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2024 INDIANA MIDGET WEEK
 

Lawrenceburg’s USAC Indiana Sprint Week Round Rained Out, Postponed to Tuesday

Lawrenceburg, Indiana (July 28, 2024)………Afternoon showers and saturated grounds have forced postponement of Sunday night’s NOS Energy Drink USAC Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing round at Lawrenceburg Speedway on July 28.


 

The event has been rescheduled for Tuesday night, July 30, and will feature only the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship. No support divisions will be on hand. The drivers’ meeting is scheduled for 5:45pm Eastern with hot laps set for 6:30.


 

General admission tickets are $30, kids 7-12 are $10, children 6 and under are free. Pit passes are $40. Kids 10 and under are $15. Advance tickets are on sale now at https://www.lawrenceburgspeedway.com/.


 

For fans who can’t make it to the track in person, the event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.


 

Five events remain on the 2024 Indiana Sprint Week calendar at Lawrenceburg Speedway on Tuesday, July 30; followed by dates at Circle City Raceway on Wednesday, July 31; the Terre Haute Action Track on Thursday, August 1; Bloomington Speedway on Friday, August 2; and the finale at Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, August 3.

 

Sprint Week Sweep! Cummins Calls His Shot & Wins at Kokomo

Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) earned his first USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victory of 2024 during Saturday night's NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing round at Kokomo Speedway. (David Nearpass Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kokomo, Indiana (July 27, 2024)………Twenty-four hours earlier, Kyle Cummins called his shot while standing in the infield following a runner-up finish at Lincoln Park Speedway.


 

In that moment, Cummins declared over the track public address system, “I told (my crew) that if we can be top-five tonight, we’re going to win at Kokomo.”


 

Channeling his inner Joe Namath, Babe Ruth and even George Zimmer of Men’s Warehouse fame, Cummins made a guarantee and backed up his declaration when the time came to deliver.


 

During Saturday night’s second round of NOS Energy Drink USAC Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing at Kokomo Speedway, Cummins raced by Brady Bacon for the lead with 13 laps remaining, and on the final lap, had to fight through a gridlock of lapped traffic with one hand while simultaneously fending off a hard-charging and red hot Logan Seavey.


 

Cummins did all that and more as he escaped every obstacle in his path throughout the final 1/4-mile to pull off his first victory of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season and the eighth of his Indiana Sprint Week career, which ranks sixth all-time, in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – Premier Recycling/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy.


 

When all was said and done, Cummins had provided Jerry Petty with his first career USAC National Sprint Car win as a car owner. The new team, formed over the offseason, has had its ups and downs at times, but through thick and thin, have been digging, and now find themselves not only as first-time USAC winners together, but also the new Indiana Sprint Week point leaders.


 

“I’ve just got to give it up for Jerry Petty of Avanti Windows & Doors,” Cummins stated. “Jerry stuck by me through this slump, and he said I’m his guy. So, for him to put the confidence into me like that even when we were struggling is huge. I kept saying I’ve run out of excuses. But now, I think we’ve finally hit on something.”


 

Cummins and company thoroughly demonstrated how they got their mojo back in a major way by sweeping the entire night of racing activity, the first ever to achieve the feat at Kokomo and the first USAC National Sprint Car driver to do the deed since Justin Grant at Tri-State Speedway in April of 2023. Cummins kicked off the night by turning the fastest lap in Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying, then charged up through the pack to win his heat race before putting the finishing touches on a perfect evening by bringing out the broom in earning his 19th career USAC National Sprint Car triumph, 35th all-time.


 

Cummins, the 2022 Kokomo Speedway track champion, credited the turnaround of the team’s fortunes to his crew’s persistence in making the car progressively more comfortable for him to drive, and ultimately, fine-tuning the No. 3p into a race winning car.

“We haven’t won all year and it’s been a rough, rough year,” Cummins explained. “To start out, I don’t think it was just luck. I think the car is as good as I thought it was. It’s comfortable; it makes me comfortable, and I can actually drive this thing how it needs to be driven.”


 

Cummins began his race in the sixth spot, but it wasn’t long until trouble befell a few in the field. On the opening lap, the car of Charles Davis Jr. (14th) suddenly lost power in turn four. C.J. Leary (18th) and Chase Stockon (24th) had nowhere to go and subsequently piled into Davis, sending Leary into a series of corkscrew flips along the front straightaway wall. All drivers were uninjured, but only Stockon was able to resume in the race.


 

On the resumption, Cummins went sixth to third in one fell swoop in turn two on lap three as he scooted past the triumvirate of Robert Ballou, Justin Grant and Briggs Danner. On lap eight, Cummins was still trending forward as he surpassed Daison Pursley for second with a turn one slider.


 

Up front, Bacon, the owner of an astonishing 10 career runner-up finishes in USAC National Sprint Car competition at Kokomo without a single victory, had pushed his lead to 3.139 seconds. That advantage was erased when Anton Hernandez (11th) spun backwards to a stop in turn one.


 

Thereafter, Cummins initially slid Bacon for the lead on lap 18 in turn two. However, at that very same moment, the yellow flag was displayed for Frankie Guerrini (14th) who spun to a stop in turn four. That reverted the activities back to the last completed lap, which placed Bacon back at the front of the field.


 

Wasting very little precious time, Cummins zipped under Bacon in turn one on the lap 18 restart to slot into the number one spot. Kevin Thomas Jr. followed suit and began challenging the top-two brigade. However, in the battle for second, Thomas attempted to make his way around the outside of Bacon in turns three and four, but real estate was scarce, and the resulting effort saw KTJ bang off the outside wall and flip several times into the turn four catch fence. Thomas walked away highly dejected but unscathed.


 

Now Seavey occupied the third position as he was vying to become the first driver since Larry Dickson in 1968 to capture five consecutive USAC National Sprint Car feature victories. By lap 24, Seavey was there and swiftly slid Bacon for second in turns one and two. Bacon fought back to retake it in turn three, but the move proved to be short lived as Seavey reloaded and fired off another turn one slider a lap later and made it stick.


 

By then, Cummins had built up a fairly comfy 1.6 second lead up front, but it became quite clear in the final laps that traffic very well could play a determining factor in deciding the winner. Entering turn three on the final lap, Cummins went to the high side with the lapped car of Jack Hoyer on the bottom. The only place for Seavey to go was to split the difference and drive right through the middle. For a brief moment, Seavey was nearly a car length ahead of Cummins while sliding up the track’s surface. The two brushed rear tire sidewalls through turn four, yet Cummins never flinched or even lifted on his final voyage to the finish line.


 

The final margin of victory between Cummins and Seavey at the line was a single car length, 0.191 seconds, which ranks among the closest of the series season. Bacon took third with Pursley fourth and Ballou fifth.


 

“I thought I heard someone down the back stretch,” Cummins revealed. “The lapped cars got a little different and it was super hard to see, so I couldn’t hit my marks where I needed to, and I was probably getting a little loose anyways. I heard him, but when I went into three, I’m like, I’m either going to win or crash. It doesn’t matter. But I think it was pretty tight.”


 

It had been a long climb for Cummins, who on this night at Kokomo, captured the seventh round of the Bubby Jones Master of Going Faster Series Presented By Spire Sports + Entertainment. Cummins had won the first 18 features of his USAC National Sprint Car career as the driver of the Rock Steady Racing No. 3R. This year with the Petty No. 3p, he had already finished second on four different occasions with the series in 2024 at Volusia, Eldora, Tri-State and Lincoln Park, but finally, their time had arrived as winners at Kokomo.


 

“With the 3R car, I was able to run it as hard as I could run it,” Cummins said. “I’ve just felt like this car was driving me. I could never force the corner like I wanted to. It was always uncomfortable, then it wouldn’t come off the corner. We’ve changed everything and we’ve finally got it to where I can hustle it pretty good. We actually stayed really, really loose because I thought it was going to be around the top. There towards the end, it was really getting slick, so I knew I was losing a little bit of speed, but we still got it done.”


 

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) came within a car length of equaling a mark that had been achieved in 56 years. However, his bid for five-straight USAC National Sprint Car wins came up a tick short following a late surge to finish second in his Abacus Racing/Honest Abe Roofing – Rockwell Security – Indy Custom Stone/DRC/Stanton Chevy.


 

Third place finisher Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.) led a race-high 17 laps, but lamented that his car wasn’t tight enough and he knew he was in trouble from the time he was lining up, and throughout the race, wasn’t able to launch off turn four the way he needed to in order to remain out front in his Dynamics, Inc./FK Indy – Davis Brothers Trucking – Tel-Star Communications/Triple X/Rider Chevy.


 

In patented Shane Cottle (Kansas, Ill.) style, the veteran raced his way from 23rd to 8th in the feature to earn J & J Trucking Hard Charger honors. It’s also important to note that Matt Westfall advanced from 26th to 9th, but provisional starters are not eligible to receive the award.


 

Chase Stockon (Fort Branch, Ind.) overcame a 33rd place qualifying time, then drove from sixth to fourth in the semi-feature to earn a starting spot into the main event lineup. For his efforts, he was named as the night's ProSource Hard Work award recipient.


 

Max Adams' (Loomis, Calif.) solid start went sour with a tie-rod issue just prior to his heat race. Relegated to the C-Main, he won that, then charged up through the pack of the semi, coming up just short of a feature starting spot. For his hard luck, Adams received a right rear Hoosier tire courtesy of Sam McGhee Motorsports.


 

It was a bounce back night for Joey Amantea who endured an upside down ride on Friday night. Utilizing a backup car on Saturday at Kokomo, he recovered to win his heat, then finished a solid 11th in the feature. For that, he earned the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 


 

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: July 27, 2024 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 37th Annual NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-12.687; 2. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-12.884; 3. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-12.887; 4. Daison Pursley, 21AZ, Team AZ-12.906; 5. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-12.966; 6. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-12.968; 7. Carson Garrett, 15, BGE Dougherty-12.986; 8. Anton Hernandez, 5, Baldwin/Fox-13.015; 9. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-13.023; 10. Ricky Lewis, 41, Stensland-13.028; 11. Max Adams, 63, F & F-13.051; 12. Shawn Westerfeld, 4J, Fischesser/Owen-13.086; 13. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-13.128; 14. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.144; 15. Weston Gorham, 71w, Gorham-13.186; 16. Rylan Gray, 06, Gray-13.189; 17. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-13.193; 18. Kale Drake, 2B, 2B Racing-13.263; 19. Matt Westfall, 33m, Marshall-13.296; 20. Scotty Weir, 47x, Eades-13.317; 21. Jack Hoyer, 57H, Hazen-13.320; 22. C.J. Leary, 15x, BGE Dougherty-13.374; 23. Frankie Guerrini, G3, F & F-13.387; 24. Mario Clouser, 6, Clouser-13.395; 25. Chance Crum, 26, Crum-13.458; 26. Jadon Rogers, 66, Amati-13.467; 27. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.472; 28. Kevin Newton, 14N, 2nd Law-13.489; 29. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-13.496; 30. Joey Amantea, 88J, JPA-13.502; 31. Matt Goodnight, 39G, Goodnight-13.550; 32. Shane Cottle, 2E, Epperson-13.580; 33. Chase Stockon, 5s, KO-13.599; 34. Braydon Cromwell, 4x, Cromwell-13.612; 35. Tyler Hewitt, 97, Hewitt-13.641; 36. Brayden Clark, 4BC, Clark-13.667; 37. Kayla Roell, 5K, KO-13.690; 38. Kyle Shipley, 4u, AJR-13.756; 39. Donny Brackett, 4B, Brackett-13.779; 40. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-13.851; 41. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-13.913; 42. Colin Grissom, 00, Grissom-13.926; 43. Sam Hinds, 71H, Hinds-13.985; 44. Aaron Davis, 11, Davis-14.183; 45. Logan Calderwood, 4c, Ford-14.250; 46. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-14.260; 47. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-14.363; 48. Austin Hawkins, 5A, Hawkins-14.438; 49. Nate Schank, 1, Schank-14.475; 50. Bryce Dues, 23D, Dues-14.907; 51. Ryan Barr, 21B, Barr-14.949; 52. Michael Daugherty, 3.14, Daugherty-NT; 53. Cody Williams, 26w, Williams-NT.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle Cummins, 2. Jack Hoyer, 3. Rylan Gray, 4. Jadon Rogers, 5. Brayden Clark, 6. Zack Pretorius, 7. Brandon Mattox, 8. Matt Goodnight, 9. Max Adams, 10. Kobe Simpson, 11. Ryan Barr. 2:11.484


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Mitchel Moles, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. Shane Cottle, 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Charles Davis Jr., 6. Shawn Westerfeld, 7. Kayla Roell, 8. Colin Grissom, 9. Troy Carey, 10. Cody Williams, 11. Carson Garrett. NT


 

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Briggs Danner, 3. Kale Drake, 4. Frankie Guerrini, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Anton Hernandez, 7. Kyle Shipley, 8. Kevin Newton, 9. Austin Hawkins, 10. Sam Hinds. 2:13.543


 

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Harley Burns, 4. Daison Pursley, 5. Mario Clouser, 6. Matt Westfall, 7. Braydon Cromwell, 8. Aaron Davis, 9. Donny Brackett, 10. Nate Schank. 2:15.287


 

STEEL-IT FIFTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Joey Amantea, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Ricky Lewis, 4. Chance Crum, 5. Scotty Weir, 6. Tyler Hewitt, 7. Weston Gorham, 8. Logan Calderwood, 9. Hunter Maddox, 10. Bryce Dues. 2:16.193


 

TRAILER ALARMS C-MAIN: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the semi) 1. Max Adams, 2. Donny Brackett, 3. Matt Goodnight, 4. Sam Hinds, 5. Colin Grissom, 6. Kevin Newton, 7. Hunter Maddox, 8. Aaron Davis, 9. Logan Calderwood, 10. Nate Schank, 11. Kobe Simpson, 12. Troy Carey, 13. Ryan Barr, 14. Austin Hawkins, 15. Bryce Dues, 16. Cody Williams. 2:24.589


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Charles Davis Jr., 2. Scotty Weir, 3. Anton Hernandez, 4. Chase Stockon, 5. Zack Pretorius, 6. Matt Westfall, 7. Kayla Roell, 8. Kyle Shipley, 9. Max Adams, 10. Brayden Clark, 11. Mario Clouser, 12. Weston Gorham, 13. Donny Brackett, 14. Shawn Westerfeld, 15. Brandon Mattox, 16. Matt Goodnight, 17. Sam Hinds, 18. Braydon Cromwell, 19. Tyler Hewitt, 20. Carson Garrett. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (6), 2. Logan Seavey (8), 3. Brady Bacon (1), 4. Daison Pursley (3), 5. Robert Ballou (5), 6. Ricky Lewis (12), 7. Briggs Danner (4), 8. Shane Cottle (23), 9. Matt Westfall (26-P), 10. Mitchel Moles (9), 11. Joey Amantea (10), 12. Harley Burns (22), 13. Rylan Gray (13), 14. Chance Crum (20), 15. Jack Hoyer (17), 16. Chase Stockon (24), 17. Anton Hernandez (11), 18. Jadon Rogers (21), 19. Carson Garrett (25-P), 20. Kale Drake (15), 21. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 22. Scotty Weir (16), 23. Frankie Guerrini (19), 24. Justin Grant (2), 25. Charles Davis Jr. (14), 26. C.J. Leary (18). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-17 Brady Bacon, Laps 18-30 Kyle Cummins.


 

**C.J. Leary flipped on lap 1 of the feature. Kevin Thomas Jr. flipped on lap 19 of the feature.


 

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Logan Seavey-1869, 2-Brady Bacon-1785, 3-C.J. Leary-1715, 4-Daison Pursley-1709, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1631, 6-Mitchel Moles-1600, 7-Robert Ballou-1572, 8-Kyle Cummins-1520, 9-Justin Grant-1514, 10-Jake Swanson-1302.


 

NOS ENERGY DRINK USAC INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PRESENTED BY HONEST ABE ROOFING POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-159, 2-Logan Seavey-156, 3-Brady Bacon-134, 4-Briggs Danner-134, 5-Daison Pursley-129, 6-Mitchel Moles-121, 7-Ricky Lewis-99, 8-C.J. Leary-87, 9-Chance Crum-85, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-52.


 

BUBBY JONES MASTER OF GOIN’ FASTER PRESENTED BY SPIRE SPORTS + ENTERTAINMENT POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-478, 2-Daison Pursley-451, 3-C.J. Leary-447, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-442, 5-Logan Seavey-438, 6-Mitchel Moles-414, 7-Kyle Cummins-404, 8-Justin Grant-386, 9-Robert Ballou-378, 10-Chase Stockon-306.


 

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Seavey-126, 2-Daison Pursley-126, 3-Robert Ballou-111, 4-C.J. Leary-99, 5-Kyle Cummins-96, 6-Justin Grant-93, 7-Joey Amantea-89, 8-Chase Stockon-81, 9-Brady Bacon-71, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-67.


 

USAC INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Shane Cottle-19, 2-Kyle Cummins-16, 3-Logan Seavey-16, 4-Jadon Rogers-16, 5-Kayla Roell-16, 6-Chance Crum-15, 7-Chase Stockon-15, 8-Kyle Shipley-14, 9-Max Adams-14, 10-Brady Bacon-13.


 

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 28, 2024 – Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Oval – 37th Annual NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Carson Garrett (12.799)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (12.687)


 

Spire Motorsports 7th Fastest Qualifier: Carson Garrett


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles


 

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

Steel-It Fifth Heat Winner: Joey Amantea


 

Trailer Alarms C-Main Winner: Max Adams


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Charles Davis Jr.


 

J & J Trucking Hard Charger: Shane Cottle (23rd to 8th)


 

ProSource Hard Work: Chase Stockon


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Joey Amantea


 

Sam McGhee Motorsports Hard Luck Award: Max Adams


 

Spire Motorsports 7th Place Feature Finisher: Briggs Danner

 

Cherry on Top! Pursley Wins Kokomo & USAC Indiana Midget Week in One Fell Swoop

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 SUNDAY JUNE 9TH...Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) closed out his 2024 USAC Indiana Midget Week championship with a feature victory on Sunday night at Kokomo Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Kokomo, Indiana (June 9, 2024)………By the time Daison Pursley was pushed off for the start of Sunday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature at Kokomo Speedway, he had already locked up his first USAC Indiana Midget Week title.


 

Despite that fact, the Locust Grove, Okla. racer had no inclination of stopping anytime soon.


 

Starting seventh on the grid, Pursley worked his way toward the front, and with five laps remaining, wrestled the lead away from Michael Pickens and fended off a swarm of others to score the feature win and the Indiana Midget Week crown in one fell swoop at the wheel of his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota.


 

In fact, Pursley is the fifth driver in the 20-year history of IMW to hit a walk-off home run, so to speak, by winning the final race of the series and the championship on the same evening, joining Bryan Clauson (2009), Brad Kuhn (2010), Christopher Bell (2013) and Rico Abreu (2015) in that club.


 

Pursley achieved his first IMW championship by a record 74-point margin, surpassing the former record of 73 posted by Kyle Larson in 2020. Incidentally, Larson earned team owner Chad Boat his first IMW title that year, and now, Pursley has delivered a second for Boat in a similarly dominant fashion.


 

The most recent driver to finish all of his IMW starts on the podium was Larson in 2020. Pursley did the same in 2024 as he racked up successive top-three results in all five events, which culminated in his second victory of the week on Sunday at Kokomo’s 1/4-mile dirt oval.


 

Across all of USAC’s national platforms, Pursley has finished on the podium in seven-straight starts, five in the midget and two in the sprint car. His latest performances have also converted his overall USAC National Midget point situation from trailing by eight at the beginning of the week to now being up 67.


 

Pursley hopes this past week is just the start of something even bigger and better by translating an Indiana Midget Week title into a USAC National Midget championship at year’s end, a feat achieved in each of the last three seasons by Buddy Kofoid (2021-22) and Logan Seavey (2023).


 

“I never thought you could put ‘championship’ by my name just because I feel like I’ve torn up a lot of stuff over the years,” Pursley said with a wry smile. “It’s cool to win the USAC Indiana Midget Week championship. Hopefully this leads to many more.”


 

Pursley was slated to start from the inside of row three for the feature vent, but even before the 24-car field could line up four-wide to give the traditional pre-race salute, a wild incident transpired as 11th starting Daniel Whitley’s car suddenly picked up speed on the front straightaway and veered through the infield before hitting a fire rescue truck head on. Whitley climbed out of the mangled wreckage under his own power, but his ride was severely damaged upon impact and was wedged under the front bumper of the truck.


 

Back to the normality of the on-track action, pole starter Jade Avedisian stepped out in front of the field to lead the opening circuit of the 30-lap main event. However, her new Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammate for the night, Michael Pickens, edged ahead on the low side of the racetrack in turn four to assume the top spot on lap two.


 

Behind Pickens, the past two night’s feature winners, Pursley and Logan Seavey, began to crawl their way forward. Pursley took second from Seavey on lap nine and the two swapped the position numerous times, unofficially, with Seavey slotting into the runner-up spot once more on lap 12.


 

“Michael got the bottom rolling pretty good early on, and once he jumped to the top, he was gone,” Pursley recalled. “Logan and I were racing hard, trying to find which exact line was faster than the other one. Logan started running the top really hard in one and two and was moving to the bottom and showed me which line was the fastest. I felt a little bit better than Logan on the top of one and two but could never clear that slider.”


 

The top-three spots held by Pickens, Seavey and Pursley remained steady throughout much of the affair until the final 10-lap stanza. Using the low line, Seavey came within a half-car length of nipping Pickens at the line for the lead. The very next lap, it was very much the same as Seavey drew even closer, yet Pickens remained ahead by the width of a whisker, .042 seconds to be precise.


 

Pickens, the savvy New Zealand racing star who was the only driver in Sunday’s field who also competed in Kokomo’s inaugural IMW event in 2006, changed course and defended the low line in turn one, thus stifling Seavey’s slider attempt. Meanwhile, third-running Pursley’s momentum was at full bore, and he used it to drive under Seavey on the back straightaway for the second spot on lap 23.


 

“Once we got to lapped traffic, I got the bottom rolling on both sides and was able to capitalize on some of their errors,” Pursley recalled. “I was able to pounce on Logan, then Logan kind of showed Michael the bottom down there, and he moved down. It was a perfect opportunity for me to get up on the wheel and get the job done.”


 

The race suddenly became an all-out war as the top-five of Pickens, Pursley, plus the emerging Cannon McIntosh and Kale Drake, along with Seavey, all ran under a blanket in the tussle for the lead. With five to go, Pursley was able to step out in front of the pack as he drove around the outside of Pickens in turn two to surge ahead to the lead for once and for good.


 

However, the furious battle at the front took a breather for a brief moment when the red flag was displayed for 21st running Blake Brannon who walked away after flipping in turn two.


 

On the lap 27 restart, nobody had anything to offer Pursley who cruised the final four laps to reign victorious by a 2.178 margin over Michael Pickens, Logan Seavey and Cannon McIntosh with Rookie Kale Drake rounding out the top-five by recording his best career series finish to date of fifth.


 

Pursley became the first three-time winner of the USAC National Midget season, surpassing his entire career series win total of two between 2019-2023. In eight USAC National Midget starts this season, Pursley has notched seven top-three results, an incredible start to the campaign for the 19-year-old upstart who is amid a career year.


 

“This thing is unbelievable,” Pursley said of his ride. “Everyone who is a part of this thing is amazing. It’s such a phenomenal piece to drive. It makes my job a lot easier just knowing that literally wherever I start I feel like I’m capable of winning. I had a bad qualifying effort tonight, but all the pressure was off of me just because I know how good this thing is. I’ve wanted to win badly here at Kokomo, and tonight, I was finally able to put it in BC victory lane.”


 

Aside from their incredible start, one must remember that the pairing between Pursley and CB Industries is a new combination for 2024. To say they’ve clicked so far is an understatement of epic proportions.


 

“Daison and I have super clicked, and it’s been a lot of fun,” CB Industries owner Chad Boat stated. “We’ve also raced a lot together, not so much in midgets, but we ran a lot of micro races together and I’ve gotten to learn more of what he wants to feel in the car. With the micro, we got to try stuff and some of that has translated into what we’re doing with the midget right now.”


 

After struggling to finishes of 14th, 18th, 14th and 25th throughout his first four outings of the week with Mounce-Stout Motorsports, Michael Pickens received a text message on Saturday night from car owner Keith Kunz asking to come see him after the race. A one-race deal was struck between the two to put him in a car for Kokomo, the same mount that won on Thursday at Lincoln Park Speedway with Emerson Axsom in the driver’s seat. Pickens (Auckland, N.Z.) paid the team off by leading a race high 24 laps before finishing second in the TRD – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota. Additionally, he earned the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 

After a rough start to his own week as well, 2019 and 2023 IMW titlist Logan Seavey had fallen to 15th in the weeklong standings. By the end of Sunday’s Kokomo finale, he had climbed all the way back to finish second in the IMW points aboard his Abacus Racing/Indy Fuel – AP Driver Development – Prime 47 – Drexel Interiors/Spike/Stanton SR-11x. With his third-place result at Kokomo, Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) equaled his best career USAC Midget result at the track, also finishing third in 2018.


 

For the second time of the week, Gavin Miller (Allentown, Pa.) earned a $100 bonus from Irvin King as the night's hardest charger. Miller, the 2023 series Rookie of the Year, went +16, advancing from his 23rd starting spot to finish seventh.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 9, 2024 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.318; 2. Michael Pickens, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.379; 3. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-13.477; 4. Hank Davis, 8, Cornell-13.508; 5. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.524; 6. Daniel Whitley, 7m, RAMCO-13.531; 7. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.560; 8. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-13.562; 9. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-13.583; 10. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-13.606; 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.606; 12. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.613; 13. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-13.626; 14. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-13.659; 15. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.673; 16. Zach Daum, 7p, RAMCO-13.706; 17. Steve Buckwalter, 25B, Buckwalter-13.727; 18. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.742; 19. Frankie Guerrini, 63, F & F-13.759; 20. Jake Andreotti, 14, 4 Kings-13.793; 21. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-13.816; 22. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.837; 23. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.843; 24. Blake Brannon, 40, Brannon-13.920; 25. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-14.009; 26. Weston Gorham, 18N, Dickerson-14.018; 27. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-14.193; 28. Tom Dunkel, 17A, Ford-14.845; 29. Robert Carson, 99K, LOK-15.032.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Drake Edwards, 4. Chase McDermand, 5. Ethan Mitchell, 6. Adam Taylor, 7. Robert Carson, 8. Steve Buckwalter.


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Cannon McIntosh, 2. Taylor Reimer, 3. Michael Pickens, 4. Jacob Denney, 5. Kyle Jones, 6. Daniel Whitley, 7. Weston Gorham.


 

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kale Drake, 2. Gavin Miller, 3. Zach Wigal, 4. Jade Avedisian, 5. Hayden Reinbold, 6. Frankie Guerrini, 7. Lance Bennett.


 

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jake Andreotti, 2. Zach Daum, 3. Blake Brannon, 4. Hank Davis, 5. Justin Grant, 6. Tom Dunkel, 7. Ryan Timms.


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Frankie Guerrini, 2. Steve Buckwalter, 3. Daniel Whitley, 4. Ryan Timms, 5. Adam Taylor, 6. Lance Bennett, 7. Tom Dunkel, 8. Weston Gorham, 9. Robert Carson.

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Daison Pursley (7), 2. Michael Pickens (5), 3. Logan Seavey (6), 4. Cannon McIntosh (9), 5. Kale Drake (8), 6. Zach Daum (18), 7. Gavin Miller (23), 8. Jacob Denney (14), 9. Chase McDermand (13), 10. Ryan Timms (16), 11. Hayden Reinbold (15), 12. Kyle Jones (17), 13. Jade Avedisian (1), 14. Zach Wigal (4), 15. Frankie Guerrini (20), 16. Jake Andreotti (10), 17. Taylor Reimer (22), 18. Justin Grant (12), 19. Hank Davis (3), 20. Ethan Mitchell (2), 21. Blake Brannon (24), 22. Steve Buckwalter (19), 23. Drake Edwards (21), 24. Daniel Whitley (11). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Jade Avedisian, Laps 2-25 Michael Pickens, Laps 26-30 Daison Pursley.


 

**Ryan Timms flipped during the fourth heat. Blake Brannon flipped on lap 27 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-589, 2-Cannon McIntosh-522, 3-Logan Seavey-509, 4-Ryan Timms-480, 5-Zach Daum-451, 6-Jacob Denney-439, 7-Justin Grant-433, 8-Gavin Miller-411, 9-Kale Drake-405, 10-Kyle Jones-352.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-388, 2-Logan Seavey-314, 3-Cannon McIntosh-313, 4-Ryan Timms-290, 5-Jacob Denney-277, 6-Justin Grant-272, 7-Gavin Miller-265, 8-Zach Daum-254, 9-Kale Drake-250, 10-Hayden Reinbold-241.


 

OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-88, 2-C.J. Leary-81, 3-Logan Seavey-77, 4-Robert Ballou-74, 5-Justin Grant-57, 6-Joey Amantea-54, 7-Brady Bacon-50, 8-Carson Garrett-50, 9-Kyle Cummins-48, 10-Matt Westfall-45.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-38, 2-Ryan Timms-38, 3-Cannon McIntosh-33, 4-Gavin Miller-30, 5-Justin Grant-29, 6-Zach Daum-27, 7-Logan Seavey-24, 8-Kale Drake-24, 9-Kyle Jones-21, 10-Lance Bennett-20.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 9, 2024 – Red Dirt Raceway – Meeker, Oklahoma – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Tuesday Night Thunder


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Daison Pursley (13.083)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Logan Seavey (13.318)


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Daison Pursley


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Kale Drake


 

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Jake Andreotti


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Frankie Guerrini


 

Irvin King Hard Charger: Gavin Miller (23rd to 7th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Michael Pickens


 

USAC Indiana Midget Week ProSource Passing Master: Daison Pursley (38)

 

Tri-State Triumph! Seavey Tallies His First of USAC Indiana Midget Week

David Nearpass

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) captured his first win of USAC Indiana Midget Week 2024 on Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Haubstadt, Indiana (June 8, 2024)………After capturing the USAC Indiana Midget Week championship a year ago, by all accounts, this hasn’t exactly been the week that Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing had envisioned.


 

Nonetheless, they were determined to make a lasting mark before the curtain fell on the five-race USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship miniseries across the Hoosier State.


 

After successive finishes of 17th (DNF), 11th and 4th in their first three IMW outings this week, Seavey wheeled his Indy Fuel – AP Driver Development – Prime 47 – Drexel Interiors/Spike/Stanton SR-11x to a memorable victory on Saturday night at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway, outdueling Kyle Cummins for his first win of the week.


 

For the two-time USAC Indiana Midget Week champion from Sutter, Calif., it was his 18th career USAC National Midget feature win, tying him for 40th on the all-time list alongside Dave Steele. However, it’s the first of his career at Tri-State, where he owns an average finish of eighth and hasn’t finished better than fifth in any of his five previous series starts.


 

It’s a place he and many others have struggled to master over the years. But now, you can forever introduce Seavey as a Tri-State Speedway winner, a feat that even he has a hard time believing.


 

“It’s so cool to be fast here, finally,” Seavey exclaimed. “I have sucked so badly here in the past. I can’t say enough about what (my crew does). It’s just insane that I won at Haubstadt; that’s really all I can say. I’m usually getting lapped here, so I’m usually trying to stay out of the way. To get up here and race with these guys is cool, and to put on a show like that is really cool. Winning at Haubstadt is awesome.”


 

Seavey began his 30-lap quest from the fourth spot in the 25-car field. Meanwhile, outside front row starting Jake Andreotti set sail at the start, leading the initial seven laps from his outside front row starting position. Third-starting Cummins made a couple early bids for the race lead on laps six and seven that were ultimately rejected when Andreotti raced back under to retake the lead for the time being.


 

On the eighth lap, the course turned when Andreotti slid over the cushion and slapped the turn four wall, allowing both Cummins and Seavey to drive past and become the new occupants of the first two positions in the running order, respectively.


 

IMW point leader Daison Pursley entered the fray and instantly became a player up front in the second half of the race, sliding his way past Seavey into second for a brief moment in turns two and four on lap 18. Nonetheless, Seavey was prepared for it, and instantly countered the move by punching back and driving back to retain second.


 

In the meantime, Cummins stretched his lead to eighth tenths of a second over Seavey with a mere eight laps remaining, but traffic was suddenly looming for the frontrunners by that point in time. That equation was soon expunged on the 23rd lap when 21st running Kyle Jones spun backwards to a stop in turn four. That reshuffled the deck and allowed for a clear track ahead for the leaders when the race resumed.


 

That is precisely when the ultimate slider fest of all slider fests commenced between Cummins and Seavey. Seavey fired his shot on the lap 23 restart when he dove to the bottom of turn one and slid up in front of Cummins to gain the lead. But Cummins had his response signed and sealed before delivering it by sliding his way back past Seavey in turns three and four to regain the upper hand.


 

It was a carbon copy situation for the pair on the 24th circuit, but on lap 25, Cummins threw a slight changeup by sliding himself on entry into turn one. This time around, Seavey went to work on the opposite end of the 1/4-mile dirt oval and successfully executed the slide job in turns three and four to take over the spot before beating Cummins to the stripe by 3/4 of a car length margin.


 

Seemingly, Seavey went to school by following in the wake of Cummins who has won an enormous amount of sprint car races over the years at Tri-State, including six in USAC-sanctioned events at the track. Ultimately, the lessons Seavey learned were more than an adequate teacher.


 

“Following a guy like him makes it easier to figure out what I need to do because he’s obviously the best here,” Seavey stated. “I just needed a good restart, and once it got going, it was like we were exactly the same pace. He’d get away a few car lengths, then I’d stick with him. I was really hoping for some traffic to make it interesting, but it was like every time we got there, a yellow would come out. I just got one great restart and that was all I needed to get racing with him and slow him down.”


 

In the process, Seavey discovered the difference between two plans of attack – the one that got him to the front in the first place and the one in which he was going to use to maintain and sustain his lead once he reached that juncture.


 

“It’s just how it is here,” Seavey acknowledged. “You can actually make a bunch of grip and a bunch of speed by running down but then once you get clear, you have to get up and make speed. I was actually defending from Daison with the slider line, and I was slowly creeping up on Kyle. That was when I kind of figured that once I got to the lead, if I could really be consistent at doing that, it would be good and that Kyle, of course, would figure out something to beat it and get back in front of me. That’s what the good guys do here, so I had to stay lower with my protection line.”


 

Moments after the lead exchange, Jade Avedisian (17th) stopped in turns three and four to necessitate the final caution of the evening, setting up a four-lap dash to the finish. Seavey withstood one last attack from Cummins on the first go around following the lap 27 restart, yet Cummins was only able to muster enough to pull even with Seavey in turn four, but soon slotted back into line behind Seavey who gradually drifted away into the distance.


 

From there onward, Seavey sped away to clinch a 0.601 second victory, his second of the USAC National Midget season, over Kyle Cummins, followed by Daison Pursley and Justin Grant with Zach Wigal rounding out the top-five.


 

Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) led a race high 18 laps before finishing as the runner-up in his Glenn Styres Racing/Ohsweken Speedway - Elite - Midwest Lawn & Landscaping/Spike/Stanton SR-11x. All in all, it was his best USAC National Midget result since scoring his one and only career series victory at Tri-State in June of 2021.


 

When finishing third is a bit of a personal disappointment, you’ve got to take solace in the fact that that’s not a bad place to be in the grand scheme of things. Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) did just that after finishing on the podium for the fourth consecutive time in four nights aboard his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota, extending his USAC Indiana Midget Week point lead to 64 over Ryan Timms.


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi-Feature winner Adam Taylor (Wheatfield, Ind.) advanced to his first USAC National Midget main event in two seasons. Not only that, but he also won it with a unique Fusion V-4 powerplant that emanated a mighty growling roar from under the hood, much different than the standard higher-pitched noise that we have been accustomed to. After all was said and done, he was the recipient of the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.


 

Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.) was forced into a backup car after his primary ride broke a rocker arm in his heat race. Starting 23rd in the feature, he raced his way back through the field to an 11th place result. The +12 netted him his second straight $100 hard charger bonus in as many nights courtesy of Irvin King.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 8, 2024 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-13.551; 2. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-13.597; 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.653; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3G, Styres-13.741; 5. Jake Andreotti, 14, 4 Kings-13.800; 6. Ricky Lewis, 54, 4 Kings-13.820; 7. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.840; 8. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.896; 9. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.902; 10. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.905; 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.949; 12. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.971; 13. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.975; 14. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-14.000; 15. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-14.006; 16. Zach Daum, 7p, RAMCO-14.073; 17. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-14.078; 18. Steve Buckwalter, 25B, Buckwalter-14.263; 19. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-14.309; 20. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-14.322; 21. Jadon Rogers, 7m, RAMCO-14.364; 22. Kevin Thomas Jr, 14s, Mounce/Stout-14.450; 23. Jeff Schindler, 8x, Schindler-14.460; 24. Michael Pickens, 54NZ, Mounce/Stout-14.552; 25. Hank Davis, 8, Cornell-14.568; 26. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-14.590; 27. Blake Brannon, 40, Brannon-14.646; 28. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-14.660; 29. Stephen Schnapf, 11, Martin-14.765; 30. Tom Dunkel, 17A, Ford-15.107; 31. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-15.149; 32. Adam Bolyard, 4, Bolyard-15.191; 33. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-15.203.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Jacob Denney, 3. Ryan Timms, 4. Kale Drake, 5. Jake Andreotti, 6. Jadon Rogers, 7. Kyle Jones, 8. Stephen Schnapf, 9. Hank Davis. NT


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Wigal, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Steve Buckwalter, 4. Jade Avedisian, 5. Ricky Lewis, 6. Ethan Mitchell, 7. Tom Dunkel, 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. NT


 

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase McDermand, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Hayden Reinbold, 4. Gavin Miller, 5.  Jeff Schindler, 6. Kayla Roell, 7. Blake Brannon, 8. Lance Bennett. 2:24.491


 

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Daum, 2. Kyle Cummins, 3. Cannon McIntosh, 4. Taylor Reimer, 5. Michael Pickens, 6. Adam Taylor, 7. Drake Edwards, 8. Adam Bolyard. 2:23.693


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Adam Taylor, 2. Ethan Mitchell, 3. Drake Edwards, 4. Kyle Jones, 5. Blake Brannon, 6. Lance Bennett, 7. Tom Dunkel, 8. Hank Davis, 9. Kayla Roell, 10. Jadon Rogers, 11. Kevin Thomas Jr., 12. Adam Bolyard, 13. Stephen Schnapf. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (4), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Daison Pursley (6), 4. Justin Grant (15), 5. Zach Wigal (5), 6. Chase McDermand (7), 7. Gavin Miller (9), 8. Jacob Denney (16), 9. Zach Daum (8), 10. Jadon Rogers (24-P), 11. Cannon McIntosh (23), 12. Ryan Timms (14), 13. Taylor Reimer (10), 14. Jake Andreotti (2), 15. Kale Drake (11), 16. Hayden Reinbold (13), 17. Steve Buckwalter (17), 18. Jade Avedisian (12), 19. Adam Taylor (18), 20. Drake Edwards (21), 21. Kyle Jones (22), 22. Ricky Lewis (1), 23. Jeff Schindler (19), 24. Ethan Mitchell (20), 25. Michael Pickens (25). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Jake Andreotti, Laps 8-25 Kyle Cummins, Laps 26-30 Logan Seavey.


 

**Kyle Jones flipped during the first heat.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-511, 2-Cannon McIntosh-453, 3-Ryan Timms-436, 4-Logan Seavey-432, 5-Justin Grant-402, 6-Zach Daum-389, 7-Jacob Denney-385, 8-Gavin Miller-352, 9-Kale Drake-339, 10-Kyle Jones-309.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-310, 2-Ryan Timms-246, 3-Cannon McIntosh-244, 4-Justin Grant-241, 5-Logan Seavey-237, 6-Jacob Denney-223, 7-Gavin Miller-206, 8-Hayden Reinbold-196, 9-Zach Daum-192, 10-Zach Wigal-191.


 

OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-82, 2-C.J. Leary-81, 3-Logan Seavey-74, 4-Robert Ballou-74, 5-Justin Grant-57, 6-Joey Amantea-54, 7-Brady Bacon-50, 8-Carson Garrett-50, 9-Kyle Cummins-48, 10-Matt Westfall-45.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-30, 2-Justin Grant-29, 3-Ryan Timms-27, 4-Cannon McIntosh-27, 5-Kale Drake-19, 6-Lance Bennett-19, 7-Logan Seavey-17, 8-Kyle Jones-16, 9-Gavin Miller-14, 10-Zach Daum-14.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 9, 2024 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jake Andreotti (13.502)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Daison Pursley (13.551)


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Daison Pursley


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Zach Wigal


 

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Chase McDermand


 

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Zach Daum


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Adam Taylor


 

Irvin King Hard Charger: Cannon McIntosh (23rd to 11th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Adam Taylor

 

  

Pursley Pounces to Bloomington Win, Takes Over USAC IMW Point Lead

DB3 Inc.

Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) captured Friday night's USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory at Bloomington Speedway, and subsequently, took over the lead of the USAC Indiana Midget Week point standings.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Bloomington, Indiana (June 7, 2024)………Although we’re merely a week into it at this point, Daison Pursley has seemingly declared June as his breakout month.


 

He made that declaration with his right foot and the steering wheel once again in a victorious performance during round three of USAC Indiana Midget Week on Friday night at Bloomington Speedway.


 

Less than a week after collecting his first career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car points-paying victory at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway on the first day of June, the Locust Grove, Okla. racer added his first career USAC Indiana Midget Week feature triumph to his accomplishments on Bloomington’s 1/4-mile red clay aboard his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota.


 

In the span of four June starts under the USAC national banner, Pursley has yet to finish off the podium. Now, he’s surged to the top of both the USAC Indiana Midget Week standings with two events remaining as well as the season-long USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship points.


 

“This car is unbelievable to drive right now,” Pursley complimented. “It makes my job so much easier. I have all the confidence in the world to start wherever I want to start in the feature, and I know we’re going to have a car capable of winning.”


 

This time around, Pursley started seventh on the grid. However, he wasted no time getting to work. By lap one, he was fifth and by lap two, he was third behind only pole starter Justin Grant and third-starting Jacob Denney.


 

“I got the bottom rolling pretty good the first handful of laps, then was able to sneak by Logan (Seavey) for fourth,” Pursley replayed. “I wanted to get by him so I could control whether I wanted to go to the top or not because Logan runs the top very, very hard. Once I got by him, I knew it was going to be okay and we were able to mind our Ps and Qs there and run a good, solid race.”


 

On lap seven, the night’s Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier, ninth-running Chase McDermand drifted over the cushion in turns one and two before stopping. Behind him, Kale Drake biked on two wheels as he too got over the curb in the same spot but kept on moving. McDermand ultimately bowed out with a 23rd place finish while Drake took home a 12th.


 

Pursley went back to the grind on the lap seven resumption. While the two frontrunners – Grant and Denney – occupied the low line, Pursley took matters up to the top side. He swung around the outside of Denney to grab second at the line by roughly an inch (.026 sec.), then set forth toward Grant and the race lead.


 

On lap 10, for the second time in the early going, USAC Indiana Midget Week point leader Ryan Timms came to a stop to bring out the caution. Restarting at the tail, Timms managed to drive back to 11th, but in the grand scheme, relinquished his IMW point lead to Pursley.


 

Grant continued to lead the way around the bottom as the 30-lap race moved past the halfway mark. Pursley found his groove by working the high side in turns one and two, then driving to the bottom of three and four right on the coattails of Grant.


 

Suddenly, on lap 16, the roles reversed in turns one and two. Grant headed for the top for the first time while Pursley saw an opening to shoot to the bottom and charge his way into the lead for certain by the time the pair reached turn three.


 

“I felt like if I kept hindering him up top and let him hear the motor eat up there, he would eventually try to start moving around,” Pursley explained of his Grant pass. “He went to the top just that one time and that was all it took. Justin didn’t have any laps up there at all. He had to jump up there on the fly. I think that just hurt him on how hard he had to run it.”


 

In the ensuing laps, Pursley opened up a 0.6 second lead over Grant as he worked lapped traffic. By lap 23, Pursley snuck past the lapped car of Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association champion Lance Bennett and raised his advantage to a full second over Grant. Being forced to run the top during the latter half of the contest due to lapped traffic occupying the low line, Pursley felt right at home after being one of the few high line takers early on.


 

“Fortunately, I was able to move around and run the top early on in the race,” Pursley recalled. “When we got to lapped traffic, it was nothing to go up there and just hammer it lap-after-lap.”


 

However, a red flag threw a wrench into those well-laid plans of victory for Pursley. With four laps remaining, 15th running Jade Avedisian flipped wildly over the banking in turns one and two, barrel-rolling five times before coming to rest after ramping over the right rear tire of Kyle Jones, whose car had slowed in front of her due to a mechanical issue. Avedisian walked away.


 

Without traffic in his path, Pursley had a comfort cruise ahead of him for the final four circuits as he closed up shop with a 1.169 second advantage and crossed under the checkered flag ahead of Justin Grant, Jacob Denney and Logan Seavey with 2023 Bloomington Indiana Midget Week winner Gavin Miller rounding out the top-five.


 

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) led the entire first half of the feature on the bottom but felt like that particular path was slowing down and was having a growing difficulty of hitting his marks. Simultaneously, he heard and felt the presence of Pursley’s ride up top, so he moved that direction and was suckered off the bottom. Still, it was Grant’s best USAC National Midget performance of the year, finishing as the runner-up in his RMS Racing/NOS Energy Drink – EnviroFab – MPV Express/Spike/Speedway Toyota.


 

Meanwhile, Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio) equaled his best result of the season with a third-place finish at Bloomington at the wheel of his Tom Malloy/Trench Shoring – Rodela Specialty Fabrication/LynK/Ed Pink Toyota. His two previous USAC  National Midget starts at Bloomington in 2022 and 2023 netted results of 13th and 8th. On this night, he rose +5 once more to finish third.


 

Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.) kept his fantastic run to start the season intact. Over his first six USAC National Midget starts this year, he's finished 1st-4th-5th-4th-4th-6th. At Bloomington, he advanced to a sixth-place finishing position after starting back in 13th to earn hard charger honors and a $100 bonus from Irvin King.


 

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) earned the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night following a quite unique experience. Danny Sullivan made the “spin & win” quite famous during the 1985 Indianapolis 500. However, it’s not often you hear of a “flip & win.” Seavey experienced that when he was involved in an opening lap mishap during the second heat race in which he got upside down along with Jade Avedisian and Taylor Reimer. Restarting at the tail of the field, Seavey drove by them all to score the victory going away.


 

Chase McDermand (Springfield, Ill.) became a first-time USAC National Midget fast qualifier on Friday night at Bloomington. The Josh Ford Motorsports team he was driving for has endured a lengthy wait to return to the top of the time trial charts in USAC National Midget competition. Sixteen years earlier, during the 2008 season opener at the defunct Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, Ariz., Josh Ford himself wheeled the family car to fast time honors.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 7, 2024 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-12.143; 2. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.183; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3G, Styres-12.216; 4. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.218; 5. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.264; 6. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-12.296; 7. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-12.310; 8. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.325; 9. Kevin Thomas Jr, 14s, Mounce/Stout-12.338; 10. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.339; 11. Kaiden Manders, 7m, RAMCO-12.342; 12. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.362; 13. Hank Davis, 8, Cornell-12.387; 14. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-12.388; 15. Jake Andreotti, 14, 4 Kings-12.415; 16. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-12.470; 17. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.473; 18. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.486; 19. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-12.487; 20. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.543; 21. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.582; 22. Zach Daum, 7p, RAMCO-12.600; 23. Michael Pickens, 54NZ, Mounce/Stout-12.670; 24. Weston Gorham, 18N, Dickerson-12.696; 25. Blake Brannon, 40, Brannon-12.726; 26. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-12.756; 27. Tom Dunkel, 17A, Ford-12.765; 28. Steve Buckwalter, 25B, Buckwalter-12.858; 29. Ricky Lewis, 54, 4 Kings-12.954; 30. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-13.133; 31. Robert Carson, 99K, LOK-13.735; 32. Justin Dickerson, 21D, Dickerson-NT.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Gavin Miller, 2. Kale Drake, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Hank Davis, 5. Chase McDermand, 6. Hayden Reinbold, 7. Blake Brannon, 8. Ricky Lewis. NT


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Ethan Mitchell, 3. Zach Wigal, 4. Kayla Roell, 5. Lance Bennett, 6. Jade Avedisian, 7. Taylor Reimer. 2:11.919


 

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jake Andreotti, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Zach Daum (#7m), 4. Michael Pickens, 5. Kyle Cummins, 6. Kyle Jones, 7. Tom Dunkel, 8. Robert Carson. 2:12.986


 

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Daison Pursley, 2. Drake Edwards, 3. Cannon McIntosh, 4. Ryan Timms, 5. Jacob Denney, 6. Steve Buckwalter, 7. Weston Gorham. NT


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Hayden Reinbold, 2. Kyle Jones, 3. Jade Avedisian, 4. Ricky Lewis, 5. Blake Brannon, 6. Steve Buckwalter, 7. Weston Gorham, 8. Tom Dunkel, 9. Taylor Reimer, 10. Robert Carson. NT


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Daison Pursley (7), 2. Justin Grant (1), 3. Jacob Denney (3), 4. Logan Seavey (5), 5. Gavin Miller (9), 6. Cannon McIntosh (13), 7. Zach Daum (#7m) (12), 8. Ethan Mitchell (2), 9. Hayden Reinbold (10), 10. Jake Andreotti (8), 11. Ryan Timms (18), 12. Kale Drake (19), 13. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 14. Michael Pickens (20), 15. Kyle Cummins (4), 16. Taylor Reimer (24-P), 17. Drake Edwards (15), 18. Kayla Roell (21), 19. Zach Wigal (14), 20. Lance Bennett (23), 21. Kyle Jones (17), 22. Jade Avedisian (16), 23. Chase McDermand (6), 24. Ricky Lewis (22), 25. Hank Davis (25). NT


 

(P) represents a provisional starter


 

**Jade Avedisian, Taylor Reimer & Logan Seavey flipped during the second heat. Jade Avedisian flipped on lap 26 of the feature.


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 Justin Grant, Laps 16-30 Daison Pursley.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-433, 2-Cannon McIntosh-406, 3-Ryan Timms-391, 4-Logan Seavey-351, 5-Zach Daum-335, 6-Justin Grant-334, 7-Jacob Denney-329, 8-Kale Drake-301, 9-Gacin Miller-295, 10-Kyle Jones-285.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-232, 2-Ryan Timms-201, 3-Cannon McIntosh-197, 4-Justin Grant-173, 5-Jacob Denney-167, 6-Hayden Reinbold-159, 7-Logan Seavey-156, 8-Emerson Axsom-151, 9-Gavin Miller-149, 10-Kale Drake-146.


 

OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-C.J. Leary-81, 2-Daison Pursley-79, 3-Robert Ballou-74, 4-Logan Seavey-71, 5-Joey Amantea-54, 6-Brady Bacon-50, 7-Carson Garrett-50, 8-Kyle Cummins-47, 9-Justin Grant-46, 10-Matt Westfall-45.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Ryan Timms-25, 2-Daison Pursley-22, 3-Kale Drake-19, 4-Justin Grant-17, 5-Cannon McIntosh-14, 6-Lance Bennett-14, 7-Michael Pickens-13, 8-Zach Daum-12, 9-Taylor Reimer-11, 10-Gavin Miller-11.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 8, 2024 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kyle Cummins (12.093)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Chase McDermand (12.143)


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Gavin Miller


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey


 

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Jake Andreotti


 

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Daison Pursley


 

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Hayden Reinbold


 

Irvin King Hard Charger: Cannon McIntosh (13th to 6th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Logan Seavey

  

Take a Bow! Axsom Wins First USAC Indiana Midget Week Race at Lincoln Park

 Rich Forman

Emerson Axsom (Franklin, Ind.) takes a bow after winning Thursday night's USAC Indiana Midget Week feature at Lincoln Park Speedway

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Putnamville, Indiana (June 6, 2024)………It’s quite evident that second place had no place in Emerson Axsom’s vocabulary during Thursday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week event at Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway.


 

In fact, second place had become a way too common gut punch for the Franklin, Indiana racer since his most recent USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship triumph nearly three years earlier in the summer of 2021.


 

Since that point, he’d finished as the runner-up on an astonishing nine different occasions with nary a victory to show for his efforts in USAC National Midget competition. In 2023 alone, Axsom finished second five times with the series, all while coming up just short of glory.


 

Even in two previous Lincoln Park midget starts, Axsom ran third in 2021 and then took second in 2023 after leading a race-high 20 laps. On Wednesday at Lawrenceburg, he led 18 of 30 laps and saw a chance at victory slip away late.


 

So, in other words, one might say Axsom was due to grab one when the tour rolled into Lincoln Park’s 5/16-mile dirt oval on Thursday. Axsom made his winning move on lap 19 of the 30-lap affair after dueling past his Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammate Ryan Timms for the lead, and ultimately, the victory in his TRD – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota.


 

For Axsom, the performance marked his first career USAC Indiana Midget Week win in what was his 16th start in the five-race series across the Hoosier landscape. Overall, it was his third career USAC National Midget feature score, an achievement he had longed to conquer for these past 1055 days since last making his victory bow to the crowd at Fairbury, Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway.


 

“I haven’t won a midget race in a long time, but I feel like I’ve run second a million times,” Axsom sighed with relief. “I’ve gotten beat on the last lap, and it seems like stuff just hasn’t gone our way since Fairbury in 2021. I’m glad to win with these guys. (Car owner) Keith (Kunz) deserves to win all the time. He puts a lot of work into it and it’s a dream to drive for him. I’m glad we finally got one.”


 

Starting fifth, Axsom actually fell back a spot to sixth at the start and maintained that position for the initial 11 laps. All the while, Wednesday night’s Lawrenceburg winner Timms had already established his prowess at the front of the field, holding down a half-straightaway lead over fellow KKM wheelman Cannon McIntosh.


 

By halfway, McIntosh had finally begun to reel his way back into contention by snipping Timms’ lead in half to seven tenths of a second. Meanwhile, Axsom began his forward progression past Chase McDermand for fifth on lap 13, then charged past Kale Drake on the back straight for fourth a lap later on the 14th circuit.


 

After 19th running Ethan Mitchell stopped in turn four to bring out the caution on lap 17, Axsom did a little tweaking, which immediately paid itself off.


 

“I tweaked on the shocks a little bit there under that yellow and the car came to life,” Axsom explained. “It’s tough to tell yourself to make some shock adjustments on these cars just because they’re so good, you don’t want to dial yourself out. I’ve been doing it long enough. I feel like I made the right choices.”


 

Axsom utilized the subsequent restart to his advantage, going topside around Daison Pursley for third in turns one and two. Then, on the other end, Axsom slid under McIntosh to pocket second off the exit of turn four. Then and there, Axsom had no more second thoughts as he zeroed in on chasing down Timms for the race lead.


 

First, Axsom slid across the nose of Timms in turn four on lap 18, but Timms had an answer for each inquiry as he dipped back underneath Axsom to retain the position. Possessing a slight half-car length lead, Timms pulled the wheels up on the back straight and suddenly found himself in a spot to slide Axsom entering turn three. Timms slid from bottom to top across turns three and four, opening up the door for Axsom to drive under and take over as the race leader by a car length at the line.


 

“I knew that the top in (turns) one and two was okay, but before that yellow came out, I was running it and I couldn’t make time,” Axsom detailed. “I figured that if I could just keep my speed up, I would be able to make moves on the other end when guys would move around because they would run bottom and top. I just decided to go where they weren’t because my stuff is so good. A lot of times, this thing can make speed where others can’t. Thank God I’m in the 67K!”


 

From there on, Axsom went unfettered to the checkered flag, prevailing by 1.318 seconds over Timms, Pursley and McIntosh with Taylor Reimer rounding out the top-five, giving the KKM stable four of the top-five spots in the final rundown.


 

Furthermore, for the second night in a row, the podium consisted of Axsom, Timms and Pursley. Twenty-four hours earlier, the top three stood in a slightly different orderly fashion featuring Timms, Pursley and Axsom.


 

By virtue of a victory and a runner-up result during the first two nights, Ryan Timms (Oklahoma City, Okla.) has climbed atop the USAC Indiana Midget Week standings by a single point over Pursley. Over his past four USAC National Midget starts in 2024, Timms has accrued an impressive stretch of 2nd, 2nd, 1st and 2nd aboard his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/JBL Audio – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota.


 

Likewise, Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) has been equally as proficient, notching four top-three finishes in five USAC National Midget starts this year. At Lincoln Park, he took third in his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota and extended his lead in the season-long USAC National Midget point standings to 10.


 

Gavin Miller (Allentown, Pa.) was the biggest mover in the feature event. The 2023 series Rookie of the Year advanced 16th to 10th in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Sound Gear – TRD – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota, which earned him a $100 bonus courtesy of Irvin King.


 

This girl is on fire! Jade Avedisian (Clovis, Calif.) was the recipient of the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night. In the second heat race, she charged from her seventh starting spot to score a dramatic victory in her Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Mobil 1 – TRD – Peelz – Curb Records/Lynk/Speedway Toyota.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 6, 2024 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Indiana – 5/16-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.705; 2. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.740; 3. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.742; 4. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.844; 5. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.844; 6. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.859; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr, 9, Mounce/Stout-12.883; 8. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.948; 9. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.954; 10. Zach Daum, 7p, RAMCO-12.973; 11. Jake Andreotti, 14, 4 Kings-12.973; 12. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.994; 13. Ricky Lewis, 54, 4 Kings-13.029; 14. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.089; 15. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.103; 16. Kaiden Manders, 7m, RAMCO-13.131; 17. Kyle Cummins, 3G, Styres-13.135; 18. Logan Prickett, 37, MKP-13.168; 19. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-13.190; 20. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-13.202; 21. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-13.241; 22. Kayla Roell, 4K, Roell-13.255; 23. Michael Pickens, 54NZ, Mounce/Stout-13.258; 24. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-13.302; 25. Hank Davis, 8, Cornell-13.314; 26. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.354; 27. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-13.461; 28. Blake Brannon, 40, Brannon-13.562; 29. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-13.823; 30. Weston Gorham, 18N, Dickerson-13.854; 31. Steve Buckwalter, 25B, Buckwalter-13.877; 32. Tom Dunkel, 17A, Ford-13.943; 33. Jeff Schindler, 8x, Schindler-13.949; 34. Adam Bolyard, 4, Bolyard-14.017; 35. Glenn Styres, 0G, Styres-14.343; 36. Robert Carson, 99K, LOK-NT; 37. Justin Dickerson, 21D, Dickerson-NT; 38. Abby Hohlbein, 27, Joyner-13.796.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle Cummins, 2. Kyle Jones, 3. Daison Pursley, 4. Jacob Denney, 5. Cannon McIntosh, 6. Ricky Lewis, 7. Hank Davis, 8. Lance Bennett, 9. Jeff Schindler. 2:14.732


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jade Avedisian, 2. Kale Drake, 3. Emerson Axsom, 4. Zach Daum, 5. Hayden Reinbold, 6. Kayla Roell, 7. Logan Prickett, 8. Weston Gorham, 9. Abby Hohlbein, 10. Adam Bolyard. 2:16.805


 

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Ryan Timms, 3. Jake Andreotti, 4. Michael Pickens, 5. Ethan Mitchell, 6. Steve Buckwalter, 7. Drake Edwards, 8. Glenn Styres, 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. 2:14.070


 

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase McDermand, 2. Zach Wigal, 3. Taylor Reimer, 4. Gavin Miller, 5. Logan Seavey, 6. Kaiden Manders, 7. Blake Brannon, 8. Tom Dunkel, 9. Robert Carson. 2:16.906


 

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Kaiden Manders, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Drake Edwards, 5. Kayla Roell, 6. Hank Davis, 7. Blake Brannon, 8. Weston Gorham, 9. Lance Bennett, 10. Logan Prickett, 11. Abby Hohlbein, 12. Jeff Schindler, 13. Glenn Styres, 14. Adam Bolyard, 15. Robert Carson, 16. Steve Buckwalter, 17. Justin Dickerson. 2:54.024


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Emerson Axsom (5), 2. Ryan Timms (4), 3. Daison Pursley (6), 4. Cannon McIntosh (2), 5. Taylor Reimer (3), 6. Chase McDermand (9), 7. Jade Avedisian (10), 8. Kale Drake (1), 9. Kyle Cummins (7), 10. Gavin Miller (16), 11. Logan Seavey (12), 12. Jacob Denney (13), 13. Hayden Reinbold (18), 14. Kyle Jones (20), 15. Justin Grant (8), 16. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 17. Jake Andreotti (15), 18. Michael Pickens (21), 19. Drake Edwards (23), 20. Zach Wigal (22), 21. Zach Daum (14), 22. Ricky Lewis (17), 23. Kaiden Manders (24), 24. Ethan Mitchell (19). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-18 Ryan Timms, Laps 19-30 Emerson Axsom.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-355, 2-Ryan Timms-345, 3-Cannon McIntosh-345, 4-Logan Seavey-277, 5-Zach Daum-277, 6-Justin Grant-260, 7-Kyle Jones-259, 8-Jacob Denney-258, 9-Kale Drake-255, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-229.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Ryan Timms-155, 2-Daison Pursley-154, 3-Emerson Axsom-151, 4-Cannon McIntosh-136, 5-Taylor Reimer-124, 6-Hayden Reinbold-107, 7-Jade Avedisian-102, 8-Kale Drake-100, 9-Justin Grant-99, 10-Jacob Denney-96.


 

OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-C.J. Leary-81, 2-Robert Ballou-74, 3-Daison Pursley-73, 4-Logan Seavey-70, 5-Joey Amantea-54, 6-Brady Bacon-50, 7-Carson Garrett-50, 8-Kyle Cummins-47, 9-Justin Grant-46, 10-Matt Westfall-45.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Ryan Timms-18, 2-Justin Grant-14, 3-Daison Pursley-12, 4-Kale Drake-12, 5-Taylor Reimer-11, 6-Jade Avedisian-11, 7-Lance Bennett-9, 8-Drake Edwards-8, 9-Emerson Axsom-7, 10-Kyle Jones-7.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 7, 2024 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Daison Pursley (12.666)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Daison Pursley (12.705)


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Jade Avedisian


 

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Justin Grant


 

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Chase McDermand


 

Irvin King Hard Charger: Gavin Miller (16th to 10th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Jade Avedisian

  

Gold Record: Timms Goes Back-To-Back at The Burg for Curb’s 200th USAC Win

Rich Forman

Ryan Timms (Oklahoma City, Okla.) captured the victory in Wednesday night's USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Lawrenceburg Speedway.

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Lawrenceburg, Indiana (June 5, 2024)………For practically the entire first half of Wednesday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Lawrenceburg Speedway, Ryan Timms wasn’t going much of anywhere.


 

That’s when the Oklahoma City, Okla. native took to the high side of the 3/8-mile and never wavered from it, thus propelling himself from the 12th starting position to the lead with four laps remaining en route to capturing his second consecutive USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory at The Burg in as many tries in as many years.


 

The 30-lap barnburner featured six lead changes, the most in a USAC Indiana Midget Week main event since the Kokomo Speedway round a decade ago in 2014. Wednesday’s race was just one shy of the all-time IMW record of seven lead changes turned in during the 2007 event at Kokomo.


 

At the wheel  of his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/JBL Audio – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota, Timms provided Mike Curb his milestone 200th career victory as USAC national entrant, the first to reach the double-century mark in series history.


 

“I had no idea that was a thing going into tonight,” Timms admitted. “But now that I know, it’s pretty awesome. Not many people get a chance to run for this amazing team. To be able to get that opportunity to win 200, it feels really good to get it done.”


 

For team principal Keith Kunz, he and Curb – along with Cary Agajanian – have been longtime partners on their racing activities dating back to the 2012 season. Since that point in time, 115 of Curb’s 200 victories have occurred in association with Kunz, bringing an immense amount of pride for Kunz to be a part of this monumental occasion.


 

“Mike’s been with us for 13 years, and we’ve won a lot of championships together,” Kunz reminisced. “Mike has supported racing from all the way back in the 1970s. Two-hundred career USAC national wins for a car owner is just phenomenal. We’re really proud to be partners with Mike Curb.”


 

Curb’s first USAC national victory as a car entrant arrived on Halloween afternoon 1999 when driver Brad Noffsinger captured a Silver Crown win at Tennessee’s Memphis Motorsports Park. Curb’s latest triumph was orchestrated by Timms who won from the outside of row six, the deepest charge to win an Indiana Midget Week race since Thomas Meseraull similarly came from 12th to win at Paragon Speedway in 2021.


 

“There early, probably up until lap 10 or 15, I really wasn’t going anywhere,” Timms acknowledged. “I was just staying where I was. I would gain a spot here and lose a spot there. If you told me on lap 10 that I’d be standing (in victory lane), I would have never believed you.”


 

The driver of Kunz/Curb-Agajanian’s No. 67 has had the hot hand of late at Lawrenceburg, winning the last three Indiana Midget Week events at the track between Buddy Kofoid (2022) and Timms (2023-24). Timms’ sixth overall USAC National Midget victory also moved him to 107th all-time alongside Spencer Bayston, Donnie Beechler, George Benson, Dana Carter, Bob Cicconi, Robby Flock, Nick Fornoro Jr., Arnie Knepper, Ricky Shelton, Mike Streicher, Dave Strickland Jr., Kevin Thomas Jr. and Roger West.


 

Outside front row starter Emerson Axsom, making his first series start of the year, had the upper hand early as he led the initial four laps on the bottom of the racing surface. Pole sitter and defending Indiana Midget Week titlist Logan Seavey then used a drive off the top rope to lead briefly on the fifth go-around.


 

On lap five, 23rd running Adam Bolyard, making his USAC debut, tipped over on his side after his left rear wheel dislodged from his car entering turns three and four. Bolyard, a veteran TQ Midget competitor, was unable to restart.


 

Meanwhile, on the race’s lap six resumption, Axsom found a drive off the bottom once again to reclaim the lead from Seavey in turns three and four. Seavey, however, kept Axsom just within his outstretched arms, and on the 11th circuit, he used a drive off the turn two banking to cut down underneath Axsom in turn three and return to the front of the pack for the second time.


 

Axsom never relented or conceded, then provided the next stage in the see-saw affair as he made the low line stick in turns one and two on the 14th lap to reassume the number one position. Soon thereafter, Daison Pursley entered the fray and took advantage of a Seavey bobble on the turn four cushion on lap 16 to swipe second. Seavey fought back to edge ahead of Pursley for the runner-up spot moments later on lap 17 but Seavey immediately began to drop off the pace before ultimately pulling into the infield, out of the race with a 17th place result.


 

Pursley now posed a challenge to Axsom for the lead and took it in his grasp on lap 23 with a deep drive under Axsom for the spot in turn three. Fifth running Kevin Thomas Jr.’s right rear tire then gave way on lap 25, scattering chunks of rubber across the front straightaway before coming to a stop in turn one, necessitating a yellow flag.


 

Standing third on the restart with six laps remaining, Timms immediately disposed of Axsom for second with a high side maneuver, then continued to attack up top for the next three laps until he charged around the low-riding Pursley for the lead off turn four on lap 27.


 

“There really wasn’t much of a curb getting into one,” Timms explained. “I figured that maybe if I entered in the fluff, it would hold me and be a lot quicker. Sure enough, it was really fast through there. I’m so happy I was able to race here again because this is one of my favorite tracks. It’s just phenomenal. The track was around the bottom early, but it ended up being really good.”


 

From there, Timms pulled away on the top shelf to score a 0.620 second victory over Daison Pursley with Emerson Axsom third, Cannon McIntosh fourth and Hayden Reinbold fifth. In the process, Timms became the first driver to win back-to-back USAC Indiana Midget Week races at Lawrenceburg since Rico Abreu captured three-straight in 2014-15-17.


 

Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) led four laps late in his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota and came away with his third top-two finish of the USAC National Midget season in just four starts thus far.


 

In his first series start of the season, Emerson Axsom (Franklin, Ind.) led a race-high 18 laps in a third place run aboard his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/TRD – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota.


 

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) earned hard charger honors courtesy of Irvin King for his 18th to sixth advancement, pocketing an extra $100 in cash for his efforts.


 

The Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night was awarded to fifth place finisher Hayden Reinbold (Gilbert, Ariz.) who earned his first career top-five result with the series in what was his 73rd career USAC National Midget feature start.


 

In Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying, Rookie Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) became a first-time fast qualifier in USAC National Midget competition, posting the top time in just his sixth career series appearance. In the feature, Wigal earned his best career series finish to date, an eighth.


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 5, 2024 – Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – 3/8-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-14.578; 2. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-14.596; 3. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.614; 4. Zach Daum, 7p, RAMCO-14.694; 5. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.746; 6. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.814; 7. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-14.835; 8. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.840; 9. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-14.872; 10. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.884; 11. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.922; 12. Jade Avedisian, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.991; 13. Taylor Reimer, 25K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.002; 14. Kyle Jones, 27x, Joyner-15.005; 15. Kaiden Manders, 7m, RAMCO-15.075; 16. Kevin Thomas Jr, 9, Mounce/Stout-15.085; 17. Jake Andreotti, 14, 4 Kings-15.146; 18. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-15.224; 19. Michael Pickens, 54NZ, Mounce/Stout-15.232; 20. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-15.288; 21. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.353; 22. Hank Davis, 8, Cornell-15.420; 23. Ricky Lewis, 54, 4 Kings-15.435; 24. Adam Bolyard, 4, Bolyard-15.836; 25. Lance Bennett, 91, Mason-16.090.


 

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Ryan Timms, 3. Zach Daum, 4. Taylor Reimer, 5. Zach Wigal, 6. Michael Pickens, 7. Lance Bennett, 8. Chase McDermand. NT


 

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Cannon McIntosh, 2. Kyle Jones, 3. Daison Pursley, 4. Jake Andreotti, 5. Emerson Axsom, 6. Justin Grant, 7. Gavin Miller, 8. Ricky Lewis. 1:59.32


 

T.J. FORGED / CAR IQ THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kaiden Manders, 2. Logan Seavey, 3. Jacob Denney, 4. Ethan Mitchell, 5. Hayden Reinbold, 6. Jade Avedisian, 7. Kale Drake, 8. Adam Bolyard. 1:59.81


 

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ryan Timms (12), 2. Daison Pursley (5), 3. Emerson Axsom (2), 4. Cannon McIntosh (7), 5. Hayden Reinbold (4), 6. Justin Grant (18), 7. Taylor Reimer (15), 8. Zach Wigal (6), 9. Jacob Denney (11), 10. Zach Daum (3), 11. Kale Drake (20), 12. Jade Avedisian (14), 13. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 14. Michael Pickens (17), 15. Gavin Miller (13), 16. Lance Bennett (23), 17. Logan Seavey (1), 18. Kyle Jones (19), 19. Kaiden Manders (8), 20. Chase McDermand (10), 21. Ricky Lewis (21), 22. Jake Andreotti (16), 23. Adam Bolyard (22), 24. Ethan Mitchell (24), 25. Hank Davis (25). NT


 

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Emerson Axsom, Lap 5 Logan Seavey, Laps 6-10 Emerson Axsom, Laps 11-13 Logan Seavey, Laps 14-22 Emerson Axsom, Laps 23-26 Daison Pursley, Laps 27-30 Ryan Timms.


 

**Adam Bolyard flipped on lap 5 of the feature.


 

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-279, 2-Cannon McIntosh-278, 3-Ryan Timms-267, 4-Zach Daum-249, 5-Logan Seavey-232, 6-Justin Grant-219, 7-Kyle Jones-217, 8-Jacob Denney-214, 9-Kale Drake-198, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-185.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-78, 2-Ryan Timms-77, 3-Emerson Axsom-70, 4-Cannon McIntosh-69, 5-Hayden Reinbold-66, 6-Zach Wigal-59, 7-Justin Grant-58, 8-Taylor Reimer-57, 9-Jacob Denney-52, 10-Zach Daum-52.


 

OVERALL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-C.J. Leary-81, 2-Robert Ballou-74, 3-Daison Pursley-70, 4-Logan Seavey-69, 5-Joey Amantea-54, 6-Brady Bacon-50, 7-Carson Garrett-50, 8-Kyle Cummins-47, 9-Justin Grant-46, 10-Matt Westfall-45.


 

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-13, 2-Ryan Timms-12, 3-Kale Drake-9, 4-Taylor Reimer-8, 5-Lance Bennett-8, 6-Daison Pursley-6, 7-Cannon McIntosh-6, 8-Michael Pickens-4, 9-Jacob Denney-3, 10-Logan Seavey-3.


 

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 6, 2024 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Indiana – 5/16-Mile Dirt Oval – 20th Annual USAC Indiana Midget Week


 


 

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:


 

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Zach Daum (14.661)


 

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Zach Wigal (14.578)


 

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh


 

T.J. Forged / Car IQ Third Heat Winner: Kaiden Manders


 

Irvin King Hard Charger: Justin Grant (18th to 6th)


 

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Hayden Reinbold

 

  

Tuesday's Circle City USAC IMW Opener Rained Out

Just before the storm hit on Tuesday night at Circle City Raceway.

Indianapolis, Indiana (June 4, 2024)………Afternoon showers have forced cancellation of Tuesday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis for June 4.


 

The now five-race miniseries for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will resume on Wednesday night, June 5, at southeastern Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway.


 

On Wednesday at Lawrenceburg, the pits open at 2pm Eastern with the front gates opening at 4:30pm and hot laps at 6pm followed by qualifying and racing. Adult general admission tickets are $30, kids 7-12 are $8 and children 6-under are free. Pit passes are $40 and backstretch passes are $15. Kelsey Chevrolet Sprint Cars will also be on the card.


 

The 20th edition of USAC Indiana Midget Week continues each night through Sunday. Lawrenceburg Speedway is next on Wednesday, June 5 followed by Lincoln Park Speedway’s round on for Thursday, June 6. Bloomington Speedway begins the weekend portion of the schedule on Friday, June 7 while Tri-State Speedway hosts the penultimate round on Saturday, June 8. Kokomo Speedway will serve as the finale on Sunday, June 9.

Christmas in June! USAC Indiana Midget Week Storylines for 2024

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media


 

Speedway, Indiana (June 3, 2024)………The first week of June in the Hoosier state is reserved for the biggest slate of USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship racing action on the planet!


 

The 20th edition of USAC Indiana Midget Week presents six events at six dirt tracks across six consecutive nights between June 4-9.


 

For the first time in its young history, Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis launches the frenzied week of racing on Tuesday, June 4. Lawrenceburg Speedway follows up on Wednesday, June 5 with Lincoln Park Speedway’s round set for Thursday, June 6.


 

Bloomington Speedway begins the weekend portion of the schedule on Friday, June 7 while Tri-State Speedway hosts the penultimate round on Saturday, June 8. Kokomo Speedway will serve as the finale on Sunday, June 9.


 

USAC Indiana Midget Week is the hottest ticket in town with sprint cars also serving as the support class each and every night. A plethora of drivers will be jumping back-and-forth between the two machines throughout the night in double-duty mode.


 

The Indiana Midget Week champion will earn a prize of $6,000 for their efforts in a week that truly tests the physical, mental and mechanical abilities of each driver, crew and machine.


 

Let’s dig into it! Here are six storylines we’re watching entering USAC Indiana Midget Week 2024.


 


 

26 FULL-TIMERS CHASING THE TITLE


 

Twenty-six drivers are set for full-time duties at USAC Indiana Midget Week, the most in the 20-year history of the event.


 

Among the full-timers are defending series champion Logan Seavey, plus past Indiana Midget Week winners Michael Pickens (3 wins) and Jacob Denney (2) as well Steve Buckwalter, Zach Daum, Justin Grant, Cannon McIntosh, Gavin Miller, Kevin Thomas Jr. and Ryan Timms, all of which have exactly one career IMW victory.


 

Among the Indiana Midget Week returnees are Chase McDermand, Jake Andreotti, Hayden Reinbold, Ethan Mitchell, Taylor Reimer, Kyle Jones, Blake Brannon, Jade Avedisian and Daison Pursley, all of whom are seeking a first career Indiana Midget Week victory.


 

First-time Indiana Midget Week participants in 2024 include Adam Bolyard, Kaiden Manders, Hank Davis, Ricky Lewis, Zach Wigal, Lance Bennett and Kale Drake.


 


 

SEAVEY ON DEFENSE


 

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) enters USAC Indiana Midget Week as the defending champion of the event and is seeking to become just the fourth back-to-back titlist in IMW history.


 

Shane Cottle scored the first two Indiana Midget Week crowns in 2005-06. Rico Abreu followed suit in 2014-15 while Buddy Kofoid was the most recent to do so in 2021-22.


 

Furthermore, Seavey is also looking to equal an all-time Indiana Midget Week record. As a two-time IMW champ in 2019 and 2023, a third title is on the line this coming week. The late, great Bryan Clauson is the only driver to capture three career Indiana Midget Week titles, doing so in 2009-11-16.


 

Seavey also enters IMW as the most recent USAC National Midget winner on May 19 at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex.


 


 

CANNON LEADS THE PATH


 

Coming into Indiana Midget Week, Cannon McIntosh leads the USAC National Midget season standings. In what has already been a bounce back season for the Bixby, Okla. native, McIntosh picked up a win in the season opener on May 17 at the Belleville (Kan.) Short Track.


 

Throughout the history of IMW, just four drivers have entered as the USAC National point leader and went on to win the Indiana Midget Week championship: Jerry Coons Jr. (2007), Darren Hagen (2012), Rico Abreu (2014) and Buddy Kofoid (2021).


 

If McIntosh is able to collect this year’s IMW title, the odds say he’s in good company. All four of the aforementioned drivers also went on to claim the USAC National Midget championship later that same year.


 

Additionally, each of the last three Indiana Midget Week champs have also captured the USAC National Midget title in the same season: Kofoid (2021-22) and Seavey (2023).


 


 

PICKENS & A GRINNIN’


 

Out of all this year’s expected full-time participants, no driver owns more Indiana Midget Week feature wins than Michael Pickens .


 

The Auckland, N.Z. star returns to the “States” as a driver for Mounce-Stout Motorsports after having last competed at Indiana Midget Week five years ago in 2019!


 

Pickens has been a stalwart of the event since year one, debuting with a third-place finish at Gas City in 2005. Since then, he’s made 33 IMW starts and notched three wins: Kokomo 2011, Gas City in 2017 and Lincoln Park in 2017.


 

In 2017, he finished a career-best third in the final IMW point standings.


 


 

MASTERFUL INDIANA MIDGET WEEK DEBUTS


 

Gavin Miller (Allentown, Pa.) picked up his first career USAC National Midget feature victory during the Indiana Midget Week round at Bloomington Speedway in 2023.


 

Several others are vying to join Miller’s company by notching a first USAC win during the busiest week of the season, a feat which has been accomplished 14 times since 2015.


 

Among the group winning their first career USAC National Midget features during IMW are Johnny Rodriguez (Terre Haute 2005), Shane Cottle (Gas City 2006), Brady Bacon (Kokomo 2006), Steve Buckwalter (Gas City 2010), Kyle Larson (Bloomington 2011), Christopher Bell (Lincoln Park 2013), Tanner Thorson (Gas City 2015), Spencer Bayston (Gas City 2016), Tyler Courtney (Montpelier 2017), Chris Windom (Lawrenceburg 2019), Kyle Cummins (Tri-State 2021), Corey Day (Circle City 2021), Jacob Denney (Lincoln Park 2022) and Gavin Miller (Bloomington 2023).


 

In that group of hopefuls this year are Chase McDermand, Jake Andreotti, Hayden Reinbold, Ethan Mitchell, Taylor Reimer, Kyle Jones, Blake Brannon, Jade Avedisian, Daison Pursley, Adam Bolyard, Kaiden Manders, Hank Davis, Ricky Lewis, Zach Wigal, Lance Bennett and Kale Drake.


 


 

HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY, INDIANA MIDGET WEEK


 

In 2024, USAC is celebrating its 20th year of Indiana Midget Week. Since its 2005 debut, 90 USAC Indiana Midget Week events have been held across the Hoosier State.


 

USAC Hall of Fame inductee Jay Drake won the inaugural feature race held at Lawrenceburg Speedway on August 18, 2005. Since then, 231 different drivers have started an Indiana Midget Week feature.


 

Bryan Clauson owns the most Indiana Midget Week championships with three in 2009-11-16. Bryan Clauson and Kyle Larson are the winningest drivers in Indiana Midget Week history with nine apiece.


 

Larson and Rico Abreu have clocked in with the most top qualifying times in IMW history with nine each. Jerry Coons Jr. has recorded the most career IMW feature starts (46) and top-10 results (42). Meanwhile, Clauson collected 28 top-fives in his IMW career, which still ranks number one all-time.


 


 

RACE DETAILS


 

For more information on each event, visit the “Schedule/Results” tab on www.usacracing.com, then click on “Midgets” and “National.” From there, click on “Event Info” next to the corresponding event on the schedule.


 

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


 


 

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2024 USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FULL-TIME DRIVER ROSTER (26)


 

2 Justin Grant (RMS Racing)


 

4 Adam Bolyard (Adam Bolyard)


 

7m Kaiden Manders (RAMCO Speed Group)


 

7p Zach Daum (RAMCO Speed Group)


 

8 Hank Davis (Cornell Racing Stables)


 

8w Chase McDermand (Josh Ford Motorsports)


 

9 Kevin Thomas Jr. (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)


 

14 Jake Andreotti (4 Kings Racing)


 

19AZ Hayden Reinbold (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)


 

19m Ethan Mitchell (Bundy Built Motorsports)


 

25 Jacob Denney (Tom Malloy)


 

25B Steve Buckwalter (Brian Buckwalter)


 

25K Taylor Reimer (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

27x Kyle Jones (Joyner Motorsports)


 

40 Blake Brannon (Blake Brannon)


 

54 Ricky Lewis (4 Kings Racing)


 

54NZ Michael Pickens (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)


 

57 Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing)


 

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


 

71 Jade Avedisian (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

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


 

86 Daison Pursley (CB Industries)


 

89 Zach Wigal (CB Industries)


 

91 Lance Bennett (Cappy Mason)


 

97 Gavin Miller (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)


 

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


 


 

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Cannon McIntosh-209, 2-Daison Pursley-201, 3-Zach Daum-197, 4-Logan Seavey-195, 5-Ryan Timms-190, 6-Kyle Jones-183, 7-Jacob Denney-162, 8-Justin Grant-161, 9-Ashton Torgerson-158, 10-Kale Drake-155.


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK CHAMPIONS


 

2005: Shane Cottle


 

2006: Shane Cottle


 

2007: Jerry Coons Jr.


 

2008: Tracy Hines


 

2009: Bryan Clauson


 

2010: Tracy Hines & Brad Kuhn


 

2011: Bryan Clauson


 

2012: Darren Hagen


 

2013: Christopher Bell


 

2014: Rico Abreu


 

2015: Rico Abreu


 

2016: Bryan Clauson


 

2017: Shane Golobic


 

2018: Spencer Bayston


 

2019: Logan Seavey


 

2020: Kyle Larson


 

2021: Buddy Kofoid


 

2022: Buddy Kofoid


 

2023: Logan Seavey


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FEATURE WINS: (2005-2023)


 

9-Bryan Clauson & Kyle Larson


 

5-Christopher Bell, Buddy Kofoid & Tanner Thorson


 

4-Rico Abreu


 

3-Spencer Bayston, Shane Cottle, Tyler Courtney, Darren Hagen, Brad Kuhn, Michael Pickens, Logan Seavey & Chris Windom


 

2-Jerry Coons Jr., Jacob Denney, Thomas Meseraull, Davey Ray & Brad Sweet


 

1-Brady Bacon, Chad Boat, Steve Buckwalter, Kyle Cummins, Dave Darland, Zach Daum, Corey Day, Jay Drake, Justin Grant, Tracy Hines, Levi Jones, Cannon McIntosh, Gavin Miller, Johnny Rodriguez, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Kevin Swindell, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Ryan Timms


 


 

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WINNERS BY TRACK (2005-2023)


 

CIRCLE CITY RACEWAY: 2021-Corey Day, 2023-Buddy Kofoid


 

LAWRENCEBURG SPEEDWAY: 2005-Jay Drake, 2007-Kevin Swindell, 2008-Brad Sweet, 2009-Bryan Clauson, 2010-Tracy Hines, 2011-Bryan Clauson, 2012-Darren Hagen, 2013-Zach Daum, 2014-Rico Abreu, 2015-Rico Abreu, 2017-Rico Abreu, 2018-Spencer Bayston, 2019-Chris Windom, 2020-Kyle Larson, 2021-Logan Seavey, 2022-Buddy Kofoid, 2023-Ryan Timms


 

LINCOLN PARK SPEEDWAY: 2010-Brad Sweet, 2011-Bryan Clauson, 2012-Bryan Clauson, 2013-Christopher Bell, 2014-Dave Darland, 2015-Bryan Clauson, 2016-Tanner Thorson, 2017-Michael Pickens, 2018-Chad Boat, 2019-Tanner Thorson, 2020-Kyle Larson, 2020-Chris Windom, 2021-Tanner Thorson, 2022-Jacob Denney, 2023-Buddy Kofoid


 

BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY: 2008-Davey Ray, 2009-Brad Kuhn, 2010-Shane Cottle, 2011-Kyle Larson, 2012-Levi Jones, 2013-Bryan Clauson, 2014-Christopher Bell, 2015-Christopher Bell, 2016-Christopher Bell, 2017-Tyler Courtney, 2019-Tyler Courtney, 2021-Buddy Kofoid, 2022-Buddy Kofoid, 2023-Gavin Miller


 

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY: 2021-Kyle Cummins, 2022-Thomas Meseraull, 2023-Jacob Denney


 

KOKOMO SPEEDWAY: 2006-Brady Bacon, 2007-Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 2008-Bryan Clauson, 2009-Bryan Clauson, 2010-Brad Kuhn, 2011-Michael Pickens, 2012-Kyle Larson, 2013-Christopher Bell, 2014-Bryan Clauson, 2016-Rico Abreu, 2017-Spencer Bayston, 2018-Kevin Thomas Jr., 2020-Tanner Thorson, 2021-Chris Windom, 2022-Cannon McIntosh


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FAST QUALIFIERS


 

9-Rico Abreu & Kyle Larson


 

5-Bryan Clauson


 

4-Brady Bacon, Justin Grant & Chris Windom


 

3-Chad Boat, Steve Buckwalter, Logan Seavey, Brad Sweet & Tanner Thorson


 

2-Christopher Bell, Jerry Coons Jr., Corey Day, Bobby East, Shane Golobic, Tracy Hines, Buddy Kofoid, Ethan Mitchell & Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

1-Jade Avedisian, Spencer Bayston, Tanner Carrick, Tyler Courtney, Chance Crum, Dave Darland, Zach Daum, Jacob Denney, Darren Hagen, Jesse Love, Cannon McIntosh, Thomas Meseraull, Michael Pickens, Chase Randall & Danny Stratton


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK TOP-5 FEATURE FINISHES


 

28-Bryan Clauson


 

22-Tracy Hines


 

21-Jerry Coons Jr. & Kyle Larson


 

18-Chris Windom


 

17-Tanner Thorson


 

16-Justin Grant & Buddy Kofoid


 

15-Rico Abreu


 

14-Brad Kuhn & Logan Seavey


 

13-Darren Hagen


 

12-Brady Bacon, Christopher Bell & Tyler Courtney


 

10-Spencer Bayston, Shane Cottle & Brad Sweet


 

9-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

8-Dave Darland


 

7-Emerson Axsom, Cannon McIntosh & Michael Pickens


 

6-Chad Boat, Steve Buckwalter, Zach Daum & Thomas Meseraull


 

5-Kyle Cummins, Jacob Denney, Bobby East, Shane Golobic, Davey Ray & Bryant Wiedeman


 

4-Levi Jones, Jason McDougal, Kevin Swindell & Cole Whitt


 

3-Caleb Armstrong, Brenham Crouch, Brad Mosen, Daison Pursley, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Tyler Thomas & Josh Wise


 

2-Alex Bright, Kaylee Bryson, Tanner Carrick, Corey Day, Jay Drake, Brad Loyet, Chase McDermand, Mitchel Moles, Jeremy Warren & Zeb Wise


 

1-Bubba Altig, Jade Avedisian, Brent Beauchamp, Clinton Boyles, Chance Crum, Andrew Felker, Brian Gerster, Ryan Kaplan, Gavin Miller, Ethan Mitchell, Jace Park, Johnny Rodriguez, Gio Scelzi, Hunter Schuerenberg, Holly Shelton, Jon Stanbrough, Chase Stockon, Gary Taylor, Ryan Timms & Dillon Welch


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK TOP-10 FEATURE FINISHES


 

42-Jerry Coons Jr.


 

35-Tracy Hines


 

34-Bryan Clauson


 

29-Chris Windom


 

28-Tanner Thorson


 

27-Brady Bacon


 

26-Rico Abreu & Justin Grant


 

24-Darren Hagen & Brad Kuhn


 

23-Logan Seavey


 

22-Zach Daum, Buddy Kofoid, Kyle Larson & Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

20-Michael Pickens


 

17-Steve Buckwalter, Dave Darland & Thomas Meseraull


 

16-Spencer Bayston, Chad Boat & Shane Cottle


 

15-Tyler Courtney & Cannon McIntosh


 

14-Shane Golobic


 

13-Bobby East


 

12-Christopher Bell & Jason McDougal


 

11-Brad Sweet


 

10-Caleb Armstrong, Levi Jones, Daison Pursley & Tyler Thomas


 

9-Bryant Wiedeman


 

8-Emerson Axsom, Kaylee Bryson, Tanner Carrick, Kyle Cummins & Brad Loyet


 

7-Jacob Denney & Davey Ray


 

6-Alex Bright, Andrew Felker, Brad Mosen, Taylor Reimer & Ryan Robinson


 

5-Jade Avedisian, Brent Beauchamp, Corey Day, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Cole Whitt, Josh Wise & Zeb Wise


 

4-Brenham Crouch, Carson Macedo, Gavin Miller, Chase Stockon & Kevin Swindell


 

3-Clinton Boyles, Cole Carter, Shane Hmiel, Chase McDermand, Kody Swanson & Ryan Timms


 

2-Bubba Altig, Chase Barber, Jay Drake, Damion Gardner, Ronnie Gardner, Brian Gerster, Shane Hollingsworth, Darren Jenkins, Chase Randall, Johnny Rodriguez, Holly Shelton, Matt Smith, Gary Taylor, Jeremy Warren & Hayden Williams


 

1-Garrett Aitken, Jake Andreotti, Dakoda Armstrong, Teddy Beach, Ryan Bernal, Cole Bodine, Austin Brown, Brian Carber, Henry Clarke, Jesse Colwell, Colten Cottle, Chance Crum, Ryan Durst, Blake Fitzpatrick, Josh Ford, Alfred Galedrige, Dominic Gorden, Chuck Gurney Jr., Scott Hatton, Jonathan Hendrick, A.J. Anderson, A.J. Fike, Chase Johnson, Ryan Kaplan, Tucker Klaasmeyer, Trevor Kobylarz, Andrew Layser, Brock Maskovich, Ethan Mitchell, Mat Neely, Jake Neuman, Jace Park, Justin Peck, Parker Price-Miller, Jimi Quin, Gio Scelzi, Hunter Schuerenberg, Matt Sherrell, Jake Slotten, Nathan Smee, Jon Stanbrough, Danny Stratton, Brandon Wagner, Gage Walker, Dillon Welch, Daniel Whitley & John Wolfe


 


 

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ALL-TIME USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FEATURE STARTS


 

64-Jerry Coons Jr.


 

51-Zach Daum


 

46-Brady Bacon & Tanner Thorson


 

45-Justin Grant, Thomas Meseraull & Chris Windom


 

44-Dave Darland


 

42-Bryan Clauson


 

40-Steve Buckwalter, Darren Hagen & Tracy Hines


 

38-Kevin Thomas Jr.


 

36-Brad Kuhn


 

35-Rico Abreu


 

33-Michael Pickens


 

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