same moment, the yellow flag was displayed for the slowing car of Kevin Thomas Jr. (13th), negating the move, and placing Ballou back in front of Moles for the restart.


 

Wasting no time flat, Moles moved to the inside of Ballou as he got into turn one on the lap 13 restart. All the while, Moles was using a trick line to get around the 3/8-mile dirt oval, as he sort of diamonded the corner by going high on entry, then slicing down to the bottom to get a big run down the straightaways, which worked ever so perfectly and just in the nick of time.


 

“It went away fast,” Moles said of the line. “I knew that pretty much when I cleared Robert, it was damn near done. Then, I had to revert back to the top, which was just like moving snow. It was just blowing as fast as it could to get to the wall and I got into the wall there a couple times. I was just trying not to crash thing. Nobody wants to crash while leading.”


 

Rogers rose to second on lap 16 as he narrowly slid by Ballou in turn two. Now, the mission was on to track down Moles and his 1.7 second advantage out front. Lapped traffic assisted Rogers in that endeavor, much to the chagrin of Moles. Rogers took advantage and was right on Moles’ tail as the front two encountered Troy Carey and Michael Clark.


 

Once cleared of both lappers, Rogers had Moles in his crosshairs with the white flag just about to be displayed on lap 24, and was in the process of sliding Moles for the lead in turn two when the yellow flag was thrown for seventh running Chase Stockon who stopped in turn four with a flat right rear tire.


 

Rogers, whose last and only USAC National Sprint Car win to date came four years earlier in 2022, stuck right with Moles on the first circuit of the two-lap shootout. Rogers made slight contact with Moles back bumper in turn two, then chased Moles down the back straightaway and the pair went side-by-side entering turn three. Both drivers slid up the track in turn four, but Moles never gave an inch and used the high side momentum to secure the lead exiting turn four.


 

On the final go around, Rogers was never close enough to mount one final bid for the win as Moles passed underneath the checkered flag to win by about two car lengths, 0.255 seconds ahead of Rogers at the line. Ballou third with USAC point leader Kyle Cummins fourth and Cale Coons fifth.


 

“He was getting through one and two a lot better, then he tag bumped me on the start and I knew, okay, he's running up here, at least,” Moles said of Rogers on the final restart. “He was just better than me up there (in turns one and two), and I felt like I was better down there (in turns three and four) than him. So, I just changed it up, licked the stamp and just tried to finish it off for these guys.”


 

Moles led the most laps and he also led the last lap. He did it all tonight at Red Hill, taking the lead just before the halfway point of the feature, then paced the final 13 to score the win as well as the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

Coons has been impressive all year as the driver who has passed the most cars in USAC national competition (59). On this night, he gained 10 more on a 15th to fifth place run to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 

Justin Grant recorded his 43rd career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time with his lap of 14.545 seconds in LearnLab Qualifying. That moved Grant past Kevin Thomas Jr. and into sole possession of sixth place all-time.




 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 5, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois –Illinois Sprint Car Championship – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series


 

FIRST LEARNLAB QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.654; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.691; 3. C.J. Leary, 24x, Maddox-14.730; 4. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-14.945; 5. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-15.306; 6. Kent Schmidt, 5K, Schmidt-15.345; 7. Michael Clark, 8, Clark-16.043; 8. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-18.081.


 

SECOND LEARNLAB QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-15.046; 2. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-15.065; 3. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-15.068; 4. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.182; 5. J.J. Hughes, 76J, Hughes-15.188; 6. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-15.200; 7. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-15.676; 8. Glen Saville, 75, Grasmere-15.894.


 

THIRD LEARNLAB QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.545; 2. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.854; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.900; 4. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.991; 5. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-15.010; 6. Steve Thomas, 20, Thomas-17.117; 7. Collin Jackson, 64c, Jackson-17.399.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jadon Rogers (1), 2. C.J. Leary (2), 3. Kyle Cummins (3), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 5. Kent Schmidt (6), 6. Troy Carey (5), 7. Michael Clark (7), 8. Jake Swanson (8). 2:06.88


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (1), 2. Robert Ballou (3), 3. Charles Davis Jr. (2), 4. Hayden Reinbold (6), 5. David Gasper (4), 6. J.J. Hughes (5), 7. Aric Gentry (7), 8. Glen Saville (8). 2:10.48


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (1), 2. Mitchel Moles (2), 3. Chase Stockon (3), 4. Justin Grant (4), 5. Cale Coons (5), 6. Steve Thomas (6), 7. Collin Jackson (7). 2:10.42


 

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Jadon Rogers (5), 3. Robert Ballou (1), 4. Kyle Cummins (7), 5. Cale Coons (15), 6. Justin Grant (12), 7. C.J. Leary (2), 8. Logan Seavey (4), 9. Briggs Danner (3), 10. Hayden Reinbold (11), 11. J.J. Hughes (16), 12. Aric Gentry (18), 13. Michael Clark (17), 14. Troy Carey (20), 15. Steve Thomas (22), 16. Collin Jackson (23), 17. Chase Stockon (9), 18. David Gasper (14), 19. Kent Schmidt (13), 20. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 21. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 22. Glen Saville (21), 23. Jake Swanson (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Robert Ballou, Laps 13-25 Mitchel Moles.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1245, 2-Justin Grant-1157, 3-Mitchel Moles-1118, 4-Briggs Danner-1067, 5-Logan Seavey-1038, 6-Jake Swanson-1004, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1004, 8-Chase Stockon-987, 9-C.J. Leary-950, 10-Robert Ballou-883.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-59, 2-Hayden Reinbold-44, 3-Briggs Danner-42, 4-Justin Grant-40, 5-Logan Calderwood-39, 6-Chase Stockon-38, 7-Brady Bacon-37, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 9-Robert Ballou-37, 10-Kyle Cummins-34.


 

ILLINOIS SPRINT CAR CHAMPIONSHIP PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-10, 2-Steve Thomas-7, 3-Collin Jackson-7, 4-Justin Grant-6, 5-Aric Gentry-6, 6-Troy Carey-6, 7-Mitchel Moles-5, 8-J.J. Hughes-5, 9-Michael Clark-4, 10-Jadon Rogers-3.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 6, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois –Illinois Sprint Car Championship – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (14.545)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (14.545)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jadon Rogers


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Briggs Danner


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Cale Coons (15th to 5th)


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Mitchel Moles (13 laps led)

 

 

IT’S A FULL NELSON AT MOLER

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Williamsburg, Ohio (May 29, 2026)………Tyler Nelson led all 25 laps to nail down a dominating USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget feature victory on Friday night at Ohio’s Moler Raceway Park.


 

Starting on the outside of the front row, Nelson (Olathe, Kansas) ran the high line to perfection, taking the checkered flag by a whopping margin of 6.054 seconds.


 

The victory was Nelson’s first of the season and the second of his career with the series. The defending series champion was also the night’s fastest qualifier with a lap of 13.432 seconds.


 

Behind Nelson, a tremendous battle was waged for second through sixth, all of whom were separated by less than two seconds at the line with Ian Creager taking the runner-up spot.


 

Trisdon Brown initially crossed the finish line in third place, but his car came up light at the scales after suffering a fuel leak which went through more than 10 gallons of fuel during the feature. Thus, Brown was repositioned to the tail of the field and a 22nd place result.


 

Brown’s misfortune moved Matt Lux up to third place, while Gunnar Lucius and Dylan Trost rounded out the top five.


 

Bryce Massingill received the Wilwood Disc Brakes Tough Brake award for drawing the number nine feature redraw pill after winning his heat race. Massingill climbed up to the top three until a blown radiator hose ended his night.


 

Chris Hartman received both the Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger award for advancing from 19th to 10th as well as the LynK Chassis bonus for finishing 10th. Taten Long also went +9, moving from 21st to 12th.


 

Ian Creager received the Rosewood Machine & Tool Company Precision Move of the Race for his drive from seventh to second in the feature after picking up a heat race win. Dylan Trost won the Velocita by Borsos Racing Glove/Shoe gift certificate for finishing fifth.


 

Creager won the Jeff Hill Trailer Sales first heat race. Lux captured victory in Stiefel’s Home & Auto heat race two. Massingill was the recipient of the Hoosier Auto Racing Fans third heat race with a last lap pass over Landen Francis to win by 0.016 gap at the stripe.


 


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 29, 2026 – Moler Raceway Park – Williamsburg, Ohio‍


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Kole Kirkman, 5m, Magic-13.607; 2. Chase Hodge, 7c, Hodge-14.258; 3. Buddy Hollmeyer, 11, Taylor-14.261; 4. Ian Creager, 36, Creager-14.277; 5. Cole Morgan, 7m, Morgan-14.329; 6. Cody Dye, 4T, Dye-14.699; 7. Chris Hartman, 35s, Hartman-15.267; 8. Tyler Watkins, 7T, Watkins-15.367.


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Tyler Nelson, 91N, Nelson-13.432; 2. Matt Lux, 5, Wells-13.855; 3. Trisdon Brown, 2, Briggs-14.301; 4. Ashley Schloss, 11s, Schloss-15.648; 5. Stratton Briggs, 71, Briggs-16.943; 6. Dylan Trost, 21, Trost-NT; 7. Taylor Nibert, 11N, Nibert-NT.


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Bryce Massingill, 35, Massingill-13.630; 2. Gunnar Lucius, 22, Lucius-13.874; 3. Brayden Schwartz, 55s, Schwartz-14.218; 4. Parker Perry, 27G, Gresham-14.229; 5. Landen Francis, 85L, Francis-14.985; 6. Troy Borsos, 21T, Borsos-15.068; 7. Taten Long, 99L, Long-NT.


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Ian Creager, 2. Chase Hodge, 3. Buddy Hollmeyer, 4. Cole Morgan, 5. Tyler Watkins, 6. Cody Dye, 7. Chris Hartman, 8. Kole Kirkman. NT


 

STIEFEL’S HOME & AUTO SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Matt Lux, 2. Tyler Nelson, 3. Trisdon Brown, 4. Dylan Trost, 5. Taylor Nibert, 6. Ashley Schloss, 7. Stratton Briggs. NT


 

HOOSIER AUTO RACING FANS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Bryce Massingill, 2. Landen Francis, 3. Gunnar Lucius, 4. Parker Perry, 5. Brayden Schwartz, 6. Troy Borsos, 7. Taten Long. NT


 

JEFF HILL TRAILER SALES FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Nelson (2), 2. Ian Creager (7), 3. Matt Lux (3), 4. Gunnar Lucius (6), 5. Dylan Trost (11), 6. Landen Francis (5), 7. Buddy Hollmeyer (8), 8. Cole Morgan (10), 9. Brayden Schwartz (15), 10. Chris Hartman (19), 11. Tyler Watkins (13), 12. Taten Long (21), 13. Ashley Schloss (17), 14. Bryce Massingill (9), 15. Chase Hodge (4), 16. Troy Borsos (18), 17. Cody Dye (16), 18. Taylor Nibert (14), 19. Parker Perry (12), 20. Kole Kirkman (22), 21. Stratton Briggs (20), 22. Trisdon Brown (1) (Originally finished 3rd, but was repositioned to 22nd place due to his car being underweight at post-race tech inspection). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Tyler Nelson.


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET POINTS: 1-Matt Lux-154, 2-Tyler Nelson-140, 3-Gunnar Lucius-140, 4-Bryce Massingill-117, 5-Ian Creager-112, 6-Dylan Trost-109, 7-Kole Kirkman-106, 8-Landen Francis-92, 9-Buddy Hollmeyer-91, 10-Parker Perry-85.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE: June 6, 2026 – Atomic Speedway – Chillicothe, Ohio‍


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Fast Qualifier: Tyler Nelson


 

Jeff Hill Trailer Sales First Heat Winner: Ian Creager


 

Stiefel’s Home & Auto Second Heat Winner: Matt Lux


 

Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Third Heat Winner: Bryce Massingill


 

Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger: Chris Hartman (19th to 10th)


 

Velocita 5th Place Finisher: Dylan Trost


 

LynK Chassis 10th Place Finisher: Chris Hartman


 

Rosewood Machine & Tool Precision Move of the Race: Ian Creager


 

Wilwood Tough Brake: Bryce Massingill

 

 

BRUNO GOES BACK-TO-BACK WITH USAC EAST COAST AT SELINSGROVE

 

Steve Koletar

 

By: Kurt Bettler


 

Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania (May 30, 2026)………Fresh off a victory last weekend, Christian Bruno kept the momentum rolling on Saturday night at Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Speedway.


 

The Deptford, New Jersey native charged from the eighth starting position to score another impressive USAC East Coast Sprint Car triumph after winning at Big Diamond Speedway seven nights earlier.


 

Ronald Helmick and Ed Aikin led the field to green, but it didn't take long for Steven Drevicki to make his move. Charging through the pack in the opening laps, Drevicki grabbed the lead on lap three and immediately set a blistering pace around the Snyder County oval.


 

While Drevicki controlled the early stages, Bruno was steadily working forward. Using the high side and every inch of the racetrack, Bruno methodically picked off competitors as he chased down the leaders.


 

At the halfway mark, Drevicki remained firmly in command despite increasing pressure from lapped traffic. A daring four-wide maneuver through slower cars allowed him to maintain the top spot, but Bruno continued to close.


 

As rubber began to lay down on the racing surface, Bruno found speed where few others could, flirting with the outside wall and carrying tremendous momentum through the corners.


 

With the laps winding down, Bruno's relentless charge brought him to the rear bumper of Drevicki. The battle intensified in front of an energized Selinsgrove crowd before Bruno completed the pass and drove away to secure his second consecutive victory.


 

Drevicki crossed the line second after a strong performance, while Kyle Spence completed the podium in third. Pole sitter Ronald Helmick finished fourth, with Kenny Miller III rounding out the top five.


 


 

USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2026 – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

E. SCHNEIDER & SONS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Christian Bruno (#3BC Franckowiak) (4), 2. Ed Aikin (#7 Aikin-Butler) (7), 3. Ronald Helmick (#22R Helmick) (8), 4. Richy Carnathan (#64 Carnathan) (5), 5. Shane Braxton (#35 Braxton) (1), 6. Jason Cherry (#67c Cherry) (2), 7. Larry McVay (#51 Kelly) (6), 8. Ryan Roulette (#67 Buckwalter) (9), 9. Anthony Foscone Jr. (#14 Foscone) (3). NT


 

BDB GRAPHICS SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kenny Miller III (#23m Miller) (7), 2. Steven Drevicki (#19 Drevicki) (5), 3. Kyle Spence (#42 Fraker) (4), 4. Olivia Thayer (#39T Thayer) (2), 5. Joe Kata (#10 Kata) (3), 6. Greg Shepsis (#75 Shepsis) (8), 7. Brett Rose (#45R Rose) (1). NT


 

MALLEY POOL WATER FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Christian Bruno (8), 2. Steven Drevicki (7), 3. Kyle Spence (4), 4. Ronald Helmick (1), 5. Kenny Miller III (5), 6. Olivia Thayer (3), 7. Ed Aikin (2), 8. Joe Kata (10), 9. Jason Cherry (11), 10. Shane Braxton (9), 11. Brett Rose (14), 12. Ryan Roulette (15), 13. Richy Carnathan (6), 14. Larry McVay (13), 15. Anthony Foscone Jr. (16), 16. Greg Shepsis (12). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Ed Aikin, Laps 2-20 Steven Drevicki, Laps 21-25 Christian Bruno.


 

USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS POINTS: 1-Christian Bruno-292, 2-Steven Drevicki-289, 3-Kenny Miller III-265 4-Kyle Spence-259, 5-Joe Kata-214, 6-Olivia Thayer-212, 7-Ronald Helmick-196, 8-Ed Aikin-185, 9-Bruce Buckwalter Jr.-155, 10-Shane Braxton-131.


 

NEXT USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE: June 5, 2026 – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 


 

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

RAD Hot Lap Fast Time: Christian Bruno


 

Bitner Automotive Hot Lap Fast Time: Christian Bruno


 

Hoosier Tire Pill Draw: Greg Shepsis


 

C & C Landscape Hard Charger: Christian Bruno (8th to 1st)


 

JPA Hard Luck Award: Thomas Radivoy


 

J & W Home Improvement Best Crate: Greg Shepsis

 

 

CORN BELT KING! BACON BOLTS TO KNOXVILLE GLORY ONCE MORE

 

 

rich forman

Knoxville, Iowa (May 30, 2026)……Death, taxes and Brady Bacon winning USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship races at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway.


 

In this world, few things can be said to be certain. Yet, Bacon’s prowess of Knoxville’s 1/2-mile dirt oval continued on Saturday night as he took over the lead from Jake Swanson with 11 laps remaining, then fended off a feisty challenge from Briggs Danner in the waning laps to win the Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash.


 

Broken Arrow, Oklahoma’s Bacon pocketed a cool $15,000 for his efforts aboard the Chris Dyson Racing/Concord American Flagpole – Racer Magazine/Triple X/Rider Chevy.


 

In 15 career USAC National Sprint Car feature starts at Knoxville, Bacon has now won a total of six times and finished inside the top-three on 13 overall occasions. Furthermore, this latest triumph was his fifth under the Corn Belt Clash banner.


 

On top of all that, Bacon’s Knoxville win was the 63rd of his USAC National Sprint Car career, moving him past Dave Darland and into second place on the all-time list. Bacon now trails only Grant now who remains at 67 career series victories.


 

Bacon had his work cut out in this particular one as he started seventh on the grid for the 30-lap main event. But pretty much instantaneously, he was moving forward. On the opening lap, he used the low line to elevate three positions up the pecking order to fourth. By the second lap, he’d surged by Friday night feature winner Kyle Cummins on the back straightaway to take over third.


 

”I know the wing guys maybe don't like it that good on the bottom, but we kind of have to have something like that to be able to maneuver around and run the middle a little bit,” Bacon said of the track conditions. “There were a lot more options tonight and it just gave me more opportunities to pass cars. Starting on the inside on the initial start was pretty helpful and we got to fourth right away. I honestly thought Jake was pretty much gone, but fortunately, the lapped traffic kind of held him up enough to where we were able to catch him and capitalize on that, and get by him, then hold on during that restart.”


 

Meanwhile, Swanson was running up front in a backup ride after severely damaging the car he ran 24 hours earlier, which he flipped hard after a right front spindle suddenly broke, sending him flipping in turn three. This ride was much smoother and faster for Swanson who led second place runner Justin Grant for the initial six circuits.


 

On lap seven, Bacon got a drive under Grant on the back straightaway to slot into the second spot. However, by that point, Swanson was long gone, and Bacon was forced to overcome a nearly six second deficit. Without the benefit of a yellow flag for the majority of the race, Bacon was going to be tasked with erasing the substantial deficit under green flag conditions.


 

Kevin Thomas Jr. got up into the mix on lap 11 as he drove under Grant on the front straight to grab third. Meanwhile, Swanson began to work lapped traffic at the halfway point of the race, which began to crimp his style as his lead dwindled from just a tick under six seconds to a little over one second in the span of about three laps, and was continuously shrinking.


 

By the 19th lap, Bacon had caught Swanson as the top-two drivers employed two different tactics with Swanson running the top and Bacon occupying the bottom as the pair ran side-by-side through the long, sweeping corners. As the two entered turn one for the 20th time, Swanson altered course and dove to the bottom ahead of Bacon.


 

However, Swanson couldn’t stick the bottom and drifted up into no man’s land in the middle of the racetrack. As Swanson fought to attain any sort of traction through the slick, Bacon had all four wheels in the moisture along the bottom, which he utilized to rush by Swanson and into the lead with 11 laps remaining.


 

Over the ensuing next six laps, Bacon spiked his lead to 1.7 seconds over Swanson, but a caution with four laps to go changed all that in the blink of an eye when Thomas Jr. and the lapped car of Clinton Bruns got together in turn four, resulting in Bruns spinning to a stop to necessitate the feature’s only stoppage.


 

With a clear track ahead of him, but a full hornet’s nest behind him, Bacon had a couple of options on the lap 27 restart. To go high or to go low, that was the question.


 

“I knew I probably needed to be on the bottom because you get such a good run down the back straightaway if you do it right,” Bacon explained. “I was being a little conservative on the first couple of laps after the restart, and I knew I just needed to pick up the pace and not miss it. Sometimes, a little faster you go, the better your car works, but you run the risk of missing it. If I would have missed it, he would have blown right by me. Thankfully, that didn't happen.”


 

The he was Danner who was among a swarm of drivers on the attack for the win with three laps remaining. As the triumvirate of Bacon, Swanson and Thomas Jr. scratched along the bottom, Danner took to the high side, taking advantage of a two-for-one deal when he blitzed around the outside of Thomas Jr., then Swanson in turns one and two to take over second.


 

It was there, however, that Bacon saw the nose of Danner’s racecar make an appearance on the right side of his peripheral vision. In counterpoint, Bacon immediately eschewed the bottom in favor of the top entering turn three, and throughout the rest of the way.


 

“I saw him poking his nose on the outside of me there,” Bacon recalled. “So, I just knew I had to pick up the pace over here and then get back to the top and run my line where I needed to be. I was just scared to be too tight up there on that restart with my air being low. But on the bottom, I wasn't any good down there. Luckily, I was able to not lose the lead there, then I picked up the pace on the bottom in one and two before getting back up to the top in three and four.”


 

Danner closed to within a single car length of Bacon who once again hit the bottom of turns one and two. But the turn two cushion proved to be a bit tricky for Danner. On the final lap, Danner snagged the turn two ledge, which snapped him sideways and deterred his momentum. On the final trip into turn three, Bacon once more swapped lanes to the top, deterring Danner from making one last ditch effort to steal the win.


 

Bacon emerged across the finish line as a winner, 0.675 seconds ahead of Danner who finished as the runner-up with Thomas Jr. third, Swanson fourth and C.J. Leary fifth.


 

On top of it all, Bacon passed a total of 18 cars throughout the two nights of USAC racing at Knoxville to earn the Corn Belt Clash Parallax Group Passing Master title.


 

Swanson, meanwhile, led a race-high 19 of 30 laps en route to a fourth place feature finish and the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.


 

R.J. Johnson finished his Corn Belt Clash weekend on a high note. He advanced +9 in the feature, moving from 20th to 11th. With that, he picked up the Rod End Supply Hard Charger Award.


 

Leary took one step closer to 60 as he had his brand new DRC Chassis humming along in LearnLab Qualifying. His lap of 19.017 seconds was the 59th fast time of his USAC National Sprint Car career. That's just six shy of Tom Bigelow's all-time series record of 65.


 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2026 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Racing Association


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-19.017; 2. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-19.027; 3. Gavin Miller, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-19.062; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-19.079; 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-19.113; 6. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-19.144; 7. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-19.189; 8. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-19.301; 9. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-19.321; 10. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-19.330; 11. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-19.356; 12. Ryan Bernal, 17, Dunkel-19.433; 13. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-19.501; 14. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-19.535; 15. Riley Kreisel, 91, Kreisel-19.572; 16. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-19.686; 17. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-19.753; 18. Steven Snyder Jr., 87, CB/Spire-19.807; 19. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-19.835; 20. Justin Zimmerman, 1, Herrell-19.851; 21. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-19.857; 22. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-20.244; 23. Glen Saville, 75, Grasmere-20.475; 24. Jake Kouba, 6K, Kouba-20.769; 25. Clinton Bruns, 7, Bruns-20.890; 26. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-21.089; 27. Ben Woods, 11B, B & R-21.110; 28. Lance Silvers, 7x, Silvers-23.641.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (3), 2. Chase Stockon (2), 3. Cale Coons (4), 4. Kyle Cummins (5), 5. Kobe Simpson (1), 6. C.J. Leary (6), 7. Charles Davis Jr. (7), 8. Troy Carey (8), 9. Clinton Bruns (9), 10. Lance Silvers (10). 2:45.220


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (3), 2. Robert Ballou (1), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Logan Seavey (4), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 6. Hayden Reinbold (2), 7. Glen Saville (7). 2:44.831


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Steven Snyder Jr. (1), 2. Ryan Bernal (3), 3. Jake Swanson (5), 4. Gavin Miller (6), 5. Mitchel Moles (4), 6. Riley Kreisel (2), 7. R.J. Johnson (7), 8. Ben Woods (9), 9. Jake Kouba (8). 2:46.151


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (7), 2. Briggs Danner (8), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (2), 4. Jake Swanson (1), 5. C.J. Leary (6), 6. Gavin Miller (4), 7. Justin Grant (5), 8. Kyle Cummins (3), 9. Logan Seavey (11), 10. Cale Coons (10), 11. R.J. Johnson (20), 12. Mitchel Moles (12), 13. Steven Snyder Jr. (9), 14. Ryan Bernal (13), 15. Chase Stockon (14), 16. Robert Ballou (18), 17. Kobe Simpson (17), 18. Hayden Reinbold (15), 19. Charles Davis Jr. (19), 20. Jake Kouba (24), 21. Troy Carey (22), 22. Ben Woods (23), 23. Clinton Bruns (25), 24. Riley Kreisel (16), 25. Glen Saville (21), 26. Lance Silvers (26). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 Jake Swanson, Laps 20-30 Brady Bacon.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1195, 2-Justin Grant-1107, 3-Mitchel Moles-1068, 4-Briggs Danner-1017, 5-Logan Seavey-988, 6-Jake Swanson-954, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-954, 8-Chase Stockon-937, 9-C.J. Leary-900, 10-Robert Ballou-833.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-49, 2-Hayden Reinbold-43, 3-Briggs Danner-42, 4-Logan Calderwood-39, 5-Chase Stockon-38, 6-Brady Bacon-37, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 8-Robert Ballou-37, 9-Justin Grant-34, 10-Kyle Cummins-31.


 

FINAL CORN BELT CLASH PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-18, 2-Briggs Danner-13, 3-R.J. Johnson-12, 4-Ben Woods-10, 5-Chase Stockon-9, 6-Kyle Cummins-7, 7-Kobe Simpson-7, 8-Robert Ballou-6, 9-Troy Carey-6, 10-Justin Grant-5.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: June 5-6, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois –Illinois Sprint Car Championship – 1/3-Mile Dirt Track


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kyle Cummins (19.089)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: C.J. Leary (19.017)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Brady Bacon


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Steven Snyder Jr.


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Jake Swanson (19 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: R.J. Johnson (20th to 11th)


 

Corn Belt Clash Parallax Group Passing Master Champion: Brady Bacon (18)

 

 

 

 

HALF-MILE MASTER! CUMMINS CHECKS OFF KNOXVILLE VICTORY AT CORN BELT CLASH OPENER

Rich Forman

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Knoxville, Iowa (May 29, 2026)……The term “Half-Mile Master” in connection with Kyle Cummins would’ve been downright preposterous just a short time ago.


 

Oh, how the turns have been tabled, and vice versa!


 

The Princeton, Indiana racer can now lay claim to capturing USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature victories at three of the most iconic 1/2-mile dirt tracks in the world.


 

In April, he conquered Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track for the first time. Two weeks ago, he mastered Ohio’s Eldora Speedway for the first time. On Friday night, he was triumphant at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway on the opening night of the Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash. Oh yeah. That was the first time too!


 

Perhaps the wildest part of it all is the fact that he’s added the entire trio of triumphs to his resume within the past seven weeks. At all three of them, he had never won a USAC feature at prior to the 2026 campaign.


 

At Knoxville, on his third try at a restart while running in the second position, Cummins made it a charm as he slid C.J. Leary in turn one on the lap 18 resumption, then led the remaining nine laps to earn his fourth series win of the year and the 34th of his career, picking up a $10,000 reward in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy.


 

Before this season, Cummins owned just one career USAC win on a 1/2-mile, that being at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park just one year ago. His initial Knoxville win on Friday night came in an event sponsored by his team owner, Jerry Petty, who provided a motivational directive to prior to the race.


 

“He told me we had to win tonight, and if we’re going to win tonight, we have to win tomorrow,” Cummins relayed from Petty. “We’ve never won here with him. We are always terrible here and it just seems like I could never get ahold of the track. Tonight, we brought something a little different. I tried something in the heat race and it was really bad. So, we went back to what we were running again.”


 

While Cummins started fifth on the grid in the 25-lap main event, it was third starting Gavin Miller, in just his second career series start, who surged past both front row occupants – Leary and Mitchel Moles – to gain the lead and the upper hand early in the going.


 

Cummins, meanwhile, instantly entered the mix, advancing two spots up to third behind Miller and Leary.


 

“The first couple laps, I felt good,” Cummins related. “I think C.J. was definitely faster than I was, but as the run went on, I felt like, if I fell back far enough to see the cushion, I could start running him back down. As my tires got heat in them, I think I became a little bit better, but then we always seemed to have a yellow.”


 

On the fourth lap, Miller got on the bike in a major way on the turn three cushion, rising his left side wheels to the sky before landing back on all fours. The ordeal allowed Leary to instantly close up the gap for the lead. One lap later, Leary went topside around Miller in turn four to pick off the top spot.


 

Miller changed course after the cushion excursion by rolling around the bottom. Cummins took advantage of the situation and used the high line to escape around Miller for the runner-up position on lap seven.


 

Nine laps into it, sixth running Jake Swanson endured a frightening incident when his right front spindle broke as he entered the high line in turn three. The sudden jettisoning of his right front wheel from the car promptly sent his car digging into the dirt and flipping into orbit. Swanson was able to climb out and walk away.


 

On the ensuing restart, Cummins took his first shot at Leary for the lead, to no avail, as Leary gapped Cummins to the tune of 1.5 seconds. That lead was quickly erased when 22nd running Dakota Earls flipped upside down in turn four on the 13th lap. He too was able to climb out and walk away.


 

For the next restart, Cummins was able to get side-by-side with Leary through turns one and two, but Leary successfully thwarted the attack for the time being and once again matriculated out to a full second advantage. That said, yet another stoppage halted the action on lap 16 when 16th running Riley Kreisel slowed with a flat left rear tire that forced him into the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area.


 

That set the stage for Cummins to make his winning move as he built a head of steam on the front straightaway, then successfully cleared Leary to assume the number one position on lap 17.


 

“On the restart before, I was all messed up,” Cummins admitted. “The next one, I went through the middle and was like ‘naw, not good.’ But the middle was better in three and four, so I decided to not even think about sliding him. I just wanted to get a start, get around one and two, and hopefully, break some momentum and get him in three and four because I thought I could stick a lot better there. When we took off, I was backpedaling down the straightaway. I’m like, ‘come on man. Go!’ I thought this is the only time I can get it. It’s extremely tough to pass somebody, and once I got out there and could see the cushion, I thought, ‘we got to go.’ It about bit me a couple times there.”


 

A lap later, Grant followed suit to second while Bacon slotted into third as Leary fell back to fourth in the pecking order. Meanwhile, Cummins’ lead had blossomed to nearly two seconds with the laps winding down.


 

Cummins finished the job to win by a 1.777 second margin over Grant, Bacon and Leary with Briggs Danner rounding out the top-five.


 

Bacon always seems to find his way to the front at Knoxville, and this night was no exception. In 14 career USAC National Sprint Car starts at the track dating back to 2010, he's finished on the podium an incredible 12 times. In this one, he advanced 11th to thirrd to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 

Leary led the most laps (12) throughout the feature, and wound up finishing fourth, equaling his best result of the USAC National Sprint Car season thus far. The performance made him the K & N Filters Clean Air Award honoree.


 

Danner was the night’s LearnLab Fast Qualifier, pacing the field with a time of 18.562 seconds. It was the sixth career USAC National Sprint Car Fast Qualifying time for Danner, tying him for 81st place all-time with Daron Clayton, Derek Davidson, Eric Gordon, Jac Haudenschild, James McElreath, Ken Schrader, Mike Bliss, Richard Griffin and Tray House.


 

 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 29, 2026 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Racing Association


 

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-18.562; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-18.622; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-18.627; 4. Gavin Miller, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-18.716; 5. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-18.757; 6. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-18.760; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-18.764; 8. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-18.765; 9. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-18.781; 10. Ryan Bernal, 17, Dunkel-18.870; 11. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-18.919; 12. Riley Kreisel, 91, Kreisel-18.946; 13. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-18.951; 14. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-19.018; 15. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-19.021; 16. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-19.191; 17. Steven Snyder Jr., 87, CB/Spire-19.229; 18. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-19.237; 19. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-19.262; 20. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-19.267; 21. Justin Zimmerman, 1, Herrell-19.499; 22. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-19.522; 23. Glen Saville, 75, Grasmere-19.694; 24. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-19.724; 25. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-19.910; 26. Jake Kouba, 6K, Kouba-20.402; 27. Ben Woods, 11B, B & R-20.664; 28. Clinton Bruns, 7, Bruns-21.483; 29. Lance Silvers, 7x, Silvers-23.066; 30. Jonathan Hughes, 67, Hughes-23.759.


 

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jake Swanson (2), 2. Briggs Danner (6), 3. Ryan Bernal (3), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 5. Charles Davis Jr. (1), 6. Gavin Miller (5), 7. Kobe Simpson (7), 8. Trey Osborne (9), 9. Troy Carey (8), 10. Clinton Bruns (10). 2:38.908


 

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (3), 2. Brady Bacon (4), 3. Steven Snyder Jr. (1), 4. Kyle Cummins (6), 5. Mitchel Moles (5), 6. R.J. Johnson (7), 7. Chase Stockon (2), 8. Glen Saville (8), 9. Jake Kouba (9), 10. Lance Silvers (10). NT


 

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (4), 2. Robert Ballou (2), 3. C.J. Leary (5), 4. Hayden Reinbold (1), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Justin Zimmerman (7), 7. Riley Kreisel (3), 8. Dakota Earls (8), 9. Ben Woods (9). NT


 

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (2), 2. Riley Kreisel (1), 3. Kobe Simpson (3), 4. Ben Woods (9), 5. Troy Carey (7), 6. Dakota Earls (5), 7. Jake Kouba (8), 8. Clinton Bruns (10), 9. Lance Silvers (11), 10. Glen Saville (4), 11. Trey Osborne (6). 3:26.672


 

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (5), 2. Justin Grant (4), 3. Brady Bacon (11), 4. C.J. Leary (1), 5. Briggs Danner (6), 6. Cale Coons (7), 7. Gavin Miller (3), 8. Mitchel Moles (2), 9. Robert Ballou (13), 10. Steven Snyder Jr. (15), 11. Chase Stockon (19), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 13. Logan Seavey (8), 14. Kobe Simpson (21), 15. R.J. Johnson (17), 16. Justin Zimmerman (18), 17. Charles Davis Jr. (14), 18. Riley Kreisel (20), 19. Ben Woods (22), 20. Troy Carey (23), 21. Hayden Reinbold (16), 22. Ryan Bernal (12), 23. Dakota Earls (24), 24. Jake Swanson (9). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Gavin Miller, Laps 5-16 C.J. Leary, Laps 17-25 Kyle Cummins.


 

**Jake Swanson flipped on lap 9 of the feature. Dakota Earls flipped on lap 13 of the feature.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1138, 2-Justin Grant-1044, 3-Mitchel Moles-1025, 4-Briggs Danner-942, 5-Logan Seavey-937, 6-Chase Stockon-897, 7-Jake Swanson-886, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-884, 9-C.J. Leary-833, 10-Robert Ballou-795.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-49, 2-Hayden Reinbold-43, 3-Logan Calderwood-39, 4-Chase Stockon-38, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 6-Briggs Danner-36, 7-Robert Ballou-35, 8-Justin Grant-34, 9-Kyle Cummins-31, 10-Brady Bacon-31.


 

CORN BELT CLASH PARALLAX GROUP POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-10, 2-Chase Stockon-9, 3-Ben Woods-8, 4-Kobe Simpson-7, 5-Kyle Cummins-6, 6-Briggs Danner-5, 7-Steven Snyder Jr.-5, 8-Troy Carey-5, 9-Robert Ballou-4, 10-R.J. Johnson-3.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 30, 2026 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Racing Association


 

 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Briggs Danner (18.658)


 

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Briggs Danner (18.562)


 

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jake Swanson


 

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Chase Stockon


 

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: C.J. Leary (12 laps led)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Brady Bacon (11th to 3rd)

  

BC39 Field is Set! 68 Drivers Ready for June 30-July 1 USAC Midget Races at IMS

josh james

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (June 29, 2026)………The field is set with 68 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget drivers and teams pre-entered for the eighth running of the BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors on June 30 and July 1, 2026, at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.


 

A pair of BC39 champions are entered for the event, including Cannon McIntosh (2024-2025) who is aiming for his third consecutive victory in the event. Justin Grant (2023), who came close to capturing his second event victory in 2025, will be chasing after the $20,039 top prize on the IMS 1/5-mile dirt oval.


 

Kale Drake, a 2024 BC39 preliminary feature winner, is entered for the event as are USAC Triple Crown champions Logan Seavey and J.J. Yeley, plus 2024 USAC National Midget champion Daison Pursley and 2025 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion Kyle Cummins.


 

The 2026 USAC Indiana Midget Week champion, Karter Sarff, is entered along with current USAC National Midget point leader Jakeb Boxell, and late model star Ricky Thornton Jr.


 

USAC national feature winners are in abundance throughout the field, including Kaylee Bryson, Kevin Thomas Jr., Mitchel Moles, Briggs Danner, Jake Swanson, Jacob Denney, Zach Daum, Gavin Miller, Hayden Reinbold, Zach Wigal, and Drake Edwards. All have previous BC39 experience except for Swanson.


 

The field also currently contains 21 BC39 Rookies, competing for the award sponsored by Max Papis Innovations: Jake Swanson, Frank Flud, Alex Midkiff, Dodge Carlbert, Logan Julien, Wesley Smith, Jake Robinson, Tyler Watkins, Christian Miller, Wout Hoffmans, Drew Sherman, Adyn Schmidt, Kade Taylor, Tony Helton, Eric Heydenreich, Alex Sewell, Jason Tessier, Cameron Hagin, Hayden Wise and Bradley Fezard.


 

Representing the field are 18 different United States: Indiana (12), Oklahoma (9), California (7), Texas (6), Arizona (5), Ohio (4), Pennsylvania (4), Illinois (3), Colorado (2), Florida (2), Missouri (2), North Carolina (2), Wisconsin (2), Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), Iowa (1), Maryland (1), and Tennessee (1).


 

Furthermore, four different countries are represented in the field: United States (65), The Netherlands (1 – Wout Hoffmans), England (1 – Brandon Carr), and Australia (1 – Jake Robinson).


 

The event on the quarter-mile dirt oval inside turn three at IMS will continue to honor late USAC champion and three-time Indianapolis 500 starter Bryan Clauson.


 

Past championship night winners of the BC39 include Brady Bacon (2018), Zeb Wise (2019), Kyle Larson (2021), Buddy Kofoid (2022), Justin Grant (2023), and Cannon McIntosh (2024 & 2025).


 

The BC39 officially gets underway on Monday, June 29, with team parking from 1-4pm Eastern followed by the Prelude to the BC39 party at 6pm at Prime 47 in downtown Indianapolis.


 

On track action begins at IMS with The Stoops Star Spangled Showdown on Tuesday, June 30, with a full program of events for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. Registration and the pit area open at 10am while the public gates open at 4pm. The drivers meeting / heat race draft is set for 5pm at the BMW Building with engine heat at 6pm and hot laps at 6:30pm followed by opening ceremonies at 7pm, and racing immediately, consisting of heat races, C-Main, Semi-Features, and concluding with a 30-lap feature event. After the feature, fans are invited onto the dirt track to talk with drivers and see the racecars up close.


 

Championship night of the BC39 on Wednesday, July 1, will consist of a full program for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. Registration and the pit area open at 10am while the public gates open at 4pm. A driver autograph session is slated for 4pm and a public drivers meeting will be held in the fan zone at 5pm, while engine heat is set to begin at 6pm with hot laps at 6:30pm. Opening ceremonies commence at 7pm with racing action immediately following featuring qualifying races, C-Mains, Semi-Features, and the 39-lap feature event, paying $20,039-to-win.

 


 

2026 BC39 PRESENTED BY AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS PRE-ENTRIES


 

(68 drivers & teams)


 

Car Number / Driver Name / Entrant Name


 

05 (R) ALEX MIDKIFF/Belleville, IL (Tobias Midkiff)


 

1 ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (Pat O'Dell)


 

1m (R) DODGE CARLBERT/Palmetto, FL (Shea Montgomery)


 

1R RICKY THORNTON JR./Chandler, AZ (Rossi-Petty Motorsports)


 

3G KYLE CUMMINS/Princeton, IN (Glenn Styres Racing)


 

3J J.J. YELEY/Phoenix, AZ (Rossi-Petty Motorsports)


 

3N (R) LOGAN JULIEN/Oconomowoc, WI (Pat O'Dell)


 

3p JUSTIN PECK/Monrovia, IN (Rossi-Petty Motorsports)


 

4 KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (RMS Racing)


 

4AU (R) SHELDON MALES/Elk Grove, CA (Scott Males)


 

5D ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Jeff Taylor)


 

5L MATT LUX/Manilla, IN (Lunsford-Lux Motorsports)


 

5p (R) WESLEY SMITH/Nixa, MO (Rossi-Petty Motorsports)


 

5u (R) JAKE ROBINSON/Perth, WAU (Trifecta Motorsports)


 

7T ADAM TAYLOR/Wheatfield, IN (Adam Taylor Motorsports)


 

7TX KYLE JONES/Kennedale, TX (Tim & Tammy Engler)


 

7u KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Trifecta Motorsports)


 

7w (R) TYLER WATKINS/Marion, IN (Tyler Watkins)


 

8B JEFFREY ABBEY/Rhome, TX (Christian Miller)


 

8D MILES DOHERTY/Delmar, IA (Miles Doherty Racing)


 

8L COOPER MILLER/Graham, TX (Cooper Miller)


 

8XL (R) CHRISTIAN MILLER/Hudson Oaks, TX (Christian Miller)


 

11 KAYLEE BRYSON/Muskogee, OK (Abacus Racing)


 

14 KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL (4 Kings Racing)


 

14J (R) WOUT HOFFMANS/Boxmeer, NB (Jody Rosenboom)


 

14K (R) JAKE SWANSON/Anaheim, CA (4 Kings Racing)


 

19 (R) DREW SHERMAN/Phoenix, AZ (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)


 

19AZ HAYDEN REINBOLD/Gilbert, AZ (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)


 

19H JOEL MYERS JR./Santa Rosa, CA (Hayward Motorsports)


 

19K RILEY KREISEL/Warsaw, MO (Ron Cox)


 

19m ETHAN MITCHELL/Mooresville, NC (Bundy Built Motorsports)


 

19T MITCHEL MOLES/Raisin City, CA (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)


 

19x (R) ADYN SCHMIDT/Haubstadt, IN (Ron Cox)


 

20Q BRECKEN REESE/Canyon, TX (Jeff Reese)


 

20w CODY WEISENSEL/Sun Prairie, WI (Bill Burrington)


 

21K CORD KISTHARDT/Hershey, PA (Cord Kisthardt)


 

T21 (R) KADE TAYLOR/Kilgore, TX (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)


 

22H (R) TONY HELTON/Cloverdale, IN (Gray Motorsports)


 

23 DEVON DOBIE/Wapakoneta, OH (Dennis Dobie)


 

27 AUSTIN WOOD/Germantown, TN (Rick Horn)


 

32 (R) ERIC HEYDENREICH/Bloomsburg, PA (OMR-Rase Motorsports)


 

32A (R) ALEX SEWELL/Broken Arrow, OK (Jason Tessier)


 

32J (R) JASON TESSIER/Broken Arrow, OK (Jason Tessier)


 

33 (R) CAMERON HAGIN/Broken Arrow, OK (Cameron Hagin)


 

35 JOSH HODGE/Brownsburg, IN (Josh Hodge)


 

35s CHRIS HARTMAN/Boulder, CO (Josh Hodge)


 

36 JONATHAN BEASON/Broken Arrow, OK (Jody Rosenboom)


 

40D DRAKE EDWARDS/Peoria, AZ (Chase McDermand Racing)


 

40L MACK LEOPARD/Beavercreek, OH (Chase McDermand Racing)


 

40x BRIGGS DANNER/Allentown, PA (Chase McDermand Racing)


 

43 GUNNAR SETSER/Columbus, IN (Kevin Arnold)


 

45 BRADLEY COX/Black Forest, CO (Cappy Mason)


 

54 JAKEB BOXELL/Zanesville, IN (4 Kings Racing)


 

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)


 

63 CALE COONS/Greencastle, IN (Dooling Autosports-Curb-Agajanian)


 

67 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

67K COLTON ROBINSON/Titusville, FL (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

71K (W) CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

81 (R) FRANK FLUD/Pryor, OK (Jody Rosenboom)


 

81G RYLAN GRAY/Greenfield, IN (Gray Motorsports)


 

86 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries)


 

87 (W) JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (CB Industries)


 

89 STEVEN SNYDER JR./Rising Sun, MD (CB Industries)


 

94 (R) HAYDEN WISE/Huntersville, NC (Ninety-Four Racing)


 

97 GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

98K BRANDON CARR/Sheffield, UK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

99K ROBERT CARSON/Concord, CA (Robert Carson)


 

938 (R) BRADLEY FEZARD/Bonnerdale, AR (Vince Rosa)


 

(W) represents a BC39 Champion


 

(R) represents a BC39 Rookie

 

2026 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Feb 9 - Volusia Speedway Park - Barberville, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 1/2 M


 

Feb 10 - Volusia Speedway Park - Barberville, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 1/2 M


 

Feb 11 - Ocala Speedway - Ocala, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 3/8 M


 

Feb 12 - Ocala Speedway - Ocala, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 3/8 M


 

Feb 13 - Ocala Speedway - Ocala, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 3/8 M


 

Feb 14 - Ocala Speedway - Ocala, Florida - Winter Dirt Games - 3/8 M


 

Apr 3 - Red Hill Raceway - Sumner, Illinois - 3/8 M


 

Apr 4 - Paragon Speedway - Paragon, Indiana - Chuck Amati Classic - 3/8 M


 

Apr 11 - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - Justin Owen Memorial - 3/8 M


 

Apr 12 - Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - Jim Hurtubise Classic - 1/2 M


 

May 1 - Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, Indiana - Larry Rice Classic - 1/4 M


 

May 2 - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana - Spring Showdown - 1/4 M


 

May 15 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, Ohio - #LetsRaceTwo - 1/2 M


 

May 16 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, Ohio - #LetsRaceTwo - 1/2 M


 

May 20 - Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - Tony Hulman Classic - 1/2 M


 

May 21 - Circle City Raceway - Indianapolis, Indiana - Circle City Salute - 1/4 M


 

May 29 - Knoxville Raceway - Knoxville, Iowa - Corn Belt Clash - 1/2 M


 

May 30 - Knoxville Raceway - Knoxville, Iowa - Corn Belt Clash - 1/2 M


 

Jun 5 - Red Hill Raceway - Sumner, Illinois - 3/8 M


 

Jun 6 - Red Hill Raceway - Sumner, Illinois - 3/8 M


 

Jun 16 - Grandview Speedway - Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania - Eastern Storm / Jesse Hockett Classic - 1/3 M


 

Jun 17 - Bridgeport Speedway - Swedesboro, New Jersey - Eastern Storm - 4/10 M


 

Jun 18 - Big Diamond Speedway - Pottsville, Pennsylvania - Eastern Storm - 3/8 M


 

Jun 19 - Williams Grove Speedway - Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania - Eastern Storm - 1/2 M


 

Jun 20 - Port Royal Speedway - Port Royal, Pennsylvania - Eastern Storm - 1/2 M


 

Jun 21 - Action Track USA - Kutztown, Pennsylvania - Eastern Storm - 1/5 M


 

Jun 26 - TBA


 

Jun 27 - Butler Motor Speedway - Quincy, Michigan - 3/8 M


 

Jun 28 - TBA


 

Jul 3 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana - Sprintacular - 5/16 M


 

Jul 4 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana - Sprintacular - 5/16 M


 

Jul 23 - The Dirt Track at IMS - Speedway, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 1/5 M


 

Jul 24 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 5/16 M


 

Jul 25 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 1/4 M


 

Jul 26 - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 3/8 M


 

Jul 27 - Circle City Raceway - Indianapolis, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 1/4 M


 

Jul 29 - Paragon Speedway - Paragon, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 3/8 M


 

Jul 30 - Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week / Don Smith Classic - 1/2 M


 

Jul 31 - Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week / Sheldon Kinser Memorial - 1/4 M


 

Aug 1 - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana - USAC Indiana Sprint Week - 1/4 M


 

Aug 27 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - Sprint Car Smackdown - 1/4 M


 

Aug 28 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - Sprint Car Smackdown - 1/4 M


 

Aug 29 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - Sprint Car Smackdown - 1/4 M


 

Sep 11 - Lernerville Speedway - Sarver, Pennsylvania - Commonwealth Clash - 4/10 M


 

Sep 12 - Lernerville Speedway - Sarver, Pennsylvania - Commonwealth Clash - 4/10 M


 

Sep 18 - Circle City Raceway - Indianapolis, Indiana - 1/4 M


 

Sep 19 - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana - Haubstadt Hustler - 1/4 M


 

Sep 24 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, Ohio - 4-Crown Nationals - 1/2 M


 

Sep 26 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, Ohio - 4-Crown Nationals - 1/2 M


 

Oct 9 - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - Greg Staab Memorial - 3/8 M


 

Oct 10 - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - Fall Nationals - 3/8 M


 

Oct 16 - Dodge City Raceway Park - Dodge City, Kansas - 3/8 M


 

Oct 17 - Route 66 Motor Speedway - Amarillo, Texas - 3/8 M


 

Oct 23 - Central Arizona Raceway - Casa Grande, Arizona - Western World Championships - 3/8 M


 

Oct 24 - Central Arizona Raceway - Casa Grande, Arizona - Western World Championships - 3/8 M

USAC East Coast Sprint Car Schedule 2026


 

Apr 18: (Sat) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey


 

Apr 24: (Fri) – Bedford Speedway – Bedford, Pennsylvania


 

Apr 25: (Sat) – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal, Pennsylvania


 

May 9: (Sat) – TBA


 

May 22: (Fri) – Big Diamond Speedway – Pottsville, Pennsylvania


 

May 23: (Sat) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey


 

May 30: (Sat) – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

Jun 5: (Fri) – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

Jun 27: (Sat) – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

Jul 3: (Fri) – Penn-Can Speedway – Susquehanna, Pennsylvania


 

Jul 8: (Wed) – Action Track USA – Kutztown, Pennsylvania


 

Jul 11: (Sat) – TBA


 

Jul 17: (Fri) – Clinton County Speedway – Mill Hall, Pennsylvania


 

Jul 25: (Sat) – Grandview Speedway - Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania


 

Aug 1: (Sat) – Selinsgrove Speedway – Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania


 

Aug 7: (Fri) – Big Diamond Speedway – Pottsville, Pennsylvania


 

Aug 15: (Sat) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey


 

Aug 16: (Sun) – Action Track USA – Kutztown, Pennsylvania (Rain Date 8/30)


 

Sep 5: (Sat) – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal, Pennsylvania


 

Sep 19: (Sat) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey


 

Oct 30: (Fri) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey (Practice & Non-Winners Race)


 

Oct 31: (Sat) – Bridgeport Motorsports Park – Swedesboro, New Jersey

 

 

2026 USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

May 8-9 - (D) Kansas State Fairgrounds - Hutchinson, Kansas - Salt City 100 - 1/2 M


 

May 22 - (P) Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park - Brownsburg, Indiana - Hoosier Hundred - .686 M


 

Jun 7 - (P) World Wide Technology Raceway - Madison, Illinois - Route 66 Classic - 1.25 M


 

Jun 20 - (D) Port Royal Speedway - Port Royal, Pennsylvania - USAC Eastern Blast - 1/2 M


 

Jul 5 - (D) Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - Sumar Classic - 1/2 M


 

Jul 19 - (P) Winchester Speedway - Winchester, Indiana - Rich Vogler Classic - 1/2 M


 

Aug 8 - (P) Iowa Speedway - Newton, Iowa - TBA - 7/8 M


 

Aug 22 - (D) Illinois State Fairgrounds - Springfield, Illinois - Bettenhausen 100 - 1 M


 

Sep 5 - (D) Du Quoin State Fairgrounds - Du Quoin, Illinois - Ted Horn 100 - 1 M


 

Sep 13 - (P) TBA


 

Sep 25-26 - (D) Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, Ohio - 4-Crown Nationals - 1/2 M


 

Oct 3 - (P) Toledo Speedway - Toledo, Ohio - Rollie Beale Classic - 1/2 M


 

(P) represents a pavement event


 

(D) represents a dirt event

 

 

 

2026 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Apr 24 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, IN - Kokomo Grand Prix - 1/4 M


 

Apr 25 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, IN - Kokomo Grand Prix - 1/4 M


 

Jun 9 - Circle City Raceway - Indianapolis, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 1/4 M


 

Jun 10 - Paragon Speedway - Paragon, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 3/8 M


 

Jun 11 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 5/16 M


 

Jun 12 - Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 1/4 M


 

Jun 13 - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 1/4 M


 

Jun 14 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, IN - USAC Indiana Midget Week - 1/4 M


 

Jun 30 - The Dirt Track at IMS - Speedway, IN - BC39 - 1/5 M


 

Jul 1 - The Dirt Track at IMS - Speedway, IN - BC39 - 1/5 M


 

Jul 7 - TBA


 

Jul 8 - Mitchell County Fairgrounds - Beloit, KS - Chad McDaniel Memorial - 1/4 M


 

Jul 10 - Jefferson County Speedway - Fairbury, NE - Midwest Midget Championship - 1/5 M


 

Jul 11 - Jefferson County Speedway - Fairbury, NE - Midwest Midget Championship - 1/5 M


 

Aug 14 - Coles County Speedway - Mattoon, IL - King of Coles - 1/8 M


 

Aug 15 - Coles County Speedway - Mattoon, IL - King of Coles - 1/8 M


 

Aug 16 - Jacksonville Speedway - Jacksonville, IL - 1/4 M


 

Sep 4 - TBA


 

Sep 6 - Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, WI - Firemen's Nationals - 1/3 M


 

Sep 7 - TBA


 

Sep 24 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH - 4-Crown Nationals - 1/2 M


 

Sep 26 - Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH - 4-Crown Nationals - 1/2 M


 

Nov 13 - Placerville Speedway - Placerville, CA - Hangtown 100 - 1/4 M


 

Nov 14 - Placerville Speedway - Placerville, CA - Hangtown 100 - 1/4 M


 

Nov 18 - Plaza Park Raceway - Visalia, CA - 1/5 M


 

Nov 20 - Merced Speedway - Merced, CA - Chase Johnson Classic - 1/4 M


 

Nov 21 - Merced Speedway - Merced, CA - Chase Johnson Classic - 1/4 M


 

Nov 24 - Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway - Bakersfield, CA - Jason Leffler Memorial - 1/3 M


 

Nov 28 - Ventura Raceway - Ventura, CA - Turkey Night Grand Prix - 1/5 M

 

 

2026 USAC MIDWEST RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR SCHEDULE


 

Apr 11 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri


 

Apr 25 – Springfield Raceway – Springfield, Missouri


 

May 15 – Electric City Speedway – Butler, Missouri


 

May 23 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri


 

May 29 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa


 

May 30 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa


 

Jun 13 – I-35 Speedway – Winston, Missouri


 

Jun 20 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri


 

Jul 11 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri


 

Jul 18 – I-35 Speedway – Winston, Missouri


 

Jul 31 – Electric City Speedway – Butler, Missouri


 

Aug 28 – Lakeside Speedway – Kansas City, Kansas


 

Aug 29 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri


 

Sep 26 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE


 

February 14: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)


 

February 28: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ


 

March 13: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (California Mid-Winter Fair)


 

March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (California Mid-Winter Fair)


 

March 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

April 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

April 17: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ


 

April 18: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ


 

May 2: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, CA


 

May 15: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ


 

May 16: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ


 

May 23: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)


 

June 6: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA


 

June 20: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

July 4: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA (Doug Fort Memorial)


 

July 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

August 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

September 5: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)


 

September 6: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)


 

September 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

September 26: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA


 

October 3: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

October 10: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ


 

October 23: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)


 

October 24: * Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)


 

November 7: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars.


 

This schedule is subject to change.

 

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