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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.

TYLER ROARS! ROAHRIG WINS HOOSIER HUNDRED FOR FIRST USAC SILVER CROWN SCORE

 

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Tyler Roahrig is all smiles after winning Friday night's USAC Silver Crown Hoosier Hundred at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Brownsburg, Indiana (May 23, 2025)………Tyler Roahrig had done just about everything in his brief but highly successful USAC Silver Crown career. Everything but win, that is.


 

In 12 career series starts dating back to 2021, the Plymouth, Indiana racer finished on the podium six different times, including a runner-up result in his first career series appearance.


 

But Friday night’s 68th running of the Hoosier Hundred at Brownsburg, Indiana’s Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park proved to be the breakthrough he had been oh-so-close to achieving over the years.


 

Starting on the outside of the front row, Roahrig fell back to third on the opening lap before steadily moving forward on the .686-mile paved oval. By the second lap, he was back in second and then gave chase toward five-time Hoosier Hundred winner Kody Swanson.


 

On the 26th circuit, Roahrig made the winning move under Swanson, and from there, he paced the field for the final 121 laps of the 146-lap, 100-miler to earn $15,000 and his first career USAC national victory of any kind in his Newman Racing/Firstline Systems, Inc. – Drywall Distributors – Rocket Fabrication/Beast/Jackson Chevy.


 

“It’s about time,” Roahrig exhaled. “I was complaining after (April’s) Toledo race that we’d done everything but win one of these things. And man, it sure feels good. It’s been a long time coming. I’ve been in the Silver Crown series for four years but we haven’t really run that many races.”


 

The triumphant moment was transcendent across multiple generations of the Roahrig family. In 1973, Tyler’s great uncle, Dave Roahrig, captured a USAC National Sprint Car victory in a rear engine car at Cincinnati, Ohio’s Tri-County Speedway. More than a half-century later, Tyler made it a priority to put the Roahrig name back into the USAC record books.


 

“My great uncle is a big part of our team,” Roahrig explained. “He comes to the race shop every day. He’s taught me a lot about racing and just everything. One reason I wanted to win a USAC race so badly was just so I could have something in common with my uncle. It feels really good to have my named mentioned with my great uncle Dave.”


 

The 121 laps led by Roahrig are the third most by any driver in a USAC Silver Crown event, trailing only the 164 paced by Tom Bigelow at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in 1975 and the 150 Kody Swanson led at Toledo Speedway in 2011.


 

The day before, Roahrig had qualified for the pole position of the Little 500 at Indiana’s Anderson Speedway. He kept the roll going into Friday, but looked on early as pole sitter Mario Clouser led the first lap and third-starting Swanson controlled the next 25 after scooting under Clouser in turns one and two to gain the lead on lap two.


 

With this particular event being the longest distance marathon of the year at 146 laps, Roahrig was engaged in the mental tug-of-war of whether to make a run at the lead now or whether to ride along and nurture the equipment a little while longer before striking.


 

“It’s always that battle of ‘am I going too hard or do I want to pass them when I can,’” Roahrig pondered. “Especially with Swanson. He’s kind of the master of management, I guess you could say. I wanted to get the lead when I felt like I could to control the race and control the restarts and it worked out. He’s the benchmark in this series and it’s always fun racing with him.”


 

Roahrig stalked Swanson until a savory run off turn two on lap 26 launched him alongside Swanson. By turn three, Roahrig had completed the pass, and for all intents and purposes, never looked back.


 

By halfway, Roahrig’s lead had blossomed to 3.3 seconds as he repeatedly worked through traffic, then got into the clear only to encounter traffic again. At the same time, Clouser and Leary began to surge forward toward Roahrig. Clouser swept under Swanson in turn four to gain second on lap 113. Meanwhile, Leary swiped third from Swanson on lap 118 with a nifty maneuver on the bottom of turn four.


 

Roahrig maintained a 1.5 second lead for the next 20 or so laps, but when he worked his way through the cluster of lapped cars containing Nathan Byrd, Kyle O’Gara and Matt Westfall on lap 131, he was able to regain his breathing room to the tune of 2.4 seconds over Clouser, as he was able to put the field away with sheer will.


 

“This car was just on a rail,” Roahrig praised. “I thought we’d be pretty good after the race here last fall. We had some issues, but the car was really good. We pretty much came back with the same thing and it was really good. I couldn’t have asked for a better racecar.”


 

That said, when Clouser became boxed in between Byrd and O’Gara while attempting to put those two a lap down, Leary took advantage of the situation and dove to the bottom to drive past all three and slot into the runner-up spot on lap 133.


 

Despite Roahrig's lead standing at three-quarters of a straightaway (3.1 seconds ahead) and time running out, Roahrig was a bit apprehensive when discovering Leary had raced his way into second. Not only that, he had shaved a full second off Roahrig’s lead. But in the moment, the sands in the hourglass were mostly running on empty.


 

“C.J. and I tested last week on the same day, so I knew how fast he was,” Roahrig quipped. “So I was a little nervous, and I was praying for no yellows. But it all worked out. It’s such a relief for me to finally get my first USAC win.”


 

In the end, Roahrig crossed the stripe 2.74 seconds ahead of second running C.J. Leary as Mario Clouser took third, Kody Swanson fourth and Jake Trainor fifth.


 

By doing so, Roahrig became the first driver to win his first career USAC Silver Crown race during the Hoosier Hundred since Shane Hmiel in 2010, a race which was held at the event’s longtime home, the Indiana State Fairgrounds dirt mile.


 

Oh, what a night it was for C.J. Leary as he advanced from his seventh starting spot to finish second and equal his best career Hoosier Hundred finish (2nd in 2020). With his effort, he earned the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 

It was a top flight night for Mario Clouser as he began the day by earning his first career USAC Silver Crown pole position. In fact, it was his first USAC national fast qualifying time since a 2012 midget event at North Carolina's Ace Speedway. With the pole, Clouser picked up a total of $1,150 for his efforts between Allgaier Performance and Honest Abe Roofing. Clouser finished Friday’s event by leading his first career USAC Silver Crown lap and then went on to equal his best career USAC Silver Crown result with a third.


 

In just his second career USAC Silver Crown start, series Rookie Jake Trainor was mightily impressive. The Massachusetts native went +11 in his run from 16th to fifth to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.


 


 

USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 23, 2025 – Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park – Brownsburg, Indiana – .686-Mile Paved Oval – 68th Hoosier Hundred


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Mario Clouser, 92, Kazmark-21.112; 2. Tyler Roahrig, 41, Newman-21.113; 3. Kody Swanson, 77, Doran Binks-21.158; 4. Bobby Santos, 98, DJ-21.259; 5. Justin Grant, 91, Hemelgarn-21.308; 6. Logan Seavey, 22, Rice/Abacus-21.325; 7. C.J. Leary, 21, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi-21.394; 8. Kyle O'Gara, 141, A-Maxx-21.403; 9. Dakoda Armstrong, 5, C & A-21.411; 10. Nathan Byrd, 40, Meyer-21.526; 11. Jackson Macenko, 124, Hayes-21.594; 12. Brian Tyler, 81, BCR-21.620; 13. Kyle Steffens, 8, Steffens-21.711; 14. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-21.721; 15. Taylor Ferns, 55, Ferns-21.783; 16. Jake Trainor, 6, Klatt-21.787; 17. Bryan Gossel, 06, Gossel-22.142; 18. Matt Westfall, 54, 4 Kings-22.204; 19. Casey Buckman, 25, C-Buck/Sachs-22.272; 20. Danny Jennings, 61, Grace-22.779; 21. Gregg Cory, 32, Williams/Cory-23.452; 22. Dave Berkheimer, 31, Berkheimer-NT; 23. Derek Bischak, 131, Bischak-NT.


 

FEATURE: (146 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Roahrig (2), 2. C.J. Leary (7), 3. Mario Clouser (1), 4. Kody Swanson (3), 5. Jake Trainor (16), 6. Logan Seavey (6), 7. Justin Grant (5), 8. Jackson Macenko (11), 9. Nathan Byrd (10), 10. Kyle O'Gara (8), 11. Taylor Ferns (15), 12. Matt Westfall (17), 13. Casey Buckman (18), 14. Gregg Cory (20), 15. Brian Tyler (12), 16. Bobby Santos (4), 17. Russ Gamester (14), 18. Kyle Steffens (13), 19. Danny Jennings (19), 20. Dave Berkheimer (21), 21. Dakoda Armstrong (9), 22. Bryan Gossel (22). 1:00:17.436 (New Track Record)


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Mario Clouser, Laps 2-25 Kody Swanson, Laps 26-146 Tyler Roahrig.


 

USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-265, 2-C.J. Leary-247, 3-Logan Seavey-183, 4-Matt Westfall-182, 5-Kody Swanson-156, 6-Tyler Roahrig-140, 7-Gregg Cory-139, 8-Kaylee Bryson-136, 9-Dave Berkheimer-133, 10-Mario Clouser-126.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-103, 2-C.J. Leary-54, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Chase Stockon-37, 5-Robert Ballou-35, 6-Justin Grant-30, 7-Jadon Rogers-30, 8-Gunnar Setser-28, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Kyle Jones-22.


 

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 14, 2025 – World Wide Technology Raceway – Madison, Illinois – 1.25-Mile Paved Oval


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Practice Fastest Driver: Bobby Santos (21.184)


 

Honest Abe Roofing / Allgaier Performance Fast Qualifier: Mario Clouser (21.112)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jake Trainor (16th to 5th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Race: C.J. Leary

 

Thursday’s Circle City USAC Sprint Race Rained Out

Indianapolis, Indiana (May 22, 2025)………Saturated grounds caused by rain throughout the week has forced cancellation of the Thursday, May 22, USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship Circle City Salute at Indianapolis, Indiana’s Circle City Raceway.


 

The event will not be rescheduled.


 

USAC’s Week of Indy continues Friday, May 23, with the 68th running of the Hoosier Hundred featuring the USAC Silver Crown National Championship at Brownsburg, Indiana’s Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.


 

The USAC National Sprint Car season continues on May 30-31 with the Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway.

 

Holy Smokes! Drake’s Heroics Score Sweet Springs USAC Midget Win

 Rich Forman

Kale Drake used late race heroics to win Sunday's USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature at Missouri's Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Sweet Springs, Missouri (May 18, 2025)………Kale Drake may not be overly superstitious, but at the least, he is certainly a little bit stitious.


 

Prior to Sunday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship event at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex, the Collinsville, Oklahoma native was involved in a series of fortunate events with the number two featuring prominently everywhere he turned.


 

“I was talking to (USAC official Kirk Spridgeon) and Justin (Grant) at the trailer earlier today and I told them that when I stopped at the gas station, it was $22.22. After that, I drew the pill 22, then I put on 22 tear-offs before the A-Main. I might be superstitious but I think it worked out,” Drake said with a laugh.


 

In the end, that same numeral played an integral role in the backdrop of Drake’s fortunes at Sweet Springs. As a matter of fact, he was leading the USAC Midget race there in 2024 with two laps remaining when he found trouble and bounced to a stop, ending his bid for the win.


 

On Sunday, Drake was slotted third on the final restart. Picking up from where he left off one year ago, Drake made a charge around the outside to take the lead with – you guessed it – two laps to go. Lest we mention that he led the feature three different times, each in chunks of two laps at a time – laps 1-2, laps 16-17 and laps 29-30.


 

When all was said it done, Drake collected – wait for it – USAC National Midget career victory number two. But to do it in such dramatic fashion, this will be one he remembers for a lifetime, possibly “two” lifetimes.


 

“Holy smokes, that was a long race and a technical one and super fun,” Drake exclaimed. “That’s not quite up my alley but we made it work.”


 

Drake was in a prime spot for the start of the 40-lap main event – on the pole position in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Eibach – TRD – Toyota – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota. But after leading the opening lap, he found himself suddenly on the chase of his teammate, Jacob Denney.


 

But on lap 16, Denney tripped over the turn two cushion, opening the door for Drake to race on by while utilizing the bottom of turns three and four to edge his way into the lead. After the lap was completed, 17th running Garrett Benson flipped into the outside wall at the exit of turn four. He was okay, but his night was over.


 

Now let’s flashback to before the start of the feature. Riley Kreisel was initially slated to start on the pole, but in a wild turn of events, was penalized for being late to staging, delayed while attempting to remedy a tire bleeder issue. The result was a two row penalty, which docked Kreisel back to fifth on the grid. However, as it turned out, it wasn’t much of a deterrent to the determined Kreisel.


 

Kreisel’s Ron Cox owned ride hadn’t been fired since January’s Chili Bowl Nationals four months earlier. Furthermore, he only found out he was going to compete at Sweet Springs at 11pm the night before. On top of everything else, it was only his third career USAC National Midget start and his first since seven years prior in 2018 at the very same 1/6-mile Sweet Springs dirt oval.


 

The beneficiary of Kreisel’s position shuffle was Drake who moved from the outside of the front row to the pole, a spot he actually wasn’t all that particularly at ease with.


 

“I didn’t know how I really felt about taking the pole over,” Drake admitted. “I didn’t really want to start the race off and set the pace, but Jacob got out in front of me and showed me what I needed to do and what not to do, which really showed me where the limit was.”


 

Back to Kreisel. Just after the restart, he found his groove on the bottom and rolled past Denney for second on the 17th circuit, then picked off Drake moments later on lap 18 for the lead. At the same time, 13th starting Drake Edwards followed Kreisel’s path to slot into second ahead of Drake. However, Edwards performed a half-spin in turn two on lap 24 and lost grip of the second spot to Drake in the meantime. That said, Edwards stuck with it and snuck his way back into second on the bottom past Drake as the pair worked around the lapped car of Thomas Meseraull.


 

Meanwhile, Kreisel’s lead had expanded to a full second and he looked to be on his way to a surefire first career USAC national victory. But on lap 37, series Rookie Brandon Carr (20th) hooked the turn one cushion and nearly flipped before coming to a rest on all fours. Kreisel's 1.35 second advantage over the field was erased due to the caution and he now had the field bearing down on him with a three-lap shootout on the horizon.


 

Sitting third with three to go was Drake who had low line dwellers Kreisel and Edwards, both first time USAC national winning hopefuls, sitting in front of him coming back to green. There was only one place to “send it.”


 

“I had to remind myself on that restart that I know what I’m doing and I have the best guys behind me, and I just needed to hit my marks,” Drake recalled. “It really came down to that last restart. I really had to send it. If I could hit my marks, I knew I had the best car on the racetrack, so it was just a matter of committing. It took a lot of commitment to run it up there and be fast.”


 

Staying true to his personal pep talk under the helmet, Drake dug in on the outside and nipped Edwards at the stripe for second with two to go on lap 38. Heading to the white flag, Drake hit the cushion in turn one perfectly, then launched off turn two to dispose of Kreisel and place himself at the top of the leaderboard.


 

On the last go around, Drake changed course and attacked the bottom of turns three and four to thwart off Kreisel and Edwards and block the lane. Drake crossed the line with a 0.363 second margin of victory, his first in USAC since a BC39 prelim win last September.


 

Behind him, Justin Grant seemingly came out of nowhere, picking off both Kreisel and Edwards in one fell swoop off turn four to get the second spot by a car length. The runner-up result also moved Grant back to the top of the USAC National Midget standings. Grant’s fourth to second final corner surge proved to be the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 

In Arizonian Drake Edwards’ first ever visit to Sweet Springs, he earned his best career USAC National Midget finish. He very nearly won the thing after starting 13th but wound up a strong third to round out the podium.


 

Kreisel fell to fourth after leading a race high 21 laps while 2018 and 2024 Sweet Springs USAC Midget feature winner Logan Seavey took fifth.


 

Andrew Felker doesn't run USAC National Midgets very often, but when he does, he does some mighty fine work. He advanced 12 positions on his way from 19th to 7th to collect the Rod End Supply Hard Charger award.


 

Earlier in the evening, Cannon McIntosh recorded his 12th career USAC National Midget fast time during Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying. That moved him to 49th on the all-time list alongside Don Meacham, Larry Rice and Josh Wise.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 18, 2025 – Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex – Sweet Springs, Missouri – 1/6-Mile Dirt Oval


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.746; 2. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-11.823; 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-11.875; 4. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.882; 5. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.888; 6. Riley Kreisel, 19K, Cox-11.920; 7. Kameron Key, 21J, TKH-11.930; 8. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.977; 9. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-11.989; 10. Drake Edwards, 83, CBI-11.995; 11. Brecken Reese, 00, Chandler-11.999; 12. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.013; 13. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-12.018; 14. Garrett Benson, 7B, Engler-12.022; 15. Steven Snyder Jr., 4, RMS-12.022; 16. Mack Leopard, 86, CBI-12.023; 17. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.033; 18. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-12.096; 19. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-12.141; 20. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.238; 21. Thomas Meseraull, 7x, Engler-12.307; 22. Branigan Roark, 44, Roark-12.343; 23. Chad Winfrey, 321, Winfrey-12.351; 24. Mark Chisholm, 56x, Chisholm-12.378; 25. Daniel Robinson, 92, O'Sullivan-12.408; 26. Blake Spicer, 4s, Spicer-12.837; 27. Jacob McFarlin, 33, Roark-12.943.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Mack Leopard, 2. Kyle Jones, 3. Cannon McIntosh, 4. Andrew Felker, 5. Kameron Key, 6. Jacob Denney, 7. Branigan Roark, 8. Daniel Robinson, 9. Drake Edwards. NT


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Garrett Benson, 3. Gavin Miller, 4. Kale Drake, 5. Justin Grant, 6. Brecken Reese, 7. Chad Winfrey, 8. Brandon Carr, 9. Blake Spicer. 2:03.99


 

USACGEAR.COM THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Hayden Reinbold, 2. Steven Snyder Jr., 3. Riley Kreisel, 4. Thomas Meseraull, 5. Logan Seavey, 6. Gunnar Setser, 7. Cale Coons, 8. Mark Chisholm, 9. Jacob McFarlin. 2:05.05


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Drake Edwards, 2. Cale Coons, 3. Chad Winfrey, 4. Daniel Robinson, 5. Brandon Carr, 6. Branigan Roark, 7. Blake Spicer, 8. Jacob McFarlin. NT


 

FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kale Drake (1), 2. Justin Grant (4), 3. Drake Edwards (13), 4. Riley Kreisel (5), 5. Logan Seavey (3), 6. Gavin Miller (11), 7. Andrew Felker (19), 8. Kyle Jones (15), 9. Cannon McIntosh (6), 10. Jacob Denney (2), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 12. Gunnar Setser (12), 13. Daniel Robinson (24), 14. Cale Coons (18), 15. Steven Snyder Jr. (17), 16. Hayden Reinbold (7), 17. Brecken Reese (14), 18. Thomas Meseraull (21), 19. Branigan Roark (22), 20. Mack Leopard (8), 21. Brandon Carr (20), 22. Kameron Key (10), 23. Garrett Benson (16), 24. Chad Winfrey (23). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1-2 Kale Drake, Laps 3-15 Jacob Denney, Laps 16-17 Kale Drake, Laps 18-38 Riley Kreisel, Laps 39-40 Kale Drake.


 

**Garrett Benson flipped on lap 16 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-365, 2-Cannon McIntosh-349, 3-Kale Drake-322, 4-Logan Seavey-308, 5-Jacob Denney-304, 6-Steven Snyder Jr.-297, 7-Gavin Miller-289, 8-Drake Edwards-281, 9-Kevin Thomas Jr.-267, 10-Gunnar Setser-224.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-103, 2-C.J. Leary-49, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Chase Stockon-37, 5-Robert Ballou-35, 6-Jadon Rogers-30, 7-Justin Grant-30, 8-Gunnar Setser-28, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Kyle Jones-22.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 3, 2025 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 21st Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kevin Thomas Jr. (12.113)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Cannon McIntosh (11.746)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Mack Leopard


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

USACgear.com Third Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Andrew Felker (19th to 7th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Justin Grant

 

It’s All Hall at Eldora’s USAC Midwest Thunder Midget Race

Mike Campbell

Winner #74 Luke Hall passes #5 Matt Lux for the win on Saturday night at Ohio's Eldora Speedway

Rossburg, Ohio (May 17, 2025)……..Luke Hall has competed (and won) at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway for more than two decades, but on Saturday night, he accomplished something he never achieved before – winning a midget race at the Big E.


 

The Ludlow Falls, Ohio racer checked that off the list during Saturday’s Family Fireworks Night Presented by Casey’s USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget non-points special event.


 

Starting eighth, Hall hustled his way to the lead by lap seven of the 20-lap feature, passing race long leader Matt Lux who had won both previous USAC Midwest Thunder features at Eldora in 2023 and 2024.


 

From there, Hall led the remaining 14 laps to score the win over reigning series champion Bryce Massingill while fast qualifier Lux crossed the line in third, Luke Lemons fourth and Michael Magic fifth.


 

Heat race victories were captured by Hall, Stratton Briggs, Lux and Jalen Cox.

 


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 9, 2025 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio


 

FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Luke Hall, 74, Heitmeyer-18.302; 2. Luke Lemons, 33L, Lemons-18.493; 3. Cole Morgan, 7m, Morgan-18.831; 4. Jimmie Guidry, 21G, Guidry-19.272; 5. Ian Creager, 36, Creager-19.418; 6. Steve Gresham, 27G, Gresham-19.631; 7. Jacob Sabaj, 21s, Sabaj-NT.


 

SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Bryce Massingill, 35, Massingill-17.757; 2. Stratton Briggs, 71, Briggs-17.985; 3. Thomas Bigelow, 2B, Bigelow-18.626; 4. Cody Dye, 4T, Dye-18.774; 5. Mark McMahill, 77, McMahill-19.008; 6. Jon Watson, 2w, Watson-19.156; 7. Michael Magic, 5m, Magic-NT.


 

THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Matt Lux, 5, Wells-17.590; 2. Zach Wigal, 18, Wigal-17.806; 3. Chett Gehrke, 10, Moore-18.113; 4. Drew Rader, 74H, Heitmeyer-18.519; 5. Ryan Barr, 11T, Taylor-18.600; 6. Buddy Hollmeyer, 11, Taylor-18.930.


 

FOURTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Jakeb Boxell, 44JB, Boxell/Merkler-18.028; 2. Jalen Cox, 11x, Cox-18.201; 3. Brayden Schwartz, 55s, Schwartz-18.506; 4. Nolan Kiefer, 97N, Kiefer-18.689; 5. Tyler Kalb, 32, Kalb-18.752; 6. Jim Jones, 97, Jones-NT.


 

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (4), 2. Luke Lemons (3), 3. Ian Creager (5), 4. Jimmie Guidry (1), 5. Jacob Sabaj (7), 6. Steve Gresham (6), 7. Cole Morgan (2). NT


 

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Stratton Briggs (3), 2. Bryce Massingill (4), 3. Michael Magic (7), 4. Tommy Bigelow (2), 5. Mark McMahill (5), 6. Cody Dye (1), 7. Jon Watson (6). NT


 

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Matt Lux (4), 2. Zach Wigal (3), 3. Chett Gehrke (2), 4. Drew Rader (1), 5. Ryan Barr (5), 6. Buddy Hollmeyer (6). NT


 

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jalen Cox (3), 2. Tyler Kalb (5), 3. Brayden Schwartz (2), 4. Nolan Kiefer (1), 5. Jakeb Boxell (4), 6. Jim Jones (6). NT


 

FEATURE: (20 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Hall (8), 2. Bryce Massingill (4), 3. Matt Lux (2), 4. Luke Lemons (1), 5. Michael Magic (10), 6. Chett Gehrke (11), 7. Stratton Briggs (5), 8. Jalen Cox (7), 9. Drew Rader (15), 10. Tyler Kalb (6), 11. Ryan Barr (19), 12. Nolan Kiefer (16), 13. Mark McMahill (18), 14. Buddy Hollmeyer (23), 15. Brayden Schwartz (12), 16. Cody Dye (22), 17. Jon Watson (26), 18. Jimmie Guidry (13), 19. Steven Grasham (21), 20. Jacob Sabaj (17), 21. Tommy Bigelow (14), 22. Ian Creager (9). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Matt Lux, Laps 7-20 Luke Hall.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 SPECIAL EVENT MIDGET RACE: May 22, 2025 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – Non-Points Special Event

 

Sarale Sails to USAC WS Midget Santa Maria Score

Winner Caden Sarale (middle), runner-up Jett Yantis (left) and T.J. Smith (right).
 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Nipomo, California (May 17, 2025)………Caden Sarale captured his first victory of the USAC Avanti Windows & Doors Western States Midget season and vaulted into the series point lead following his victory on Saturday night at Nipomo, California’s Santa Maria Speedway.


 

Fifth starting Sarale (Stockton, California) took over the lead from outside front row starter Preston Norbury on lap six and led the remaining 25 laps to earn his fourth career series victory at the wheel of his own No. 32.


 

Fast qualifier Jett Yantis notched a runner-up finish behind Sarale. T.J. Smith took third with hard charger Dane Culver fourth after starting back in 12th. Randi Pankratz rounded out the top-five. Norbury, who led the opening five laps, finished eighth.

Heat races were won by Yantis and Sarale.

 


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 17, 2025 – Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, California


 

QUALIFYING: 1. Jett Yantis, 4y, Carlile-15.041; 2. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-15.118; 3. Broedy Graham, 66, BGR-15.366; 4. T.J. Smith, 68, Six8-15.426; 5. Preston Norbury, 77AZ, Norbury-15.575; 6. Todd Hawse, 18, Hawse-15.841; 7. Terry Nichols, 1p, Nichols/Peckfelder-16.008; 8. Anthony Bruno, 9, Bruno-16.172; 9. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-16.304; 10. Kyle Hawse, 20x, Hawse-16.472; 11. Hailey Lambert, 55, Lambert-16.507; 12. Ben Covich, 65NZ, Covich-16.561; 13. Dane Culver, 00, Davis-16.561; 14. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-16.561; 15. Blake Bower, 2ND, Nichols-16.561; 16. Blake Bower, 2x, Bower-NT.


 

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jett Yantis (6), 2. Randi Pankratz (2), 3. Broedy Graham (5), 4. Preston Norbury (4), 5. Terry Nichols (3), 6. Hailey Lambert (1), 7. Dane Culver (7), 8. C.J. Sarna (8). NT


 

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Caden Sarale (6), 2. Todd Hawse (4), 3. Kyle Hawse (2), 4. Ben Covich (1), 5. T.J. Smith (5), 6. Anthony Bruno (3). NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Caden Sarale (5), 2. Jett Yantis (6), 3. T.J. Smith (3), 4. Dane Culver (12), 5. Randi Pankratz (8), 6. Todd Hawse (1), 7. Kyle Hawse (9), 8. Preston Norbury (2), 9. C.J. Sarna (11), 10. Terry Nichols (7), 11. Broedy Graham (4), 12. Hailey Lambert (10). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Preston Norbury, Laps 6-30 Caden Sarale.


 

USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET POINTS: 1-Caden Sarale-231, 2-T.J. Smith-222, 3-Dane Culver-189, 4-Todd Hawse-159, 5-Jett Yantis-148, 6-Broedy Graham-126, 7-Randi Pankratz-122, 8-Connor Speir-113, 9-Kyle Hawse-111, 10-Hailey Lambert-86.


 

NEXT USAC AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS WESTERN STATES MIDGET RACE: June 13, 2025 – Bakersfield Speedway – Bakersfield, California

Grant Smokes ‘Em, Wins Fastest Ever USAC Silver Crown Race at Belleville

Rich Forman

Justin Grant scored a wire-to-wire victory in the fastest USAC Silver Crown race ever at the Belleville High Banks in Kansas on Saturday night. (Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Belleville, Kansas (May 17, 2025)………One night after scoring his first career Belleville victory on the short track, Justin Grant took his show to the high banks to earn his first career win on the famed 1/2-mile in north central Kansas.


 

On Saturday night, the Ione, California native set a torrid pace to wire all 50 caution-free laps at the Belleville High Banks, completing the 25-mile distance in just 15 minutes, 36.45 seconds, lowering the previous track record by nearly six minutes!


 

Grant had previously come close to victory at Belleville’s daunting banks, finishing 3rd in 2015 and 4th in 2024, and in 2023, led 15 laps before flipping with four laps remaining in a classic duel with Brady Bacon.


 

But there was no duel on this day as Grant dominated the field by nearly a straightaway in convincing fashion.


 

“It feels great to win here, especially up on the high banks,” Grant exclaimed. “I could just really hammer one and two, but it felt not quite like Belleville while running the bottom of three and four. Our car was locked down on the bottom over there and I thought, ‘man,  I’m running wide open, so there’s no sense in moving up.’”


 

Grant’s run of USAC Silver Crown success through three races on the 2025 schedule has seen him finish 2nd on the dirt at the Terre Haute Action Track, followed by a pair of victories on the pavement of Toledo Speedway and on the soil of the Belleville High Banks, all of which have provided the 2020 USAC Silver Crown champ a 33-point lead in the early going.


 

After becoming the fastest driver ever to win across all three USAC national divisions in a single season back in late April of this year, following his Belleville scores this weekend, he is now the first driver to win in every division twice with two apiece in Silver Crown, Sprints and Midgets.


 

Grant lined up on the outside of the front row for Belleville in his Hemelgarn Racing/NOS Energy Drink – Super Fitness – Hemelgarn Enterprises/DRC/Speedway Chevy alongside pole sitter Mitchel Moles who continued his qualifying prowess with a time of 16.927 seconds in the Honest Abe Roofing session, the third of his Silver Crown career.


 

Quickly, Grant flexed his muscle to get out in front of the pack while third-starting Jake Swanson slotted into second and Moles freefell to fifth. By lap seven, Grant was already slicing his way through traffic and pretty much maintained a 1.5 to 2.0 second advantage over Swanson for most of the first 40 circuits.


 

Briggs Danner ran lockstep with Swanson for much of the first half in third and was primed to try and make his move when suddenly his engine went up in smoke on lap 28. Danner exited to the pits from his phenomenal third place run up against the guardrail to that point, ending his night prematurely, and moving C.J. Leary up into the third spot.


 

With 10 laps to go, Grant’s lead was cut in half as he sought to make a move to put Bryan Gossel a lap down. That allowed Swanson to chop the gap to seven tenths of a second. However, as soon as Grant cleared Gossel, he was gone from the viewfinder.


 

Swanson had a slightly breathtaking moment with three laps remaining as he attempted to slide past Gossel in between turns one and two. Swanson’s right rear tire nearly (or possibly did) grazed against Gossel’s left front Hoosier, sending Gossel squirrely up against the outer rail, which had most onlookers briefly gasping for air.


 

But nobody had anything for Grant down the stretch as he finished off his ninth career series victory, tying Belleville’s first USAC Silver Crown winner, Tracy Hines, for 15th place on the all-time list.


 

“We felt like we had a pretty strong package here from 2023,” Grant said of his Belleville notebook. “Last year, we fought some things, so went back to what he had in 2023 and made a few tweaks yesterday in practice, which got me really comfortable and really happy. I feel like our dirt program has been really strong on the miles and we’re really strong here. I felt like we did make some progress on our flat half-mile stuff at Terre Haute. I’m just feeling really good rolling into any track anywhere we go right now.”


 

Jake Swanson finished a career best second to earn Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night accolades. C.J. Leary crossed the line in third with Rod End Supply Hard Charger Chase Stockon taking fourth after starting back in 10th. Logan Seavey, meanwhile, rounded out the top-five.


 


 

USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 17, 2025 – Belleville High Banks – Belleville, Kansas – 1/2-Mile Dirt Oval – Huncovsky Classic


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-16.927; 2. Justin Grant, 91, Hemelgarn-16.953; 3. Jake Swanson, 6, Klatt-16.993; 4. C.J. Leary, 21, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi-17.032; 5. Briggs Danner, 10, DMW-17.101; 6. Brady Bacon, 9, Dyson-17.107; 7. Bryan Gossel, 06, Gossel-17.185; 8. Logan Seavey, 22, Rice/Abacus-17.192; 9. Matt Westfall, 54, 4 Kings-17.238; 10. Chase Stockon, 69, Pink 69-17.305; 11. Kyle Steffens, 8, Steffens-17.408; 12. Kaylee Bryson, 26, Pierce-17.472; 13. Shane Cockrum, 97, Lein-17.633; 14. Gregg Cory, 32, Williams/Cory-18.536; 15. Dave Berkheimer, 31, Berkheimer-19.571.


 

FEATURE: (50 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Jake Swanson (3), 3. C.J. Leary (4), 4. Chase Stockon (10), 5. Logan Seavey (8), 6. Bryan Gossel (7), 7. Matt Westfall (9), 8. Gregg Cory (14), 9. Dave Berkheimer (15), 10. Brady Bacon (6), 11. Kaylee Bryson (12), 12. Mitchel Moles (1), 13. Kyle Steffens (11), 14. Briggs Danner (5), 15. Shane Cockrum (13). 15:36.45 (New Track Record)


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-50 Justin Grant.


 

USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-213, 2-C.J. Leary-180, 3-Matt Westfall-143, 4-Kaylee Bryson-136, 5-Logan Seavey-128, 6-Dave Berkheimer-110, 7-Brady Bacon-107, 8-Gregg Cory-104, 9-Briggs Danner-96, 10-Kody Swanson-95.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-103, 2-C.J. Leary-49, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Chase Stockon-37, 5-Robert Ballou-35, 6-Jadon Rogers-30, 7-Justin Grant-28, 8-Gunnar Setser-28, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-21.


 

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 23, 2025 – Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park – Brownsburg, Indiana – .686-Mile Paved Oval – 68th Hoosier Hundred


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Practice Fastest Driver: C.J. Leary


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (16.927)


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Chase Stockon (10th to 4th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Race: Jake Swanson

 

Cannon in D Major! McIntosh Masters Belleville USAC Midgets

Rich Forman

Cannon McIntosh captured Saturday night's USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory at the Belleville Short Track in Kansas

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Belleville, Kansas (May 17, 2025)………Redemption was on the forefront of Cannon McIntosh’s mind during Saturday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship portion of the Huncovsky Classic at Kansas’ Belleville Short Track.


 

An incident involving McIntosh and Justin Grant while the two were battling for the second spot on lap seven of Friday night’s feature sent McIntosh spinning to a stop, and out of contention for the victory. He recovered, however, and managed to climb back from his 22nd place restarting position to finish fifth.


 

That just showed a glimpse of what the Bixby, Oklahoma native had up his sleeve on the 1/4-mile dirt oval, and he proved as such on Saturday night as he picked his way through the field from the inside of row five, then emerged ahead on lap 31 of 40 following a duel with teammate Gavin Miller.


 

McIntosh led the remaining 10 laps from that point forward, crossing under the checkered flag in a 1-2-3-4 finish for the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports team with Kale Drake swiping second, Miller coming home third and Jacob Denney filling the fourth spot. It is believed to be the first instance of a single team occupying the top-four finishing positions of a feature in USAC National Midget history.


 

“I feel like we had the best piece last night as well,” McIntosh declared. “The cards just didn’t fall our way. We had to go the back early and fight our way back. To pass as many good cars as we did meant that we had a pretty good piece. Tonight, we didn’t start as far forward as we wanted to, but when you have a car that good, you can’t not win the race for your guys.”


 

While becoming the first multi-time USAC winner on the Belleville Short Track, McIntosh also surged past Grant to become the new series point leader in his Mobil 1 – TRD – Toyota – Curb Records/LynK/Speedway Toyota. Furthermore, his 10th career USAC National Midget feature win moved him to 73rd place all-time alongside Allen Heath, Doug Kalitta, Brad Kuhn, Steve Lotshaw, Jerry McClung, Thomas Meseraull and Chuck Weyant.


 

The evening was, for all intents and purposes, a KKM rout. In addition to grabbing the first four positions in the main event, the team’s stable also won each of the three heat races with Kale Drake, Miller and McIntosh all succeeding along the way.


 

However, the one running away with the feature for the first half was outside front row starter Logan Seavey as he constructed a four second lead over the field by lap 19. On lap 20, it proved to be all for naught as the racelong leader’s car spun off the top of the turn three cushion and came to a rest, necessitating a caution.


 

That opened the door for Miller to become the new race leader after emerging ahead of Jerry Coons Jr. just a few laps before the midway point. At that moment, McIntosh was beginning to make hay in his venture up the leaderboard. He slashed his way to second with an outside pass of Grant on the front straight on lap 22 yet remained a half second behind Miller with 16 to go.


 

On a lap 29 restart, McIntosh picked the pocket of Miller along the bottom of turns one and two to assume the lead. Miller refused to relent and came back to the forefront with a slide job past McIntosh in turn three on lap 30. McIntosh then reloaded and hustled along the bottom of turns one and two to slot back into the number one spot on the 31st circuit.


 

“I did everything I could there, and once we got to the lead, I felt like everything was flowing well,” McIntosh recalled. “I felt like I was flowing and things were just going smooth. Even with that late yellow, I wasn’t sweating it too much. I felt like I had such a good car that I just needed to execute the restart and we could get away, and that’s what happened.”


 

British Rookie Brandon Carr (15th) ground to a stop atop the turn three cushion on lap 39 to set up a two-lap dash to the finish line. With that said, McIntosh had his grip firmly on the wheel and would soon have the same grip on the trophy in victory lane.


 

McIntosh crossed the line roughly six car lengths ahead of runner-up Kale Drake who snuck by Miller along the bottom on the final restart. Miller hung on for third while Jacob Denney grabbed fourth and Jerry Coons Jr. rounded out the top-five with a solid night.


 

“(Crew chief) Beau (Binder) tried to make the car good everywhere we went,” McIntosh praised. “I felt like I could run top and bottom. Once I figured out each corner and how I wanted to run it, I feel like we were lights out. Last time, we were scratching our heads and figuring out what to do. We were so far off. With Beau getting me comfortable, it’s gotten me back to where I need to be, and I think he has his confidence back too. I think we’re all where we need to be.”


 

Earlier in the evening, Justin Grant recorded his 11th career USAC National Midget fast qualifying time, which tied him with fellow USAC national champions Brady Bacon, Danny Caruthers, Ryan Newman, Ken Schrader and Sleepy Tripp, just to name a few, for 52nd all-time.


 

Steven Snyder Jr. picked up multiple accolades with his sixth place finish. The leading series Rookie netted Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors for his 16th to 6th run. He also picked up the Belleville USAC Midget ProSource Passing Master crown, making 17 passes in feature events across the two night span of the event.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 17, 2025 – Belleville Short Track – Belleville, Kansas – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Huncovsky Classic


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-12.194; 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.308; 3. Mack Leopard, 86, CBI-12.317; 4. Drake Edwards, 83, CBI-12.329; 5. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.347; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 85, Central-12.377; 7. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.386; 8. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.394; 9. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.445; 10. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-12.446; 11. Garrett Benson, 7B, Engler-12.483; 12. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.548; 13. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.564; 14. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-12.642; 15. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.666; 16. Steven Snyder Jr., 4, RMS-12.674; 17. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-12.730; 18. Zack Merritt, 43m, Oerter-13.046; 19. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-13.115; 20. Dusty Young, 60, Chappue-13.283; 21. Blake Spicer, 4s, Spicer-13.483.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kale Drake, 2. Steven Snyder Jr., 3. Jacob Denney, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Gunnar Setser, 6. Drake Edwards, 7. Lance Bennett. 2:10.15


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Gavin Miller, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Cale Coons, 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Garrett Benson, 6. Kyle Jones, 7. Dusty Young. 2:08.66


 

USACGEAR.COM THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Cannon McIntosh, 2. Hayden Reinbold, 3. Brandon Carr, 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 5. Mack Leopard, 6. Zack Merritt, 7. Blake Spicer. 2:11.08


 

FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (9), 2. Kale Drake (7), 3. Gavin Miller (8), 4. Jacob Denney (13), 5. Jerry Coons Jr. (1), 6. Steven Snyder Jr. (16), 7. Logan Seavey (2), 8. Justin Grant (6), 9. Drake Edwards (3), 10. Cale Coons (17), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 12. Mack Leopard (4), 13. Gunnar Setser (10), 14. Garrett Benson (11), 15. Hayden Reinbold (12), 16. Kyle Jones (14), 17. Brandon Carr (15), 18. Zack Merritt (18), 19. Dusty Young (20), 20. Lance Bennett (19), 21. Blake Spicer (21). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 Logan Seavey, Laps 20-28 Gavin Miller, Lap 29 Cannon McIntosh, Lap 30 Gavin Miller, Laps 31-40 Cannon McIntosh.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Cannon McIntosh-291, 2-Justin Grant-289, 3-Steven Snyder Jr.-257, 4-Jacob Denney-255, 5-Kale Drake-245, 6-Logan Seavey-242, 7-Gavin Miller-228, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-218, 9-Drake Edwards-214, 10-Gunnar Setser-182.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-103, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Robert Ballou-35, 5-Chase Stockon-31, 6-Jadon Rogers-30, 7-Gunnar Setser-28, 8-Justin Grant-27, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-21.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 18, 2025 – Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex – Sweet Springs, Missouri – 1/6-Mile Dirt Oval


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jerry Coons Jr. (12.358)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (12.194)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Gavin Miller


 

USACgear.com Third Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Steven Snyder Jr. (16th to 6th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Logan Seavey


 

ProSource Belleville Midget Passing Master: Steven Snyder Jr. (17 Passes)

 

Justin Time! Grant Wins Belleville’s USAC Midget Run

Jeff Taylor

Friday May 16th...Justin Grant celebrates after winning Friday night's USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature at Kansas' Belleville Short Track.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Belleville, Kansas (May 16, 2025)………In each of the past two years, Justin Grant’s biggest reward on the opening night of the Huncovsky Classic was setting fast qualifying time on the Belleville Short Track in both 2023 and 2024.


 

On Friday night, the Ione, California native embiggened his role at the forefront of the field by capturing his first career victory at the Belleville, Kansas 1/4-mile dirt oval for what was his second consecutive victory on the 2025 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season.


 

With a 5th, 1st and 1st over his first three starts of the USAC National Midget season, Grant is the first driver to win at least two of the first three main events to begin a series season since he himself achieved the feat in 2022 after capturing three-in-a-row to kick off the campaign that year.


 

This time around, Grant started third on the grid and found his way to the front by lap 13 after working his way past pole sitter and racelong leader Logan Seavey during a mid-race restart. From there, Grant wheeled his CB Industries/NOS Energy Drink – PristineAuction.com – Mobil 1 – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota straight to victory lane in the 30-lap main.


 

Grant’s 19th career USAC National Midget triumph moved him into 36th place on the series’ all-time win list alongside Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Stan Fox and Jason Leffler. Concurrently, Grant’s active point lead grew from six to 16 by virtue of his Belleville score.


 

In the beginning, Seavey outpaced McIntosh to the stripe by a mere inch or two to lead the opening lap of the feature. Seavey subsequently maintained control throughout much of the first half. Meanwhile, the tussle for position behind Seavey was mounting between Grant, McIntosh and the surging Denney who had already recorded fast qualifying time and a heat race win in pursuit of a rare nightly sweep.


 

However, Denney was the first to find misfortune after advancing his way up into the lead pack by lap three. That’s when Denney nearly locked it up over between turns three and four. Miraculously, he managed to avoid contact from the rest of the field all while fighting to save his race from those bearing down on him. Thus, he kept on keepin’ on despite nosediving all the way back to ninth in the running order.


 

Soon after, McIntosh suffered his very own heartbreaking fate. While running second on lap seven, he spun to a stop after rear-end contact resulting from a collision with Grant. That promptly forced McIntosh to restart at the tail end of the field (22nd) with 24 laps to go.


 

From Grant’s perspective, he postulated that McIntosh was midstream in the process of changing direction from entry to exit, thus initiating the subsequent checkup which resulted in McIntosh getting the short end of the stick.


 

“I think he was maybe trying to diamond three and four there,” Grant pondered. “We were all kind of smoking in there wide open. He stopped to go the other direction and it was pretty glass slick coming to it. So there wasn’t a whole lot there I could do. I don’t want to get into him like that. He kind of took it out of my hands there when he stopped there getting into three.”


 

On a lap 13 restart following a turn two spin and stop by Hayden Reinbold, Grant found his footing and surged out in front, sliding from the bottom of turn one to the top of two to get by Seavey for the lead with nearly half the race in the books.


 

The feature’s lone red flag was displayed on lap 19 when 19th running Blake Spicer toppled over the turn four cushion. He was able to walk away.


 

On the subsequent lap 19 restart, Denney was on the move once again as he hustled from fourth to second around the outside of Seavey and new second place runner Kale Drake. The fifth starting Drake was in a prime position to net his finest run of the USAC season thus far, but ran out of space and slid over the cushion in turns three and four with five laps remaining. He’d restart at the tail but managed only to get back to 16th.


 

Drake’s teammate, Denney, befell a similar fate just following the restart with four laps to go. Denney fell over the turn two edge, dropping him from second to 10th in the blink of an eye as Thomas Meseraull and Kevin Thomas Jr. capitalized on the shuffling to slot themselves into second and third with less than a handful of laps to go.


 

It was easy living for Grant from that point forward as he stayed the course to cross the line 0.746 seconds ahead for his fifth USAC national feature score in 2025, tops among all drivers: Sprint (2), Midget (2) and Silver Crown (1). Across the three divisions, Grant now stands first in both the Midget and Silver Crown points and second in the Sprint Car standings as he pursues a $500,000 Triple Crown champion reward if he can win all three titles in 2025.


 

“That’s the goal, by starting out this year to go win all three championships,” Grant acknowledged. “I’m doing what I can to do my job in the seat and it’s been working out really well.”


 

Thomas Meseraull collected a second place result after starting back in the eighth position. His plus-six advancement was boosted with Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors as the feature’s biggest mover in the main event.


 

Third place finisher Kevin Thomas Jr. was superb on Friday, opening the night by winning his heat in spectacular fashion with a fourth to first move in turns one and two on the initial lap. In the feature, he charged from seventh to third for his best finish of the USAC National Midget season thus far.


 

Rookie Steven Snyder Jr. took fourth while Cannon McIntosh rounded out the top-five with a valiant run from the tail. For the final 24 laps, McIntosh picked his way from 22nd place to crack the top-five for the third time in row to start the season. That earned Cannon the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 

Jacob Denney's fast time during Honest Abe Roof Qualifying was the third of his USAC National Midget career. It's the third consecutive year he's earned at least one USAC National Midget fast qualifying time.


 

Jerry Coons Jr. and his son, Cale Coons both made their way into the feature lineup. Together, they became the 14th father/child duo to compete in the same USAC National Midget feature, joining Ted & Gene Hartley, Danny & George Kladis, Don & Rich Vogler, Bob & Bobby Wente, Bob & Terry Wente, Buddie & Trevor Boys, Jim & Ted Hines, Norm & Travis Young, Leon & Brady Bacon, Ryan & Randy Oerter, Ryan & Ashley Oerter and Joe & Clinton Boyles. As fate would have it, both generations of Coons started the feature side-by-side in row eight. When all was said and done, Jerry took 13th and Cale 15th at the checkered.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 16, 2025 – Belleville Short Track – Belleville, Kansas – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Huncovsky Classic


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.994; 2. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.031; 3. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.052; 4. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-12.061; 5. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.096; 6. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.103; 7. Steven Snyder Jr., 4, RMS-12.125; 8. Drake Edwards, 83, CBI-12.161; 9. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-12.203; 10. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.222; 11. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-12.224; 12. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-12.243; 13. Garrett Benson, 7B, Engler-12.250; 14. Thomas Meseraull, 7x, Engler-12.285; 15. Jerry Coons Jr., 85, Central-12.292; 16. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-12.350; 17. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.476; 18. Mack Leopard, 86, CBI-12.480; 19. Chelby Hinton, 4B, Klatt-12.489; 20. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-12.542; 21. Zack Merritt, 43m, Oerter-12.704; 22. Blake Spicer, 4s, Spicer-13.243; 23. Ashley Oerter, 16, Oerter-14.344; 24. John Webster, 43J, Oerter-NT.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Jacob Denney, 2. Steven Snyder Jr., 3. Justin Grant, 4. Gavin Miller, 5. Garrett Benson, 6. Cale Coons, 7. Blake Spicer, 8. Chelby Hinton. NT


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Thomas Meseraull, 2. Kale Drake, 3. Drake Edwards, 4. Gunnar Setser, 5. Hayden Reinbold, 6. Lance Bennett, 7. Brandon Carr. NT


 

USACGEAR.COM THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Cannon McIntosh, 3. Logan Seavey, 4. Kyle Jones, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Mack Leopard, 7. Zack Merritt, 8. John Webster. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (3), 2. Thomas Meseraull (8), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 4. Steven Snyder Jr. (9), 5. Cannon McIntosh (4), 6. Logan Seavey (1), 7. Kyle Jones (13), 8. Gunnar Setser (12), 9. Jacob Denney (6), 10. Gavin Miller (11), 11. Drake Edwards (10), 12. Garrett Benson (14), 13. Jerry Coons Jr. (15), 14. Mack Leopard (18), 15. Cale Coons (16), 16. Kale Drake (5), 17. Brandon Carr (17), 18. Hayden Reinbold (2), 19. Zack Merritt (21), 20. Lance Bennett (20), 21. Blake Spicer (22), 22. John Webster (24), 23. Ashley Oerter (23), 24. Chelby Hinton (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Logan Seavey, Laps 13-30 Justin Grant.


 

**Lance Bennett flipped during hot laps. Blake Spicer flipped on lap 19 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-229, 2-Cannon McIntosh-213, 3-Steven Snyder Jr.-195, 4-Jacob Denney-188, 5-Logan Seavey-181, 6-Kale Drake-170, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-167, 8-Drake Edwards-162, 9-Gavin Miller-156, 10-Gunnar Setser-141.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-98, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Robert Ballou-35, 5-Chase Stockon-31, 6-Jadon Rogers-30, 7-Gunnar Setser-28, 8-Justin Grant-27, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-21.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 17, 2025 – Belleville Short Track – Belleville, Kansas – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Huncovsky Classic


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Gunnar Setser (12.038)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Jacob Denney (11.994)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Jacob Denney


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Thomas Meseraull


 

USACgear.com Third Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Thomas Meseraull (8th to 2nd)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Cannon McIntosh

 

 

COWBOY UP! CUMMINS LASSOES LARRY RICE CLASSICAT BLOOMINGTON

 

David Nearpass

 Saturday May 10th...A joyous Kyle Cummins celebrates his victory following Friday night's Larry Rice Classic USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship event at Indiana's Bloomington Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Bloomington, Indiana (May 9, 2025)………Before Friday night, each of Kyle Cummins’ 23 previous USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victories featured distinct characteristics shared across the board.


 

However, the Princeton, Indiana driver couldn’t recall winning a race that resembled anything like his 24th score during Friday’s running of the Larry Rice Classic at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway.


 

“That was a treacherous one,” Cummins noted. “There was a lot of turning left and bouncing, but that’s what sprint cars do. Sometimes it’s smooth and fast and slick and sometimes it’s ‘cowboy up.’ It’s kind of cool to get a ‘cowboy up’ win. The other ones we’ve won have been pretty slick. To be able to gas it up, get some wheelies going and bike up a little bit, I’m glad we got this one tonight.”


 

The newly installed red clay of Bloomington’s 1/4-mile had been doused by the moisture of a rainy Midwest Spring, which produced a track surface with character that required grit, sticktoitiveness and pure guts in order to navigate successfully.


 

Starting from the outside of the front row, Cummins eventually tracked down pole sitter and defending Larry Rice Classic winner Logan Seavey on the 17th lap and controlled the final 14 circuits of the 30-lap feature despite a bevy of cautions down the stretch which produced several restarts.


 

Through 10 starts on the 2025 season, Cummins’ latest score was his fourth of the year at the wheel of his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors - Premier Recycling/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy. Already, Cummins’ four series victories equal his winningest seasons in USAC National Sprint Car competition. Cummins also scored four triumphs in both 2022 and 2023.


 

Overall, Cummins’ 24th career USAC National Sprint Car feature win moved him into sole possession of 29th place on the all-time list after advancing ahead of C.J. Leary and Roger McCluskey. Coupled with Justin Grant’s issues during the Bloomington feature, Cummins’ series point lead has also ballooned from two markers to 49.


 

Seavey got the initial jump from the pole position as Cummins stayed within arm’s reach throughout the entire first half. As the front two worked lap traffic between turns three and four on lap 17, Seavey popped his front wheels into the air after bouncing through a crevice in the track’s surface which caused him to drift up the track and leave the door open to the inside.


 

Meanwhile, Cummins had diamonded from the top of turn three to the bottom of turn four, breezing past Seavey off the corner and past the stripe to lead with 14 trips remaining. And it all started with a change of direction borne out of necessity, and a lack of tear-offs.


 

“I was just trying to stay calm,” Cummins explained. “There at the beginning, (Seavey) got me and I was being a little easy with the car. We have a really, really good, smooth slick track car. Man, that baby’s hooked up. All night, we were loosening it up and loosening it up and there, for about the first five six laps, it was super tight, but I was running out of tear-offs. I was kind of getting a little impatient. It was time to get out there so I could at least see where the ruts were at. I think that was the key getting to where you could actually see a little bit and at least try to hit your marks a little bit.”


 

Cummins’ lead grew to 2.2 seconds over the next handful of laps until 13th running Rylan Gray stopped backwards over the cushion beyond turn four on lap 21. That sparked a chain of misfortune that reared its ugly head down the stretch with seventh running Justin Grant feeling the brunt of it on lap 26 when he bounced over the top of the turn one cushion before coming to rest. He’d restart at the tail but ultimately bowed out with a flat right rear tire and a 20th place result.


 

On the ensuing restart, Robert Ballou was hustling. Using the high line, he raced his way to third around Jadon Rogers on lap 27. On the 28th go around, he took Seavey for second, albeit briefly, when Gunnar Setser (15th) dramatically dropped off the pace with a flat right rear tire, necessitating a yellow flag. Without the lap complete, Ballou was shuffled back to third.


 

At that same moment, Cummins felt fairly comfortable with his situation, knowing that he held the upper hand and his challengers had to put everything on the line in order to defeat him.


 

“They could’ve been better than I was but I knew if I got in and got it turned, they were not going to drive around me,” Cummins relayed. “They’d have a good shot but being the leader was definitely the place to be. I didn’t like to see all those cautions though. It was the longest three last laps that I’ve ran in a long time.”


 

When activities resumed, Ballou went straight to the top, and to the whip almost instantaneously, to surpass Seavey on lap 28. With two laps left, Ballou’s time ran short as Cummins maintained his grip of the top spot as he crossed the line first, completing his 30th and final lap as the fastest lap any driver turned during the entire course of the race. Cummins completed the task 1.064 seconds ahead of Ballou, with Seavey third, Kale Drake an impressive fourth and Jadon Rogers a season best fifth.


 

Ballou (Rocklin, California) believed that a slight turn one bobble earlier in the race might’ve cost him a shot at the win late, dropping his track position from fifth to seventh after starting ninth aboard his Ballou Motorsports/Suburban Subaru – Mountain Mechanical Contractors/DRC/Ott Chevy. Although the slight slip had its consequences, Ballou put on an absolute clinic from there, charging to second on the high side. All of that came on the heels of his heat race run from seventh to the win, including a single moment in which he passed three cars on the straightaway in one fell swoop, practically clinching the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night before the sun had even set.


 

Logan Seavey (Sutter, California) returned to the podium with a third place feature finish in his Abacus Racing/Mountain Mechanical Contractors – Indy Power Sports/DRC/Stanton Chevy. In doing so, Seavey also led the most laps in the main event with 16. While he wasn't able to repeat his Larry Rice Classic victory from a year ago, it was Seavey’s third straight podium at the event: (3rd 2023), (1st 2024) & (3rd 2025).


 

Jack Hoyer (Frankfort, Indiana) earned himself Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors in his season debut with the USAC National Sprint Cars. His plus-nine run from 22nd to 13th run on the red clay made him the biggest mover in the feature.


 

Sixth place feature finisher Mitchel Moles (Raisin City, California) turned his 18th career USAC National Sprint Car Fast Qualifying time, which tied him for 27th on the series all-time list alongside 1960-1961-1962 USAC Sprint Car champ and 1963 Indianapolis 500 winner Parnelli Jones. Moles has now set fast time in three of the last four USAC National Sprint Car events.


 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 9, 2025 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track – Larry Rice Classic


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-11.513; 2. Kyle Shipley, 4u, AJR-11.613; 3. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming/Swanson-11.614; 4. Carson Garrett, 2E, Epperson-11.616; 5. Jadon Rogers, 66, Amati-11.632; 6. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-11.655; 7. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-11.681; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-11.709; 9. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-11.747; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-11.783; 11. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-11.795; 12. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-11.808; 13. Matt Westfall, 23s, Simon-11.819; 14. Stevie Sussex, 77a, Sturgeon-11.855; 15. Chelby Hinton, 71p, Phillips-11.861; 16. Rylan Gray, 42, Cheney-11.871; 17. Chance Crum, 83c, Crum-11.887; 18. Jake Scott, 33, Miller-11.896; 19. Abby Hohlbein, 2A, 2B Racing-11.955; 20. Todd Hobson, 77, Wingo-11.975; 21. Braydon Cromwell, 4x, Boyd-11.997; 22. Tye Mihocko, 24p, Paul-12.012; 23. Matt Thompson, 26, Thompson-12.012; 24. Kale Drake 2B, 2B Racing-12.017; 25. Gabriel Gilbert, 10G, GGR-12.022; 26. Jack Hoyer, 11, Hoyer-12.071; 27. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-12.135; 28. Austin Cory, 00, Cory-12.181; 29. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-12.185; 30. Sam Hinds, 71H, Hinds-12.189; 31. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-12.207; 32. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-12.229; 33. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-12.357; 34. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-12.381; 35. Bryce Andrews, 17, MSR-12.700; 36. Hunter Wilson, 07, American Dream-12.777; 37. Justin Meneely, 100, Meneely-12.780; 38. Mike Larrison, 06, American Dream-12.986; 39. Adyn Schmidt, 12s, Schmidt-13.273.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Jadon Rogers, 3. Chance Crum, 4. Matt Westfall, 5. Gabriel Gilbert, 6. Gunnar Setser, 7. Braydon Cromwell, 8. Mitchel Moles, 9. Hayden Reinbold, 10. Justin Meneely. 2:04.800


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Tye Mihocko, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Kyle Shipley, 5. Jake Scott, 6. Harley Burns, 7. Jack Hoyer, 8. Sam Hinds, 9. Mike Larrison, 10. Stevie Sussex. NT


 

HOOSIER TIRE THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Kyle Cummins, 3. Jake Swanson, 4. Matt Thompson, 5. Chelby Hinton, 6. Kayla Roell, 7. Kobe Simpson, 8. Bryce Andrews, 9. Abby Hohlbein, 10. Adyn Schmidt. 2:05.841


 

COOK OUT FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kale Drake, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Todd Hobson, 4. Brandon Mattox, 5. Rylan Gray, 6. Carson Garrett, 7. Briggs Danner, 8. Austin Cory, 9. Hunter Wilson. NT


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Mitchel Moles, 2. Gunnar Setser, 3. Kobe Simpson, 4. Jack Hoyer, 5. Braydon Cromwell, 6. Hayden Reinbold, 7. Briggs Danner, 8. Bryce Andrews, 9. Adyn Schmidt, 10. Kayla Roell, 11. Abby Hohlbein, 12. Austin Cory, 13. Hunter Wilson, 14. Carson Garrett, 15. Harley Burns, 16. Stevie Sussex, 17. Justin Meneely. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (2), 2. Robert Ballou (9), 3. Logan Seavey (1), 4. Kale Drake (8), 5. Jadon Rogers (4), 6. Mitchel Moles (10), 7. Tye Mihocko (7), 8. Jake Swanson (5), 9. C.J. Leary (3), 10. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 11. Chance Crum (17), 12. Kobe Simpson (12), 13. Jack Hoyer (22), 14. Kyle Shipley (6), 15. Hayden Reinbold (26-P), 16. Jake Scott (18), 17. Briggs Danner (25-P), 18. Matt Thompson (20), 19. Gunnar Setser (24), 20. Justin Grant (13), 21. Rylan Gray (16), 22. Gabriel Gilbert (21), 23. Chelby Hinton (15), 24. Brandon Mattox (23), 25. Matt Westfall (14), 26. Todd Hobson (19). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-16 Logan Seavey, Laps 17-30 Kyle Cummins.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-736, 2-Justin Grant-687, 3-Logan Seavey-580, 4-Mitchel Moles-556, 5-Daison Pursley-543, 6-Robert Ballou-541, 7-Jake Swanson-537, 8-C.J. Leary-533, 9-Kale Drake-526, 10-Briggs Danner-509.


 

PARALLAX GROUP USAC NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-85, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Jadon Rogers-30, 5-Chase Stockon-28, 6-Robert Ballou-28, 7-Gunnar Setser-24, 8-Justin Grant-21, 9-Kyle Cummins-20, 10-Daison Pursley-17.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 10, 2025 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track – Spring Showdown


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jake Swanson (12.061)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (11.513)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Tye Mihocko


 

Hoosier Tire Third Heat Winner: Robert Ballou


 

Cook Out Fourth Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Mitchel Moles


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jack Hoyer (22nd to 13th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Robert Ballou

 

 

 

MASSINGILL IS FIRST TWO-TIME MIKE STREICHER MEMORIAL WINNER

 

Mike Campbell

 Saturday May 10th...Winner Bryce Massingill (#35) battles Luke Hall (#74) for position.

By: Gerry Keysor


 

Elida, Ohio (May 9, 2025)………Troy, Ohio’s Bryce Massingill became the first two-time winner of the Mike Streicher Memorial presented by Post Printing on Friday night at Elida, Ohio’s Limaland Motorsports Park.


 

With heavy rain beginning the week, it was questionable whether Limaland would be able to run, but the staff and crew pulled together and the racetrack was pristine for the fifth annual event honoring the memory of the 1991 USAC National Midget champion.


 

In the 25-lap A-Main, Chett Gehrke and Massingill led the field to the green with Gehrke grabbing the early lead. Caution flew on lap two as Boxell came to a stop on the front stretch with a broken fuel pump, ending his bid to win back-to-back Streicher Memorial races.


 

Gehrke resumed his lead on the restart, but Massingill took the lead on lap five and never looked back. Zach Wigal, the 2023 Mike Streicher Memorial winner, charged to second on lap 18, but wasn’t able to close on Massingill, who won and became the first two-time victor of the Streicher Memorial after also winning in 2022.


 

Running behind Massingill at the finish line were Wigal, Gehrke, Luke Hall, and Matt Lux.

 


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 9, 2025 – Limaland Motorsports Park – Elida, Ohio


 

FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Zach Wigal, 18, Wigal-13.480; 2. Chett Gehrke, 10, Moore-13.769; 3. Carl Peterson, 49, Peterson-14.270; 4. Buddy Hollmeyer, 11, Taylor-14.270; 5. Brayden Schwartz, 55s, Schwarz-14.611; 6. Michael Magic, 5m, Magic-15.464; 7. Travis Stickels, 87, Stickels-15.464.


 

SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Gunnar Lucius, 22, Lucius-13.935; 2. Jalen Cox, 11x, Cox-13.991; 3. Cole Morgan, 7m, Morgan-14.425; 4. Cody Dye, 4T, Dye-14.808; 5. Dylan Trost, 21, Trost-15.046; 6. Jim Jones, 97, Jones-15.046.


 

THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Ian Creager, 36, Creager-13.827; 2. Tyler Nelson, 91, Nelson-13.932; 3. Ryan Moran, 01, Moran-14.061; 4. Drew Rader, 74H, Rader-14.150; 5. Jon Watson, 2w, Watson-15.124; 6. Bryce Massingill, 35, Massingill-NT.


 

FOURTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Jakeb Boxell, 44JB, Boxell/Merkler-13.728; 2. Matt Lux, 5, Wells-13.926; 3. Luke Hall, 74, Heitmeyer-13.952; 4. Ryan Barr, 11T, Taylor-14.511; 5. Jacob Sabaj, 21J, Sabaj-14.565; 6. Derrick Noffsinger, 18N, Noffsinger-15.051.


 

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Zach Wigal (4), 2. Chett Gehrke (3), 3. Buddy Hollmeyer (1), 4. Carl Peterson (2), 5. Brayden Schwartz (5), 6. Travis Stickels (7), 7. Michael Magic (6). NT


 

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gunnar Lucius (4), 2. Cole Morgan (2), 3. Jalen Cox (3), 4. Cody Dye (1), 5. Dylan Trost (5), 6. Jim Jones (6). NT


 

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bryce Massingill (6), 2. Ryan Moran (2), 3. Tyler Nelson (3), 4. Ian Creager (4), 5. Drew Rader (1), 6. Jon Watson (5). NT


 

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Luke Hall (2), 2. Jakeb Boxell (4), 3. Matt Lux (3), 4. Ryan Barr (1), 5. Jacob Sabaj (5), 6. Derrick Noffsinger (6). NT


 

FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Bryce Massingill (2), 2. Zach Wigal (7), 3. Chett Gehrke (3), 4. Luke Hall (6), 5. Matt Lux (12), 6. Ryan Moran (4), 7. Tyler Nelson (11), 8. Gunnar Lucius (1), 9. Drew Rader (19), 10. Jalen Cox (10), 11. Cole Morgan (8), 12. Ian Creager (15), 13. Ryan Barr (16), 14. Buddy Hollmeyer (9), 15. Carl Peterson (13), 16. Cody Dye (14), 17. Jacob Sabaj (20), 18. Brayden Schwartz (17), 19. Derrick Noffsinger (23), 20. Jon Watson (22), 21. Travis Stickels (21), 22. Jakeb Boxell (5), 23. Michael Magic, 24. Dylan Trost. NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Chett Gehrke, Laps 5-25 Bryce Massingill.


 

USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET POINTS: 1-Bryce Massingill-70, 2-Zach Wigal-67, 3-Chett Gehrke-64, 4-Matt Lux-58, 5-Ryan Moran-55, 6-Tyler Nelson-52, 7-Drew Rader-46, 8-Jalen Cox-43, 9-Ian Creager-39, 10-Buddy Hollmeyer-35.


 

NEXT USAC MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET RACE: May 17, 2025 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – Non-Points Special Event

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

VMS Motorsports Fast Qualifier: Zach Wigal (13.480)


 

Performance Electronics First Heat Winner: Zach Wigal


 

Stiefel’s Home & Auto Second Heat Winner: Gunnar Lucius


 

Hoosier Auto Racing Fans Third Heat Winner: Bryce Massingill


 

Performance Electronics Fourth Heat Winner: Luke Hall


 

Performance Powder Coating Hard Charger: Drew Rader (19th to 9th)


 

Rosewood Machine & Tool Precision Move of the Race: Matt Lux


 

Lynn Cook – A Racer’s Friend Hard Luck: Jim Jones


 

LynK Chassis 10th Place Bonus: Jalen Cox



 

KENNY MILLER III ETCHES USAC EAST COAST SPRINT WIN AT BAPS\

 

 

Steve Koletar

By: Kurt Bettler


 

York Haven, Pennsylvania (May 10, 2025)………In the last 72 hours, more than two inches of rain had fallen onto York Haven, Pennsylvania’s BAPS Motor Speedway. However, promoter Kolten Gouse and his staff were prepared for the challenge.


 

The old saying “ruts and guts” came to fruition as the 3/8-mile dirt oval had great character for the wingless warriors of the USAC Innovative Machine & Technology East Coast Sprint Car Series Presented by Baer Den Farms.


 

Twenty-three cars were signed in for competition. However, after a few mishaps, a few were found vacant, and no consolation race was needed. Three thrilling heat races were won by Kenny Miller III, Christian Bruno and Mark Smith. The redraw put Miller on the pole for the 25-lap feature.


 

When the green flag flew, it was Miller jumping into the lead, but Bruno ripped the bottom to put up a challenge. Back in the pack, Smith made quick work to charge his way into the top-five.


 

As the race wore on, there were a few setbacks. Billy Ney lost an engine on a restart, while Patrick Chilmonik disposed of a rearend gear and Steve Wilbur had a suspension issue. When the race roared back to life, the competition heated up. The cars used all of the speedway's surface, high and low.


 

However, on lap four, the red light was displayed for a tangle involving Ronald Helmick, Blaine Emery and a flipping Jason Cherry across the start/finish line. All drivers were okay.


 

Following the ensuing restart, Miller checked out after a few short sliders from Bruno. At the same time, reigning series champion Steven Drevicki started to creep his way into the hunt. Drevicki had already wrangled his way past Smith, Ed Aikin and Bobby Butler.


 

Up front, Miller caught a hornet's nest. Bruno and Drevicki were chomping at the bit to get to the rear of the Miller’s Weikel Racewear No. 23m. Despite it all, Miller was masterful through traffic.


 

Drevicki shot into the second spot and marched to the rear bumper of Miller with four laps remaining. The duo switched lines until meeting traffic with three to go and now the race was on. Drevicki pulled alongside Miller a handful of times, but Miller (Morgantown, Pennsylvania) was not to be denied as he scored his first USAC East Coast Sprint Car win of the season, and the eighth of his career.


 

Precision Lathing was a proud sponsor for the evening, and their entry of Bobby Butler from Phillipsburg, New Jersey collected a solid fifth place result from his seventh starting spot.

 


 

USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE RESULTS: May 10, 2025 – BAPS Motor Speedway – York Haven, Pennsylvania


 

BDB GRAPHICS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kenny Miller III (#23m Miller), 2. Ronald Helmick (#22R Helmick), 3. Bobby Butler (#5B Butler), 4. Gary Hutson (#44 Hutson), 5. Jordan Fulton (#37 Fulton), 6. Scott Frack (#39x Frack). NT


 

E. SCHNEIDER & SONS SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Christian Bruno (#17 Bruno), 2. Jason Cherry (#67 Cherry), 3. Billy Ney (#83 Ney), 4. Blaine Emery (#35 Thomas), 5. Steve Wilbur (#59 Prior), 6. Brett Rose (#45R Rose), 7. Lee Kauffman (#96 Kauffman), 8. Dirk Rimrott (#27 Rimrott). 2:27.976


 

PREMIER LATHING INC. THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Mark Smith (#M1 Smith), 2. Steven Drevicki (#19 Drevicki) 3. Ed Aikin (#7 Aikin), 4. Tony Jackson (#340 Callahan), 5. Chris Allen Jr. (#71 Allen), 6. Patrick Chilmonik (#1 Chilmonik) 7. Hunter Fulton (#7H Fulton). 2.26.285


 

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Jason Gindlesperger (#76x Gindlesperger) & Jake Galloway (#27G Galloway).


 

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kenny Miller III (1), 2. Steven Drevicki (9), 3. Christan Bruno (2), 4. Ed Aikin (6), 5. Bobby Butler (7), 6. Mark Smith (8), 7. Chris Allen Jr. (15), 8. Tony Jackson (13), 9. Blaine Emery (11), 10. Lee Kauffman (18), 11. Jordan Fulton (13), 12. Gary Hudson (10), 13 Brett Rose (16), 14. Dirk Rimrott (20), 15. Hunter Fulton (19), 16. Patrick Chilmonik (17), 17. Steve Wilbur (14), 18. Billy Ney (4), 19. Jason Cherry (5), 20. Ronald Helmick (3). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Kenny Miller III.


 

USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS POINTS: 1-Kenny Miller III-221, 2-Steven Drevicki-220, 3-Ed Aikin-200, 4-Christian Bruno-194, 5-Jason Cherry-143, 6-Billy Ney-121, 7-Kyle Spence-119, 8-Ronald Helmick-118, 9-Mike Haggenbottom-108, 10-Chris Allen Jr.-107.


 

NEXT USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE: May 31, 2025 – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal Pennsylvania

 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Bitner Automotive Fast Time: Kenny Miller


 

BDB Graphic First Heat Winner: Kenny Miller III


 

E. Schneider & Sons Second Heat Winner: Christian Bruno


 

Premier Lathing INC Third Heat Winner: Mark Smith


 

C & C Landscaping Hard Charger: Chris Allen (15th to 7th)


 

Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic Poker Chip Draw: Dirk Rimrott


 

JPA Hard Luck Award: Scott Frack (flipped while leading the first heat)

 

 

 

 

WEEKEND SWEEP! CUMMINS COMPLETES PERFECT USAC SPRINT WEEKEND AT TRI-STATE

 

David Nearpass

 

 Saturday May 10th...Kyle Cummins celebrates with his family after winning Saturday night's Spring Showdown featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Haubstadt, Indiana's Tri-State Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Haubstadt, Indiana (May 10, 2025)………In Kyle Cummins’ USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship career, he’d never before accumulated more than four wins in an entire season’s worth of work.


 

In both 2022 and 2023, Cummins reached his previous highwater mark of four scores. But as far as 2025, well, that’s an entirely different story.


 

In only his 11th start of the year, the Princeton, Indiana native notched his fifth win of the USAC campaign during Saturday night’s 12th running of the Spring Showdown at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway.


 

Aboard his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors - Premier Recycling/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy, the fourth starting Cummins chased down early leader Hayden Reinbold by lap five and was never headed for the remainder of the 30-lap main event at the 1/4-mile dirt oval.


 

Cummins’ latest triumphant performance completed a weekend sweep after he collected a victory 24 hours prior at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway. In 22 previous instances of Bloomington and Tri-State sharing a back-to-backer dating back to 2005, no driver had won both in a single weekend. That is, until Cummins had his say so.


 

“It’s pretty exciting to win both of them last night and tonight,” Cummins exclaimed. “This is a good Mother’s Day gift for my mom.”


 

The feat of capturing at least five wins within the first 11 events of a USAC National Sprint Car season is a rarity. Among those who’ve done it are Larry Dickson (7 starts in 1968), Don Branson (8 starts in 1959), Larry Dickson (8 starts in 1970), Don Branson (10 starts in 1960), Parnelli Jones (11 starts in 1961), Sammy Sessions (11 starts in 1971) and J.J. Yeley (11 starts in 2003). Now you can add Kyle Cummins (11 starts in 2025).


 

Cummins’ seventh career USAC National Sprint Car win at Tri-State put him within one of Kevin Thomas Jr.’s record of eight, and as fate played out, it just so happened that it was those same two who crossed the finish line first and second on Saturday night.


 

Overall, Cummins’ 25th career USAC National Sprint Car win placed him squarely within the top-25 all-time. His win total of 25 now equals the number also attained by the likes of Steve Butler, Jay Drake, Parnelli Jones and Logan Seavey, all drivers who’ve previously captured USAC National Sprint Car championships, a goal Cummins would like to achieve this year. After starting this weekend with a two-point edge in the standings, Cummins’ lead now stands at 66.


 

With that said, Cummins has even more ambitious prospects for the 2025 season. Not only does he envision surpassing the single season USAC National Sprint Car win record of 14 set by Tom Bigelow (1977) and Logan Seavey (2024), he wants to obliterate it. The goal may sound quite lofty at first, but with how the season has transpired thus far, don’t put it past him.


 

“I want 20 wins,” Cummins declared. “If I get 20 wins, I should win the points. It’s a record that I think would be super hard to get. Logan (Seavey) did unbelievable last year and that’s a goal we’ve set out to accomplish. There are a couple goals, but I want to try to get 20 wins and at least put my name in some kind of record book. I’m not really in anything. I’m like 50th or 30th or whatever, but I want to have something that I can show my kids when I get older that I was pretty good and I got something.”


 

Starting from the outside of the front row, leading series Rookie of the Year contender Reinbold led the first four laps of his USAC National Sprint Car career. Cummins slotted into second by the opening lap ahead of Mitchel Moles who was aiming to complete a sweep of the night’s event after earlier setting fast qualifying time and winning his heat race from the sixth starting spot.


 

By lap five, Cummins was draped all over Reinbold, and when the two hit turn three, Cummins made his move by sliding underneath Reinbold on entry to take over once and for all.


 

On lap nine, Cummins briefly got caught up in the high stakes game of racing chess. Cummins became bogged down while attempting to work his way around 23rd running Bryce Andrews, which in turn, created an accordion effect that caught second running Reinbold up as well. In the shuffling madness, Moles spurted under his teammate, Reinbold, to secure second and begin his pursuit toward Cummins’ lead.


 

Meanwhile, seventh starting Kevin Thomas Jr. was flying, and on lap 15, he swiped third from Reinbold around the outside of turn four. On a lap 21 restart following a 360 degree spin by Jake Swanson (16th) created by contact with Seavey (15th), Jadon Rogers briefly took third in turn four, but KTJ immediately answered right back and retook the position by the time the two hit the second turn a half lap later.


 

Thomas ultimately made his way into the second spot by getting a run under Moles in turns one and two on the white flag lap to record his best finish of the year in USAC competition.


 

But in the end, Cummins was too much, too fast, too strong for anybody to make a play down the stretch. Cummins crossed the stripe 1.379 seconds ahead of runner-up Kevin Thomas Jr. with Mitchel Moles third, Jadon Rogers a season best fourth and Justin Grant rounding out the top-five.


 

For Cummins, he chalked up his successful night to being in the right position at the right time and managing to capitalize on every facet from qualifying to his heat race to the early laps of the feature where he established himself as the one everybody was going to have to beat. Just the same as he’d done time and time again this season.


 

“Track position is everything, and with the way the heat race worked out, luckily I got out in front there,” Cummins explained. “With the way the feature went, it was a little treacherous getting in there. I just went to the bottom and kind of rolled around. I set my car up for that. On that last yellow, I decided I was going to roll the bottom and just see what I could do.”


 

The two winningest drivers in Tri-State Speedway USAC National Sprint Car history also had another thing in common. They were both driving the same chassis, the only two of their kind that were entered in the 32-car field.


 

“Mach 1s ran one-two tonight and I think we both won our heat races too,” Cummins correctly recalled. “With the Mach 1s around Tri-State Speedway, it doesn’t matter who’s driving them. They’re fast.”


 

Furthermore, sixth place finisher Robert Ballou made his 528th career USAC National Sprint Car feature start. That surpassed Brady Bacon for second on the all-time list. Only Dave Darland remains ahead of Ballou with 797 career series starts.


 

Meanwhile, Kale Drake made the biggest move of any driver in the feature, advancing 13 positions from his 23rd starting spot to finish 10th. In 13 USAC national starts between sprint cars and midgets in 2025, Drake has earned the hard charger award an incredible six times.


 

It was a USAC National Sprint Car debut to remember for Eli Wilhelmus. The sprint car racing newcomer and 2024 Midwest Mini Sprint Association champ raced his way into the feature field with a last lap pass for the final transfer spot in the semi-feature. That earned him Inferno Armor’s Fire Move of the Night.


 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 10, 2025 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track – Spring Showdown


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.003; 2. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-13.381; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-13.452; 4. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-13.457; 5. Jadon Rogers, 66, Amati-13.478; 6. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-13.541; 7. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-13.703; 8. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-13.713; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-13.788; 10. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.804; 11. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-13.805; 12. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-13.834; 13. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-14.016; 14. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.083; 15. Brady Short, 61m, Edwards-14.141; 16. Carson Short, 21m, Edwards-14.177; 17. Kendall Ruble, 17K, Ruble-14.184; 18. Eli Wilhelmus, 55, Wilhelmus-14.271; 19. Donny Brackett, 4B, Brackett-14.306; 20. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming/Swanson-14.458; 21. Sam Scott, 7s, Scott-14.529; 22. Adyn Schmidt, 12s, Schmidt-14.556; 23. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-14.580; 24. Abby Hohlbein, 2A, 2B Racing-14.588; 25. Carson Garrett, 15, BGE-14.776; 26.Collin Ambrose, 36, Ambrose-14.916; 27. Bryce Andrews, 17, MSR-15.061; 28. Kale Drake 2B, 2B Racing-15.068; 29. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-15.137; 30. Braydon Cromwell, 4x, Boyd-15.201; 31. Steve Justis, 12J, Justis-15.685; 32. Colton Booten, 2J, JAE-NT.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Mitchel Moles, 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Jadon Rogers, 4. Kendall Ruble, 5. C.J. Leary, 6. Aric Gentry, 7. Sam Scott, 8. Carson Garrett. 2:15.481


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Hayden Reinbold, 3. Gunnar Setser, 4. Adyn Schmidt, 5. Logan Seavey, 6. Eli Wilhelmus, 7. Collin Ambrose, 8. Braydon Cromwell. 2:21.753


 

HOOSIER TIRE THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle Cummins, 2. Robert Ballou, 3. Brady Short, 4. Kobe Simpson, 5. Bryce Andrews, 6. Brandon Mattox, 7. Steve Justis, 8. Donny Brackett. NT


 

COOK OUT FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Carson Short, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Jake Swanson, 4. Kale Drake, 5. Kayla Roell, 6. Briggs Danner, 7. Abby Hohlbein, 8. Colton Booten. NT


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Briggs Danner, 2. Brandon Mattox, 3. Aric Gentry, 4. Eli Wilhelmus, 5. Carson Garrett, 6. Collin Ambrose, 7. Sam Scott, 8. Braydon Cromwell, 9. Steve Justis, 10. Colton Booten, 11. Abby Hohlbein. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (4), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 3. Mitchel Moles (6), 4. Jadon Rogers (3), 5. Justin Grant (9), 6. Robert Ballou (13), 7. Chase Stockon (10), 8. Carson Short (12), 9. Hayden Reinbold (2), 10. Kale Drake (23), 11. Kobe Simpson (1), 12. Kayla Roell (14), 13. Briggs Danner (8), 14. Gunnar Setser (5), 15. Logan Seavey (11), 16. C.J. Leary (15), 17. Jake Swanson (19), 18. Kendall Ruble (17), 19. Adyn Schmidt (20), 20. Brady Short (16), 21. Brandon Mattox (21), 22. Bryce Andrews (22), 23. Eli Wilhelmus (18), 24. Aric Gentry (24), 25. Carson Garrett (25-P). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Hayden Reinbold, Laps 5-30 Kyle Cummins.


 

**Jake Swanson flipped during qualifying. Donny Brackett flipped during the third heat.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-818, 2-Justin Grant-752, 3-Mitchel Moles-633, 4-Logan Seavey-617, 5-Robert Ballou-603, 6-Kale Drake-574, 7-Jake Swanson-572, 8-C.J. Leary-568, 9-Briggs Danner-552, 10-Daison Pursley-543.


 

PARALLAX GROUP USAC NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-98, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Robert Ballou-35, 5-Chase Stockon-31, 6-Jadon Rogers-30, 7-Justin Grant-25, 8-Gunnar Setser-24, 9-Kyle Cummins-23, 10-Jake Swanson-19.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 21, 2025 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – 55th Annual Tony Hulman Classic


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jadon Rogers (13.192)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (13.003)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

Hoosier Tire Third Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

Cook Out Fourth Heat Winner: Carson Short


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Briggs Danner


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kale Drake (23rd to 10th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Eli Wilhelmus
 

 

 

Winchester USAC Silver Crown Postponed to June 27

Winchester, Indiana (May 2, 2025)………A forecast of rain and cool temperatures have forced postponement of this Sunday’s May 4 Rich Vogler Classic featuring the USAC Silver Crown National Championship at Indiana’s Winchester Speedway.


 

The 100-lap USAC Silver Crown event on the 37 degree paved high banks of Winchester will now take place on Friday, June 27, for the 33rd running of the Rich Vogler Classic.


 

Winchester’s Silver Crown round will be the fifth appearance by the series at the track since their debut in 2021. Justin Grant won the inaugural edition in 2021 while Kody Swanson will enter the event having won the past three USAC main events at Winchester in 2022-2023-2024.


 

Times and more info regarding the June 27 USAC Silver Crown event at Winchester will be available soon at www.usacracing.com and www.winchester-speedway.com.


 

The 2025 USAC Silver Crown season will now resume on the dirt on Friday-Saturday, May 16-17, at the Belleville High Banks in Kansas with practice taking place on Friday and a full racing program on Saturday.

 

Montgomery Surges Late to First USAC CRA Win at Santa Maria

By: Lance Jennings


 

Nipomo, California (May 3, 2025)………Kaleb Montgomery earned his first career win with the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series on Saturday night at Nipomo, California’s Santa Maria Speedway.


 

Driving his family-owned No. 3, Montgomery (Templeton, California) made his winning move on lap 28 of the 30-lap feature when racelong leader Tommy Malcolm swung wide off turn four. Montgomery shot underneath and the two banged wheels in the process as they crossed past the flag stand.


 

After Montgomery surged ahead, he led the remaining three laps to capture his initial series victory to become the 86th different winner with in series history over Malcolm, A.J. Bender and Cody Williams with R.J. Johnson rounding out the top-five. USAC CRA point leader Ricky Lewis finished seventh.


 

Brian Kittle of Kittle Motorsports donated $100 to the driver leading the 18th lap of the feature, which was Tommy Malcolm.


 

R.J. Johnson earned his 11th career Woodland Auto Display / WC Friend Company Access Systems Fast Time Award and set a new track record in the process with a time of 13.206 seconds.


 

David Gasper scored the In Honor of Wiley Miller Sr & Wiley Miller II / Sexton Fire Protection First Heat race win. Austin Williams took the Silbermann Solar / Factory Wraps Second Heat. Logan Williams topped the WC Friend Company Systems / In Memory of Jim and Chet Gardner Third Heat.


 

Steve Lafond awarded Austin Williams a $100 hard charger bonus. The veteran driver raced from 17th to 8th in the main event.

 


 

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: May 3, 2025 – Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, California


 

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY / WC FRIEND COMPANY ACCESS SYSTEMS QUALIFYING: 1. R.J. Johnson, 33p, Petty-13.206 (New Track Record); 2. Cody Williams, 44, Williams-13.355; 3. Kaleb Montgomery, 3, Montgomery-13.363; 4. Bryce Eames, 50, Abeytia-13.511; 5. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-13.552; 6. Blake Bower, 17x, Dunkel-13.585; 7. Ricky Lewis, 8m, May-13.587; 8. Tommy Malcolm, 5x, Napier-13.591; 9. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-13.660; 10. David Gasper, 18, Kittle/Gasper-13.698; 11. Connor Speir, 57s, Speir-13.753; 12. Logan Williams, 5w, McCarthy-13.758; 13. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-14.001; 14. Elexa Herrera, 5E, Herrera-14.223; 15. Brecken Guerrero, 98B, Guerrero-14.349; 16. Blake Hendricks, 14, Hendricks-14.389; 17. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-16.110; 18. Brody Wake, 78B, Wake-NT.


 

IN HONOR OF WILEY MILLER SR. & WILEY MILLER II / SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. David Gasper, 2. R.J. Johnson, 3. Blake Hendricks, 4. Bryce Eames, 5. Ricky Lewis, 6. Verne Sweeney. NT


 

SILBERMANN SOLAR / FACTORY WRAPS SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Austin Williams, 2. Tommy Malcolm, 3. Connor Speir, 4. A.J. Bender, 5. Cody Williams, 6. Elexa Herrera. NT


 

WC FRIEND COMPANY ACCESS SYSTEMS / IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Williams, 2. Kaleb Montgomery, 3. Blake Bower, 4. Connor Lundy, 5. Brody Wake, 6. Brecken Guerrero. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kaleb Montgomery (5), 2. Tommy Malcolm (1), 3. A.J. Bender (3), 4. Cody Williams (7), 5. R.J. Johnson (6), 6. David Gasper (10), 7. Ricky Lewis (8), 8. Austin Williams (17), 9. Logan Williams (12), 10. Connor Lundy (9), 11. Connor Speir (11), 12. Verne Sweeney (13), 13. Elexa Herrera (14), 14. Blake Hendricks (16), 15. Brecken Guerrero (15), 16. Blake Bower (2), 17. Bryce Eames (4), 18. Brody Wake (18). NT


 

**Bryce Eames flipped during lap 6 of the feature and was transported to a local hospital.


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-27 Tommy Malcolm, Laps 28-30 Kaleb Montgomery.


 

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER / TEAR-OFF HEAVEN FOTOS HARD CHARGER: Austin Williams (17th to 8th)


 

KITTLE MOTORSPORTS LAP 18 LEADER: Tommy Malcolm


 

NEW AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Ricky Lewis-524, 2-R.J. Johnson-508, 3-A.J. Bender-440, 4-David Gasper-434, 5-Austin Williams-433, 6-Cody Williams-433, 7-Charles Davis Jr.-380, 8-Tommy Malcolm-378, 9-Logan Williams-344, 10-Blake Bower-327.


 

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 24, 2025 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, California – Salute to Indy

 

DREVICKI DRILLS USAC EAST COAST SPRINT CAR FIELD IN DELAWARE

 

Steve Koletar

By: Kurt Bettler


 

Delmar, Delaware (May 3, 2025)………The skies loomed in many of the hometowns of the racers competing with the Innovative Machine Technology USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series Presented by Baer Den Farms.


 

However, south was where the sun was blaring and 85 degree weather was found at the beautiful half mile of Delmar’s Delaware International Speedway.


 

Steven Drevicki and Christian Bruno claimed heat race winners to kick off the night. The 25-lap feature provided the dirt track warriors with a wide, slick surface which the crews and drivers adjusted to.


 

In an evening that started off promising for last weekend’s Port Royal winner Bruno, his No. 17B suffered a major brake failure, causing the Bentley Truck Repair team to elect to start at the tail of the feature field.


 

On the pole was Reading Pennsylvania native and reigning series champion Drevicki in the DeGre Engineering No. 19. As the green flew, he was determined to win the race out of turn two. Ed Aikin had other ideas as he rushed the Delaware Auto Glass No. 7 to the outside and wheeled side-by-side alongside Drevicki into turn three. Drevicki found the line he was looking for and never looked back.


 

While the non-stop race roared on, eyes shifted to the Fraker 42, behind the controls was none other than “on the fence” Kyle Spence. The 42 was navigating high and low from his seventh starting spot. Kenny Miller III also jockeyed his way from fourth to second.


 

Spence sailed past Aikin and the third starting Ronald Helmick machine, then went to work attempting to chase down the lead duo.


 

The battle for sixth was a thriller featuring Billy Ney, Jason Cherry, J.T. Ferry and series newcomer Buddy Schweibinz.


 

As flagger Nicole Flood showed two to go, Drevicki had caught traffic. He held a marginal lead which Miller had started to chew into. It was all for naught for Miller as Drevicki crossed the line first followed by Miller, Spence, Aikin and Helmick, who recorded his first sprint car top-five.


 

 

USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE RESULTS: May 3, 2025 – Delaware International Speedway – Delmar, Delaware


 

BDB GRAPHICS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Steven Drevicki (#19 Drevicki), 2. Billy Ney (#83 Ney), 3. Ronald Helmick (#22R Helmick), 4. Kyle Spence (#42 Fraker), 5. J.T. Ferry (18T Ferry), 6. Mike Haggenbottom (#51 Kelly). NT


 

E. SCHNEIDER & SONS SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Christian Bruno (#17 Bruno), 2. Ed Aikin (#7 Aikin), 3. Kenny Miller III, (#23m Miller) 4. Buddy Schweibinz (#35 Schweibinz), 5. Jason Cherry (#67 Cherry). 2:50.071


 

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Steven Drevicki (1) 2. Kenny Miller III (4), 3. Kyle Spence (7), 4. Ed Aikin (2), 5. Ronald Helmick (3), 6. Billy Ney (5), 7. Mike Haggenbottom (11), 8. Jason Cherry (10), 9. J.T. Ferry (9), 10. Buddy Schweibinz (8), 11. Christian Bruno (6). 9:09.194


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Steven Drevicki.


 

NEXT USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE: May 10, 2025 – BAPS Motor Speedway – York Haven, Pennsylvania

 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Bitner Automotive Fast Time: Steven Drevicki


 

BDB Graphic First Heat Winner: Steven Drevicki


 

E. Schneider & Sons Second Heat Winner: Christian Bruno


 

C & C Landscaping Hard Charger: Kyle Spence (7th to 3rd)


 

Hoosier Tire Mid-Atlantic Poker Chip Draw: Kyle Spence


 

JPA Hard Luck Award: Christian Bruno

 

 

Eldora #LetsRaceTwo USAC Sprint Race Rained Out

richie murray

 

 

Rossburg, Ohio (May 3, 2025)………Rain has forced cancellation of Saturday’s May 3 #LetsRaceTwo event at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Cars.


 

The event will not be rescheduled.


 

The USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship will return to Eldora Speedway during 4-Crown Nationals weekend on September 18 and 20.


 

Given the significant amount of rainfall the track received overnight and the forecast that indicates minimal drying time this afternoon before more precipitation likely moves in, Eldora Speedway has made the decision to cancel tonight’s event.

 


 

Refund Information:


 

All advanced tickets will be refunded via the original method of payment. Nothing is required of the patron. Refunds will appear in credit card statements within a week.


 

Tickets purchased at the track on race week must be mailed back to the Eldora ticket office. A check will then mailed out to the patron. Include the following form when mailing back tickets: www.eldoraspeedway.com/forms/LRT_refund_form.pdf


 

2-Day pit passes must be mailed back to the track. Once received, the Saturday portion of that purchase will be mailed out via check to the patron. Include the following form when mailing back tickets: www.eldoraspeedway.com/forms/LRT_refund_form.pdf


 

Suite holders will be contacted individually.


 

Camping is not a refund situation as the campgrounds are open and utilized. No refund or credit will be issued for any camping space.

 

 

WIN 60! BACON BANKS MILESTONE USAC SPRINT VICTORY AT ELDORA

Indy Racing Images

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Rossburg, Ohio (May 2, 2025)………In USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing history, only two drivers have hit the 60-win mark. Dave Darland was the first to accomplish the feat in 2018, and on Friday night, Brady Bacon became the second to join the ultra-exclusive club.


 

Bacon (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) led all 30 laps from the pole position and lapped nearly half the field in the process to capture his 60th career series win during the #LetsRaceTwo opener at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway.


 

For Bacon, it was his third career USAC National Sprint Car win at Eldora following previous triumphant performances during the 2014 4-Crown Nationals and the opening night of #LetsRaceTwo in 2018. Bacon’s career USAC National Sprint Car win tally now stands just two behind Darland’s grand total of 62, which currently ranks number one all-time.


 

The third-place starting Bacon took control of the pace early in his Chris Dyson Racing/Concord American Flagpole – Macri Concrete/Triple X/Rider Chevy as he drifted out in front of outside front row starter and series point leader Kyle Cummins in turn one. A half lap later, Bacon tracked down pole starter Mitchel Moles and swooped across his nose in turn four to gain a lead in which he never relinquished.


 

In all practicality, Bacon had little in the way of a challenge from Moles or Cummins. However, sixth starting Justin Grant hustled to make his presence felt in the early going, swiping third from Cummins on lap eight before taking over second from Moles with a turn one slider on the 10th lap.


 

However, by then, Bacon’s lead had blossomed to a staggering 6.5 seconds as he began to work his way into lapped traffic where he’d remain for much of the 30-lap affair, setting a torrid pace around the circumference of the famed 1/2-mile dirt oval.


 

The delicate balance between aggressiveness and tentativeness weighed on Bacon’s mind as he kept his right foot on the pedal, possessing zilch knowledge of the massive lead he had established up to that point in time.


 

“It was really hard,” Bacon admitted of the balance. “You’re getting some good cars. Jake Swanson is pretty fast, but eventually, you’re going to have to say, ‘hey, you’re going to have to let me through or it’s not going to be good.’ I gave him a couple shots there but it’s all about momentum, and if you get caught behind someone, then you lose your speed on exit. It’s really hard to pass other guys. I don’t know how much of a lead I had and I’ve lost plenty of races here, so I wasn’t going to let up any and I just tried to get through lapped traffic as good as I could.”


 

With five laps remaining, Bacon continued to carve his way through the back half of the field, but in doing so, lost nearly 2.5 seconds of his advantage to Grant down the stretch. However, Bacon’s entire interval evaporated on lap 25 when Kevin Thomas Jr. (13th) and Korbyn Hayslett (12th) made contact in turn four, sending Hayslett spinning to a stop.


 

The lone caution of the race reset the hands of times on Bacon’s 4.1 second lead. While Bacon had thoroughly dominated the 25-car field throughout the event, the ensuing restart changed the game and breathed new life for the likes of Grant, Moles, Cummins, et al, each of whom now had another opportunity to strike.


 

“The restart really made me nervous,” Bacon acknowledged. “I didn’t really know what I should do, so I tried to maybe catch him off guard, and it looked like he got a decent run on me there. I knew if I cleared him, I was going to have to make some pretty big mistakes to lose.”


 

Grant took his shot underneath Bacon on the lap 25 resumption, but didn’t quite have enough mustard mustered up to beat Bacon to the spot at the top of turn two. Bacon kept his foot in it and powered around the outside of Grant to retain the lead, and for all intents and purposes, put the race on ice.


 

Bacon closed out the final five laps masterfully as he raced across the line 3.318 seconds ahead of runner-up finisher Justin Grant while Kyle Cummins took third, Mitchel Moles fourth and Robert Ballou rounded out the top-five.


 

Kale Drake placed sixth in the finishing order after starting 15th on the grid, which earned him Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors for his plus-nine run. In 11 USAC national starts this season, Drake has now earned five hard charger awards. In all, he's passed 81 cars in those 11 features.


 

Troy, Ohio's own Korbyn Hayslett advanced seven positions in the feature to earn the Inferno Armor Move of the Night. Starting 20th, Hayslett worked his way up to 11th before a lap 26 spin relegated him to the tail of the field where he proceeded to drive his way back to 13th by the end of the race.


 

Logan Seavey recorded his 16th career Fast Qualifying time in USAC National Sprint Car competition, tying him for 30th all-time alongside fellow USAC national champions Rollie Beale, Jack Hewitt and Doug Kalitta. Seavey has won in all three USAC national divisions at Eldora, but on this night, he earned his first career Fast Qualifying award during Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying at a time 15.755 seconds.


 


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 2, 2025 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – #LetsRaceTwo


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.755; 2. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-15.859; 3. Shawn Westerfeld, 4J, Fischesser/Owen-15.894; 4. Kyle Shipley, 4u, AJR-15.903; 5. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-15.943; 6. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-15.943; 7. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-15.956; 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-15.979; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-16.015; 10. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming/Swanson-16.021; 11. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-16.064; 12. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-16.081; 13. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-16.095; 14. Kale Drake 2B, 2B Racing-16.157; 15. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-16.220; 16. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-16.226; 17. Matt Westfall, 23s, Simon-16.241; 18. Ryan Barr, 21B, Barr-16.277; 19. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-16.283; 20. Jadon Rogers, 66, Amati-16.291; 21. Korbyn Hayslett, 1H, Hayslett-16.350; 22. Saban Bibent, 77, Wedgewood-16.376; 23. Abby Hohlbein, 2A, 2B Racing-16.397; 24. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-16.465; 25. Chance Crum, 83c, Crum-16.524; 26. Nate Carle, 14c, Carle-16.545; 27. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-16.648; 28. Bryce Dues, 23D, Dues-16.910; 29. Braydon Cromwell, 4x, Boyd-NT; 30. Paul Dues, 87, Dues-NT.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Jake Swanson, 3. Mitchel Moles, 4. Hayden Reinbold, 5. Kyle Shipley, 6. Gunnar Setser, 7. Saban Bibent, 8. Logan Seavey, 9. Chance Crum, 10. Bryce Dues. NT


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Matt Westfall, 3. Briggs Danner, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Kale Drake, 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 7. Jadon Rogers, 8. Abby Hohlbein, 9. Nate Carle, 10. Braydon Cromwell. 2:13.013


 

HOOSIER TIRE / COOK OUT THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. C.J. Leary, 2. Kyle Cummins, 3. Chase Stockon, 4. Ryan Barr, 5. Shawn Westerfeld, 6. Korbyn Hayslett, 7. Hunter Maddox, 8. Kayla Roell, 9. Zack Pretorius. 2:16.597


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature) 1. Jadon Rogers, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Hunter Maddox, 4. Saban Bibent, 5. Braydon Cromwell, 6. Zack Pretorius, 7. Kayla Roell, 8. Abby Hohlbein, 9. Nate Carle, 10. Bryce Dues. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (3), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Kyle Cummins (2), 4. Mitchel Moles (1), 5. Robert Ballou (8), 6. Kale Drake (15), 7. Chase Stockon (11), 8. Briggs Danner (13), 9. C.J. Leary (7), 10. Logan Seavey (9), 11. Matt Westfall (16), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 13. Korbyn Hayslett (20), 14. Jake Swanson (12), 15. Jadon Rogers (19), 16. Gunnar Setser (18), 17. Saban Bibent (21), 18. Shawn Westerfeld (5), 19. Hunter Maddox (22), 20. Hayden Reinbold (14), 21. Zack Pretorius (23), 22. Kayla Roell (25-P), 23. Ryan Barr (17), 24. Braydon Cromwell (24), 25. Kyle Shipley (4). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Brady Bacon.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-659, 2-Justin Grant-657, 3-Daison Pursley-543, 4-Logan Seavey-508, 5-Mitchel Moles-491, 6-Briggs Danner-480, 7-C.J. Leary-479, 8-Jake Swanson-478, 9-Robert Ballou-466, 10-Kale Drake-457.


 

PARALLAX GROUP USAC NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-81, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-41, 4-Jadon Rogers-30, 5-Chase Stockon-28, 6-Justin Grant-21, 7-Robert Ballou-21, 8-Kyle Cummins-19, 9-Gunnar Setser-19, 10-Daison Pursley-17.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 3, 2025 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – #LetsRaceTwo


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kyle Cummins (15.811)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Logan Seavey (15.755)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Robert Ballou


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

Hoosier Tire / Cook Out Third Heat Winner: C.J. Leary


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Jadon Rogers


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kale Drake (15th to 6th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Korbyn Hayslett

 

 

TRIPLE PLAY! GRANT’S WIN SETS USAC RECORD AT KOKOMO MIDGET GP

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Sunday April 27th...Justin Grant set a new USAC record on Sunday night with his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory at Indiana's Kokomo Speedway

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kokomo, Indiana (April 27, 2025)………Over the course of the past three weekends, Justin Grant has tallied a victory in every piece of machinery he’s operated in USAC competition.


 

Sunday’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship triumph during the second and final night of the Kokomo Grand Prix at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway was just the latest in a historic early season run for the Ione, California native.


 

Grant’s Kokomo win comes on the heels of an April 12 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car score at Lawrenceburg Speedway followed by a dominant USAC Silver Crown performance at Toledo Speedway seven days later on April 19.


 

In the process, Grant set an all-time USAC record by winning in all three national divisions in a season faster than any driver ever has before…by one single, solitary day.

For the past 23 years, Dave Steele had held the record for the earliest date any driver has accomplished the feat, doing so by April 28, 2002. Grant’s race-winning triumvirate was completed on April 27, 2025.


 

Grant was in command from start to finish at Kokomo in his CB Industries/NOS Energy Drink – PristineAuction.com – Mobil 1 – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota, leading all 30 laps in just his second start for CBI after joining the reigning championship winning team over the offseason.


 

As an aside, Grant’s winning ride provided the first USAC National Midget feature win for a car numbered 87 since Danny McKnight captured the Turkey Night Grand Prix aboard L.T. Caruthers No. 87 at Gardena, California’s Ascot Park a half century ago.


 

Grant’s 18th career USAC National Midget win moved him into a tie for 40th place all-time alongside Logan Seavey, and incidentally, Dave Steele. Overall, it’s Grants’ 90th career USAC main event win, moving him past Tom Bigelow for 9th all-time. Furthermore, his 82nd USAC national victory pushed him past Bryan Clauson for 7th place all-time.


 

But of most importance to Grant at the moment was the fact that Sunday’s tally was his first ever in a USAC National Midget at Kokomo, the same scene in which he’s the all-time record holder with 11 career USAC National Sprint Car wins. This one was truly an important one.


 

“It’s really special to win a midget race here,” Grant beamed. “It feels like it’s taken me forever to win one. I’ve been really close but I’ve never been able to get it done. (Car owner) Chad (Boat) had this car absolutely dialed tonight. I could move out to the middle. I could run the bottom. I could do whatever I wanted. It was a ton of fun to drive; an awesome racecar. Chad’s got a great team here with all the guys who work on this 87 and the other two cars as well.”


 

Grant’s wins across the USAC spectrum also have him in contention for a $500,000 reward posted for the driver who can capture the single season USAC Triple Crown by winning all three USAC national titles. It’s a feat which has only been achieved twice, first by Tony Stewart in 1995 and J.J. Yeley in 2003. It would be a quite lucrative payday for Grant, and although there’s a ton of season left on the plate, Grant feels he’s at the top of his game while currently sitting at the top of the Silver Crown and Midget points, and second in the Sprint standings.


 

“I’ve been trying for a long time,” Grant noted. “I feel like this is the year I’ve got everything lined up the way it needs to be lined up. If there’s a year to do it, this has got to be the one. I just have to take care of myself and keep myself excited and I’ve got a lot of people taking the load off my shoulders this year and letting me focus on driving racecars and doing my job. I’m working really hard at focusing on that and not so much on the other stuff.”


 

Granted started his race from the outside of the front row and immediately established the lead over pole sitter and series newcomer Steven Snyder Jr. Snyder, the leading series Rookie in points following the first weekend of the schedule, made his bid for the lead on lap five, sliding under Grant in turn one. However, as Snyder four-wheel-drifted up the racetrack, Grant slipped back under to retake the spot up front.


 

Throughout the goings, previous night’s winner Jacob Denney was matriculating his way up through the field from his eighth place starting spot, swapping slide jobs with Logan Seavey before taking over third in turns one and two just before midway. With six to go, Denney had tracked down Snyder and trekked his way into the second spot with a low line maneuver in turn four.


 

At that point, Grant’s lead held strong and had expanded to 2.7 seconds with three laps remaining. That is until contact in turn three between multiple cars resulted in the front end being knocked out on the car driven by 21st running Dan Bennett, resulting in Bennett slithering to a stop in the middle of turn three.


 

A caution on the ensuing restart for 11th running Cale Coons who stopped atop turn two required his car to be towed away back to the pits, ending his evening prematurely. As the field prepared to take the green for the lap 28 restart, second running Denney's left rear tire had deflated, leaving him to drive the final three laps on the rim as he free fell from a possible victory to a disappointing 12th place finish.


 

In turn, that left Grant all by his lonesome to finish off the victory by a 2.096 second margin. Snyder crossed the stripe a distant second over Seavey who nipped Cannon McIntosh at the line for third while Kale Drake rounded out the top-five.


 

For Snyder, the second place finish was the best of his USAC National Midget career so far through five starts. One night after earning his first career series top-10, Snyder grabbed both his first career top-five result and his first ever podium in his RMS Racing/EnviroFab – Vahlco Wheels – Rod End Supply – MPV Logistics/Spike/Speedway Toyota.


 

It was a bounce back night for Logan Seavey. After enduring a rough opening to his Kokomo Grand Prix the night before with an 11th place result, the two-time series champ returned to the podium with a third place run in his Abacus Racing/Indy Powersports – Prime 47 – CG CPAs – Mountain Mechanical/Spike/Stanton SR-11x.


 

Kale Drake was a Rod End Supply Hard Charger on Saturday night. He repeated the feat on Sunday with an even deeper run from 15th to fifth.


 

The Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night was awarded to Kyle Jones, who experienced a bit of a frustration for the majority of Sunday night’s event. A nagging mechanical issue prevented him from hot lapping, qualifying and competing in his heat race. However, during the semi-feature, he advanced from last (seventh) to first, thus transferring his way in winning fashion into the main event.


 

Not only did CB Industries win the feature, they also swept both fast qualifying times over the weekend with Justin Grant taking top honors on Saturday and Drake Edwards topping the field on Sunday for his first career fast qualifying time with the USAC National Midgets. It marked the first time in which a single team opened the USAC National Midget season with two consecutive fast qualifying times since Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports did so in 2016 with drivers Christopher Bell and Rico Abreu.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 27, 2025 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Kokomo Grand Prix


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Drake Edwards, 83, CBI-13.013; 2. Karter Sarff, 21K, Sarff-13.066; 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.073; 4. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-13.107; 5. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-13.143; 6. Steven Snyder Jr., 4, RMS-13.194; 7. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.212; 8. Thomas Meseraull, 7x, Engler-13.214; 9. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-13.242; 10. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.280; 11. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.293; 12. Frankie Guerrini, 63G, F & F-13.378; 13. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.393; 14. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.403; 15. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-13.466; 16. Brecken Reese, 00, Chandler-13.472; 17. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.485; 18. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-13.492; 19. Sam Johnson, 72J, Johnson-13.531; 20. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-13.555; 21. Chelby Hinton, 4B, Klatt-13.579; 22. Chris Baue, 36, Baue-14.002; 23. Bryan Stanfill, 75AU, Griffiths-14.048; 24. Dan Bennett, X, Bennett-14.639; 25. Michael Magic, 5m, Magic-14.697; 26. Jason Bennett, 29, Bennett-15.294; 27. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-15.573; 28. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-NT.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Justin Grant, 3. Emerson Axsom, 4. Hayden Reinbold, 5. Drake Edwards, 6. Michael Magic, 7. Chelby Hinton. NT


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Cale Coons, 2. Karter Sarff, 3. Gavin Miller, 4. Steven Snyder Jr., 5. Kale Drake, 6. Chris Baue, 7. Jason Bennett. 2:18.156


 

HOOSIER TIRE THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jacob Denney, 2. Cannon McIntosh, 3. Gunnar Setser, 4. Logan Seavey, 5. Sam Johnson, 6. Bryan Stanfill. 2:16.332


 

COOK OUT FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Thomas Meseraull, 3. Steve Buckwalter, 4.  Frankie Guerrini, 5. Brecken Reese, 6. Dan Bennett, 7. Kyle Jones. 2:18.656


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle Jones, 2. Chris Baue, 3. Dan Bennett, 4. Jason Bennett, 5. Michael Magic, 6. Chelby Hinton, 7. Adam Taylor. 2:22.080


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Steven Snyder Jr. (1), 3. Logan Seavey (4), 4. Cannon McIntosh (10), 5. Kale Drake (15), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 7. Daison Pursley (3), 8. Karter Sarff (5), 9. Drake Edwards (6), 10. Gavin Miller (12), 11. Hayden Reinbold (14), 12. Jacob Denney (8), 13. Gunnar Setser (16), 14. Emerson Axsom (18), 15. Frankie Guerrini (13), 16. Sam Johnson (19), 17. Brecken Reese (17), 18. Cale Coons (9), 19. Thomas Meseraull (11), 20. Kyle Jones (24), 21. Dan Bennett (22), 22. Jason Bennett (23), 23. Chris Baue (21), 24. Steve Buckwalter (20). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Justin Grant.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-150, 2-Cannon McIntosh-144, 3-Daison Pursley-135, 4-Jacob Denney-128, 5-Steven Snyder Jr.-127, 6-Kale Drake-127, 7-Logan Seavey-119, 8-Karter Sarff-117, 9-Drake Edwards-115, 10-Gavin Miller-108.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-62, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-36, 4-Jadon Rogers-26, 5-Chase Stockon-24, 6-Kyle Cummins-19, 7-Robert Ballou-18, 8-Justin Grant-17, 9-Daison Pursley-17, 10-Jake Swanson-17.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: May 16-17, 2025 – Belleville Short Track – Belleville, Kansas – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Huncovsky Classic


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Karter Sarff (13.122)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Drake Edwards (13.013)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Cale Coons


 

Hoosier Tire Third Heat Winner: Jacob Denney


 

Cook Out Fourth Heat Winner: Daison Pursley


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Kyle Jones


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kale Drake (15th to 5th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Kyle Jones

BRUNO BOTTOM FEEDS TO THRILLING PORT ROYAL USAC EC SPRINT WIN

 

 

Steve Koletar

By: Kurt Bettler


 

Port Royal, Pennsylvania (April 26, 2025)………Christian Bruno has always enjoyed Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway. Now he loves it.


 

Bruno (Deptford N.J.) started in 11th to score a stunning victory during Saturday night’s Keith Kaufman Classic at the 1/2-mile dirt oval. It was the second win of Bruno’s USAC IMT East Coast Wingless Sprints presented by Baer Den Farms career, and his second at Port Royal.


 

It was a rainy, dreary morning in Port Royal. However, the track crew and officials stuck it out and trusted the forecast was true. In the end, Port Royal Speedway was rewarded with some amazing sprint car action, and possibly the best race of the season.


 

Twenty drivers and cars entered competition with heat wins being won by Briggs Danner and Chris Allen. Dale Schweikart in his 305 sprint drew the pole and was flanked by Ed Aikin and Briggs Danner breathing down his neck at the start.


 

At the drop of the green, the gloves were off as Schweikart slid hard, breaking the momentum of Aikin as he left a wide open door for Danner to lead lap one. As the race roared on, Kenny Miller III started a charge, taking the reigning champ, Steven Drevicki, along with him.


 

On lap 10, the caution was thrown for a slowing Tony Jackson. With 15 to go, the race started to fall into the hands of Miller as the No. 23m worked over Danner and drew even several times, but all eyes started to watch the potent Bentley Truck Service Inc. 17B driven by Bruno.


 

Bruno started to wrap the bottom of the Speed Palace while keeping a smooth and steady pace to reeling in the top-three. With seven to go, it was an all-out war for the win, and with three to go, the leaders caught traffic. Danner and Bruno dueled until Bruno used a lapped car as a pick and ran away to hide. Danner attempted the hay-maker on the last lap but was denied.


 

Bruno took the popular victory, over Danner, Miller and Drevicki with Ed Aikin rounding out the top-five.


 

Next week, the series looks to the first state of Delaware for a 25-lap war at Delaware International Raceway.


 

 

USAC IMT EAST COAST SPRINT CARS PRESENTED BY BAER DEN FARMS RACE RESULTS: April 26, 2025 – Port Royal Speedway – Port Royal, Pennsylvania


 

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 39-Briggs Danner, 2. 7K-Ed Aikin, 3. 23m-Kenny Miller III, 4. 83-Bruce Buckwalter Jr., 5. 91D-Mick D’Agostino, 6. 17B-Christian Bruno, 7. 37-Jordan Fulton, 8. 42-Kyle Spence, 9. 27-Jacob Galloway, 10. 51-Mike Haggenbottom. NT


 

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 71-Chris Allen Jr., 2. 19-Steven Drevicki, 3. 78-Dale Schweikart, 4. 21K-Tommy Kunsman, 5. 96-Tim Glatfelter, 6. 67-Jason Cherry, 7. 1-Patrick Chilmonik, 8. 83s-Billy Ney, 9. 22R-Ronald Helmick, 10. 37-Jordan Fulton. NT


 

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Christian Bruno, 2. Briggs Danner, 3. Kenny Miller III, 4. Steven Drevicki, 5. Ed Aikin, 6. Jason Cherry, 7. Mike Haggenbottom, 8. Kyle Spence, 9. Tommy Kunsman, 10. Chris Allen Jr., 11. Jacob Galloway, 12. Tim Glatfelter, 13. Mick D’Agostino, 14. Dale Schweikart, 15. Jordan Fulton, 16. Patrick Chilmonik, 17. Bruce Buckwalter Jr., 18. 88-Tony Jackson, 19. Billy Ney, 20. Ronald Helmick. NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-23, Laps 24-25 Christian Bruno.

 

 

 

Denney Debuts with KKM, Runs Away with USAC Midget Opener at Kokomo

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Galloway, Ohio's Jacob Denney celebrates his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory on Saturday night at Indiana's Kokomo Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kokomo, Indiana (April 26, 2025)………Jacob Denney’s tenure as a driver for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports couldn’t have possibly gotten off to any better of a start than it did during Saturday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season opener at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway.


 

Denney tracked down leader Kevin Thomas Jr. on the 13th lap and led the remaining 18 circuits to earn his fourth career series victory. In fact, it was Denney’s first series victory since May 2023 at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway, a winless drought that had endured for 48 events and nearly two full calendar years!


 

Galloway, Ohio’s Denney migrated to the famed No. 67 during the offseason after his previous team owned by Tom Malloy scaled back its racing activities for the 2025 season. In his first run for KKM in a USAC event, Denney joined a legion of drivers who have, likewise, achieved the same feat.


 

Five drivers prior to Denney had actually won the feature in their first ever USAC National Midget start for the Columbus, Indiana KKM operation: Page Jones (1992 Kokomo Speedway), Jerry Coons Jr. (2000 Hartford Speedway Park), Davey Ray (2005 Gas City I-69 Speedway), Logan Seavey (2018 Southern Illinois Center) and Ryan Timms (Red Dirt Raceway).


 

Denney became the sixth individual to join the elite group. Additionally, he also provided Kunz his record-extending seventh season opening USAC National Midget win as a car entrant, and his third in a row. Kunz’s three consecutive opening night wins with the series are just one shy of equaling the record set by Steve Lewis’ “Nine Cars” between 1997-2000.


 

For Denney and his JBL Audio – TRD – Toyota – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota, it’s so far, so good, so fast.


 

“We’ve been super-fast every night we’ve hit the track,” Denney said. “I feel like we’ve had the car to win. Little things can go each way, and it’s just how racing goes, but we have a great piece. Hopefully, the year continues like this.”


 

Starting fifth, Denney quickly slotted into the second spot on lap one and promptly began his pursuit of race leader and third starting Kevin Thomas Jr. who grabbed the initial lead. Denney briefly slid his way into the lead past Thomas in turn two on lap six, but Thomas countered and roared his way back past Denney on the bottom of turn three to retake the spot a half lap later.


 

On the 13th go around, Denney recreated his turn two move from several laps earlier, but this time, he made it stick as he surpassed Thomas for the spot at the front of the pack. Denney led Thomas at the line by a wheel, then bounced along the cushion in turns three and four as he simultaneously held onto his saddle with one hand and his calf rope in the other as he went highwire through the back half of the field.


 

“I didn’t think I was ever going to get around him,” Denney explained of his pursuit of Thomas. “Every time I slid him, he’d either cross me over or I’d make a mistake and he’d get back by me. This car was on rails, so once I got to the front, I was hammer down the rest of the race.”


 

As a matter of fact, over the next several laps, Denney extended his advantage to more than 4.8 seconds over Cannon McIntosh who had moved into the runner-up position past Thomas after Denney overtook the lead. However, as Denney attempted to put 11th running Hayden Reinbold a lap down entering turn three on lap 29 of 30. A collision between Denney’s right rear wheel and Reinbold’s left front sent Reinbold streaming nose first into the outside wall before flipping over twice and coming to a rest. Reinbold walked away from his heavily damaged racecar while Denney maintained his footing and continued on.


 

“I would like to apologize to Hayden,” Denney admitted. “That was completely my fault. I thought he was going to the top because he was outside of a guy, then he peeled to the middle. By that time, I committed and it was too late.”


 

Though the contact didn’t end his race, in another way, Denney felt that he might have inadvertently cost himself dearly with an upcoming green-white-checkered restart on the horizon.


 

“I thought I lost the race,” Denney explained. “I was waiting for somebody to slide me on the restart, so I knew the restart was going to be critical. I was sitting there under the red flag on the front stretch and I saw everybody else on the back stretch. I was like, “dang I just blew a huge lead.”


 

Despite that fact, still nobody had anything to contend with the new zip code Denney was continuously establishing. As Denney crossed the finish line, his margin of victory stood at 1.555 seconds as he returned to Kokomo Speedway victory lane for the first time since capturing a USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget feature in 2020.


 

McIntosh, the 2024 USAC National Midget season opening winner, finished as the runner-up while Pursley took third on the final lap. Kale Drake passed under the flag stand in fourth while Justin Grant rounded out the top-five.


 

Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Oklahoma) equaled his best career Kokomo Grand Prix finish with a second place run right behind teammate Denney to make it a one-two finish for team KKM.


 

It’s safe to say, Kale Drake (Collinsville, Oklahoma) likes Kokomo Speedway. On this night, he advanced from 11th to 4th in the feature to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. In his only other USAC National Midget start at Kokomo in 2024, he finished fifth.


 

The Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night belongs to Cale Coons (Greencastle, Indiana) who raced to a top-10 finish in his first career USAC National Midget feature start at Kokomo. Similarly, his father, Jerry Coons Jr. finished with a top-10 in his first Kokomo Speedway USAC National Midget start, a seventh place result in 1991.


 

For the third consecutive year, Justin Grant set quick time in the USAC National Midget season opener. He topped the Kokomo field this time with a lap of 13.285 seconds in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying. Furthermore, Grant is only the second driver ever to go three-straight as Kevin Thomas Jr. did the same in 2019-20-21. Overall, it’s the 10th fast time of Grant’s USAC National Midget career, tying him with George Amick, Pancho Carter and Allen Crowe for 64th all-time.


 


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 26, 2025 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Kokomo Grand Prix


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-13.285; 2. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.320; 3. Drake Edwards, 83, CBI-13.330; 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-13.355; 5. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.403; 6. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.451; 7. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-13.530; 8. Karter Sarff, 21K, Sarff-13.541; 9. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.556; 10. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.643; 11. Steven Snyder Jr., 4, RMS-13.677; 12. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.702; 13. Frankie Guerrini, 63G, F & F-13.706; 14. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-13.717; 15. Sam Johnson, 72J, Johnson-13.757; 16. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-13.826; 17. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-13.877; 18. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-13.976; 19. Brecken Reese, 00, Chandler-14.038; 20. Bryan Stanfill, 75AU, Griffiths-14.125; 21. Chelby Hinton, 4B, Klatt-14.360; 22. Chris Baue, 36, Baue-14.503; 23. Michael Magic, 5m, Magic-14.590; 24. Dan Bennett, X, Bennett-14.657; 25. Jason Bennett, 29, Bennett-14.684; 26. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-17.669.


 

CAR IQ FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Cale Coons, 5. Kale Drake, 6. Frankie Guerrini, 7. Brecken Reese, 8. Michael Magic. 2:15.808


 

K1 RACEGEAR SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Steven Snyder Jr., 2. Kyle Jones, 3. Jacob Denney, 4. Steve Buckwalter, 5. Karter Sarff, 6. Logan Seavey, 7. Dan Bennett, 8. Bryan Stanfill. 2:16.159


 

HOOSIER TIRE / COOK OUT THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Cannon McIntosh, 2. Gunnar Setser, 3. Drake Edwards, 4. Sam Johnson, 5. Gavin Miller, 6. Hayden Reinbold, 7. Chris Baue, 8. Jason Bennett. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (5), 2. Cannon McIntosh (1), 3. Daison Pursley (7), 4. Kale Drake (11), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Gavin Miller (10), 7. Karter Sarff (9), 8. Drake Edwards (4), 9. Steven Snyder Jr. (8), 10. Cale Coons (16), 11. Logan Seavey (2), 12. Kyle Jones (17), 13. Gunnar Setser (18), 14. Frankie Guerrini (13), 15. Sam Johnson (15), 16. Steve Buckwalter (14), 17. Bryan Stanfill (20), 18. Brecken Reese (19), 19. Dan Bennett (21), 20. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 21. Hayden Reinbold (12), 22. Jason Bennett (22), 23. Michael Magic (23), 24. Chris Baue (24). NT


 

**Hayden Reinbold flipped on lap 29 of the feature.


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Kevin Thomas Jr., Laps 13-30 Jacob Denney.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-81, 2-Cannon McIntosh-76, 3-Daison Pursley-72, 4-Justin Grant-71, 5-Kale Drake-65, 6-Gavin Miller-59, 7-Drake Edwards-59, 8-Karter Sarff-56, 9-Steven Snyder Jr.-54, 10-Cale Coons-48.


 

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Kale Drake-62, 2-C.J. Leary-48, 3-Briggs Danner-36, 4-Jadon Rogers-26, 5-Chase Stockon-24, 6-Kyle Cummins-19, 7-Robert Ballou-18, 8-Justin Grant-17, 9-Daison Pursley-17, 10-Jake Swanson-17.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: April 27, 2025 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Kokomo Grand Prix


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Drake Edwards (13.324)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (13.285)


 

Car IQ First Heat Winner: Daison Pursley


 

K1 RaceGear Second Heat Winner: Steven Snyder Jr.


 

Hoosier Tire / Cook Out Third Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kale Drake (11th to 4th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Cale Coons

 

 

WHERE LEGENDS ARE MADE! BELLEVILLE HOSTS USAC SILVER CROWN MAY 16-17

Rich Forman

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Belleville, Kansas (May 15, 2025)………The “World’s Fastest Dirt Half-Mile” moniker is often cited by a variety of racetracks across the country, but you’d be hard-pressed to name one faster than the Belleville High Banks located in north central Kansas.


 

The circular shaped track demands attention and it demands respect. If you can win at this place, you belong in an elite club of individuals who went toe-to-toe with Belleville and came out the other side basking in the glory as a winner.


 

Now we get set to see who has the traits and characteristics and good fortune to rise up and become a USAC Silver Crown winner at Belleville this weekend, May 16-17, with practice set for Friday night while qualifying and the 50-lap finale is on the docket for Saturday under the lights.


 

Here are six storylines to keep your eyes on at Belleville this weekend.


 


 

MS. BRYSON GOES TO BELLEVILLE


 

Kaylee Bryson made double history at Belleville in 2024, starting off the night as the first woman to win a pole position for a USAC Silver Crown race with her fast qualifying lap in time trials. In the 50-lap finale, she topped herself by becoming the first woman to win a USAC national main event.


 

Now, this weekend, she’d like to become the first woman to win multiple USAC national events in her AP Driver Development No. 26.


 

In her first two Silver Crown outings in 2025, she’s finished 8th at Terre Haute and 9th Toledo, which has her sitting fourth in the series championship standings.


 


 

KEEPING PACE WITH BACON


 

Last year, while Bryson was celebrating her Belleville triumph, Brady Bacon was wondering what could’ve been.


 

Starting fourth, Bacon charged into the lead by the end of the first lap, and his torrid pace provided him with a staggering 15.8 second advantage over second place with just 17 laps to go.


 

However, so suddenly and without warning, Bacon’s Chris Dyson Racing machine went up in a cloud of smoke, ending his incredible race prematurely and leaving him empty handed.


 

Things were much better at Belleville in 2023 when he won the event following a memorable duel with Justin Grant. Bacon ran up front all night in his only previous 2025 Silver Crown appearance, finishing 3rd at Terre Haute in April.


 


 

POINT LEADER WANTS A BELLEVILLE WIN


 

A Belleville victory would be a feather in the cap for Justin Grant after coming miraculously close to winning the whole deal in 2023. His late race duel and tangle with Brady Bacon during the final laps sent Grant flipping wildly down the front straight.


 

To date, Grant’s best Belleville High Banks result is a 3rd way back in 2015. But the series point leader has plans on changing that fact after finishing inside the top-two in each of his first two Silver Crown starts to begin the 2025 campaign with a runner-up result on the dirt at Terre Haute and a victory on the pavement at Toledo.


 


 

20/21 VISION


 

The Team AZ / Petty Performance / Rossi Racing team will load up two cars and a pair of star-studded drivers in its Belleville lineup.


 

C.J. Leary will once again drive the No. 21, which he has driven to top-five finishes at Terre Haute and Toledo to begin the year and has him slotted second in series points. The No. 20 has gone from RTJ to KTJ. Kevin Thomas Jr. will pilot the ride in his return to Belleville after Ricky Thornton Jr. wheeled the car back in April at Terre Haute.


 

Leary was spectacular in his 20th to 2nd run in 2024 at Belleville. Thomas, meanwhile, has twice crossed the line in eighth place at Belleville in both 2015 and 2024. In Thomas Jr.’s most recent Silver Crown start, he won at another Kansas track – Salt City Speedway – in July 2024. Leary, on the other hand, is vying for his first series win since 2022.


 


 

DANNER’S READY


 

Don’t look now, but Briggs Danner my be the next prime candidate to become the next first-time USAC Silver Crown winner.


 

Over his past four USAC Silver Crown starts dating back to the end of the 2024 season, he’s finished 3rd, 3rd, 7th and 4th, the latter of which came in the 2025 season opener at Terre Haute.


 

Belleville, in fact, was the site of Danner’s first career Silver Crown start where he finished 11th while getting the feel of his initial run in a champ car. In 2024, Danner became a first time USAC National Sprint Car winner. Perhaps his time has come to take the DMW Motorsports #10 to the front with the Silver Crown series.


 


 

DOUBLE DUTY DRIVERS


 

Among this group, three drivers are expected to perform double duty with both the USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship this weekend at Belleville.


 

Justin Grant will strap into his Hemelgarn Racing No. 91 Silver Crown car and CB Industries No. 87 midget. Logan Seavey is set to drive Rice Motorsports-Abacus Racing’s No. 22 Silver Crown machine and the Abacus Racing No. 57 midget. Kevin Thomas Jr. will be in the seat of the Team AZ / Petty / Rossi No. 20 Silver Crown ride and the 4 Kings Racing #14 midget.


 

This trio will have an untraditional doubleheader to face as they switch back-and-forth between the big cars on the big track to the midgets on the small track. The disciplines require different styles and different skill sets, but these three have proved time and time again that they’re capable of pulling off the rare sweep.


 

In fact, Seavey is the most recent driver to win both a USAC Silver Crown and USAC National Midget race at the same venue on the same day, doing so at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in 2023, a night in which he also won the accompanying USAC National Sprint Car feature.


 


 

RACE DETAILS:


 

On Friday, May 16, at the Belleville (Kan.) High Banks, it’s opening night of the Huncovsky Classic for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in conjunction with a practice night for the USAC Silver Crown division. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $20. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $10. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

On Saturday, May 17, at Belleville, it’s night two of the Huncovsky Classic featuring a full race day for both the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget and USAC Silver Crown divisions. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $35. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $25. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

The entire weekend of events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.


 


 

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USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-140, 2-C.J. Leary-116, 3-Kody Swanson-95, 4-Kaylee Bryson-95, 5-Matt Westfall-91, 6-Logan Seavey-70, 7-Tyler Roahrig-67, 8-Brady Bacon-64, 9-Dakoda Armstrong-64, 10-Dave Berkheimer-64.


 


 

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC SILVER CROWN AT THE BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS:


 

1 Lap - 5/20/2023 - Kody Swanson - 16.823 - 106.996 mph


 

50 Laps - 5/18/2024 - Kaylee Bryson - 21:37.67 - 69.355 mph


 


 

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BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE WINS:


 

1-Brady Bacon, Kaylee Bryson, Tracy Hines, Kody Swanson & Chris Windom


 


 

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BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE WINNERS:


 

2013: Tracy Hines (8/2)


 

2014: Kody Swanson (8/1)


 

2015: Chris Windom (7/31)


 

2023: Brady Bacon (5/20)


 

2024: Kaylee Bryson (5/18)


 


 

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BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS USAC SILVER CROWN POLE WINNERS:


 

2013: Tracy Hines (16.856)


 

2014: Kody Swanson (17.221)


 

2015: Chris Windom (17.356)


 

2023: Kody Swanson (16.823)


 

2024: Kaylee Bryson (17.264)


 


 

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PAST USAC SILVER CROWN FEATURE RESULTS AT THE BELLEVILLE HIGH BANKS:


 

2013 FEATURE: (50 Laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Bobby East, 3. Robert Ballou, 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 5. Chris Windom, 6. A.J. Fike, 7. Kody Swanson, 8. Brian Tyler, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Tim Barber, 11. Shane Hollingsworth, 12. Miranda Throckmorton, 13. Chris Urish. NT

2014 FEATURE: (50 Laps) 1. Kody Swanson, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Christopher Bell, 4. Bobby East, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 7. Chris Urish, 8. Jacob Wilson, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Jake Simmons, 11. Caleb Armstrong, 12. C.J. Leary, 13. Grant Simpson, 14. Davey Ray. 24:35.13


 

2015 FEATURE: (50 Laps) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Justin Grant, 4. Kody Swanson, 5. Shane Cockrum, 6. C.J. Leary, 7. Brady Bacon, 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9. Steve Buckwalter, 10. Aaron Pierce, 11. A.J. Fike, 12. Austin Nemire, 13. Rex Norris III, 14. Terry James, 15. Chris Fetter, 16. Shane Cottle, 17. Patrick Lawson. 22:46.927


 

2023 FEATURE: (50 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (5), 2. Kody Swanson (1), 3. Chase Stockon (13), 4. Shane Cottle (10), 5. Logan Seavey (7), 6. Shane Cockrum (12), 7. Matt Westfall (14), 8. Kaylee Bryson (9), 9. Trey Burke (18), 10. Taylor Ferns (19), 11. C.J. Leary (3), 12. Mitchel Moles (8), 13. Travis Welpott (17), 14. Gregg Cory (22), 15. Bryan Gossel (15), 16. Patrick Bruns (21), 17. Justin Grant (2), 18. Tyler Roahrig (16), 19. Dave Berkheimer (23), 20. Wayne Johnson (11), 21. Mario Clouser (6), 22. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 23. Danny Long (24), 24. Chris Fetter (20). NT


 

2024 FEATURE: (50 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kaylee Bryson (1), 2. C.J. Leary (20), 3. Mario Clouser (2), 4. Justin Grant (10), 5. Daison Pursley (12), 6. Jerry Coons Jr. (13), 7. Chase Stockon (7), 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 9. Robert Ballou (17), 10. Matt Westfall (3), 11. Briggs Danner (5), 12. Shane Cottle (14), 13. Taylor Ferns (6), 14. Kody Swanson (8), 15. Nathan Moore (18), 16. Logan Seavey (21), 17. Gregg Cory (19), 18. Brady Bacon (4), 19. Trey Burke (15), 20. Trey Osborne (16), 21. Mitchel Moles (11), 22. Danny Long (23), 23. Dave Berkheimer (22), 24. Bryan Gossel (24), 25. Dave Peperak (25). 21:37.67 (New Track Record)

 

Bullring Trio! Kansas & Missouri On Tap for USAC Midgets May 16-17-18

Jack Reitz

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (May 15, 2025)………Three nights of bullring racing are up next for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship in Kansas and Missouri this weekend.


 

The 1/4-mile Belleville Short Track in Kansas will serve as host for back-to-back nights at the Huncovsky Classic with two complete racing programs on Friday-Saturday night, May 16-17.


 

To cap off the weekend, Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex brings the series to its 1/6-mile dirt oval for one night only on Sunday, May 18.


 

Here’s six scoop on what’s at stake this weekend in the Sunflower and Show Me states!


 


 

WINNERS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE BORDER


 

Cannon McIntosh is the lone driver in this weekend’s field who has captured USAC National Midget wins at both tracks on this weekend’s docket.


 

He scored two in dramatic fashion at Sweet Springs, first in 2020 and again in 2022. At Belleville, he was tops on the opening night of the 2024 edition.


 

He’s yet to break into victory lane with USAC in 2025. Although, in just two starts, he’s recorded a 2nd and a 4th, which has him second in the series standings.


 


 

SEAVEY’S SWEET TOOTH


 

Logan Seavey’s first visit to Sweet Springs in 2018 resulted in victory. His most recent trip to Sweet Springs in 2024 concluded in exactly the same manner, with a late race pass to win the feature.


 

In 2018, Seavey charged from 7th to 1st, swiping the lead and the win from Cole Bodine with four laps to go. In 2024, the sixth starting Seavey took advantage of multiple bouts of misfortune from others in the final laps, getting past the bouncing Kale Drake with two laps to go to score the win.


 

Qualifying fastest at Sweet Springs has proven to be a good omen for Seavey. Both times he’s been fast time in 2018 and 2024, it’s correlated with feature victories.


 


 

A BOUNCE IN DRAKE’S STEP


 

Kale Drake won at Sweet Springs with the Xtreme Outlaw series in the early part of 2024. In his first appearance with the USAC National Midgets at the track in May 2024, he came within two laps of victory.


 

Entering turns one and two along Sweet Springs’ cushion, Drake’s car began bouncing a total of six times before coming to a rest along the outside wall. A dejected Drake pounded the steering wheel and exited the car after leading a race-high 34 of the 40 laps. At Belleville, however, he notched a podium with a 3rd in one of his finest runs of the 2024 season.


 

To begin the 2025 season, Drake has been the master of passing. At Kokomo night one, he went 11th to 4th, and on night two, he blitzed his way from 15th to 5th at the checkered. Achieving a better starting spot closer to the front could spell some good dividends for the Collinsville, Oklahoma native.


 


 

DENNEY & GRANT OFF TO HOT STARTS


 

Jacob Denney and Justin Grant have already gained the upper hand for the start of the 2025 USAC National Midget season.


 

Denney captured opening night at the Kokomo Grand Prix on the final weekend of April and was in a spot to grab the victory on night two when mechanical issues sidelined him. Meanwhile, Grant posted the victory on the night two and leads the series standings entering the weekend.


 

Both respective drivers earned their initial series wins for their new teams, in what was each individual’s first USAC weekend with their respective teams – Denney (Kunz/Curb-Agajanian) and Grant (CB Industries).


 

Denney grabbed a USAC Midget victory at Sweet Springs in the spring of 2023 and finished a best of 8th at Belleville that same year. Grant has been the fastest qualifier on both Belleville opening nights in 2023 and 2024 and grabbed a 5th in the feature. Grant’s Sweet Springs resume consists of a best ride of 5th in 2022.


 


 

A FIRST FOR COONS & SON


 

A father racing against his child is a rarity in USAC National Midget racing. In fact, there have been just 13 previous instances in which both father and son/daughter competed in the same feature event.


 

This weekend, Jerry Coons Jr. and his son, Cale Coons, are line to become the next. Jerry, a USAC career Triple Crown champ in his own right, has won on both the short track and the 1/2-mile at Belleville in his career. Cale Coons is a USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year contender.


 

Among the 13 fathers and children to race in the same USAC National Midget feature are: Ted & Gene Hartley, Danny & George Kladis, Don & Rich Vogler, Bob & Bobby Wente, Bob & Terry Wente, Buddie & Trevor Boys, Jim & Ted Hines, Norm & Travis Young, Leon & Brady Bacon, Ryan & Randy Oerter, Ryan & Ashley Oerter, Joe and Clinton Boyles.


 


 

SNYDER FINDS THE PACE


 

Steven Snyder Jr. made his presence felt on the USAC National Midget tour with a runner-up finish in the series’ most recent round at Kokomo.


 

The Rising Sun, Maryland racer leads the Rookie of the Year of the standings and is fifth overall with the series in his first year as the driver of the RMS Racing No. 4.


 

Snyder actually made his USAC National Midget debut on this weekend one year ago, finishing 19th and 22nd across two nights at Belleville and 12th at Sweet Springs.


 


 

DOUBLE DUTY DRIVERS


 

Among this group, three drivers are expected to perform double duty with both the USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship this weekend at Belleville.


 

Justin Grant will strap into his Hemelgarn Racing No. 91 Silver Crown car and CB Industries No. 87 midget. Logan Seavey is set to drive Rice Motorsports-Abacus Racing’s No. 22 Silver Crown machine and the Abacus Racing No. 57 midget. Kevin Thomas Jr. will be in the seat of the Team AZ / Petty / Rossi No. 20 Silver Crown ride and the 4 Kings Racing #14 midget.


 

This trio will have an untraditional doubleheader to face as they switch back-and-forth between the big cars on the big track to the midgets on the small track. The disciplines require different styles and different skill sets, but these three have proved time and time again that they’re capable of pulling off the rare sweep.


 

In fact, Seavey is the most recent driver to win both a USAC Silver Crown and USAC National Midget race at the same venue on the same day, doing so at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in 2023, a night in which he also won the accompanying USAC National Sprint Car feature.


 


 

RACE DETAILS:


 

On Friday, May 16, at the Belleville (Kan.) High Banks, it’s opening night of the Huncovsky Classic for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in conjunction with a practice night for the USAC Silver Crown division. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $20. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $10. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

On Saturday, May 17, at Belleville, it’s night two of the Huncovsky Classic featuring a full race day for both the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget and USAC Silver Crown divisions. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $35. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $25. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

On Sunday, May 18, at Sweet Springs, the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship is joined by Stock Non-Wing and Restricted Micro Sprints. Pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 4pm. Drivers meeting at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission tickets are $20, and $10 for ages 6-12 and free for ages 6 and under. Pit passes are $30 for non-members and $35 for non-members.


 

The entire weekend of events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-150, 2-Cannon McIntosh-144, 3-Daison Pursley-135, 4-Jacob Denney-128, 5-Steven Snyder Jr.-127, 6-Kale Drake-127, 7-Logan Seavey-119, 8-Karter Sarff-117, 9-Drake Edwards-115, 10-Gavin Miller-108.


 


 

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT THE BELLEVILLE SHORT TRACK:


 

1 Lap - 5/19/2023 - Justin Grant - 11.736


 

10 Laps - 5/19/2023 - Kevin Thomas Jr. - 2:05.91


 


 

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT SWEET SPRINGS MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX:


 

1 Lap - 9/9/2022 - Ethan Mitchell - 11.361


 

10 Laps - 5/21/2023 - Cannon McIntosh - 1:58.47


 

12 Laps - 9/9/2022 - Jace Park - 2:35.70


 

30 Laps - 9/9/2022 - Cannon McIntosh - 6:45.81


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS AT THE BELLEVILLE SHORT TRACK:


 

1-Zach Daum, Cannon McIntosh, Daison Pursley & Ryan Timms


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS AT SWEET SPRINGS MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX:


 

2-Buddy Kofoid & Cannon McIntosh & Logan Seavey


 

1-Tanner Carrick & Jacob Denney


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS AT THE BELLEVILLE SHORT TRACK:


 

2023: Ryan Timms (5/19) & Zach Daum (5/20)


 

2024: Cannon McIntosh (5/17) & Daison Pursley (5/18)


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS AT SWEET SPRINGS MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX:


 

2018: Logan Seavey (7/15)


 

2019: Tanner Carrick (7/14)


 

2020: Cannon McIntosh (9/4) & Buddy Kofoid (9/5)


 

2022: Cannon McIntosh (9/9) & Buddy Kofoid (9/10)


 

2023: Jacob Denney (5/21)


 

2024: Logan Seavey (5/19)


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS IN KANSAS:


 

7-Bryan Clauson


 

6-Jerry Coons Jr. & Dave Darland


 

5-Bobby East


 

4-Jay Drake & Josh Wise


 

3-Rico Abreu, Christopher Bell, Chad Boat, Kasey Kahne & Jason Leffler


 

2-Zach Daum, A.J. Fike, Russ Gamester, Bobby Olivero, Daison Pursley, Tony Stewart, Kevin Thomas Jr. & J.J. Yeley


 

1-Spencer Bayston, Billy Boat, Tyler Courtney, Tony Elliott, Robby Flock, Mike Gregg, Bobby Grim, Jeff Heywood, Tracy Hines, Mel Kenyon, Steve Knepper, Kyle Larson, Cannon McIntosh, Thomas Meseraull, Johnny Parsons, Stevie Reeves, Ryan Scott, Ricky Shelton, Brad Sweet, Bob Tattersall, Tanner Thorson, Ryan Timms, Sleepy Tripp & Bryant Wiedeman


 


 

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USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS IN MISSOURI:


 

3-Mike McGreevy, Henry Pens & Bob Wente


 

2-Danny Frye, Arnie Knepper, Steve Knepper, Buddy Kofoid, Cannon McIntosh, Logan Seavey, Bob Tattersall & Rich Vogler


 

1-Steve Cannon, Tanner Carrick, Bill Chennault, Jerry Coons Jr., Tommy Copp, Jimmy Davies, Jay Drake, Rex Easton, A.J. Foyt, Steve Gennetten, Jason Leffler, Jerry McClung, Andy Michner, J.R. Miller, Richard Powell, Stevie Reeves, Dave Strickland, Joe Walter & Terry Wente


 


 

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PAST USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RESULTS AT THE BELLEVILLE SHORT TRACK


 

2023 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ryan Timms (1), 2. Jake Andreotti (4), 3. Zach Daum (11), 4. Daison Pursley (14), 5. Tanner Thorson (7), 6. Logan Seavey (5), 7. Bryant Wiedeman (17), 8. Jacob Denney (3), 9. Cannon McIntosh (13), 10. Jade Avedisian (2), 11. Chance Crum (23-P), 12. Kyle Jones (19), 13. Mitchel Moles (21), 14. Chase McDermand (8), 15. Hayden Reinbold (20), 16. Kameron Key (18), 17. Brady Bacon (12), 18. Ethan Mitchell (24-P), 19. Gavin Miller (22), 20. Taylor Reimer (16), 21. Thomas Meseraull (10), 22. Justin Grant (6), 23. Jerry Coons Jr. (15), 24. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9). NT


 

2023 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Zach Daum (2), 2. Jade Avedisian (5), 3. Thomas Meseraull (19), 4. Jacob Denney (11), 5. Justin Grant (12), 6. Ethan Mitchell (7), 7. Daison Pursley (16), 8. Tanner Thorson (10), 9. Gavin Miller (13), 10. Brady Bacon (15), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 12. Bryant Wiedeman (1), 13. Chance Crum (23-P), 14. Ryan Timms (21), 15. Kyle Jones (20), 16. Logan Seavey (8), 17. Jerry Coons Jr. (18), 18. Mitchel Moles (9), 19. Mariah Ede (17), 20. Jake Andreotti (22), 21. Hayden Reinbold (14), 22. Taylor Reimer (24-P), 23. Cannon McIntosh (6), 24. Chase McDermand (3). NT


 

2024 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (2), 2. Daison Pursley (4), 3. Gavin Miller (1), 4. Jerry Coons Jr. (3), 5. Kyle Jones (5), 6. Zach Daum (19), 7. Justin Grant (6), 8. Logan Seavey (23), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (13), 10. Kale Drake (12), 11. Jacob Denney (8), 12. Jake Bubak (11), 13. Gary Taylor (24), 14. Ashton Torgerson (16), 15. Ryan Timms (7), 16. Austin Torgerson (20), 17. Matt Westfall (22), 18. Zach Wigal (18), 19. Steven Snyder Jr. (14), 20. Jake Andreotti (15), 21. Kaylee Bryson (10), 22. Hank Davis (9), 23. Curtis Spicer (25), 24. Ethan Mitchell (17), 25. Keith Rauch (21). NT


 

2024 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Daison Pursley (4), 2. Ryan Timms (2), 3. Kale Drake (12), 4. Cannon McIntosh (10), 5. Zach Daum (3), 6. Logan Seavey (8), 7. Ashton Torgerson (1), 8. Ethan Mitchell (6), 9. Kyle Jones (17), 10. Gary Taylor (11), 11. Gavin Miller (14), 12. Justin Grant (9), 13. Zach Wigal (23), 14. Jacob Denney (13), 15. Jerry Coons Jr. (16), 16. Sam Johnson (21), 17. Jake Andreotti (18), 18. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 19. Austin Torgerson (19), 20. Jeff Stasa (22), 21. Curtis Spicer (24), 22. Steven Snyder Jr. (15), 23. Daniel Whitley (7), 24. Jake Bubak (20). NT


 


 

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PAST USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RESULTS AT SWEET SPRINGS MOTORSPORTS COMPLEX


 

2018 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (7), 2. Cole Bodine (1), 3. Ryan Robinson (5), 4. Brady Bacon (4), 5. Tyler Courtney (3), 6. Christopher Bell (14), 7. Spencer Bayston (21), 8. Tanner Carrick (2), 9. Justin Grant (12), 10. Chad Boat (11), 11. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (10), 12. Sam Johnson (13), 13. Zach Daum (19), 14. Jerry Coons, Jr. (22), 15. Brayton Lynch (24), 16. Tucker Klaasmeyer (8), 17. Holly Shelton (23), 18. Riley Kreisel (9), 19. Tyler Thomas (20), 20. Zane Hendricks (15), 21. Kyle Craker (18), 22. Jake Neuman (17), 23. Karter Sarff (16), 24. Jason McDougal (6). NT


 

2019 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Tanner Carrick (5), 2. Zeb Wise (9), 3. Chris Windom (7), 4. Jason McDougal (4), 5. Chad Boat (15), 6. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (8), 7. Jerry Coons, Jr. (16), 8. Daniel Robinson (23), 9. Tucker Klaasmeyer (11), 10. Andrew Layser (2), 11. Cole Bodine (17), 12. Tyler Courtney (3), 13. Joe Boyles (20), 14. Chad Frewaldt (21), 15. Casey Hicks (22), 16. Logan Seavey (1), 17. Brady Bacon (12), 18. Chad Winfrey (18), 19. Clinton Boyles (14), 20. Ethan Mitchell (13), 21. Sam Johnson (10), 22. Curtis Spicer (19), 23. Tanner Thorson (6). NT


 

2020 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (13), 2. Chris Windom (7), 3. Tyler Courtney (10), 4. Tanner Thorson (11), 5. Thomas Meseraull (5), 6. Daison Pursley (12), 7. Andrew Felker (17), 8. Robert Dalby (8), 9. Tanner Carrick (3), 10. Kaylee Bryson (14), 11. Spencer Bayston (4), 12. Andrew Layser (21), 13. Emerson Axsom (1), 14. Ace McCarthy (20), 15. Trey Marcham (22), 16. Noah Gass (19), 17. Jesse Love (15), 18. Cole Bodine (18), 19. Ethan Mitchell (23), 20. Chase Johnson (16), 21. Clinton Boyles (2), 22. Buddy Kofoid (6), 23. Justin Grant (9). NT


 

2020 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (7), 2. Tyler Courtney (2), 3. Chris Windom (6), 4. Tanner Carrick (11), 5. Spencer Bayston (8), 6. Daison Pursley (4), 7. Andrew Layser (19), 8. Clinton Boyles (3), 9. Thomas Meseraull (16), 10. Tanner Thorson (23), 11. Jesse Love (13), 12. Cannon McIntosh (5), 13. Trey Marcham (14), 14. Chase Johnson (9), 15. Emerson Axsom (15), 16. Kaylee Bryson (10), 17. Ethan Mitchell (24), 18. Noah Gass (18), 19. Justin Grant (1), 20. Trey Gropp (22), 21. Cole Bodine (17), 22. Ace McCarthy (21), 23. Andrew Felker (20), 24. Robert Dalby (12). NT


 

2022 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (3), 2. Brenham Crouch (1), 3. Zach Daum (4), 4. Bryant Wiedeman (11), 5. Justin Grant (10), 6. Ethan Mitchell (6), 7. Daison Pursley (12), 8. Buddy Kofoid (8), 9. Trey Gropp (13), 10. Kaylee Bryson (15), 11. Taylor Reimer (2), 12. Mitchel Moles (7), 13. Kameron Key (19), 14. Jacob Denney (14), 15. Jerry Coons Jr. (9), 16. Dominic Gorden (21), 17. Chance Crum (16), 18. Chase McDermand (5), 19. Jace Park (22), 20. Cade Lewis (18), 21. Shannon McQueen (17), 22. Hayden Reinbold (23-P), 23. Joe B. Miller (20). 6:45.81 (New Track Record)


 

2022 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (6), 2. Daison Pursley (2), 3. Zach Daum (5), 4. Bryant Wiedeman (15), 5. Kaylee Bryson (22), 6. Dominic Gorden (16), 7. Jerry Coons Jr. (4), 8. Jacob Denney (14), 9. Chance Crum (21), 10. Taylor Reimer (9), 11. Kameron Key (20), 12. Cade Lewis (1), 13. Mitchel Moles (10), 14. Thomas Meseraull (7), 15. Brenham Crouch (17), 16. Jace Park (24-P), 17. Mariah Ede (11), 18. Ethan Mitchell (12), 19. Justin Grant (8), 20. Chase McDermand (3), 21. Joe B. Miller (13), 22. Hayden Reinbold (23-P), 23. Cannon McIntosh (18), 24. Shannon McQueen (19). NT


 

2023 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (2), 2. Daison Pursley (8), 3. Thomas Meseraull (10), 4. Taylor Reimer (4), 5. Bryant Wiedeman (5), 6. Chase McDermand (3), 7. Justin Grant (18), 8. Kameron Key (14), 9. Jade Avedisian (12), 10. Gavin Miller (20), 11. Jerry Coons Jr. (15), 12. Logan Seavey (11), 13. Brady Bacon (9), 14. Cannon McIntosh (7), 15. Ryan Timms (16), 16. Jake Andreotti (6), 17. Mitchel Moles (1), 18. Mariah Ede (13), 19. Chance Crum (17), 20. Ava Gropp (21), 21. Hayden Reinbold (23-P), 22. Andrew Felker (22), 23. Ethan Mitchell (19). NT


 

2024 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (6), 2. Ryan Timms (11), 3. Jacob Denney (4), 4. Zach Daum (7), 5. Cannon McIntosh (8), 6. Kyle Jones (9), 7. Ashton Torgerson (12), 8. Justin Grant (14), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 10. Jake Andreotti (17), 11. Austin Torgerson (18), 12. Steven Snyder Jr. (10), 13. Zach Wigal (16), 14. Branigan Roark (19), 15. Kale Drake (2), 16. Daison Pursley (5), 17. Curtis Spicer (21), 18. Gavin Miller (13), 19. Ethan Mitchell (1), 20. Sam Johnson (15), 21. Jacob McFarlin (22), 22. Broc Elliott (20). NT

 

Kaylee Returns to Belleville! Eyes Repeat Win May 16-17

Josh James

Defending Belleville High Banks USAC Silver Crown winner Kaylee Bryson.



By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Belleville, Kansas (May 13, 2025)………Few moments in the seven-decade history of the United States Auto Club stand out as much as the final lap for Kaylee Bryson en route to victory at Kansas’ Belleville High Banks one year ago this weekend.


 

Never before had a woman captured a USAC national feature victory. But on May 18, 2024, the Muskogee, Oklahoma native had finally accomplished the feat that had long been just out of reach. Now, this Friday-Saturday, May 16-17, USAC’s “First Lady” returns to the very same spot where she accomplished the historical deed.


 

The sign at the turn four gate of the Belleville High Banks states boldly and proudly that this place is “where legends are made.” The legend of Kaylee Bryson is still growing, but it was there that she cemented herself in the USAC record books.


 

Since that moment, she’s raced on, but the moment will forever stand as one that all onlookers, and herself, will not soon forget.


 

“I didn’t want the day to end,” Bryson recalled. “I just wanted to live in that moment forever.”


 

Many women had come close over the years, particularly in midget racing, a feat Bryson accomplished herself with a runner-up finish in USAC National Midget competition in 2023 at Indiana’s Gas City I-69 Speedway. Not only did she break the glass at Belleville, she shattered it by achieving her goal with the Pierce Racing team that had given her an opportunity of a lifetime to compete full-time with the Silver Crown series.


 

“We’d been working hard to get a win for a long time,” Bryson recalled. “Ever since I started in midgets, I wanted to get a (USAC national) win. That’s the goal as a driver for anybody. Not just for a female but for any type of driver. Every driver remembers their first win. It’s very special and it’s just really cool that it came with this team which put a lot of effort into me and has believed in me. Everybody’s just put in a lot of work, so it’s really cool to do it with the team that I can call my family.”


 

Bryson took over the lead of Belleville’s Huncovsky Classic with 16 laps remaining after racelong leader Brady Bacon’s engine expired. From there, Bryson fended off a furious charge levied by C.J. Leary during the final laps to capture a dream victory. In the thick of the battle, her mindset was fixed on the race as it unfolded, with making history as a distant afterthought in the moment.


 

“During the race, I didn’t even think about it,” Bryson admitted. “It wasn’t until the interview where (announcer Bryan Hulbert) said, “you are the first to ever do it.” I’m like, ‘oh yeah, that’s right!’ I didn’t even think about it at the time. I was so focused on winning as a driver. It never crossed my mind, but it is a really cool stat to have.”


 

As an added bonus, Bryson also started from the pole at Belleville, becoming the first woman to ever to start from the top spot after turning the best lap during qualifying earlier in the evening. She took the advice provided by Aaron Pierce, spotter Chris Santucci and her crew, and ran with it.


 

“The crew told me that if you want to go out there and win the pole, don’t lift and don’t mess up,” Bryson revealed. “That was the advice I got from the crew. Just go out there and drive it as hard as you can. I’ve got to say it was pretty good advice!”


 

The Intimidation factor at Belleville’s 1/2-mile is very real. There are plenty of examples of drivers opting out of competing at Belleville due to its sheer speed, its high banks and its unforgiving nature if things happen to go awry. Bryson showed no sense of intimidation, rather taking an immediate liking to the place the first time she got up to speed.


 

“It’s funny,” Bryson said. “I’ve heard a lot of people tell me about how they number the corners because people can get lost there. The first time I ever got on track, it felt really comfortable to me. I love the track. It’s a really fun, fast 1/2-mile, almost like a huge circle. It really fit my driving style.”


 

With the win, not only did Bryson’s confidence boost, it also gave her the imposed pressure of now having the to win again.


 

“At the same time, I think it gave me a little bit of a confidence boost knowing that I’m capable of winning races,” Bryson explained. “It’s something I can do and I now have it in the back of my mind that I’ve done it and I should be able to go to races and have the confidence to do what I need to do. It’s maybe even a little added pressure because, now that you’ve got your first win, now it’s time to bring home some more.”


 

Now, she’s preparing to do it all over again. This time, it wouldn’t be an unprecedented feat. It would just be more of what we’ve come to expect from Kaylee Bryson at the Belleville High Banks.


 

 

RACE DETAILS:


 

On Friday, May 16, at the Belleville (Kan.) High Banks, it’s opening night of the Huncovsky Classic for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in conjunction with a practice night for the USAC Silver Crown division. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $20. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $10. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

On Saturday, May 17, at Belleville, it’s night two of the Huncovsky Classic featuring a full race day for both the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget and USAC Silver Crown divisions. The pits open at 3pm Central. Front gates open at 5:30pm. Hot laps start at 6:30pm, followed by qualifying and racing. General admission and reserved tickets are $35. General admission and reserved tickets for ages 12 and under are $25. Advance tickets are on sale now at www.BellevilleHighBanks.org. Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.


 

The entire weekend of events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

 

 

outhern Indiana Showcase! Bloomington & Tri-State Up Next for USAC Sprints May 9-10

josh james

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (May 8, 2025)………The Red Clay & The Class Track.


 

That’s two tracks located in southern Indiana that you can instantly recognize simply by stating those two monikers.


 

This weekend’s USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship rounds take us to Bloomington Speedway on Friday, May 9, for the Larry Rice Classic. The following night, Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway will host the 12th running of the Spring Showdown on Saturday, May 10.


 

Here’s a glance at the storylines on this annual Bloomington/Haubstadt Spring Showcase for USAC Sprint Car racing!


 

 

DOUBLE DIPPIN’ IN SOUTHERN INDIANA


 

A combined 102 USAC National Sprint Car events have been held between Bloomington Speedway and Tri-State Speedway since each track debuted on the series schedule more than four decades ago.


 

Fourteen different drivers have won USAC National Sprint Car main events at both tracks: Kevin Thomas Jr., Dave Darland, Brady Bacon, Tony Elliott, Chris Windom, Kyle Cummins, Jay Drake, Tracy Hines, Rick Hood, Cory Kruseman, Hunter Schuerenberg, Brady Short, Jon Stanbrough and J.J. Yeley.


 

However, no driver has ever won USAC National Sprint Car features at both tracks on consecutive nights. There have been 22 such occasions that Bloomington and Tri-State have been paired up on the same weekend, which has resulted in exactly zero back-to-back winners.


 

In fact, only three drivers have won USAC National Sprint Car main events at both tracks in a single season: J.J. Yeley (2003), Dave Darland (2018) and Kevin Thomas Jr. (2017 & 2021)


 

 

KTJ’S RESUME OF SUCCESS


 

Kevin Thomas Jr. is the leader among active drivers at both tracks in USAC National Sprint Car competition. In all, he’s been victorious four times in his career with the series at Bloomington and a whopping eight occasions at Tri-State, which ranks number one all-time.


 

This season certainly hasn’t been to his liking thus far as he currently sits 13th in USAC National Sprint Car points with an average finish of 12.4 in nine starts.


 

However, the combination of Bloomington and Tri-State together on the same weekend could prove to be his honey hole. A breakout weekend very well could be in store for KTJ this weekend.

 


 

THE RACE TO THE TOP


 

Yes, it’s early. We know. But the points race is already an intriguing one with the top-two of Kyle Cummins and Justin Grant virtually pulling away from the rest of the pack. The early dominance between the two has them more than 100 points up on their nearest peer, defending series champion Logan Seavey in third.


 

Cummins enters the weekend up by two points on Grant after the pair have routinely matched each other by recording top-tens in all nine of their starts thus far in 2025 to go along with eight top-fives. The only slight difference is Cummins’ three victories to Grant’s two.


 

Overall, Cummins holds the upper hand at both tracks with six victories at Tri-State and one Bloomington. Grant, on the other hand, has won three at Tri-State, but is still vying for Bloomington win number one.


 

 

PHILLIPS BACK IN THE SADDLE


 

Steve and Carla Phillips’ black No. 71p has been absent from the USAC National Sprint Car ranks since Cannon McIntosh piloted their car during the summer of 2021.


 

But now, after a nearly four year absence, the team is returning for this Friday’s Bloomington round with driver Chelby Hinton of Dubberly, Louisiana. The event will mark his USAC Sprint Car debut after a few handful of appearances in the Klatt Enterprises USAC Midget over the past few years.


 

Phillips owns 19 career USAC National Sprint Car feature victories as car owners with Dave Darland and Jason McDougal. That ranks 32nd place all-time. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the Phillips teams whose first USAC National Sprint Car victory came in May of 2013 at Bloomington.


 

 

WINNING ON THE MENU


 

Several drivers have won at either Bloomington or Tri-State, while some are shooting for their initial USAC score at both venues on this weekend’s docket.


 

C.J. Leary, Logan Seavey and Briggs Danner have all notched Bloomington USAC National Sprint Car victories but have thus far come up empty handed in the win column with USAC Sprint Cars at Tri-State. Interestingly, these same three all own fast qualifying awards at Tri-State and have run up front, demonstrating the fact that they have the capability to get that elusive first TSS USAC triumph here shortly.


 

Conversely, Robert Ballou and Jadon Rogers are among the past Tri-State winners who are aiming to put a first USAC victory together at Bloomington this weekend. With that said, both drivers have experienced their fair share of wins at Bloomington over the years outside of USAC.


 

Meanwhile, a string of current top-10 ranked USAC National Sprint Car drivers are looking to make some noise this weekend with their first USAC victories of the season. Mitchel Moles finished 2nd, 3rd and 4th in his three USAC starts at Tri-State during the 2024 campaign. Jake Swanson has won multiple non-USAC-sanctioned races at Bloomington in his career. Kale Drake has been highly improved this season, and a first USAC Sprint win could be on the horizon.


 

Meanwhile, series newcomers Hayden Reinbold, Gunnar Setser and Kayla Roell all look to position themselves in the USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year battle.


 

 

BUSCHHHHH!


 

Carson Garrett’s new look car struck a chord with many in the audience when it was unveiled earlier this week. His BGE Motorsports No. 15 will sports the mix of blue colors with sponsorship from Busch Light.


 

Garrett owns two career Midwest Sprint Car Series victories at Tri-State in 2023, and it was the same place in which he earned his first USAC top-10 finish that same year. He’s finished within inches of his first USAC National Sprint Car career in recent times and hopes this weekend could provide that big USAC breakthrough.


 

Garrett will have a dual ride situation this weekend and will drive the Epperson Racing No. 2E on Friday at Bloomington and the BGE No. 15 on Saturday at Tri-State.

 


 

RACE DETAILS


 

Friday’s Larry Rice Classic on May 9 at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Huntley’s Hoosier Winged 360 Sprint Cars. Pits open at 4pm Eastern with the grandstands opening at 5pm, drivers meeting at 5:45pm & cars on track at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing to immediately follow. General Admission tickets are $30. Ages 10 and under are free with proof of age. Pit passes are $35. Ages 10 and under are $15.


 

Saturday’s Spring Showdown on May 10 at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway presents the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Midwest Mini Sprint Association. Pits open at 3pm Central, grandstands at 4pm, drivers meeting at 5:15pm and cars on track at 6pm followed immediately by qualifying and racing. Adult general admission tickets are $30, students (ages 13-18) $20 & children 12 and under free.


 

Both events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing both nights at https://flosports.link/usac.


 

 

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-659,

2-Justin Grant-657, 3-Daison Pursley-543, 4-Logan Seavey-508, 5-Mitchel Moles-491, 6-Briggs Danner-480, 7-C.J. Leary-479, 8-Jake Swanson-478, 9-Robert Ballou-466, 10-Kale Drake-457.

 


 

SPRING USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY:


 

2-Bryan Clauson & Dave Darland


 

1-Brady Bacon, Chad Boespflug, Bobby East, Jack Hewitt, C.J. Leary, Logan Seavey, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Chris Windom

 


 

SPRING USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY:


 

1986: Jack Hewitt (5/2)


 

2011: Chris Windom (5/20)


 

2012: Bobby East (5/18)


 

2013: Dave Darland (5/17)


 

2015: Bryan Clauson (4/17)


 

2016: Bryan Clauson (4/15)


 

2017: Chad Boespflug (4/14)


 

2018: Dave Darland (4/27)


 

2019: Brady Bacon (4/12)


 

2021: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/16)


 

2022: Rained Out


 

2023: C.J. Leary (4/14)


 

2024: Logan Seavey (5/10)


 

 

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY:


 

5-Bryan Clauson


 

4-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

3-Dave Darland


 

2-Brady Bacon, Kevin Briscoe, Tony Elliott, C.J. Leary & Chris Windom


 

1-A.J. Anderson, Emerson Axsom, Brent Beauchamp, Chad Boespflug, Jerry Coons Jr., Kyle Cummins, Briggs Danner, Jay Drake, Bobby East, Brad Fox, Jack Hewitt, Tracy Hines Rick Hood, Bob Kinser, Cory Kruseman, Sheldon Kinser, Larry Martin, Hunter Schuerenberg, Logan Seavey, Brady Short, Jon Stanbrough, Kevin Thomas, Rich Vogler & J.J. Yeley


 

 

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SPRING SHOWDOWN USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY:


 

3-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

1-Brady Bacon, Daron Clayton, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant, Stephen Schnapf, Hunter Schuerenberg, Chase Stockon & Chris Windom

 


 

SPRING SHOWDOWN USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY:


 

2012: Hunter Schuerenberg (5/12)


 

2013: Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/11)


 

2014: Daron Clayton (4/26)


 

2015: Brady Bacon (4/18)


 

2016: Chase Stockon (4/16)


 

2017: Chris Windom (4/15)


 

2018: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/28)


 

2019: Rained Out


 

2020: Stephen Schnapf (6/14)


 

2021: Kyle Cummins (4/17)


 

2022: Rained Out


 

2023: Justin Grant (4/15)


 

2024: Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/11)

 


 

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS:


 

8-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

6-Kyle Cummins


 

5-Daron Clayton


 

4-Cory Kruseman


 

3-Justin Grant & Rick Hood


 

2-Brady Bacon, Robert Ballou, Hunter Schuerenberg, Brady Short, Jon Stanbrough & Chase Stockon


 

1-Steve Butler, Dave Darland, Jay Drake, Tony Elliott, Blake Fitzpatrick, Damion Gardner, Tracy Hines, Kenny Jacobs, Levi Jones, Casey Riggs, Jadon Rogers, Stephen Schnapf, Carson Short, Chris Windom & J.J. Yeley

 

USAC Sprints Add Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway to Schedule on Sep. 6

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Wheatland, Missouri (May 8, 2025)………For the first time in nearly two decades, the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship will be headed back to Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night, September 6, 2025.


 

The addition of Lucas Oil Speedway’s Rod End Supply Diamond Dirt Duel to the slate replaces the previously scheduled USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship event for September 6 at Odessa, Missouri’s I-70 Motorsports Park. The I-70 event has been removed from the series schedule.


 

The 3/8-mile, semi-banked dirt oval previously hosted the series just once back in September 2006 with Josh Wise scoring the victory in Tony Stewart Racing’s No. 20.


 

The first weekend in September presents a double race weekend for the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship on both sides of the Mississippi River. On Friday night, September 5, the series returns to Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois. The following evening, on Saturday night, September 6, the series ventures back to Lucas Oil Speedway for the first time in 19 years.


 

The state of Missouri has hosted 23 previous USAC National Sprint Car events dating back to 1970. The most recent of those was held at I-70 in 2022, won by Robert Ballou.


 

Ballou will be one of many USAC National Sprint Car regulars on hand for the event along with fellow series champions Justin Grant, Logan Seavey and C.J. Leary, plus feature winning drivers Kyle Cummins, Jake Swanson, Briggs Danner, Mitchel Moles, Kevin Thomas Jr., Jadon Rogers and many more.


 

Information on the race day schedule at Lucas Oil Speedway as well as additional details will be announced shortly. Stay tuned to USAC’s website at www.usacracing.com and on Lucas Oil Speedway’s website at https://www.lucasoilspeedway.com/.

 

Best of Both Worlds! #LetsRaceTwo with USAC & WoO at Eldora Fri-Sat

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By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Rossburg, Ohio (April 30, 2025)………It’s the best of both worlds!


 

There’s no place like Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway. There’s no event like #LetsRaceTwo. And there’s no place like home.


 

The legendary 1/2-mile dirt oval will be home to USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car racing with each series competing in a dream doubleheader on back-to-back nights, Friday-Saturday, May 2-3.


 

$10,000 are on the line each night for the victor of the ninth running of the event featuring a whole lot of USAC and a whole lot of wings!


 

Here’s some of the USAC storylines we’re watching at The Big E!


 


 

CUMMINS WANTS REVENGE


 

Kyle Cummins is off to a hot start during the 2025 USAC National Sprint Car season, adding top-five finishes in seven of his eight starts, including three victories. That blazing beginning has him atop the USAC National Sprint Car points entering Eldora.


 

Cummins (Princeton, Indiana) has seemingly turned the corner at Eldora, putting himself inside the top-five in three of his last four #LetsRaceTwo starts dating back to 2022. But it’s the first night of 2024 at Eldora he wants redemption on. Cummins led laps 23 through 29.99999 (with bar notation included) until barely being nipped at the line by Robert Ballou while Cummins was .016 seconds behind at the line.


 

This time around, Cummins wants a first Eldora win for both himself and his Petty Performance Racing team.


 


 

THE SITE OF THE MAD MAN’S COMEBACK


 

The man who got the job done on the opening night of 2024's #LetsRaceTwo was Robert Ballou. On the 30th and final lap, he erased Cummins’ half-straightaway lead. Then with grit and determination, willed his way to the finish line with a high side ride to claim the improbable victory.


 

What’s not improbable is Ballou (Rocklin, California) winning during #LetsRaceTwo. In fact, he’s tied for the lead with Justin Grant as the all-time winningest driver in the event’s history, scoring four trophies in 2015-2017-2021-2024.


 

As a matter of fact, Ballou snared his first ever USAC National Sprint Car win at Eldora in 2007. Overall, his seven USAC National Sprint Car wins at Eldora rank tied for fourth all-time behind only Jack Hewitt (13), Larry Dickson (9) and Tracy Hines (9), and equaled with Pancho Carter and Rich Vogler at seven.


 


 

GRANT’S EARLY SEASON RAMPAGE


 

Tied with Robert Ballou as the #LetsRaceTwo all-time winningest USAC driver is Justin Grant, a four-time winner of the event in 2015-2017-2023-2024.


 

Grant's most recent #LetsRaceTwo victory a year ago was as thrilling as it was flabbergasting. Following an incredible duel for the win with eventual series champ Logan Seavey, on the cooldown lap, Grant promptly stuffed his car in the wall and flipped, joining J.J. Yeley, Kyle Larson and Dave Darland among the USAC greats to get upside down…after the checkered flag.


 

So far in 2025, Grant has performed fantastically by winning in all three of USAC’s national divisions faster than any driver in series history. He leads the Silver Crown points and the National Midget points but currently resides 10 points out of the sprint car championship lead. Now Grant hopes to use this weekend at Eldora to get out in front of his pursuit of a $500,000 USAC Triple Crown prize.


 


 

A DOUBLE ORDER OF BACON


 

Brady Bacon has announced his intentions to pull double-duty both with and without a wing this Friday-Saturday. He’ll be aboard both the Chris Dyson Racing No. 20 with USAC and the TKH Motorsports #21H with the World of Outlaws.


 

Bacon (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) has won in both disciplines at Eldora, capturing a pair of USAC National Sprint Car events at The Big E, including the 2018 edition of #LetsRaceTwo. He also won with a wing during 2017 with the All Star Circuit of Champions.


 


 

THE EMERGENCE OF KALE


 

Without question, the biggest progression of the USAC season can be attributed to Kale Drake. Following a rough and tumble 2024 Rookie season, Drake has been consistently fast and has consistently posted quality finishes throughout the course of the 2025 USAC National Sprint Car campaign.


 

Thus far throughout eight USAC National Sprint Car starts this year, Drake owns five top-tens and a pair of top-fives. Through 15 starts last year, he corralled just one top-ten in his 2B Racing machine.


 

Over the past weekend, he charged from deep in the pack to finish inside the top-five on back-to-back nights of USAC National Midget racing at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway. With the Kokomo sprint cars, he took third both nights behind such stalwarts as Kevin Thomas Jr., Kyle Cummins and Robert Ballou over the two-night span.


 


 

ELDORA DAWGS


 

In all, eight drivers have won the USAC portion of #LetsRaceTwo dating back to its debut in 2015: Robert Ballou (4), Justin Grant (4), Tyler Courtney (3), Brady Bacon (1), Chad Boespflug (1), Bryan Clauson (1), C.J. Leary (1) and Chris Windom (1).


 

Half of those - Ballou, Grant, Bacon and Leary – will all be fighting for more wins this weekend.


 

Furthermore, the likes of Logan Seavey and Matt Westfall, who have previously won USAC National Sprint Car main events at Eldora, are seeking their first #LetsRaceTwo wins this weekend. Both have recently run up front in the event with Seavey finishing as the runner-up on night two in 2024 while Westfall claimed fifth on night one.


 

Additionally, Mitchel Moles has already triumphed at Eldora in a USAC Silver Crown car in 2024. Next up is his chance to tame The Big E behind the wheel of a USAC National Sprint Car as well as Jake Swanson, Briggs Danner, Chase Stockon and Jadon Rogers, all of whom own previous top-three results at Eldora in USAC competition.


 


 

RACE DETAILS


 

#LetsRaceTwo features two-straight nights of full racing programs featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Cars on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3.


 

On both days, ticket sales begin at the main gate, turn 4 and pit gate at 2pm Eastern. The grandstands open at 2pm. The drivers meeting will take place at 5pm. Cars will be on track at 6pm with qualifying and racing for both divisions immediately following.


 

Advance tickets are on sale now at www.eldoraspeedway.com. For ages 14 and up, general admission tickets are $35 while reserved seats are $40. For ages 13 and under, general admission tickets are free while reserved seats are $10. Pit passes are $45 each night.


 

The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car portion of the event from Eldora can be watched LIVE on FloRacing both nights at https://flosports.link/usac.


 


 

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-587, 2-Justin Grant-577, 3-Daison Purs-ley-543, 4-Logan Seavey-457, 5-Jake Swanson-436, 6-C.J. Leary-425, 7-Briggs Danner-425, 8-Mitchel Moles-424, 9-Robert Ballou-400, 10-Kale Drake-398.


 


 

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT ELDORA SPEEDWAY:


 

1 Lap - 9/22/2006 - Jerry Coons Jr. - 14.712 - 122.349 mph


 

4 Laps - 7/29/1962 - Don Davis - 1:22.39 - 87.389 mph


 

6 Laps - 6/19/2004 - Matt Westfall - 1:37.56 - 110.701 mph


 

8 Laps - 4/21/2012 - Robert Ballou - 2:05.51 - 114.732 mph


 

10 Laps - 8/6/2005 - Bill Rose - 2:40.19 - 112.367 mph


 

12 Laps - 4/1/2006 - Jay Drake - 3:10.23 - 113.547 mph


 

15 Laps - 8/7/2004 - Josh Wise - 4:42.31 - 95.640 mph


 

30 Laps - 5/9/2015 - Justin Grant - 8:26.25 - 106.667 mph


 

40 Laps - 6/10/1972 - Sam Sessions - 12:27.59 - 96.309 mph


 

50 Laps - 10/6/1974 - Pancho Carter - 16:57.72 - 88.433 mph


 


 

ALL-TIME #LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT WINS:


 

4-Robert Ballou & Justin Grant


 

3-Tyler Courtney


 

1-Brady Bacon, Chad Boespflug, Bryan Clauson, C.J. Leary & Chris Windom

 


 

ALL-TIME #LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT WINNERS:


 

2015: Robert Ballou (5/8) & Justin Grant (5/9)


 

2016: Bryan Clauson (5/6) & Chad Boespflug (5/7)


 

2017: Justin Grant (5/12) & Robert Ballou (5/13)


 

2018: Brady Bacon (5/11) & Chris Windom (5/12)


 

2019: Tyler Courtney (5/10) & Tyler Courtney (7/17)


 

2020: Not Held


 

2021: Tyler Courtney (5/8) & Robert Ballou (5/8)


 

2022: Rained Out


 

2023: Justin Grant (5/5) & C.J. Leary (5/6)


 

2024: Robert Ballou (5/3) & Justin Grant (5/4)


 


 

ALL-TIME ELDORA USAC SPRINT CAR WINS


 

13-Jack Hewitt


 

9-Larry Dickson & Tracy Hines


 

7-Pancho Carter & Rich Vogler


 

6-Robert Ballou, Rollie Beale, Tom Bigelow, Tyler Courtney & Bubby Jones


 

5-Dave Darland, Justin Grant & Jac Haudenschild


 

4-Steve Butler, Kevin Doty, Jay Drake, Tony Elliott, Kevin Huntley & Sammy Sessions


 

3-Billy Cassella, Rob Chaney, Jerry Coons Jr., Rick Hood, Frankie Kerr, Sheldon Kinser, Lee Kunzman, Jud Larson, Greg Weld & J.J. Yeley


 

2-Brady Bacon, Gary Bettenhausen, Don Branson, Larry Cannon, Derek Davidson, Levi Jones, Bud Kaeding, Steve Kinser, C.J. Leary, Jan Opperman, Larry Rice, Mickey Shaw, George Snider, Bruce Walkup & Chris Windom


 

1-Mario Andretti, Chad Boespflug, Stan Bowman, Bryan Clauson, Allen Crowe, Dickie Gaines, Tray House, Jackie Howerton, Arnie Knepper, Kyle Larson, Eddie Leavitt, Roger McCluskey, Thomas Meseraull, Don Nordhorn, Dave Peperak, Jerry Poland, Bill Puterbaugh, Byron Reed, Boston Reid, Red Riegel, Johnny Rutherford, Joe Saldana, Logan Seavey, Terry Shepherd, Jimmy Sills, Danny Smith, Jon Stanbrough, Robbie Stanley, Tony Stewart, Brad Sweet, Clark Templeman, Brian Tyler, Rick Ungar & Matt Westfall.


 


 

ALL-TIME ELDORA USAC SPRINT WINNERS:


 

1962: Stan Bowman (4/22) & Roger McCluskey (7/29)


 

1963: Allen Crowe (5/12)


 

1964: Johnny Rutherford (4/5) & Jud Larson (7/5)


 

1965: Jud Larson (4/18), Jud Larson (5/9), Red Riegel (7/3) & Don Branson (10/17)


 

1966: Arnie Knepper (4/3), Larry Dickson (4/17), Don Branson (7/3) & Mario Andretti (9/4)


 

1967: Rollie Beale (4/16), Mickey Shaw (7/2) & Rollie Beale (7/22)


 

1968: Rollie Beale (4/7), Larry Dickson (7/20) & Mickey Shaw (9/29)


 

1969: Tom Bigelow (4/6), Larry Cannon (6/8) & Greg Weld (7/26)


 

1970: Gary Bettenhausen (4/5), Greg Weld (5/2), Larry Dickson (7/25), Greg Weld (8/15) & Larry Dickson (9/11)


 

1971: Gary Bettenhausen (4/4), Sammy Sessions (6/12), Larry Dickson (7/24) & Bill Puterbaugh (9/19)


 

1972: Rollie Beale (4/2), Sammy Sessions (6/10), Lee Kunzman (7/22), Jerry Poland (9/17), Sammy Sessions (10/22) & Don Nordhorn (10/22)


 

1973: George Snider (4/1), Sammy Sessions (4/29), Lee Kunzman (8/11), Pancho Carter (9/16), Lee Kunzman (10/21) & Pancho Carter (10/21)


 

1974: Jan Opperman (3/31), Bruce Walkup (7/13), Pancho Carter (10/6) & Larry Cannon (10/6)


 

1975: Tom Bigelow (4/13), Rollie Beale (6/21), Billy Cassella (7/12), Rollie Beale (10/5) & Larry Dickson (10/5)


 

1976: Sheldon Kinser (3/28), Larry Dickson (4/11), Jackie Howerton (6/19), Clark Templeman (6/20), Jan Opperman (7/10), Tom Bigelow (8/7), Pancho Carter (9/19), Tom Bigelow (10/9), Pancho Carter (10/10) & Pancho Carter (10/10)


 

1977: Tom Bigelow (4/10), Bubby Jones (4/17), George Snider (4/17), Tom Bigelow (6/18), Bruce Walkup (6/19), Pancho Carter (7/9), Bubby Jones (9/18), Eddie Leavitt (10/9) & Bubby Jones (10/9)


 

1978: Joe Saldana (6/17) & Bubby Jones (9/17)


 

1979: Bubby Jones (4/29), Bubby Jones (6/2), Larry Rice (8/25), Billy Cassella (10/14) & Billy Cassella (10/14)


 

1980: Rich Vogler (4/6), Larry Dickson (7/26), Sheldon Kinser (10/12) & Larry Dickson (7/12)


 

1981: Dave Peperak (4/25), Sheldon Kinser (6/20), Rich Vogler (7/3) & Steve Kinser (10/11)


 

1982: Jack Hewitt (4/24), Jac Haudenschild (7/17) & Steve Kinser (10/3)


 

1983: Rich Vogler (6/4) Jack Hewitt (8/2) & Jack Hewitt (9/25)


 

1984: Jac Haudenschild (4/1), Steve Butler (4/28), Rick Hood (7/14) & Jack Hewitt (8/16)


 

1985: Jac Haudenschild (4/27), Rick Hood (4/28) & Larry Rice (10/6)


 

1986: Rich Vogler (4/5), Rick Hood (4/26) & Rich Vogler (9/28)


 

1987: Rich Vogler (3/28), Rick Ungar (4/25), Rich Vogler (6/13) & Tony Elliott (9/27)


 

1988: Jac Haudenschild (3/27), Jack Hewitt (4/23), Jack Hewitt (5/14), Jack Hewitt (6/18), Steve Butler (7/16) & Steve Butler (9/25)


 

1989: Steve Butler (9/24)


 

1990: Jack Hewitt (4/7) & Jack Hewitt (9/30)


 

1991: Jack Hewitt (9/22)


 

1992: Terry Shepherd (3/28) & Danny Smith (10/4)


 

1993: Robbie Stanley (3/27), Jack Hewitt (8/11) & Tony Elliott (10/3)


 

1994: Frankie Kerr (4/2), Tray House (6/25), Frankie Kerr (8/10) & Kevin Doty (9/25)


 

1995: Kevin Doty (4/1), Byron Reed (8/9) & Tony Stewart (9/23)


 

1996: Frankie Kerr (8/7) & Jimmy Sills (9/28)


 

1997: Kevin Huntley (3/29), Kevin Huntley (6/22), Brian Tyler (8/6) & Jack Hewitt (9/20)


 

1998: Kevin Doty (5/2), Dave Darland (5/24), Kevin Doty (6/20) & Jack Hewitt (9/26)


 

1999: Derek Davidson (3/27), Derek Davidson (5/1), Tracy Hines (5/30), Tracy Hines (7/28) & Dave Darland (9/25)


 

2000: Jay Drake (4/1), Dave Darland (4/29), Tony Elliott (5/28) & Tracy Hines (9/30)


 

2001: Tracy Hines (4/28), Jay Drake (6/22), J.J. Yeley (6/23) & Bud Kaeding (9/22)


 

2002: J.J. Yeley (5/26), Tony Elliott (6/22) & Bud Kaeding (9/21)


 

2003: Boston Reid (5/3), J.J. Yeley (5/25), Jon Stanbrough (6/21) & Jac Haudenschild (9/20 – SE)


 

2004: Jay Drake (6/19), Kevin Huntley (8/7) & Dickie Gaines (9/25)


 

2005: Jay Drake (4/30), Rob Chaney (5/29), Kevin Huntley (6/18), Rob Chaney (8/6) & Levi Jones (9/24)


 

2006: Jerry Coons Jr. (4/1), Rob Chaney (4/29), Matt Westfall (6/17) & Tracy Hines (9/23)


 

2007: Robert Ballou (4/28) & Robert Ballou (9/22)


 

2008: Tracy Hines (5/10), Tracy Hines (6/14) & Brad Sweet (9/20)


 

2009: Jerry Coons Jr. (4/11) & Jerry Coons Jr. (9/26)


 

2010: Robert Ballou (5/12) & Levi Jones (9/25)


 

2011: Kyle Larson (9/24)


 

2012: Tracy Hines (4/21), Dave Darland (7/28) & Tracy Hines (9/22)


 

2013: Chris Windom (9/21)


 

2014: Dave Darland (4/19) & Brady Bacon (9/21)


 

2015: Robert Ballou (5/8), Justin Grant (5/9) & Thomas Meseraull (9/26)


 

2016: Bryan Clauson (5/6), Chad Boespflug (5/7) & Justin Grant (9/24)


 

2017: Justin Grant (5/12), Robert Ballou (5/13) & C.J. Leary (9/23)


 

2018: Brady Bacon (5/11), Chris Windom (5/12) & Tyler Courtney (9/22)


 

2019: Tyler Courtney (5/10), Tyler Courtney (7/17) & Tyler Courtney (9/28)


 

2021: Tyler Courtney (5/8), Robert Ballou (5/8) & Tyler Courtney (9/25)


 

2022: Justin Grant (9/24)


 

2023: Justin Grant (5/5), C.J. Leary (5/6) & Logan Seavey (9/23)


 

2024: Robert Ballou (5/3), Justin Grant (5/4) & Daison Pursley (9/21)


 


 

#LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT RESULTS (2015-PRESENT):


 

2015 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. C.J. Leary, 4. Thomas Meseraull, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 7. Dave Darland, 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Aaron Farney, 10. Chase Stockon, 11. Chris Windom, 12. Kevin Thomas Jr., 13. Landon Simon, 14. Daron Clayton, 15. Matt Goodnight, 16. Brady Bacon, 17. Chad Boespflug, 18. Dallas Hewitt, 19. Jake Simmons, 20. Kody Swanson, 21. Justin Grant, 22. Dustin Smith. NT


 

2015 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Aaron Farney, 5. Robert Ballou, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Brady Bacon, 9. Chase Stockon, 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 11. Chris Windom, 12. Dallas Hewitt, 13. Landon Simon, 14. Kody Swanson, 15. Adam Cruea, 16. Brandon Whited, 17. Tyler Hewitt, 18. Robert Bell, 19. Matt Goodnight, 20. Daron Clayton, 21. Jerry Coons Jr. 8:26.25


 

2016 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Thomas Meseraull, 4. Dallas Hewitt, 5. Brady Bacon, 6. Tyler Courtney, 7. Chad Boespflug, 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Kody Swanson, 11. Max McGhee, 12. Chase Stockon, 13. Chris Windom, 14. Scotty Weir, 15. Kevin Thomas Jr., 16. Kyle Cummins, 17. Justin Grant, 18. Aaron Farney, 19. Carson Short, 20. Jerry Coons Jr., 21. Cody Gardner, 22. Robert Ballou, 23. Jarett Andretti, 24. Tony DiMattia. NT


 

2016 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chad Boespflug, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Thomas Meseraull, 4. C.J. Leary, 5. Tyler Courtney, 6. Bryan Clauson, 7. Kody Swanson, 8. Carson Short, 9. Chase Stockon, 10. Scotty Weir, 11. Brandon Whited, 12. Aaron Farney, 13. Dave Darland, 14. Shane Cottle, 15. Dallas Hewitt, 16. Tony DiMattia, 17. Cole Ketcham, 18. Max McGhee, 19. Kyle Cummins, 20. Matt Westfall, 21. Landon Simon, 22. Chris Windom, 23. Robert Ballou. NT


 

2017 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Dallas Hewitt, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Chase Stockon, 5. Thomas Meseraull, 6. Shane Cottle, 7. Robert Ballou, 8. Brady Bacon, 9. Tyler Courtney, 10. Chris Windom, 11. Scotty Weir, 12. Aaron Farney, 13. C.J. Leary, 14. Jarett Andretti, 15. Chad Wilson, 16. Dave Darland, 17. Chad Boespflug, 18. Josh Hodges, 19. Landon Simon, 20. Dustin Smith, 21. Isaac Chapple, 22. Corey Smith, 23. Nick Bilbee. NT


 

2017 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Chris Windom, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Tyler Courtney, 6. Chase Stockon, 7. Stevie Sussex, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Scotty Weir, 10. Aaron Farney, 11. Chad Boespflug, 12. C.J. Leary, 13. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14. Josh Hodges, 15. Isaac Chapple, 16. Corey Smith, 17. Tyler Hewitt, 18. Mario Clouser, 19. Matt Goodnight, 20. Landon Simon, 21. Kyle Simon, 22. Toby Alfrey. NT


 

2018 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (8), 2. Robert Ballou (1), 3. Chris Windom (2), 4. Justin Grant (10), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 6. Tyler Courtney (3), 7. Chase Stockon (5), 8. Dave Darland (12), 9. C.J. Leary (4), 10. Kyle Cummins (11), 11. Joe Stornetta (9), 12. Nick Bilbee (14), 13. Dallas Hewitt (16), 14. Matt Westfall (15), 15. Chad Wilson (18), 16. Paul Dues (17), 17. Isaac Chapple (13), 18. Chad Boespflug (7), 19. Carmen Perigo (19), 20. Matt Goodnight (20). 9:24.44


 

2018 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chris Windom (2), 2. Tyler Courtney (5), 3. Chase Stockon (3), 4. Brady Bacon (10), 5. Robert Ballou (8), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 7. C.J. Leary (6), 8. Matt Westfall (12), 9. Kyle Cummins (15), 10. Dallas Hewitt (14), 11. Dave Darland (11), 12. Paul Dues (20), 13. Chad Boespflug (9), 14. Carmen Perigo (18), 15. Chad Wilson (17), 16. Isaac Chapple (13), 17. Riley VanHise (21), 18. Bill Rose (16), 19. Matt Goodnight (19), 20. Joe Stornetta (1), 21. Justin Grant (7). NT


 

2019 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (7), 2. C.J. Leary (6), 3. Brady Bacon (5), 4. Chris Windom (10), 5. Carson Short (3), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (2), 7. Chase Stockon (4), 8. Justin Grant (1), 9. Jason McDougal (12), 10. Isaac Chapple (18), 11. Ty Tilton (17), 12. Nick Bilbee (20), 13. Matt Westfall (16), 14. Dustin Smith (21), 15. Carmen Perigo (15), 16. Brian VanMeveren (23), 17. Matt Goodnight (22), 18. Dustin Ingle (19), 19. Josh Hodges (14), 20. Timmy Buckwalter (9), 21. Chad Boespflug (13), 22. Robert Ballou (8). 23. Dave Darland (11). NT


 

2019 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (4), 2. C.J. Leary (5), 3. Brady Bacon (3), 4. Chase Stockon (2), 5. Chris Windom (9), 6. Matt Westfall (10), 7. Tom Harris (18), 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 9. Zane Hendricks (8), 10. Isaac Chapple (13), 11. Dallas Hewitt (19), 12. Scotty Weir (17), 13. Carson Short (7), 14. Jason McDougal (11), 15. Dustin Christie (14), 16. Dave Darland (15), 17. Brody Roa (12), 18. Matt Goodnight (21), 19. Michael Fischesser (22), 20. Corey Smith (20), 21. Justin Grant (6), 22. Brian VanMeveren (23), 23. Kody Swanson (16). NT


 

2021 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (1), 2. Robert Ballou (4), 3. Jadon Rogers (2), 4. Justin Grant (3), 5. Chris Windom (9), 6. Brady Bacon (6), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (8), 8. Chase Stockon (11), 9. Matt Westfall (10), 10. Logan Seavey (5), 11. C.J. Leary (7), 12. Isaac Chapple (16), 13. Jake Swanson (14), 14. Paul Nienhiser (12), 15. Dallas Hewitt (21), 16. Steven Drevicki (18), 17. Brandon Mattox (13), 18. Tanner Thorson (17), 19. Stevie Sussex (15), 20. Carmen Perigo (19), 21. Korbyn Hayslett (20), 22. Ryan Barr (22). 10:06.253


 

2021 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (1), 2. Tyler Courtney (7), 3. Chris Windom (3), 4. Brady Bacon (5), 5. Paul Nienhiser (8), 6. Justin Grant (2), 7. C.J. Leary (9), 8. Jake Swanson (11), 9. Isaac Chapple (16), 10. Steven Drevicki (17), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 12. Max Adams (14), 13. Paul Dues (22), 14. Matt Westfall (10), 15. Dallas Hewitt (21), 16. Stevie Sussex (12), 17. Matt Goodnight (18), 18. Chris Phillips (20), 19. Carmen Perigo (15), 20. Korbyn Hayslett (19), 21. Jadon Rogers (13), 22. Tanner Thorson (4). 9:30.305


 

2023 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (6), 2. Brady Bacon (9), 3. Kyle Cummins (1), 4. Emerson Axsom (4), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 6. Scotty Weir (12), 7. C.J. Leary (2), 8. Kody Swanson (17), 9. Jake Swanson (7), 10. Mitchel Moles (5), 11. Chase Stockon (20), 12. Dallas Hewitt (14), 13. Robert Ballou (8), 14. Brandon Mattox (22), 15. Briggs Danner (10), 16. Daison Pursley (15), 17. Matt Westfall (3), 18. Logan Seavey (16), 19. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (21), 20. Jadon Rogers (19), 21. Carson Garrett (23-P), 22. Max Adams (13), 23. Dalton Stevens (18). NT


 

2023 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (2), 2. Jake Swanson (6), 3. Chase Stockon (3), 4. Mitchel Moles (5), 5. Kyle Cummins (4), 6. Carson Garrett (20), 7. Emerson Axsom (1), 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 9. Max Adams (12), 10. Robert Ballou (9), 11. Briggs Danner (13), 12. Matt Westfall (24-P), 13. Daison Pursley (18), 14. Dallas Hewitt (8), 15. Kody Swanson (14), 16. Jadon Rogers (19), 17. Logan Seavey (23-P), 18. Brady Bacon (10), 19. Geoff Ensign (16), 20. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (21), 21. Keith Sheffer II (22), 22. Justin Grant (7), 23. Zack Pretorius (15), 24. Scotty Weir (17). NT


 

2024 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (11), 2. Kyle Cummins (7), 3. Max Adams (9), 4. Briggs Danner (1), 5. Matt Westfall (12), 6. Jadon Rogers (19), 7. Mitchel Moles (14), 8. Carson Garrett (16), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 10. Chase Stockon (22), 11. Logan Seavey (4), 12. Chance Crum (21), 13. Todd Hobson (15), 14. Kody Swanson (17), 15. Daison Pursley (2), 16. C.J. Leary (24), 17. Jake Swanson (8), 18. Hunter Maddox (10), 19. Brady Bacon (13), 20. Joey Amantea (23), 21. Braxton Cummings (18), 22. Justin Grant (3), 23. Zack Pretorius (20), 24. Saban Bibent (6). NT


 

2024 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (5), 2. Logan Seavey (4), 3. Brady Bacon (7), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 5. C.J. Leary (10), 6. Daison Pursley (3), 7. Mitchel Moles (2), 8. Carson Garrett (9), 9. Jake Swanson (15), 10. Briggs Danner (12), 11. Todd Hobson (17), 12. Matt Westfall (8), 13. Kyle Cummins (6), 14. Robert Ballou (13), 15. Jadon Rogers (19), 16. Max Adams (14), 17. Saban Bibent (20), 18. Korbyn Hayslett (21), 19. Chase Stockon (11), 20. Joey Amantea (22), 21. Chance Crum (24), 22. Matt Goodnight (18), 23. Paul Dues (23), 24. Hunter Maddox (16). NT

Sunday's Winchester USAC Silver Crown Entry List Revealed!

 

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Winchester, Indiana (April 30, 2025)………Three past Winchester Speedway winners and a whole host of hungry others will take on the legendary high banks for this Sunday’s May 4 USAC Silver Crown Rich Vogler Classic at the eastern Indiana speed plant well-known for its high speeds, high intensity and high drama.


 

Among the 17 entries in the field are three drivers who have previously tamed the 37-degree high banks in their career.


 

Kody Swanson enters as the winner of the past three USAC Silver Crown races at Winchester in 2022-2023-2024 and has captured the pole position in all four. Current series point leader Justin Grant scored the win in a photo finish over Swanson in the inaugural Silver Crown round at Winchester in 2021. Brian Tyler makes his return to the series following a three-year absence. He captured a pair of USAC Sprint Car wins at the track in 1997-1998.


 

Another pair of drivers would like to jump over the hump after garnering runner-up finishes in recent USAC Silver Crown outings at Winchester, including Logan Seavey (2nd in 2022) and Bobby Santos (2nd in 2023 & 2024).


 

Previous Winchester USAC Silver Crown podium finishers Taylor Ferns (3rd in 2022) and C.J. Leary (3rd in 2024) will also take on the banks this Sunday as will Kaylee Bryson (7th in 2023) and Jackson Macenko (10th in 2024).


 

Back in the field for Sunday are those who have previous Winchester Silver Crown starts. The list includes Nathan Byrd (11th in 2022 & 2024), Matt Westfall (13th in 2023), Gregg Cory (13th in 2024), Dakoda Armstrong (14th in 2024), Kyle Steffens (15th in 2024), Dave Berkheimer (19th in 2021) and Tyler Roahrig (22nd in 2024).


 

Meanwhile, Jake Trainor is the lone driver in Sunday’s lineup without previous USAC Silver Crown experience at Winchester. However, earlier this week, he partook in a test with his Klatt Enterprises team to get some laps under his belt heading into race day.


 

 

RACE DETAILS


 

An open practice will be held for all teams on Saturday, May 3 from 1-4pm Eastern.


 

On Sunday, May 4, USAC Silver Crown on-track action gets underway at 11:10am Eastern with the first practice, followed by the second Silver Crown practice at 12:15pm. Silver Crown qualifying is scheduled for 1:30pm with an autograph session at 2:45pm, opening ceremonies at 3:15pm and the 100-lap Silver Crown main event slated for a 3:30pm green flag.


 

Tickets will be sold at the gate on race day. General admission tickets are $30 (ages 18 and up), $10 (ages 13-17) and free (ages 12 and under).


 

Tickets are also available in advance at: https://www.winchester-speedway.com/. Reserved seating is $35 (ages 12 and up), $15 for children. A weekend camping spot is $30.


 

The 33rd running of the Rich Vogler Classic will feature the USAC Silver Crown National Championship, plus Modifieds, Thunder Roadsters & Vintage Cars.


 

The event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

 


 

SUNDAY, MAY 4 WINCHESTER USAC SILVER CROWN ENTRY LIST:


 

5 Dakoda Armstrong/New Castle, IN (C & A Motorsports)


 

6 (R) Jake Trainor/Medway, MA (Klatt Enterprises)


 

8 Kyle Steffens/St. Charles, MO (Steffens Motorsports)


 

21 C.J. Leary/Greenfield, IN (Team AZ-Petty-Rossi Racing)


 

22 Logan Seavey/Sutter, CA (Rice Motorsports-Abacus Racing)


 

26 Kaylee Bryson/Muskogee, OK (Sam Pierce Racing)


 

31 Dave Berkheimer/Mechanicsburg, PA (Dave Berkheimer Motorsports)


 

32 Gregg Cory/Shelbyville, IN (Williams-Cory Racing)


 

40 Nathan Byrd/Goodyear, AZ (Meyer Auto Research)


 

41 Tyler Roahrig/Plymouth, IN (Newman Racing)


 

54 Matt Westfall/Pleasant Hill, OH (4 Kings Racing)


 

55 Taylor Ferns/Shelby Township, MI (Taylor Ferns Racing)


 

77 Kody Swanson/Kingsburg, CA (Doran Binks Racing)


 

81 Brian Tyler/Parma, MI (BCR Group)


 

91 Justin Grant/Ione, CA (Hemelgarn Racing)


 

98 Bobby Santos/Franklin, MA (DJ Racing)


 

124 (R) Jackson Macenko/Cincinnati, OH (Brad Hayes Racing)


 

(R) represents a USAC Silver Crown Rookie

 


 

PAST USAC SILVER CROWN RESULTS AT WINCHESTER:


 

2021 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (5), 2. Kody Swanson (1), 3. Bobby Santos (2), 4. Aaron Pierce (3), 5. Kyle O'Gara (15), 6. Travis Welpott (7), 7. Matt Goodnight (8), 8. Kyle Robbins (11), 9. Derek Bischak (12), 10. David Byrne (6), 11. Logan Seavey (14), 12. Austin Nemire (10), 13. Shane Cottle (9), 14. Nathan Byrd (13), 15. Eric Gordon (4), 16. Mike Haggenbottom (18), 17. Mike McVetta (16), 18. Patrick Lawson (17), 19. Dave Berkheimer (19). 37:06.331


 

2022 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kody Swanson (1), 2. Logan Seavey (6), 3. Taylor Ferns (8), 4. C.J. Leary (19), 5. Brian Tyler (12), 6. Derek Bischak (10), 7. Mike McVetta (14), 8. Kyle Robbins (7), 9. Travis Welpott (13), 10. Kyle O’Gara (9), 11. Nathan Byrd (15), 12. Matt Goodnight (11), 13. Mario Clouser (16), 14. Justin Grant (4), 15. Gregg Cory (17), 16. Chris Windom (2), 17. Bobby Santos (3), 18. Eric Gordon (5), 19. Jake Day (20), 20. Tom Paterson (18), 21. Dave Berkheimer (21). 35:44.816


 

2023 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kody Swanson (1), 2. Bobby Santos (5), 3. Derek Bischak (7), 4. C.J. Leary (6), 5. Davey Hamilton Jr. (9), 6. Billy Wease (11), 7. Kaylee Bryson (13), 8. Caleb Armstrong (4), 9. Mario Clouser (15), 10. Kyle O'Gara (14), 11. Travis Welpott (16), 12. Logan Seavey (2), 13. Matt Westfall (18), 14. Kyle Robbins (8), 15. Taylor Ferns (10), 16. Trey Burke (19), 17. Kyle Steffens (20), 18. Aaron Pierce (3), 19. Mike McVetta (23), 20. Matt Goodnight (17), 21. Nathan Byrd (12), 22. Dave Berkheimer (22), 23. Gregg Cory (21), 24. Tom Paterson (24). NT


 

2024 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kody Swanson (1), 2. Bobby Santos (5), 3. C.J. Leary (6), 4. Jus-tin Grant (7), 5. Taylor Ferns (3), 6. Logan Seavey (4), 7. Davey Hamilton Jr. (14), 8. Kyle Robbins (12), 9. Trey Osborne (16), 10. Jackson Macenko (15), 11. Nathan Byrd (19), 12. Kaylee Bryson (11), 13. Gregg Cory (20), 14. Dakoda Armstrong (2), 15. Kyle Steffens (18), 16. Derek Bischak (8), 17. Mario Clouser (10), 18. Trey Burke (9), 19. Travis Welpott (13), 20. Dave Berkheimer (21), 21. Nathan Moore (22), 22. Tyler Roahrig (17). 36:25.647

 

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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

 

2025 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE

February 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (RAIN)

February 22: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ (Winner: Jake Swanson)

March 1: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)

March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)

March 15: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)

April 5: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

April 11: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ

April 12: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ

April 26: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

May 3: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA

May 24: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)

June 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

July 5: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA

July 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

August 16: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

August 30: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)

August 31: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)

September 6: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

September 27: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

October 4: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ

October 18: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)

October 25: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)

November 1: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

November 8: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA


 

* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC National Sprint Cars.

This schedule is subject to change.

 

2025 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC WESTERN STATES MIDGET SCHEDULE:


 

Mar 8: Ventura Raceway | Ventura, California


 

Apr 5: Placerville Speedway | Placerville, California


 

Apr 26: Plaza Park Raceway | Visalia, California


 

May 17: Santa Maria Speedway | Nipomo, California


 

Jun 13: Bakersfield Speedway at Kevin Harvick's Kern Raceway | Bakersfield, California


 

Jun 14: Ventura Raceway | Ventura, California


 

Jul 5: Placerville Speedway | Placerville, California


 

Jul 12: Ventura Raceway | Ventura, California


 

Aug 9: Santa Maria Speedway | Nipomo, California


 

Sep 13: Merced Speedway | Merced, California


 

Oct 11: Antioch Speedway | Antioch, California


 

Oct 25: Ventura Raceway | Ventura, California
       

 

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