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The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500. Today, USAC serves as the sanctioning body for a number of racing series, including the Silver Crown Series, National Sprint Cars, National Midgets, Speed2 Midget Series, .25 Midget Series, Stadium Super Trucks, and Pirelli World Challenge.

 

 

Leary Doubles Up with Team AZ for 2025 USAC Sprint & Silver Crown Seasons

 

C.J. Leary is set to pull double, full-season duty for Team AZ Racing on multiple USAC trails throughout 2025. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 19, 2024)………C.J. Leary is set to pull double, full-season duty for Team AZ Racing on multiple USAC trails throughout 2025.


 

Leary (Greenfield, Ind.), the 2019 USAC National Sprint Car champion, will compete on the 50-race USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship docket with Team AZ in partnership with Curb-Agajanian. Furthermore, Leary will take on the 13-race USAC Silver Crown slate with Team AZ in association with Jerry Petty of Avanti Windows & Doors.


 

“It just makes sense having everything under one roof,” Leary stated. “When (car owner) Mike (Burkhart) originally called me, he just wanted to do the Silver Crown thing, and I was calling him to want to do the sprint car. I think we found a way to make both work, but he was worried about being good at both and not taking away from either program. It’s a lot of work doing both series with one group of guys.  I think it’s really good to get that chemistry once they figure out what I like.”


 

Toward the end of the 2024 campaign, Leary had an opportunity to make his first two USAC CRA Sprint Car starts for Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian Racing during the Western World Championships at Arizona’s Mohave Valley Raceway, finishing fourth and third across the two nights.


 

“Getting our feet wet was super beneficial to get those trial runs out of the way before we roll into Florida where it’s a national points race,” Leary explained. “I don’t feel like we’d have any time to learn each other (in Florida). In Arizona, it was low pressure, and I’ve been friends with the 21AZ guys for four or five years, but we’ve never raced together. There’s a little bit of a learning curve there, and I think it went really smoothly those two nights out there.”


 

The process of it was discovering what works and what doesn’t work between the driver’s seat and the wrenches, all while figuring out how to work together, communicate and become a team.


 

“We learned that I don’t like the same things Daison likes,” Leary revealed. “But we have the same engine builder I’ve been using and the same cars. It should be an easy jell coming together. The big thing is having a full circle and surrounding myself with good people is really important. We’ve got good guys working on the cars and good guys sponsoring the car, so hopefully, it’s going to be a powerhouse team.”


 

Team AZ Racing, meanwhile, has captured six career USAC National Sprint Car wins, four with Jake Swanson between 2021-2023, and two more in 2024 with Daison Pursley at the wheel. Pursley’s late-race heroics also provided Team AZ its first ever Silver Crown victory in June of 2024 at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway.


 

Leary is one of the sport’s premier drivers, amassing 23 career USAC National Sprint Car feature wins and 55 fast qualifying times. With the Silver Crown series, Leary has compiled three career wins and seven pole positions. Now Leary is ready get rolling into it, back to championship form.


 

“When we start racing, I think it’s going to be really good,” Leary foretold. “I’ve driven for some good guys, but I haven’t had a full team where we have a tire guy and a crew chief besides myself and where I don’t drive the truck and trailer. Now I get to focus a little bit more on driving. That’s going to be super helpful to me, where I can take some of the weight off my shoulders and just drive.”


 

The quest for a USAC National Sprint Car championship begins in February 2025 with six consecutive events in Florida during Winter Dirt Games. Both Leary and Team AZ have enjoyed victory in recent years during the Sunshine State tour. Leary won in both 2019 and 2024 at Ocala Speedway while Team AZ scored at Volusia Speedway Park with Jake Swanson in 2023.


 

The 2025 USAC Silver Crown season begins at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track for the 21st running of the Sumar Classic. Leary’s first career USAC national victory of any kind came during the 2016 edition of the Sumar.


 

Leary will be behind the wheel of the Curb Records/Apache Transport OakCraft Elegant Cabinetry No. 21AZ Sprint Car powered by 1 Way Technologies between the frame rails of a DRC Chassis on both dirt, as well as the first ever DRC pavement chassis.


 

The Avanti Windows & Doors, Apache Transport, OakCraft Elegant Cabinetry No. 21 Silver Crown car driven by Leary will feature Stanton Racing Engines power under the hood of their DRC Chassis.

 

Danner Time! Briggs Set to Run the Full USAC Sprint Tour in 2025\

Briggs Danner is set to take on the full USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship schedule for the first time in his career aboard the Hogue Racing Enterprises No. 39 in 2025. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 16, 2024)………Briggs Danner, the burgeoning racer from Pennsylvania, is set to take on the full USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship schedule for the first time in his career aboard the Hogue Racing Enterprises No. 39 in 2025.


 

Danner (Allentown, Pa.) comes into the new season following a dominating run with the USAC Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Car series where he won back-to-back titles in 2022 and 2023 while accumulating a series-record 29 feature victories.


 

However, after dabbling with the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars sporadically since 2021, Danner expanded his national horizons this past season and was superb. He posted his first three career victories with the series in 2024. In June at Grandview, he became the first Pennsylvanian to win a USAC National Sprint Car feature since Frankie Kerr 25 years earlier in 1999 and the first Pennsylvanian to win a series race in his home state since Paul Pitzer at Reading in 1979.


 

Now a threat to win anywhere and everywhere they go on the USAC National Sprint Car tour, the feeling was mutual between Danner and the Hogues that the time was right to chase after a national title.


 

“We have the opportunity to do it, and Tim and Fran (Hogue) are really interested in making it happen,” Danner explained. “Right now is the perfect time. We’ve been showing speed and the whole sprint car program is coming together. I feel like we’re still learning, so we’re only going to get better. We’re going to give it a shot and see what we can make happen.”


 

Danner and Hogue teamed up at the beginning of the 2023 season. Team owner Fran Hogue and his younger brother, Tim Hogue, are veteran racers who’ve fielded a team for many years on the east coast, first competing with USAC during Eastern Storm 2015. Over the past couple of seasons, both Danner and the Hogues have developed into contenders on the national scene. Now they’re prepared to face the next challenge of visiting several new tracks and hitting the road regularly away from the team’s Westampton, New Jersey base.


 

“We’ve definitely learned a lot,” Danner stated. “There were some nights where we’re really good and then there were some nights we weren’t as good, and we learned together while just trying to get each other figured out. Nine times out 10, we’re on the same page now, and that’s usually when we’re good. I’m looking forward to doing even more racing and trying to build on that and get even better. You don’t get better by sitting on the couch.”


 

Not only did Danner win his first three USAC National Sprint Car races in 2024, but he easily could also have won six or seven in all if it hadn’t been for such heartbreaking misfortune in races that he led. Danner went on to cement his status as a winner outside the confines of the Keystone State as well by capturing the Indiana Sprint Week finale in August at Bloomington and the inaugural Greg Staab Memorial at Lawrenceburg in October.


 

In all, despite starting only 29 of the 44 series features, Danner ranked inside the top-10 in laps led (113), top-fives (11) and top-tens (19), earning him USAC’s National Most Improved Driver Award for 2024. While the first victory was difficult to come by, it seemed as if he would begin to rack several up in the win column.  He eventually did, but nothing is handed to you when the competition is so close and so tough, but Danner is up for the challenge.


 

“To get that first one out of the way, and for it to be at Grandview on the first night of Eastern Storm, was awesome,” Danner reflected. “They always say the first one is the hardest one to get. After the race at Kutztown, I think I said it seems like the second one is the hardest to get. (This past year) boosted my confidence a lot. We’ve always showed speed with the sprint car, but I feel like we’re so much more consistent now, and that makes it a lot easier. When you’re fast all the time. It makes a lot easier to pick off races because not everything all goes your way.”


 

Danner began his career in quarter midgets at the age of five, and eventually became a three-time champion in USAC’s .25 Midget series between 2013-14. Over the years, the versatile Briggs has raced in, and won with, a wide variety of racecars, including 600cc Micro Sprints, SpeedSTRs, Modifieds, TQ Midgets (on pavement), ARDC Midgets, 360 Sprint Cars and 410 Sprint Cars.


 

The 23-year-old Danner was actually born on a day that no living person will forget if they lived through that moment – September 11, 2001. The third generation racer is the son of Roy Danner Jr., who competed frequently in quarter midgets, karts and legend cars. Briggs grandfather, Roy Danner Sr., raced stock cars throughout Pennsylvania at venues such as Nazareth and Dorney Park.


 

Danner also revealed that he’ll return to the seat of the DMW Motorsports No. 10 for all the dirt USAC Silver Crown events in 2025. He also plans to compete in a handful of USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship races as well.

Seavey & Pursley Share Spotlight at 2024 USAC Night of Championships

USAC national driving champions Logan Seavey (left), Daison Pursley (middle) and Kody Swanson (right) shared the spotlight along with other 2024 USAC champions and special award recipients at Friday night’s 69th USAC Night of Champions celebration at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis. (Dave Olson Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Indianapolis, Indiana (December 13, 2024).........USAC national driving champions Kody Swanson, Logan Seavey and Daison Pursley shared the spotlight along with other 2024 USAC champions and special award recipients at Friday night’s 69th USAC Night of Champions celebration at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis, Ind.

 


 

USAC NATIONAL SERIES AWARDS


 


 

SILVER CROWN 1ST PLACE DRIVER: Kody Swanson


 

SILVER CROWN 1ST PLACE ENTRANT: Doran Binks Racing


 

Kody Swanson is accustomed to winning USAC Silver Crown championships. But 2024 may very well have been both his most challenging and most rewarding. An offseason accident resulted in a broken left foot and left his season in doubt. But the Kingsburg, Calif. native defied the odds to make his way back into the cockpit in time for the season opener.


 

Despite a slight limp in his gait, Swanson showed all the signs of the same ol’ Kody as he won five times in all at Toledo, Winchester, the Hoosier Hundred at IRP, the series debut at Jennerstown and he capped off the year with a victory and a championship in one fell swoop at IRP. Swanson also set a new single season series mark with seven pole position en route to becoming an eight-time USAC Silver Crown titlist, the most championships earned by any one driver in a USAC national series ever while also providing Doran Binks Racing the entrant title.


 

He’s the GOAT of all USAC Silver Crown drivers, and once again in 2024, he proved that even in the most challenging of circumstances, he can still overcome.

 


 

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 1ST PLACE DRIVER: Logan Seavey


 

RICHARD HOFFMAN AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 1ST PLACE ENTRANT: Abacus Racing


 

In a span of two seasons, Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing went from being among the newest driver/team combinations in the sport to become USAC Triple Crown champions.


 

After Seavey and Abacus teamed up to capture the 2023 USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship titles, they added a sprint car to the arsenal and showed no signs of letting up in a historic USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car season from start to finish in 2024.  Seavey led the series standings for an all-time record eight months and 13 days between February and October, amassing 14 victories along the way to tie Tom Bigelow’s single season win record of 14 in 1977.


 

In February at Volusia, Seavey became the first driver since Bud Kaeding at Terre Haute in 2001 to win two USAC National Sprint Car features in one night, and in July, he became the first driver since Rick Hood in 1985 to record four consecutive USAC National Sprint Car victories while also grabbing the Indiana Sprint Week crown and Lawrenceburg’s Fall Nationals.


 

Now the missing piece of the career Triple Crown belongs to Abacus Racing and Logan Seavey, the 2024 USAC National Sprint Car champs.


 


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 1ST PLACE DRIVER: Daison Pursley


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 1ST PLACE ENTRANT: CB Industries


 

A team of Disney writers couldn’t have produced a better script than the reality of Daison Pursley’s storybook USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2024. After suffering a major spinal cord injury in a 2021 racing accident, the 20-year-old Pursley endured a journey that so few could even comprehend.


 

Pursley and his CB Industries team compiled a series high seven USAC National Midget victories at Belleville, plus wins at Bloomington and Kokomo, which helped him notch an Indiana Midget Week title. He even ran his winning streak to three during the summer months at Red Dirt and Beloit, Kansas. In September, Pursley swept his way to back-to-back scores at Eldora.


 

All told, he led all drivers by leading 87 laps, capturing 11 heat race wins and producing 17 top-five finishes in 23 starts. In the process, Pursley provided CB Industries its first USAC National Midget entrant title and the second for team principal Chad Boat who scored a series championship as part of Tucker-Boat Motorsports in 2020.


 

It’s the comeback of all comeback seasons, and Daison Pursley is now a USAC national champion.


 

 

SILVER CROWN 2ND PLACE DRIVER: Justin Grant


 

SILVER CROWN 2ND PLACE ENTRANT: Hemelgarn Racing


 

When it came to dirt mile season, he had the field covered. At both Springfield and Du Quoin, he was picture perfect by setting the fastest pace in practice, scoring the pole position and going on to become the first driver to sweep to victories on both Illinois miles in a single season since Chris Windom in 2018. In the process, he completed his ninth consecutive season of finishing inside the top-five of the standings and his fourth time inside the top-two. They’re the runners-up for the USAC Silver Crown series in 2024 – the entrant is Hemelgarn Racing and the driver is Ione, California’s Justin Grant.

 


 

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 2ND PLACE DRIVER: Brady Bacon


 

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 2ND PLACE ENTRANT: Dynamics Inc.


 

For the third consecutive year, he finished as the runner-up in the USAC National Sprint Car standings, adding five wins to his credit, the 14th consecutive season he’s won a series feature, breaking the mark of 13-straight years set by Sheldon Kinser between 1974 and 1986. At Bridgeport, he became the winningest Eastern Storm driver of all-time, and at Texarkana, he earned his 50th series win as the driver of the legendary number 69. They’re the winningest combo in USAC National Sprint Car racing history. Your second place USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car entrant is Dynamics, Inc. and your second place driver is Broken Arrow, Oklahoma’s Brady Bacon.

 


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 2ND PLACE DRIVER: Cannon McIntosh


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 2ND PLACE ENTRANT: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports


 

This Okie added three victories on his way to a career best second place finish in the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget standings, including May’s season opener at the Belleville Short Track which ended a 616 day dry spell since his last series win. He also added wins at the the Firemen’s Nationals at Angell Park Speedway and the $20,039-to-win Driven2SaveLives BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, while leading all drivers with 20 top-ten finishes in 23 starts. This year’s 2nd place entrant is Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports and the driver is Bixby, Oklahoma’s Cannon McIntosh.


 


 

SILVER CROWN 3RD PLACE DRIVER: Logan Seavey


 

SILVER CROWN 3RD PLACE ENTRANT: Rice Motorsports-Abacus Racing


 

Amid a season in which he won a total of 17 times across USAC’s national divisions, this driver had to wait patiently until he could taste victory once again with the USAC Silver Crown series. In October’s Sumar Classic at Terre Haute, he did just that to win a main event with the series for the fourth consecutive season while also continuing his streak of top-three points finishes to four years running. Additionally, he was the only driver to record a top-10 result in all 14 events on his 2024 campaign. Your 3rd place USAC Silver Crown entrant is Rice Motorsports/Abacus Racing and the 3rd place driver is Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey.

 


 

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 3RD PLACE DRIVER: Daison Pursley


 

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 3RD PLACE ENTRANT: Team Arizona/Curb-Agajanian Racing


 

He became a first-time USAC National Sprint Car points-paying feature winner after taking the checkered at Knoxville. Late in the season, he scored at another legendary dirt half-mile during the 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway. He also notched five fast qualifying times while making the greatest charge in series history when he started 23rd and finished 2nd, passing a series record 21 cars at Bloomington Speedway. At the conclusion of the year, this combo finished third in the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car standings. The entrant is Team Arizona/Curb-Agajanian Racing and the driver, Locust Grove, Oklahoma’s Daison Pursley.

 


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 3RD PLACE DRIVER: Logan Seavey


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET 3RD PLACE ENTRANT: Abacus Racing


 

Continuing the theme, this two-time series champ tallied a pair of USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget wins at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex and another during Indiana Midget Week at Tri-State Speedway. His four fast qualifying times made him the leader in the clubhouse with the series for 2024. His 8th place finish in the opener at Belleville set a new all-time USAC National Midget record with his 23rd consecutive top-10 finish dating back to last season, breaking the former mark held by Jason Leffler since 1997. Your 3rd place USAC National Midget entrant is Abacus Racing and the driver is once again Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey.


 


 

USAC INDIVIDUAL & SPECIAL AWARDS


 

MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP: Logan Seavey


 

After finishing second in each of the past two seasons, he finally shot to the top of the charts in 2024. He was one of three drivers to win in all three of USAC’s national divisions this season alongside Justin Grant and Daison Pursley, and he was the one and only driver to finish inside the top-3 of all three USAC national series’ point standings. The newest member of USAC’s Career Triple Crown club captured a $10,000 bonus by amassing the most total points across the three USAC national divisions in 2024. For the first time in his career, the Mike Curb USAC National Driver Champion for 2024 is Logan Seavey.


 


 

JOHNNY CAPELS “GOLDEN GREEK” USAC CHIEF MECHANIC OF THE YEAR: Kirk Simpson


 

Not only does his driver, Logan Seavey, get all the accolades. So too does the team manager for Abacus Racing who has successfully overseen and wrenched on three USAC national championship winning teams over the past two seasons. In 2023, the team captured both the USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget titles. This year, they completed the USAC career Triple Crown as AMSOIL National Sprint Car champs. The Johnny Capels “Golden Greek” award is reserved for a special individual in the trenches. At the forefront of this unprecedented success is USAC’s 2024 Chief Mechanic of the Year, Kirk Simpson.


 


 

BUBBY JONES MASTER OF GOING FASTER PRESENTED BY SPIRE SPORTS + ENTERTAINMENT CHAMPION: Brady Bacon


 

But wait, there’s more! In 2024, Brady Bacon added another highlight to his impressive reel during the special 10-race miniseries known as the Bubby Jones Master of Going Faster series Presented By Spire Sports & Entertainment. Throughout it, he never had an “off night” by any measure, recording a victory at Port Royal, plus eight top-fives and a perfect 10 for 10 on top-tens. His performance netted him $10,000 and a custom trophy provided by Potter Metal Art for himself and $2500 for his crew chief, Matt Hummel. He’s now the first two-time Master of Going Faster champ.


 


 

PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER: Daison Pursley


 

Early this season, car owners Chad Boat and Michael Burkhart told this this driver that they predicted he would not repeat as USAC ProSource Passing Master in 2024. Not because they doubted him, but because he was making huge strides in becoming a better qualifier, thus earning better starting spots. Nonetheless, he was able to accomplish both! For the second straight season, no driver passed more cars throughout the USAC national season than this man right here, advancing a total of 209 positions in 72 feature starts. He’s back here again to take Buck’s money. For the second year in a row, your USAC ProSource Passing Master is Daison Pursley.


 


 

JASON LEFFLER AWARD: Patty Bateman


 

The Jason Leffler award goes to recognize an individual who exhibits the same standards upheld by the late Jason Leffler throughout his career, one who has a true appreciation, dedicational and passion for competing with USAC.


 

For as long as we can remember, the “Bateman” name has been a stalwart of the USAC Silver Crown series. For more than 40 years, the Batemans fielded an entry with the series whether it was dirt or pavement, a half-mile or one mile, the number 55 was always there to support the series through thick and thin, truly for the pure love of the sport. When driver Randy Bateman passed away from ALS in 2017, instead of folding the team, this strong woman carried on, racing in memory of her late husband and accruing much success, most recently with Jerry Coons Jr. before announcing the team’s retirement following the end of this past season.


 

Her team was so well respected, and their success in recent years was celebrated by all those in the sport. But right now, we get the chance to celebrate her.  This year’s recipient of the Jason Leffler Award is Patty Bateman.


 


 

MAX PAPIS INNOVATIONS SILVER CROWN ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Trey Osborne


 

Continuing the trend of Ohio’s finest, this racer is USAC Silver Crown racing’s first top Rookie to hail from the Buckeye State since Matt Westfall in 2002. Despite missing a pair of events and suffering fractures to his vertebra in a crash early in the season, he still finished an impressive sixth in the standings, highlighted by a fourth on the pavement of Madison and a third on the dirt in Hutchinson. At 6 foot 8 inches tall, he’s undoubtedly the tallest MPI Rookie of the Year in USAC Silver Crown history. So, it seems fitting that he quickly became acclimated to USAC’s big cars. From Columbus, Ohio, he is Trey Osborne.


 


 

MAX PAPIS INNOVATIONS NATIONAL SPRINT CAR ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Hunter Maddox


 

Whether it’s on two wheels or four, he’s apt to give it a whirl! For more than a decade, this driver’s racing exploits consisted of the dirt bike variety, specializing in Hare Scramble off-road events which vary in distance and time, and wind through wooded or other rugged natural terrain. In recent years, he turned his focus toward sprint car racing, and in 2024, he made 25 feature starts, finishing 18th in the overall standings, tops among all Rookies aboard his self-owned car. From Bedford, Indiana, your Max Papis Innovations USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year is Hunter Maddox.


 


 

MAX PAPIS INNOVATIONS BOB STROUD NATIONAL MIDGET ROOKIE OF THE YEAR: Zach Wigal


 

It’s been 20 years since a Buckeye earned top Rookie honors with the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. This driver is proud to wear that badge in 2024, following Teddy and Todd Beach as the latest Ohioan to earn the award. He checked off a pair of fast qualifying times at Lawrenceburg and Mitchell County while also gaining his initial feature victory with the series at Angell Park. Last year, he stood on the stage as USAC’s Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget champ, and he’s back again as the Max Papis Innovations Bob Stroud USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year. From Belpre, Ohio, this is Zach Wigal.

 


 

NATIONAL MOST IMPROVED DRIVER: Briggs Danner


 

In recent years, he introduced himself to the USAC scene as a back-to-back USAC East Coast Sprint Car champion in 2022 and 2023. He competed more regularly on the USAC national scene in 2024 and was phenomenal, winning his first three career USAC National Sprint Car features at Grandview, Bloomington and Lawrenceburg while becoming the first Keystone State native to win a series event in a quarter century. He also added his first top-10 run with the USAC National Midgets and corralled back-to-back podiums with the USAC Silver Crown series. He’s the first Pennsylvanian to earn USAC Most Improved Driver since John Heydenreich in 2000. From Allentown, Pa., he’s Briggs Danner.

 


 

RACE ORGANIZER OF THE YEAR: Jerry Gappens


 

This man served in several facets of the sport, as a sprint car driver, then as an Advertising Specialist and Operations Manager at National Speed Sport News and even an ABC pit reporter at the Indianapolis 500, before heading south as Senior VP of Events and Marketing at Charlotte Motor Speedway, then to the northeast as the General Manager of New Hampshire International Speedway.


 

In recent years, he became re-integrated with his dirt track racing roots as the General Manager of Gas City I-69 Speedway, and most recently, as the GM at Eldora Speedway since 2022.


 

Those are his stats, but this man was so much more. His passion for motorsports was only topped by his passion for the people in the sport. It was a common sight to see him greet a racer on his way into the track one minute, then follow up a minute later by welcoming a race fan into the campground before grabbing a broom and sweeping the entry way of the racetrack.


 

He made you feel special, and what a special gift he was to all of us before his unexpected passing this past May following a medical procedure, leaving a void that is all too difficult to fill, and to comprehend.


 

Though he is no longer with us, his legacy in the sport lives on. Our 2024 USAC Race Organizer of the Year is the one and only Jerry Gappens.


 


 

USAC SPECIAL APPRECIATION (INDIVIDUAL): Jack Calabrase


 

Racing and racing people have forever been an integral part of Jack Calabrase’s life. As a longtime driver in the USAC National Midget ranks between 1967-1994, he experienced the joy of winning a pair of feature events with the series in 1988, including the prestigious Night Before the 500 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. Later on, he was the head honcho of both NAMARS and the Auto Value Super Sprints. He’s put his heart and soul into the sport and has given back so much to it too. In recent years, he’s been the most steady and consistent contributor to USAC RaceAid events, which aids members of the racing community who are injured and/or in need of financial assistance. He understands the importance of family, and we’re incredibly grateful for his benefaction to the sport.


 


 

DICK JORDAN AWARD: Tommy Hunt


 

Tommy Hunt is a racing lifer. His father, Joe Hunt, was a magneto magnate and a longtime champ car team owner, employing many of the greatest drivers of their era. Tommy was there in those days, serving on the crew for his dad’s team. In time, Hunt became a driver himself, most notably scoring three CRA Sprint Car wins, plus 1974 Most Improved Driver honors. Those experiences prepared him for his role of 28 years at USAC in which he served as Vice President and the head of the series’ west coast operations.  Fittingly, Hunt was among Dick Jordan’s closest friends, and both were in complete synchronization when it came to serving the sport with integrity, professionalism and doing things the right way. Furthermore, it was also announced that Hunt will be among the newest class of inductees into the USAC Hall of Fame in 2025.


 


 

ENGLER MACHINE & TOOL FAST PASS WINNER: Gregg Cory


 

Off track, he’s a high school Engineering & Technology instructor. On track, he has a resume of success in TQ Midgets, full-size midgets, thunder roadsters, sprints and modifieds throughout his 3-decade career. Among the contingency awards introduced to the USAC Silver Crown series over the past two seasons is one which rewards the driver who is first in the running order a lap down. This man grabbed 5 of those throughout the year, getting himself back on to the lead lap while earning a $5,000 prize – $2,500 to himself as the driver and $2,500 to his Williams-Cory Racing team. He’s your Engler Machine & Tool Fast Pass award winner. He’s Gregg Cory.


 


 

DIRT DRAFT MOST POPULAR DRIVER AWARDS: Kyle Steffens, Matt Westfall & Kale Drake


 

The Dirt Draft Most Popular Driver award winners this year were chosen based on who was selected most often by Dirt Draft contest participants in each USAC national division throughout the season. Drivers who were picked most often earned a bit of bonus money. Those winners are Kyle Steffens for the Silver Crown series, Matt Westfall for the Sprint Cars and Kale Drake in the Midgets.

 


 

REGIONAL SPRINT & MIDGET SERIES


 

USAC’s regional sprint car and midget divisions span from coast-to-coast with a 12 different states hosting a total of 79 events in 2024. The theme this season witnessed a handful of drivers break through after several previous close calls in the championship race, while elsewhere, series dominators once again flexed their muscles.


 


 

AMSOIL USAC CRA SPRINT CHAMPION DRIVER: R.J. Johnson


 

AMSOIL USAC CRA SPRINT CHAMPION ENTRANT: Ricky & Michele Johnson


 

His mantle is chockfull of USAC championship trophies, and between 2013-2017, he collected five-straight USAC Southwest Sprint Car crowns. But after 21 years of Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car racing, he finally broke through to the top on the strength of a duo of victories at Kern Raceway and Santa Maria. He’s the first Arizonian USAC CRA champion and is also the first former series Rookie of the Year to later claim the title. Overall, he’s now a six-time USAC driving titlist, but a first-time USAC CRA champ. Your  driving champion is Laveen, Arizona’s R.J. Johnson, and the entrant champs are Ricky and Michele Johnson.


 


 

RAPID TIRE SERVICE EAST COAST SPRINT CHAMPION: Steven Drevicki


 

Six years ago, this racer became the first ever USAC East Coast Sprint Car champion. Since that time, he’s gone on to become the first two-time champ, the first three-time titlist, and now the first four-time king. In 2024, he prevailed once with a victory at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, and throughout the course of the 12-race series, never once did he finish worse than fifth. Now, for the fourth time in his career, he stands tall as the 2024 USAC Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Cars Presented By Capitol Custom Trailers champion. It’s Reading, Pennsylvania’s Steven Drevicki.


 


 

WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CHAMPION: Wyatt Burks


 

In 2020, 2022, 2023 and now 2024, this driver was the best of the bunch when it came to USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Racing Association competition in his native Kansas and neighboring Missouri. While his 2024 campaign resulted in only a single victory at Missouri’s Electric City Speedway, consistency was the key as he led all drivers with 10 top-fives, 11 top-tens and 5 heat race wins en route to the title. For those keeping score, that’s three-in-a-row for the plumber by trade, and he’s now a four-time USAC MWRA champ. From Topeka, Kansas, it’s Wyatt Burks.

 


 

WESTERN STATES MIDGET CHAMPION DRIVER: Cade Lewis


 

WESTERN STATES MIDGET CHAMPION ENTRANT: Dean Alexander


 

One year ago, he felt a major letdown after coming just 41 points shy of the title. This year, he made the climb to the next step from second to first. His father was a longtime Major League Baseball starting pitcher, and this teenage sensation also knows how to make a “quality start,” winning at Ventura and at Placerville while leading the standings from start to finish. At 17 years of age, he’s the youngest ever Avanti Windows & Doors USAC Western States Midget champion. The entrant champ is Dean Alexander, and the driver champ is! From Bakersfield, California, he’s Cade Lewis.


 


 

MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET CHAMPION: Bryce Massingill


 

After coming just three points shy of the title a year ago, all this driver needed was some good fortune. After getting an opportunity of a lifetime to race in the BC39 on the same weekend as the USAC Midwest Thunder Midgets’ final two races, he resigned himself to the fact that his championship quest was over. But Mother Nature intervened and washed out the final two shows! That said, he more than earned his keep on the track by scoring top-10s in all 12 starts and winning two points races. He’s the new USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget champ for 2024. From Troy, Ohio, it’s Bryce Massingill.


 


 

SNOWMOBILE RACING


 

INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE RACING DRIVER OF THE YEAR: Matt Goede


 

This man is no stranger to the open wheel side, having started his career in quarter midgets. But soon enough, he established himself as a premier talent in snowmobile racing. However, his journey has been defined by resilience, overcoming severe injuries early in his career to become one of the sport’s most decorated athletes. He earned five Vintage World Championships, and this year, secured his second consecutive World Championship at Eagle River, setting a new track record with his dominant performance. He’s your 2024 International Snowmobile Racing Driver of the Year, from New Germany, Minnesota, Matt Goede.


 


 

INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE RACING RECORD BREAKER: Chris Baynes


 

In March of this year in International Falls, Minnesota, he set a brand new International Snowmobile Racing world record top speed for the 1000 foot distance. His first run of 201.70 miles per hours was the first snowmobile to ever post a legal run in excess of 200 miles per hour. On his second pass, he was even faster, resetting the record books with a staggering speed of 202.33 miles per hour at the controls of his new, Baynes Brothers Racing custom designed Speed Needle 2.0. The International Snowmobile Record Breaker for 2024 and for all-time, Chris Baynes.


 


 

NASCAR YOUTH SERIES .25 MIDGET CHAMPIONS


 

PAVEMENT CHAMPIONS


 

HEAVY WORLD FORMULA: Zeke Bergenty


 

UNRESTRICTED ANIMAL: Gavin Gardner


 

LIGHT WORLD FORMULA: Easton Loomis


 

HEAVY 160 PAVEMENT: Kaeston McNeill


 

HEAVY HONDA: Jase Murray


 


 

.25 MIDGET DIRT CHAMPIONS


 

LIGHT 160: Liam Ballard


 

JUNIOR 160: Blake Crooms


 

JUNIOR HONDA: Grayson Graham


 

JUNIOR ANIMAL: Carter Green


 


 

.25 MIDGET MULTIPLE CHAMPIONS


 

HEAVY HONDA DIRT & HEAVY WORLD FORMULA DIRT: Avery McMellen


 

JUNIOR HONDA PAVEMENT, JUNIOR 160 PAVEMENT & JUNIOR ANIMAL PAVEMENT: Frank Jirik


 

HEAVY 160 DIRT, UNRESTRICTED ANIMAL DIRT & MOD WORLD FORUMULA DIRT: Kaden Wenger


 

SENIOR HONDA DIRT, SENIOR ANIMAL DIRT & LIGHT WORLD FORMULA DIRT: Larry Kelleher


 

SENIOR HONDA PAVEMENT, LIGHT 160 PAVEMENT, SENIOR ANIMAL PAVEMENT & MOD WORLD FORMULA PAVEMENT: Case James


 


 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


 

Chris Jockish and Jockish Flowers provided the floral decorations for the USAC Night of Champions. Bob Baker, president of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum, provided a Hall of Fame membership to each of USAC’s 2024 champion drivers. Dave Olson served as the photographer for the evening’s event and Kristy Bemmes handled all on-stage interviews.


 

Among the awards each national driver and entrant champion received are championship rings as well as canvas artwork designed by Rich Forman and a free one-year subscription to FloRacing, the official media provider for USAC. Each USAC driving champion also received a jacket courtesy of Hoosier Racing Tire, the official tire of the United States Auto Club.

 

USAC Indiana Sprint Week 2025 Opens at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

For the first time ever, the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) will host the opening night of USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented by Honest Abe Roofing during the summer of 2025. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

Speedway, Indiana (December 13, 2024)………For the first time ever, the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) will host the opening night of USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented by Honest Abe Roofing during the summer of 2025.


 

The Dirt Track at IMS will feature the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship during the 38th annual ISW opener on Thursday night, July 24.


 

USAC Indiana Sprint Week, a cornerstone of sprint car racing in the Hoosier State since 1988, has captivated fans for decades with its thrilling action and rich legacy. Now, the addition of IMS as a host venue elevates the series to new heights, bringing grassroots motorsports to the Racing Capital of the World and its 1/5-mile dirt oval.


 

“Sprint car racing and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway share a deeply intertwined history, and this event symbolizes the unification of two racing traditions,” USAC President Kevin Miller shared. “USAC Sprint Cars at IMS will be an unforgettable experience for fans and competitors alike.”


 

The event promises a unique spectacle, as the 900 horsepower USAC Sprint Cars take to a specially designed dirt track within turn three of the IMS infield. The evening will feature an exceptional lineup of drivers battling for glory at one of the most revered venues in motorsports.


 

“We are thrilled to welcome USAC Racing to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,” IMS President J. Douglas Boles added. “The addition of sprint cars to our calendar highlights our commitment to showcasing the diversity of motorsports. This is more than just a race; it’s a celebration of Indiana’s racing heritage.”


 

C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) captured victory in a September 2024 invite only, special event race at IMS, the only previous occasion of USAC Sprint Cars competing at IMS.


 

USAC’s Indiana Sprint Week schedule for 2025 consists of eight events at eight different racetracks across a 10-night span between July 24-August 2. Following the ISW kick off at The Dirt Track at IMS, the series continues at Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway on Friday, July 25, followed by Kokomo Speedway on Saturday, July 26; Lawrenceburg Speedway on July 27; Circle City Raceway on Wednesday, July 30; the Terre Haute Action Track on Thursday, July 31; Bloomington Speedway on Friday, August 1, and Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, August 2.


 

Information regarding the debut of USAC Indiana Sprint Week at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, including event format, tickets, starting times and more, will be made available soon at www.usacracing.com and www.IMS.com.


 

Don’t miss this historic moment as USAC Racing breaks new ground at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – where legends are made and history is written.

 

KTJ Signs with 4 Kings for 2025 USAC Midget Title Run

 

Kevin Thomas Jr. returns full-time with the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship in 2025 for 4 Kings Racing. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Pleasant Hill, Ohio (December 13, 2024)………Kevin Thomas Jr. returns full-time with the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship in 2025 for 4 Kings Racing.


 

The pairing of KTJ and 4 Kings made six series starts during the latter part of the 2024 season. Their season together showed success as they finished inside the top-five in each of their three most recent starts.


 

At Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, this combo took 4th in the feature followed by a runner-up result during a BC39 prelim at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before closing with a 5th at IMS during the BC39 finale.


 

Thomas Jr. will compete in all the events aboard 4 Kings Racing’s No. 14, sponsored by AccroSeal and Metalloid1 sponsored LynK chassis powered by a Stanton engine.


 

“KJT felt like a missing puzzle piece when he joined the team,” team owner Rex Tuner shared. “We know he can continue to expand on his success from 2024 and we are excited to see what he does in 2025.”


 

Thomas has established himself as a formidable force on the track.  The Cullman, Alabama native owns six career USAC National Midget feature victories and 166 career feature starts. He finished a best of 3rd in the 2015 USAC National Midget point standings. Back in 2014, he was named USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year.


 

The 2025 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season begins on Friday-Saturday, April 25-26, with the Kokomo Grand Prix at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway.

 

Westfall & 4 Kings Go Full-Time USAC Silver Crown Racing in 2025

Matt Westfall and 4 Kings Racing will compete full-time on the USAC Silver Crown National Championship tour in 2025. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Pleasant Hill, Ohio (December 13, 2024)………Matt Westfall and 4 Kings Racing will compete full-time on the USAC Silver Crown National Championship tour in 2025.


 

4 Kings Racing, which debuted as USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship team in 2024, will field Pleasant Hill, Ohio’s Westfall for all 13 USAC Silver Crown events in the coming year.


 

The 48-year-old Westfall earned 2002 USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year honors, and over the course of his career, has amassed 55 career series starts with a best finish of second on four different occasions.


 

Most recently, in 2024, Westfall made five USAC Silver Crown starts, compiling top-10 finishes in each and every one of his appearances, all of which came on dirt for his family-owned team. His top result of the season came with a fourth place run at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway.


 

Westfall began his racing career in karts at the age of five and has had a very successful career ever since, winning championships in midgets, sprint cars, late models and modifieds. His most recent victory came in October with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway.


 

Westfall is one of the founders of 4 Kings Racing. Fellow team founder Rex Turner is thrilled to add another full-time entry to the champ car series with Westfall at the wheel.


 

“We are excited to see Matt’s expertise translate to Silver Crown and can’t wait to watch his success,” Turner stated.


 

The 2025 USAC Silver Crown season begins on Sunday, April 13, at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track for the 21st running of the Sumar Classic.

 

Kyle Cummins Joins Petty for 2025 USAC Silver Crown Run

Petty Performance Racing has joined the USAC Silver Crown ranks, announcing Kyle Cummins as their driver for the 2025 season. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

Princeton, Indiana (December 13, 2024)………Petty Performance Racing is excited to announce the addition of a USAC Silver Crown car to their stable for the 2025 season.


 

This expansion marks a significant step forward for the team as they continue to diversify their presence in the racing world. The car will be driven by none other than Kyle Cummins, a proven force in dirt track racing.


 

Kyle Cummins, a highly accomplished driver with 20 career USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victories and the recent title of 2024 Western World Champion, brings his proven talent and determination to this new challenge.


 

Although his experience in the Silver Crown Series is limited to just five career starts, his exceptional skill on dirt tracks positions him as a formidable contender ready to make a significant impact.


 

“We are incredibly excited to venture into the USAC Silver Crown Series and even more thrilled to have Kyle Cummins leading us in this new direction,” said Jerry Petty, owner of Petty Performance Racing. “This expansion reflects our commitment to growth, and we’re confident that Kyle’s talent, combined with our team’s dedication, will position us as strong competitors from the start.”


 

Cummins shared his excitement about the new venture.


 

“While my experience in the Silver Crown Series has been limited, I enjoyed my time competing and am excited to have the opportunity to return,” Cummins stated. “I look forward to the challenge ahead and am eager to leverage my previous experience with the full support of the Petty Performance Racing team.”


 

The team’s new venture into the Silver Crown Series aligns with their mission to push boundaries and embrace new challenges in the racing arena. The Silver Crown car will make its debut during the 2024 season, with specific race dates and additional details to be announced soon.


 

For updates and announcements, follow Petty Performance Racing on social media and visit their website at www.pettyperformanceracing.com.

The Dirt & Paved Road to a Championship! 13 USAC Silver Crown Races Set for 2025

A docket featuring 13 events is on the agenda in 2025 for the 55th season of the most diverse oval racing series on the planet – the USAC Silver Crown National Championship!

Seven dirt and six pavement events await at venues ranging from half-miles to 1.25 miles and on tracks varying from semi-banked to high-banked across the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania.


 


 

BACK TO SALEM IN ‘25


 

The high banks of Indiana’s super-fast Salem Speedway welcome the USAC Silver Crown series back to the .555-mile paved oval on Saturday, August 9.


 

Salem has previously hosted the series on six occasions, first in 1988 won by Bob Frey, and again each year from 2016 through 2020, all of which were won by Kody Swanson.

The southern Indiana speed plant is one of USAC’s most tradition-rich tracks, hosting a total of 135 USAC national events dating back to 1956.


 


 

GETTING DIRTY EARLY


 

Dirt tracks open and close the 2025 USAC Silver Crown schedule with seven dates spread between the months and April and September. Indiana’s lone half-mile dirt oval, the Terre Haute Action Track, opens it up on Sunday, April 13, with the 21st installment of the Sumar Classic. 


 

Mid-May brings the series to the thrill-a-second 1/2-mile Belleville (Kan.) High Banks on Friday, May 16, for practice and Saturday, May 17, for race day in a USAC doubleheader alongside the NOS Energy Drink National Midgets, who’ll compete both nights on Belleville’s short track during the Huncovsky Classic.


 

Speaking of USAC doubleheaders, Eastern Storm delivers a mammoth one on Saturday, June 15, at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway for a smorgasbord full of star-studded action featuring both the USAC Silver Crown and AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship divisions at one venue on one night on the 1/2-mile.


 

It’s back to the Sunflower State on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July 19, for the second running of the Salt City 100 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds’ Salt City Speedway in Hutchinson. Friday presents practice for all teams leading into Saturday’s 100-lapper on the 1/2-mile.


 


 

PAVED INTENTIONS


 

Six pavement events dot the 2025 USAC Silver Crown slate with the season launching on the asphalt with the annual Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic on Saturday, April 19, at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway.


 

A trip to the hallowed banks of Indiana’s Winchester Speedway follows with the running of the 34th Rich Vogler Classic on Sunday, May 4. The Hoosier Hundred brings the series once again to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday, May 23, for the 68th edition of the Hoosier Hundred.


 

Meanwhile, the largest and fastest track on the circuit, the 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, moves to a new, earlier date on Saturday, June 14, during NTT IndyCar Series weekend. For the first time since 2017, a July date awaits the USAC Silver Crown division on Wednesday night, July 23. Salem closes out the pavement portion of the schedule on Sunday, August 9.


 


 

3 ON DIRT TO DECIDE A CHAMP


 

The championship race will come down to a trio of the most tradition rich USAC Silver Crown events, all of which will serve as the final three races of the season in August and September.


 

The 62nd running of the Bettenhausen 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield provides the first of two dirt-mile adventures this season on Saturday, August 16. Fair season in the Land of Lincoln  continues two weeks later with the 71st running of the Ted Horn 100 at the Magic Mile of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in southern Illinois.


 

The final dirt run of the new year is set for Friday-Saturday, September 19-20, as, for the 43rd time, the champ cars will compete in the 4-Crown Nationals at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway. The event provides the only opportunity of the year to witness all three USAC national divisions in one night, plus the High Limit winged sprint cars.


 


 

2025 USAC SILVER CROWN SCHEDULE


 

Apr 13 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Sumar Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 19 | Toledo Speedway | Toledo, OH | Rollie Beale Classic | 1/2 Mile Pavement


 

May 4 | Winchester Speedway | Winchester, IN | Rich Vogler Classic | 1/2 Mile Pavement


 

May 16-17 | Belleville High Banks | Belleville, KS | Huncovsky Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 23 | Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park | Brownsburg, IN | Hoosier Hundred | .686 Mile Pavement


 

Jun 14 | World Wide Technology Raceway | Madison, IL | 1.25 Mile Pavement


 

Jun 21 | Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 18-19 | Salt City Speedway | Hutchinson, KS | Salt City 100 | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 23 | Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park | Brownsburg, IN | .686 Mile Pavement


 

Aug 9 | Salem Speedway | Salem, IN | .555 Mile Pavement


 

Aug 16 | Illinois State Fairgrounds | Springfield, IL | Bettenhausen 100 | 1 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 30 | Du Quoin State Fairgrounds | Du Quoin, IL | Ted Horn 100 | 1 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 19-20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt

 

Nifty 50! USAC Sprint Car Slate Arrives with 50 Shows in 2025

Josh James

Several new schedule additions coupled with a myriad of traditional favorites line the 50-race calendar for the 2025 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

NEW YEAR, NEW ADDITIONS


 

Seven new tracks appear on the 2025 slate after taking a sabbatical from the schedule for a number of years while one venue in particular will make its debut appearance.


 

Indiana’s Paragon Speedway will host its first USAC Sprint event since 2021 when the series converges on Friday, April 4. The following night, Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Ill. will welcome the series for the first time since 1998 during the Saturday, April 5, Salute to Levi Jones.


 

It’s been a long, long time since USAC has visited Ohio’s Fremont Speedway and Millstream Speedway. Fremont’s Saturday, June 28, date marks the series’ first visit since the 2003 season. Meanwhile, the next night’s show at Findlay’s Millstream Speedway on Sunday, June 29, brings USAC back after a 37-year absence. Brad Doty was the most recent USAC Sprint Car victor at Millstream in 1988 with a wing!


 

Two tracks with long, storied histories have emerged on USAC’s setlist for 2025. For the first time since 2019, Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Ill. has a date set with the series on Friday, September 5. The following night, the wagons go west across the Mississippi River to Odessa, Missouri’s I-70 Motorsports Park, last treated to a USAC show in 2022.


 

For the first time ever, Central Arizona Raceway will be a stop on the USAC National Sprint Car tour where it will host the 58th annual Western World Championships on Friday-Saturday, October 24-25. The two season-closing events are the first for the series in the Grand Canyon State since 2022.


 


 

BREAKING THE ICE AT WINTER DIRT GAMES


 

For the 16th consecutive season, the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship campaign will launch in the state of Florida during the month of February. For the first time ever, the Sunshine State tour will feature six events across six consecutive nights – the first two at Barberville, Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park On February 10-11, and the final four at Ocala Speedway on February 12-13-14-15.


 


 

BREWING UP AN EASTERN STORM


 

Levan Machine & Truck Equipment Eastern Storm, a fixture on the USAC Sprint Car schedule since 2007, celebrates its 18th year of competition in 2025 with six shows in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.


 

The east coast adventure starts on Tuesday, June 17, at Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania’s 1/3-mile Grandview Speedway, followed by a Wednesday, June 18, date across the border at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park. Then it’s back to the Keystone State on Thursday, June 19, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania’s Big Diamond Speedway.


 

Two historic 1/2-miles are on tap afterward with Williams Grove taking center stage on Friday, June 20, while the second of the two 1/2-mile tracks on the docket is slated for Saturday, June 21, at Port Royal Speedway. The diverse schedule then takes the series to the Eastern Storm finale at the racy bullring of Kutztown, Pennsylvania’s Action Track USA, which, at 1/6-mile in length, is the smallest track on the 2025 schedule


 


 

SPRINT WEEK IN THE HOOSIER STATE


 

The 38th annual edition of USAC Indiana Sprint Week presents one of the most intense weeks of racing of the season during the late July and early August period.


 

Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway is pegged as the opener of the series on Friday, July 25. From there, the schedule travels to Kokomo Speedway on Saturday, July 26; Lawrenceburg Speedway on July 27; Circle City Raceway on Wednesday, July 30; the Terre Haute Action Track on Thursday, July 31; Bloomington Speedway on Friday, August 1, and Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, August .


 


 

STAPLES OF THE SERIES


 

Longtime, traditional USAC National Sprint car staples are prevalent on the playlist for 2025. In addition to its Indiana Sprint Week date, Lawrenceburg Speedway hosts three more, including the April 12 Justin Owen Memorial as well as the October 10 Greg Staab Memorial and the $20,000-to-win October 11 Fall Nationals.


 

Eldora Speedway has been a piece on USAC’s schedule each year since 1962, and this year provides four more events starting with the May 2-3 #LetsRaceTwo Weekend, plus two nights at the 4-Crown Nationals on September 18 and 20.


 

May’s crop of races is busy as all get out with an Indiana double weekend on May 9 at Bloomington Speedway’s Larry Rice Classic and on May 10 at Tri-State Speedway’s Spring Showdown. The series returns to Tri-State for the $20,000-to-win Haubstadt Hustler on Saturday, September 13.


 

The 55th annual Tony Hulman Classic at Terre Haute is the most tradition-rich USAC Sprint Car race of them all, and it once again returns to its Wednesday date on May 21, with the Week of Indy resuming 24 hours later with the Circle City Salute at Circle City Raceway on Thursday, May 22, where the series also returns later in the year on Friday, September 12.


 

Iowa’s spectacular Knoxville Raceway is ready to go once again on National Sprint Car Hall of Fame induction weekend during the Corn Belt Clash on May 30-31. Lincoln Park Speedway’s back-to-back nights during the Bill Gardner Sprintacular showcases the series on July 4-5.


 

The richest series event of the season, Sprint Car Smackdown, is a veritable feast of the most intoxicating racing action you’ll witness all year long, for three-straight nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway on August 21-22-23, with the final night culminating in a $30,000-to-win prize.


 


 

2025 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Feb 10 | Volusia Speedway Park | Barberville, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 11 | Volusia Speedway Park | Barberville, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 12 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 13 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 14 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 15 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 4 | Paragon Speedway | Paragon, IN | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 5 | Red Hill Raceway | Sumner, IL | Salute to Levi Jones | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 12 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Justin Owen Memorial | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

May 2 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | #LetsRaceTwo | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 3 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | #LetsRaceTwo | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 9 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Larry Rice Classic | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 10 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Spring Showdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 21 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Tony Hulman Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 22 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Circle City Salute | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 30 | Knoxville Raceway | Knoxville, IA | Corn Belt Clash | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 31 | Knoxville Raceway | Knoxville, IA | Corn Belt Clash | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 17 | Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, PA | Eastern Storm / Jesse Hockett Classic | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 18 | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | Swedesboro, NJ | Eastern Storm | $6,000-to-Win 4/10 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 19 | Big Diamond Speedway | Pottsville, PA | Eastern Storm | $6,000-to-Win 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 20 | Williams Grove Speedway | Mechanicsburg, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 21 | Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 22 | Action Track USA | Kutztown, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/6 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 28 | Fremont Speedway | Fremont, OH | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 29 | Millstream Speedway | Findlay, OH | 4/10 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 4 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Bill Gardner Sprintacular | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 5 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Bill Gardner Sprintacular | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 24 | TBA


 

Jul 25 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 26 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 27 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 


 

Jul 30 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 31 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Indiana Sprint Week / Don Smith Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 1 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Indiana Sprint Week / Kinser Memorial | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 2 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 21 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 22 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 23 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 5 | Tri-City Speedway | Granite City, IL | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 6 | I-70 Motorsports Park | Odessa, MO | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 12 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 


 

Sep 13 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Haubstadt Hustler | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 18 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 10 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Greg Staab Memorial | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 11 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Fall Nationals | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 17 | TBA


 

Oct 18 | TBA


 

Oct 24 | Central Arizona Raceway | Casa Grande, AZ | Western World Championships | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 25 | Central Arizona Raceway | Casa Grande, AZ | Western World Championships | 3/8 Mile Dirt

 

Gettin’ Dirty! 2025 USAC Midget Schedule Reveals 28+ Dates

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The USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship enters the 2025 season armed with 28 events on the calendar from April through November at dirt tracks in California, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

PARAGON BACK IN FOR USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK


 

Paragon Speedway returns to the USAC Indiana Midget Week slate for the first time since 2021 as part of the 21st annual edition of the series across the Hoosier State on Wednesday, June 4.


 

The IMW docket consists of six events in all, with the frenzied and action packed week beginning at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis on Tuesday, June 3, before the aforementioned Paragon showdown on Wednesday, June 4.


 

From there, the series follows a path of familiar favorites at Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway on Thursday, June 5; Bloomington Speedway on Friday, June 6; Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, June 7; with the finale set for Kokomo Speedway on

Sunday, June 8.


 


 

SEASON OPENERS IN KOKOMO


 

Opening the year are two consecutive nights of the Kokomo Grand Prix on Friday-Saturday, April 25-26, at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway, the lone track on the 2025 schedule that was also on the calendar during USAC’s inaugural year of 1956.


 


 

TO MID-AMERICA & BEYOND!


 

USAC National Midget racing will also make its fair share of voyages to Mid-America throughout the spring and summer months.


 

An early season weekend in Kansas and Missouri greets the series in mid-May. The Belleville (Kan.) Short Track hosts the series on back-to-back nights on Friday-Saturday, May 16-17. The event will be run in conjunction with the USAC Silver Crown National Championship, which will contest its 50-lap main event on Saturday evening. Rounding out the sensational weekend is a trip east to Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex on Sunday, May 18.


 

Mid-America Midget Week goes full send in mid-July with four events during a five-night span in three different states. First up is Meeker, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway for Tuesday Night Thunder on July 8. One night later, it’s northbound to Kansas for the Chad McDaniel Memorial at Beloit, Kansas’ Mitchell County Fairgrounds on Wednesday, July 9.


 

The great state of Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway presents two nights of racing to close out Mid-America Midget Week for the Midwest Midget Championship on Friday-Saturday, July 11-12.


 


 

BADGERS & BUCKEYES


 

As summer comes to a close, way up north lies Wisconsin’s legendary Angell Park Speedway which will hold the milestone 40th running of the Firemen’s Nationals on Labor Day weekend, Sunday, August 31.


 

A changeup in the order of events now places the midgets on the opening night of a three-day 4-Crown Nationals weekend at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway on Thursday, September 18, in a USAC double with the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars. The midgets return for a second showing at the Big E on Saturday, September 20, in the only event of the year featuring all three of USAC’s national divisions – Silver Crown, Sprint and Midget, plus High Limit’s winged sprint cars on the same night at the same track.


 


 

THE WESTERN SWING


 

Placerville Speedway’s Hangtown 100 kicks off USAC’s annual end-of-year voyage to the Golden State of California on Friday, November 14, and wraps up the following night with the season’s only 100-lap event on Saturday, November 15.


 

Meanwhile, Tulare’s Thunderbowl Raceway returns with a new Friday date on November 21, followed by two consecutive nights of Midget Madness at Merced Speedway on November 22-23.


 

Bakersfield Speedway’s November Classic will serve as the penultimate round of the Golden State tour on Tuesday, November 25 before closing out with the granddaddy of them all, the 84th running of the Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ventura Raceway on Saturday, November 29.


 


 

TO BE ANNOUNCED / DETERMINED


 

Three notable TBA designations can be found on the 2025 USAC National Midget schedule. The seventh running of the Driven2SaveLives BC39 is a certainty for 2025 and will take place at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on yet-to-be-determined dates. Furthermore, the Monday, September 1, and Wednesday, November 19, slots remain TBA at press time.


 


 

2025 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Apr 25 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Kokomo Grand Prix | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 26 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Kokomo Grand Prix | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 16 | Belleville Short Track | Belleville, KS | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 17 | Belleville Short Track | Belleville, KS | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 18 | Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex | Sweet Springs, MO | 1/6 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 3 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 4 | Paragon Speedway | Paragon, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 5 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 6 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 7 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 8 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 8 | Red Dirt Raceway | Meeker, OK | Tuesday Night Thunder | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 9 | Mitchell County Fairgrounds | Beloit, KS | Chad McDaniel Memorial | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 11 | Jefferson County Speedway | Fairbury, NE | Midwest Midget Championship | 1/5

Mile Dirt


 

Jul 12 | Jefferson County Speedway | Fairbury, NE | Midwest Midget Championship | 1/5 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 31 | Angell Park Speedway | Sun Prairie, WI | Firemen's Nationals | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 1 | TBA


 

Sep 18 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 14 | Placerville Speedway | Placerville, CA | Hangtown 100 | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 15 | Placerville Speedway | Placerville, CA | Hangtown 100 | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 19 | TBA


 

Nov 21 | Thunderbowl Raceway | Tulare, CA | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 22 | Merced Speedway | Merced, CA | Midget Madness | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 23 | Merced Speedway | Merced, CA | Midget Madness | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 25 | Bakersfield Speedway | Bakersfield, CA | November Classic | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 29 | Ventura Raceway | Ventura, CA | Turkey Night Grand Prix | 1/5 Mile Dirt


 

TBA | The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Speedway, IN | BC39 | 1/5 Mile Dirt

 

Trainor Tabbed by Klatt for All 6 Pavement USAC Silver Crown Shows in 2025

Jake Trainor will drive the Klatt Enterprises #6 in all six pavement USAC Silver Crown races in 2025. (Jack Reitz Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 12, 2024)………Over the past handful of years, perhaps no short track driver’s stock has risen more quickly on the national level than Jake Trainor.

The 19-year-old Medway, Massachusetts native will now go USAC Silver Crown racing in 2025 for all six pavement events as the driver of venerable Klatt Enterprises No. 6.


 

The opportunity is a dream for Trainor who burst onto the national scene in 2023 with a victory in the 500-lap Little 500 Sprint Car race at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway to go along with four midget victories at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park over the past couple of seasons.


 

“It’s awesome to get to drive the 6 car for Bob (East), Terry (Klatt), Dave (Brzozowski) and everyone involved,” Trainor stated. “With all the history there, it’s really to cool to be able to get this opportunity, and I’m super excited to get going with it.”


 

Trainor’s midget and sprint car victories have come in cars owned by the Seymour family, who have been a longtime mainstays in USAC racing for over a half-century dating back to Boston Louie Seymour who fielded winning racecars for the likes of Rich Vogler, Billy Cassella and Ken Schrader, just to name a few.


 

Trainor joins the Klatt team after the ride was vacated by C.J. Leary who had driven the car to a top-four points finish with the USAC Silver Crown series in each of the past three seasons.


 

Attempting to make his USAC Silver Crown debut in the 2024 season finale at IRP for the Pierce operation, Trainor took to the challenge quite successfully, recording a top-six lap in practice before engine problems sidelined him for the night before he ever really get going. The brief taste of USAC Silver Crown competition has only whetted his appetite even more.


 

“We got a little taste of it and got teased a little bit there last October at IRP,” Trainor recalled. “It was a great opportunity to run for Aaron (Pierce), and I thought we were really good in practice and we would’ve timed in pretty good in qualifying.  I felt like after testing, we could have raced pretty good with those guys. I don’t feel like we were far off.  After running the sprint car at IRP, and how many laps I have there now, it was pretty much the perfect storm for a debut. I was super comfortable there, and I think we could’ve been good.”


 

Trainor’s prowess at IRP has already been well established, but now he’ll get the opportunity to travel a bit more and tackle a wider array of venues for the first time in his career such as Toledo, Winchester, Salem and World Wide Technology Raceway on the 2025 slate.


 

“I’m excited just to be able to get out more, especially with the prestigious USAC Silver Crown series,” Trainor exclaimed. “It’s an honor and it’s really neat to go to tracks like Winchester, Salem, WWT and Toledo. They’re just really cool places with a lot of history behind them. The names that have been through this series and have won at these places are incredible and it’s exciting to be a part of it.”


 

Trainor is a first generation racer, with his introduction to the sport coming from sitting in the stands with his dad as a six-year-old. Trainor remembers a chance meeting at Connecticut’s Thompson Speedway’s World Series event in which a promotional booth for the Little T Quarter Midget Club was set up in the midway. One thing led to another, and Jake’s father soon sold his prized Corvette, and with the money, purchased a quarter midget, starting him on the path toward a racing career.


 

After quarter midgets, Trainor steeped into Eastern Midget Association competition by the time he was 11 at tracks based around the North Carolina area, then began with the northeast United States based NEMA Lites series where he eventually became a two-time series champion in 2021 and 2022.


 

Aside from his on-track duties, Trainor’s full-time job from day-to-day is working on and building race cars out of the Matt Seymour Racing shop for whom he also drives midgets and sprint cars for.


 

While Trainor will serve as the pavement specialist for the Klatt entry, the dirt driver for the 2019 USAC Silver Crown championship winning team has yet to be named.


 

The first USAC Silver Crown event for Klatt and Trainor on pavement will take place on Saturday, April 19, during the running of the Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway.

 

 Edwards, Avanti & CBI to Chase Full USAC Midget Season in 2025

For 2025, Drake Edwards will have the opportunity to compete full-time on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship trail for this past season’s championship team, CB Industries. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 12, 2024)………Drake Edwards made a splash in his debut season of midget racing in 2024 with success on the west coast along with a smattering of solid appearances on the national scene.


 

Now for 2025, Edwards (Peoria, Ariz.) will have the opportunity to compete full-time on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship trail for this past season’s championship team, CB Industries.


 

The 21-year-old Edwards earned USAC Avanti Windows & Doors Western States Midget Rookie of the Year in 2024 on the strength of a pair of victories at California’s Santa Maria Speedway and The Dirt Track at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway while coming up just 11 points shy of the series title in a car owned by Jerry Petty’s team, Petty Performance Racing,


 

“It definitely exceeded our goals,” Edwards admitted. “At the beginning of the year, my goal and Jerry’s goal was to just get top-10 in the points and make laps. We had no idea that it would be as great as it was. Luckily, we were able to click off a couple of wins there, and the championship ended up being way closer than I ever thought it was going to be. It would’ve been really cool to get the championship, but all and all, it surpassed what I thought we could do.”


 

In just a handful of USAC National Midget starts in 2024 at tracks he’d never laid eyes on before, Edwards was rock solid and proved to be a quick study. The only new track he got a second crack at was Ohio’s Eldora Speedway during the 4-Crown Nationals where he proceeded to finish ninth.


 

What began as an impromptu, unplanned excursion to compete with the national series turned out to pay major dividends when he came back “home” to race afterward.


 

“The week before Indiana Midget Week, we ran at Ventura (Calif.) that Saturday,” Edwards remembered. “Kyle Cummins was planning to take his cars to Midget Week, so I called Jerry that night after we were done racing and I told him that I’d love to go learn some stuff and be around those guys to see if we can figure some things out to bring home with us setup-wise. I’m glad we did because I ended up coming back from Midget Week, and the next weekend after, we picked up our first win at Santa Maria. After that, Jerry saw how much that improved me as a driver and with our setups after being around competition like that. We were able to come back later in the season to race at Eldora, the BC39 and the western swing. So, I think that was a very good call with us to go back east a little bit.”


 

Edwards wasn’t completely immune to the growing pains associated with a Rookie season. There were plenty of ups, but also their fair share of downs which led Edwards and his car owner, Jerry Petty, down a path to get an extra set of eyes and wrenches on his ride to keep him consistent. In a roundabout way, that led them to CB Industries car owner Chad Boat, and a new pairing was born.


 

“I hadn’t formally met Chad until this recent western swing,” Edwards revealed. “This whole deal came about just because we were struggling. It was just my family and I maintaining our midgets on the west coast. I was trying to figure out all the setup stuff and doing that on my own. I’d have really good races and really bad races, and I couldn’t find a balance. Jerry really wanted to find a crew chief to be able to run our own cars on the national deal, but he couldn’t find anyone.  So, he talked to Chad about getting me in a car.  Our main goal with this is to learn as much as I can about driving the car while also learning what they do to make their cars fast under Chad, who is very knowledgeable.”


 

Edwards’ full-time job during the day is maintaining and wrenching on the Petty Performance Racing midgets and sprint cars, the latter of which is driven full-time on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship circuit by Kyle Cummins, a role Edwards will continue to perform at the track and in the shop when not behind the wheel of the CBI Midget throughout 2025.


 

Edwards’ father and uncle both raced frequently on the west coast, and if you dig deep into the USAC archives, you’ll find his uncle, Chris Edwards, as a top-10 finisher of a USAC Western States Midget feature in 2004 at California’s Perris Auto Speedway.


 

Drake himself got bitten by the racing bug early on and was equipped with a quarter midget by the time he was five, competing at that stage until he was age 12 or 13, he estimated. After taking a couple years off from the sport, by 2019, Edwards was back in the cockpit, this time in a micro sprint owned by his father. Ultimately, he’d eventually claim the title in the Class A and Outlaw divisions at Central Arizona Raceway in what was practically the first time he’d ever chased yearlong points.


 

Although his first actual competitive laps in a midget came years later, Edwards’ first such experience in a midget didn’t go quite as well, but it did end up making a connection with Jerry Petty, and a story to tell.


 

“I was helping Jack Yeley for a while, going to his house and helping him work on midget and sprint car stuff,” Edwards explained. “Jack gave me the opportunity to practice one of his midgets before they took it to Chili Bowl because he didn’t have enough drivers to practice in all of the cars he wanted to take! So, at our local track of Adobe Mountain Speedway (in Phoenix, Ariz.), it was the first time I ever ran a midget, and when I came off the track, it wouldn’t get out of gear and I almost ran Jerry over. He loves telling that story of how we met. Since then, he’s helped me out with the micro and at the Tulsa Shootout. After that, I pursued him for a midget deal for this past year with the Western States series. He was all for it, and here we are now.”


 

Edwards and Avanti will remain teamed together as they join CB Industries for 2025. In fact, Boat hints that there is more to come in his new association with Petty/Avanti with their role expanding to more than just the midget.


 

The 2025 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season begins with two-straight dates at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway on April 25-26 for the Kokomo Grand Prix.

 

Levan Machine & Truck Equipment Presents 2025 USAC Eastern Storm, with $10,000 Point Fund

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 9, 2024)………Levan Machine & Truck Equipment will serve as the presenting sponsor of the 18th edition of USAC Eastern Storm in June of 2025.


 

Six dates at six different dirt tracks will greet the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship when the series travels east for the annual tour of Pennsylvania and New Jersey with each event paying $6,000-to-win and featuring a point fund totaling $10,000.


 

Eastern Storm 2025 begins on Tuesday, June 17, at Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania’s 1/3-mile Grandview Speedway, which has hosted the opener each year since the induction of the series.


 

On Wednesday, June 18, Eastern Storm travels across the boarder to New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park for the sixth time at the speedy 4/10-mile.


 

It’s back to the Keystone State on Thursday, June 19, as the series competitors take on Pottsville, Pennsylvania’s Big Diamond Speedway for the eighth time.


 

As the series hits the weekend, two historic 1/2-miles are on tap with Williams Grove taking center stage on Friday, June 20. The Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania venue is one of the USAC originals, having hosted its first series event in USAC’s inaugural season of 1956.


 

The second of the two 1/2-mile tracks on the docket is slated for Saturday, June 21, at Port Royal Speedway in the penultimate round of Eastern Storm. The event will also feature USAC’s Silver Crown National Championship.


 

Kutztown, Pennsylvania’s Action Track USA caps off a busy week of racing on Sunday, June 22. The smallest track on the entire USAC National Sprint Car schedule at 1/6-mile produces big excitement as evidenced by 2024’s photo finish between Logan Seavey and Briggs Danner.


 

The Action Track USA event will pay full points toward the Eastern Storm standings but will pay appearance points only toward the USAC National Sprint Car tally.


 

USAC Eastern Storm began in 2007 and consisted of three events, all of which were swept by Tony Stewart Racing team drivers Levi Jones and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Jones was the winner of the very first Eastern Storm feature event held on June 6, 2007, at Grandview, and was also the first Eastern Storm champion.


 

In 2024, Mitchel Moles became a first-time Eastern Storm champion on the strength of consistency. Ten different drivers have captured an Eastern Storm title: Levi Jones (2007-2010-2011), Bryan Clauson (2012-2013-2016), Cole Whitt (2008 & 2009), Robert Ballou (2015 & 2021), Chris Windom (2017 & 2018), Brady Bacon (2014), C.J. Leary (2019), Logan Seavey (2022), Emerson Axsom (2023) and Mitchel Moles (2024).


 

Feature events at Eastern Storm in 2024 were won by Briggs Danner (Grandview), who became the first Pennsylvania native to win an Eastern Storm feature. Brady Bacon (Bridgeport & Port Royal was the lone two-time winner of the series.


 

Meanwhile, Logan Seavey (Big Diamond) became the latest driver to win both Eastern Storm and the USAC National Sprint Car season, which has occurred on nine previous occasions in the 17-year history of the series. Seavey (Action Track USA) corralled the finale in perhaps the closest finish in Eastern Storm history. Meanwhile, Kevin Thomas Jr. (Williams Grove) scored a dramatic last lap, last turn victory on his birthday.


 

Sixty-nine (69) Eastern Storm events have been contested over the years with Brady Bacon holding the all-time record with eight career series victories. Twenty-eight (28) different drivers have won an Eastern Storm feature event: Brady Bacon with eight. Bryan Clauson, Levi Jones and Chris Windom have each won six. Robert Ballou owns five scores. Justin Grant, Logan Seavey and Kevin Thomas Jr. have each tallied four. Cole Whitt has grabbed three. Emerson Axsom, Tyler Courtney and Thomas Meseraull each have achieved two wins apiece.


 

The list of one-time Eastern Storm winners includes Chad Boat, Chad Boespflug, Daron Clayton, Shane Cottle, Kyle Cummins, Briggs Danner, Dave Darland, Bobby East, Damion Gardner, Jesse Hockett, Jason McDougal, Hunter Schuerenberg, Jon Stanbrough, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chase Stockon and Jake Swanson


 


 

About Levan Machine & Truck Equipment


 

Levan Machine and Truck Equipment is a full-service CNC machine shop and work truck upfitter located just outside Reading, Pennsylvania. Since 1936, Levan Machine and Truck Equipment has been your one-stop-shop for custom repair and production machining, and driveline services, and they are known throughout the East Coast for servicing commercial and fleet customers with custom work truck builds. They are also your go-to for all your CTech needs!  Additionally, Levan Machine and Truck Equipment offers general truck repair and maintenance to help you keep your commercial fleet in top condition throughout your busy work schedule. You can find their website at https://www.levanmachine.com/.


 


 

2025 USAC EASTERN STORM SCHEDULE


 

Tuesday, June 17: Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania


 

Wednesday, June 18: Bridgeport Motorsports Park | Swedesboro, New Jersey


 

Thursday, June 19: Big Diamond Speedway | Pottsville, Pennsylvania


 

Friday, June 20: Williams Grove Speedway | Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania


 

Saturday, June 21: Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, Pennsylvania


 

Sunday, June 22: Action Track USA | Kutztown, Pennsylvania

 

Daming & Swanson Goes Full-Time USAC Sprint Car Racing in 2025

Brownsburg, Indiana (December 9, 2024)………The 2025 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season will see a new team enter the fray as Daming Swanson Motorsports has announced its formation and commitment to a full-time schedule.


 

Co-owned by driver Jake Swanson and supported by a key partnership with Doug Dougherty of Dougherty Motorsports, the team is poised to make an immediate impact on the national stage.


 

Jake Swanson, a seasoned driver with a proven track record of success, will pilot the team’s entry as both co-owner and driver. Swanson’s passion and determination to compete at the highest level of non-wing sprint car racing have been integral to the team’s formation.


 

“We’ve always dreamed of building a program capable of competing in the full USAC National Sprint Car season, and now that dream is becoming a reality for myself and the Daming family,” said Swanson. “Having Doug Dougherty on board and his support through Dougherty Motorsports is the final piece of the puzzle, and we couldn’t be more grateful.”


 

The newly-formed partnership with Dougherty Motorsports brings access to cutting-edge 1-Way Technologies engines, a critical factor in the team’s ability to compete at the highest level. Dougherty’s deep ties to non-wing sprint car racing, his knowledge with setup, and his commitment to the sport make him a natural partner for this ambitious endeavor.


 

“Doug is a long-time proponent of non-wing sprint car racing, and we’re honored to have him as part of our program,” Swanson added. “His support and setup expertise ensures that we have the horsepower and knowledge needed to compete across the national schedule."


 

This team is proud to exclusively utilize DRC Chassis. Known for their exceptional craftsmanship and unmatched performance, DRC Chassis has been a cornerstone of Jake Swanson’s racing success since his move to Indiana and even prior. The team’s continued loyalty to DRC underscores their commitment to utilizing the best equipment in the sport as they chase their 2025 USAC National Sprint Car ambitions.


 

Daming Swanson Motorsports represents a fresh yet experienced entry into the USAC National Sprint Car Series, combining Swanson’s on-track prowess with a dedicated team and state-of-the-art equipment. The team’s commitment to excellence and its connection to passionate racing supporters like Dougherty Motorsports set it apart as one to watch in 2025.


 

The 2025 USAC National Sprint Car Series kicks off in February at Ocala Speedway, with the team making its official debut at the season opener. Fans and sponsors alike can expect an exciting journey as the team strives to compete at the front of the pack throughout the year.


 

Daming Swanson Motorsports is actively seeking new partnerships and sponsorship opportunities to join them on this enterprise. With a full-time schedule in 2025, the team offers consistent, long-term exposure both on and off the track, including prominent branding on race cars, haulers, apparel, and a dynamic presence across social platforms. Companies looking to align with a passionate, competitive, and legacy-driven team are invited to become part of this 2025 campaign.


 


 

Honoring the Memory of Joe Daming


 

The formation of Daming Swanson Motorsports comes under bittersweet circumstances following the sudden loss of the team’s original owner, Joe Daming, in March of 2024. Joe’s passion for sprint car racing and his unwavering commitment to building a competitive team laid the foundation for this venture.


 

"Joe was more than just a team owner; he was a dear friend, and the heart of this program,” said Swanson. "We are deeply saddened by his passing but are committed to carrying on his legacy. This team will race in his memory, with every lap on the track representing the dreams he set out to achieve.”

 

Repeat! Pursley Grabs 2024 USAC ProSource Passing Master Title

Thursday December 5th... Daison Pursley, 2024 USAC ProSource Passing Master champion. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 5, 2024)………For the second consecutive season, no driver passed more cars throughout the USAC national season than Daison Pursley en route to the 2024 USAC ProSource Passing Master title.


 

Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) advanced a total of 209 positions in 72 feature starts across USAC’s Silver Crown, AMSOIL National Sprint Car and NOS Energy Drink National Midget divisions throughout the 2024 campaign, which earned him a $2,500 reward. He will be honored during the Friday night, December 13, 2024, USAC Night of Champions at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis.


 

He becomes the second back-to-back winner of the season-long Passing Master award which rewards the USAC nationally licensed driver who advanced the most positions during feature events throughout the entirety of USAC’s 2024 national season between Silver Crown, Sprint Cars and Midgets. Justin Grant also won the award consecutively in 2021 and 2022.


 

Early on in the season, both of Pursley’s USAC car owners, Chad Boat (Midget) and Michael Burkhart (Sprint & Silver Crown), made a prediction that Pursley wouldn’t repeat the award in 2024. Not because they doubted him, but because Pursley was expected to be a front runner in qualifying, which would set him up with a quality starting spot come feature time. Instead, Pursley was able to accomplish both.


 

“At the beginning of the year, both Chad and Michael told me, ‘you aren’t going to win passing master this year.’”  Pursley recalled. “We want to qualify well and start up front, but I was like, ‘if I qualify that good, I’d still start in the third row and would still have a chance at passing a lot of cars.’”


 

That he did, passing 10 more cars than he did a year ago during his first passing master crown in addition to capturing the 2024 USAC National Midget driving championship.


 

“Usually, if you win passing master, it means you started pretty far back, which also means you didn’t qualify well,” Pursley explained. “But I thought I did a good job this year at upping my qualifying game. I felt that had been one of my weakest points. There’s times we started 15th or 18th or 20th on back, but we were still able to finish inside the top-three. That allowed us to have a big jump in the passing master points, and that’s what helps make those championship runs when you can start that far back and still get a good result.”


 

Unquestionably, Pursley’s standout passing performance of the 2024 USAC season came during May’s Larry Rice Classic for sprint cars at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway where he started 23rd on the grid before passing 21 cars, cutting right through the middle of the 1/4-mile of red clay to finish second. The performance set an all-time USAC National Sprint Car record for the biggest advancement by a driver from start to finish in the series’ 68-year history.


 

“Bloomington’s small and sprint cars are tight at that place to begin with,” Pursley noted. “There were a couple of people who made jokes to me, like ‘how do you go from 23rd to 2nd and not win the race if the car was that good?’ That’s exactly how I felt too. Everything went perfect, but when we got to second, it was like, ‘what the heck? Why can’t I get to the lead?’ Nonetheless, it was a special night. It felt like they were sitting still and my car was just hitting on all cylinders.”


 

Pursley was one of three drivers to win in all three of USAC’s national divisions in 2024, racking up a total of 10 wins across the board in Midgets (7), Sprints (2) and Silver Crown (1). Furthermore, he routinely made up ground by advancing forward from his original starting spot in 42 of the 72 features he started during the year.


 

“I find a lot of enjoyment in passing cars and creating different lines and developing stuff,” Pursley explained. “It’s something I felt like I’ve worked on a lot in my career, maneuvering past cars whether that’s in lapped traffic or whether I have to start in the back on a restart or anything like that. I felt like I’ve done a pretty dang good job and studied to get better in some areas. It’s something I enjoy, and I can make up a lot of time on restarts and by passing those cars in the slowest parts of the racetrack, and that’s what I was able to accomplish this year.”


 

Since 2020, longtime USAC supporter Buck Rice has offered the ProSource Passing Master reward with past winners including Chris Windom (2020), Justin Grant (2021 & 2022) and now Pursley (2023 & 2024). Pursley is deeply proud to wear that badge of honor once again and is grateful for the man who posts the reward year after year.


 

“Buck spends his hard earned money for us to do what we do,” Pursley praised. “Buck likes a lot of passing just as we do and it’s super special for him to allow us to chase our dreams and give us a little extra money to get up and down the road. If it wasn’t for people like him, drivers wouldn’t be able to do what we do. I’m forever thankful for people like Buck, and hopefully, I can continue to pass a lot of cars and maybe get some more of his money down the road.”


 


 

USAC PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER CHAMPIONS:


 

2020: Chris Windom, Canton, Illinois


 

2021: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2022: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2023: Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma


 

2024: Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma


 


 

2024 USAC PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER STANDINGS:


 

209-Daison Pursley


 

204-Logan Seavey


 

164-Justin Grant


 

149-Robert Ballou


 

134-C.J. Leary


 

131-Kyle Cummins


 

126-Chase Stockon


 

121-Matt Westfall


 

120-Brady Bacon


 

107-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

101-Jadon Rogers


 

98-Joey Amantea


 

97-Mitchel Moles


 

87-Ryan Timms


 

85-Carson Garrett


 

83-Zach Daum


 

82-Briggs Danner


 

75-Shane Cottle & Cannon McIntosh


 

73-Jake Swanson


 

68-Kale Drake


 

65-Ricky Lewis


 

64-Chance Crum


 

61-Gavin Miller


 

57-Jacob Denney


 

48-Jerry Coons Jr. & Zach Wigal


 

44-Kyle Jones


 

42-Alex Bright & Gregg Cory


 

41-Trey Osborne


 

38-Tye Mihocko


 

37-Hayden Reinbold


 

35-Jade Avedisian


 

28-Tom Harris


 

26-Hunter Maddox & Curtis Spicer


 

23-Carmen Perigo


 

22-Matt Goodnight, Danny Jennings & Brandon Mattox


 

21-Kaylee Bryson & Kyle Steffens


 

20-Max Adams & Nathan Moore


 

19-Kayla Roell


 

17-Chris Fetter & Russ Gamester


 

16-Todd Hobson & Bobby Santos


 

14-Nathan Byrd


 

13-Dave Berkheimer & Kendall Ruble


 

12-Mario Clouser & Ethan Mitchell


 

11-Jake Andreotti, Aric Gentry, Broedy Graham, Rylan Gray, Kip Hughes & Mark Smith


 

10-Jackson Macenko, Kody Swanson & Joe Trenca


 

9-Mark Bitner, Trey Burke, Taylor Ferns & Wesley Smith


 

8-Don Droud Jr., Kyle Robbins & Korey Weyant


 

7-Davey Hamilton Jr.


 

6-Dakoda Armstrong, Gunnar Setser & Chris Urish


 

5-Xavier Doney & Adam Taylor


 

4-Danny Long


 

3-Brent Beauchamp, Saban Bibent, Blake Brannon, Shane Cockrum, Chase Dietz & Mike Haggenbottom


 

2-Bryan Gossel, Thomas Meseraull & Brian Ruhlman


 

1-Tanner Berryhill, Chase Howard, Kenney Johnson, Jimmy Light, Kevin Newton, Travis Welpott & Daniel Whitley

 

Seavey Hits #1, Records 2024 Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship

Thursday December 5th...Logan Seavey, 2024 Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Champion. (Josh James Artwork Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 5, 2024)………After finishing second in each of the past two seasons, Logan Seavey finally popped to the top of the charts to earn the 2024 Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship.


 

The newest member of USAC’s Career Triple Crown club captured the $10,000 reward by amassing more total points than any other driver across the three USAC national divisions throughout the duration of the 2024 campaign.


 

Since his USAC Rookie season of 2018, Seavey has never strayed outside of the top-10 in the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship standings. However, he’s never taken a step backwards in his pursuit, steadily climbing from 10th in 2018 to 9th in 2019 to 6th in 2020 and to 5th in 2021 before finishing as the runner-up to Justin Grant in both 2022 and 2023.


 

Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) earned a total of 5130 points during the 2024 campaign, 602 better than runner-up Daison Pursley with Justin Grant finishing just behind in third after capturing the Mike Curb title in each of the past three years in 2021-2022-2023.


 

“I knew, coming into it, that I had to beat Justin (Grant) for the most part, and that’s a tough guy to beat,” Seavey stated. “Ever since I’ve started racing with USAC, the guys who’ve won it are the best of the best, and then you look further back in history, it’s the same. It’s all the best guys of their eras. I’ve been close the last few years, but I’m fortunate to be running three great racecars and be close in all of them.”


 

In fact, Seavey pulled off the ultra-rare feat by achieving the Mike Curb title with the same team across the board. Abacus Racing fields sprint cars and midgets for Seavey while the Silver Crown car is a conjoined effort between Abacus and Rice Motorsports.


 

After notching USAC’s National Midget and Silver Crown titles in 2023 with Abacus, Seavey felt that if he could pick up the pace in sprint cars, he would put himself right into contention across all three series. The addition of the sprint car was a rousing success, netting Seavey 14 USAC national victories in 2024 to tie Tom Bigelow’s all-time record mark set in 1977.


 

“I figured over the last few years that if I could pick up my sprint car program a little bit, I’d be a little closer and able to race Justin for this championship,” Seavey said. “I knew I’d be close, but it finally came together this year. It’s a cool award that I’ve always looked at and never really knew if I’d even be able to do all the classes or how it would work out in my career. But to be here now is pretty awesome.”


 

To go along with a pair of USAC National Midget wins and a Silver Crown victory to boot, Seavey’s 17 USAC national feature scores in 2024 rank among the all-time greatest seasons, and also ranked inside the top-three of the standings in sprints (1st), midgets (3rd) and Silver Crown (3rd).


 

In fact, Seavey was one of three drivers to win across all three USAC national divisions this past season alongside Daison Pursley and Justin Grant. Along with Grant, Seavey was also one of only two drivers to start all 81 possible feature events during the 2024 season.


 

“It would’ve been even cooler to win the single season USAC Triple Crown and back up what we did last year with the sprint car, but to do it with the same group of guys is incredible,” Seavey praised. “These guys work well together and have a lot of fun.”


 

Seavey and Abacus’ 2024 performance became the sixth occasion in which a driver and entrant have regularly competed across all three USAC national divisions en route to the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship: Josh Wise & Tony Stewart Racing (2005 & 2006), Tracy Hines & Tony Stewart Racing (2008), as well as Bryan Clauson & Curb-Agajanian (2011 & 2012).


 

This year marked the 26th year of the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship. Curb has offered the reward annually since the 1999 USAC season to honor USAC’s top overall points champion. Once known as the USAC Super License, the title was rechristened as the National Drivers Championship in recent years to more properly represent the accomplishment of achieving the feat, which so few have done. Now Seavey will accept the honor during USAC’s Night of Champions at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis on Friday night, December 13, 2024.


 


 

MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONS:


 

1999: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana


 

2000: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana


 

2001: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona


 

2002: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona


 

2003: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona


 

2004: Jay Drake, Val Verde, California


 

2005: Josh Wise, Riverside, California


 

2006: Josh Wise, Riverside, California


 

2007: Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, Arizona


 

2008: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana


 

2009: Cole Whitt, Alpine, California


 

2010: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana


 

2011: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana


 

2012: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana


 

2013: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana


 

2014: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana


 

2015: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana


 

2016: Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma


 

2017: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2018: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana


 

2019: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana


 

2020: Chris Windom, Canton, Illinois


 

2021: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2022: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2023: Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

2024: Logan Seavey, Sutter, California


 

 

2024 MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS:


 

PTS/DRIVER


 

5130-Logan Seavey


 

4528-Daison Pursley


 

4523-Justin Grant


 

3429-C.J. Leary


 

3365-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

3142-Brady Bacon


 

2784-Mitchel Moles


 

2734-Kyle Cummins


 

2625-Robert Ballou


 

2105-Matt Westfall


 

2074-Chase Stockon


 

1801-Briggs Danner


 

1800-Carson Garrett


 

1616-Kale Drake


 

1559-Jake Swanson


 

1446-Cannon McIntosh


 

1432-Jadon Rogers


 

1401-Zach Daum


 

1322-Joey Amantea


 

1311-Ryan Timms


 

1285-Ricky Lewis


 

1283-Jacob Denney


 

1176-Gavin Miller


 

1085-Zach Wigal


 

1010-Shane Cottle


 

949-Hunter Maddox


 

904-Kody Swanson


 

796-Trey Osborne


 

718-Jade Avedisian


 

716-Jerry Coons Jr.


 

664-Kyle Jones


 

619-Alex Bright


 

594-Kaylee Bryson


 

593-Brandon Mattox


 

575-Jake Andreotti


 

528-Kyle Steffens


 

494-Chance Crum


 

476-Hayden Reinbold


 

475-Mario Clouser


 

452-Gregg Cory


 

433-Bobby Santos


 

429-Max Adams


 

420-Ethan Mitchell


 

402-Tom Harris


 

397-Thomas Meseraull


 

396-Nathan Moore


 

367-Kayla Roell


 

366-Dakoda Armstrong


 

360-Rylan Gray


 

353-Tye Mihocko


 

329-Dave Berkheimer


 

314-Wesley Smith


 

296-Saban Bibent & Taylor Ferns


 

275-Todd Hobson


 

243-Trey Burke & Nathan Byrd


 

231-Xavier Doney


 

227-Russ Gamester


 

200-Tyler Roahrig


 

192-Timmy Buckwalter


 

191-Curtis Spicer


 

184-Chris Fetter


 

180-Carmen Perigo


 

176-Daniel Whitley


 

168-Hank Davis


 

159-Adam Taylor


 

158-Ashton Torgerson


 

138-Matt Goodnight


 

132-Gunnar Setser


 

130-Davey Hamilton Jr.


 

127-Chase Howard & Jackson Macenko


 

126-Brian Ruhlman


 

123-Brent Beauchamp


 

108-Danny Jennings


 

105-Steven Snyder Jr.


 

98-Mark Smith


 

95-Kyle Robbins


 

93-Chase Dietz


 

88-Patrick Lawson


 

82-Bryan Gossel


 

78-Kip Hughes & Jimmy Light


 

76-Danny Long


 

68-Shane Butler & Nic Harris


 

63-Chris Urish


 

62-Mark Bitner


 

59-Blake Brannon


 

58-Travis Welpott


 

57-Korey Weyant


 

54-Broedy Graham


 

53-Shane Cockrum & Dave Peperak


 

51-Aric Gentry


 

46-Tom Savage


 

44-Adam Bolyard & Steve Gennetten


 

41-Derek Bischak & Mike Haggenbottom


 

39-Casey Buckman


 

35-Joe Trenca


 

33-Tanner Berryhill & Cody Gerhardt


 

24-Sterling Cling


 

23-Kenney Johnson & Brent Yarnal


 

20-Jason Cherry


 

19-Kevin Newton


 

16-Don Droud Jr.


 

10-Kenny Gentry, Will Hull, Joey Moughan, Ken Schrader & Jake Trainor

 

 

Buckeye Beast! Wigal is Ohio’s First USAC Midget RoY in 20 Years

Thursday December 5th...Zach Wigal, 2024 MPI Bob Stroud USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Rookie of the Year. (Maddie Boyd Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 5, 2024)………It’s been 20 years since an Ohioan earned top Rookie honors with the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship.


 

Zach Wigal is proud to wear that badge in 2024 after being named the Max Papis Innovations Bob Stroud USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year.


 

The 17-year-old Wigal resides in Belpre, Ohio, but actually attends high school across the border in Parkersburg, West Virginia. This year, Wigal became the third USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year hailing from the Buckeye State following Donnelsville, Ohio brothers Teddy Beach (2002) and Todd Beach (2004).


 

Prior to the season, Wigal estimated that his biggest challenge would be visiting almost an entirely new slate of tracks he had never competed on before. His expectations came to fruition during the opening three-race weekend in May when he qualified in the back half of the field and failed to finish any of the three features better than 13th.


 

However, during the fourth round of the campaign in June during the USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Lawrenceburg Speedway, Wigal turned the corner. He set fast qualifying time and crossed under the checkered flag eighth in the feature. In July, he repeated his qualifying feat with another quick time in his first ever trip to Kansas’ Mitchell County Fairgrounds aboard his CB Industries/Dave Knost Auto Outlet/Spike/Speedway Toyota No. 89.


 

Qualifying was among the chief concerns and priorities for Wigal entering the 2024 season, but ultimately, he passed his initial tests with flying colors when facing off with the stopwatch.


 

“This year, I learned how to qualify a lot better,” Wigal admitted. “Where I had been used to racing, it’s not a big deal. You start your night with a heat race. That was biggest thing, going out there and putting down one really good lap.”


 

By June’s Indiana Midget Week event at Tri-State Speedway, Wigal had reached the top-five for the first time in his young USAC National Midget career. However, Labor Day weekend in September at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway during the opening night of the 39th Firemen’s Nationals produced the dream weekend he was longing for.


 

Within the first five laps, Wigal climbed from third to first, passing series veterans Kevin Thomas Jr. and Zach Daum to take the lead. For the final 25 laps, it was all Wigal who became USAC’s newest first-time winner, and afterward, uttered one of the most memorable quotes of the season, stating, ”Some kids dream of winning the Super Bowl or the NBA Finals, but my dream is to be standing here.”


 

As Wigal reflects on the moment today, a flood of thoughts come to mind.


 

“I thought (a lot of money) was what you needed to have to get there, so I never thought I’d even be able to race with these guys, let alone win a race,” Wigal stated. “It’s just a surreal feeling to have gotten here and to have success at this level.”


 

By Wigal’s side throughout the season were the helpful hands and watchful eyes of car owner Chad Boat and teammate Daison Pursley. Boat owned cars captured the 2020 USAC National Midget championship with Chris Windom as the team’s driver while Pursley, of course, went on to score this year’s series driving title.


 

As Wigal puts it, the more laps you get on different racetracks, the better it makes you as a driver and even makes the car better. But having a duo like Boat and Pursley there to help guide you along the way was a godsend for a Rookie like Wigal out on the trail.


 

“They were the main reason for my progress this year,” Wigal revealed. “Chad’s a master on the wrenches, and he’s proven that with the best cars at the racetrack, while Daison helped me out a lot with the driving, which helped my confidence. It was something different at every track; I’d go out there in hot laps and run 25th, then they’d tell me something I could do to find a tenth or two tenths and we’d go 10th quick. Being able to recognize what I did in just a few laps, then telling me what to do and being able to change it and fix it to go faster was such a huge help.”


 

Wigal is also a graduate of the USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget series, having won its 2023 series championship. In his spare time from the USAC National Midget schedule 2024, he still found time to participate with the series in the family owned No. 18, starting 10 events and winning a series-high three features.


 

Like Jacob Denney, a 2020 and 2021 USAC Midwest Thunder champion himself, Wigal is beginning to make his mark on the USAC national circuit.  Wigal credits the series with honing his craft and preparing him for the next level of USAC Midget competition.


 

“In my opinion, it’s the best developmental series there is,” Wigal proclaimed. “It’s the same as a midget, just less power, plus it’s a lot cheaper and there’s great quality drivers. I think Denney and I have proven that. He and I won a lot, but it’s not like we absolutely dominated everybody. They’re really affordable racecars, the racing’s great and it teaches you a lot.”


 


 

MPI BOB STROUD USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ROOKIES OF THE YEAR:


 

1969: Billy Engelhart, Madison, Wisconsin


 

1970: Danny Brown, Rossville, Illinois


 

1971: Danny Caruthers, Anaheim, California


 

1972: Tommy Astone, Fresno, California


 

1973: Mike Gregg, Fort Collins, Colorado


 

1974: Richard Powell, Enid, Oklahoma


 

1975: Larry Patton, Anaheim, California


 

1976: James McElreath, Arlington, Texas


 

1977: Lonnie Caruthers, Corona Del Mar, California


 

1978: Tommy Thomas, Dana Point, California


 

1979: Barry Butterworth, Auckland, New Zealand


 

1980: Trevor Boys, Calgary, Alberta


 

1981: Sherman Armstrong Jr., Winchester, Indiana


 

1982: Chris Maxson, McHenry, Illinois


 

1983: John Andretti, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania


 

1984: Russ Gamester, Peru, Indiana


 

1985: Bobby Allen, Carmel, Indiana


 

1986: Steve Enlow, Tulsa, Oklahoma


 

1987: John Meyers, Oak Brook, Illinois


 

1988: Jim Keeker, Cicero, Indiana


 

1989: Jeff Gordon, Vallejo, California


 

1990: Dan Ford, Saint Peters, Missouri


 

1991: Doug Kalitta, Ypsilanti, Michigan


 

1992: Brian Gerster, Indianapolis, Indiana


 

1993: Chuck Leary, Greenfield, Indiana


 

1994: David Bridges, Indianapolis, Indiana


 

1995: Ryan Newman, South Bend, Indiana


 

1996: Carl Olsen, Auckland, New Zealand


 

1997: Nick Lundgreen, Franklin, Wisconsin


 

1998: Michael Lewis, Noblesville, Indiana


 

1999: A.J. Fike, Galesburg, Illinois


 

2000: Aaron Fike, Galesburg, Illinois


 

2001: Bobby East, Brownsburg, Indiana


 

2002: Teddy Beach, Donnelsville, Ohio


 

2002: Ron Gregory, Noblesville, Indiana


 

2003: Ryan Durst, Lincoln, Nebraska


 

2004: Todd Beach, Donnelsville, Ohio


 

2005: Darren Hagen, Riverside, California


 

2006: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana


 

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Olive Branch, Mississippi


 

2008: Chad Boat, Phoenix, Arizona


 

2009: Zach Daum, Pocahontas, Illinois


 

2010: Daniel Bedford, Brentwood, California


 

2011: Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, California


 

2012: Rico Abreu, Saint Helena, California


 

2013: Christopher Bell, Norman, Oklahoma


 

2014: Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Alabama


 

2015: Spencer Bayston, Lebanon, Indiana


 

2016: Carson Macedo, Lemoore, California


 

2017: Tanner Carrick, Lincoln, California


 

2018: Logan Seavey, Sutter, California


 

2019: Andrew Layser, Collegeville, Pennsylvania


 

2020: Buddy Kofoid, Penngrove, California


 

2021: Chase Randall, Waco, Texas


 

2022: Mitchel Moles, Raisin City, California


 

2023: Gavin Miller, Allentown, Pennsylvania


 

2024: Zach Wigal, Belpre, Ohio

 

 

The Comeback of All Comebacks: Pursley’s Remarkable 2024 Season Nets USAC Midget Title

Wednesday December 4th... Daison Pursley, 2024 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Champion. (Rich Forman Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (December 4, 2024)………A team of Disney writers couldn’t have produced a better script than the reality of Daison Pursley’s storybook USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2024.


 

From the depths of despair after suffering a major spinal cord injury during a 2021 USAC Midget crash at Arizona Speedway to the highest mountaintop with his championship clinching moment in 2024 at California’s Ventura Raceway, the now 20-year-old Pursley endured a journey that so few could even comprehend.


 

Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) was diagnosed as an incomplete quadriplegic in the immediate aftermath of his accident with paralysis from the neck down. Throughout 2021-2022, he endured a rigorous rehabilitation program to aid his recovery from his severely damaged C4-C5 vertebrae.


 

“I’m definitely sure there was doubt,” Pursley explained when asked if he thought this day would come after what he had been through. “I would be lying if I didn’t say that. There were always goals. At first, I just wanted to be quote/unquote a normal person again and just live a normal life, which was just walking, eating on my own and breathing on my own. Just all the little things that we wake up and take for granted.”


 

Literally and figuratively, it was all about taking one step at a time. Soon enough, steadily and surely, the thoughts of returning to the seat of a racecar came creeping back into Pursley’s daily thoughts.


 

“It started out with accomplishing those little, but big things,” Pursley noted. “Once I checked off all those goals, it was going to the rehab center to run and ride a bike, then once those were checked off, I wanted to race again. It was a big step not only to want to race, but to also race at the level I wanted to. Once I got back in a micro sprint, after about five laps, I was saying to myself, ‘this feels right.  This feels like exactly what I want to do.’ I knew it was just going to take some time to get back to where I once was, but I knew it was definitely something I wanted to pursue.”


 

By late 2022, Pursley was back behind the wheel. By 2023, he was regaining his footing at the wheel. By the end of 2024, he was a champion, something that was almost hard to imagine just three years ago. Three years definitely seems like a long time in the world of a young racer, but as he reflects now, a USAC national championship is something that happened a lot faster than he ever could’ve imagined. It’s a feat he’ll forever be proud of and thankful for. It’s a feeling of accomplishment that, after all the pain and emotional he’s been through, he can proudly proclaim that’s he’s back.


 

“I don’t think it’s ever really going to sink in that I’m a USAC champion,” the humbly confident Pursley stated. “It’s something that people dream of but never get to accomplish. It’s something that I’m going to cherish forever and always remember.”


 

In 2024, Pursley and his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota compiled a series high seven USAC National Midget victories, while leading 87 laps, capturing 11 heat race wins and producing 16 top-five finishes in 23 feature starts. In the process, Pursley provided CB Industries its first USAC National Midget entrant title, and the second for team principal Chad Boat who scored a series championship as part of Tucker-Boat Motorsports in 2020 with driver Chris Windom.


 

After a runner-up finish in the season opener, Pursley celebrated his 100th career USAC National Midget start in style by winning the following night’s feature at the Belleville (Kan.) Short Track, his first series victory since August of 2021, three months prior to his injury. Before the end of spring, he added two more scores at Bloomington Speedway and Kokomo Speedway, plus top-three finishes in five successive starts to earn his first USAC Indiana Midget Week crown by a record 74-point margin.


 

By midsummer, Pursley was still rolling, winning in his home state of Oklahoma at Red Dirt Raceway, the location of his first career USAC National Midget win in 2021. He followed up the next evening with a triumph during the Chad McDaniel Memorial at Kansas’ Mitchell County Fairgrounds That put Pursley’s win streak at three, which coincidentally, all came after he started seventh on the grid.


 

In September, Pursley put together one of the most incredible runs in USAC history by winning USAC National Midget features on back-to-back nights at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, followed by a USAC National Sprint Car victory before leading the first 12 laps and finishing fourth in the USAC Silver Crown race, all within a 27-hour span during the 4-Crown Nationals.


 

From the beginning, Pursley could tell his partnership with CB Industries was going to be promising. After a slight setback buried Pursley in the Saturday D-Main of his first ride with the team at the January 2024 Chili Bowl Midget Nationals, Pursley proceeded to advance through the alphabet soup, passing 45 cars along the way en route to a fourth place finish in the A-Main. Furthermore, when time allowed, Pursley stepped foot into CBI’s micro and proceeded to win there as well.


 

As it turns out, this whole championship pursuit may not have even been possible without Pursley’s friendship with Jesse Love, who was his teammate with the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports USAC Midget team during the 2020 season. Toward the end of the 2023 season’s California swing for the series, Love, who was driving for CBI at the time, chatted with Pursley in the pit area, which led to a conversation with Boat regarding 2024 plans. One thing led to another and Pursley had his plans set for 2024.


 

When Pursley clinched the USAC title with a third-place run in the season-ending Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ventura, eyes were drawn to the embrace between Daison and his father, a moment which represented so much more than just a congratulatory bear hug. It meant the entire world.


 

“I absolutely owe everything to my mom and dad,” Pursley said of his parents, Shawnda of Klint Pursley. “They’ve sacrificed so much for me and I can’t even begin to imagine everything that they’ve done for me. I don’t quite understand it because I’m not a parent by any means but I can’t imagine what they felt when their kid was at his absolute lowest and now he’s at the absolute highest, all within a three-year span. They are the best parents I could ever ask for and they’ve taught me how to be the person that I am today.”


 

If there’s anybody who can attest to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows in both motorsports and life, it’s Daison.


 

“Cherish all these moments and don’t get too high on yourself or too low when things get rough and stay level-headed,” Pursley shared. “My parents have done a great job in teaching me that. I’ve just been able to ride the wave – the good and the bad – and definitely wouldn’t change anything that my parents have done for me, and I’m forever grateful for them to travel up and down the road with me, with my dad driving all the miles to get me to all these racetracks while I sat in the passenger seat and slept. It’s just a very cool moment that I get to share with my mom and dad, and even more special with all of them getting to be there as well.”


 

Meanwhile, Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.) added three victories on his way to a career best second place finish in the standings, including May’s season opener at the Belleville (Kan.) Short Track which ended a 616 day dry spell since his last series win. He also added September’s Firemen’s Nationals at Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway and the $20,039-to-win Driven2SaveLives BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors later that month at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, utilizing a pass on the white flag lap to secure the big payday. He also led all drivers with 20 top-ten finishes in 23 starts.


 

Reigning series champion Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) finished third in points after notching a pair of wins at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex in May before picking up another in June during Indiana Midget Week at Tri-State Speedway. His four fast qualifying times during the season made him the leader in the clubhouse with the series. His eighth place finish in the opener at Belleville set a new all-time USAC record. The result marked his 23rd consecutive top-10 USAC National Midget feature finish dating back to last season, breaking the record held by Jason Leffler since 1997.


 

Ryan Timms (Oklahoma City, Okla.) followed likewise with a couple of wins during the Indiana Midget Week opener in June at Lawrenceburg Speedway which provided Mike Curb his milestone 200th USAC national victory as a car entrant. Timms picked up another in July at Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway, boosting him to his second consecutive fourth place finish in the standings. His 20th to 2nd run at Eldora in September resulted in the biggest charge of the year with the series.


 

The Max Papis Innovations Bob Stroud Rookie of the Year battle was tight all year long with Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) edging Kale Drake (Collinsville, Okla.) for the award. Wigal became the first Ohioan to win top Rookie honors with the series since Todd Beach in 2004. Both were also feature winners during their initial 2024 campaign as well with Wigal pocketing Angell Park in early September and Drake hoisting the trophy during a BC39 prelim in late September at IMS.


 

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) checked off a USAC National Midget win for the eighth consecutive season in July when he prevailed at Jefferson County. The night also marked his 80th overall USAC feature win, one of just 12 drivers to reach the mark along with Rich Vogler (171), A.J. Foyt (162), Sleepy Tripp (161), Mel Kenyon (131), Dave Darland (115), Bryan Clauson (112), Damion Gardner (106), Tracy Hines (98), Tom Bigelow (89), Gary Bettenhausen (82) and Brady Bacon (80).


 

Meanwhile, a number of non-series-regulars arrived on the scene and raced their way into victory lane: Emerson Axsom (Franklin, Ind.) in June at Lincoln Park Speedway and Chase McDermand (Springfield, Ill.) in September for his first career USAC National Midget win during a BC39 prelim.


 

The end-of-year five-race November California swing produced four different winners with Corey Day (Clovis, Calif.) tallying a win at Merced Speedway in which he utilized a 20-year-old Wirth Mopar engine that was older than Day himself who turned 19 between his two victories. Furthermore, it was the first USAC National Midget win of any kind for a Mopar powerplant since Brad Sweet 14 years earlier in 2010 Angell Park Speedway. Day capped the year by becoming the youngest ever winner of the Turkey Night Grand Prix in the 83rd running at Ventura Raceway.


 

Carson Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) got his win in the series’ return to Thunderbowl Raceway after a 14-year hiatus, while Kyle Larson (Elk Grove, Calif.) was spectacular in winning at Merced. Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.) wired all 30 laps at Bakersfield Speedway to become just the 14th driver to reach 30 career USAC National Midget feature victories.


 

Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio) finished his season a career best fifth in the standings while Zach Daum (Pocahontas, Ill.) started feature events for six different teams on the path to a sixth place result in the points, his best placing since grabbing fifth a decade ago in 2014. Gavin Miller (Allentown, Pa.), fresh off Rookie of the Year accolades in 2023, followed up in his sophomore season with the series with his second straight eighth place points finish.


 

An all-time series record 10 drivers started all 23 feature events during the 2024 season. The previous record for the number of drivers starting all USAC National Midget features in a season was eight in 2021. Drivers starting them all in 2024 were Zach Daum, Jacob Denney, Kale Drake, Justin Grant, Cannon McIntosh, Gavin Miller, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey, Ryan Timms and Zach Wigal.


 

Overall, 110 drivers started a USAC National Midget feature in 2024, the most in a single season since 119 competed eight years ago in 2016.


 


 

2024 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET STAT LEADERS


 

Driver Champion: Daison Pursley


 

Entrant Champion: CB Industries #86


 

Most Wins: 7-Daison Pursley


 

Rookie of the Year: Zach Wigal (9th)


 

Most Laps Led: 87-Daison Pursley


 

Most Top-Fives: 16-Daison Pursley


 

Most Top-Tens: 20-Cannon McIntosh


 

Most Fast Qualifying Times: 4-Logan Seavey


 

Most Heat Race Wins: 11-Daison Pursley


 

Most Feature Starts: 23-Zach Daum, Jacob Denney, Kale Drake, Justin Grant, Cannon McIntosh, Gavin Miller, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey, Ryan Timms & Zach Wigal


 

Biggest Charge of the Year: Sep 21: Eldora Speedway – Ryan Timms (20th to 2nd)


 


 

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE & RESULTS


 

May 17: Belleville Short Track - Belleville, KS

WINNER: Cannon McIntosh (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71K)


 

May 18: Belleville Short Track - Belleville, KS

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

May 19: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex - Sweet Springs, MO

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)


 

Jun 5: (I) Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, IN

             WINNER: Ryan Timms (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67)


 

Jun 6: (I) Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, IN

             WINNER: Emerson Axsom (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K)


 

Jun 7: (I) Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, IN

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Jun 8: (I) Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, IN

             WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)


 

Jun 9: (I) Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, IN

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Jul 9: (M) Red Dirt Raceway - Meeker, OK

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Jul 10: (M) Mitchell County Fairgrounds - Beloit, KS

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Jul 12: (M) Jefferson County Speedway - Fairbury, NE

             WINNER: Justin Grant (RMS Racing #2)


 

Jul 13: (M) Jefferson County Speedway - Fairbury, NE

             WINNER: Ryan Timms (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67)


 

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, WI

             WINNER: Zach Wigal (CB Industries #89)


 

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, WI

WINNER: Cannon McIntosh (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71K)


 

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Sep 21: Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH

             WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)


 

Sep 26: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Speedway, IN

             WINNER: Chase McDermand (Chase McDermand #40)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Speedway, IN

             WINNER: Kale Drake (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #97K)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway - Speedway, IN

WINNER: Cannon McIntosh (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71K)


 

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA

WINNER: Carson Macedo (Dyson Motorsport #99AU)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway - Merced, CA

WINNER: Corey Day (Willie Kahne #4)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway - Merced, CA

WINNER: Kyle Larson (Silva Motorsports #1K)


 

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway - Bakersfield, CA

WINNER: Tanner Thorson (Tom Malloy #25m)


 

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway - Ventura, CA

WINNER: Corey Day (Willie Kahne #4)


 

------------------------ KEY DEFINITIONS -------------------------


 

(I) represents an Indiana Midget Week event


 

(M) represents a Mid-America Midget Week event


 


 

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:


 

POS.     PTS.      DRIVER, HOMETOWN


 

1.          1505     Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma


 

2.          1446     Cannon McIntosh, Bixby, Oklahoma


 

3.          1355     Logan Seavey, Sutter, California


 

4.          1311     Ryan Timms, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma


 

5.          1283     Jacob Denney, Galloway, Ohio


 

6.          1256     Zach Daum, Pocahontas, Illinois


 

7.          1210     Justin Grant, Ione, California


 

8.          1176     Gavin Miller, Allentown, Pennsylvania


 

9.          1085     (R) Zach Wigal, Belpre, Ohio


 

10.        1063     (R) Kale Drake, Collinsville, Oklahoma


 

11.        718       Jade Avedisian, Clovis, California


 

12.        664       Kyle Jones, Kennedale, Texas


 

13.        595       Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Alabama


 

14.        575       Jake Andreotti, Castro Valley, California


 

15.        476       Hayden Reinbold, Gilbert, Arizona


 

16.        420       Ethan Mitchell, Mooresville, North Carolina


 

17.        412       Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, Arizona


 

18.        397       Thomas Meseraull, San Jose, California


 

19.        277       (R) Ricky Lewis, Camarillo, California


 

20.        253       Kyle Cummins, Princeton, Indiana


 

21.        191       (R) Curtis Spicer, Marysville, Kansas


 

22.        176       Daniel Whitley, Ferndale, California


 

23.        168       (R) Hank Davis, Sand Springs, Oklahoma


 

24.        159       (R) Adam Taylor, Wheatfield, Indiana


 

25.        158       (R) Ashton Torgerson, Glendale, Arizona


 

26.        140       Kaylee Bryson, Muskogee, Oklahoma


 

27.        114       C.J. Leary, Greenfield, Indiana


 

28.        105       (R) Steven Snyder Jr., Rising Sun, Maryland


 

29.        100       (R) Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Indiana


 

30.        60         (R) Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Indiana


 

31.        59         (R) Blake Brannon, Morgan Hill, California


 

32.        54         (R) Broedy Graham, Bakersfield, California


 

33.        44         (R) Adam Bolyard, Rushville, Indiana


 

34.        41         Matt Westfall, Pleasant Hill, Ohio


 

35.        23         (R) Kenney Johnson, Bethany, Connecticut


 

(R) = USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Rookie of the Year Contender


 


 

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANT POINT STANDINGS:


 

POS.     PTS.      ENTRANT, TEAM LOCATION


 

1.          1505     CB Industries, Mooresville, North Carolina (#86)


 

2.          1446     Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#71K)


 

3.          1355     Abacus Racing, Indianapolis, Indiana (#57)


 

4.          1311     Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#67)


 

5.          1283     Tom Malloy, Corona, California (#25)


 

6.          1210     RMS Racing, New Lenox, Illinois (#2)


 

7.          1176     Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#97)


 

8.          1085     CB Industries, Mooresville, North Carolina (#89)


 

9.          1063     Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#97K)


 

10.        1018     Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#71)


 

11.        782       4 Kings Racing, Battle Creek, Michigan (#14)


 

12.        723       Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports , Columbus, Indiana (#67K)


 

13.        664       Joyner Motorsports, Concordia, Kansas (#27x)


 

14.        661       RAMCO Speed Group, Fort Worth, Texas (#5d)


 

15.        476       Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports, Gilbert, Arizona (#19AZ)


 

16.        420       Bundy Built Motorsports, Mooresville, North Carolina (#19m)


 

17.        412       Central Motorsports, Edmond, Oklahoma (#85)


 

18.        403       4 Kings Racing, Battle Creek, Michigan (#54)


 

19.        397       Tim Engler, Princeton, Indiana (#7x)


 

20.       288       Mounce-Stout Motorsports, Collinsville, Oklahoma (#54)


 

21.        271       Mounce-Stout Motorsports, Collinsville, Oklahoma (#9)


 

22.        253       Glenn Styres Racing, Ohsweken, Ontario (#3G)


 

23.        233       Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, Columbus, Indiana (#25K)


 

24.        191       Spicer RaceCraft, Marysville, Kansas (#4s)


 

25.        187       RAMCO Speed Group, Fort Worth, Texas (#7m)


 

26.        177       Cornell Racing Stables, Monee, Illinois (#8)


 

27.        159       Adam Taylor Racing, Wheatfield, Indiana (#7T)


 

28.        59         Blake Brannon Racing, Morgan Hill, California (#40)


 

29.        44         Joyner Motorsports, Concordia, Kansas (#27)


 

30.        44         Adam Bolyard Racing, Arlington, Indiana (#4B)


 

31.        23         Jeff Johnson, Bethany, Connecticut (#46)


 


 

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:


 

POS.     PTS.      DRIVER, HOMETOWN


 

1.          1085     Zach Wigal, Belpre, Ohio


 

2.          1063     Kale Drake, Collinsville, Oklahoma


 

3.          277       Ricky Lewis, Camarillo, California


 

4.          191       Curtis Spicer, Marysville, Kansas


 

5.          168       Hank Davis, Sand Springs, Oklahoma


 

6.          159       Adam Taylor, Wheatfield, Indiana


 

7.          158       Ashton Torgerson, Glendale, Arizona


 

8.          105       Steven Snyder Jr., Rising Sun, Maryland


 

9.          100       Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Indiana


 

10.        60         Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Indiana


 

11.        59         Blake Brannon, Morgan Hill, California


 

12.        54         Broedy Graham, Bakersfield, California


 

13.        44         Adam Bolyard, Rushville, Indiana


 

14.        23         Kenney Johnson, Bethany, Connecticut


 


 


 

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS


 

FEATURE WINS


 

7-Daison Pursley (May 18 at the Belleville Short Track, Jun 7 at Bloomington Speedway, Jun 9 at Kokomo Speedway, Jul 9 at Red Dirt Raceway, Jul 10 at the Mitchell County Fairgrounds, Sep 20 at Eldora Speedway & Sep 21 at Eldora Speedway)


 

3-Cannon McIntosh (May 17 at the Belleville Short Track, Sep 2 at Angell Park Speedway & Sep 29 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway)


 

2-Corey Day (Nov 24 at Merced Speedway & Nov 30 at Ventura Raceway)


 

2-Logan Seavey (May 19 at Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex & Jun 8 at Tri-State Speedway)


 

2-Ryan Timms (Jun 5 at Lawrenceburg Speedway & Jul 13 at Jefferson County Speedway)


 

1-Emerson Axsom (Jun 6 at Lincoln Park Speedway)


 

1-Kale Drake (Sep 29 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway)


 

1-Justin Grant (Jul 12 at Jefferson County Speedway)


 

1-Kyle Larson (Nov 24 at Merced Speedway)


 

1-Carson Macedo (Nov 20 at Thunderbowl Raceway)


 

1-Chase McDermand (Sep 26 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway)


 

1-Tanner Thorson (Nov 27 at Bakersfield Speedway)


 

1-Zach Wigal (Sep 1 at Angell Park Speedway)


 


 

FEATURE LAPS LED


 

87-Daison Pursley


 

70-Ryan Timms


 

69-Cannon McIntosh


 

64-Jacob Denney


 

58-Kale Drake


 

54-Carson Macedo


 

53-Justin Grant


 

51-Chase McDermand


 

45-Zach Wigal


 

40-Logan Seavey


 

30-Emerson Axsom & Tanner Thorson


 

24-Buddy Kofoid & Michael Pickens


 

22-Thomas Meseraull


 

21-Corey Day


 

18-Kyle Cummins


 

17-Kyle Larson


 

15-Jade Avedisian


 

7-Jake Andreotti & Zach Daum


 

6-Gavin Miller


 

3-Ashton Torgerson


 

1-Kyle Jones & Kevin Thomas Jr.


 


 

TOP-5 FEATURE FINISHES


 

16-Daison Pursley


 

15-Cannon McIntosh


 

11-Logan Seavey


 

10-Ryan Timms


 

8-Zach Daum & Jacob Denney


 

6-Justin Grant


 

5-Gavin Miller


 

4-Jade Avedisian


 

3-Corey Day, Kale Drake, Buddy Kofoid, Carson Macedo, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Zach Wigal


 

2-Emerson Axsom, Jerry Coons Jr., Kyle Larson, Chase McDermand, Thomas Meseraull & Tanner Thorson


 

1-Kyle Cummins, Kyle Jones, Michael Pickens, Taylor Reimer, Hayden Reinbold, Karter Sarff & Chris Windom


 


 

TOP-10 FEATURE FINISHES


 

20-Cannon McIntosh


 

18-Daison Pursley & Logan Seavey


 

17-Jacob Denney & Ryan Timms


 

16-Zach Daum & Justin Grant


 

15-Gavin Miller


 

11-Kale Drake


 

9-Zach Wigal


 

8-Jade Avedisian


 

6-Chase McDermand & Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

5-Kyle Jones


 

4-Jerry Coons Jr., Buddy Kofoid & Tanner Thorson


 

3-Jake Andreotti, Kyle Cummins, Corey Day, Carson Macedo, Thomas Meseraull & Ethan Mitchell


 

2-Emerson Axsom, Tanner Carrick, Kyle Larson, Taylor Reimer, Hayden Reinbold, Karter Sarff, Ashton Torgerson & Chris Windom


 

1-Kaylee Bryson, Shane Cottle, Briggs Danner, Mitchell Davis, Drake Edwards, Tyler Edwards, Kameron Key, Cade Lewis, Michael Pickens, Jadon Rogers, Jake Swanson & Gary Taylor


 


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING FAST QUALIFYING TIMES


 

4-Logan Seavey


 

3-Daison Pursley


 

2-Zach Wigal


 

1-Tanner Carrick, Jacob Denney, Justin Grant, Kyle Jones, Carson Macedo, Chase McDermand, Ethan Mitchell, Karter Sarff & Ryan Timms


 


 

2024 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FAST QUALIFIERS


 

May 17: Belleville Short Track – Justin Grant (12.018)


 

May 18: Belleville Short Track – Ethan Mitchell (12.462)


 

May 19: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex – Logan Seavey (11.474)


 

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Zach Wigal (14.578)


 

Jun 6: Lincoln Park Speedway - Daison Pursley (12.705)


 

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Chase McDermand (12.143)


 

Jun 8: Tri-State Speedway - Daison Pursley (13.551)


 

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Logan Seavey (13.318)


 

Jul 9: Red Dirt Raceway – Ryan Timms (13.032)


 

Jul 10: Mitchell County Fairgrounds – Zach Wigal (12.311)


 

Jul 11: Jefferson County Speedway – Kyle Jones (10.899)


 

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway – Logan Seavey (14.427)


 

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway – Daison Pursley (14.617)


 

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Logan Seavey (16.708)


 

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Tanner Carrick (15.344)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Karter Sarff (11.993)


 

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Carson Macedo (12.380)


 

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Jacob Denney (12.072)


 


 

HEAT RACE / QUALIFYING RACE WINS: (Presented by Simpson Race Products, Rod End Supply, T.J. Forged & Car IQ)


 

11-Daison Pursley


 

7-Logan Seavey


 

6-Zach Daum & Ryan Timms


 

4-Jake Andreotti, Jacob Denney, Kale Drake, Justin Grant, Cannon McIntosh & Gavin Miller


 

3-Kevin Thomas Jr. & Zach Wigal


 

2-Jade Avedisian, Emerson Axsom, Jerry Coons Jr., Kyle Jones & Chase McDermand


 

1-Brady Bacon, Kaylee Bryson, Trevor Cline, Shane Cottle, Tyler Courtney, Kyle Cummins, Alex Karpowicz, Buddy Kofoid, Cade Lewis, Kaiden Manders, Caden Sarale, Tanner Thorson, Daniel Whitley & J.J. Yeley


 

 

SEMI WINS: (Presented by Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts)


 

2-Chase McDermand


 

1-Jake Bubak, Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Jacob Denney, Tyler Edwards, Drake Edwards, Justin Grant, Frankie Guerrini, Kaiden Manders, Hayden Reinbold, Adam Taylor, Zach Wigal & Trey Zorn


 


 

FEATURE STARTS


 

23-Zach Daum, Jacob Denney, Kale Drake, Justin Grant, Cannon McIntosh, Gavin Miller, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey, Ryan Timms & Zach Wigal


 

16-Kyle Jones


 

15-Jake Andreotti & Jade Avedisian


 

13-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

12-Chase McDermand, Ethan Mitchell & Hayden Reinbold


 

11-Drake Edwards


 

10-Thomas Meseraull


 

9-Emerson Axsom & Ricky Lewis


 

8-Jerry Coons Jr.


 

7-Curtis Spicer


 

6-Daniel Whitley


 

5-Kyle Cummins, Hank Davis, Corey Day, Buddy Kofoid, Michael Pickens, Taylor Reimer, Tanner Thorson & Austin Torgerson


 

4-Kaylee Bryson, Tyler Courtney, Frankie Guerrini, Kyle Larson, Carson Macedo, Karter Sarff & Trey Zorn


 

3-Lance Bennett, Steve Buckwalter, Briggs Danner, Ronnie Gardner, C.J. Leary, Zack Merritt, Kayla Roell, Steven Snyder Jr., Adam Taylor & Ashton Torgerson


 

2-Will Armitage, Jakeb Boxell, Jake Bubak, Tanner Carrick, Shane Cottle, Dane Culver, Mitchell Davis, Don Droud Jr., Mariah Ede, Tyler Edwards, Broedy Graham, Rylan Gray, Luke Hall, Sam Johnson, Alex Karpowicz, Kameron Key, Cade Lewis, Kaiden Manders, Mitchel Moles, Ashley Oerter, Caden Sarale, Brian Schwabauer, Michael Smith, Jeff Stasa, Gary Taylor, Cameron Weishoff & Chris Windom


 

1-Brady Bacon, Chris Baue, Cody Beard, Adam Bolyard, Blake Brannon, Trevor Cline, Andrew Deal, Travis DeGaton, Broc Elliott, Bradley Fezard, Brody Fuson, Dalten Gabbard, Matt Goodnight, Kenney Johnson, Bryce Massingill, Jacob McFarlin, Joel Myers Jr., Darin Naida, Kevin Newton, Keith Rauch, Davey Ray, Branigan Roark, Jadon Rogers, Jeff Schindler, Gunnar Setser, Shaun Shapel, Bryan Stanfill, Glenn Styres, Jake Swanson, Ricky Thornton Jr., Brandt Twitty, Brandon Waelti, Matt Westfall & J.J. Yeley


 


 

HARD CHARGER OF THE RACE


 

May 17: Belleville Short Track – Logan Seavey (23rd to 8th)


 

May 18: Belleville Short Track – Zach Wigal (23rd to 13th)


 

May 19: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex – Ryan Timms (11th to 2nd)


 

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Justin Grant (18th to 6th)


 

Jun 6: Lincoln Park Speedway - Gavin Miller (16th to 10th)


 

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Cannon McIntosh (13th to 6th)


 

Jun 8: Tri-State Speedway - Cannon McIntosh (23rd to 11th)


 

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Gavin Miller (23rd to 7th)


 

Jul 9: Red Dirt Raceway – Jerry Coons Jr. (21st to 8th)


 

Jul 10: Mitchell County Fairgrounds – Gavin Miller (16th to 7th)


 

Jul 11: Jefferson County Speedway – Jade Avedisian (20th to 5th)


 

Jul 12: Jefferson County Speedway – Zach Daum (13th to 2nd)


 

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway – Frankie Guerrini (22nd to 14th)


 

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway – Logan Seavey (22nd to 7th)


 

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Daison Pursley (7th to 1st)


 

Sep 21: Eldora Speedway – Ryan Timms (20th to 2nd)


 

Sep 26: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Cannon McIntosh (8th to 2nd)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Ethan Mitchell (18th to 7th)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Kameron Key (24th to 9th)


 

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Dane Culver (24th to 15th)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Kyle Larson (14th to 4th)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Zach Wigal (16th to 8th)


 

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Jacob Denney (14th to 7th)


 

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Tanner Carrick (19th to 10th)


 


 

DIRT DRAFT FASTEST HOT LAPS DRIVER


 

May 17: Belleville Short Track – Kale Drake (11.983)


 

May 18: Belleville Short Track – Ethan Mitchell (12.731)


 

May 19: Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex – Kevin Thomas Jr. (11.755)


 

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Zach Daum (14.661)


 

Jun 6: Lincoln Park Speedway - Daison Pursley (12.666)


 

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Kyle Cummins (12.093)


 

Jun 8: Tri-State Speedway - Jake Andreotti (13.502)


 

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Daison Pursley (13.083)


 

Jul 9: Red Dirt Raceway – Ryan Timms (12.775)


 

Jul 10: Mitchell County Fairgrounds – Daison Pursley (12.253)


 

Jul 11: Jefferson County Speedway – Jerry Coons Jr. (11.113)


 

Jul 12: Jefferson County Speedway – Ryan Timms (11.290)


 

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway – Zach Wigal (14.604)


 

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway – Daniel Whitley (14.925)


 

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Gavin Miller (16.764)


 

Sep 26: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Daison Pursley (11.930)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Zach Wigal (12.035)


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Jacob Denney (12.302)


 

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Daison Pursley (15.589)


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Ryan Timms (12.130)


 

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Carson Macedo (12.669)


 

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Jacob Denney (12.204)


 


 

2024 USAC INFERNO ARMOR FIRE MOVE OF THE NIGHT


 

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Hayden Reinbold


 

Jun 6: Lincoln Park Speedway - Jade Avedisian


 

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Logan Seavey


 

Jun 8: Tri-State Speedway - Adam Taylor


 

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Michael Pickens


 

Jul 9: Red Dirt Raceway – Zach Daum


 

Jul 10: Mitchell County Fairgrounds – Thomas Meseraull


 

Jul 11: Jefferson County Speedway – Jade Avedisian


 

Jul 12: Jefferson County Speedway – Zach Daum


 

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway – Zach Wigal


 

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway – Logan Seavey


 

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Zach Daum


 

Sep 21: Eldora Speedway – Chris Windom


 

Sep 26: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Daison Pursley


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Alex Karpowicz


 

Sep 29: The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Jade Avedisian


 

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Corey Day


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Karter Sarff


 

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Buddy Kofoid


 

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Zach Daum


 

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Dalten Gabbard


 


 

ALL-TIME USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FEATURE WINS (1956-2024)


 

1. [111 wins] Mel Kenyon


 

2. [95 wins] Rich Vogler


 

3. [78 wins] Bob Wente


 

4. [63 wins] Bob Tattersall


 

5. [59 wins] Sleepy Tripp


 

6. [48 wins] Jimmy Davies


 

7. [38 wins] Bryan Clauson


 

8. [35 wins] Tracy Hines


 

9. [31 wins] Gene Hartley & Chuck Rodee


 

11. [30 wins] Dave Darland, Mike McGreevy, Johnny Parsons & Tanner Thorson


 

15. [29 wins] Kyle Larson


 

16. [27 wins] Gary Bettenhausen & Tony Stewart


 

18. [25 wins] Darren Hagen, Parnelli Jones & Dave Strickland


 

21. [24 wins] Billy Engelhart & Buddy Kofoid


 

23. [23 wins] Christopher Bell, Pancho Carter, Tommy Copp, Kevin Olson & Billy Vukovich


 

28. [22 wins] Tom Bigelow, Bobby East & Shorty Templeman


 

31. [21 wins] Steve Cannon, Jimmy Caruthers, Rex Easton & Ken Schrader


 

35. [20 wins] A.J. Foyt


 

36. [19 wins] Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Stan Fox & Jason Leffler


 

40. [18 wins] Logan Seavey & Dave Steele


 

42. [17 wins] Jay Drake, Justin Grant & J.J. Yeley


 

45. [16 wins] Rico Abreu, George Amick, Billy Cantrell, Lee Kunzman, Bobby Olivero & Henry Pens


 

51. [15 wins] Don Branson, Larry Rice & Chris Windom


 

54. [14 wins] Chuck Arnold, Jack Turner & Leroy Warriner


 

57. [13 wins] Steve Knepper, Don Meacham, Ryan Newman & Stevie Reeves


 

61. [12 wins] Danny Caruthers, Gene Force, Russ Gamester, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Grim & Ron Shuman


 

67. [11 wins] Kasey Kahne, Jimmy Knight, Bob McLean, Johnny Moorhouse, Bobby Santos & Brad Sweet


 

73. [10 wins] Allen Heath, Doug Kalitta, Brad Kuhn, Steve Lotshaw, Jerry McClung, Thomas Meseraull & Chuck Weyant


 

80. [9 wins] Billy Boat, Chad Boat, Tony Elliott, Chuck Gurney, Cannon McIntosh & Daison Pursley


 

86. [8 wins] Brady Bacon, Merle Bettenhausen, Tony Bettenhausen, Hank Butcher, Kevin Doty, Dan Drinan, Ronnie Duman, Brian Gerster, Kenny Irwin Jr., Eddie Johnson, Michael Lewis, Andy Michner & Josh Wise


 

99. [7 wins] Tommy Astone, Jack Hewitt, Don Horvath, Page Jones, Kenneth Nichols, Larry Patton, Les Scott, Len Sutton, Ryan Timms & Johnnie Tolan


 

109. [6 wins] Spencer Bayston, Donnie Beechler, George Benson, Dana Carter, Bob Cicconi, Robby Flock, Nick Fornoro Jr., Arnie Knepper, Ricky Shelton, Mike Streicher, Dave Strickland Jr., Kevin Thomas Jr. & Roger West


 

122. [5 wins] Mike Bliss, Lonnie Caruthers, Larry Dickson, Mike Fedorcak, Burt Foland, Mack McClellan, Danny McKnight, Cliff Spalding, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & Jerry Weeks


 

132. [4 wins] Caleb Armstrong, Teddy Beach, Johnny Boyd, Frank Burany, Russ Congdon, Zach Daum, Ray Elliott, Aaron Fike, Danny Frye, Billy Garrett, Mike Gregg, Jim Hettinger, John Heydenreich, Bubby Jones, Levi Jones, Andy Linden, Bobby Marshman, Roger McCluskey, Bill Mehner, Ken Nichols, Jeff Nuckles, Jan Opperman, Michael Pickens, Gary Ponzini, Davey Ray, Eddie Sachs, Don Schilling, Sammy Sessions, George Snider, Dale Swaim, Kevin Swindell, Rodger Ward & Zeb Wise


 

165. [3 wins] Emerson Axsom, John Batts, Gays Biro, Shane Cottle, Allen Crowe, Corey Day, Jacob Denney, Bruce Field, A.J. Fike, Drew Fornoro, Gene Gennetten, Rick Goudy, Bob Hare, Bob Hauck, Jeff Heywood, Bill Homeier, Sam Isenhower, Jim Keeker, Jim McClean, Warren Mockler, Mitchel Moles, Dave Moses, Earl Motter, Jerry Nuckles, Danny Oakes, Johnnie Parsons, Porky Rachwitz, Johnny Riva, Johnny Roberts, Lowell Sachs, Billy Shuman, Tom Steiner, Bobby Unser & Billy Wease


 

199. [2 wins] Al Alpern, Sonny Ates, Johnny Baldwin, Jim Beckley, Dean Billings, Alan Brown, Jack Calabrase, Tanner Carrick, Johnny Cofer, Mel Cornett, Cotton Farmer, Terry Farrar, Joe Garson, Chuck Gurney Jr., Kyle Hamilton, Bob Hogle, Rick Hood, P.J. Jones, Carson Macedo, Critter Malone, Jimmy McCune, Jason McDougal, Aaron Pollock, Barry Reed, Lloyd Ruby, Joe Saldana, Tom Sellberg, Tony Simon, Danny Stratton, Kody Swanson, Steve Troxell, Don Vogler, Bruce Walkup, Terry Wente, Johnny White, Tommy White & Cole Whitt


 

236. [1 win] John Andretti, Mario Andretti, Mike Appio, Dick Atkins, Paul Bates, Harry Beck, Bud Bogard, Tony Bonadies, Dan Boorse, Don Boorse, Dwight Brown, Steve Buckwalter, Barry Butterworth, Gary Byers, Larry Cannon, Tyce Carlson, Ed Carpenter, Dane Carter, Billy Cassella, Bill Chennault, Bill Clemons, Roy Cook Jr., Kyle Cummins, Kale Drake, Ryan Durst, Edgar Elder, Todd Forbes, Joe Gaerte, Bradley Galedrige, Steve Gennetten, Elmer George, Potsy Goacher, Shane Golobic, David Gough, Ron Gregory, Norm Hall, Bob Harkey, Vern Harriman, Scott Hatton, Al Herman, Jordan Hermansader, Mike Hess, Jim Hines, Ted Hines, Shane Hmiel, Dean Holden, Blake Hollingsworth, Chuck Hulse, Buddy Irwin, Eddie Jackson, Van Johnson, Brent Kaeding, Bud Kaeding, Jimmy Kirk, Kevin Koch, Randy Koch, Bill Kollman, Cory Kruseman, Michael Lang, Greg Leffler, Larry McCloskey, Chase McDermand, Jim McElreath, Mel McGaughy, John Meyers, Gavin Miller, J.R. Miller, Travis Miniea, Russ Moynagh, Richard Myhre, Dick Northam, Hank Nykaza, Brian Olson, Danny O'Neill, Jim Packard, Wally Pankratz, Forrest Parker, Gene Pastor, Gary Patterson, Danny Pens, Jiggs Peters, Dick Pole, Richard Powell, Buddy Rackley, Keith Rauch, Dave Ray, Jimmy Reece, Bob Richards, Bruce Robey, Johnny Rodriguez, Gene Roehl, Jack Runyon, Sammy Sauer, Gio Scelzi, Dutch Schaefer, Ryan Scott, Frank Secrist, Jimmy Sills, Jigger Sirois, Lee Smith, Ron Smoker, Ned Spath, J.P. Standley, Graham Standring, Jerry Stone, Tanner Swanson, Buddy Taylor, Tyler Thomas, Randy Tolsma, Leo Tucker, Bob Veith, Joe Walter, Bryant Wiedeman, Zach Wigal, Eric Wilkins, Mauri Wilson, Doug Wolfgang & Billy Wood


 


 

ALL-TIME USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FAST QUALIFYING TIMES (1956-2024)


 

1. (94) Mel Kenyon


 

2. (84) Rich Vogler


 

3. (77) Jimmy Davies


 

4. (74) Bob Wente


 

5. (45) Mike McGreevy


 

6. (38) Tracy Hines & Bob Tattersall


 

8. (37) Dave Strickland


 

9. (36) Johnny Parsons


 

10. (33) Chuck Rodee


 

11. (29) Tommy Astone & Jimmy Caruthers


 

13. (28) Kevin Olson


 

14. (27) Parnelli Jones


 

15. (26) Jason Leffler & Tanner Thorson


 

17. (25) Gary Bettenhausen


 

18. (24) Gene Hartley


 

19. (22) Don Branson, Stan Fox & Shorty Templeman


 

22. (21) Tony Stewart


 

23. (20) Bryan Clauson, Dan Drinan, Bobby East, Bobby Grim & Kyle Larson


 

28. (19) Jay Drake & Logan Seavey


 

30. (17) Dave Steele & Mike Streicher


 

32. (16) Rico Abreu, Billy Engelhart, Darren Hagen, Steve Lotshaw & Bobby Olivero


 

37. (15) George Benson, Tom Bigelow, Billy Cantrell, Tyler Courtney & Les Scott


 

42. (14) Jerry Coons Jr., Dave Darland, Jeff Gordon, Kenny Irwin Jr. & Bob McLean


 

47. (13) Jimmy Knight & J.J. Yeley


 

49. (12) Don Meacham, Larry Rice & Josh Wise


 

52. (11) Brady Bacon, Danny Caruthers, Lonnie Caruthers, Russ Congdon, Tommy Copp, Cannon McIntosh, Ryan Newman, Ken Schrader, Len Sutton, Brad Sweet, Sleepy Tripp & Billy Vukovich


 

64. (10) George Amick, Pancho Carter & Allen Crowe


 

67. (9) A.J. Foyt, Justin Grant, Doug Kalitta, Larry Patton, Stevie Reeves, Dave Strickland Jr., Kevin Thomas Jr. & Jerry Weeks


 

75. (8) Spencer Bayston, Christopher Bell, Dana Carter, Rex Easton, Russ Gamester, Don Horvath, Kasey Kahne, Sammy Sessions, George Snider, Jack Turner & Leroy Warriner


 

86. (7) Jade Avedisian, Mike Bliss, Ray Elliott, Allen Heath, Andy Michner, Henry Pens, Lowell Sachs & Kody Swanson


 

94. (6) Chad Boat, Burt Foland, Brian Gerster, Mike Gregg, Kyle Hamilton, Buddy Kofoid, Lee Kunzman, Jerry McClung, Bill Mehner, Daison Pursley, Ron Shuman, Jimmy Sills, Don Vogler, Chris Windom & Billy Wood


 

109. (5) Merle Bettenhausen, Billy Boat, Gary Byers, Steve Cannon, Kevin Doty, Ronnie Duman, Aaron Fike, Shane Golobic, Rick Goudy, Jeff Heywood, Eddie Johnson, Steve Knepper, Brad Kuhn, Andy Linden, Ethan Mitchell, Bobby Santos, Chris Shultz, Billy Shuman, Chuck Weyant & Mauri Wilson


 

129. (4) Johnny W. Anderson, Caleb Armstrong, Sonny Ates, Tanner Carrick, Dane Carter, Joe Corrigan, Ray Crawford, Zach Daum, Mike Fedorcak, Robby Flock, Joe Garson, Chuck Gurney, Jim Hettinger, Arnie Knepper, Chuck Marshall, Danny McKnight, Mitchel Moles, Jeff Nuckles, Danny Oakes, Gary Ponzini, Richard Powell, Porky Rachwitz, Taylor Reimer, Eddie Sachs, Ricky Shelton, Tom Steiner, Bruce Walkup, Rodger Ward, Roger West & Zeb Wise


 

159. (3) Don "Spyder" Anderson, Harry Beck, Donnie Beechler, Tony Bettenhausen, Dwight Brown, Steve Buckwalter, Hank Butcher, Jack Calabrase, Cole Carter, Bob Cicconi, Mario Clouser, Larry Dickson, Tony Elliott, Bruce Field, A.J. Fike, Gene Force, Danny Frye, Bob Hare, Ted Hines, P.J. Jones, Greg Leffler, Carson Macedo, Grier Manning, Mack McClellan, Roger McCluskey, Thomas Meseraull, Johnny Moorhouse, Kenneth Nichols, Jerry Nuckles, Tim Pangborn, Forrest Parker, Johnnie Parsons, Johnny Roberts, Randy Roberts, Don Schilling, Dale Swaim, Ryan Timms, Johnnie Tolan & Dillon Welch


 

198. (2) Sherman Armstrong Jr., Jack Bates, Gays Biro, Art Bisch, Dan Boorse, Kaylee Bryson, Bill Chennault, Paul Clark, Bob Cortner, Chris Cumberworth, Bob Davison, Corey Day, Jacob Denney, Edgar Elder, Todd Forbes, Nick Fornoro Jr., Gene Gennetten, Elmer George, Joe Giba, Ron Gregory, Ted Hartley, Mike Hess, Jim Hines, Shane Hmiel, Eddie Jackson, Bubby Jones, Dick Jones, Page Jones, Ronnie Kaplan, Johnny Kay, Walt Kennedy, Michael Lewis, Brad Loyet, Jim Mahoney, Jim McClean, Sarah McCune, Warren Mockler, Earl Motter, Ken Nichols, Hank Nykaza, Steve Paden, Danny Pens, Michael Pickens, Parker Price-Miller, Levi Roberts, Johnny Rodriguez, Lloyd Ruby, Joe Saldana, Sammy Sauer, Ryan Scott, Tom Sellberg, Jigger Sirois, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Danny Stratton, Russ Sweedler, Buddy Taylor, George Tichenor, Bud Tingelstad, Steve Troxell, Bobby Unser, Billy Wease, Ken Weiland, Cole Whitt, Zach Wigal & Carl Williams


 

263. (1) Bobby Allen, Al Alpern, Chuck Amati, John Andretti, Cap Arnold, Chuck Arnold, Dick Atkins, Tony Ave, Emerson Axsom, Steve Barth, Dave Bartlett, Todd Barton, John Batts, Jim Beckley, Daniel Bedford, Dick Betts, Jim Bob Luebbert, Nick Bohanon, Tony Bonadies, Johnny Boyd, Alex Bright, Bob Burbridge, Buddy Cagle, Larry Cannon, Roy Caruthers, Billy Cassella, Steve Chassey, Bill Cheesbourg, Bud Clemons, Johnny Cofer, Maria Cofer, Duke Cook, Jay Cornell, Chance Crum, A.J. Davis, Duke DeRosa, Danny Ebberts, Bob Ellingham, Dean Erfurth, Russ Faucett, Sarah Fisher, Dan Ford, Josh Ford, Danny Frye Jr., Jim Gates, Johnny Gavin, Roy Gillhamer, Roy Graham, Bob Gregg, Mike Groff, Gene Gurney, Chuck Gurney Jr., Butch Haisman, Davey Hamilton, Garrett Hansen, Bob Harkey, Alex Harris, Scott Hatton, Jac Haudenschild, Al Henderson, Jordan Hermansader, Mike Hill, Larry Hillerud, Bob Hogle, Shane Hollingsworth, Bill Homeier, Rick Hood, Wally Hostettler, Billy Hughes, Jeff Hunt, Tony Hunt, Gary Irvin, Bob Jesser, Ronnie Johncox, Kyle Jones, Paul Jones, Jack Jordan, Brent Kaeding, Gary Kanawyer, Jim Keeker, Harry Kern, Jimmy Kirk, Danny Kladis, George Kladis, Clay Klepper, Kevin Koch, Randy Koch, Bill Kojis, Bill Kollman, Jim Lauri IV, Buddy Lee, Donnie Lehmann, Bob Lithgow, Ed Loomis, Jesse Love, Dave Lundy, Jim Malloy, Bobby Marshman, Larry McCloskey, Jimmy McCune, Chase McDermand, Jason McDougal, Lealand McSpadden, Al Miller, J.R. Miller, Stephanie Mockler, Davey Moses, Mike Mosley, Brad Noffsinger, Danny O'Neill, Ralph Parkinson, Gary Patterson, Dick Pole, Bill Puterbaugh, Jon Rahe, Bill Randall, Chase Randall, Norm Rapp, Keith Rauch, Dickie Reese, Bill Renshaw, Bob Richards, Bruce Robey, Jack Runyon, Karter Sarff, John Sarna, Gio Scelzi, Chase Scott, Shane Scully, Roy Seidenstricker, Holly Shelton, Dean Shirley, Tony Simon, C.L. Smith, Bob Spoo, J.P. Standley, Gig Stephens, Tanner Swanson, Kevin Swindell, Kevin Thomas, Al Unser, Don Weaver, Terry Wente, Gene Weyant, Johnny White, Newt White, Bryant Wiedeman, Eric Wilkins & Don Wilson


 


 

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET DRIVER CHAMPIONS


 

1956: Shorty Templeman, 1957: Shorty Templeman, 1958: Shorty Templeman, 1959: Gene Hartley, 1960: Jimmy Davies, 1961: Jimmy Davies, 1962: Jimmy Davies, 1963: Bob Wente, 1964: Mel Kenyon, 1965: Mike McGreevy, 1966: Mike McGreevy, 1967: Mel Kenyon, 1968: Mel Kenyon, 1969: Bob Tattersall, 1970: Jimmy Caruthers, 1971: Danny Caruthers, 1972: Pancho Carter, 1973: Larry Rice, 1974: Mel Kenyon, 1975: Sleepy Tripp, 1976: Sleepy Tripp, 1977: Mel Kenyon, 1978: Rich Vogler, 1979: Steve Lotshaw, 1980: Rich Vogler, 1981: Mel Kenyon, 1982: Kevin Olson, 1983: Rich Vogler, 1984: Tom Bigelow, 1985: Mel Kenyon, 1986: Rich Vogler, 1987: Kevin Olson, 1988: Rich Vogler, 1989: Russ Gamester, 1990: Jeff Gordon, 1991: Mike Streicher, 1992: Stevie Reeves, 1993: Stevie Reeves, 1994: Tony Stewart, 1995: Tony Stewart, 1996: Kenny Irwin Jr., 1997: Jason Leffler, 1998: Jason Leffler, 1999: Jason Leffler, 2000: Kasey Kahne, 2001: Dave Darland, 2002: Dave Darland, 2003: J.J. Yeley, 2004: Bobby East, 2005: Josh Wise, 2006: Jerry Coons Jr., 2007: Jerry Coons Jr., 2008: Cole Whitt, 2009: Brad Kuhn, 2010: Bryan Clauson, 2011: Bryan Clauson, 2012: Darren Hagen, 2013: Christopher Bell, 2014: Rico Abreu, 2015: Tracy Hines, 2016: Tanner Thorson, 2017: Spencer Bayston, 2018: Logan Seavey, 2019: Tyler Courtney, 2020: Chris Windom, 2021: Buddy Kofoid, 2022: Buddy Kofoid, 2023: Logan Seavey, 2024: Daison Pursley


 


 

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ENTRANT CHAMPIONS


 

1956: Ashley Wright, 1957: Lloyd Rahn, 1958: Lloyd Rahn, 1959: Ray Bolander, 1960: Jimmy Davies, 1961: Howard Linne, 1962: Jimmy Davies, 1963: Robert Shadday, 1964: Willard Coil, 1965: Mel & Don Kenyon, 1966: Mel & Don Kenyon, 1967: Mel & Don Kenyon, 1968: Mel & Don Kenyon, 1969: Jack Stroud, 1970: Doug Caruthers, 1971: Doug Caruthers, 1972: Shannon Brothers, 1973: Doug Caruthers, 1974: 3-K Racing Enterprises, 1975: Sleepy Tripp, 1976: Sleepy Tripp, 1977: Sherman Armstrong, 1978: Doug & Dana Caruthers, 1979: 3-K Racing Enterprises, 1980: 3-K Racing Enterprises, 1981: 3-K Racing Enterprises, 1982: Nick Gojmeric, 1983: Streicher Racing, 1984: Wilke Racing, 1985: 3-K Racing Enterprises, 1986: Jonathan Byrd, 1987: Jonathan Byrd, 1988: Wilke Racers, 1989: George & Gary Gamester, 1990: Streicher Racing, 1991: Streicher Racing, 1992: Ralph Potter, 1993: Steve Lewis, 1994: Ralph Potter, 1995: Steve Lewis, 1996: Steve Lewis, 1997: Pete Willoughby, 1998: Steve Lewis, 1999: Steve Lewis, 2000: Steve Lewis, 2001: Steve Lewis, 2002: Steve Lewis, 2003: Steve Lewis, 2004: Steve Lewis, 2005: Wilke-Pak Racers, 2006: Keith Kunz Motorsports, 2007: Wilke-Pak Racers, 2008: Keith Kunz Motorsports, 2009: RW Motorsports, 2010: Corey Tucker Racing/Keith Kunz Motorsports/BCI, 2011: Corey Tucker Racing/BCI/Curb-Agajanian, 2012: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2013: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2014: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2015: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2016: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2017: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2018: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2019: Clauson Marshall Racing, 2020: Tucker-Boat Motorsports, 2021: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2022: Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, 2023: Abacus Racing, 2024: CB Industries


 


 

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ROOKIES OF THE YEAR

1969: Billy Engelhart, 1970: Danny Brown, 1971: Danny Caruthers, 1972: Tommy Astone, 1973: Mike Gregg, 1974: Richard Powell, 1975: Larry Patton, 1976: James McElreath, 1977: Lonnie Caruthers, 1978: Tommy Thomas, 1979: Barry Butterworth, 1980: Trevor Boys, 1981: Sherman Armstrong, 1982: Chris Maxson, 1983: John Andretti, 1984: Russ Gamester, 1985: Bobby Allen, 1986: Steve Enlow, 1987: John Meyers, 1988: Jim Keeker, 1989: Jeff Gordon, 1990: Dan Ford, 1991: Doug Kalitta, 1992: Brian Gerster, 1993: Chuck Leary, 1994: David Bridges, 1995: Ryan Newman, 1996: Carl Olsen, 1997: Nick Lundgreen, 1998: Michael Lewis, 1999: A.J. Fike, 2000: Aaron Fike, 2001: Bobby East, 2002: Teddy Beach & Ron Gregory, 2003: Ryan Durst, 2004: Todd Beach, 2005: Darren Hagen, 2006: Bryan Clauson, 2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 2008: Chad Boat, 2009: Zach Daum, 2010: Daniel Bedford, 2011: Kyle Larson, 2012: Rico Abreu, 2013: Christopher Bell, 2014: Kevin Thomas Jr., 2015: Spencer Bayston, 2016: Carson Macedo, 2017: Tanner Carrick, 2018: Logan Seavey. 2019: Andrew Layser, 2020: Buddy Kofoid, 2021: Chase Randall, 2022: Mitchel Moles, 2023: Gavin Miller, 2024: Zach Wigal


 


 

2024 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET DRIVER & TEAM ROSTER


 

A


 

JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis #00) & (4 Kings Racing #14)


 

WILL ARMITAGE/Athens, IL (Fatt Right Foot Racing #83)


 

JADE AVEDISIAN/Clovis, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71)


 

EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K)


 


 

B


 

BRADY BACON/Broken Arrow, OK (TKH Motorsports #21H)


 

CHRIS BAUE/Indianapolis, IN (Bill Baue #36)


 

CODY BEARD/Huntingburg, IN (Beard Racing #7B)


 

LANCE BENNETT/Aurora, CO (Cappy Mason #91)


 

ADAM BOLYARD/Rushville, IN (Adam Bolyard Racing #4)


 

JAKEB BOXELL/Zanesville, IN (4 Kings Racing #44)


 

BLAKE BRANNON/Morgan Hill, CA (Brannon Motorsports #40)


 

KAYLEE BRYSON/Muskogee, OK (Joyner Motorsports #27) & (Abacus Racing #58)


 

JAKE BUBAK/Arvada, CO (Bourke Motorsports #27B)


 

STEVE BUCKWALTER/Royersford, PA (Brian Buckwalter #0) & (Brian Buckwalter #25B)


 

KYLE BUSCH/Las Vegas, NV (Kyle Busch Motorsports #51B)


 


 

C


 

TANNER CARRICK/Lincoln, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #98)


 

ROBERT CARSON/Concord, CA (LOK Enterprises #99K)


 

TREVOR CLINE/Mooresville, NC (Troy Cline #55)


 

KEVIN COOK/Winchester, IN (Kevin Cook #77)


 

CALE COONS/Greencastle, IN (Joe Dooling #63)


 

JERRY COONS JR./Tucson, AZ (Central Motorsports #85)


 

SHANE COTTLE/Kansas, IL (4 Kings Racing #44)


 

TYLER COURTNEY/Indianapolis, IN (Silva Motorsports #23c)


 

DANE CULVER/Riverside, CA (Knuckles Up Racing #50)


 

KYLE CUMMINS/Princeton, IN (Glenn Styres Racing #3G)


 


 

D


 

BRIGGS DANNER/Allentown, PA (John Schneider #98)


 

ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (RAMCO Speed Group-Daum Motorsports #5d), (RAMCO Speed Group #7m), (RAMCO Speed Group #7p), (Trifecta Motorsports #7u), (Royal Power Sports #16), (Pat O'Dell #17) & (Beilman Motorsports #31B)


 

HANK DAVIS/Sand Springs, OK (Bob Chandler #00), (Cornell Racing Stables #8) & (John LeVecque #60x)


 

MITCHELL DAVIS/Auburn, IL (Pat O'Dell #56)


 

COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne #4)


 

ANDREW DEAL/Caney, KS (Mike Deal #15D)


 

TRAVIS DeGATON/Sacramento, CA (Troy DeGaton #39T)


 

TROY DeGATON/Wickenburg, AZ (Troy DeGaton #39T)


 

JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy #25)


 

JUSTIN DICKERSON/Pittsboro, IN (Mike Dickerson #21D)


 

DEVON DOBIE/Wapakoneta, OH (Dennis Dobie #23)


 

KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #97K)


 

NICK DRAKE/Mooresville, NC (Troy Cline #55D)


 

BRYAN DROLLINGER/San Pedro, CA (Drollinger Bros. Racing #71D)


 

DON DROUD JR./Lincoln, NE (Mark Burch #22T)


 

TOM DUNKEL/Menifee, CA (Josh Ford Motorsports #17A)


 


 

E


 

MARIAH EDE/Fresno, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K) & (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71E)


 

DRAKE EDWARDS/Peoria, AZ (Petty Performance Racing #3p)


 

TYLER EDWARDS/Salina, OK (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #14s)


 

BROC ELLIOTT/California, MO (Broc Elliott #0)


 


 

F


 

MICHAEL FACCINTO/Hanford, CA (Graunstadt-Streeter Racing #14)


 

ANDREW FELKER/Carl Junction, MO (Cooper & Hudson Felker #11A)


 

BRADLEY FEZARD/Bonnerdale, AR (V & H Racing #938)


 

BRODY FUSON/Bakersfield, CA (Rusty Carlile #51)


 


 

G


 

DALTEN GABBARD/Peoria, AZ (Dalten Gabbard #77)


 

RONNIE GARDNER/Corona, CA (Six8 Motorsports #68)


 

TY GIBBS/Charlotte, NC (CB Industries #81)


 

MATT GOODNIGHT/Winchester, IN (Kyle Simon #23)


 

WESTON GORHAM/Colleyville, TX (Mike Dickerson #18N)


 

BROEDY GRAHAM/Bakersfield, CA (BGR Racing #66)


 

JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing #2)


 

RYLAN GRAY/Greenfield, IN (RMS Racing #87)


 

FRANKIE GUERRINI/San Rafael, CA (Cornell Racing Stables #8) & (F & F Racing #63)


 


 

H


 

LUKE HALL/Ludlow Falls, OH (Kyle Heitmeyer #74)


 

KYLE HAWSE/Las Vegas, NV (Hawse Racing #20x)


 

TODD HAWSE/Simi Valley, CA (Todd Hawse #18)


 

TODD HOBSON/Clyde, VIC (Griffiths Motorsports #75) & (Griffiths Motorsport #75AU)


 

ABBY HOHLBEIN/Cloverdale, OH (Joyner Motorsports #27) & (Lambert Motorsports #55)


 


 

J


 

KENNEY JOHNSON/Bethany, CT (Jeff Johnson #46)


 

SAM JOHNSON/St. Peters, MO (Joe Johnson #72J)


 

KYLE JONES/Kennedale, TX (Joyner Motorsports #27x)


 


 

K


 

ALEX KARPOWICZ/Spring Branch, TX (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #19)


 

KAMERON KEY/Warrensburg, MO (TKH Motorsports #21J)


 

JOHN KLABUNDE/Fort Calhoun, NE (John Klabunde #77)


 

BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71)


 


 

L


 

CAMERON LA ROSE/Phoenix, AZ (Petty Performance Racing #3J)


 

KYLE LARSON/Elk Grove, CA (Silva Motorsports #1K)


 

C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN (Dennis Hart #15) & (4 Kings Racing #54)


 

CADE LEWIS/Bakersfield, CA (Dean Alexander #101)


 

RICKY LEWIS/Camarillo, CA (4 Kings Racing #4) & (4 Kings Racing #54)


 


 

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CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport #99AU)


 

KAIDEN MANDERS/Perth, WAU (RAMCO Speed Group #7m)


 

BRYCE MASSINGILL/Troy, OH (Chase McDermand #40x)


 

CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports #8w) & (Chase McDermand #40)


 

JACOB McFARLIN/Sedalia, MO (Branigan Roark Racing #33)


 

CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #71K)


 

ZACK MERRITT/Greeley, CO (Ryan Oerter #43)


 

THOMAS MESERAULL/San Jose, CA (Tim Engler #7x)


 

GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #97)


 

ETHAN MITCHELL/Mooresville, NC (Bundy Built Motorsports #19m)


 

MITCHEL MOLES/Raisin City, CA (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19A)


 

JOEL MYERS JR./Santa Rosa, CA (Leighton Crouch #1)


 


 

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DARIN NAIDA/Adrian, MI (Dan Binks #3R)


 

KEVIN NEWTON/Farmersburg, IN (Second Law Motorsports #16TH)


 

TERRY NICHOLS/Delano, CA (Nichols-Peckfelder Motorsports #1p)


 


 

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ASHLEY OERTER/Ellicott, CO (Ryan Oerter #44)


 


 

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RANDI PANKRATZ/Atascadero, CA (Wally Pankratz #8)


 

DEAN PARKER/Newburgh, IN (Brian & Deidre Martin #11p)


 

PETER PAULSON/Woodland, CA (El Toro Racing #Q32)


 

MICHAEL PICKENS/Auckland, NZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #54NZ) & (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K)


 

LOGAN PRICKETT/Shelbyville, IN (MKP Racing #37)


 

DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries #86)


 


 

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MATHEW RADISICH/Auckland, NZ (Graunstadt-Streeter Racing #14T)


 

KEITH RAUCH/Denver, CO (Bourke Motorsports #27K)


 

DAVEY RAY/Davenport, IA (Jeff Wimmenauer #15J)


 

TAYLOR REIMER/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #25K)


 

HAYDEN REINBOLD/Gilbert, AZ ( Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19AZ)


 

BRANIGAN ROARK/Lincoln, MO (Branigan Roark Racing #44)


 

KAYLA ROELL/Dillsboro, IN (Kayla Roell Racing #4K)


 

JADON ROGERS/Worthington, IN (RAMCO Speed Group #7m)


 


 

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CADEN SARALE/Stockton, CA (Caden Sarale #32)


 

KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Karter Sarff #21K) & (Beilman Motorsports #31)


 

C.J. SARNA/Palm Desert, CA (Sarna Motorsports #20)


 

JEFF SCHINDLER/Evansville, IN (Giddy Up Racing #8x)


 

STEPHEN SCHNAPF/Newburgh, IN (Brian & Deidre Martin #11) & (Brian & Deidre Martin #11s)


 

BRIAN SCHWABAUER/Hastings, NE (Murphy Racing #9B)


 

LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing #57)


 

GUNNAR SETSER/Columbus, IN (Kevin Arnold #43)


 

SHAUN SHAPEL/Wichita, KS (Phil Shapel #84s)


 

MICHAEL SMITH/Delta, PA (Tom Savage #76)


 

T.J. SMITH/Fresno, CA (Caden Sarale #32) & (Caden Sarale #32x)


 

STEVEN SNYDER JR./Rising Sun, MD (Royal Power Sports #16)


 

CURTIS SPICER/Marysville, KS (Spicer RaceCraft #4s)


 

BRYAN STANFILL/Bakersfield, CA (Griffiths Motorsport #75AU)


 

JEFF STASA/Kingman, KS (Mark Stasa #91)


 

GLENN STYRES/Ohsweken, ON (Glenn Styres Racing #0G)


 

STEVIE SUSSEX/Tempe, AZ (Crown Jewel Racing #20AZ)


 

JAKE SWANSON/Anaheim, CA (Beilman Motorsports #31)


 


 

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ADAM TAYLOR/Wheatfield, IN (Adam Taylor Motorsports #7T)


 

GARY TAYLOR/Snohomish, WA (Mike & Brian Dunlap #32)


 

KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #9), (4 Kings Racing #14), (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #14s) & (Abacus Racing #57KT)


 

RICKY THORNTON JR./Chandler, AZ (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K)


 

TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Tom Malloy #25m)


 

RYAN TIMMS/Oklahoma City, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67)


 

ASHTON TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67K)


 

AUSTIN TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports #88A)


 

BRANDT TWITTY/Bakersfield, CA (Kevin Twitty #4B)


 


 

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BARRIE VALENTINO/Brisbane, AU (El Toro Racing #Q23)


 

JIM VANZANT/Prescott, AZ (Jim & Bonnie Vanzant #3v)


 


 

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BRANDON WAELTI/Sun Prairie, WI (Martin Family Racing #3w)


 

COLE WAKIM/Simi Valley, CA (Josh Ford Motorsports #73)


 

CAMERON WEISHOFF/Sun Prairie, WI (Weishoff Motorsports #55)


 

MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH (4 Kings Racing #54)


 

DANIEL WHITLEY/Ferndale, CA (RAMCO Speed Group #7m), (RAB Racing #57A) & (John LeVecque #60x)


 

ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries #89)


 

CHRIS WINDOM/Canton, IL (CB Industries #89x)


 


 

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J.J. YELEY/Phoenix, AZ (Petty Performance Racing #3J)


 


 

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TREY ZORN/Russell, KS (Bob Chandler #00z)

 

  

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Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series Profile and History The Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series is excited to announce the 2017 tour dates for the "Last True Outlaws" of auto racing. The upcoming season will mark the sixth full seasonal tour for the Ohio based traditional wingless sprint tour that was established and opened in 2011.

 

 

 

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Great Lakes Super Sprints Add Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, July 18th

 

Merrill, MI - Officials with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP and Limaland Motorsports Park have added another race to the calendar for the 2025 season with the Ohio CAT Division. One of the events originally listed as a “TBA” on the 2025 GLSS schedule has now been moved to Friday, July 18th. 


 

The Ohio CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints Division will visit Limaland Motorsports Park a total of six times in 2025 with the addition of July 18th. Other dates include Friday, May 2nd, May 16th, May 23rd, June 6th, and July 4th. 


 

Last season, Mother Nature only allowed for three shows at Limaland for the Great Lakes Super Sprints. Devon Dobie won the opening show on June 7th. Kasey Jedrzejek grabbed the Tim Allison Tribute win on July 5th, and Jac Nichols picked up his first career GLSS win on July 19th. 


 

For more information on the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP, log onto GreatLakesSprints.com. Find Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.

Veteran, Gregg Dalman Eyes Full Season with the Michigan CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints


Merrill, MI - Since the 90s, Gregg Dalman has wheeled a Sprint Car around the Great Lakes region. In 2025, “The Bulldog” will embark on his 27th year behind the wheel and hopes to cap it off with a Championship with the Michigan CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP. In addition to all of the Michigan CAT Division races, Dalman will also bring his No.49T to select Ohio Division shows and follow the Tour on select weekends.


 

The Bellevue, Michigan native currently sits seventh on the all-time wins list for the Great Lakes Super Sprints behind drivers like Dustin Daggett, Jared Horstman, Max Stambaugh, Phil Gressman, Randy Hannagan, and Ryan Ruhl. Five of those six drivers have something in common that Dalman would like to change on his resume; Great Lakes Super Sprints Champion. Dalman was one spot shy of a championship in 2018 when Daggett collected his first GLSS title in a season that saw the No.85 go to victory lane six times.


 

In 2025, The Michigan CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints will return to the sight of half of Dalman’s six wins with the Series in the nine seasons of competition. On Saturday, June 21st the Super Sprints will unload at Thunderbird Raceway for the first time since August of 2021; a race that Dalman won. In fact, Dalman is tied with 2016 GLSS Champion, Chase Ridenour for three wins at the Muskegon, MI facility and they are the only drivers to find victory lane at “T-Bird” more than once in eight visits to the facility.


 

Dalman has found success at other race tracks, however. In 2018, Dalman swept the events at Hartford Speedway earning Quick Time and the feature win over a 27-car field. Later that same year, Dalman beat 32 other drivers to win at Tri-City Motor Speedway. Daggett has since earned another win at each of those tracks with two a piece. 


 

This season, Dalman hopes to bring an over 900-day winless streak to an end. Dalman’s last trip to Great Lakes Super Sprints Victory Lane came at Harford Speedway in June of 2022. The 53-year-old has been on the brink of another win earning three top fives in 2024 including a third-place finish at Tri City Motor Speedway in July and a runner-up at Limaland in 2023.


 

With his son Keegan Dalman by his side, the pair aim to bring home more consistency in 2025 with a Division Championship in the back of their minds.


 

“Try to get the 49T back up front night in and night out,” Dalman said when asked what his goals were in 2025. “If possible [we’d like to win a championship], if we can run up front the rest will take care of itself.”


 

Dalman’s 2025 season will begin with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour at I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, TN April 11-12th in a co-sanctioned event with the USCS Sprint Car Series. The Michigan CAT Division begins on Saturday, April 19th at Crystal Motor Speedway with the Ohio CAT Division currently scheduled to start on Friday, May 2nd at Limaland Motorsports Park.


 

For more information on the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP, log onto GreatLakesSprints.com. Find Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.

 

 

 

Champions and Award Winners Honored at Great Lakes Sprint Series Banquet
 

 

 

Jackson, MI - Teams, officials, partner tracks, and marketing partners all gathered Saturday night at the Commonwealth Commerce Center in Jackson, Michigan to honor Champions and other award winners with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour, the Michigan CAT Division, the Ohio CAT Division, the Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store, and the Great Lakes Lightning Sprint Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store. In total, over $90,000 in prize money was awarded as well as door prizes and product certificates.

For the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour drivers, over $70,000 was awarded to drivers who raced with GLSS throughout the 2024 season; one that saw 32 races at 15 different tracks in four states and two countries. In total, 122 drivers earned points on the tour with 16 different drivers going to victory lane.  Cloverdale, OH’s Abby Hohlbein was in attendance to accept her Rookie of the Year award after turning in two top-10 finishes in her 15 starts this season. Chase Dunham of Leipsic, OH accepted his award for 10th in the championship standings after 13 top-10s and six top-fives in the season in 19 starts. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) accepted her 6th place Tour award following a season with nine top 10s and four top 5s in 25 starts. Veteran Gregg Dalman took 5th place honors Saturday night with a season that saw him make 27 starts with 11 top 10s and three top fives. Dustin Daggett added to his hardware collection after finishing runner-up in the standings pulling in 27 top-10s and 13 top-fives in 27 starts last season including wins at I-96 Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway.

Awarded as the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour Champion for the third time in his career was Elida, OH’s, Max Stambaugh. In 2024, Stambaugh drove the Smith Motorsports No.71H to a season-high six wins (I-75 Raceway 2x, Hartford Motor Speedway, Tri City Motor Speedway 2x, and Silver Bullet Speedway), 19 top-fives, and 28 top-10s in 31 starts. Paired with the Michigan CAT Division Championship he was also awarded Saturday night, Stambaugh now has a record-setting five championships with GLSS. Trailing only Jared Horstman who has nine counting back to the days of the NRA Sprint Invaiders.

As for Smith Motorsports, the pair of championships in 2024 give them a total of six consecutive titles with the Great Lakes Super Sprints dating back to their first title run with Ryan Ruhl in 2021.

The Ohio CAT Division, which conducted 11 races at five tracks in 2024 welcomed in 92 different drivers with nine winners. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) took home the award for 10th in the Ohio CAT Division with two top-10s in nine starts in the Buckeye State. Gregg Dalman accepted his award for 8th in the championship standings thanks to his solid performance in nine starts this season. Chase Dunham’s season in Ohio landed him 6th in the region’s standings after six top-10s and three top-5s in 10 starts. Stambaugh was awarded the runner-up finish in the 2024 standings, falling short of the clean sweep of championships by three points. Stambaugh’s Ohio efforts included four top-5s and 10 top-10s in 11 starts.

As for the Ohio CAT Division Champion, Dustin Daggett finished ahead of Stambaugh during the final night at Millstream Speedway to secure his second Great Lakes Super Sprints Championship and his first since 2018. Daggett joins Jared Horstman and Max Stambaugh as the only drivers to win more than one championship with the Great Lakes Super Sprints since the launch in 2016. Daggett’s final line this season looked a lot like Stambaugh’s, with four top-fives and 10 top-10s in his 11 starts.

The Michigan CAT Division welcomed 59 different drivers in 2024 and saw eight different racers pull into victory lane. A 15-race schedule unfolded at six different race tracks. Zach Broughman accepted his award for 10th in the Michigan CAT Division after starting 12 shows last summer. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) returned to the podium to accept her fifth-place award in a season where she finished a career-best third during three different races. Her final stat line showed four top-fives and seven top-10s in her 14 starts. Gregg Dalman was back with a fourth-place award thanks to his three top-fives and 10 top-10s in his 14 starts. Daggett, for the second time in the program, accepted the award for second in the championship standings posting two feature wins at I-96 Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway, eight top-fives and 11 top-10s in 14 starts. Then, Stambaugh accepted his award for the Michigan CAT Division Championship thanks to his four wins, 11 top-fives, and 13 top-10s in 14 starts.

The Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store honored Tom Lowe who, in six starts, turned in four top-10 finishes and a top-five to finish 8th in the standings. Longtime racer, Mike Astrauskas finished 7th in the standings in 2024 thanks to four top-10s during his six starts. Aidan Salisbury was on hand to accept his award for fourth in the standings; earned thanks to his six top-10s and three top-fives in his eight feature starts. Max Frank, the only repeat winner the Series saw in 2024, finished third in the championship standings. Frank posted seven top-10s and four top-fives in his seven starts as well as three wins coming at Tri-City Motor Speedway and Silver Bullet Speedway (2x). After eight starts in 2024, Brian Ruhlman finished runner-up in the championship hunt with eight top-10s and five top-fives plus a win at Tri City Motor Speedway. The 2024 Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Champion was collecting his 11th career Series Championship on Saturday night. Steve Irwin’s season featured eight top-10s, seven top-fives, and a feature win to open the season at Butler Motor Speedway.

In the Great Lakes Lightning Sprints, Geoff Miller was awarded the 10th place Championship Award as well as the 2024 Rookie of the Year. Miller posted two top-10s in his 13 starts. Avery Neal accepted the award for 9th thanks to seven top-five finishes in 11 starts last season. Division, MI’s, Chad Colley finished 8th last season with seven top-10s and one top-five in 13 starts. After 15 starts last year and five top-10s, Bobby Miller was awarded the 7th place award. Dalton Pipgras took 6th in the championship standings after four top-fives and 11 top-10s in his 13 starts. Arlie Cooper, Jr cracked the top five last season with three top-five finishes and 10 top-10s in 14 starts. Noah Wilfong built a strong 2024 season with 15 starts last year and 12 top-10s to go along with five top-five finishes. Jacob Sabaj’s sophomore season was almost as good as his rookie year, in 14 starts the Cournna, MI native grabbed nine wins and 13 top-fives. However, it wasn’t enough to knock off Justin Ward who made 16 features in 2024 and finished in the top 10 each night. In fact, the Benzonia, MI native made 15 of those starts into top-five finishes as well; three of which came as feature wins.

Details of the 2025 schedules for the Great Lakes Traditional Sprints and Great Lakes Lightning Sprints are expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Find GreatLakesSprints.com for more information on the Great Lakes Family of Sprint Cars. Follow the Great Lakes Sprint Series on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.
Jackson, MI - Teams, officials, partner tracks, and marketing partners all gathered Saturday night at the Commonwealth Commerce Center in Jackson, Michigan to honor Champions and other award winners with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour, the Michigan CAT Division, the Ohio CAT Division, the Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store, and the Great Lakes Lightning Sprint Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store. In total, over $90,000 in prize money was awarded as well as door prizes and product certificates.

For the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour drivers, over $70,000 was awarded to drivers who raced with GLSS throughout the 2024 season; one that saw 32 races at 15 different tracks in four states and two countries. In total, 122 drivers earned points on the tour with 16 different drivers going to victory lane.  Cloverdale, OH’s Abby Hohlbein was in attendance to accept her Rookie of the Year award after turning in two top-10 finishes in her 15 starts this season. Chase Dunham of Leipsic, OH accepted his award for 10th in the championship standings after 13 top-10s and six top-fives in the season in 19 starts. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) accepted her 6th place Tour award following a season with nine top 10s and four top 5s in 25 starts. Veteran Gregg Dalman took 5th place honors Saturday night with a season that saw him make 27 starts with 11 top 10s and three top fives. Dustin Daggett added to his hardware collection after finishing runner-up in the standings pulling in 27 top-10s and 13 top-fives in 27 starts last season including wins at I-96 Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway.

Awarded as the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour Champion for the third time in his career was Elida, OH’s, Max Stambaugh. In 2024, Stambaugh drove the Smith Motorsports No.71H to a season-high six wins (I-75 Raceway 2x, Hartford Motor Speedway, Tri City Motor Speedway 2x, and Silver Bullet Speedway), 19 top-fives, and 28 top-10s in 31 starts. Paired with the Michigan CAT Division Championship he was also awarded Saturday night, Stambaugh now has a record-setting five championships with GLSS. Trailing only Jared Horstman who has nine counting back to the days of the NRA Sprint Invaiders.

As for Smith Motorsports, the pair of championships in 2024 give them a total of six consecutive titles with the Great Lakes Super Sprints dating back to their first title run with Ryan Ruhl in 2021.

The Ohio CAT Division, which conducted 11 races at five tracks in 2024 welcomed in 92 different drivers with nine winners. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) took home the award for 10th in the Ohio CAT Division with two top-10s in nine starts in the Buckeye State. Gregg Dalman accepted his award for 8th in the championship standings thanks to his solid performance in nine starts this season. Chase Dunham’s season in Ohio landed him 6th in the region’s standings after six top-10s and three top-5s in 10 starts. Stambaugh was awarded the runner-up finish in the 2024 standings, falling short of the clean sweep of championships by three points. Stambaugh’s Ohio efforts included four top-5s and 10 top-10s in 11 starts.

As for the Ohio CAT Division Champion, Dustin Daggett finished ahead of Stambaugh during the final night at Millstream Speedway to secure his second Great Lakes Super Sprints Championship and his first since 2018. Daggett joins Jared Horstman and Max Stambaugh as the only drivers to win more than one championship with the Great Lakes Super Sprints since the launch in 2016. Daggett’s final line this season looked a lot like Stambaugh’s, with four top-fives and 10 top-10s in his 11 starts.

The Michigan CAT Division welcomed 59 different drivers in 2024 and saw eight different racers pull into victory lane. A 15-race schedule unfolded at six different race tracks. Zach Broughman accepted his award for 10th in the Michigan CAT Division after starting 12 shows last summer. Kelsey Ivy (Mange) returned to the podium to accept her fifth-place award in a season where she finished a career-best third during three different races. Her final stat line showed four top-fives and seven top-10s in her 14 starts. Gregg Dalman was back with a fourth-place award thanks to his three top-fives and 10 top-10s in his 14 starts. Daggett, for the second time in the program, accepted the award for second in the championship standings posting two feature wins at I-96 Speedway and Crystal Motor Speedway, eight top-fives and 11 top-10s in 14 starts. Then, Stambaugh accepted his award for the Michigan CAT Division Championship thanks to his four wins, 11 top-fives, and 13 top-10s in 14 starts.

The Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Presented by MacCallister CAT Rental Store honored Tom Lowe who, in six starts, turned in four top-10 finishes and a top-five to finish 8th in the standings. Longtime racer, Mike Astrauskas finished 7th in the standings in 2024 thanks to four top-10s during his six starts. Aidan Salisbury was on hand to accept his award for fourth in the standings; earned thanks to his six top-10s and three top-fives in his eight feature starts. Max Frank, the only repeat winner the Series saw in 2024, finished third in the championship standings. Frank posted seven top-10s and four top-fives in his seven starts as well as three wins coming at Tri-City Motor Speedway and Silver Bullet Speedway (2x). After eight starts in 2024, Brian Ruhlman finished runner-up in the championship hunt with eight top-10s and five top-fives plus a win at Tri City Motor Speedway. The 2024 Great Lakes Traditional Sprints Champion was collecting his 11th career Series Championship on Saturday night. Steve Irwin’s season featured eight top-10s, seven top-fives, and a feature win to open the season at Butler Motor Speedway.

In the Great Lakes Lightning Sprints, Geoff Miller was awarded the 10th place Championship Award as well as the 2024 Rookie of the Year. Miller posted two top-10s in his 13 starts. Avery Neal accepted the award for 9th thanks to seven top-five finishes in 11 starts last season. Division, MI’s, Chad Colley finished 8th last season with seven top-10s and one top-five in 13 starts. After 15 starts last year and five top-10s, Bobby Miller was awarded the 7th place award. Dalton Pipgras took 6th in the championship standings after four top-fives and 11 top-10s in his 13 starts. Arlie Cooper, Jr cracked the top five last season with three top-five finishes and 10 top-10s in 14 starts. Noah Wilfong built a strong 2024 season with 15 starts last year and 12 top-10s to go along with five top-five finishes. Jacob Sabaj’s sophomore season was almost as good as his rookie year, in 14 starts the Cournna, MI native grabbed nine wins and 13 top-fives. However, it wasn’t enough to knock off Justin Ward who made 16 features in 2024 and finished in the top 10 each night. In fact, the Benzonia, MI native made 15 of those starts into top-five finishes as well; three of which came as feature wins.

Details of the 2025 schedules for the Great Lakes Traditional Sprints and Great Lakes Lightning Sprints are expected to be released in the coming weeks.

Find GreatLakesSprints.com for more information on the Great Lakes Family of Sprint Cars. Follow the Great Lakes Sprint Series on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.
 
 

 

Following Five Win Season, Rhino Racing Eyes More Success in 2025

 


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Coldwater, MI - The 2024 season was a successful one for Phil Reneau and Rhino Racing. The 360 and 410 Sprint Car Team kicked things off in February racing at East Bay Raceway Park before returning to the Great Lakes Region to dial in for the summer of racing. The Rhino Racing brand competed in over 60 races between all of their driver and car combinations with drivers like Jason Blonde (primary), Keith Sheffer, Jr, Darin Naida, Chad Wilson, and Brian Paulus. The team found victory lane five times with four different drivers at four different track throughout the season.


 

With Class of 2018 Michigan Motorsports Hall of Fame member, Jason Blonde behind the wheel of the primary car, Rhino Racing collected their first career win with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP. Blonde started on the pole and held off former GLSS Champion, Ryan Ruhl for the win at I-96 Speedway in July. In other events behind the wheel of the No.10BR, Blonde brought home 11 top 10s and eight top five finishes. Blonde also finished 9th in the Butler Motor Speedway Pell’s Tire Service 410 Sprint Car Points Standings.


 

With other drivers behind the wheel, Rhino Racing collected two more wins. Darin Naida drove Rhino Racing to Butler Motor Speedway Victory Lane on August 10th before collecting four top fives and six top 10s before the end of the season.


 

Other drivers accounted for additional wins at Hartford Speedway with the Great Lakes Super Sprints and the Pell’s Tire 410 Sprint Cars at Butler Motor Speedway. Plus, an additional  11 top 10 finishes and seven top fives throughout the season. 


 

In addition to the success on the race track, Rhino Racing also showcased their support for the community in 2024. The team participated in a helmet pass supporting Great Lakes Super Sprints announcer, Zach Hiser in his fight against cancer. Joining fellow GLSS drivers in raising over $2,000 for Hiser’s expenses. Rhino Racing was also spotted at a Benefit Car Show for fallen Hillsdale County Sheriff’s Deputy, Bill Butler. Other appearances included an open house for marketing partner, Mancino’s Pizza & Grinders, and participating in the Coldwater Trunk or Treat at Cole Ford Lincoln. 


 

In 2025, Rhino Racing will return to action with primary driver, Jason Blonde back behind the wheel. The team and Blonde plan to race in over 40 events in 2025 including returning to Butler Motor Speedway, competing regionally with the Great Lakes Super Sprints, and nationally with the High Limit Racing Sprint Cars, All Star Circuit of Champions, Knoxville Raceway, and Eldora Speedway. 


 

As for the second car from the fleet, Rhino Racing will entertain a number of guest drivers throughout the season, yet to be announced. Additionally, Rhino Racing is proud to partner with Darin Naida Racing for the 2025 season as Naida tackles the All Star Circuit of Champions. Thanks to the partnership, Naida is expected to return as a guest driver for Rhino Racing as time allows.

Rhino Racing would like to thank the marketing partners for their success in 2024, including Cole Ford Lincoln, Kick’n Kountry Bar & Grill, Sims Lawn & Landscape, Independence Heating & Cooling, Mancinos Pizza and Grinders & Creamery, Flint Truck Service, Coldwater Lake Marina, Lake Drive Marine, Hamilton Trucking, S&K Detail, Canopy’s R Us, and Irvin’s Hardware.


 

Those interested in joining the Rhino Racing Marketing Campaign should contact team owner, Phil Reneau at (517) 250-1688 or by emailing preneau@aol.com. Find Rhino Racing on Facebook for more information.

 

 

Great Lakes Super Sprints Reveals 2025 Schedule of Events

 

Merrill, MI - Officials with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP (GLSS) have announced the 2025 schedule of events which includes the events for the Michigan CAT Division and the Ohio CAT Division. The overall schedule features 43 dates across five states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario; 16 different tracks are currently planned with TBAs expected to increase that number. Of those 43 events, eight are non-points specials.


 

The season is set to begin on the road for a pair of non-points specials alongside the Hurricane Area Super Sprints on April 4th and 5th for the King of the Wing. Night one will be at the ¼ mile oval of Greenville Speedway in Greenville, Mississippi. Night two takes the would-be King of the Wings to Byram, Mississippi and Jackson Motor Speedway’s ¼ mile. One week later, another co-sanctioned event kicks off the Tour points season as I-75 Raceway in Sweetwater, Tennessee welcomes GLSS alongside the United Sprint Car Series (USCS) on Friday and Saturday, April 11th and 12th. April caps off with the start of the Michigan CAT Division season at Crystal Motor Speedway in Crystal, MI on Saturday, April 19th. The following weekend, I-96 Speedway in Lake Odessa, MI hosts on Friday, April 25th with a TBA on Saturday, April 26th.


 

May welcomes in the first trip to Limaland Motorsports Park in Lima, OH on Friday, May 2nd. That event is paired with a raindate for the Crystal event in April. The Ohio CAT Division returns to Limaland on Friday, May 16th and Friday, May 23rd to wrap up the last month of the spring. The Friday, May 23rd date is the kickoff to the Memorial Day Weekend of racing that also includes Millstream Speedway in Findlay, OH on Saturday, May 24th and Waynesfield Raceway Park in Waynesfield, OH on Sunday, May 25th. 


 

In June, it’s back to Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, June 6th before continuing south to Lawrenceburg Speedway in Lawrenceburg, IN on Saturday, June 7th. Hartford Speedway’s lone date on the 2025 calendar comes on Friday, June 13th ahead of the first stop at Quincy, MI’s Butler Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 14th. Friday, June 20th the Series heads back to I-96 Speedway before moving north to Muskegon, MI’s Thunderbird Raceway on Saturday, June 21st. Another TBA placeholder is on the schedule for Friday, June 27th before a return to Crystal Motor Speedway on Saturday, June 28th.


 

GLSS will celebrate our Nation’s Independence starting on Thursday, July 3rd before moving over to Limaland Motorsports Park on Friday, July 4th, and finally to Millstream Speedway on Saturday, July 5th. The first trip to Canada comes July 11th and 12th with trips to Ohsweken and Buxton Speedways as a non-points tune-up event ahead of a regular season trip in August. GLSS returns to the states on Friday, July 25th at I-96 Speedway before jumping over to Crystal Motor Speedway on Saturday, July 26th. 


 

August begins with a stop at Millstream Speedway on Friday, August 1st before the first stop of the season at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, OH on Saturday, August 2nd. Silver Bullet Speedway holds down the Saturday, August 9th spot while a dancing partner is found for Friday, August 8th. Friday, August 15th and Saturday, August 16th it’s an I-96 Speedway and Butler Motor Speedway weekend before the Tour heads across the border the following weekend. After a successful co-sanctioned event with the Canadian-based Southern Ontario Sprints last season, GLSS is bringing the Tour to Ohsweken Speedway on Friday, August 22nd and Buxton Speedway on Saturday, August 23rd. The final points-paying weekend of the season is still being put together, but one thing is for certain - champions will be crowned on Sunday, August 31st at Crystal Motor Speedway. The Friday and Saturday dates of Labor Day Weekend are still TBD. 


 

In September, it’s back to Ohsweken Speedway in Canada for the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals September 11th-13th. Finally, the season ends with a special non-points show at Eldora Speedway during the 4-Crown Nationals. The Great Lakes Super Sprints will race alongside the High Limit Racing Sprint Cars and the USAC Silver Crown qualifying.


 

For more information on the Great Lakes Super Sprints, log onto GreatLakesSuperSprints.com. Find the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and X.

 

Great Lakes Super Sprints Returns to Thunderbird Raceway in 2025

John Berglund


 

Merrill, MI - Officials with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP (GLSS) have announced more details for the 2025 Michigan CAT and Tour division schedules. Thunderbird Raceway in Muskegon, Michigan will make a return to the GLSS calendar for the first time since 2021 on Saturday, June 21st - marking the only stop in northern West Michigan for the 2025 season.


 

Thunderbird Raceway was part of the inaugural season of racing for GLSS in 2016. Gregg Dalman took the win in June of that year holding off Mike Dunlap and eventual champion, Chase Ridenour. In August of that same season, Chase Ridenour capped off a four-race winning streak by holding off Dustin Daggett and Max Stambaugh. The win also put Ridenour on pace to win three in a row at Thunderbird Raceway when he swept the two events in 2017.


 

In August of 2018, nearly 30 cars unloaded at the facility that neighbors Michigan’s Adventure & Wildwater Adventure Park. Phil Gressman grabbed the win holding off a charge from Jared Horstman and Daggett. In 2019, Dalman returned to victory lane at Thunderbird to snap a long winless streak with Dustin Daggett getting the win in one of the fastest-conducted events in GLSS history in 2020; the race went green-to-checkered in just over six minutes. Dalman found victory lane again in 2021 in another green-to-checkered race that nearly broke the stop watch.


 

“We’re excited to return to Thunderbird Raceway,” commented GLSS General Manager, Zach Hiser. “Thunderbird is not only an extremely competitive race track, but it’s also a destination race track just outside of beautiful Muskegon, MI. Many of our fans and officials take in the sights of Lake Michigan before heading to the track.”


 

Opening as Birchwood Speedway in 1958, the semi-banked ⅓ mile track is typically home to Super and Pro Late Models, IMCA Modifieds, Street Stocks, Sport Compacts, and Mini Wedges. 


 

"The Thunderbird Raceway team and I are looking forward to the Great Lakes Super Sprints event,” said Thunderbird Raceway Owner, Heidi Morell. “They are a series that our fans have been asking about and this season we are able to grant their requests.”


 

More details on the 2025 Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. Follow the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube.

 

Great Lakes Super Sprints Tackle Butler Battlegrounds Twice in 2025


Merrill, MI - Officials with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP (GLSS) have announced more details for the 2025 Michigan CAT and Tour schedule. One of the staple facilities for GLSS is returning to the 2025 calendar with a pair of stops throughout the summer. Quincy, Michigan’s Butler Motor Speedway, the only track in Michigan to offer weekly Sprint Car Racing, will see GLSS on Saturday, June 14th, and Saturday, August 16th alongside the weekly Pell’s Tire Service 410 Sprint Cars. 


 

Butler Motor Speedway has been part of the GLSS calendar since the first season in 2016. Linden Jones collected his first win with the series in an event that pulled 21 cars to the facility.  After a four-year hiatus, Butler returned to the schedule in 2020 with a 25-car field - eventual series champion, Ryan Ruhl took the victory. The following season, Portage, Michigan’s Dustin Daggett grabbed the top spot.


 

In 2022, under the direction of current Speedway owner/promoter, Tim Wilber, GLSS saw the first two-date season with stops in July and August. Danny Sams III took the win on July 2nd of that year, with eventual champion, Max Stambaugh besting the high banks in August. In 2023, it was 2019 Series Champion, Phil Gressman who swept the weekend of racing - winning Friday night at Hartford Speedway before getting the win at Butler. J.J. Hickle wheeled his Home Pro Racing ride to victory lane in August of that season not just with the Great Lakes Super Sprints, but is the only driver to date to sweep the 360 and 410 feature in the same night at Butler.


 

Last season, Butler was the home of two of the greatest shows of the 2024 campaign for GLSS. In June, 30 cars turned out for a chance to grab a GLSS-sanctioned win at “The Battlegrounds”. Corbin Gurley used the bottom of the race track to get around Gressman for second just one lap before Stambaugh missed the cushion giving Gurley the lead and his first career GLSS win. Then, in August, Daggett appeared to have his second-ever GLSS win at Butler in the bag until a late race restart gave Kasey Jedrzejek the opportunity to throw a massive slide job for the win. 


 

“Butler Motor Speedway is Michigan’s home for sprint car racing,” said GLSS General Manager, Zach Hiser. “The on-track product at Butler rarely disappoints and we’re looking forward to another successful season with the Wilber family in 2025.”


 

GLSS joins a Butler Motor Speedway calendar that also features traveling 410 Sprint Cars, DIRTcar UMP Late Models, and many other special events for fans to check out the 3/8ths high-banked oval.


 

More details on the 2025 Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. Follow the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

 

Millstream Speedway Welcomes Great Lakes Super Sprints for Three Stops in 2025

Over the Limit

 

Merrill, MI - As the 2025 schedule of events continues to fall into place for the Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour, some tracks are emerging as new staples on the Midwest’s premier Touring 360 Sprint Car Division. Millstream Speedway will welcome in the GLSS Ohio CAT Sprint Car Division three times in 2025, including a planned contest on the new quarter-mile.
 

Millstream Speedway in Findlay, OH returned to action in 2024 for the first time since 2016. In addition to an Ohio Speedweek program, GLSS was honored to be a part of the resurrection of the Speedway with a pair of races with the Great Lakes Sprints Series including GLSS, Great Lakes Traditional Sprints, and Great Lakes Lightning Sprints. The first trip came in August when circumstances forced officials to move the entire show to the quarter-mile bullring built inside of the historic 4/10s mile outer oval. Despite not being the first choice, fans and drivers alike were treated to a spectacular program that saw Zane DeVault hold off advances from Chase Dunham, Greg Wilson, and Kasey Jedrzejek. Meanwhile, eyes were on Darin Naida who drove from 13th to 5th during the 25-lap main event. 
 

In the return to Millstream Speedway in October, the plan to run the 4/10ths-mile was fulfilled and Zane DeVault made history becoming the first driver in history to win on both the 4/10ths-mile and quarter-mile at Millstream Speedway. DeVault again had to deal with Jedrzejek to grab the win with Van Gurley, Jr rounding out the podium and former champion Phil Gressman holding on to the top five ahead of Alex Hill.
 

Three notches on the calendar in 2025 give drivers unique opportunities to find success in northern Ohio. On Saturday, May 24th GLSS unloads for the first time to celebrate the Memorial Day Weekend by doing battle on the 4/10th-mile surface. Then, on Saturday, July 5th we celebrate our Nation’s independence and change up the challenge by moving the show to the quarter-mile. Finally, GLSS returns to the 4/10ths-mile on Friday, August 1st pairing alongside the AFCS 305 Sprint Cars. 
 

“We’re looking forward to returning to Millstream three times in 2025,” said GLSS General Manager, Zach Hiser. “The passion displayed by Matt and Beth Cogley is exactly what the fans and competitors in Findlay deserve.”
 

The three dates at Millstream Speedway for the Great Lakes Super Sprints is part of nearly a dozen scheduled races for the Speedway in 2025.
 

“We are thrilled to have GLSS and GLTS back in 2025 for more electrifying racing on the twin tracks,” said Millstream Speedway Owner, Beth Cogley. “It's a great opportunity for fans to cheer on local drivers like Chase Dunham, Jared Horstman, and Phil Gressman.”
 

More details on the 2025 Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. Follow the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube. 

 

Great Lakes Super Sprints Eye Two Trip to Eldora, Including Friday of the 4-Crown Nationals

 

Easton Knott

 

Merrill, MI - Officials with Eldora Speedway released the 2025 schedule of events on Monday for the famed Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. The schedule included many of the staple events fans have come to know and love including #LetsRaceTwo, FloRacing Night in America, the 31st Dirt Late Model Dream, the 42nd Kings Royal, the 55th World 100, and the 43rd 4-Crown Nationals. Included in the premiere dates for the Big E are two dates with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP; Family Fireworks Night Presented by Casey’s General Store on Saturday, August 2nd for the Ohio CAT Division, and the inclusion of the Great Lakes Super Sprints to the Friday, September 19th portion of the 4-Crown Nationals.


 

The relationship between Eldora Speedway and 360 Sprint Car Racing is tenured going back decades to the days of the National Racing Alliance Sprint Cars (now the Ohio CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints) and their support of major events at Eldora including the Kings Royal and the Johnny Appleseed. In recent years, the Ohio CAT Division wrapped up their championship campaigns at Eldora Speedway in early August.


 

When the Great Lakes Super Sprints purchased NRA and rebranded it to be part of the Great Lakes Sprints Series family, the tradition of racing at Eldora was kept alive. In 2023, nearly 40 drivers from all across the country unloaded for the chance to race with GLSS at the World's Greatest Dirt Track. Randy Hannagan started on the pole and got the best of the 24 car field. In 2024, over 30 cars returned to Eldora - but it was the same song, different verse with Hannagan capturing the win.


 

Now, in 2025, the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP will not only return with the Ohio CAT Division to Eldora on Saturday, August 2nd during Family Fireworks Night Presented by Casey’s, but will also roll in just over six weeks later to run in the 4-Crown Nationals on Friday, September 19th alongside the High Limit Racing Sprint Cars.


 

“When the opportunity to join the historic 4-Crown Nationals Presented by NKTelco came up, we knew instantly that we wanted to be involved,” said Great Lakes Super Sprints General Manager, Zach Hiser. “The legacy of the 4-Crown Nationals is undeniable, featuring the most talented drivers in the country; showcased alongside the talent of the Great Lakes Super Sprints, we know our teams will add to the excitement of the blockbuster weekend.”


 

“Eldora is looking forward to having the Great Lakes Super Sprints two times in 2025,” said Eldora Speedway General Manager, Levi Jones. “[GLSS is] highlighting our annual Family Fireworks Night in August to go along with a Friday addition to the 4-Crown Nationals.” 


 

More details on the 2025 Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP schedule will be announced in the coming weeks. Follow the Great Lakes Super Sprints on Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube. 

 

Great Lakes Super Sprints Increases Purse for 2025 Campaign

 

Merrill, MI - Officials with the Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro and ARP (GLSS) have announced the purse structure for the 2025 season. In an effort to keep pace with the swelling economic state of the auto racing industry, GLSS has added over $2,200 through the field for the 2025 season ensuring that each driver who qualifies for a GLSS program sees an increase in cash at the end of the night.


 

The top five finishers at each event for GLSS in 2025 will see a collective increase of over $1,700. Each feature winner this upcoming season will collect a minimum $2,500 for their efforts on the track. The 2nd place finisher will take home $2,000, 3rd collecting $1,500, 4th earning $1,000, and 5th taking home $850. 


 

The remaining money will be spread through the rest of the field, increasing the bottom line to $400 to start with GLSS in 2025. Additionally, GLSS will continue to offer a minimum $150 to non-member, non-transfer cars, while continuing to provide $200 in non-transfer money to GLSS Member Drivers. 


 

“It’s important for the Great Lakes Super Sprints to make sure we are taking care of all of our drivers who choose to race with us,” said GLSS General Manager, Zach Hiser. “We recognize that only one driver gets to take home the ‘top prize’ at the end of the night, which is why Barry Marlow (GLSS Owner) has made sure that all 20 cars in the starting field see an increase next season, not just the winner’s share.”


 

GLSS officials are working to bring additional bonuses and programs to the table in 2025 alongside the overall purse increase. Log onto GreatLakesSuperSprints.com for more information on the Michigan CAT, Ohio CAT, and overall Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by Engine Pro & ARP Tour. Find GLSS on Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok.


 

Full 2025 Purse:

  1. 2500

  2. 2000

  3. 1500

  4. 1000

  5. 850

  6. 750

  7. 650

  8. 550

  9. 525

  10. 500

  11. 490

  12. 480

  13. 470

  14. 460

  15. 450

  16. 440

  17. 430

  18. 420

  19. 410

  20. 400

 

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2025 USAC SILVER CROWN SCHEDULE


 

Apr 13 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Sumar Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 19 | Toledo Speedway | Toledo, OH | Rollie Beale Classic | 1/2 Mile Pavement


 

May 4 | Winchester Speedway | Winchester, IN | Rich Vogler Classic | 1/2 Mile Pavement


 

May 16-17 | Belleville High Banks | Belleville, KS | Huncovsky Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 23 | Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park | Brownsburg, IN | Hoosier Hundred | .686 Mile Pavement


 

Jun 14 | World Wide Technology Raceway | Madison, IL | 1.25 Mile Pavement


 

Jun 21 | Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 18-19 | Salt City Speedway | Hutchinson, KS | Salt City 100 | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 23 | Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park | Brownsburg, IN | .686 Mile Pavement


 

Aug 9 | Salem Speedway | Salem, IN | .555 Mile Pavement


 

Aug 16 | Illinois State Fairgrounds | Springfield, IL | Bettenhausen 100 | 1 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 30 | Du Quoin State Fairgrounds | Du Quoin, IL | Ted Horn 100 | 1 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 19-20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt
 

2025 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Feb 10 | Volusia Speedway Park | Barberville, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 11 | Volusia Speedway Park | Barberville, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 12 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 13 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 14 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Feb 15 | Ocala Speedway | Ocala, FL | Winter Dirt Games | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 4 | Paragon Speedway | Paragon, IN | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 5 | Red Hill Raceway | Sumner, IL | Salute to Levi Jones | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 12 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Justin Owen Memorial | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

May 2 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | #LetsRaceTwo | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 3 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | #LetsRaceTwo | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 9 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Larry Rice Classic | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 10 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Spring Showdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 21 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Tony Hulman Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 22 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Circle City Salute | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 30 | Knoxville Raceway | Knoxville, IA | Corn Belt Clash | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

May 31 | Knoxville Raceway | Knoxville, IA | Corn Belt Clash | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 17 | Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, PA | Eastern Storm / Jesse Hockett Classic | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 18 | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | Swedesboro, NJ | Eastern Storm | $6,000-to-Win 4/10 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 19 | Big Diamond Speedway | Pottsville, PA | Eastern Storm | $6,000-to-Win 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 20 | Williams Grove Speedway | Mechanicsburg, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 21 | Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 22 | Action Track USA | Kutztown, PA | Eastern Storm | 1/6 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 28 | Fremont Speedway | Fremont, OH | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 29 | Millstream Speedway | Findlay, OH | 4/10 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 4 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Bill Gardner Sprintacular | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 5 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Bill Gardner Sprintacular | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 24 | TBA


 

Jul 25 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 26 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 27 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 


 

Jul 30 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 31 | Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | Indiana Sprint Week / Don Smith Classic | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 1 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Indiana Sprint Week / Kinser Memorial | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 2 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Indiana Sprint Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 21 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 22 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 23 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Sprint Car Smackdown | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 5 | Tri-City Speedway | Granite City, IL | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 6 | I-70 Motorsports Park | Odessa, MO | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 12 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 


 

Sep 13 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Haubstadt Hustler | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 18 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 10 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Greg Staab Memorial | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 11 | Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | Fall Nationals | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 17 | TBA


 

Oct 18 | TBA


 

Oct 24 | Central Arizona Raceway | Casa Grande, AZ | Western World Championships | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Oct 25 | Central Arizona Raceway | Casa Grande, AZ | Western World Championships | 3/8 Mile Dirt

 

2025 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE


 

Apr 25 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Kokomo Grand Prix | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Apr 26 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Kokomo Grand Prix | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 16 | Belleville Short Track | Belleville, KS | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 17 | Belleville Short Track | Belleville, KS | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

May 18 | Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex | Sweet Springs, MO | 1/6 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 3 | Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 4 | Paragon Speedway | Paragon, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 3/8 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 5 | Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 5/16 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 6 | Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 7 | Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jun 8 | Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | Indiana Midget Week | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 8 | Red Dirt Raceway | Meeker, OK | Tuesday Night Thunder | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 9 | Mitchell County Fairgrounds | Beloit, KS | Chad McDaniel Memorial | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Jul 11 | Jefferson County Speedway | Fairbury, NE | Midwest Midget Championship | 1/5

Mile Dirt


 

Jul 12 | Jefferson County Speedway | Fairbury, NE | Midwest Midget Championship | 1/5 Mile Dirt


 

Aug 31 | Angell Park Speedway | Sun Prairie, WI | Firemen's Nationals | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 1 | TBA


 

Sep 18 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Sep 20 | Eldora Speedway | Rossburg, OH | 4-Crown Nationals | 1/2 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 14 | Placerville Speedway | Placerville, CA | Hangtown 100 | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 15 | Placerville Speedway | Placerville, CA | Hangtown 100 | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 19 | TBA


 

Nov 21 | Thunderbowl Raceway | Tulare, CA | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 22 | Merced Speedway | Merced, CA | Midget Madness | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 23 | Merced Speedway | Merced, CA | Midget Madness | 1/4 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 25 | Bakersfield Speedway | Bakersfield, CA | November Classic | 1/3 Mile Dirt


 

Nov 29 | Ventura Raceway | Ventura, CA | Turkey Night Grand Prix | 1/5 Mile Dirt


 

TBA | The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway | Speedway, IN | BC39 | 1/5 Mile Dirt

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