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USAC RACING ANNOUNCES DON HAWK

AS NEW SILVER CROWN SERIES DIRECTOR

Indianapolis, IN – January 6, 2025 — The United States Auto Club (USAC) Racing is pleased to announce that Don Hawk has been appointed as the new Series Director for the USAC Silver Crown Division, effective immediately.

Hawk brings a wealth of experience, leadership, and a deep passion for motorsports that aligns perfectly with USAC’s mission of fostering competitive and exciting racing while upholding the traditions of this prestigious series.

With over 33 years of experience in motorsports management and event operations, Hawk has earned a reputation for building strong relationships with teams, drivers, and partners, while driving innovation and operational excellence.

His extensive background includes a role as President of Dale Earnhardt Inc., Director of Regional Racing Development for NASCAR, Chief Racing Development Officer and Executive Vice President for Speedway Motorsports Inc., and most recently, the CEO of SRX, which positions him well to lead the Silver Crown Division into its next chapter of growth and success.

“I am honored to join USAC Racing as the Series Director for the Silver Crown Division,” said Hawk. “This series has a rich heritage, incredible talent and dedicated fans. I look forward to working alongside the teams, officials, Technical Director Tommie Estes and everyone in the USAC family to enhance the competition and continue to build the excitement that makes Silver Crown racing so special.”

Kevin Miller, President and CEO of USAC Racing, expressed confidence in Hawk’s ability to lead the division. “Don’s experience, integrity, and forward-thinking approach make him an excellent fit for this role. We are thrilled to have him on board and are excited about the leadership he will bring to one of the most iconic divisions in motorsports.”

The USAC Silver Crown Series remains a cornerstone of American open-wheel racing, known for its long-distance events on both paved and dirt tracks. As Series Director, Hawk will oversee all aspects of the division’s operations, working closely with competitors, promoters, and sponsors to ensure continued growth and success.

The 2025 Silver Crown season promises to deliver more action, more stories, and more unforgettable moments as the series continues its proud tradition of thrilling motorsports fans across the country.

For more information about USAC Racing and the Silver Crown Division, visit www.usacracing.com.

2025 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS

USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SCHEDULE RELEASED

By: Lance Jennings

Speedway, Indiana (December 21, 2024)………Series Director Tony Jones has announced the upcoming schedule for the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series. The traditional 410s will feature twenty-four (24) events at six (6) different racetracks in 2025. The highly anticipated season will open at Perris Auto Speedway on February 15th and the champion will be crowned at the Perris finale on November 8th.

Located on the Lake Perris Fairgrounds, Perris Auto Speedway will host twelve races on the schedule. Promoted by Don Kazarian, “America’s Premier Dirt Track” will showcase the USAC/CRA Sprints on February 15th, March 1st, April 5th, April 26th, May 24th “Salute to Indy,” June 21st, July 19th, August 16th, September 6th, September 27th, October 18th, and November 8th. Ten-time champion and newly announced inductee to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, “The Demon” Damion Gardner leads all series drivers with 51 “home track wins” on the 1/2-mile oval and Nic Faas set the 1-lap track record of 15.833 seconds on February 25, 2012. Perris Auto Speedway is located at 18700 Lake Perris Drive in Perris, California and for more information, visit www.perrisautospeedway.com or call 951.940.0134.

Promoted by Ron Meyer, Mohave Valley Raceway has two races on the calendar. The non-winged 410s will headline the action at the 1/3-mile oval on February 22nd and October 4th. Ricky Lewis and 2023 Champion, “The Pride of Garden Grove” Brody Roa lead all drivers with two Mohave Valley wins and “The Cadillac” Cody Williams set the 1-lap track record of 13.923 seconds on April 1, 2023. Mohave Valley Raceway is located at 2750 Laguna Road in Mohave Valley, Arizona and for more details, visit www.mohavevalleyraceway.com or call 928.346.3000.

Located at the Imperial Valley Expo, Imperial Valley Raceway will feature two events during the campaign. The USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will tackle the 1/4-mile oval for a special return on March 14th and 15th. Newly crowned Rookie of the Year, David Gasper and Ricky Lewis topped last season’s shows at the historic facility and Gasper established the 1-lap track record of 11.770 seconds on October 19th. Imperial Valley Raceway is located at 200 East 2nd Street in Imperial, California and for more information, visit the track’s social media at www.facebook.com/IVRaceway.

Located at the Pinal County Fairgrounds, Central Arizona Raceway has four dates on the schedule. After rain cancelled events in 2023, the USAC/CRA sprints will make their debut on the high-banked 3/8-mile oval on April 11th. The series will also be showcased on April 12th, and the “58th Western World Championships” on October 24th and 25th with the USAC National Sprint Cars. Central Arizona Raceway is located at 512 South Eleven Mile Corner Road in Casa Grande, Arizona and for more details, visit the track’s website at www.centralaazraceway.com or call 602.292.7607.

The popular Santa Maria Speedway will host two nights of action on the 2025 calendar. The series will headline the card at the 1/3-mile oval on May 3rd and July 5th. Former champions, “The Demon” Damion Gardner and “The Pride of Garden Grove” Brody Roa lead all USAC/CRA drivers with four wins at “The West’s Best Short Track” and “Bullet” Blake Miller set the 1-lap track record of 13.230 seconds on June 14, 2008. Santa Maria Speedway is located at 1900 Hutton Road in Nipomo, California and for more information, visit the track’s website at www.santamariaspeedway.net or call 310.493.4900.

Located on the Napa County Fairgrounds, the scenic Calistoga Speedway will reopen and has returned to the USAC/CRA schedule in 2025. Promoted by Tommy Hunt and HMC Promotions, the “Louie Vermeil Classic” will feature the non-winged USAC/CRA and winged King of the West NARC Sprint Cars on October 30th and 31st. Rico Abreu, Ryan Bernal, and “The Demon” Damion Gardner are tied with three wins at the big 1/2-mile oval and Bernal set the track record of 18.869 on September 3, 2017. Calistoga Speedway is located at 1435 North Oak Street in Calistoga, California and for more details, call 916.773.7225.

The 2024 Awards Banquet for the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will be held on Saturday, February 1st at Indian Hills Golf Club in Riverside, California. For information on the Awards Banquet and the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series, visit the United States Auto Club (USAC) website at www.usacracing.com and the USAC/CRA social media on Facebook, X (Twitter), and Instagram pages.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR CHAMPIONS: 2004-Rip Williams, 2005-Damion Gardner, 2006-Cory Kruseman, 2007-Tony Jones, 2008-Mike Spencer, 2009-Mike Spencer, 2010-Mike Spencer, 2011-Mike Spencer, 2012-Mike Spencer, 2013-Damion Gardner, 2014-Damion Gardner, 2015-Damion Gardner, 2016-Damion Gardner, 2017-Damion Gardner, 2018-Damion Gardner, 2019-Damion Gardner, 2020-NO AWARD, 2021-Damion Gardner, 2022-Damion Gardner, 2023-Brody Roa, 2024-R.J. Johnson.

2025 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE

February 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

February 22: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ

March 1: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA

March 15: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA

April 5: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

April 11: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ

April 12: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ

April 26: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

May 3: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA

May 24: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)

June 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

July 5: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA

July 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

August 16: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

August 30: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)

August 31: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)

September 6: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

September 27: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

October 4: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ

October 18: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World)

October 25: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World)

November 8: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA

* = Co-Sanctioned event with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship

This schedule is subject to change.

REINBOLD A FULL-TIMER

IN USAC SPRINTS & MIDGETS FOR 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (December 19, 2024)………Hayden Reinbold is doubling up during the 2025 season by going full-time with both the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship.

In both divisions, Reinbold (Gilbert, Ariz.) will be at the wheel of his family-owned Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports machine as a Rookie of the Year contender on the 50-race sprint car tour and returns for his fifth year on the 29-race midget campaign.

With the midgets, Reinbold will be facing stiff competition where he has tallied 84 career feature starts. In sprint cars, he’s a relative newcomer, having debuted in 2024 with seven USAC national starts among a handful of local shows in Indiana.

“I’m super excited,” Reinbold exclaimed when looking ahead to his 2025 plans. “I’ve been driving midgets for the last five years, learned a ton and had a blast. Getting to add sprint cars next year is exciting and I’m thankful for the opportunity.”

While the high majority of today’s competitors began their racing careers in quarter midgets, micros, etc., etc., the now 20-year-old Reinbold began racing three months after his 16th birthday in a USAC National Midget event at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port City Raceway. That’s not just midgets. That was his first race of any kind!

Jumping right into top-flight competition is no easy chore, but Reinbold has done it before, time and time again. But his trial by fire has led to this point in his career, and now he anticipates his yearly racing schedule to nearly triple with full slates of midget and sprint car racing on his plate.

“The talent level,” Reinbold noted regarding the biggest challenge he believes he’ll face in the coming season. “Racing against veterans is going to be super challenging. The guys who’ve been doing it for a long time are really good.”

On the sprint car side, he’ll have a veteran presence alongside him in a two-car team effort. Mitchel Moles has been with Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports since 2022 and is coming off his best year on the trail aboard the team’s AME Electrical – Mesilla Valley Transportation sponsored machines.

“It helps a ton to race with a super talented racecar driver like Mitchel Moles,” Reinbold praised. “He’s super-fast and I’m always learning from him. He’s really helpful, lets me know his thoughts and what I can do better.”

Now that Reinbold has gotten to experience both spectrums of the USAC Sprint Car and Midget world, he’ll now get his cup full of it. Bouncing back and forth between the two disciplines often throughout the year requires versatility and the ability to adapt to a variety of situations. Ready for the challenge, Reinbold noted the primary differences in experiences.

“In a midget, I feel like you’re turning left a lot more, and it’s more tighter of a racecar,” Reinbold noted. “In the sprint car, it’s like you’re always turning right and it’s freer. A midget, you can drive pretty hard, and a sprint car definitely has a lot more horsepower and a lot more speed, so you just have to be very careful and thoughtful with your throttle foot. The sprint car has been a lot of fun and it’s fun to learn a new car. I’ve been having a blast running it.”

Reinbold has emerged as the leading contender to pick up USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year honors for 2025. His top midget accolades include a 2023 Xtreme Outlaw/POWRi victory at Oklahoma City’s I-44 Riverside Speedway, plus a fifth place run during the 2024 USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Lawrenceburg Speedway.

LEARY DOUBLES UP WITH TEAM AZ

FOR 2025 USAC SPRINT & SILVER CROWN SEASON

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DANNER TIME!

BRIGGS SET TO RUN

THE FULL USAC SPRINT TOUR IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SWANSON, SEAVEY & PURSLEY SHARE SPOTLIGHT

AT 2024 USAC NIGHT OF CHAMPIONSHIPS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

USAC NATIONAL SERIES AWARDS

SILVER CROWN 1ST PLACE DRIVER: Kody Swanson

SILVER CROWN 1ST PLACE ENTRANT: Doran Binks Racing

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

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

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

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 1ST PLACE DRIVER: Logan Seavey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SILVER CROWN 2ND PLACE DRIVER: Justin Grant

SILVER CROWN 2ND PLACE ENTRANT: Hemelgarn Racing

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

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 2ND PLACE DRIVER: Brady Bacon

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

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

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

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

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

SILVER CROWN 3RD PLACE DRIVER: Logan Seavey

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

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

AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR 3RD PLACE DRIVER: Daison Pursley

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

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

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

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

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

USAC INDIVIDUAL & SPECIAL AWARDS

MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP: Logan Seavey

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

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

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

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

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

PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER: Daison Pursley

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

JASON LEFFLER AWARD: Patty Bateman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

NATIONAL MOST IMPROVED DRIVER: Briggs Danner

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

RACE ORGANIZER OF THE YEAR: Jerry Gappens

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

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

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

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

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

USAC SPECIAL APPRECIATION (INDIVIDUAL): Jack Calabrase

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

DICK JORDAN AWARD: Tommy Hunt

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

ENGLER MACHINE & TOOL FAST PASS WINNER: Gregg Cory

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

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

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

REGIONAL SPRINT & MIDGET SERIES

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

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

AMSOIL USAC CRA SPRINT CHAMPION ENTRANT: Ricky & Michele Johnson

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

RAPID TIRE SERVICE EAST COAST SPRINT CHAMPION: Steven Drevicki

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

WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CHAMPION: Wyatt Burks

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

WESTERN STATES MIDGET CHAMPION DRIVER: Cade Lewis

WESTERN STATES MIDGET CHAMPION ENTRANT: Dean Alexander

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

MIDWEST THUNDER SPEED2 MIDGET CHAMPION: Bryce Massingill

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

SNOWMOBILE RACING

INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE RACING DRIVER OF THE YEAR: Matt Goede

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

INTERNATIONAL SNOWMOBILE RACING RECORD BREAKER: Chris Baynes

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

NASCAR YOUTH SERIES .25 MIDGET CHAMPIONS

PAVEMENT CHAMPIONS

HEAVY WORLD FORMULA: Zeke Bergenty

UNRESTRICTED ANIMAL: Gavin Gardner

LIGHT WORLD FORMULA: Easton Loomis

HEAVY 160 PAVEMENT: Kaeston McNeill

HEAVY HONDA: Jase Murray

.25 MIDGET DIRT CHAMPIONS

LIGHT 160: Liam Ballard

JUNIOR 160: Blake Crooms

JUNIOR HONDA: Grayson Graham

JUNIOR ANIMAL: Carter Green

.25 MIDGET MULTIPLE CHAMPIONS

HEAVY HONDA DIRT & HEAVY WORLD FORMULA DIRT: Avery McMellen

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

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

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

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

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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

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

KYLE CUMMINS JOINS PETTY

FOR 2025 USAC SILVER CROWN RUN

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

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

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

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

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

Cummins shared his excitement about the new venture.

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

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

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

WESTFALL & 4 KINGS GO FULL-TIME USAC SILVER CROWN RACING IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

KTJ SIGNS WITH 4 KINGS

FOR 2025 USAC MIDGET TITLE CHASE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

USAC INDIANA SPRINT WEEK 2025

OPENS AT INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

EDWARDS, AVANTI & CBI TO CHASE

FULL USAC MIDGET SEASON IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TRAINOR TABBED BY KLATT FOR ALL

6 PAVEMENT USAC SILVER CROWN SHOWS IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

THE DIRT & PAVED ROAD TO A CHAMPIONSHIP!

13 USAC SILVER CROWN RACES SET FOR 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (December 11, 2024)………A docket featuring 13 events is on the agenda in 2025 for the 55th season of the most diverse oval racing series on the planet – the USAC Silver Crown National Championship!

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

BACK TO SALEM IN ‘25

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

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

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

GETTING DIRTY EARLY

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

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

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

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

PAVED INTENTIONS

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

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

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

3 ON DIRT TO DECIDE A CHAMP

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

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

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

2025 USAC SILVER CROWN SCHEDULE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GETTIN’ DIRTY!

2025 USAC MIDGET SCHEDULE REVEALS 28+ DATES

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (December 11, 2024)………The USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship enters the 2025 season armed with 28 events on the calendar from April through November at dirt tracks in California, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

PARAGON BACK IN FOR USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK

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

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

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

Sunday, June 8.

SEASON OPENERS IN KOKOMO

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

TO MID-AMERICA & BEYOND!

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

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

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

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

BADGERS & BUCKEYES

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

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

THE WESTERN SWING

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

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

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

TO BE ANNOUNCED / DETERMINED

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

2025 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mile Dirt

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

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

Sep 1 | TBA

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

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

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

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

Nov 19 | TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

NIFTY 50!

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SLATE ARRIVES

WITH 50 SHOWS IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (December 11, 2024)………Several new schedule additions coupled with a myriad of traditional favorites line the 50-race calendar for the 2025 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

NEW YEAR, NEW ADDITIONS

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

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

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

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

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

BREAKING THE ICE AT WINTER DIRT GAMES

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

BREWING UP AN EASTERN STORM

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

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

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

SPRINT WEEK IN THE HOOSIER STATE

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

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

STAPLES OF THE SERIES

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

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

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

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

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

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

2025 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jul 24 | TBA

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oct 17 | TBA

Oct 18 | TBA

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

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

LEVAN MACHINE & TRUCK EQUIPMENT

PRESENTS 2025 USAC EASTERN STORM,

WITH $10,000 POINT FUND

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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2025 USAC EASTERN STORM SCHEDULE

Tuesday, June 17: Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania

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

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

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

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

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

BUCKEYE BEAST!

WIGAL IS OHIO’S FIRST

USAC MIDGET ROOKIE OF THE YEAR IN 20 YEARS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MPI BOB STROUD USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ROOKIES OF THE YEAR:

1969: Billy Engelhart, Madison, Wisconsin

1970: Danny Brown, Rossville, Illinois

1971: Danny Caruthers, Anaheim, California

1972: Tommy Astone, Fresno, California

1973: Mike Gregg, Fort Collins, Colorado

1974: Richard Powell, Enid, Oklahoma

1975: Larry Patton, Anaheim, California

1976: James McElreath, Arlington, Texas

1977: Lonnie Caruthers, Corona Del Mar, California

1978: Tommy Thomas, Dana Point, California

1979: Barry Butterworth, Auckland, New Zealand

1980: Trevor Boys, Calgary, Alberta

1981: Sherman Armstrong Jr., Winchester, Indiana

1982: Chris Maxson, McHenry, Illinois

1983: John Andretti, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

1984: Russ Gamester, Peru, Indiana

1985: Bobby Allen, Carmel, Indiana

1986: Steve Enlow, Tulsa, Oklahoma

1987: John Meyers, Oak Brook, Illinois

1988: Jim Keeker, Cicero, Indiana

1989: Jeff Gordon, Vallejo, California

1990: Dan Ford, Saint Peters, Missouri

1991: Doug Kalitta, Ypsilanti, Michigan

1992: Brian Gerster, Indianapolis, Indiana

1993: Chuck Leary, Greenfield, Indiana

1994: David Bridges, Indianapolis, Indiana

1995: Ryan Newman, South Bend, Indiana

1996: Carl Olsen, Auckland, New Zealand

1997: Nick Lundgreen, Franklin, Wisconsin

1998: Michael Lewis, Noblesville, Indiana

1999: A.J. Fike, Galesburg, Illinois

2000: Aaron Fike, Galesburg, Illinois

2001: Bobby East, Brownsburg, Indiana

2002: Teddy Beach, Donnelsville, Ohio

2002: Ron Gregory, Noblesville, Indiana

2003: Ryan Durst, Lincoln, Nebraska

2004: Todd Beach, Donnelsville, Ohio

2005: Darren Hagen, Riverside, California

2006: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Olive Branch, Mississippi

2008: Chad Boat, Phoenix, Arizona

2009: Zach Daum, Pocahontas, Illinois

2010: Daniel Bedford, Brentwood, California

2011: Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, California

2012: Rico Abreu, Saint Helena, California

2013: Christopher Bell, Norman, Oklahoma

2014: Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Alabama

2015: Spencer Bayston, Lebanon, Indiana

2016: Carson Macedo, Lemoore, California

2017: Tanner Carrick, Lincoln, California

2018: Logan Seavey, Sutter, California

2019: Andrew Layser, Collegeville, Pennsylvania

2020: Buddy Kofoid, Penngrove, California

2021: Chase Randall, Waco, Texas

2022: Mitchel Moles, Raisin City, California

2023: Gavin Miller, Allentown, Pennsylvania

2024: Zach Wigal, Belpre, Ohio

REPEAT!

PURSLEY GRABS 2024

USAC PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER TITLE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

USAC PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER CHAMPIONS:

2020: Chris Windom, Canton, Illinois

2021: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2022: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2023: Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma

2024: Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma

2024 USAC PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER STANDINGS:

209-Daison Pursley

204-Logan Seavey

164-Justin Grant

149-Robert Ballou

134-C.J. Leary

131-Kyle Cummins

126-Chase Stockon

121-Matt Westfall

120-Brady Bacon

107-Kevin Thomas Jr.

101-Jadon Rogers

98-Joey Amantea

97-Mitchel Moles

87-Ryan Timms

85-Carson Garrett

83-Zach Daum

82-Briggs Danner

75-Shane Cottle & Cannon McIntosh

73-Jake Swanson

68-Kale Drake

65-Ricky Lewis

64-Chance Crum

61-Gavin Miller

57-Jacob Denney

48-Jerry Coons Jr. & Zach Wigal

44-Kyle Jones

42-Alex Bright & Gregg Cory

41-Trey Osborne

38-Tye Mihocko

37-Hayden Reinbold

35-Jade Avedisian

28-Tom Harris

26-Hunter Maddox & Curtis Spicer

23-Carmen Perigo

22-Matt Goodnight, Danny Jennings & Brandon Mattox

21-Kaylee Bryson & Kyle Steffens

20-Max Adams & Nathan Moore

19-Kayla Roell

17-Chris Fetter & Russ Gamester

16-Todd Hobson & Bobby Santos

14-Nathan Byrd

13-Dave Berkheimer & Kendall Ruble

12-Mario Clouser & Ethan Mitchell

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

10-Jackson Macenko, Kody Swanson & Joe Trenca

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

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

7-Davey Hamilton Jr.

6-Dakoda Armstrong, Gunnar Setser & Chris Urish

5-Xavier Doney & Adam Taylor

4-Danny Long

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

2-Bryan Gossel, Thomas Meseraull & Brian Ruhlman

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

SEAVEY HITS #1,

RECORDS 2024 MIKE CURB

USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONS:

1999: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana

2000: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana

2001: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona

2002: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona

2003: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona

2004: Jay Drake, Val Verde, California

2005: Josh Wise, Riverside, California

2006: Josh Wise, Riverside, California

2007: Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, Arizona

2008: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana

2009: Cole Whitt, Alpine, California

2010: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana

2011: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana

2012: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana

2013: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana

2014: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana

2015: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana

2016: Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma

2017: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2018: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana

2019: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana

2020: Chris Windom, Canton, Illinois

2021: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2022: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2023: Justin Grant, Ione, California

2024: Logan Seavey, Sutter, California

2024 MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS:

PTS/DRIVER

5130-Logan Seavey

4528-Daison Pursley

4523-Justin Grant

3429-C.J. Leary

3365-Kevin Thomas Jr.

3142-Brady Bacon

2784-Mitchel Moles

2734-Kyle Cummins

2625-Robert Ballou

2105-Matt Westfall

2074-Chase Stockon

1801-Briggs Danner

1800-Carson Garrett

1616-Kale Drake

1559-Jake Swanson

1446-Cannon McIntosh

1432-Jadon Rogers

1401-Zach Daum

1322-Joey Amantea

1311-Ryan Timms

1285-Ricky Lewis

1283-Jacob Denney

1176-Gavin Miller

1085-Zach Wigal

1010-Shane Cottle

949-Hunter Maddox

904-Kody Swanson

796-Trey Osborne

718-Jade Avedisian

716-Jerry Coons Jr.

664-Kyle Jones

619-Alex Bright

594-Kaylee Bryson

593-Brandon Mattox

575-Jake Andreotti

528-Kyle Steffens

494-Chance Crum

476-Hayden Reinbold

475-Mario Clouser

452-Gregg Cory

433-Bobby Santos

429-Max Adams

420-Ethan Mitchell

402-Tom Harris

397-Thomas Meseraull

396-Nathan Moore

367-Kayla Roell

366-Dakoda Armstrong

360-Rylan Gray

353-Tye Mihocko

329-Dave Berkheimer

314-Wesley Smith

296-Saban Bibent & Taylor Ferns

275-Todd Hobson

243-Trey Burke & Nathan Byrd

231-Xavier Doney

227-Russ Gamester

200-Tyler Roahrig

192-Timmy Buckwalter

191-Curtis Spicer

184-Chris Fetter

180-Carmen Perigo

176-Daniel Whitley

168-Hank Davis

159-Adam Taylor

158-Ashton Torgerson

138-Matt Goodnight

132-Gunnar Setser

130-Davey Hamilton Jr.

127-Chase Howard & Jackson Macenko

126-Brian Ruhlman

123-Brent Beauchamp

108-Danny Jennings

105-Steven Snyder Jr.

98-Mark Smith

95-Kyle Robbins

93-Chase Dietz

88-Patrick Lawson

82-Bryan Gossel

78-Kip Hughes & Jimmy Light

76-Danny Long

68-Shane Butler & Nic Harris

63-Chris Urish

62-Mark Bitner

59-Blake Brannon

58-Travis Welpott

57-Korey Weyant

54-Broedy Graham

53-Shane Cockrum & Dave Peperak

51-Aric Gentry

46-Tom Savage

44-Adam Bolyard & Steve Gennetten

41-Derek Bischak & Mike Haggenbottom

39-Casey Buckman

35-Joe Trenca

33-Tanner Berryhill & Cody Gerhardt

24-Sterling Cling

23-Kenney Johnson & Brent Yarnal

20-Jason Cherry

19-Kevin Newton

16-Don Droud Jr.

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

THE COMEBACK OF ALL COMEBACKS:

PURSLEY’S REMARKABLE 2024 SEASON NETS USAC MIDGET TITLE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2024 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET STAT LEADERS

Driver Champion: Daison Pursley

Entrant Champion: CB Industries #86

Most Wins: 7-Daison Pursley

Rookie of the Year: Zach Wigal (9th)

Most Laps Led: 87-Daison Pursley

Most Top-Fives: 16-Daison Pursley

Most Top-Tens: 20-Cannon McIntosh

Most Fast Qualifying Times: 4-Logan Seavey

Most Heat Race Wins: 11-Daison Pursley

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

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

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE & RESULTS

May 17: Belleville Short Track - Belleville, KS

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

May 18: Belleville Short Track - Belleville, KS

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

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

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

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

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

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

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

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

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Justin Grant (RMS Racing #2)

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

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

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, WI

WINNER: Zach Wigal (CB Industries #89)

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway - Sun Prairie, WI

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

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

Sep 21: Eldora Speedway - Rossburg, OH

WINNER: Daison Pursley (CB Industries #86)

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

WINNER: Chase McDermand (Chase McDermand #40)

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

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

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

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

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway - Tulare, CA

WINNER: Carson Macedo (Dyson Motorsport #99AU)

Nov 24: Merced Speedway - Merced, CA

WINNER: Corey Day (Willie Kahne #4)

Nov 24: Merced Speedway - Merced, CA

WINNER: Kyle Larson (Silva Motorsports #1K)

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway - Bakersfield, CA

WINNER: Tanner Thorson (Tom Malloy #25m)

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway - Ventura, CA

WINNER: Corey Day (Willie Kahne #4)

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

(I) represents an Indiana Midget Week event

(M) represents a Mid-America Midget Week event

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 1505 Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Oklahoma

2. 1446 Cannon McIntosh, Bixby, Oklahoma

3. 1355 Logan Seavey, Sutter, California

4. 1311 Ryan Timms, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

5. 1283 Jacob Denney, Galloway, Ohio

6. 1256 Zach Daum, Pocahontas, Illinois

7. 1210 Justin Grant, Ione, California

8. 1176 Gavin Miller, Allentown, Pennsylvania

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

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

11. 718 Jade Avedisian, Clovis, California

12. 664 Kyle Jones, Kennedale, Texas

13. 595 Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Alabama

14. 575 Jake Andreotti, Castro Valley, California

15. 476 Hayden Reinbold, Gilbert, Arizona

16. 420 Ethan Mitchell, Mooresville, North Carolina

17. 412 Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, Arizona

18. 397 Thomas Meseraull, San Jose, California

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

20. 253 Kyle Cummins, Princeton, Indiana

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

22. 176 Daniel Whitley, Ferndale, California

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

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

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

26. 140 Kaylee Bryson, Muskogee, Oklahoma

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

34. 41 Matt Westfall, Pleasant Hill, Ohio

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

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

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANT POINT STANDINGS:

POS. PTS. ENTRANT, TEAM LOCATION

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 1085 Zach Wigal, Belpre, Ohio

2. 1063 Kale Drake, Collinsville, Oklahoma

3. 277 Ricky Lewis, Camarillo, California

4. 191 Curtis Spicer, Marysville, Kansas

5. 168 Hank Davis, Sand Springs, Oklahoma

6. 159 Adam Taylor, Wheatfield, Indiana

7. 158 Ashton Torgerson, Glendale, Arizona

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

9. 100 Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Indiana

10. 60 Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Indiana

11. 59 Blake Brannon, Morgan Hill, California

12. 54 Broedy Graham, Bakersfield, California

13. 44 Adam Bolyard, Rushville, Indiana

14. 23 Kenney Johnson, Bethany, Connecticut

2024 USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS

FEATURE WINS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1-Kyle Larson (Nov 24 at Merced Speedway)

1-Carson Macedo (Nov 20 at Thunderbowl Raceway)

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

1-Tanner Thorson (Nov 27 at Bakersfield Speedway)

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

FEATURE LAPS LED

87-Daison Pursley

70-Ryan Timms

69-Cannon McIntosh

64-Jacob Denney

58-Kale Drake

54-Carson Macedo

53-Justin Grant

51-Chase McDermand

45-Zach Wigal

40-Logan Seavey

30-Emerson Axsom & Tanner Thorson

24-Buddy Kofoid & Michael Pickens

22-Thomas Meseraull

21-Corey Day

18-Kyle Cummins

17-Kyle Larson

15-Jade Avedisian

7-Jake Andreotti & Zach Daum

6-Gavin Miller

3-Ashton Torgerson

1-Kyle Jones & Kevin Thomas Jr.

TOP-5 FEATURE FINISHES

16-Daison Pursley

15-Cannon McIntosh

11-Logan Seavey

10-Ryan Timms

8-Zach Daum & Jacob Denney

6-Justin Grant

5-Gavin Miller

4-Jade Avedisian

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

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

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

TOP-10 FEATURE FINISHES

20-Cannon McIntosh

18-Daison Pursley & Logan Seavey

17-Jacob Denney & Ryan Timms

16-Zach Daum & Justin Grant

15-Gavin Miller

11-Kale Drake

9-Zach Wigal

8-Jade Avedisian

6-Chase McDermand & Kevin Thomas Jr.

5-Kyle Jones

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

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

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

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

HONEST ABE ROOFING FAST QUALIFYING TIMES

4-Logan Seavey

3-Daison Pursley

2-Zach Wigal

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

2024 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FAST QUALIFIERS

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

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

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

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Zach Wigal (14.578)

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

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Chase McDermand (12.143)

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

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Logan Seavey (13.318)

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

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

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

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

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

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Logan Seavey (16.708)

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Tanner Carrick (15.344)

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Karter Sarff (11.993)

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Carson Macedo (12.380)

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Jacob Denney (12.072)

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

11-Daison Pursley

7-Logan Seavey

6-Zach Daum & Ryan Timms

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

3-Kevin Thomas Jr. & Zach Wigal

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

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

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

2-Chase McDermand

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

FEATURE STARTS

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

16-Kyle Jones

15-Jake Andreotti & Jade Avedisian

13-Kevin Thomas Jr.

12-Chase McDermand, Ethan Mitchell & Hayden Reinbold

11-Drake Edwards

10-Thomas Meseraull

9-Emerson Axsom & Ricky Lewis

8-Jerry Coons Jr.

7-Curtis Spicer

6-Daniel Whitley

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

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

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

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

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

HARD CHARGER OF THE RACE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

DIRT DRAFT FASTEST HOT LAPS DRIVER

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

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

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

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Zach Daum (14.661)

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

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Kyle Cummins (12.093)

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

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Daison Pursley (13.083)

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Gavin Miller (16.764)

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

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

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

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Daison Pursley (15.589)

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Ryan Timms (12.130)

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Carson Macedo (12.669)

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Jacob Denney (12.204)

2024 USAC INFERNO ARMOR FIRE MOVE OF THE NIGHT

Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway - Hayden Reinbold

Jun 6: Lincoln Park Speedway - Jade Avedisian

Jun 7: Bloomington Speedway - Logan Seavey

Jun 8: Tri-State Speedway - Adam Taylor

Jun 9: Kokomo Speedway - Michael Pickens

Jul 9: Red Dirt Raceway – Zach Daum

Jul 10: Mitchell County Fairgrounds – Thomas Meseraull

Jul 11: Jefferson County Speedway – Jade Avedisian

Jul 12: Jefferson County Speedway – Zach Daum

Sep 1: Angell Park Speedway – Zach Wigal

Sep 2: Angell Park Speedway – Logan Seavey

Sep 20: Eldora Speedway – Zach Daum

Sep 21: Eldora Speedway – Chris Windom

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

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

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

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Corey Day

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Karter Sarff

Nov 24: Merced Speedway – Buddy Kofoid

Nov 27: Bakersfield Speedway – Zach Daum

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Dalten Gabbard

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

1. [111 wins] Mel Kenyon

2. [95 wins] Rich Vogler

3. [78 wins] Bob Wente

4. [63 wins] Bob Tattersall

5. [59 wins] Sleepy Tripp

6. [48 wins] Jimmy Davies

7. [38 wins] Bryan Clauson

8. [35 wins] Tracy Hines

9. [31 wins] Gene Hartley & Chuck Rodee

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

15. [29 wins] Kyle Larson

16. [27 wins] Gary Bettenhausen & Tony Stewart

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

21. [24 wins] Billy Engelhart & Buddy Kofoid

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

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

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

35. [20 wins] A.J. Foyt

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

40. [18 wins] Logan Seavey & Dave Steele

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. (94) Mel Kenyon

2. (84) Rich Vogler

3. (77) Jimmy Davies

4. (74) Bob Wente

5. (45) Mike McGreevy

6. (38) Tracy Hines & Bob Tattersall

8. (37) Dave Strickland

9. (36) Johnny Parsons

10. (33) Chuck Rodee

11. (29) Tommy Astone & Jimmy Caruthers

13. (28) Kevin Olson

14. (27) Parnelli Jones

15. (26) Jason Leffler & Tanner Thorson

17. (25) Gary Bettenhausen

18. (24) Gene Hartley

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

22. (21) Tony Stewart

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

28. (19) Jay Drake & Logan Seavey

30. (17) Dave Steele & Mike Streicher

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET DRIVER CHAMPIONS

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

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ENTRANT CHAMPIONS

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

ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ROOKIES OF THE YEAR

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

2024 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET DRIVER & TEAM ROSTER

A

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

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

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

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

B

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

C

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

E

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

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

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

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

F

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

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

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

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

G

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

H

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

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

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

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

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

J

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

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

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

K

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

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

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

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

L

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

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

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

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

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

M

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

N

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

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

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

O

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

P

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

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

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

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

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

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

R

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

S

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

T

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

V

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

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

W

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ONE SPOT BETTER!

DAY BECOMES TURKEY NIGHT’S YOUNGEST WINNER,

PURSLEY IS USAC MIDGET CHAMP

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Ventura, California (November 30, 2024)………Corey Day’s first try at the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame in 2023 marked a grand entrance to the event for the Clovis, Calif. native.

In his encore performance on Saturday night at California’s Ventura Raceway, Day rose to the occasion quite literally and figuratively as he made the winning move 17 laps from the finish line to earn $15,000 and become a first-time winner of the 83rd running of the prestigious event.

In doing so, Day became the youngest winner in the history of the Turkey Night Grand Prix after celebrating his 19th birthday just two days earlier. Caleb Armstrong was the previous record holder, having won the 2011 event at the age of 19 years, 3 months and 8 days.

Furthermore, Day secured the fifth consecutive Turkey Night USAC Midget feature victory for a driver from the state of California, following in the footsteps of Kyle Larson (2019), Logan Seavey (2021), Justin Grant (2022) and Kyle Larson (2023).

Meanwhile, Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) finished off a remarkable personal comeback from injury to capture the 2024 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship for himself and his CB Industries team with a third-place showing in the season finale.

Less than a week after supplying car owner Willie Kahne his first career USAC National Midget triumph at California’s Merced Speedway, Day delivered once more in the 98-lap event at Ventura’s 1/5-mile dirt oval with a 20-year-old powerplant – a full year older than Day himself – at the wheel of his Durst – Four CCCC’s Construction – Sander Engineering/Triple X/Wirth Mopar.

“Hats off to Willie Kahne, Will Durst and Bob Wirth for giving me a good motor that no one thought would work, and it does,” Day praised.

Day also admitted that he’d never before capped off a season with a victory. To do it in one of the most prestigious motorsports events on the calendar, that’s icing on the cake for the driver who was a regular with the Kubota High Limit Series throughout the year and also made a handful of NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and ARCA Menards Series starts.

“This was my last race of the year, and I’ve never ended the year with a win in all my years racing,” Day remarked. “To do that feels really, really good. I look forward to this swing so much, and to just be able to come race and almost relax. It’s not as high pressure as the normal stuff I’m doing and I’m just really glad Willie and I could get a couple wins down here, and I’m glad to be one spot better here this year.”

Starting eighth, Day steadily moved forward and had worked himself into the top-five by the midway point on the 49th lap. Jacob Denney flexed his muscles early by leading the initial 25 laps as he exchanged the low and high lines with constant pursuer Pursley.

As the front runners worked a gauntlet of traffic, Buddy Kofoid advanced his way to the head of the herd as he worked under Pursley for second on lap 23, and shortly thereafter, went to the high side to travel around Denney for the race lead on the 26th circuit.

Suddenly, four-time Turkey Night winner Kyle Larson appeared in the frame as he slotted into fifth by lap 44 after starting in the 10th position. However, just three trips later on lap 47, Larson’s reign, for all intents and purposes, ended when a chain reaction starting from Pursley to Larson to Day resulted in rear bumper contact from Day to Larson. That chrome to chrome contact sent Larson into a 360 degree spin in turn two. By rule, Larson had to restart the race from the tail where he managed only to get back to the 20th spot after dropping out with 21 laps remaining, his first Turkey Night finish outside the top-five in 12 starts.

Following the restart, Tanner Thorson emerged as a contender and was able to slide Kofoid the lead, albeit briefly, in turns three and four on the 49th lap before Kofoid cut back under to reassume the lead. While those two duked it out up top, Denney was constantly crawling the infield berm. After Thorson slammed the turn two cushion with his right rear tire on lap 50 and dropped back to fourth, Denney disposed of Thorson, then surpassed Kofoid to retake the number one spot.

When Kofoid bounced off the back straightaway wall on lap 55, Day took advantage of his fellow competitor’s white wall misfortune to grab second, then set his sights on Denney who patrolled the low line as the leader with 43 to go. As the rubber began to become a prominent streak around the inner perimeter, Day stalked Denney from a mere single car length behind.

“I knew that the rubber was going to come in, unfortunately,” Day explained. “With so many laps on this place, you just really can’t keep it off it. I knew it was going to come in; it was just a matter of when it was. I tried the bottom and then I’d move up, then I kept trying the bottom just to see. I saw Denney down there get by a couple of cars, so I knew it was in. I knew I needed to get down there and get my tires worked in for it.”

On lap 82, Denney drifted ever so slightly off the bottom line and opened the door for Day to pounce. Pulling even with Denney exiting turn two and down the back straightaway, Day slipped past for the lead entering turn three before crossing the line, with Denney just behind, to complete the lap just as seventh running Cannon McIntosh slowed with a flat right rear tire, which necessitated a yellow flag, ending any sliver of title hopes he held on to.

From the lap 83 restart onward, Day was untouchable as he pulled out to a full second lead almost instantaneously. At that moment, Denney began to fade as Kofoid (lap 84) and Pursley (lap 87) followed suit past him into second and third, respectively. Yet, the field bunched one final time on lap 90 after Rookie Broedy Graham (18th) spun to a stop in turn one. During the caution period, Thorson (5th) slowed with a shredded right rear tire.

Despite seeing his one second lead evaporate with the yellow, Day got back on the horse and rode it to the finish line over the final nine laps to score a 1.009 second margin of victory over Buddy Kofoid and Daison Pursley with Jacob Denney fourth and Logan Seavey rounding out the top-five.

After finishing second in the 2021 Turkey Night Grand Prix, Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) collected his second career runner-up result in the event after leading 24 laps in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Mobil 1 – TRD – Curb Records – IWX/Lynk/Speedway Toyota.

Daison Pursley capped his championship season with a third-place finish, far outlasting his best previous Turkey Night results of 19th and 14th in 2019 and 2023, respectively, in his CB Industries/PristineAuction.com – NOS Energy Drink – TRD/Spike/Speedway Toyota.

It was a big night for Pursley’s CBI teammate Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) who doubled up the honors on Saturday night. His 11th place result made him the 2024 Don Basile Rookie of the Race. Adding to the accolades, Wigal also finished the year by locking up the Max Papis Innovations USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year award.

Tanner Carrick’s (Lincoln, Calif.) return to Turkey Night after a three-year hiatus was a solid one. After starting 19th, Carrick advanced +9 to finish 10th, which earned him hard charger honors for the evening.

On Friday, Dalten Gabbard (Peoria, Ariz.) found himself upside down on the track’s exit ramp following a flip during practice. After thrashing to get the car repaired overnight, he transferred his way into his first career USAC National Midget start on Saturday night at Ventura. That earned him the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 30, 2024 – Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 83rd ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By The West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: (Top-10 locked into the feature) 1. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.072; 2. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.206; 3. Buddy Kofoid, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.238; 4. Tanner Thorson, 25m, Malloy-12.254; 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 57KT, Abacus-12.286; 6. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.295; 7. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.299; 8. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-12.313; 9. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.345; 10. Kyle Larson, 1K, Silva-12.364; 11. Jake Swanson, 31, Beilman-12.369; 12. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-12.382; 13. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.385; 14. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-12.480; 15. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Silva-12.484; 16. Tanner Carrick, 98, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.498; 17. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.505; 18. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-12.507; 19. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-12.513; 20. Dalten Gabbard, 77, Gabbard-12.601; 21. Kaylee Bryson, 58, Abacus-12.606; 22. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.615; 23. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-12.624; 24. C.J. Leary, 15, Hart-12.628; 25. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-12.630; 26. Cade Lewis, 101, Alexander-12.659; 27. T.J. Smith, 32x, Sarale-12.673; 28. Zach Daum, 31B, Beilman-12.675; 29. Kyle Busch, 51B, Busch-12.676; 30. Broedy Graham, 66, BGR-12.704; 31. Brody Fuson, 51, Carlile-12.715; 32. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-12.722; 33. Ty Gibbs, 81, CBI-12.750; 34. Michael Faccinto, 14, Graunstadt/Streeter-12.780; 35. Austin Torgerson, 88A, Mounce/Stout-12.829; 36. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-12.830; 37. Alex Karpowicz, 19, Mounce/Stout-12.846; 38. Stevie Sussex, 20AZ, Crown Jewel-12.904; 39. Dane Culver, 50, Knuckles Up-12.935; 40. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling-12.982; 41. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-12.990; 42. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-13.051; 43. Cole Wakim, 73, Ford-13.054; 44. Abby Hohlbein, 55, Lambert-13.151; 45. Mathew Radisich, 14T, Graunstadt/Streeter-13.174; 46. Kyle Hawse, 20x, Hawse-13.380; 47. Peter Paulson, Q32, El Toro-13.387; 48. Todd Hawse, 18, Hawse-13.530; 49. Jim Vanzant, 3v, Vanzant-13.670; 50. Bryan Drollinger, 71D, Drollinger-13.719; 51. Barrie Valentino, Q23, El Toro-13.741; 52. J.J. Yeley, 3J, Petty-16.766.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Wigal, 2. Jake Swanson, 3. Dalten Gabbard, 4. Emerson Axsom, 5. Cade Lewis, 6. Ronnie Gardner, 7. Austin Torgerson, 8. Kyle Busch, 9. Randi Pankratz, 10. Stevie Sussex, 11. Drake Edwards, 12. Abby Hohlbein, 13. Bryan Drollinger, 14. Peter Paulson. NT

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Tyler Courtney, 2. Justin Grant, 3. Kaylee Bryson, 4. C.J. Leary, 5. Chase McDermand, 6. Caden Sarale, 7. Broedy Graham, 8. T.J. Smith, 9. C.J. Sarna, 10. Dane Culver, 11. Ty Gibbs, 12. Mathew Radisch, 13. Todd Hawse, 14. Barrie Valentino. 2:35.259

T.J. FORGED/CAR IQ THIRD QUALIFYING RACE: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Ryan Timms, 3. Tanner Carrick, 4. Zach Daum, 5. Jake Andreotti, 6. Carson Macedo, 7. Brody Fuson, 8. Alex Karpowicz, 9. Cale Coons, 10. Michael Faccinto, 11. J.J. Yeley, 12. Kyle Hawse, 13. Jim Vanzant. 2:40.057

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (15 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase McDermand, 2. Cade Lewis, 3. Ronnie Gardner, 4. Broedy Graham, 5. Caden Sarale, 6. Austin Torgerson, 7. Dane Culver, 8. T.J. Smith, 9. Brody Fuson, 10. Michael Faccinto, 11. C.J. Sarna, 12. Randi Pankratz, 13. Stevie Sussex, 14. Cale Coons, 15. Alex Karpowicz, 16. Kyle Busch, 17. Jake Andreotti. NT

FEATURE: (98 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Corey Day (8), 2. Buddy Kofoid (3), 3. Daison Pursley (2), 4. Jacob Denney (1), 5. Logan Seavey (13), 6. Gavin Miller (9), 7. Justin Grant (15), 8. Kale Drake (7), 9. Jake Swanson (14), 10. Tanner Carrick (19), 11. Zach Wigal (11), 12. Cannon McIntosh (6), 13. Tyler Courtney (12), 14. Tanner Thorson (4), 15. Zach Daum (21), 16. Cade Lewis (23), 17. C.J. Leary (20), 18. Dalten Gabbard (17), 19. Broedy Graham (25), 20. Kyle Larson (10), 21. Emerson Axsom (26), 22. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 23. Ronnie Gardner (24), 24. Chase McDermand (22), 25. Kaylee Bryson (18), 26. Ryan Timms (16). NT

**Jake Andreotti flipped during the semi.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Jacob Denney, Laps 26-49 Buddy Kofoid, Laps 50-81 Jacob Denney, Laps 82-98 Corey Day.

FINAL USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1505, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1446, 3-Logan Seavey-1355, 4-Ryan Timms-1311, 5-Jacob Denney-1283, 6-Zach Daum-1256, 7-Justin Grant-1210, 8-Gavin Miller-1176, 9-Zach Wigal-1085, 10-Kale Drake-1063.

FINAL USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-209, 2-Logan Seavey-204, 3-Justin Grant-164, 4-Robert Ballou-149, 5-C.J. Leary-134, 6-Kyle Cummins-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jacob Denney (12.204)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Jacob Denney (12.072)

Simpson Race Products First Qualifying Race Winner: Zach Wigal

Rod End Supply Second Qualifying Race Winner: Tyler Courtney

T.J. Forged/Car IQ Third Qualifying Race Winner: Logan Seavey

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Chase McDermand

Hard Charger: Tanner Carrick (19th to 10th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Dalten Gabbard

Don Basile Rookie of the Race: Zach Wigal (11th)

DENNEY DASHES TO FASTEST TIME

IN FRIDAY’S USAC TURKEY NIGHT G.P. PRACTICE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Ventura, California (November 29, 2024)………Jacob Denney laid down the fastest lap during Friday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship practice at California’s Ventura Raceway.

The four practice sessions were held in preparation for the series’ season finale on Saturday night, November 30 – the $15,000-to-win 83rd running of the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Denney (Galloway, Ohio) paced the 50 cars that took time with a lap of 12.016 seconds around the 1/5-mile dirt oval in his Tom Malloy/Trench Shoring – Rodela Specialty Fabrication – Race for Chase/LynK/Ed Pink Toyota.

Following Denney was the 2023 Don Basile Rookie of the Race, Corey Day (Clovis, Calif.), in second with a 12.039. USAC National Midget point leader Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) was third at 12.118, just ahead of his primary championship challenger, Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.), in fourth at 12.190. Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) rounded out the top-five at 12.355.

Other notables include four past Turkey Night winners. Four-time victor Kyle Larson (Elk Grove, Calif.) was ninth overall in practice while Logan Seavey was 11th and Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.) was 23rd. Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) did not participate in practice.

Two Turkey Night Rookies and NASCAR Cup Series regulars took their first laps at Ventura on Friday. Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch (Las Vegas, Nev.) was 31st in practice while NASCAR Xfinity titlist Ty Gibbs (Charlotte, N.C.) was 32nd.

Two drivers flipped during the night in very similar fashion. Tyler Edwards (Salina, Okla.) clipped the turn three cushion and flipped several times before landing on all four wheels in the pit exit ramp. Later on, Dalten Gabbard (Peoria, Ariz.) clipped the wall and flipped several times before he too landed in the exit ramp. Both drivers walked away.

RACE DETAILS:

On Saturday, November 30, the grandstands open at 3pm Pacific with cars on track at 3:30pm featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship and the Ultimate Sprint Car Series.

The Turkey Night Grand Prix will be streamed live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 30, 2024 – Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 83rd ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By The West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame

PRACTICE: 1. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.016; 2. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-12.039; 3. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.118; 4. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.190; 5. Buddy Kofoid, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.355; 6. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.367; 7. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.405; 8. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Silva-12.422; 9. Kyle Larson, 1K, Silva-12.430; 10. Tanner Carrick, 98, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.462; 11. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.472; 12. J.J. Yeley, 3J, Petty-12.481; 13. Kaylee Bryson, 58, Abacus-12.512; 14. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-12.551; 15. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-12.599; 16. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.627; 17. Kevin Thomas Jr., 57KT, Abacus-12.648; 18. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-12.654; 19. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-12.657; 20. Cade Lewis, 101, Alexander-12.675; 21. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.702; 22. Broedy Graham, 66, BGR-12.718; 23. Tanner Thorson, 25m, Malloy-12.783; 24. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-12.868; 25. Stevie Sussex, 20AZ, Crown Jewel-12.911; 26. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-12.934; 27. Michael Faccinto, 14T, Graunstadt/Streeter-12.945; 28. T.J. Smith, 32x, Sarale-12.956; 29. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-13.008; 30. Tyler Edwards, 14s, Mounce/Stout-13.013; 31. Kyle Busch, 51B, Busch-13.067; 32. Ty Gibbs, 81, CBI-13.098; 33. Austin Torgerson, 88A, Mounce/Stout-13.176; 34. C.J. Sarna, 20, Sarna-13.183; 35. Jake Swanson, 31, Beilman-13.191; 36. Dalten Gabbard, 77, Gabbard-13.193; 37. Alex Karpowicz, 19, Mounce/Stout-13.194; 38. Dane Culver, 50, Knuckles Up-13.200; 39. Zach Daum, 31B, Beilman-13.202; 40. Brody Fuson, 51, Carlile-13.242; 41. Abby Hohlbein, 55, Lambert-13.274; 42. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling-13.280; 43. C.J. Leary, 15, Hart-13.331; 44. Mathew Radisich, 14, Graunstadt/Streeter-13.342; 45. Todd Hawse, 18, Hawse-13.406; 46. Cole Wakim, 73, Ford-13.544; 47. Ben Covich, 65NZ, Covich-13.617; 48. Bryan Drollinger, 71D, Drollinger-13.724; 49. Kyle Hawse, 20x, Hawse-13.895; 50. Jim Vanzant, 3v, Vanzant-13.995.

**Tyler Edwards flipped during practice. Dalten Gabbard flipped during practice.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: November 30, 2024 – Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 83rd ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By The West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame

27 ROOKIE OF THE RACE CONTENDERS

PREPARE FOR TURKEY NIGHT 2024

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Ventura, California (November 28, 2024)………The ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame annually presents the Don Basile Rookie of the Race Award, honoring the top performance by a first-time feature starter in the 98-lap classic each year.

The 2024 crop of 27 Turkey Night Rookies arrive to stake their claim and make their initial mark on the great race featuring USAC’s NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship, which will take place for the 83rd time this Saturday night, November 30, at California’s Ventura Raceway.

No Rookie has won the race since Warren Mockler’s last lap heroics in 1986. Corey Day topped the field of Turkey Night debut starters in the 2023 race, finishing a close second.

Nearly half of this year’s 57-car field is among the abundance of Rookie of the Race contenders. In this year’s group are two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch (Las Vegas, Nev.), plus USAC National Midget newcomer Cale Coons (Greencastle, Ind.) who was three times a winner with the USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midgets in 2024 and is the son of 2012 Turkey Night runner-up finisher Jerry Coons Jr.

Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) leads the overall USAC National Midget MPI Rookie of the Year standings going into the event and will be making his first Turkey Night appearance. A pair of 2024 USAC Western States Midget winners – Drake Edwards (Peoria, Ariz.) and Caden Sarale (Stockton, Calif.).

Stevie Sussex (Tempe, Ariz.), the 2017 USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year, will also be eying a first career Turkey Night start as will Karter Sarff (Mason City, Ill.), T.J. Smith (Fresno, Calif.) and Dalten Gabbard (Peoria, Ariz.) along with returnees Terry Nichols (Delano, Calif.), Jim Vanzant (Prescott, Ariz.) and Bryan Drollinger (San Pedro, Calif.), all looking to crack the Turkey Night starting field for the first time.

International flair in the Rookie class belongs to New Zealanders Mathew Radisich (Auckland, N.Z.) and Ben Covich (Auckland, N.Z.) while Aussie Barrie Valentino (Brisbane, Australia) will also make the trip up.

First time Turkey Night midget participants in 2024 include Adam Teves (Concord, Calif.), Tom Dunkel (Menifee, Calif.), Todd Hawse (Simi Valley, Calif.), Alex Karpowicz (Spring Branch, Texas), Kyle Hawse (Las Vegas, Nev.), Peter Paulson (Woodland, Calif.), Troy DeGaton (Wickenburg, Ariz.), Dane Culver (Riverside, Calif.), Abby Hohlbein (Cloverdale, Ohio), Broedy Graham (Bakersfield, Calif.), Cole Wakim (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Austin Torgerson (Glendale, Ariz.).

The award, named in memory of track owner, promoter and 1999 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee Don Basile, made its debut in 1998 with Kasey Kahne the first recipient.

Over the years, the Don Basile Rookie of the Race honors at Turkey Night have been awarded to some of the most talented young racers in America. A glance at the list reveals some of the top names from the sport over the past two decades, including two race winners – Kyle Larson (2011) & Tanner Thorson (2013 – and four others who’ll be in this year’s field: Carson Macedo (2016), Cannon McIntosh (2019), Jake Andreotti (2022) and Corey Day (2023).

RACE DETAILS:

This year’s Turkey Night weekend will also host the Ultimate Sprint Car Series for both nights of on-track action on November 29-30.

On Friday, November 29, the grandstands open at 3pm Pacific with cars on track at 3:30pm featuring midget practice, plus sprint car racing.

On Saturday, November 30, the grandstands open at 3pm Pacific with cars on track at 3:30pm featuring midget and sprint car racing.

Advance tickets can be purchased now at www.venturaraceway.com. Additional information is available at 805-648-7223.

Both nights of the Turkey Night Grand Prix will be streamed live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

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2024 TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX MIDGET ROOKIES: (27)

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

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

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

10 ADAM TEVES/Concord, CA (Dana & Robin Craig)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

31 KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

32 CADEN SARALE/Stockton, CA (Caden Sarale)

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

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

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

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

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

55 ABBY HOHLBEIN/Cloverdale, OH (Lambert Motorsports)

63 CALE COONS/Greencastle, IN (Joe Dooling)

65NZ BEN COVICH/Auckland, NZ (Covich Motorsports)

66 BROEDY GRAHAM/Bakersfield, CA (Graham Racing)

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

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

77 DALTEN GABBARD/Peoria, AZ (Dalten Gabbard)

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

89 ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries)

PAST DON BASILE TURKEY NIGHT ROOKIES OF THE RACE:

1998: Kasey Kahne – Finished 5th

1999: Dave Steele – Finished 5th

2000: Aaron Pollock – Finished 7th

2001: Bobby East – Finished 10th

2002: Jerome Rodela – Finished 9th

2003: Ryan Durst – Finished 10th

2004: Brad Loyet – Finished 9th

2005: Kevin Swindell – Finished 11th

2006: Kody Swanson – Finished 2nd

2007: Mike Murgoitio – Finished 4th

2008: Nic Faas – Finished 13th

2009: Levi Roberts – Finished 2nd

2010: Dalton Armstrong – Finished 3rd

2011: Kyle Larson – Finished 4th

2012: Ryan Bernal – Finished 3rd

2013: Tanner Thorson – Finished 10th

2014: Isaac Chapple – Finished 13th

2015: Robert Dalby – Finished 14th

2016: Carson Macedo – Finished 3rd

2017: Zeb Wise – Finished 5th

2018: Jason McDougal – Finished 8th

2019: Cannon McIntosh – Finished 2nd

2020: No Race

2021: Mitchel Moles – Finished 3rd

2022: Jake Andreotti – Finished 4th

2023: Corey Day – Finished 2nd

FEAST ON THIS!

TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX

CLOSES USAC MIDGET SEASON WITH A BANG ON NOV 30

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Ventura, California (November 26, 2024)………The crown jewel of all crown jewels!

The 2024 ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame enters its 83rd edition on Saturday night, November 30, at the scenic Ventura Raceway, the racy 1/5-mile dirt oval nestled right along the Pacific Ocean in southern California.

It’s the United States of America’s longest running midget racing tradition, and a victory in one of these events instantly goes right to the top of every driver’s racing resume. At press time, 55 midget drivers are entered for the event with a couple more surprises expected to enter in time for race day.

Four drivers in this year’s Agajanian Promotions Turkey Night field have experienced that feeling in recent years, all of whom are once again chasing the increased winner’s share of $15,000 in the 98-lap main event.

Kyle Larson has captured four Turkey Night midget victories in 2012-16-19-23, second most all-time behind Ron Shuman’s eight. One-time winners Justin Grant (2022), Logan Seavey (2021) and Tanner Thorson (2015) are also all hungry to add another triumph to the collection.

Four more drivers have previously finished as a Turkey Night runner-up and are now vying for a first victory in the event. J.J. Yeley returns to the race after a 19-year hiatus and finished second on the pavement when the show was held at Irwindale Speedway in 2001. Cannon McIntosh led extensively in 2019 before coming home second. Buddy Kofoid closed out his 2021 series title season with a second. Corey Day earned Rookie of the Race honors a year ago in 2023 with a stellar second place drive.

Carson Macedo took third in both 2016 and 2023 while Zach Daum returns to Turkey Night for the first time in 10 years after placing fourth in each of his two most recent starts in 2013 and 2014. Jake Andreotti scored a career best fourth in 2022 while Ronnie Gardner (2013), Tyler Courtney (2018), Jacob Denney (2023) and Kaylee Bryson (2021) each crossed the line with a best performance of fifth. Bryson also became the first woman to start on the pole of Turkey Night in 2021.

Looking to top their previous top-10 Turkey Night performances are Emerson Axsom (6th in 2023) and Tanner Carrick who finished 6th after starting from the pole position in 2018. USAC Western States Midget champions held their own in their home state – Michael Faccinto (10th in 2017) and Cade Lewis (10th in 2023).

Turkey Night veterans returning to the lineup include wheelmen Gavin Miller (13th in 2023), two-time Turkey Night sprint car winner Ryan Timms (14th in 2022), series point leader Daison Pursley (14th in 2023) and Kale Drake (16th in 2023). Chase McDermand (17th in 2023) is back as is Randi Pankratz (19th in 2015), C.J. Leary (20th in 2018), C.J. Sarna (21st in 2019), Brody Fuson (24th in 2022) and Tyler Edwards (26th in 2017).

This year’s race is chockfull of Don Basile Rookie of the Race contenders, 26 in fact, who’ve not yet started a Turkey Night Grand Prix midget feature. USAC Midget newcomer, and two-time NASCAR Cup Series titlist, Kyle Busch will make his first Turkey Night run as will Cale Coons, son of USAC Career Triple Crown champ Cale Coons and leading USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year contender Zach Wigal.

USAC Western States Midget feature winners Drake Edwards and Caden Sarale will also attempt to make their first Turkey Night field as will Stevie Sussex, Karter Sarff, Terry Nichols, Jim Vanzant, Mathew Radisich, Tom Dunkel, cousins Todd Hawse and Kyle Hawse, plus Alex Karpowicz, Barrie Valentino, Peter Paulson, T.J. Smith, Troy DeGaton, Dane Culver, Abby Hohlbein, Ben Covich, Bryan Drollinger, Cole Wakim, Dalten Gabbard, Austin Torgerson and Broedy Graham.

Nine states and three countries are represented on this year’s entry list so far: California (24), Arizona (7), Oklahoma (6), Indiana (4), Illinois (3), Nevada (3), Ohio (3), Pennsylvania (1) and Texas (1). The United States is represented by 52 of the 55 drivers while New Zealand has two and Australia one.

Three women drivers will also compete in the race: four-time starter Randi Pankratz, two-time starter Kaylee Bryson and Rookie Abby Hohlbein.

RACE DETAILS:

This year’s Turkey Night weekend will also host the Ultimate Sprint Car Series for both nights of on-track action on November 29-30.

On Friday, November 29, the grandstands open at 3pm Pacific with cars on track at 3:30pm featuring midget practice, plus sprint car racing.

On Saturday, November 30, the grandstands open at 3pm Pacific with cars on track at 3:30pm featuring midget and sprint car racing.

Advance tickets can be purchased now at www.venturaraceway.com. Additional information is available at 805-648-7223.

Both nights of the Turkey Night Grand Prix will be streamed live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

2024 TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX USAC MIDGET ENTRY LIST: (55)

00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)

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

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

2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)

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

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

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

4 COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne)

8 RANDI PANKRATZ/Atascadero, CA (Wally Pankratz)

8w CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)

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

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

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

15 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN (Dennis Hart)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)

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

31 (R) KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

31B ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

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

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

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

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

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

51 BRODY FUSON/Bakersfield, CA (Rusty Carlile)

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

55 (R) ABBY HOHLBEIN/Cloverdale, OH (Lambert Motorsports)

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)

58 KAYLEE BRYSON/Muskogee, OK (Abacus Racing)

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

65NZ (R) BEN COVICH/Auckland, NZ (Covich Motorsports)

66 (R) BROEDY GRAHAM/Bakersfield, CA (Graham Racing)

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

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

68 RONNIE GARDNER/Corona, CA (Six8 Motorsports)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

101 CADE LEWIS/Bakersfield, CA (Dean Alexander)

(R) Don Basile Rookie of the Race Contenders

TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX MIDGET WINS: (1934-2023)

8-Ron Shuman

4-Kyle Larson

3-Christopher Bell & Billy Boat

2-Gary Bettenhausen, Bryan Clauson, Dave Darland, Billy Engelhart, Stan Fox, A.J. Foyt, Perry Grimm, Chuck Gurney, Ronney Householder, Parnelli Jones, Mel Kenyon, Jason Leffler, Roy Russing, Dave Steele & Bob Swanson

1-George Amick, Caleb Armstrong, Dick Atkins, George Benson, Tony Bettenhausen, Billy Cantrell, Jay Drake, Bobby East, Edgar Elder, Joe Garson, Rick Goudy, Justin Grant, Mel Hansen, Jordan Hermansader, Bubby Jones, Brent Kaeding, Michael Lewis, Johnny McDowell, Danny McKnight, Warren Mockler, Danny Oakes, Kevin Olson, Johnnie Parsons, Gary Patterson, Bobby Santos, Logan Seavey, Sammy Sessions, Tony Simon, Ted Sizemore, Tony Stewart, Tanner Thorson, Bill Vukovich, Billy Wease & Bill Zaring

TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX MIDGET WINNERS: (1934-2023)

1934: Bob Swanson | Gilmore Stadium

1935: Ted Sizemore | Gilmore Stadium

1936: Ronney Householder | Gilmore Stadium

1937: Ronney Householder | Gilmore Stadium

1938: Bob Swanson | Gilmore Stadium

1939: Mel Hansen | Gilmore Stadium

1940: Roy Russing | Gilmore Stadium

1941: Roy Russing | Gilmore Stadium

1942: No Race

1943: No Race

1944: No Race

1945: Danny Oakes | Gilmore Stadium

1946: Perry Grimm | Gilmore Stadium

1947: Johnny McDowell | Gilmore Stadium

1948: Bill Vukovich | Gilmore Stadium

1949: Perry Grimm | Gilmore Stadium

1950: Bill Zaring | Gilmore Stadium

1951: No Race

1952: No Race

1953: No Race

1954: No Race

1955: Johnnie Parsons | Gardena Stadium

1956: Edgar Elder | Gardena Stadium

1957: George Amick | Gardena Stadium

1958: Joe Garson | Gardena Stadium

1959: Tony Bettenhausen | Gardena Stadium

1960: A.J. Foyt | Ascot Park

1961: A.J. Foyt | Ascot Park

1962: Billy Cantrell | Ascot Park

1963: Mel Kenyon | Ascot Park

1964: Parnelli Jones | Ascot Park

1965: Dick Atkins | Ascot Park

1966: Parnelli Jones | Ascot Park

1967: Gary Bettenhausen | Ascot Park

1968: Sammy Sessions | Ascot Park

1969: George Benson | Ascot Park

1970: Gary Bettenhausen | Ascot Park

1971: Billy Engelhart | Ascot Park

1972: Tony Simon | Ascot Park

1973: Billy Engelhart | Ascot Park

1974: Danny McKnight | Ascot Park

1975: Mel Kenyon | Speedway 605

1976: Bubby Jones | Ascot Park

1977: Gary Patterson | Ascot Park

1978: Rick Goudy | Ascot Park

1979: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1980: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1981: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1982: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1983: Kevin Olson | Ascot Park

1984: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1985: Brent Kaeding | Ascot Park

1986: Warren Mockler | Ascot Park

1987: Ron Shuman | Ascot Park

1988: Chuck Gurney | Ascot Park

1989: Chuck Gurney | Ascot Park

1990: Stan Fox | Ascot Park

1991: Stan Fox | Saugus Speedway

1992: Ron Shuman | Bakersfield Speedway

1993: Ron Shuman | Bakersfield Speedway

1994: Jordan Hermansader | Bakersfield Speedway

1995: Billy Boat | Bakersfield Speedway

1996: Billy Boat | Perris Auto Speedway

1997: Billy Boat | Ventura Raceway

1998: Jay Drake | Bakersfield Speedway

1999: Jason Leffler | Irwindale Speedway

2000: Tony Stewart | Irwindale Speedway

2001: Dave Steele | Irwindale Speedway

2002: Michael Lewis | Irwindale Speedway

2003: Dave Steele | Irwindale Speedway

2004: Bobby East | Irwindale Speedway

2005: Jason Leffler | Irwindale Speedway

2006: Billy Wease | Irwindale Speedway

2007: Dave Darland | Irwindale Speedway

2008: Bobby Santos | Irwindale Speedway

2009: Bryan Clauson | Irwindale Speedway

2010: Bryan Clauson | Irwindale Speedway

2011: Caleb Armstrong | Irwindale Speedway

2012: Kyle Larson | Perris Auto Speedway

2013: Dave Darland | Perris Auto Speedway

2014: Christopher Bell | Perris Auto Speedway

2015: Tanner Thorson | Perris Auto Speedway

2016: Kyle Larson | Ventura Raceway

2017: Christopher Bell | Ventura Raceway

2018: Christopher Bell | Ventura Raceway

2019: Kyle Larson | Ventura Raceway

2020: No Race

2021: Logan Seavey | Ventura Raceway

2022: Justin Grant | Ventura Raceway

2023: Kyle Larson | Ventura Raceway

30 FOR 30:

THORSON LEADS ALL 30

AT BAKERSFIELD FOR 30TH USAC MIDGET WIN

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Bakersfield, California (November 27, 2024)………Over the past 69 years of USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget racing, only 14 drivers have amassed 30 or more victories during their career.

Tanner Thorson is now one of those elite few following his wire-to-wire winning performance during Wednesday night’s 8th annual November Classic at California’s Bakersfield Speedway.

Starting from the pole in his Tom Malloy/Trench Shoring – Rodela Specialty Fabrication – Race for Chase/LynK/Ed Pink Toyota, Thorson (Minden, Nev.) was never headed from start to finish, leading the entire 30-lap distance to earn his 30th career USAC National Midget feature victory – his first at Bakersfield.

The 2016 USAC National Midget driving champion joins the 30+ win club, which only 13 previous drivers have achieved: Mel Kenyon (111), Rich Vogler (95), Bob Wente (78), Bob Tattersall (63), Sleepy Tripp (59), Jimmy Davies (48), Bryan Clauson (38), Tracy Hines (35), Gene Hartley (31), Chuck Rodee (31), Dave Darland (30), Mike McGreevy (30) and Johnny Parsons (30).

“(The track) was tricky; it was definitely a race where you wanted to start on the front row,” Thorson said of the juiced up 1/3-mile clay oval which had been doused by rain the previous two days. “Hats off to my guys for not giving up. I was pretty terrible in that heat race, so we just threw a bunch of stuff at it and it stuck. This was as comfortable as it could get and it could go anywhere I wanted. I think it helped in that situation because it’s easy to lose races when you’re out there by yourself.”

The victory was also Thorson’s first since his two-month-old daughter, Blakelee, was born. Furthermore, Thorson’s latest USAC National Midget victory was his second in the state of California, and his first in the Golden State since 2020 at Merced Speedway just after he was hired for a late-season run in Malloy’s same No. 25m nearly four years to the day earlier.

“It’s cool to get back here in victory lane with (Tom Malloy),” Thorson stated. “He and (crew chief) Jerome (Rodela) gave me a shot back in 2020 when I didn’t have a ride. I told him we were going to park it at least one time this week.”

Thorson established the top spot early over fellow front row starter Cannon McIntosh, who slipped back to fourth as fellow Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports teammates Ryan Timms and Buddy Kofoid scurried into second and third, respectively.

By lap nine, Thorson had already reached the tail end of the field, building a 1.7 second lead in the process over Timms and Kofoid who found themselves mired behind a wall of lapped traffic.

However, the front running order was shaken up on lap 13 when the lapped car of Alex Karpowicz checked up behind Timms on the bottom of turn two. At that same moment, Kofoid was skating the low groove and clipped the left rear tire of Karpowicz, which sent Kofoid spiraling upside down to bring out the red flag, finishing Kofoid’s night in the process.

On the ensuing lap 13 restart, fifth running Carson Macedo biked on his entry into turn one, sending him flipping over three times into the outside wall and billboards, ending his race in abrupt fashion. Earlier in the evening, Macedo had set fast time during Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying for the for third time in his USAC National Midget career, and for the first time since 2021.

During the red flag, 17th running Kyle Larson, the 2019 November Classic victor, peeled off to the pits and did not return and was scored 23rd.

From the second attempt at a lap 13 restart through the balance of the 30-lap main, Thorson was the dominant force as he quickly muscled his way to an eight car length lead by the midway point and increasingly built his advantage over the field as the race wore on, even as he was forced to maneuver around from top to bottom in order to work his way through traffic.

“I don’t really think I had a doubt,” Thorson confidently noted. “My car was just so good. It sounds cocky, but I was letting it drive itself and it where it went.”

Thorson ultimately powered across the finish line 3.082 seconds ahead of the competition in front of the KKM triumvirate of Ryan Timms, Cannon McIntosh and Gavin Miller while Beilman Motorsports’ Zach Daum rounded out the top-five.

Finally, it was no more tens for Timms (Oklahoma City, Okla.) on his California swing during the month of November. In his first three outings of the trip over the past week, Timms had finished 10th at Thunderbowl Raceway followed by a pair of 10th place performances at Merced Speedway. On this night at Bakersfield, he finished a solid second in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/JBL Audio – TRD – Toyota – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota, his best performance to date with the USAC National Midgets at Bakersfield.

McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.), meanwhile, scored a third place result in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/GearWrench – Mobil 1 – TRD/LynK/Speedway Toyota for his ninth podium finish in his last 11 starts. His latest top-three run at Bakersfield shaved off 24 more points from 12th place finisher Daison Pursley’s USAC National Midget point lead. McIntosh now heads to California’s Ventura Raceway on Saturday just 30 points behind Pursley in the race for the title.

Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio) has put together a solid California swing with top-seven finishes in all four of his starts. Despite starting 14th at Bakersfield, the Buckeye advanced his way up to a seventh place finish to earn hard charger honors for the night.

It's been a rough and tumble Cali swing for Zach Daum. After placing 12th, 12th and 16th this past week, he got back into the groove at Bakersfield with a lap pass to win his heat race, then went on to grab fifth in the main event. For those two drives, he certainly made tonight's Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch made his USAC National Midget debut at Bakersfield. A promising night in which he qualified 18th out of 36 cars before leading the first two laps of his heat race came to an abrupt halt with a battery connection issue, forcing him to drop out. Starting 10th in the semi-feature, Busch worked his way up to fifth, but fell one spot short of the final transfer spot.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 27, 2024 – Bakersfield Speedway – Bakersfield, California – 1/3-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th November Classic

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-12.380; 2. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.436; 3. Buddy Kofoid, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.472; 4. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.579; 5. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-12.596; 6. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-12.633; 7. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-12.635; 8. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.704; 9. Tanner Thorson, 25m, Malloy-12.774; 10. Zach Daum, 31B, Beilman-12.777; 11. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-12.779; 12. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.783; 13. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.785; 14. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.803; 15. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.828; 16. Kyle Larson, 1K, Silva-12.862; 17. Karter Sarff, 31, Beilman-12.869; 18. Kyle Busch, 51B, Busch-12.921; 19. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-12.967; 20. Brandt Twitty, 4B, Twitty-12.996; 21. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-13.001; 22. Austin Torgerson, 88A, Mounce/Stout-13.006; 23. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.041; 24. Cade Lewis, 101, Alexander-13.088; 25. Brody Fuson, 51, Carlile-13.115; 26. Broedy Graham, 66, Graham-13.181; 27. Alex Karpowicz, 19, Mounce/Stout-13.260; 28. Abby Hohlbein, 55, Lambert-13.456; 29. Troy DeGaton, 39T, DeGaton-13.460; 30. Todd Hawse, 18, Hawse-13.460; 31. Kaylee Bryson, 58, Abacus-13.558; 32. T.J. Smith, 32, Sarale-14.021; 33. Kyle Hawse, 20x, Hawse-14.499; 34. Terry Nichols, 1p, Nichols/Peckfelder-15.562; 35. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Silva-NT; 36. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling-NT.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Jacob Denney, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Brody Fuson, 5. Carson Macedo, 6. Kyle Hawse, 7. Troy DeGaton, 8. Ronnie Gardner, 9. Karter Sarff. NT

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Daum, 2. Daison Pursley, 3. Gavin Miller, 4. Austin Torgerson, 5. Broedy Graham, 6. Todd Hawse, 7. Terry Nichols, 8. Kyle Busch, 9. Drake Edwards. NT

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Corey Day, 3. Zach Wigal, 4. Emerson Axsom, 5. Buddy Kofoid, 6. Alex Karpowicz, 7. Kaylee Bryson, 8. Chase McDermand. 2:11.097

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Cade Lewis, 2. Ryan

Timms, 3. Cannon McIntosh, 4. Kale Drake, 5. Kyle Larson, 6. Brandt Twitty, 7. T.J. Smith, 8. Abby Hohlbein. 2:09.421

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Chase McDermand, 2. Drake Edwards, 3. Brandt Twitty, 4. Alex Karpowicz, 5. Kyle Busch, 6. Kaylee Bryson, 7. T.J. Smith, 8. Abby Hohlbein, 9. Todd Hawse, 10. Kyle Hawse, 11. Terry Nichols, 12. Cale Coons. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tanner Thorson (1), 2. Ryan Timms (3), 3. Cannon McIntosh (2), 4. Gavin Miller (5), 5. Zach Daum (7), 6. Justin Grant (8), 7. Jacob Denney (14), 8. Cade Lewis (10), 9. Logan Seavey (9), 10. Kale Drake (13), 11. Zach Wigal (18), 12. Daison Pursley (15), 13. Emerson Axsom (16), 14. Chase McDermand (12), 15. Brody Fuson (21), 16. Drake Edwards (11), 17. Austin Torgerson (20), 18. Alex Karpowicz (23), 19. Broedy Graham (24), 20. Brandt Twitty (19), 21. Buddy Kofoid (4), 22. Carson Macedo (6), 23. Kyle Larson (17), 24. Corey Day (24). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Tanner Thorson.

**Cale Coons flipped during practice. Ronnie Gardner flipped during the first heat. Troy DeGaton flipped during the first heat. Buddy Kofoid flipped on lap 13 of the feature. Carson Macedo flipped on lap 13 of the feature.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1436, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1406, 3-Logan Seavey-1297, 4-Ryan Timms-1288, 5-Zach Daum-1223, 6-Jacob Denney-1216, 7-Justin Grant-1158, 8-Gavin Miller-1121, 9-Zach Wigal-1044, 10-Kale Drake-1014.

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-209, 2-Logan Seavey-196, 3-Justin Grant-156, 4-Robert Ballou-149, 5-Kyle Cummins-131, 6-C.J. Leary-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: November 30, 2024 – Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California – 1/5-Mile Dirt Oval – 83rd ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By The West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Carson Macedo (12.669)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Carson Macedo (12.380)

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Justin Grant

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Zach Daum

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Logan Seavey

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Cade Lewis

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Chase McDermand

Hard Charger: Jacob Denney (14th to 7th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Zach Daum

BAKERSFIELD USAC MIDGETS

POSTPONED TO WEDNESDAY, NOV. 27

Bakersfield, California (November 25, 2024)………A forecast calling for rain throughout the next two days has forced postponement of the Tuesday night, November 26, November Classic at California’s Bakersfield Speedway.

The Bakersfield event featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will now be held on Wednesday night, November 27, at the 1/3-mile dirt oval.

The penultimate round of the USAC season will feature an expected field of 36 cars and drivers. The eighth annual November Classic brings three past event winners in NASCAR Cup champ Kyle Larson (2019), plus two-time USAC National Midget titlists Logan Seavey (2018 & 2023) and Buddy Kofoid (2020 & 2021) as well as a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, Kyle Busch, who will be making his midget racing debut.

Joining the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will be the California Lightning Sprints. Pits open at 2pm Pacific with the gates opening at 4pm, the drivers meeting at 4:30pm and cars on track at 5pm.

Adult general admission tickets are $25. Kids 6-12 general admission tickets are $15. Kids 5 and under general admis-sion tickets are free. Ages 65+ and military (ID required) general admission tickets are $22. Pit passes are $50 ($45 for USAC members).

Advance tickets are available now at https://tickethoss.com/event/687.

USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets and California’s Bakersfield Speedway have a history that dates back six decades. Davey Moses won the first trip by the USAC National Midgets in the summer of 1959. Over that period, 25 series races have been held at the lightning-quick track that has been both paved and dirt throughout its history.

The November Classic from Bakersfield will also be streamed live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

FINALLY!

LARSON BREAKS THROUGH

TO WIN USAC MIDGET MADNESS AT MERCED

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Merced, California (November 24, 2024)………Of all the California dirt tracks Kyle Larson has competed on in his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship career, there had been just one that he’d been unable to conquer prior to Sunday night’s Midget Madness finale.

That place was Merced Speedway.

Finally, in his sixth attempt, Larson (Elk Grove, Calif.) broke through the barrier, chasing down Logan Seavey for the lead just prior to the midway point of the 30-lap feature, then led the remaining 17 trips around the 1/4-mile dirt oval to score his first USAC National Midget win of the year, and his fourth in his last five series appearances dating back to 2023.

Larson’s relatively troublesome spot of Merced has resulted in uncommon results for him over the years in USAC National Midget competition. In 2020, he took ninth and fourth across the two nights, and in 2021, missed the feature on opening night, then scored a 24th the following evening.

However, 10 of his 29 career triumphant performances with the series have come in his home state of California: Placerville (4), Ventura (3), Bakersfield (1) and Perris (1). However, for whatever rhyme or reason, Merced had escaped his grip.

”We’ve been really good whenever we’ve ran the midget at all these California tracks except for Merced,” Larson acknowledged. “I feel like we’ve been average at best at Merced, and then we had a couple races where we were really bad.”

Despite capturing the accompanying winged 360 sprint car race just prior to the midget feature, Larson still felt a bit of trepidation entering the midget main in his Silva Motorsports/FloRacing – HendrickCars.com – Durst – K & C Drywall – JVI Group/Eagle/Speedway.

“I was a bit nervous going into that feature just because the sprint cars go through the holes way easier than the midgets,” Larson explained. “In a midget, just because you’re sideways, you’re bouncing a lot. I was nervous with the track slickening up and I felt like we were going to have to run through the holes more, which we did. But my car could handle it there, which was nice.”

Larson started his race from the third slot, and remained there for the initial 10 laps as Logan Seavey headed the field with Karter Sarff sandwiched in between the two in second. Larson ultimately overtook Sarff for second on the 11th lap, then set course to track down Seavey who had sprinted out to a commanding 1.471 second lead.

However, Seavey’s wide advantage was wiped out on the 13th lap when afternoon feature winner Corey Day’s car suddenly slowed to a stop atop the turn two banking. Running seventh at the time, Day restarted at the tail, but only managed to make it back to 17th at the checkered.

With the field bunched up following the restart, Larson swiftly swiped the lead away from Seavey in turn one on the 14th lap. However, Seavey turned down off turn two and raced his way back on by to retain the top spot for the time being. Moments later, trouble found third running Sarff who was in a prime spot to accrue his best career USAC National Midget finish. In the end, it was not to be as Sarff slowed, then pulled off, out of the race with a 24th place finish in the 24 car field.

The interruption of Larson’s pursuit was merely temporary as Larson jumped right back on the horse, diving under and driving past Seavey in turn one on the lap 14 restart to take over the race lead once and for good.

“(Seavey) was pretty committed to running and exiting above the cushion,” Larson recalled. “We had that restart and I got by him, then the caution came out. He actually got back by me, then went to the bottom of three and four, and I was like ‘dang.’ We got the caution and he was running where I wanted to be. So I just felt like on the restart that, if I exited four close enough to him, I needed to try a slide job or whatever into one. It had a lot of grip for me across the center. I caught the cushion just right off of two and could protect.”

Meanwhile, Kofoid was hustling his way up the chart as well, and on the 20th lap, made his move underneath Seavey in turn four to slot into second. In a moment’s notice, he was within arm's reach of Larson for the lead with less than 10 laps to go amid a bevy of traffic, and Larson could feel his presence.

“I felt pretty good for a while, then caught traffic,” Larson replayed. “My momentum slowed down quite a bit in three and four and I couldn’t really see my line in one and two. I thought I saw somebody poke their nose into one, so I figured they were building a run off the top of three and four. I moved back up there and felt better, and I just needed to keep my momentum up better.”

Nonetheless, Larson never allowed Kofoid to get close enough to attempt to clear him, and Larson was able to help ease the stress by gapping Kofoid with a lapped car separating the two at the very end. At the stripe, Larson was 0.791 seconds better than Kofoid who finished as the runner-up while Logan Seavey completed an all northern California top-three. Tanner Thorson and Carson Macedo rounded out the top-five.

Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) and his miraculous streak at Merced continued with a third place result in his Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Mobil 1 – TRD – Curb Records – IWX/Lynk/Speedway Toyota. Kofoid has now finished on the podium in nine consecutive USAC National Midget starts at Merced dating back to 2020. Since that point in time, his Merced finishes have included a 2nd-3rd-1st-2nd-1st-2nd-3rd-3rd-2nd. As the lone driver to finish on the podium in both features on Sunday, he earned the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night award.

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) jumped back on the podium with a third place run after pacing the opening 13 laps of the feature in his Abacus Racing/McVey Trucking – Indy Custom Stone – Factory QRC – Prime 47/Spike/Stanton SR-11x. It's Seavey’s first top-three with the series since scoring a third in September at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway.

Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio) has pulled out to a 30 point lead over Kale Drake in the race for 2024 USAC National Midget Bob Stroud/Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year honors. Wigal helped his cause in a big way with a 16th to 8th feature run which earned him hard charger honors for the night.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 24, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Midget Madness

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Tanner Thorson (#25m Malloy), 2. Tyler Courtney (#23c Silva), 3. Corey Day (#4 Kahne), 4. Karter Sarff (#31 Beilman), 5. Zach Wigal (#89 CBI), 6. Jake Andreotti (#00 Davis), 7. Peter Paulson (#Q32 El Toro). 1:37.39

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kale Drake (#97K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 2. Hayden Reinbold (#19AZ Reinbold-Underwood), 3. Ryan Timms (#67 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 4. Carson Macedo (#99AU Dyson), 5. Logan Seavey (#57 Abacus), 6. Drake Edwards (#3p Petty), 7. Barrie Valentino (#Q23 El Toro). 1:37.07

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Caden Sarale (#32 Sarale), 2. Gavin Miller (#97 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 3. Buddy Kofoid (#71 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 4. Daison Pursley (#86 CBI), 5. Jacob Denney (#25 Malloy), 6. Ronnie Gardner (#68 Six8), 7. Kyle Hawse (#20x Hawse). 1:36.74 (New Track Record)

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Emerson Axsom (#67K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 2. Zach Daum (#31B Beilman), 3. Justin Grant (#2 RMS), 4. Cannon McIntosh (#71K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 5. Kyle Larson (#1K Silva), 6. Travis DeGaton (#39T DeGaton), 7. Terry Nichols (#1p Nichols-Peckfelder). 1:37.38

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (8 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Drake Edwards, 2. Jake Andreotti, 3. Ronnie Gardner, 4. Travis DeGaton, 5. Peter Paulson, 6. Barrie Valentino, 7. Kyle Hawse, 8. Terry Nichols. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Larson (3), 2. Buddy Kofoid (4), 3. Logan Seavey (1), 4. Tanner Thorson (7), 5. Carson Macedo (5), 6. Jacob Denney (11), 7. Daison Pursley (14), 8. Zach Wigal (16), 9. Cannon McIntosh (12), 10. Ryan Timms (13), 11. Emerson Axsom (10), 12. Justin Grant (18), 13. Kale Drake (8), 14. Caden Sarale (9), 15. Tyler Courtney (19), 16. Zach Daum (15), 17. Corey Day (6), 18. Gavin Miller (17), 19. Hayden Reinbold (22), 20. Drake Edwards (20), 21. Ronnie Gardner (23), 22. Jake Andreotti (21), 23. Travis DeGaton (24), 24. Karter Sarff (2). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Logan Seavey, Laps 14-30 Kyle Larson.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1390, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1336, 3-Logan Seavey-1243, 4-Ryan Timms-1211, 5-Zach Daum-1157, 6-Jacob Denney-1157, 7-Justin Grant-1095, 8-Gavin Miller-1049, 9-Zach Wigal-997, 10-Kale Drake-966.

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-206, 2-Logan Seavey-196, 3-Justin Grant-154, 4-Robert Ballou-149, 5-Kyle Cummins-131, 6-C.J. Leary-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: November 26, 2024 – Bakersfield Speedway – Bakersfield, California – 1/3-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th Annual November Classic

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Tanner Thorson

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Kale Drake

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Caden Sarale

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Emerson Axsom

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Drake Edwards

Hard Charger: Zach Wigal (16th to 8th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Buddy Kofoid

IT’S DAY’S AFTERNOON

AT MERCED’S USAC MIDGET MADNESS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Merced, California (November 24, 2024)………For nearly the entire duration of the first feature event during Sunday afternoon’s Midget Madness doubleheader at California’s Merced Speedway, Corey Day followed the top-two every step of the way around the 1/4-mile dirt oval, just waiting for his window of opportunity to arrive.

When that exact moment arrived with five laps remaining as the frontrunners contested lapped traffic, Day pounced, going from third to second, then from second to first in a two-lap span to score his first USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory in nearly three-and-a-half years.

Day’s second career USAC victory was the first for car owner Willie Kahne and his Durst – Four CCCC’s Construction – Sander Engineering/Triple X/Worth Mopar. It is believed to be the first USAC National Midget feature victory for a Mopar-powered machine since Brad Sweet’s triumph on July 4, 2010, at Sun Prairie, Wisconsin’s Angell Park Speedway more than 14 years ago.

Despite having to race his way to the front late in the going, Day (Clovis, Calif.) actually began his quest from the pole position, but quickly fell to third by the second lap as both Carson Macedo and Buddy Kofoid moved on by to occupy first and second while Day sought to find his footing.

“I just kind of stumbled off the original start,” Day admitted. “I wasn’t going to be the guy to blow it into turn one on the first lap and flip over while leading, so I just felt it out there for a while. I felt where we were good and where we weren’t.”

Day and Kofoid exchanged the runner-up spot several times before Kofoid took control by the seventh circuit while last Wednesday night’s Thunderbowl Raceway winner Macedo set a torrid pace around the high side, establishing a half-straightaway advantage by the halfway point.

Just mere moments later, while attempting to put 17th running Dane Culver a lap down in between turns three and four, Macedo and Culver connected wheels, sending Culver veering over the turn four cushion before slamming broadside into the outside wall, resulting in extensive right side damage to Culver’s machine while Macedo marched on. Culver was able to climb out and walk away.

On the ensuing restart, Macedo stretched his lead to five car lengths over Kofoid, and once again, faced the throes of traffic which simultaneously plugged the top, bottom and middle, challenging the mental and physical reflexes of the frontrunners down the stretch.

Day slipped through a crack in the door to slot into second in turn one on lap 25 as Kofoid worked the lapped cars of Emerson Axsom and Jake Andreotti. Maintaining a residence on the low groove, one lap later, Day spurted past Macedo for the lead in turns three and four as Macedo attempted to navigate his way past Caden Sarale.

“I knew that in clear air, the diamond line in one and two was really, really good,” Day explained. “You could make a lot of speed off two and down the back straightaway, but I also knew there was a thin groove you had to get down to off two or else you’d hit the rough stuff and get all messed up. I knew if I could beat those guys at the exit of two, they’d have no run after I cut them off. Luckily I got Buddy there before we got to traffic, then we got to traffic and Carson messed up sliding a car in three and four, which allowed us to get to him.”

From there on, Day possessed a slight gap between himself and the next wave of traffic, and thus, was able to expand his lead with relative ease en route to a 0.902 second victory, his first with the series since a 2021 USAC Indiana Midget Week triumph at Circle City Raceway.

Carson Macedo crossed the line in second with Buddy Kofoid third, a hard charging Kyle Larson in fourth and Karter Sarff rounding out the top-five.

Carson Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) led a race-high 26 of 30 laps on his way to a second place finish in his Dyson Motorsport/Complete Parts & Equipment – Tarlton & Son – Empire/King/Speedway Toyota, just missing out on becoming the second two-time Midget Madness feature winner after scoring at Merced in 2022.

Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.), who remains the only two-time Merced USAC Midget winner, continued his incredible run of success at Merced at the wheel of his Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/Mobil 1 – TRD – Curb Records – IWX/Lynk/Speedway Toyota. His third place result made it eight consecutive podium finishes for himself with the series at Merced dating back to 2020.

Kyle Larson (Elk Grove, Calif.) was buried deep in the field, starting from the 14th spot. But he was on the move quickly, advancing 10 spots in all to finish fourth and earn hard charger honors. The fourth place result equaled his best career Merced USAC Midget finish to that point.

Prior to this weekend, Karter Sarff (Mason City, Ill.) had never laid eyes on Merced Speedway. During the day's first program, he set his first career USAC fast time during the Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying session before equaling his best career USAC National Midget result of fifth. With that performance, he was the honored with the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 24, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Midget Madness

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Karter Sarff, 31, Beilman-11.993; 2. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.094; 3. Buddy Kofoid, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.125; 4. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.170; 5. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-12.173; 6. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-12.174; 7. Tanner Thorson, 25m, Malloy-12.191; 8. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-12.218; 9. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-12.261; 10. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-12.263; 11. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Silva-12.301; 12. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.327; 13. Kyle Larson, 1K, Silva-12.360; 14. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.383; 15. Zach Daum, 31B, Beilman-12.383; 16. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-12.389; 17. Caden Sarale, 32, Sarale-12.432; 18. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-12.497; 19. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-12.521; 20. Dane Culver, 50, Knuckles Up-12.570; 21. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-12.609; 22. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-12.614; 23. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.645; 24. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-13.142; 25. Peter Paulson, Q32, El Toro-13.164; 26. Barrie Valentino, Q23, El Toro-13.272; 27. Travis DeGaton, 39T, DeGaton-13.300; 28. Kyle Hawse, 20x, Hawse-13.307; 29. Terry Nichols, 1p, Nichols/Peckfelder-NT; 30. Alex Karpowicz, 19, Mounce/Stout-NT; 31. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-NT; 32. Austin Torgerson, 88A, Mounce/Stout-NT.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Logan Seavey, 2. Kyle Larson, 3. Carson Macedo, 4. Karter Sarff, 5. Caden Sarale, 6. Hayden Reinbold, 7. Peter Paulson, 8. Terry Nichols. 1:38.85

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jacob Denney, 2. Cannon McIntosh, 3. Zach Wigal, 4. Drake Edwards, 5. Corey Day, 6. Emerson Axsom, 7. Barrie Valentino. 1:39.12

T.J. FORGED THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Buddy Kofoid, 2. Kale Drake, 3. Justin Grant, 4. Tanner Thorson, 5. Zach Daum, 6. Tyler Courtney, 7. Travis DeGaton. 1:39.54

CAR IQ FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Jake Andreotti, 2. Daison Pursley, 3. Ryan Timms, 4. Gavin Miller, 5. Dane Culver, 6. Ronnie Gardner, 7. Kyle Hawse. 1:43.70

ELLIOTT’S CUSTOM TRAILERS & CARTS SEMI: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. Tyler Courtney, 2. Emerson Axsom, 3. Hayden Reinbold, 4. Ronnie Gardner, 5. Travis DeGaton, 6. Peter Paulson, 7. Barrie Valentino, 8. Kyle Hawse. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Corey Day (1), 2. Carson Macedo (2), 3. Buddy Kofoid (4), 4. Kyle Larson (14), 5. Karter Sarff (6), 6. Logan Seavey (7), 7. Jacob Denney (8), 8. Cannon McIntosh (5), 9. Tanner Thorson (10), 10. Ryan Timms (3), 11. Daison Pursley (11), 12. Zach Daum (16), 13. Zach Wigal (18), 14. Kale Drake (23), 15. Gavin Miller (13), 16. Justin Grant (19), 17. Tyler Courtney (12), 18. Drake Edwards (22), 19. Caden Sarale (17), 20. Emerson Axsom (15), 21. Jake Andreotti (9), 22. Hayden Reinbold (21), 23. Dane Culver (20), 24. Ronnie Gardner (24). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-26 Carson Macedo, Laps 27-30 Corey Day.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1338, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1290, 3-Logan Seavey-1179, 4-Ryan Timms-1168, 5-Zach Daum-1126, 6-Jacob Denney-1102, 7-Justin Grant-1056, 8-Gavin Miller-1022, 9-Zach Wigal-948, 10-Kale Drake-929.

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-199, 2-Logan Seavey-196, 3-Robert Ballou-149, 4-Justin Grant-148, 5-Kyle Cummins-131, 6-C.J. Leary-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: November 24, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Midget Madness

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Ryan Timms (12.130)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Karter Sarff (11.993)

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Logan Seavey

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Jacob Denney

T.J. Forged Third Heat Winner: Buddy Kofoid

Car IQ Fourth Heat Winner: Jake Andreotti

Elliott’s Custom Trailers & Carts Semi Winner: Tyler Courtney

Hard Charger: Kyle Larson (14th to 4th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Karter Sarff

MERCED’S USAC MIDGET MADNESS POSTPONED,

DOUBLE FEATURES ON SUNDAY

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Merced, California (November 23, 2024)………Saturday night’s scheduled Midget Madness opener featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship at California’s Merced Speedway has been postponed.

The event will now be run as part of a doubleheader program on Sunday, November 24, which will present two complete, full events for the series consisting of a pair of 30-lap features at the 1/4-mile dirt oval.

Heavy and steady overnight on Friday and Saturday rain doused the track with moisture. Despite yeoman’s work by the track crew all day, the surface was unable to smoothed out into a safe and raceable condition. Thirty-three drivers and cars were signed in for the event.

Sunday’s event at Merced will now see the front gates opening at Noon Pacific time with the drivers meeting also set for noon and hot laps at 12:30pm.

The racing program on Sunday will run a full program for the USAC National Midgets, consisting of two-lap qualifying, heat races, a semi-feature and a 30-lap feature event.

Following the conclusion of the first program, a second event will occur with a bit of a twist on the format. No qualifying will be held, but instead, heat race lineups will be based on the finishing order of the first feature. The first feature winner will receive the one seed with the second-place finisher getting the second seed, and so on, which will, in essence, act as the official qualifying time.

The number one seed will line up in the 6th position of Saturday night’s heat race one and the number two seed will line up in the 6th position of heat race two, and so forth. From there on, the “traditional” USAC format for heat races will take over with the top-six transferring/getting their qualifying time back from each of the heat races, etc.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 23, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval –Midget Madness

DRIVERS & CARS IN ATTENDANCE: (33) Jake Andreotti (#00 Davis), Kyle Larson (#1K Silva), Terry Nichols (#1p Nichols-Peckfelder), Justin Grant (#2 RMS), Drake Edwards (#3p Petty), Corey Day (#4 Kahne), Chase McDermand (#8w Ford), Santino Ferrucci (#16 Abacus), Alex Karpowicz (#19 Mounce-Stout), Hayden Reinbold (#19AZ Reinbold-Underwood), Kyle Hawse (#20x Hawse), Tyler Courtney (#23c Silva), Barrie Valentino (#Q23 El Toro), Jacob Denney (#25 Malloy), Tanner Thorson (#25m Malloy), Karter Sarff (#31 Beilman), Zach Daum (#31B Beilman), Caden Sarale (#32 Sarale), Peter Paulson (#Q32 El Toro), Travis DeGaton (#39T DeGaton), Dane Culver (#50 Knuckles Up), Logan Seavey (#57 Abacus), Ryan Timms (#67 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Emerson Axsom (#67K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Ronnie Gardner (#68 Six8), Buddy Kofoid (#71 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Cannon McIntosh (#71K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Daison Pursley (#86 CBI), Austin Torgerson (#88A Mounce-Stout), Zach Wigal (#89 CBI), Gavin Miller (#97 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Kale Drake (#97K Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), Carson Macedo (#99AU Dyson).

EVENT CANCELED DUE TO WET TRACK CONDITIONS

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1290, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1229, 3-Ryan Timms-1116, 4-Logan Seavey-1116, 5-Zach Daum-1083, 6-Jacob Denney-1042, 7-Justin Grant-1019, 8-Gavin Miller-984, 9-Zach Wigal-905, 10-Kale Drake-887.

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-199, 2-Logan Seavey-195, 3-Robert Ballou-149, 4-Justin Grant-145, 5-Kyle Cummins-131, 6-C.J. Leary-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: November 24, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Midget Madness

PENULTIMATE CHALLENGE!

USAC MIDGET NOVEMBER CLASSIC

HITS BAKERSFIELD NOV. 26

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Bakersfield, California (November 22, 2024)………The California roads lead the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship to Bakersfield Speedway for the penultimate round of the season on Tuesday night, November 26.

The eighth annual November Classic brings three past event winners in NASCAR Cup champ Kyle Larson (2019), plus two-time USAC National Midget titlists Logan Seavey (2018 & 2023) and Buddy Kofoid (2020 & 2021) as well as a two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion, Kyle Busch, making his midget racing debut.

Thirty-six (36) entries are expected to sign in for the event at the 1/3-mile clay oval, which first hosted USAC National Midget racing in 1959.

Among the 36 are Emerson Axsom, twice a Bakersfield runner-up finisher in 2021 and 2023. In both of those same years, Justin Grant finished third each time. Tyler Courtney, the 2019 USAC National Midget champion, took third at Bakersfield back in 2021.

The 2016 series king, Tanner Thorson, collected a fast qualifying time and a third place result in 2017. Cannon McIntosh also set fast time in 2021 before coming home fourth in the feature at Bako in 2022 and 2023 while Carson Macedo, a victor last Wednesday at Tulare’s Thunderbowl Raceway, scored a fifth in 2023.

At press time, Daison Pursley leads the 2024 USAC National Midget standings and enters the event with a best Bakersfield performance of 6th in 2023. Jacob Denney raced to a 9th in 2023 while Hayden Reinbold rounded out the top-10 in 2023.

Also returning to the Bakersfield lineup are six-time Bakersfield USAC Western States Midget winner Ronnie Gardner, a 16th place finisher with the USAC National Midgets there in 2017. Cade Lewis is a Bakersfield native and was this year’s USAC Western States Midget champion. He finished 16th in the 2023 November Classic. Lewis’ car owner, Dean Alexander, scored a USAC Western States Midget win at Bakersfield back in 2019.

Another Bakersfield native, Brody Fuson, captured a USAC West Coast Sprint Car victory at his hometown track in 2022. Furthermore, he finished 17th with the USAC National Midgets there in 2022. Jake Andreotti took 11th in the 2023 November Classic and also captured a USAC Micro Sprint win at Bako in 2016. USAC National Midget feature winners Gavin Miller and Ryan Timms each notched a 13th in the event in 2022 and 2023, respectively.

Exactly one-half of the field is looking to make their first Bakersfield USAC National Midget feature starts. Among them are Drake Edwards and Terry Nichols, each of whom have been victorious with the Western Midget Racing series at Bakersfield in 2023 and 2024, respectively.

Two others, Corey Day and Cale Coons, have fathers who’ve experienced their fair share of success at Bakersfield. Corey’s father, Ronnie Day, scored four Bako victories with the BCRA Midgets, NARC Sprint Cars and USAC Western States Midgets between 1992-2002. Cale, son of Jerry Coons Jr., will be making his USAC National Midget debut. Jerry finished third with the USAC National Midgets at Bakersfield in 1998.

Additional first-time Bakersfield USAC Midget starting hopefuls include two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch in his USAC debut. Four USAC National Midget winners are set for Bakersfield: Zach Daum and Chase McDermand, plus top series Rookies Kale Drake and Zach Wigal.

They’ll be joined in the Bakersfield lineup by Stevie Sussex, Karter Sarff, Brandt Twitty, cousins Todd Hawse and Kyle Hawse, Alex Karpowicz, Troy DeGaton, Abby Hohlbein and Austin Torgerson, all eying first Bakersfield USAC National Midget feature starts.

RACE DETAILS

The Tuesday, November 26, running of the November Classic at California’s Bakersfield Speedway features the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship and the California Lightning Sprints.

Pits open at 2pm Pacific with the gates opening at 4pm, the drivers meeting at 4:30pm and cars on track at 5pm.

Adult general admission tickets are $25. Kids 6-12 general admission tickets are $15. Kids 5 and under general admission tickets are free. Ages 65+ and military (ID required) general admission tickets are $22. Pit passes are $50 ($45 for USAC members).

Advance tickets are available now at https://tickethoss.com/event/687.

USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets and California’s Bakersfield Speedway have a history that dates back six decades. Davey Moses won the first trip by the USAC National Midgets in the summer of 1959. Over that period, 25 series races have been held at the lightning-quick 1/3-mile that has been both paved and dirt throughout its history.

The November Classic from Bakersfield will be streamed live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.

BAKERSFIELD USAC MIDGET ENTRY LIST: (36)

00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)

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

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

2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)

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

4 COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne)

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

8w CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)

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

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

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

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

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

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

25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)

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

31 KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

31B ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

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

51 BRODY FUSON/Bakersfield, CA (Rusty Carlile)

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

55 ABBY HOHLBEIN/Cloverdale, OH (Lambert Motorsports)

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)

63 CALE COONS/Greencastle, IN (Joe Dooling)

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

67K EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

68 RONNIE GARDNER/Corona, CA (Six8 Motorsports)

71 BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

71K CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

86 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries)

88A AUSTIN TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

89 ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries)

97 GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

97K KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

99AU CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport)

101 CADE LEWIS/Bakersfield, CA (Dean Alexander)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT BAKERSFIELD SPEEDWAY:

1 Lap - 11/16/2021 - Cannon McIntosh - 12.347 - 97.092 mph

6 Laps - 11/23/1991 - Lynn Carter - 1:26.460 - 83.192 mph

8 Laps - 11/17/2018 - Tyler Courtney - 1:43.590 - 92.580 mph

10 Laps - 11/17/2020 - Jonathan Beason - 2:03.059 - 97.417 mph

12 Laps - 11/16/2021 - Chase Randall - 2:31.417 - 95.077 mph

15 Laps - 11/25/1993 - Sleepy Tripp - 3:25.910 - 87.678 mph

100 Laps - 11/23/1995 - Billy Boat - 26:58.12 - 74.086 mph

BAKERSFIELD USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS:

3-Jay Drake & Billy Vukovich

2-Buddy Kofoid, Logan Seavey, Ron Shuman & Sleepy Tripp

1-Brady Bacon, Billy Boat, Dave Darland, Terry Farrar, Jordan Hermansader, Page Jones, Kyle Larson, Thomas Meseraull, Davey Moses, Frank Secrist & Rich Vogler

BAKERSFIELD USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS:

1959: Davey Moses (8/2)

1966: Frank Secrist (8/14) & Billy Vukovich (9/11)

1967: Billy Vukovich (7/2) & Billy Vukovich (7/16)

1974: Sleepy Tripp (11/24)

1988: Rich Vogler (11/11)

1989: Sleepy Tripp (11/18)

1990: Terry Farrar (11/17)

1991: Page Jones (11/23)

1992: Ron Shuman (11/26)

1993: Ron Shuman (11/25)

1994: Jordan Hermansader (11/24)

1995: Billy Boat (11/23)

1997: Jay Drake (11/22)

1998: Jay Drake (11/26)

1999: Dave Darland (11/20)

2000: Jay Drake (11/18)

2017: Brady Bacon (11/18)

2018: Logan Seavey (11/17)

2019: Kyle Larson (11/23)

2020: Buddy Kofoid (11/17)

2021: Buddy Kofoid (11/16)

2022: Thomas Meseraull (11/15)

2023: Logan Seavey (11/14)

BAKERSFIELD SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RESULTS:

1959 FEATURE: 1. Davey Moses, 2. Joe Garson, 3. Billy Cantrell, 4. Norm Rapp, 5. Cal Niday, 6. Johnny Wood, 7. Leroy Neumayer, 8. Gene Gurney, 9. Johnny Melton, 10. Jim Gilchrist, 11. Johnnie Tolan, 12. Chuck Booth, 13. Dempsey Wilson, 14. Joe Soares, 15. Norm Hall, 16. Don Staudinger. NT

1966 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Frank Secrist, 2. George Benson, 3. Duane Sears, 4. Tom Trader, 5. Johnny Moorhouse, 6. Larry Ferrua, 7. Jimmy Caruthers, 8. Jim Bob Luebbert, 9. Bernie Schechter, 10. Al Henderson, 11. Ned Spath, 12. Clark Templeman, 13. Ed Johns, 14. Joe Garson, 15. Walt Kennedy, 16. Paul Jones, 17. Porky Rachwitz, 18. Jack Sachse. NT

1966 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Billy Vukovich, 2.Al Henderson, 3. George Benson, 4. Rick Henderson, 5. Jimmy Caruthers, 6. Don Melton, 7. Billy Wilkerson, 8. Dickie Deis, 9. Bruce Walkup, 10. Johnny Moorhouse, 11. Tom Trader, 12. Ed Johns, 13. Ron Hughes, 14. Mike Mosley, 15. Paul Jones, 16. Frank Secrist, 17. George Todd, 18. Larry Ferrua.

1967 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Billy Vukovich, 2. Duane Sears, 3. Mike McGreevy, 4. Hank Butcher, 5. Johnny Moorhouse, 6. George Benson, 7. Jan Opperman, 8. Dave Strickland, 9. Herman Hutton, 10. Walt Kennedy, 11. Billy Wilkerson, 12. Gil Alcala, 13. Don Sparks, 14. Henry Rossi, 15. Don White, 16. Ray Lattie, 17. Ed Johns, 18. Dickie Deis. NT

1967 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Billy Vukovich, 2. Walt Kennedy, 3. George Benson, 4. Johnny Moorhouse, 5. Larry Ferrua, 6. Dickie Deis, 7. Ray Lattie, 8. Ron Hughes, 9. Jerry Welton, 10. Clark Templeman, 11. Tom McCoy, 12. Jim Vaughan, 13. Sonny White, 14. Dennis Johansen, 15. Jack Yeley, 16. Porky Rachwitz, 17. Johnny Parsons, 18. Billy Wilkerson. NT

1974 FEATURE: (30 laps), 1. Sleepy Tripp, 2. Chuck Gurney, 3. Pancho Carter, 4. Mel Kenyon, 5. Jimmy Caruthers, 6. Jerry Weeks, 7. Danny O'Neill, 8. Bill Weingarten, 9. Danny McKnight, 10. Larry Rice, 11. Johnny Anderson, 12. Jim Beckley, 13. Gary Irvin, 14. Mark Alderson, 15. Wheeler Gresham, 16. Hank Butcher, 17. Roger Mears, 18. Bobby Tripp, 19. Jeff Heywood, 20. George Snider.

1988 FEATURE (40 laps) 1. Rich Vogler, 2. Darryl Haugh, 3. Wally Pankratz, 4. Kevin Olson, 5. Dave Strickland Jr., 6. Ken Nichols, 7. Mario Bringetto Jr., 8. Tommy White, 9. Chuck West, 10. Floyd Alvis, 11. Johnny Cofer, 12. Rick Zermani, 13. Rusty Rasmussen, 14. Jim Berg, 15. Larry Derwin, 16. Joe Winters, 17. Sleepy Tripp, 18. Robby Flock, 19. P.J. Jones, 20. Frank Pedregon, 21. John Starks, 22. Terry Wente. NT

1989 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Sleepy Tripp, 2. Mario Bringetto Jr., 3. Jimmy Sills, 4. Terry Farrar, 5. Kevin Olson, 6. Wally Pankratz, 7. Dirk VanCott, 8. Kevin Doty, 9. Bob Davison, 10. Dennis Hart, 11. Terry Tarditi, 12. Ray Derby, 13. Hank Butcher, 14. Jeff Gordon, 15. P.J. Jones, 16. Ron Hughes Jr., 17. Rick Taylor, 18. Tommy White, 19. Dan Drinan, 20. Frank Pedregon. NT

1990 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Terry Farrar, 2. Dave Strickland Jr., 3. Sleepy Tripp, 4. Ricky Gray, 5. P.J. Jones, 6. Jeff Gordon, 7. Russ Gamester, 8. Mike Streicher, 9. Robby Flock, 10. Rick Taylor, 11. John McLaughlin, 12. George Ito, 13. Terry Tarditi, 14. Ray Derby, 15. Kevin Doty, 16. Mike Appio, 17. Lee Yetter, 18. Frank Pedregon, 19. Kevin Olson, 20. Stephen Lewis.

1991 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Page Jones, 2. P.J. Jones, 3. Stevie Reeves, 4. Robby Flock, 5. Doug Kalitta, 6. Mike Streicher, 7. Johnny Cofer, 8. Tony Elliott, 9. Andy Pierce, 10. Jordan Hermansader, 11. Tyce Carlson, 12. Critter Malone, 13. Terry Tarditi, 14. John Kaiser, 15. Stan Fox, 16. Doug Silva, 17. Wally Pankratz, 18. Ricky Gray, 19. George Ito, 20. Keith Rauch. NT

1992 FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Ron Shuman, 2. Tony Elliott, 3. Stevie Reeves, 4. Hank Butcher, 5. Chuck Gurney, 6. Stan Fox, 7. John Heydenreich, 8. George Ito, 9. Brent Kaeding, 10. Brett Horrobin, 11. Keith Chrisco, 12. Jordan Hermansader, 13. Mike Streicher, 14. Glenn Carson, 15, Joe Gaerte, 16. Lealand McSpadden, 17. Jimmy Sills, 18. Jason Jonkman, 19, John Harkrader, 20. Page Jones, 21. Billy Garcia, 22. Sleepy Tripp, 23. Billy Boat, 24. Terry Tarditi. NT

1993 FEATURE: (100 laps): 1. Ron Shuman, 2. Robby Flock, 3. Johnny Cofer, 4. George Ito, 5. Jay Drake, 6. Wally Pankratz, 7. Tony Stewart, 8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Keith Rauch, 10. Stan Fox, 11. Ron Hazelton, 12. Keith Chrisco, 13. Chuck Gurney, 14. Hank Butcher, 15. Rick Hendrix, 16. Richard Griffin, 17. Stevie Reeves, 18. Page Jones, 19. Jimmy Sills, 20. Robert Dolacki, 21. Ronnie Day, 22. Sleepy Tripp, 23. Cary Faas, 24. Billy Boat. NT

1994 FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Jordan Hermansader, 2. Hank Butcher, 3. Kenny Irwin Jr., 4. Billy Boat, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Danny Lasoski, 7. Johnny Cofer, 8. George Ito, 9. Jack Runyon, 10. Sleepy Tripp, 11. Robby Flock, 12. Robert Dolacki, 13. Ronnie Day, 14. Tony Elliott, 15. Jay Drake, 16. Ronnie Johncox, 17. Jimmy Sills, 18. Jason Leffler, 19. Rick Hendrix, 20. Wally Pankratz, 21. Tony Stewart, 22. Lealand McSpadden, 23. Donnie Beechler, 24. Andy Michner. 25:56.85

1995 FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Billy Boat, 2. Kenny Irwin Jr., 3. Kevin Doty, 4. Richard Griffin, 5. Rick Hendrix, 6. George Ito, 7. Tony Stewart, 8. Jimmy Sills, 9. Andy Michner, 10. Ron Shuman, 11. Hank Butcher, 12. Larry Brown, 13. Shane Scully, 14. J.J. Ercse, 15. Frankie Kerr, 16. Jeremy Sherman, 17. Danny Lasoski, 18. Jason Leffler, 19. Wally Pankratz, 20. Jim Keene, 21. Jay Drake, 22. Brian Gerster, 23. Johnny Cofer, 24. J.R. Lawson. 26:58.12

1997 FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Billy Boat, 2. Jay Drake, 3. Jimmy Sills, 4. Wally Pankratz, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Ricky Shelton, 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Clay Klepper, 9. Craig Brady, 10. Dwayne Marcum, 11. Rick Hendrix, 12. Shane Scully, 13. Steve Paden, 14. Cory Kruseman, 15. Larry Brown, 16. Jason Leffler, 17. Nick Lundgreen, 18. Steve Barth, 19. John Heydenreich, 20. Danny Lasoski, 21. Dave Darland, 22. Kevin Thomas, 23. Robert Dolacki, 24. Marc DeBeaumont. NT

1998 FEATURE: (100 laps - Held Nov. 26) 1. Jay Drake, 2. Jason Leffler, 3. Jerry Coons, Jr., 4. Dave Darland, 5. Kasey Kahne, 6. Dan Boorse, 7. Jimmy Sills, 8. Ricky Shelton, 9. Keith Rauch, 10. Brian Tyler, 11. Robby Flock, 12. Michael Lewis, 13. Ronnie Day, 14. Rick Hendrix, 15. Aaron Fiscus, 16. Dane Carter, 17. Kevin Doty, 18. Scott Hansen, 19. Steve Paden, 20. Brian Stanfill, 21. Shane Scully, 22. Jordan Hermansader, 23. John Starks, 24. Donnie Beechler. NT

1999 FEATURE: (50 Laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Jay Drake, 3. Michael Lewis, 4. Travis Welpott (#8), 5. Marc DeBeaumont, 6. Wally Pankratz, 7. Clay Klepper, 8. Glenn Carson, 9. Bobby Boone, 10. Steve Paden, 11. Dane Carter, 12. Rick Vaughn, 13. Dave Stoltz, 14. A.J. Felker (MCI), 15. Jerry Coons, Jr., 16. Bryan Stanfill, 17. Ed Carpenter, 18. Dwayne Marcum, 19. Derrick Hearron, 20. Ryan Newman, 21. Dean Alexander, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Bud Kaeding, 24. Bruce Donaldson, 25. Thomas Meseraull. NT

2000 FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Jay Drake, 2. Kasey Kahne, 3. Aaron Fike, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Ronnie Day, 6. Bud Kaeding, 7. Thomas Meseraull, 8. Steve Paden, 9. Keith Rauch, 10. Bryan Stanfill, 11. Jimmy Sills, 12. John Nervo, 13. Jimmy Christian, 14. Dwayne Marcum, 15. A.J. Johnson, 16. Sarah McCune, 17. Derrick Hearron, 18. Ryan Scott, 19. Wally Pankratz (#37x), 20. Rick Hendrix, 21. Dave Darland, 22. Marc DeBeaumont, 23. Shane Scully, 24. Michael Lewis. NT

2017: 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Spencer Bayston, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Tyler Courtney, 5. Justin Grant, 6. Shane Golobic, 7. Ryan Robinson, 8. Alex Schutte, 9. Michael Faccinto, 10. Tanner Carrick, 11. Frankie Guerrini, 12. Chad Boat, 13. Courtney Crone, 14. Matt Mitchell, 15. David Prickett, 16. Ronnie Gardner, 17. Michael Pickens, 18. Cory Elliott, 19. Zeb Wise, 20. Robert Dalby, 21. Mason Daniel, 22. Holly Shelton, 23. Dustin Golobic, 24. Shannon McQueen. NT

2018: (starting position in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (1), 2. Rico Abreu (2), 3. Shane Golobic (6), 4. Spencer Bayston (11), 5. Chad Boat (7), 6. Tanner Carrick (13), 7. Brady Bacon (4), 8. Holly Shelton (25), 9. Jason McDougal (21), 10. Tucker Klaasmeyer (9), 11. Jerry Coons, Jr. (22), 12. Cole Bodine (23), 13. Cody Swanson (17), 14. Sam Johnson (8), 15. Dustin Golobic (3), 16. Robert Dalby (24), 17. Alex Schutte (16), 18. Holley Hollan (18), 19. C.J. Sarna (26), 20. Zeb Wise (5), 21. Ryan Robinson (10), 22. Tyler Courtney (15), 23. Sterling Cling (19), 24. Michael Faccinto (14), 25. Justin Grant (12), 26. Michael Pickens (20). NT

2019: (starting position in parentheses) 1. Kyle Larson (6), 2. Michael Pickens (1), 3. Rico Abreu (12), 4. Tyler Courtney (10), 5. Jesse Colwell (4), 6. Jason McDougal (2), 7. Gio Scelzi (9), 8. Thomas Meseraull (20), 9. Jerry Coons, Jr. (5), 10. Tanner Carrick (16), 11. Tucker Klaasmeyer (21), 12. Chase Johnson (13), 13. Buddy Kofoid (15), 14. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (11), 15. Carson Macedo (14), 16. Chris Windom (19), 17. Ethan Mitchell (18), 18. Spencer Bayston (3), 19. Daison Pursley (23), 20. Cory Elliott (25), 21. Robert Dalby (24), 22. Aaron Reutzel (7), 23. Logan Seavey (8), 24. Cannon McIntosh (22), 25. Zeb Wise (17). NT

2020 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (5), 2. Kyle Larson (2), 3. Tyler Courtney (3), 4. Chase Johnson (1), 5. Spencer Bayston (4), 6. Chris Windom (20), 7. Tanner Thorson (6), 8. Cannon McIntosh (16), 9. Justin Grant (14), 10. Carson Macedo (21), 11. Jonathan Beason (8), 12. Emerson Axsom (12), 13. Clinton Boyles (10), 14. Ethan Mitchell (11), 15. Kaylee Bryson (7), 16. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (9), 17. Andrew Layser* (24), 18. Michael Faccinto (13), 19. Tanner Carrick (15), 20. Cole Bodine* (23), 21. Bryant Wiedeman (19), 22. Frankie Guerrini (22), 23. Thomas Meseraull (18), 24. Daison Pursley (17). NT

2021 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (2), 2. Emerson Axsom (1), 3. Justin Grant (4), 4. Tanner Thorson (5), 5. Cannon McIntosh (11), 6. Cory Eliason (8), 7. Chris Windom (7), 8. Bryant Wiedeman (3), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 10. Logan Seavey (17), 11. Thomas Meseraull (22), 12. Tanner Carrick (20), 13. Brenham Crouch (15), 14. Kaylee Bryson (19), 15. Ryan Timms (13), 16. Tony Gomes (18), 17. Taylor Reimer (16), 18. Chase Randall (12), 19. Jade Avedisian (6), 20. Carson Macedo (10), 21. Ethan Mitchell (14), 22. Michael Faccinto (21). NT

2022 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Thomas Meseraull (3), 2. Michael Pickens (4), 3. Buddy Kofoid (6), 4. Cannon McIntosh (5), 5. Logan Seavey (7), 6. Justin Grant (10), 7. Brenham Crouch (16), 8. Emerson Axsom (8), 9. Chance Crum (14), 10. Spencer Bayston (21), 11. Bryant Wiedeman (13), 12. Kaylee Bryson (15), 13. Gavin Miller (17), 14. Jake Andreotti (11), 15. Jade Avedisian (9), 16. Dominic Gorden (22), 17. Alex Bright (18), 18. Mitchel Moles (2), 19. Hayden Reinbold (20), 20. Cade Lewis (24-P), 21. Daison Pursley (12), 22. Taylor Reimer (1), 23. Jacob Denney (23-P), 24. Jason McDougal (19). NT

2023 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (9), 2. Emerson Axsom (1), 3. Justin Grant (2), 4. Cannon McIntosh (5), 5. Carson Macedo (7), 6. Daison Pursley (8), 7. Taylor Reimer (6), 8. Jade Avedisian (14), 9. Jacob Denney (13), 10. Hayden Reinbold (17), 11. Jake Andreotti (10), 12. Bryant Wiedeman (16), 13. Ryan Timms (18), 14. Buddy Kofoid (4), 15. Mitchel Moles (21), 16. Cade Lewis (12), 17. Brody Fuson (22), 18. Chance Crum (20), 19. Shannon McQueen (15), 20. Mariah Ede (19), 21. Gavin Miller (3), 22. Michael Faccinto (11). NT

$25,000 TITLE PRIZE AWAITS

USAC INDIANA SPRINT WEEK COMPETITORS IN 2025

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (November 21, 2024)………USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competitors will battle for a $25,000 championship prize during the 2025 edition of NOS Energy Drink USAC Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing.

The 38th annual event will consist of seven events at seven different Hoosier state dirt tracks between July 25 and August 2. Furthermore, each of the seven feature events will pay $8,000-to-win during the traditional summer event, which debuted in 1988.

“Indiana Sprint Week, as a whole, is a crown jewel of the USAC Sprint Car schedule, and this takes it to that level with the championship payoff,” USAC’s Kirk Spridgeon said. “This is a credit to the support of our returning partners who have been able to quadruple the Indiana Sprint Week payoff in a four-year timeframe.”

Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway will host the opener of the series on Friday, July 25. From there, the schedule travels to Kokomo Speedway on Saturday, July 26, then it’s onto Lawrenceburg Speedway on Sunday, July 27, to complete the first weekend.

After a two-day break from on-track action, the series resumes at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis on Wednesday, July 30, before venturing over to the Terre Haute Action Track on Thursday, July 31. Bloomington Speedway’s annual Friday night round is set for Friday, August 1 with the series finale heading to Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, August 2.

The inaugural Indiana Sprint Week took place in 1988 and has been sanctioned by USAC starting with the 1996 season. The 2025 edition will mark 30 years under the USAC banner.

Logan Seavey captured the most recent USAC Indiana Sprint Week title in 2024. The list of past series champions includes Randy Kinser (1988), Chuck Amati (1989 & 1990-co), Gary Trammell (1990-co), Bob Kinser (1991), Kevin Thomas (1992, 1993, 1995 & 1996), Kelly Kinser (1994), J.J. Yeley (1997 & 2003), Dave Darland (1998, 2001 & 2007), Tony Elliott (1999), Jay Drake (2000), Cory Kruseman (2002 & 2005), Levi Jones (2004, 2008, 2009 & 2012), Jon Stanbrough (2006 & 2010), Chris Windom (2011 & 2018), Bryan Clauson (2013 & 2014), Robert Ballou (2015), Brady Bacon (2016 & 2023), Kevin Thomas Jr. (2017 & 2021), C.J. Leary (2019), Chase Stockon (2020) and Justin Grant (2022).

MERCED’S USAC MIDGET MADNESS

SHIFTS TO SATURDAY-SUNDAY, NOV. 23-24

Merced, California (November 21, 2024)………The USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship weekend at California’s Merced Speedway has been shifted to a Saturday-Sunday schedule to be held on November 23-24.

Rain has forced cancellation of the originally scheduled Friday, November 22, program. Instead, Tarlton & Sons Presents Midget Madness will now take place at the high-banked 1/4-mile dirt oval with two complete programs on Saturday-Sunday, November 23-24.

Thirty-three drivers have announced their intentions of competing at Merced, including past Midget Madness winners Buddy Kofoid, Logan Seavey, Carson Macedo, Tanner Thorson and Justin Grant, plus NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Larson, Indianapolis 500 veteran Santino Ferrucci and many more.

On Saturday, pits will open at 2pm Pacific with the drivers meeting set for 4:30pm, the grandstands opening at 5pm, and hot laps at 5:30pm. The program will feature the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship, plus 360 winged sprint cars and the BCRA Lightning Sprints.

On Sunday, pits will open at 1pm Pacific with the drivers meeting set for 3:30pm, the grandstands opening at 4pm and hot laps at 4:30pm. The program will feature the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship, plus 360 winged sprint cars.

Both nights, tickets are $30 for ages 16 and up and $15 for ages 6-15. Ages 5 and under are admitted for free. Pit passes are $50 ($45 for USAC members).

Pre-purchased tickets for Friday’s originally scheduled event will be refunded.

Tickets are available online at www.mercedspeedway.net and will also be available to purchase at the front gate.

Camping for this event is available and for those fans looking to do so, all arrangements need to me made directly through the Merced County Fairgrounds.

Merced Speedway is located at 900 Martin Luther King Drive Merced, CA 95341.

HERE’S CARSON!

TIMELY BOOST & LATE RACE HEROICS

NET MACEDO TULARE USAC MIDGET WIN

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Tulare, California (November 20, 2024)………Sometimes, when you feel like you’re down and out, the one thing you really need to keep you going is a little boost.

Carson Macedo knows the feeling after a frantic late-race sequence saw him leading on one lap, then thinking his race was over the next lap before getting hit by another car, then charging his way back to the front and into victory lane during Wednesday night’s USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature event at Tulare, California’s Thunderbowl Raceway.

The ringer Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) persevered through came during a three-lap span late in the going of the 30-lap main event at the 1/3-mile dirt oval. However, for the first 25 circuits, Macedo was in full control in what was his first appearance of the series season aboard his Dyson Motorsport/Complete Parts & Equipment – Tarlton & Son – Empire/King/Speedway Toyota, an Australian based team with a car built by a New Zealand based chassis company.

As Macedo rounded turns three and four along the inside berm with five laps remaining, his car inexplicably, and suddenly, stalled. As he began to coast, the lapped car of Dane Culver banged into the back end of Macedo’s car. As flame flickered from the headers, miraculously, Macedo’s car regained power and continued on its merry way.

“Before the race started, it was kind of spitting and sputtering,” Macedo revealed. “I was nervous that something wasn’t going right. Then we fired off and it felt good, and then the lap before that, I actually lifted on the bottom and it just died. I came around the next lap and thought, ‘man, maybe that was just a weird deal,’ then it did it again really badly. I actually didn’t get refired until the guy behind me ran into the back of me!”

When the yellow flag was displayed a split second later, the moment was not all lost for Macedo. The caution was deemed an inadvertent yellow, thus, according to Section 1406, Part I of the USAC National Midget rulebook, “a car that an inadvertent yellow is displayed for will be positioned in order of positions lost.”

As Jacob Denney scooted underneath Macedo for the lead in turn four on lap 26, Denney became the new leader while Macedo was relegated back to second, which is where he was running when the yellow was displayed.

On the ensuing restart, Macedo wound it up on the high line, and on lap 27, used his momentum off turn four to slingshot under Denney entering turn one. Macedo’s first attempt was unsuccessful as he slid in front of Denney on the entry to turn one, but was unable to make the move stick as Denney darted back under Macedo off turn two. However, on lap 28, Macedo reloaded and stuck the move on the second try, then raced away over the final 3.5 laps to victory by a 1.178 second margin.

“When he went to the lead, I thought, if he’s running the top, I’m going to be in trouble, especially in one and two, but he cheated it down there and I was able to get a run,” Macedo recalled. “I knew he was going to the bottom in three and four, so I just figured I’m not going to win if I follow him down there. I might as well give it everything I’ve got and it worked out.”

For car owner Sean Dyson, it’s the third year in a row his team has won a USAC National Midget feature with the first two coming at California’s Merced Speedway with Macedo in 2022 and Spencer Bayston in 2023.

“I really had to get up on the wheel and earn that win,” Macedo explained. “I was excited there after the race. I know these races are hard to win, and it just felt really special racing with my buddy Sean Dyson. He ships this car all the way over from Australia. It’s a lot of money and a lot of work and a lot of effort, so it feels good to reward him with a win.”

Crossing the finish line behind Macedo on this night at Tulare for the series’ first visit since 2010 were runner-up Jacob Denney and third-place finisher Cannon McIntosh while Corey Day came home fourth and Logan Seavey rounded out the top-five.

Not that Macedo needed any more motivation, but seeing his name in a mid-pack tier in an online picking contest provided him some extra ammo going into the night. When all was said and done, Macedo swept the night at Tulare where he had won his most recent visit this past September with the World of Outlaws. This time, he was twice victorious, winning both the Kings of Thunder 360 Sprint Car feature followed by the USAC National Midget main.

“I had some motivation going into tonight,” Macedo pointed out after his second career USAC National Midget score. “I was looking at the pool and saw I was in group C and I thought man, I’ve got to get up in the seat. I know these midget guys are really good, especially the guys who run them all year long and are really comfortable in these cars. It felt good to be comfortable tonight. This track is a little bigger, so I can move around and run it more like a winged sprint car.”

Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio) turned in his best result of the year, leading two laps late en route to a runner-up result in his Tom Malloy/Trench Shoring – Rodela Specialty Fabrication – Race for Chase/LynK/Ed Pink Toyota. With it, the Ohioan earned his best finish of the USAC National Midget season.

Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.) raced his way to a third-place finish, thus marking his eighth podium result in his last nine USAC National Midget feature starts in his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/GearWrench – Mobil 1 – TRD/LynK/Speedway Toyota.

Dane Culver's first career USAC National Midget feature start went superbly. After starting 24th, the Riverside, California racer advanced his way up to a 15th place finish. The +9 performance made him the evening’s hard charger.

Corey Day (Clovis, Calif.) put on a show in his 11th to 4th feature run. The two-time Trophy Cup champ at Tulare picked up where he left off following a second place result in his most recent USAC National Midget start at Ventura (Calif.) Raceway in 2023. For that, he was the recipient of the Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night.

Tanner Carrick (Lincoln, Calif.) set fast time and a new track record during Honest Abe Roofing Qualifying. His lap of 15.344 seconds surpassed the former USAC National Midget record at Tulare of 15.628 set by Bryan Clauson in 2010. It was Carrick’s fourth career fast time with the series, three of which have come in his home state of California during the month of November.

Zach Daum (Pocahontas, Ill.) performed likewise, setting a new eight lap Tulare track record for USAC National Midgets with a time of 2:07.597. Of the 24 drivers on hand, he was the lone driver who also competed in the series’ only other visit to Tulare back in 2010.

Throughout the night, one driver got upside down. Tyler Courtney, making his first series start in two years, got into the berm between turns three and four while running 16th, sending him flipping three times before coming to a rest on lap 11 of the feature. The 2019 USAC National Midget champion was able to walk away.

Also of note, of the 24 drivers signed in at Tulare, 18 had previously won at least one USAC National Midget feature. With 75 percent of the field being a feature winner, it ranks among the most successful gathering for an event in series history.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: November 20, 2024 – Thunderbowl Raceway – Tulare, California – 1/3-Mile Dirt Oval

HONEST ABE ROOFING QUALIFYING: 1. Tanner Carrick, 98, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.344 (New Track Record); 2. Justin Grant, 2, RMS-15.417; 3. Tanner Thorson, 25m, Malloy-15.580; 4. Daison Pursley, 86, CBI-15.585; 5. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.614; 6. Carson Macedo, 99AU, Dyson-15.632; 7. Jacob Denney, 25, Malloy-15.698; 8. Corey Day, 4, Kahne-15.701; 9. Drake Edwards, 3p, Petty-15.720; 10. Emerson Axsom, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.731; 11. Kale Drake, 97K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.738; 12. Buddy Kofoid, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.755; 13. Zach Wigal, 89, CBI-15.771; 14. Ryan Timms, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.801; 15. Zach Daum, 31B, Beilman-15.805; 16. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Silva-15.816; 17. Cannon McIntosh, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.854; 18. Jake Andreotti, 00, Davis-15.913; 19. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.946; 20. Karter Sarff, 31, Beilman-15.948; 21. Austin Torgerson, 88A, Mounce/Stout-16.200; 22. Chase McDermand, 8w, Ford-16.265; 23. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-16.352; 24. Dane Culver, 50, Knuckles Up-16.384.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Wigal, 2. Jacob Denney, 3. Tyler Courtney, 4. Emerson Axsom, 5. Tanner Carrick, 6. Chase McDermand, 7. Daison Pursley, 8. Gavin Miller. 2:10.237

ROD END SUPPLY SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Cannon McIntosh, 2. Ryan Timms, 3. Corey Day, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Logan Seavey, 6. Kale Drake, 7. Hayden Reinbold, 8. Karter Sarff. NT

T.J. FORGED / CAR IQ THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Zach Daum, 2. Tanner Thorson, 3. Buddy Kofoid, 4. Carson Macedo, 5. Drake Edwards, 6. Jake Andreotti, 7. Dane Culver, 8. Austin Torgerson. 2:07.597 (New Track Record)

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Carson Macedo (2), 2. Jacob Denney (1), 3. Cannon McIntosh (9), 4. Corey Day (11), 5. Logan Seavey (3), 6. Tanner Thorson (4), 7. Tanner Carrick (6), 8. Buddy Kofoid (15), 9. Justin Grant (5), 10. Ryan Timms (16), 11. Daison Pursley (10), 12. Zach Daum (8), 13. Gavin Miller (19), 14. Zach Wigal (7), 15. Dane Culver (24), 16. Kale Drake (14), 17. Drake Edwards (12), 18. Hayden Reinbold (23), 19. Jake Andreotti (18), 20. Tyler Courtney (17), 21. Chase McDermand (22), 22. Emerson Axsom (13), 23. Karter Sarff (20), 24. Austin Torgerson (21). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Carson Macedo, Laps 26-27 Jacob Denney, Laps 28-30 Carson Macedo.

**Tyler Courtney flipped on lap 11 of the feature.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1290, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1229, 3-Ryan Timms-1116, 4-Logan Seavey-1116, 5-Zach Daum-1083, 6-Jacob Denney-1042, 7-Justin Grant-1019, 8-Gavin Miller-984, 9-Zach Wigal-905, 10-Kale Drake-887.

USAC NATIONAL PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-199, 2-Logan Seavey-195, 3-Robert Ballou-149, 4-Justin Grant-145, 5-Kyle Cummins-131, 6-C.J. Leary-131, 7-Chase Stockon-126, 8-Matt Westfall-121, 9-Brady Bacon-120, 10-Kevin Thomas Jr.-107.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: November 22-23, 2024 – Merced Speedway – Merced, California – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – Midget Madness

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Daison Pursley (15.589)

Honest Abe Roofing Fast Qualifier: Tanner Carrick (15.344)

Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner: Zach Wigal

Rod End Supply Second Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh

T.J. Forged / Car IQ Third Heat Winner: Zach Daum

Hard Charger: Dane Culver (24th to 15th)

Inferno Armor Fire Move of the Night: Corey Day

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Tulare, California (November 20, 2024)………Get ready, USAC fans!

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2024 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET CALIFORNIA SWING SCHEDULE:

Nov 20: Thunderbowl Raceway – Tulare, California

Nov 22: Merced Speedway – Merced, California

Nov 23: Merced Speedway – Merced, California

Nov 26: Bakersfield Speedway – Bakersfield, California

Nov 30: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, California

DOUBLE DOSE!

USAC MIDGET MADNESS HITS MERCED NOV. 22-23

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Merced, California (November 18, 2024)………California’s Merced Speedway has become an annual stop on USAC’s NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship swing through California since the beginning of the decade of the roaring 2020s.

What’s also become an annual staple is Merced producing some of the most scintillating and sensational series races of the season. There’s a reason they call this one “Midget Madness.”

It all comes to fruition once more, for the fifth consecutive year, for two-straight nights on the high-banked 1/4-mile dirt oval Friday-Saturday, November 22-23. It’s full programs each night that conclude with 30-lap feature events.

Thirty-three drivers have made their intentions to compete in the event, and five of those 34 have already bagged a USAC National Midget victory in their career at Merced.

Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) is the lone multi-time Merced USAC National Midget winner at Merced, having scored during his series championships of 2021 and 2022. He’ll pilot one of seven entries out of the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports stable.

In fact, the eventual USAC National Midget driving champion has won at Merced in three consecutive years. Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) and Abacus Racing continued that trend in 2023 by notching victory on the second of two nights a year ago.

Carson Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) notched his first and only career USAC National Midget win to date at Merced back in 2022. As a matter of fact, both of his Australia-based Dyson Motorsport team’s USAC victories have come at Merced.

Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.) collected a dramatic Merced midget victory during the first ever weekend of series action there back in 2020. For November, the 2016 USAC National Midget champ has reunited with the Tom Malloy-owned team for whom he won that race four years earlier.

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) and RMS Racing posted a convincing and dominant Merced triumph back in 2021, leading the final 25 laps in record-setting style. His 30-lap run of 6:14.350 remains the series record for a 30-lap distance, the second fastest 30-lap race in series history.

The past Merced midget winners will be flanked by a slew of contenders, including Tanner Carrick (2nd in 2020), Cannon McIntosh (3rd in 2020), Tyler Courtney (3rd in 2020) and Kyle Larson (4th in 2020). However, it should be noted that Larson plans to compete in only the Saturday portion of the Merced event.

Furthermore, this weekend’s field will also consist of the likes of Emerson Axsom (4th in 2021), Ryan Timms (4th in 2023), Jacob Denney (5th in 2022), Corey Day (7th in 2015) and Jake Andreotti (8th in 2015).

Stunningly, in five previous Merced starts, current USAC National Midget point leader Daison Pursley hasn’t finished better than his 11th place result in 2023. Hayden Reinbold (11th in 2023) and Gavin Miller (18th in 2022) are also back to take on Merced.

Vying for their first USAC National Midget starts at Merced include Rookie of the Year contenders Zach Wigal and Kale Drake, plus 2024 USAC Western States Midget Rookie of the Year Drake Edwards, USAC National Midget winners Zach Daum and Chase McDermand, plus USAC five-time USAC Western States titlist Ronnie Gardner.

Also on the list of first-timers are Karter Sarff, Dalten Gabbard, Austin Torgerson, Terry Nichols, Brandt Twitty, cousins Todd Hawse and Kyle Hawse, as well as Alex Karpowicz, Barrie Valentino, Peter Paulson and Troy DeGaton.

RACE DETAILS:

On Friday night, the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship is joined by the IMCA Northern Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks. Tickets are $25 for adults age 18 and up and $10 for ages 6-17. Ages 5 and under are admitted for free.

On Saturday night, USAC National Midgets headline an all open wheel show alongside winged 360 sprint cars. Tickets are $30 for adults age 18 and up and $15 for ages 6-17. Ages 5 and under are admitted for free.

Both nights, pit gates will open at 2pm Pacific with grandstands opening at 5pm, the drivers meeting at 5pm and cars on track at 5:45pm.

Tickets are available online at www.mercedspeedway.net and will also be available to purchase at the front gate.

Camping for this event is available and for those fans looking to do so, all arrangements need to me made directly through the Merced County Fairgrounds.

Merced Speedway is located at 900 Martin Luther King Drive Merced, CA 95341.

EXPECTED ENTRY LIST FOR MERCED SPEEDWAY: (34)

CAR # / DRIVER / HOMETOWN / CAR ENTRANT

00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)

1K KYLE LARSON/Elk Grove, CA (Silva Motorsports) (Saturday Only)

1p TERRY NICHOLS/Delano, CA (Nichols-Peckfelder Motorsports)

2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)

3p DRAKE EDWARDS/Peoria, AZ (Petty Performance Racing)

4 COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne)

4B BRANDT TWITTY/Bakersfield, CA (Kevin Twitty)

8w CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)

18 TODD HAWSE/Simi Valley, CA (Todd Hawse)

19 ALEX KARPOWICZ/Spring Branch, TX (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

19AZ HAYDEN REINBOLD/Gilbert, AZ (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)

20x KYLE HAWSE/Las Vegas, NV (Hawse Racing)

23c TYLER COURTNEY/Indianapolis, IN (Silva Motorsports)

Q23 BARRIE VALENTINO/Brisbane, AU (El Toro Racing)

25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)

25m TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Tom Malloy)

31 KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

31B ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

Q32 PETER PAULSON/Woodland, CA (El Toro Racing)

39T TROY DeGATON/Wickenburg, AZ (Troy DeGaton)

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)

67 RYAN TIMMS/Oklahoma City, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

67K EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

68 RONNIE GARDNER/Corona, CA (Six8 Motorsports)

71 BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

71K CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

77 DALTEN GABBARD/Peoria, AZ (Dalten Gabbard)

86 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries)

88A AUSTIN TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

89 ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries)

97 GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

97K KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

98 TANNER CARRICK/Lincoln, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

99AU CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport)

USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FEATURE WINS AT MERCED SPEEDWAY:

2-Buddy Kofoid

1-Spencer Bayston, Justin Grant, Carson Macedo, Thomas Meseraull, Logan Seavey & Tanner Thorson

USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FEATURE WINNERS AT MERCED SPEEDWAY:

2020: Thomas Meseraull (11/20) & Tanner Thorson (11/21)

2021: Justin Grant (11/23) & Buddy Kofoid (11/24)

2022: Carson Macedo (11/22) & Buddy Kofoid (11/23)

2023: Spencer Bayston (11/21) & Logan Seavey (11/22)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT MERCED SPEEDWAY:

1 Lap - 11/22/2023 - Jade Avedisian - 11.417

10 Laps - 11/21/2023 - Jesse Love - 1:54.98

12 Laps - 11/21/2023 - Jade Avedisian - 2:18.06

30 Laps - 11/23/2021 - Justin Grant - 6:14.350

MERCED SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FEATURE RESULTS:

2020 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Thomas Meseraull (6), 2. Tanner Carrick (2), 3. Cannon McIntosh (5), 4. Carson Macedo (8), 5. Tanner Thorson (15), 6. Shane Golobic (3), 7. Ryan Bernal (9), 8. Spencer Bayston (11), 9. Kyle Larson (19), 10. Emerson Axsom (14), 11. Mitchel Moles (7), 12. Buddy Kofoid (21), 13. Logan Seavey (16), 14. Tyler Courtney (23-P), 15. Chris Windom (22), 16. Justin Grant (17), 17. Colby Copeland (18), 18. Kaylee Bryson (13), 19. Chase Randall (20), 20. Daison Pursley (1), 21. Zeb Wise (12), 22. Michael Faccinto (10), 23. Cole Bodine (24-P), 24. Jesse Love (4). NT

2020 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tanner Thorson (4), 2. Buddy Kofoid (1), 3. Tyler Courtney (2), 4. Kyle Larson (6), 5. Spencer Bayston (3), 6. Logan Seavey (5), 7. Carson Macedo (8), 8. Cannon McIntosh (10), 9. Justin Grant (7), 10. Mitchel Moles (11), 11. Shane Golobic (14), 12. Daison Pursley (13), 13. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (12), 14. Colby Copeland (15), 15. Emerson Axsom (16), 16. Tanner Carrick (21), 17. Chris Windom (18), 18. Kaylee Bryson (23-P), 19. Zeb Wise (19), 20. Bryant Wiedeman (20), 21. Robert Dalby (24-P), 22. Ben Worth (17), 23. Chance Crum (22), 24. Chase Johnson (9). 7:18.810

2021 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Tanner Thorson (1), 3. Buddy Kofoid (3), 4. Emerson Axsom (6), 5. Cannon McIntosh (5), 6. Shane Golobic (7), 7. Mitchel Moles (4), 8. Logan Seavey (11), 9. Carson Macedo (10), 10. Jason McDougal (14), 11. Chris Windom (9), 12. Zeb Wise (12), 13. Tanner Carrick (16), 14. Thomas Meseraull (13), 15. Ryan Bernal (18), 16. Kaylee Bryson (8), 17. Kevin Thomas Jr. (17), 18. Ryan Timms (21), 19. Jade Avedisian (19), 20. Maria Cofer (20), 21. Chase Johnson (22), 22. Brenham Crouch (15), 23. Bryant Wiedeman (23-P), 24. Hayden Reinbold (24-P). 6:14.35

2021 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (6), 2. Chris Windom (2), 3. Justin Grant (17), 4. Jade Avedisian (1), 5. Logan Seavey (5), 6. Emerson Axsom (9), 7. Bryant Wiedeman (11), 8. Shane Golobic (12), 9. Tanner Thorson (8), 10. Ryan Timms (16), 11. Taylor Reimer (13), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (23-P), 13. Maria Cofer (18), 14. Chance Crum (24-P), 15. Jake Andreotti (20), 16. Cannon McIntosh (4), 17. Mitchel Moles (14), 18. Kaylee Bryson (19), 19. Brenham Crouch (15), 20. Carson Macedo (3), 21. Thomas Meseraull (21), 22. Tanner Carrick (7), 23. Jason McDougal (22), 24. Kyle Larson (10). NT

2022 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Carson Macedo (5), 2. Buddy Kofoid (14), 3. Justin Grant (4), 4. Chance Crum (1), 5. Logan Seavey (6), 6. Mitchel Moles (3), 7. Kaylee Bryson (7), 8. Cannon McIntosh (19), 9. Tanner Thorson (13), 10. Brenham Crouch (23-P), 11. Spencer Bayston (15), 12. Thomas Meseraull (17), 13. Ryan Timms (9), 14. Tanner Carrick (12), 15. Bryant Wiedeman (8), 16. Emerson Axsom (22), 17. Jade Avedisian (10), 18. Michael Faccinto (18), 19. Jacob Denney (16), 20. Daniel Whitley (11), 21. Taylor Reimer (20), 22. Daison Pursley (21), DQ. Jake Andreotti (2). NT

2022 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Buddy Kofoid (3), 2. Spencer Bayston (1), 3. Jason McDougal (7), 4. Jade Avedisian (5), 5. Jacob Denney (14), 6. Carson Macedo (4), 7. Cannon McIntosh (15), 8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 9. Mitchel Moles (6), 10. Tanner Carrick (17), 11. Justin Grant (16), 12. Thomas Meseraull (23-P), 13. Ryan Timms (9), 14. Chance Crum (24-P), 15. Taylor Reimer (12), 16. Brenham Crouch (10), 17. Tanner Thorson (21), 18. Gavin Miller (20), 19. Jake Andreotti (13), 20. Kaylee Bryson (19), 21. Logan Seavey (8), 22. Bryant Wiedeman (18), 23. Daniel Whitley (2), 24. Dylan Bloomfield (22). NT

2023 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Spencer Bayston (1), 2. Buddy Kofoid (5), 3. Tanner Carrick (4), 4. Logan Seavey (12), 5. Jesse Love (8), 6. Tanner Thorson (10), 7. Carson Macedo (9), 8. Jacob Denney (14), 9. Ryan Timms (16), 10. Jade Avedisian (11), 11. Daison Pursley (6), 12. Justin Grant (22), 13. Corey Day (18), 14. Bryant Wiedeman (17), 15. Hayden Reinbold (19), 16. Taylor Reimer (23-P), 17. Cannon McIntosh (13), 18. Braden Chiaramonte (15), 19. Emerson Axsom (3), 20. Jake Andreotti (7), 21. Chance Crum (20), 22. Gavin Miller (2), 23. Mitchel Moles (21). NT

2023 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (2), 2. Justin Grant (10), 3. Buddy Kofoid (4), 4. Ryan Timms (7), 5. Carson Macedo (11), 6. Jade Avedisian (6), 7. Corey Day (15), 8. Jake Andreotti (1), 9. Spencer Bayston (8), 10. Emerson Axsom (12), 11. Hayden Reinbold (13), 12. Bryant Wiedeman (21), 13. Daison Pursley (14), 14. Taylor Reimer (20), 15. Jacob Denney (19), 16. Tanner Carrick (16), 17. Braden Chiaramonte (17), 18. Brody Fuson (9), 19. Michael Faccinto (18), 20. Tanner Thorson (3), 21. Jesse Love (5), 22. Thomas Meseraull (22). NT

50+ USAC MIDGETS ENTERED

FOR NOV. 30 TURKEY NIGHT GP AT VENTURA

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Ventura, California (November 18, 2024)………Fifty-three (53) USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship drivers and cars will compete in the 83rd running of the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame.

They’ll all converge on California’s Ventura Raceway on Saturday night, November 30, for the 2024 installment of the longest-running midget race of them all, a tradition which dates back to 1934.

At least four past Turkey Night Grand Prix winners are included in the driver lineup, headlined by four-time event winner Kyle Larson (2012-2016-2019-2023), plus one-time winners Justin Grant (2022), Logan Seavey (2021) and Tanner Thorson (2015).

They’re among the 21 USAC National Midget feature winners in the field, 17 of which are vying for a first Turkey Night midget triumph. It’s a list which includes five USAC National Midget champions, including Logan Seavey (2018 & 2023), Buddy Kofoid (2021 & 2022), Tyler Courtney (2019), Tanner Thorson (2016) and J.J. Yeley (2003).

To date, nine different drivers have won USAC National Midget races during the 2024 campaign, seven of which are vying for a first career Turkey Night triumph. Daison Pursley has won seven while Cannon McIntosh owns three scores. Logan Seavey has picked up a pair of wins as has Ryan Timms, himself a two-time Turkey Night Sprint Car winner in 2022-2023. Single scores belong to Emerson Axsom, Kale Drake, Justin Grant, Chase McDermand and Zach Wigal.

Wigal is one of at least 25 Don Basile Rookie of the Race contenders in the 2024 lineup, which includes its share of headlining names. Jumping off the list is two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch, who will be making his USAC Midget debut during the series’ November tour through the Golden State.

Also included on the Rookie list is Cale Coons, son of USAC Career Triple Crown champion Jerry Coons Jr. USAC Western States Midget front runner Drake Edwards is vying for top Rookie glory as are veteran drivers, and Turkey Night newcomers, Stevie Sussex and Karter Sarff, plus international flair from New Zealand’s Ben Covich and Mathew Radisch.

Overall, six past Turkey Night Rookies of the Race will be in the field: Kyle Larson (2011), Tanner Thorson (2013), Carson Macedo (2016), Cannon McIntosh (2019), Jake Andreotti (2022) and Corey Day (2023).

This year’s Turkey Night weekend will also host the Ultimate Sprint Car Series for both nights of on-track action on November 29-30.

SCHEDULE:

Friday, November 29: Grandstands open at 3pm Pacific. Cars on track at 3:30pm. Midget practice, plus sprint car racing.

Saturday, November 30: Grandstands open at 3pm Pacific. Cars on track at 3:30pm. Sprint car racing, plus midget hot laps, qualifying, last chance qualifiers, semis and the 98-lap feature.

Advance tickets can be purchased now at www.venturaraceway.com. Additional information is available at 805-648-7223.

2024 TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX USAC MIDGET ENTRY LIST:

00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)

1K KYLE LARSON/Elk Grove, CA (Silva Motorsports)

1p (R) TERRY NICHOLS/Delano, CA (Nichols-Peckfelder Motorsports)

2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)

3J J.J. YELEY/Phoenix, AZ (Petty Performance Racing)

3p (R) DRAKE EDWARDS/Peoria, AZ (Petty Performance Racing)

3v (R) JIM VANZANT/Prescott, AZ (Jim & Bonnie Vanzant)

4 COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne)

8 RANDI PANKRATZ/Atascadero, CA (Wally Pankratz)

8w CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)

14F (R) MATHEW RADISCH/Auckland, NZ (Graunstadt-Streeter Racing)

14s TYLER EDWARDS/Salina, OK (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

14T MICHAEL FACCINTO/Hanford, CA (Graunstadt-Streeter Racing)

15 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN (Dennis Hart)

17A (R) TOM DUNKEL/Menifee, CA (Josh Ford Motorsports)

18 (R) TODD HAWSE/Simi Valley, CA (Todd Hawse)

19 (R) ALEX KARPOWICZ/Spring Branch, TX (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

20 C.J. SARNA/Palm Desert, CA (Sarna Motorsports)

20AZ (R) STEVIE SUSSEX/Tempe, AZ (Crown Jewel Racing)

20x (R) KYLE HAWSE/Las Vegas, NV (Hawse Racing)

Q23 (R) BARRIE VALENTINO/Brisbane, AU (El Toro Racing)

23c TYLER COURTNEY/Indianapolis, IN (Silva Motorsports)

25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)

25m TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Tom Malloy)

31 (R) KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

31B ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

32 (R) CADEN SARALE/Stockton, CA (Caden Sarale)

Q32 (R) PETER PAULSON/Woodland, CA (El Toro Racing)

39T (R) TROY DeGATON/Wickenburg, AZ (Troy DeGaton)

50 (R) DANE CULVER/Riverside, CA (Knuckles Up Racing)

51 BRODY FUSON/Bakersfield, CA (Rusty Carlile)

51B (R) KYLE BUSCH/Las Vegas, NV (Kyle Busch Motorsports)

55 (R) ABBY HOHLBEIN/Cloverdale, OH (Lambert Motorsports)

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)

58 KAYLEE BRYSON/Muskogee, OK (Abacus Racing)

63 (R) CALE COONS/Greencastle, IN (Joe Dooling)

65NZ (R) BEN COVICH/Auckland, NZ (Ben Covich)

67 RYAN TIMMS/Oklahoma City, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

67K EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

68 RONNIE GARDNER/Corona, CA (Six8 Motorsports)

71 BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

71D (R) BRYAN DROLLINGER/San Pedro, CA (Drollinger Bros. Racing)

71K CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

73 (R) COLE WAKIM/Simi Valley, CA (Josh Ford Motorsports)

77 (R) DALTEN GABBARD/Peoria, AZ (Dalten Gabbard)

86 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries)

88A (R) AUSTIN TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

89 (R) ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries)

97 GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

97K KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

98 TANNER CARRICK/Lincoln, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

99AU CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport)

101 CADE LEWIS/Bakersfield, CA (Dean Alexander)

(R) represents a Don Basile Rookie of the Race candidate

KYLE BUSCH TO MAKE USAC MIDGET DEBUT

AT BAKERSFIELD & VENTURA

Speedway, Indiana (November 14, 2024)………Two-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion Kyle Busch will make his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship in California during the month of November.

Busch (Las Vegas, Nev.) will compete with USAC during the Tuesday, November 26, event at Bakersfield Speedway’s 1/3-mile dirt oval. He will then take on Ventura Raceway’s 1/5-mile dirt oval on Saturday, November 30, for the 83rd running of the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented By the West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame.

Busch will carry the number 51 on his Kyle Busch Motorsports owned midget which will be in partnership with FloSports and carry sponsorship from Lucas Oil.

Also included in the announcement is that Busch will compete in the 39th annual Chili Bowl Nationals powered by NOS Energy Drink on January 13-18, 2025, at the SageNet Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Furthermore, it was also revealed that he will be driving alongside his son Brexton at the Tulsa Shootout from December 31 through January 4.

All of these events will be streamed exclusively on FloRacing, making it the essential home to watch Kyle Busch get behind the wheel during the NASCAR offseason.

“The Cup season may be over, but the racing season is still in full swing with the biggest events on dirt taking place over the next couple of months,” Busch stated.

To purchase tickets and find out more event info on the upcoming USAC events, please visit www.BakersfieldSpeedway.com and www.VenturaRaceway.com.‍

KYLE LARSON ADDS FOUR

USAC MIDGET RACES TO HIS SCHEDULE IN NOVEMBER

Speedway, Indiana (November 14, 2024)………The racing season isn't over yet for NASCAR Cup Series star Kyle Larson.

Fresh off the season finale at Phoenix Raceway this past weekend, Larson (Elk Grove, Calif.) has confirmed that he'll be behind the wheel for four upcoming USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship events during the month of November in California.

Larson will team up with Silva Motorsports to compete in Midget Madness at Merced Speedway on November 22-23, the November Classic at Bakersfield Speedway on November 26 and the 83rd running of the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car Motorsports Hall of Fame at Ventura Raceway on November 30.

For all three of these events, Larson will be teammates with fellow sprint car star Tyler Courtney, who recently announced he'll be driving for Paul Silva during the final seven USAC Midget races of the season as well as the Chili Bowl Nationals in January.

Larson owns three career victories at Merced Speedway with all three wins coming in a sprint car during the traditional November event at the track. This month, he will be making his first start at Merced since 2021.

Larson will enter the race at Bakersfield Speedway with an average finish of 1.5 in his two previous November Classic starts. He won the event in 2019 before finishing second one year later in 2020.

To round out the November swing, Larson will be seeking a fourth career victory in the Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ventura Raceway. In addition to his win in the race last year, he also won the race in 2012, 2016 and 2019.

Following the completion of the three USAC National Midget Series events on his schedule, Larson will travel to Australia to join Kubota High Limit Racing for three nights of racing on December 28-30.

Race fans can watch all of these events live on FloRacing. If you're not already a FloRacing subscriber, sign up today at www.FloRacing.com.

HATS OFF TULARE!

USAC MIDGETS RETURN TO THUNDERBOWL NOV. 20

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Tulare, California (November 12, 2024)………It’s been 14 years since the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship last paid a visit to Tulare, California’s Thunderbowl Raceway.

For the first time since that night in 2010, the series returns for round two of the seven-race California swing on Wednesday, November 20.

Just one driver from that night’s lineup all those years ago is expected to be among this year’s crop of contenders. That’s Zach Daum, a seventh place feature finisher with the series at Tulare in 2010.

However, while a majority of the field possesses minimal to zero racing experience at Tulare’s 1/3-mile dirt oval, several others in this weekend’s field not only have made extensive laps in a sprint car at the track but have also been frequent winners.

One-time USAC National Midget feature winner Corey Day (Clovis, Calif.) enters the event after capturing each of the past two Trophy Cup titles at Tulare in 2023-2024 aboard a winged sprint car. Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.), himself a 2021-2022 USAC National Midget titlist, corralled the Trophy Cup crown in 2021.

Tyler Courtney, the 2019 USAC National Midget champ, scored a feature victory during Trophy Cup in 2022 as did Ryan Timms in 2021-2022. Carson Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) reigned victorious at Tulare in September with the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars. Tanner Carrick (Lincoln, Calif.), likewise, was a victor at Tulare as recently as this past October when he captured a Sprint Car Challenge Tour win.

Newly crowned USAC Career Triple Crown champion Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) nearly had his day in the sun at Tulare in 2023. After winning a Trophy Cup feature, his car was deemed underweight in post-race tech, which erased his short-lived victory. Seavey now eyes a bit of redemption this time around.

Also joining this group is a flock of Tulare experienced wheelman, including three-time USAC national champion Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.), who finished fourth with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at the track in 2010. Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.), the 2016 USAC National Midget king, ran second during a Trophy Cup feature in 2017.

Furthermore, Jake Andreotti (Castro Valley, Calif.) and Terry Nichols (Delano, Calif.) each have competed in USAC Western States Midget competition at Tulare. Andreotti took 4th with the series in 2021 while Nichols grabbed a top-five result in 2015. Austin Torgerson (Glendale, Ariz.) notched an 11th at Tulare with the Kings of Thunder Sprint Cars in 2023.

The list of Tulare first-timers is also quite extensive, a list that includes the likes of current USAC National Midget point leader Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.), plus series feature winners Chase McDermand (Springfield, Ill.), Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio), Emerson Axsom (Franklin, Ind.), Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.), Zach Wigal (Belpre, Ohio), Gavin Miller (Allentown, Pa.) and Kale Drake (Collinsville, Okla.).

Also visiting Tulare for the first-time are first-time USAC National Midget winning hopefuls Drake Edwards (Peoria, Ariz.), Hayden Reinbold (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Karter Sarff (Mason City, Ill.).

USAC national racing has made four previous treks to Tulare over the years. USAC National Midgets made its aforementioned only previous trip in 2010 with Tracy Hines as the winner. USAC National Sprint Cars have taken on Tulare on three occasions with Garrett Hansen (2009), Jon Stanbrough (2009) and Bud Kaeding (2010) all taking top honors.

RACE DETAILS

The front gates for the Wednesday night, November 20, event will open at 4pm Pacific with the drivers meeting set for 4:30pm and cars on track at 5pm. The USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship will be joined by the Kings of Thunder Winged 360 Sprint Car Series.

Grandstand tickets for the event are $35 for adults, $33 for seniors, $18 for kids 6-12, and free for kids 6 and under. Bleacher tickets are $30 for adults, $28 for seniors, $15 for kids 6-12, and free for kids 5 and under. Adult pit passes are $45.

The track is located at East Bardsley Avenue, & S K St, Tulare, CA 93274. The track can be reached via phone at (559) 688-0909. For more info, visit https://www.thunderbowlraceway.com/.

If you can’t make it to the track in person, the full event can be watched live on FloRacing at https://www.flosports.link/usac.

EXPECTED TULARE USAC NATIONAL MIDGET ENTRIES:

00 JAKE ANDREOTTI/Castro Valley, CA (Pete Davis)

1p TERRY NICHOLS/Delano, CA (Nichols-Peckfelder Motorsports)

2 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (RMS Racing)

3p DRAKE EDWARDS/Peoria, AZ (Petty Performance Racing)

4 COREY DAY/Clovis, CA (Wille Kahne)

8w CHASE McDERMAND/Springfield, IL (Josh Ford Motorsports)

19AZ HAYDEN REINBOLD/Gilbert, AZ (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports)

23c TYLER COURTNEY (Silva Motorsports)

25 JACOB DENNEY/Galloway, OH (Tom Malloy)

25m TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV (Tom Malloy)

31 KARTER SARFF/Mason City, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

31B ZACH DAUM/Pocahontas, IL (Beilman Motorsports)

57 LOGAN SEAVEY/Sutter, CA (Abacus Racing)

67 RYAN TIMMS/Oklahoma City, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

67K EMERSON AXSOM/Franklin, IN (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

71 BUDDY KOFOID/Penngrove, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb/Agajanian Motorsports)

71K CANNON MCINTOSH/Bixby, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

86 DAISON PURSLEY/Locust Grove, OK (CB Industries)

88A AUSTIN TORGERSON/Glendale, AZ (Mounce-Stout Motorsports)

89 ZACH WIGAL/Belpre, OH (CB Industries)

97 GAVIN MILLER/Allentown, PA (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

97K KALE DRAKE/Collinsville, OK (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports)

98 TANNER CARRICK/Lincoln, CA (Keith Kunz-Curb/Agajanian Motorsports)

99AU CARSON MACEDO/Lemoore, CA (Dyson Motorsport)

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Daison Pursley-1244, 2-Cannon McIntosh-1157, 3-Ryan Timms-1066, 4-Logan Seavey-1052, 5-Zach Daum-1036, 6-Jacob Denney-968, 7-Justin Grant-963, 8-Gavin Miller-946, 9-Zach Wigal-862, 10-Kale Drake-853.

USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS AT THUNDERBOWL RACEWAY:

1-Tracy Hines

USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS AT THUNDERBOWL RACEWAY:

2010: Tracy Hines (11/13)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT THUNDERBOWL RACEWAY:

1 Lap - 11/13/2010 - Bryan Clauson - 15.628

THUNDERBOWL RACEWAY USAC NATIONAL MIDGET FEATURE RESULTS:

2010 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Alex Schutte, 5. Brad Kuhn, 6. Bobby East, 7. Zach Daum, 8. Henry Clarke, 9. Levi Roberts, 10. Cody Swanson, 11. Evan Margeson, 12. Matt Streeter, 13. Randi Pankratz, 14. Scott Pierovich, 15. Jake Swanson, 16. Brad Loyet, 17. Chris Ennis, 18. Cory Kruseman, 19. Levi Jones, 20. Robby Josett, 21. Sean Dodenhoff, 22. Troy Rutherford, 23. Danny Faria Jr., 24. Dave Darland, 25. Kody Swanson, 26. Shannon McQueen. NT

LEWIS PREVAILS AT PERRIS

USAC CRA SEASON FINALE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Perris, California (November 9, 2024)………Ricky Lewis doesn’t always compete in the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series, but when he does, he prefers to win.

For the third time in less than a month, the Camarillo, Calif. racer came away with a USAC CRA victory, this time doing so in the series’ season finale on Saturday night at California’s Perris Auto Speedway.

Lewis led early, late and often. After starting from the pole, Lewis paced the opening the eight laps before giving up the top spot to his teammate, Jake Swanson, a third of the way through the 30-lap event.

Swanson held control for a 14 circuit span from laps 9-22 before Lewis raced his way back on by on lap 23, then led the final eight trips around the 1/2-mile dirt oval en route to victory, the fourth overall of his USAC CRA career and his nation-leading 22nd sprint car win of the 2024 season across all series and divisions.

Lewis’ first career Perris Auto Speedway triumph was extra special. He and his parents used to frequent the southern California venue to watch USAC CRA racing while he was growing up.

Furthermore, Lewis led a one-two Tom & Christy Dunkel Racing sweep as his teammate, Jake Swanson (Anaheim, Calif.) finished second after starting the night as the Woodland Auto Display Fast Qualifier, the 22nd of his career over the 30 drivers on hand with a time of 16.066 seconds. Swanson now ranks third overall on the list behind Damion Gardner (106) and Mike Spencer (63).

Tenth starting David Gasper (Goleta, Calif.), the 2024 USAC CRA Rookie of the Year, crossed the line in third while series champion R.J. Johnson (Laveen, Ariz.) took fourth.

Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) rounded out the top-five by earning hard charger honors in memory of Jim & Chet Gardner, advancing 11 spots after starting back in the 16th position. Thomas also captured the FlowDynamics Inc. / Sexton Fire Protection / In Honor of Wiley Miller Sr and Wiley Miller II First Heat Race.

Stevie Sussex (Tempe, Ariz.) won the Perris BillsJerky.net / Factory Wraps Second Heat Race. Tommy Malcolm (Corona, Calif.) scored the Perris WC Friend Company / In Memory of Jim and Chet Gardner Third Heat Race.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: November 9, 2024 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, California

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Jake Swanson, 17x, Dunkel-16.066; 2. Cody Williams, 44, Williams-16.072; 3. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-16.256; 4. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-16.260; 5. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-16.330; 6. R.J. Johnson, 51, Johnson-16.381; 7. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-16.413; 8. Ricky Lewis, 17, Dunkel-16.439; 9. Logan Williams, 5w, McCarthy-16.446; 10. David Gasper, 18, Kittle/Gasper-16.477; 11. Matt Westfall, 11c, Turner/Wheeler-16.488; 12. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-16.532; 13. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-16.536; 14. Tye Mihocko, 5, Wilson-16.578; 15. James Turnbull II, 2J, Turnbull-16.616; 16. Kevin Thomas Jr., 15, Bonneau-16.662; 17. Stevie Sussex, 4, Calderwood-16.690; 18. Tommy Malcolm, 5x, Napier-16.741; 19. Jordan Hermansader, 71, Martin-17.083; 20. Austin Grabowski, 72, Grabowski-17.113; 21. Blake Hendricks, 14, Hendricks-17.136; 22. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-17.298; 23. Mark Henry Jr., 39R, Henry-17.634; 24. Jonas Reynolds, 0, Reynolds-17.656; 25. Gary Marshall Jr., 23, Bellegante-17.661; 26. Dan Taylor, T5, Taylor-17.730; 27. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-17.832; 28. Bryan Drollinger, 71D, Drollinger/Sweeney-17.880; 29. Heath Holdsclaw, 33, Holdsclaw-17.913; 30. Elexa Herrera, 5E, Herrera-18.199.

FLOWDYNAMICS INCORPORATED / SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION / IN HONOR OF WILEY MILLER SR. & WILEY MILLER II FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Charles Davis Jr., 3. Jake Swanson, 4. A.J. Bender, 5. David Gasper, 6. Logan Calderwood, 7. Verne Sweeney, 8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Gary Marshall Jr., 10. Bryan Drollinger. 2:50.71

BILLSJERKY.NET / FACTORY WRAPS SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to feature) 1. Stevie Sussex, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Tye Mihocko, 4. Cody Williams, 5. Austin Grabowski, 6. Matt Westfall, 7. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 8. Mark Hendry Jr., 9. Heath Holdsclaw. 2:53.77

WC FRIEND COMPANY / IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to feature) 1. Tommy Malcolm, 2. R.J. Johnson, 3. Austin Williams, 4. Matt Mitchell, 5. Logan Williams, 6. James Turnbull II, 7. Jonas Reynolds, 8. Elexa Herrera, 9. Blake Hendricks, 10. Hayden Reinbold. 2:54.15

FACTORY WRAPS SEMI: (12 laps, top-7 transfer to feature) 1. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 2. Matt Westfall, 3. Logan Calderwood, 4. James Turnbull II, 5. Verne Sweeney, 6. Jordan Hermansader, 7. Jonas Reynolds, 8. Hayden Reinbold, 9. Mark Henry Jr., 10. Bryan Drollinger, 11. Blake Hendricks, 12. Elexa Herrera, 13. Heath Holdsclaw, 14. Gary Marshall Jr. 4:37.01

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (1), 2. Jake Swanson (6), 3. David Gasper (10), 4. R.J. Johnson (3), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (16), 6. Logan Williams (9), 7. Tommy Malcolm (18), 8. A.J. Bender (2), 9. Tye Mihocko (14), 10. Charles Davis Jr. (13), 11. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (8), 12. James Turnbull II (15), 13. Austin Grabowski (20), 14. Verne Sweeney (21), 15. Matt Westfall (11), 16. Elexa Herrera (23), 17. Jordan Hermansader (19), 18. Cody Williams (5), 19. Austin Williams (12), 20. Matt Mitchell (4), 21. Stevie Sussex (17), 22. Logan Calderwood (7), 23. Jonas Reynolds (22). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-8 Ricky Lewis, Laps 9-22 Jake Swanson, Laps 23-30 Ricky Lewis.

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER HARD CHARGER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (16th to 5th)

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-1509, 2-Tommy Malcolm-1324, 3-Austin Williams-1271, 4-A.J. Bender-1256, 5-David Gasper-1251, 6-Logan Williams-1145, 7-Cody Williams-1133, 8-Charles Davis Jr.-990, 9-Verne Sweeney-948, 10-Austin Grabowski-926.

TALL TASK!

OSBORNE NAMED 2024

USAC SILVER CROWN ROOKIE OF THE YEAR

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (November 7, 2024)………Prior to first strapping into a USAC Silver Crown car late last season, Trey Osborne estimated that his big track experience was limited to running a sprint car at the 3/8-mile Paragon (Ind.) Speedway.

Just a little over a year later, after a full season of competing at tracks all larger in size, Osborne has been honored as the 2024 Max Papis Innovations USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year.

With his accomplishment, Osborne (Columbus, Ohio) becomes the first Buckeye State native in 22 years, and seventh overall, to earn USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year honors, joining Jack Hewitt (1981), Dave Blaney (1984), Kenny Jacobs (1986), Gene Lee Gibson (1988), Todd Kane (1998) and Matt Westfall (2002).

Despite missing a pair of events, Osborne finished a solid sixth in the overall series point standings after starting 12 of the 14 events on the 2024 calendar. His season was highlighted by a pair of top-five finishes, one each on pavement and dirt, in his BCR Group/Flint Trucking – Duncan Oil – QS Components Kercher Chevy, featuring a Maxim chassis on dirt and a Beast on pavement.

“It’s definitely very cool to see my name on that list,” Osborne remarked when looking at the names of the past recipients. “I couldn’t do it without (crew chief) Malcolm Lovelace. He took a chance on me, and I think, overall, it was a pretty good year. I don’t know if we really had a goal for a points finish. Malcolm and I had talked about winning Rookie of the Year, but his biggest thing was that we kept improving every race, and not to plateau. We’re in a pretty good spot and I’m pretty bummed that the season ended. I wish we could keep going.”

After getting his feet wet with the team by making two series starts in late 2023, Osborne signed on for a full season USAC Silver Crown run in 2024. But the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

In February, Osborne was injured during a flip over the turn three wall during a USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature event at Florida’s Ocala Speedway, resulting in a broken vertebra in his back, plus a compression fracture in two more vertebrae while shearing off the top of a fourth vertebra. Sidelined with a back brace and a bevy of checkups, X-rays and MRIs, Osborne eagerly awaited the start of the season which was more than two months away.

After returning to the racetrack, Osborne estimated that he didn’t really feel like himself again until late in the season and had been racing with the pain on his mind all along. With that said, Lovelace, a former USAC Sprint Car competitor himself in the 1970s-80s, never wavered in his support for Osborne and even extended a helping hand to his other racing exploits.

“Without Malcolm, a lot of my sprint car season wouldn’t have even been possible because he kept me not only motivated, but he also helped me out by getting me a new seat after it got destroyed in Florida,” Osborne revealed. “A lot of my stuff was actually on those sprint cars, and all of it got destroyed. So, Malcolm helped me out with some new equipment and we talked multiple times a week about setups and thinking through ideas.”

Outside of Eldora, IRP and just a handful of practice laps at Du Quoin, the entirety of the 2024 USAC Silver Crown track slate was entirely new for Osborne. Five of his six top-ten results on the year came on pavement, three of which came at tracks in which he was visiting for the first time, including his fourth place run at Wisconsin’s Madison International Speedway in June. His next time out in July resulted in his best performance to date, a third place finish during the series debut at Hutchinson, Kansas’ Salt City Speedway.

“That really did a lot for our season, especially the third in Hutchinson,” Osborne remembered. “We worked for that, and I was pretty happy with that performance. We actually had an overheating issue and we weren’t really able to figure it out. We tried everything, then Malcolm said, ‘just run it.’ So we ran it, but unfortunately, we killed a motor doing that. But we did get a good finish out of it, so that was definitely a fun trip. The ride home definitely isn’t bad when you have a run like that.”

Osborne has undergone a meteoric rise in recent years, from a midget racer under the tutelage of USAC Hall of Famers Mel and Don Kenyon where he ultimately became a USSA Kenyon Midget titlist. Thereafter, he began competing in dirt sprint cars at local Indiana dirt tracks in 2022, opening many eyes with a trio of victories in 2023 before an impressive performance during Sprint Car Smackdown at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway with USAC late that summer. Osborne is now at a point where he can contrast and compare the various ways to approach anything that’s thrown his way, and with a year under his belt in the champ cars, he’s absorbed it all.

“In Silver Crown racing, it’s pretty much all half-miles and mile or bigger tracks,” Osborne explained. “That was definitely a lot to get used to, but I really like them now. It definitely takes a different driving style to run a Silver Crown car, but with the longer tracks and the longer races, you’ve got to go about it a little bit differently and just keep yourself within range whereas with the sprint car, you’ve just got to be on attack the whole time. You still have to be on attack with the Silver Crown car, but if it takes you a couple more laps to pass a car, that’s better than potentially wrecking the car. That’s especially true with only having 14 races a year. A DNF and a bad points night can really kill your whole season’s points run.”

At 6’8”, Osborne is undoubtedly the tallest Rookie of the Year honoree in USAC Silver Crown history. So, it seems fitting that he quickly became acclimated to the biggest cars in USAC’s arsenal. Now, he’s prepared to run it back, with even more gusto, for the same team in full season number two in 2025.

“At every race, I was able to build off what I’ve already learned,” Osborne acknowledged. “You just keep adding from race-to-race as you learn something. Next year, I’ll learn even more and I’ll be able to look back at the end of the season to where I’m at right now and go, ‘wow, I could’ve done things a lot differently.’ But as long as that keeps happening, I know I’m still getting better; that’s what really matters.”

2024 USAC SILVER CROWN ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 468 Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio

2. 396 Nathan Moore, Kaufman, Texas

3. 305 Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Okla.

4. 302 Briggs Danner, Allentown, Pa.

5. 223 Mitchel Moles, Raisin City, Calif.

6. 127 Jackson Macenko, Cincinnati, Ohio

7. 108 Danny Jennings, Norman, Okla.

8. 93 Chase Dietz, York, Pa.

9. 78 Kip Hughes, North Enid, Okla.

10. 62 Mark Bitner, Columbus, N.J.

11. 53 Dave Peperak, Clinton, Ind.

12. 51 Aric Gentry, Robards, Ky.

13. 50 Saban Bibent, Cincinnati, Ohio

14. 49 Alex Bright, Collegeville, Pa.

15. 46 Tom Savage, Red Lion, Pa.

16. 44 Steve Gennetten, Gravois Mills, Mo.

17. 35 Joe Trenca, Phoenix, N.Y.

18. 33 Tanner Berryhill, Bixby, Okla.

19. 23 Brent Yarnal, Phoenix, Ariz.

20. 19 Kevin Newton, Farmersburg, Ind.

21. 16 Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, Neb.

22. 10 Jake Trainor, Medway, Mass.

USAC SILVER CROWN ROOKIES OF THE YEAR:

1981: Jack Hewitt, Troy, Ohio

1982: Keith Kauffman, Mifflintown, Pa.

1983: Rick Hood, Memphis, Tenn.

1984: Dave Blaney, Hartford, Ohio

1985: Steve Butler, Kokomo, Ind.

1986: Kenny Jacobs, Holmesville, Ohio

1987: Jeff Swindell, Memphis, Tenn.

1988: Gene Lee Gibson, Richwood, Ohio

1989: Jimmy Sills, Placerville, Calif.

1990: Eric Gordon, Greenfield, Ind.

1991: Stevie Reeves, Indianapolis, Ind.

1992: Jim Keeker, Cicero, Ind.

1993: Randy Tolsma, Meridian, Idaho

1994: Kenny Irwin Jr. , Indianapolis, Ind.

1995: Chuck Leary, Greenfield, Ind.

1996: Ryan Newman, South Bend, Ind.

1997: Jimmy Kite, Stockbridge, Ga.

1998: Todd Kane, Powell, Ohio

1999: Paul White, Temple, Texas

2000: Kasey Kahne, Enumclaw, Wash.

2001: Aaron Fike, Galesburg, Ill.

2002: Matt Westfall, Pleasant Hill, Ohio

2003: Ron Gregory, Noblesville, Ind.

2004: Aaron Pierce, Muncie, Ind.

2005: Josh Wise, Riverside, Calif.

2006: Mat Neely, Robinson, Ill.

2007: Cameron Dodson, Greenfield, Ind.

2008: Steve Arpin, St. Francis, Ont.

2009: Kody Swanson, Kingsburg, Calif.

2010: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Ind.

2011: Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, Calif.

2012: Kyle Hamilton, Danville, Ind.

2013: Chris Windom, Canton, Ill.

2014: Caleb Armstrong, New Castle, Ind.

2015: C.J. Leary, Greenfield, Ind.

2016: Casey Shuman, Tempe, Ariz.

2017: Joss Moffatt, Columbus, Ind.

2018: Kyle Robbins, New Castle, Ind.

2019: Derek Bischak, Angola, Ind.

2020: Bryan Gossel, Fort Collins, Colo.

2021: Logan Seavey, Sutter, Calif.

2022: Gregg Cory, Shelbyville, Ind.

2023: Kaylee Bryson, Muskogee, Okla.

2024: Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio

FROM 2 WHEELS TO 4!

HUNTER MADDOX CLAIMS MPI

USAC SPRINT ROOKIE OF THE YEAR HONORS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (November 6, 2024)………Whether it’s on two wheels or four, Hunter Maddox is apt to give it a whirl.

After more than a decade of dirt bike racing, the Bedford, Indiana native turned his focus toward the dirt ovals in recent years. The 29-year-old’s efforts in the four-wheel variety were rewarded in 2024 by being named the Max Papis Innovations USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship Rookie of the Year.

To join a Rookie of the Year list that includes eventual series champions such as Tony Stewart, J.J. Yeley, Tracy Hines, Josh Wise, Justin Grant, C.J. Leary, Tyler Courtney and Logan Seavey as a USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year, the accomplishment means the world to Maddox.

“It gives me chills,” Maddox admitted. “This is just the end of my third year of racing sprint cars. It’s a true honor and it’s something that I set out to do since the beginning of the year. I thought it might be possible, so I just tried to stay very persistent and not give up.”

Maddox made 25 feature starts with the series throughout the 2024 season en route to an 18th place finish in the overall standings. Furthermore, he was one of only 11 drivers to compete in all 44 events on the slate in his Hunter Maddox Racing/TJD Roofing - Air-Master Heating & Air Conditioning/DRC/Cummings Chevy.

“I can officially say that I’ve made it to every single round of the tour, which is phenomenal since I don’t think I’ve had perfect attendance since elementary school,” Maddox quipped. “I’ve sacrificed a lot to be able to do it, but it was a goal that I had set. I’m a very determined person and I’m very driven, so when somebody tells me I can’t do something or whenever I tell myself I can do something, I’m going to make it happen. To be able to make it happen and be on the list with some of the greatest drivers of all-time, I don’t know if it’ll ever set in.”

Maddox’s background before entering the USAC Sprint Car world is quite different than the common path most partake, most often quarter midgets, micro sprints and the like at a young age. Maddox didn’t even begin racing of any sort until the age of 16, ultimately winning championships on the local level before traveling nationally and specializing in Hare Scramble racing, which is a form of off-road motorcycle competition that varies in distance and time, with riders completing multiple laps around a marked course through wooded or other rugged natural terrain.

These days, Maddox has curtailed his dirt bike racing to just a handful of events per year. In fact, the morning after the USAC National Sprint Car season finale at Meeker, Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway, Maddox endured an all night drive/ride back to Indiana in order to make it to the starting line in time for a Hare Scramble event.

“As soon as the feature was over, I hightailed it east for a race at 10am in Greencastle, Indiana for the final round of the national series for off road racing – the Ironman GNCC,” Maddox explained. “I had to be back on the starting line at 10am with a warmed up bike. It’s about a 10-hour trek (and we lost an hour due to the change in time zones), so we had about 12 hours to make the 10-hour trek. Then it takes about an hour to get changed and get on the starting line.”

Beyond that, Maddox has now made sprint car racing his priority in the spring, summer, fall, and on occasion, in the winter. Once the feeling of a nearly 900 horsepower sprint car grabbed him, it was instant. Soon after, he knew this is what he was going to do.

“(Dirt bike racing) is a sport I truly love, but when I got into a sprint car, it was a whole new level that I hadn’t felt in many years,” Maddox admitted. “I love the challenge of sprint cars and I love the challenge of the bike, and I still enjoy doing both. Nothing really translates except for the mentality. I know from my years of racing dirt bikes, you’ve just got to stay calm, cool and collected if you want a good result.”

Maddox chalks up his highlight moment of the 2024 campaign as winning his first career heat race with the series during the USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing round near his hometown track at Bloomington Speedway. The cherry on top was the fact that he defeated USAC National Sprint Car feature winners Chase Stockon, Logan Seavey, Jadon Rogers and Briggs Danner to achieve the feat.

Among the top things Maddox reflected on following the season was the relationships he made. Chief among them was his right hand man Butch Mundy as well as the bond he formed with the BGE Dougherty Motorsports group and drivers Carson Garrett and C.J. Leary. It was a common sight to see Maddox’s No. 24m parked alongside Garrett and Leary in the pit area at each event. At a couple points during the year, Maddox even lent Garrett a car to drive in a pair of USAC races.

It’s an uncommon story of how Maddox and Garrett’s friendship was sparked. During Winter Dirt Games at Florida’s Ocala Speedway in 2023, unknown to each other at the time, they happened to pit alongside one another. Thereafter, Garrett’s team suddenly had a bit of a problem. Somehow, someway, a flashlight was dropped inside their fuel tank. Upon hearing about the issue, Maddox came to the rescue, retrieving his fishing pole from the trailer and literally fished the flashlight out of the fuel tank to save the day.

In return, when Maddox had a question regarding how the pre-race four-wide salute worked, Garrett drew it out on a piece of paper and demonstrated it for him.

“The entire team played an instrumental part the entire year for me last year and this year with USAC,” Maddox complimented. “I really don’t think that I could’ve gotten to this point or had as many decent runs as I’ve had. It was also really cool to be able to become friends with C.J. this year. He’s one of the greatest of all-time in the sport. Even though he’s a year younger than me, I look up to him. But there’s a lot of really good people here. If you keep the good ones by your side, they’ll steer you on the right path.”

2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS:

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 949 Hunter Maddox, Bedford, Ind.

2. 553 Kale Drake, Collinsville, Okla.

3. 494 Chance Crum, Snohomish, Wash.

4. 360 Rylan Gray, Greenfield, Ind.

5. 328 Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio

6. 314 Wesley Smith, Nixa, Mo.

7. 275 Todd Hobson, Clyde, Vic.

8. 267 Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Ind.

9. 246 Saban Bibent, Cincinnati, Ohio

10. 127 Chase Howard, Nesbit, Miss.

11. 72 Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Ind.

12. 68 Shane Butler, Bushnell, Fla.

13. 68 Nic Harris, Atlanta, Ill.

14. 20 Jason Cherry, Blandon, Pa.

15. 10 Will Hull, Plainfield, Vt.

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR ROOKIES OF THE YEAR:

1971: Darl Harrison, Tiffin, Ohio

1972: Billy Cassella, Weirton, W.Va.

1973: Rich Leavell, Elwood, Ind.

1974: Lee Osborne, Lebanon, Pa.

1975: Marvin Carman, Union City, Mich.

1976: Roger Rager, Mound, Minn.

1977: Eddie Leavitt, Kearney, Mo.

1978: Tim Richmond, Ashland, Ohio

1979: Jerry Carman, Burlington, Mich.

1980: Frank Riddle, Tampa, Fla.

1981: Steve Long, Indianapolis, Ind. (co)

1981: Johnny Coogan, Alexandria, Ind. (co)

1982: Danny Milburn, Indianapolis, Ind.

1983: Dean Shirley, Middletown, Ill.

1984: Jerry Russell, Springfield, Ill.

1985: Terry Shepherd, Warsaw, Ind.

1986: Kenny Jacobs, Holmesville, Ohio

1987: Rick Ungar, Garrettsville, Ohio

1988: Dean Jacobs, Fredericksburg, Ohio

1989: Eric Gordon, Greenfield, Ind.

1990: Rick Howerton, Indianapolis, Ind.

1991: Tony Stewart, Columbus, Ind.

1992: Gary Cameron II, Tulsa, Okla.

1993: Kenny Irwin Jr., Indianapolis, Ind.

1994: Bobby Smith, Martinsville, Ind.

1995: Mark Cassella, Weirton, W.Va.

1996: Gus Wasson, Bloomdale, Ohio

1997: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Ariz.

1998: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Ind.

1999: Ryan Newman, South Bend, Ind.

2000: Bud Kaeding, Campbell, Calif.

2001: Ed Carpenter, Indianapolis, Ind.

2002: Boston Reid, Logansport, Ind.

2003: Michael Lewis, Noblesville, Ind. (co)

2003: Mat Neely, Robinson, Ill. (co)

2004: Josh Ford, Camarillo, Calif. (co)

2004: Josh Wise, Riverside, Calif. (co)

2005: Darren Hagen, Riverside, Calif.

2006: Scotty Weir, Marion, Ind.

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Olive Branch, Miss.

2008: Chad Boat, Phoenix, Ariz.

2009: Henry Clarke, Villa Park, Calif.

2010: Justin Grant, Ione, Calif.

2011: Coleman Gulick, Binghamton, N.Y.

2012: C.J. Leary, Greenfield, Ind.

2013: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Ind.

2014: Jarett Andretti, Mooresville, N.C.

2015: Aaron Farney, Brookston, Ind.

2016: Isaac Chapple, Willow Branch, Ind.

2017: Stevie Sussex, Tempe, Ariz.

2018: Timmy Buckwalter, Douglassville, Pa. (co)

2018: Logan Seavey, Sutter, Calif. (co)

2019: Dustin Clark, Washington, Ind.

2020: Jadon Rogers, Worthington, Ind.

2021: Tanner Thorson, Minden, Nev.

2022: Emerson Axsom, Franklin, Ind.

2023: Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Okla.

2024: Hunter Maddox, Bedford, Ind.

JIMMY SILLS & RON SHAVER

NAMED CO-GRAND MARSHALS

FOR 2024 TURKEY NIGHT GRAND PRIX

Ventura, California (November 5, 2024)………Motorsports legends Jimmy Sills and Ron Shaver have been named co-grand marshals of the 83rd running of the ARP Turkey Night Grand Prix Presented by the West Coast Stock Car/Motorsports Hall of Fame at California’s Ventura Raceway on Saturday night, November 30.

Sills, of Placerville, Calif., was USAC's first three-time Silver Crown champion, in 1990, 1994 and 1996. Until surpassed by Dave Steele, he was the all-time lap leader in Silver Crown history. A six-time champion of the prestigious Dirt Cup at Washington’s Skagit Speedway, Sills also won the 1978 Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic in Australia and is a former champion of the famed Oval Nationals in 1996 at California’s Perris Auto Speedway.

In 1982, Sills won the championship at Baylands Speedway in Fremont, Calif., and the following year, scored a significant opening night win at the Knoxville Nationals in Iowa.

The leader of one of America's most renowned Sprint Car Racing Schools, Sills was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame in 2006, the Knoxville Raceway Hall of Fame in 2007 and the USAC Hall of Fame in 2018.

Over the past 30 years, Shaver has been one of the leading engine builders for many championship winning teams with USAC, the World Of Outlaws, the All Star Circuit of Champions, NARC, CRA, SCRA, NCRA, NHRA and SCORE.

The Shaver family has been involved in motorsports since the 1930s when Offenhauser racing engines came to them for manufacturing and machining and continuing through the 1950s with drag racing engine work for Drake Engineering.

In 1976, Shaver began development for his first sprint car engine built for Tommy Hunt of Hunt Magnetos, and later, Dean Thompson and Bruce Bromme.

He and his Shaver Racing Engine teams compiled over 30 open wheel championships throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Now, in the 21st century, Shaver Engines have proven themselves time and time again by claiming victories at the most prestigious races across the country, including the Knoxville Nationals, Kings Royal, World 100, Gold Cup, Dirt Cup and at the Syracuse Mile in New York.

Agajanian Promotions presents the 2024 Turkey Night Grand Prix at Ventura (Calif.) Raceway, which begins on Friday, November 29, with midget practice, plus USCS Sprint Car racing.

On Saturday, November 30, the Turkey Night Grand Prix final night consists of midget hot laps, qualifying, last chance qualifiers, semis and the 98-lap feature, plus sprint car semis and main events.

Advance tickets can be purchased at www.venturaraceway.com. Additional information is available at 805-648-7223.

TOP OF THE WORLD!

CUMMINS WINS WESTERN WORLD AT MOHAVE VALLEY,

JOHNSON CLINCHES USAC CRA TITLE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Mohave Valley, Arizona (November 2, 2024)………One night after pacing the middle stages of the feature before seeing the lead slip through his fingers, Kyle Cummins bounced back quite nicely during Saturday night’s 57th Western World Championships finale Presented By Avanti Windows & Doors at Arizona’s Mohave Valley Raceway.

This time around, once Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) assumed control, he never relented after leading the final 25 laps to earn a $10,500 reward as well as his first career Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series feature victory in his Petty Performance Racing No. 3p.

In what was nearly a carbon copy of Friday’s Western World opener, USAC CRA point leader R.J. Johnson was the driver all others were chasing during the opening laps. Johnson paced the first eight of Friday’s feature, and on Saturday, led the opening five circuits of the 30-lap affair.

Each time, however, it was the fourth-place starting Cummins who surged by Johnson for the lead. On Saturday, Cummins went topside in turn four to clear Johnson for the top spot by the sixth lap mark.

Moments later, on the 10th lap, the most unexpected of all twists and turns took place when a brief power outage submerged the 1/3-mile dirt oval in darkness amid a green flag run. After only two minutes, the track lights began to shine again, the red flag was lifted and racing was able to resume.

Just as he did the previous night, Friday winner Kevin Thomas Jr. emerged into the second spot past R.J. Johnson thereafter. However, this time, by the time he did so, only nine laps remained and a full straightaway separated himself and Cummins for the race lead.

Going green the rest of the way, Cummins went unchallenged the remainder of the way, outside of navigating lapped traffic, to earn the victory with Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) taking second and Woodland Auto Display Fast Qualifier C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) finishing third.

R.J. Johnson (Laveen, Ariz.) finished in the fourth spot after leading the initial five laps, and his points gained throughout the night allowed him to clinch his first career USAC CRA Sprint Car championship.

J.J. Yeley (Phoenix, Ariz.) rounded out the top-five after starting 18th on the grid. His +13 advancement earned him hard charger honors presented in memory of Jim and Chet Gardner. Furthermore, Yeley pocketed the coveted Lafond Jar of Change, which totaled $3423.68, raised through donations from the racing community.

Cody Williams (Norco, Calif.) won the FlowDynamics Incorporated / In Honor of Wiley Miller Sr and Wiley Miller II First Heat Race. Matt Westfall (Pleasant Hill, Ohio) captured the WC Friend Company Second Heat Race. Kyle Cummins scored the win in the BillsJerky.net / Silbermann Solar Third Heat Race. J.J. Yeley was the victor of the Sexton Fire Protection Fourth Heat Race. A.J. Bender (San Diego, Calif.) raced to the win in the Factory Wraps Semi.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: November 2, 2024 – Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, Arizona – 57th Annual Western World Championships presented by Avanti Windows & Doors

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-14.089; 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 15, Bonneau-14.172; 3. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.252; 4. Stevie Sussex, 5, Baldwin-14.379; 5. R.J. Johnson, 51, Johnson-14.399; 6. Ricky Lewis, 17, Dunkel-14.429; 7. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-14.477; 8. Tye Mihocko, 5T, Wilson-14.518; 9. Jake Swanson, 17x, Dunkel-14.592; 10. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-14.644; 11. David Gasper, 18, Kittle/Gasper-14.671; 12. Tommy Malcolm, 5x, Napier-14.725; 13. Cody Williams, 44, Williams-14.746; 14. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-14.760; 15. Jordan Hermansader, 71, Martin-14.801; 16. James Turnbull II, 2J, Turnbull-14.807; 17. Logan Williams, 5w, McCarthy-14.819; 18. Austin Grabowski, 72, Grabowski-14.872; 19. Cameron La Rose, 13p, Petty-14.879; 20. J.J. Yeley, 2, Yeley-14.907; 21. Bryan Drollinger, 71, Drollinger/Sweeney-14.913; 22. Matt Westfall, 11c, Turner/Wheeler-14.941; 23. Troy Treharn, 7x, Treharn-14.977; 24. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-15.085; 25. Kaleb Montgomery, 4J, Calderwood-15.108; 26. Dayton Shelton, 9, Shelton-15.111; 27. Grant Sexton, 22, Sexton-15.142; 28. Jeff Dyer, 39, Cal-Sun-15.169; 29. Don Grable, 45x, Budlong-15.195; 30. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-15.241; 31. Jayme Barnes, 9x, Barnes-15.266; 32. Shon Deskins, 20, Deskins-15.281; 33. Racin Silva, 5s, Silva-15.363; 34. Mark Henry Jr., 39R, Henry-15.429; 35. Colt Treharn, 77, Treharn-15.628; 36. Brent Sexton, 44s, Sexton-15.634; 37. Blake Hendricks, 14, Hendricks-15.737; 38. Brody Wake, 78B, Wake-15.927; 39. Camie Bell, 29c, Bell-16.305; 40. Elexa Herrera, 5E, Herrera-18.610; 41. Todd Pratt, 17F, Pratt-NT; 42. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-NT.

FLOWDYNAMICS INCORPORATED / IN HONOR OF WILEY MILLER SR. & WILEY MILLER II FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Cody Williams, 2. C.J. Leary, 3. R.J. Johnson, 4. Jake Swanson, 5. Kaleb Montgomery, 6. Logan Williams, 7. Don Grable, 8. Mark Henry Jr., 9. Bryan Drollinger. NT

WC FRIEND COMPANY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Matt Westfall, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Charles Davis Jr., 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Austin Williams, 6. A.J. Bender, 7. Austin Grabowski, 8. Colt Treharn, 9. Dayton Shelton. NT

BILLSJERKY.NET / SILBERMANN SOLAR THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Kyle Cummins, 2. Cameron La Rose, 3. David Gasper, 4. Logan Calderwood, 5. Shon Deskins, 6. Troy Treharn, 7. Brent Sexton, 8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Grant Sexton. NT

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. J.J. Yeley, 2. Tommy Malcolm, 3. Tye Mihocko, 4. Stevie Sussex, 5. Jeff Dyer, 6. Verne Sweeney, 7. Racin Silva, 8. Blake Hedricks, 9. James Turnbull II. NT

FACTORY WRAPS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. A.J. Bender, 2. Logan Williams, 3. Austin Grabowski, 4. Grant Sexton, 5. Colt Treharn, 6. Verne Sweeney, 7. Don Grable, 8. Brody Wake, 9. Racin Silva, 10. Brent Sexton, 11. Jordan Hermansader, 12. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 13. Mark Henry Jr., 14. Elexa Herrera, 15. Troy Treharn, 16. Dayton Shelton, 17. Bryan Drollinger, 18. Blake Hendricks, 19. Todd Pratt, 20. Camie Bell, 21. James Turnbull II. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (4), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 3. C.J. Leary (6), 4. R.J. Johnson (2), 5. J.J. Yeley (18), 6. Ricky Lewis (1), 7. Matt Westfall (19), 8. Tye Mihocko (8), 9. Jake Swanson (9), 10. Austin Williams (14), 11. Stevie Sussex (3), 12. David Gasper (11), 13. Charles Davis Jr. (10), 14. Cody Williams (13), 15. A.J. Bender (23), 16. Cameron La Rose (17), 17. Kaleb Montgomery, 18. Tommy Malcolm (12), 19. Austin Grabowski (16), 20. Shon Deskins (24), 21. Jeff Dyer (2), 22. Verne Sweeney (25-P), 23. Grant Sexton (21), 24. Logan Calderwood (7), 25. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (26-P), 26. Logan Williams (15). NT

(P) represents a provisional starter

**Jayme Barnes flipped during qualifying.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 R.J. Johnson, Laps 6-30 Kyle Cummins.

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER HARD CHARGER: J.J. Yeley (18th to 5th)

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-1440, 2-Tommy Malcolm-1264, 3-Austin Williams-1240, 4-A.J. Bender-1202, 5-David Gasper-1183, 6-Cody Williams-1096, 7-Logan Williams-1086, 8-Charles Davis Jr.-940, 9-Verne Sweeney-912, 10-Austin Grabowski-885.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: November 9, 2024 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, California

KTJ SCORES WESTERN WORLD OPENER

AT MOHAVE VALLEY

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Mohave Valley, Arizona (November 2, 2024)………Entering Friday night, Kevin Thomas Jr.’s most recent visit to Arizona’s Mohave Valley Raceway back in April of this year resulted in a victory.

The Cullman, Ala. kept the winning ways rolling during the opening night of the 57th annual Western World Championships Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors.

For KTJ, it was his eighth career Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car feature victory, and his second of the season for the Bonneau Motorsports team.

Thomas was one of three different leaders in the 30-lap feature, and was the final of the bunch, as he raced around the outside of fellow USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competitor Kyle Cummins in turn two on lap 18, then led the remaining 13 laps en route to victory on the first of two nights of Western World.

USAC CRA point leader R.J. Johnson paced the first eight laps from the pole position before being overtaken by Cummins who started third. Thomas then raced his way into the lead on lap 18 from the sixth starting position after kicking off the night as the Woodland Auto Display Fast Qualifier.

At the checkered flag, Thomas was followed to the line by R.J. Johnson (Laveen, Ariz.), Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.), C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) and Ricky Lewis (Camarillo, Calif.).

USAC CRA top Rookie David Gasper (Goleta, Calif.) was the feature’s hard charger presented in memory of Jim and Chet Gardner after advancing from 20th to 12th. Gasper also notched a win in the Factory Wraps Semi-Feature.

Verne Sweeney (Lomita, Calif.) won the FlowDynamics Incorporated / In Honor of Wiley Miller Sr and Wiley Miller II First Heat Race. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (Chino Hills, Calif.) captured the WC Friend Company Second Heat Race. R.J. Johnson scored the win of the BillsJerky.net / Silbermann Solar Third Heat Race. Tommy Malcolm (Corona, Calif.) was the victor of the Sexton Fire Protection Fourth Heat Race.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: November 1, 2024 – Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, Arizona – 57th Annual Western World Championships presented by Avanti Windows & Doors

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 15, Bonneau-14.010; 2. J.J. Yeley, 2, Yeley-14.300; 3. C.J. Leary, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-14.421; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.454; 5. Stevie Sussex, 5B, Baldwin-14.482; 6. Jake Swanson, 17x, Dunkel-14.564; 7. R.J. Johnson, 51, Johnson-14.591; 8. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-14.621; 9. Ricky Lewis, 17, Dunkel-14.623; 10. Tye Mihocko, 5, Mihocko-14.632; 11. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-14.634; 12. Cody Williams, 44, Williams-14.689; 13. Kaleb Montgomery, 4J, Calderwood-14.691; 14.691; 14. Matt Westfall, 11c, Turner/Wheeler-14.704; 15. Grant Sexton, 22, Sexton-14.750; 16. Tommy Malcolm, 5x, Napier-14.751; 17. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-14.754; 18. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-14.842; 19. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-14.847; 20. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-14.851; 21. David Gasper, 18, Kittle/Gasper-14.862; 22. Austin Grabowski, 72, Grabowski-14.895; 23. Cameron La Rose, 13P, Petty-14.940; 24. Dayton Shelton, 9, Shelton-15.048; 25. Colt Treharn, 77, Treharn-15.111; 26. Jeff Dyer, 39, Cal-Sun-15.120; 27. James Turnbull II, 2J, Turnbull-15.124; 28. Jordan Hermansader, 71, Martin-15.218; 29. Troy Treharn, 7x, Treharn-15.222; 30. Don Grable, 45x, Budlong-15.226; 31. Logan Williams, 5w, McCarthy-15.262; 32. Braden Chiaramonte, 73B, OCC-15.322; 33. Jayme Barnes, 9, Barnes-15.406; 34. Blake Hendricks, 14, Hendricks-15.406; 35. Stevie Rogers, 11, Rogers-14.479; 36. Shon Deskins, 20, Deskins-15.493; 37. Brent Sexton, 44s, Sexton-15.595; 38. Racin Silva, 5s, Silva-15.696; 39. Mark Henry Jr., 39R, Henry-15.698; 40. Jim Vanzant, 3v, Vanzant-15.815; 41. Elexa Herrera, 5E, Herrera-16.093; 42. Todd Pratt, 17F, Pratt-16.238; 43. Brody Wake, 78B, Wake-16.430; 44. Bryan Drollinger, 71D, Drollinger/Sweeney-17.118; 45. Camie Bell, 29c, Bell-17.122.

FLOWDYNAMICS INCORPORATED / IN HONOR OF WILEY MILLER SR. & WILEY MILLER II FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Verne Sweeney, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Colt Treharn, 5. Stevie Sussex, 6. Kaleb Montgomery, 7. Jayme Barnes, 8. David Gasper, 9. Troy Treharn. NT

WC FRIEND COMPANY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 2. Matt Westfall, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. Tye Mihocko, 5. Austin Grabowski, 6. Jeff Dyer, 7. Don Grable, 8. Blake Hendricks, 9. Jake Swanson. NT

BILLSJERKY.NET / SILBERMANN SOLAR THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. R.J. Johnson, 2. Charles Davis Jr., 3. C.J. Leary, 4. Logan Calderwood, 5. Cameron La Rose, 6. Logan Williams, 7. Grant Sexton, 8. James Turnbull II, 9. Stevie Rogers. NT

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature) 1. Tommy Malcolm, 2. Austin Williams, 3. A.J. Bender, 4. Kyle Cummins, 5. Cody Williams, 6. Shon Deskins, 7. Braden Chiaramonte, 8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Dayton Shelton. NT

FACTORY WRAPS SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature) 1. David Gasper, 2. Jake Swanson, 3. Kaleb Montgomery, 4. Jeff Dyer, 5. Troy Treharn, 6. Jayme Barnes, 7. Jordan Hermansader, 8. Logan Williams, 9. Don Grable, 10. James Turnbull II, 11. Braden Chiaramonte, 12. Dayton Shelton, 13. Shon Deskins, 14. Mark Henry, 15. Racin Silva, 16. Elexa Herrera, 17. Brody Wake, 18. Brent Sexton, 19. Jim Vanzant, 20. Bryan Drollinger, 21. Todd Pratt, 22. Blake Hendricks, 23. Camie Bell, 24. Grant Sexton. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 2. R.J. Johnson (1), 3. Kyle Cummins (3), 4. C.J. Leary (4), 5. Ricky Lewis (9), 6. Stevie Sussex (2), 7. Charles Davis Jr. (11), 8. A.J. Bender (8), 9. Jake Swanson (7), 10. J.J. Yeley (5), 11. Matt Westfall (14), 12. David Gasper (20), 13. Logan Calderwood (18), 14. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (17), 15. Cameron La Rose (22), 16. Cody Williams (12), 17. Tye Mihocko (10), 18. Austin Williams (19), 19. Kaleb Montgomery (13), 20. Verne Sweeney (16), 21. Austin Grabowski (21), 22. Elexa Herrera (26), 23. Tommy Malcolm (15), 24. Jeff Dyer (24), 25. Colt Treharn (23), 26. Grant Sexton (25). NT

**Stevie Rogers flipped on lap 4 of the third heat.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-8 R.J. Johnson, Laps 9-17 Kyle Cummins, Laps 18-30 Kevin Thomas Jr.

IN MEMORY OF JIM & CHET GARDNER HARD CHARGER: David Gasper (20th to 12th)

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-1371, 2-Tommy Malcolm-1230, 3-Austin Williams-1193, 4-A.J. Bender-1165, 5-David Gasper-1138, 6-Logan Williams-1060, 7-Cody Williams-1053, 8-Charles Davis Jr.-897, 9-Verne Sweeney-889, 10-Austin Grabowski-858.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: November 2, 2024 – Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, Arizona – 57th Annual Western World Championships presented by Avanti Windows & Doors

LEARY, TEAM AZ, PETTY & ROSSI TEAM UP

FOR 2025 USAC SILVER CROWN SEASON

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (November 1, 2024)………C.J. Leary will drive full-time on the USAC Silver Crown National Championship trail throughout the 2025 season in a joint effort between Team Arizona Racing, Petty Performance Racing and Phil Rossi.

Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) is coming off a season in which he finished fourth in the USAC Silver Crown standings, his third consecutive top-four points finish with the series. The 2015 USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year owns three wins in the series, at Terre Haute (2016), Eldora (2018) and Madison (2022).

Team AZ Racing entered the champ car racing world in 2024 and flourished in a dirt only schedule with drivers Daison Pursley and Mario Clouser. In just the team’s second series start, Pursley raced the team’s car to a last lap victory at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway.

Leary has competed in the series for Klatt Enterprises full-time since 2022. Now he’ll take the reins of the series’ newest full-time team on dirt and pavement in pursuit of his first ever USAC Silver Crown title aboard the Avanti Windows & Doors, Apache Transport, OakCraft Elegant Cabinetry No. 21 DRC chassis powered by Stanton Racing Engines.

“I’m extremely excited for this new endeavor,” Leary stated. “(Car owner) Mike Burkhart, Craig (Burkhart), Jerry (Petty) and everybody seems to be putting together a super team. It’s going to be pretty cool. Hopefully we come out of the gates swinging. Obviously, their sprint car program has been really good. We’ve raced against them for the last handful of years and it definitely seems like they know what’s going on. They’ve got a notebook now with Daison and Clouser, so I’m super excited.”

Leary and Team AZ’s first foray together will come this weekend when the team travels out to Arizona’s Mohave Valley Raceway for the 57th annual Western World Championships. There, Leary will wheel the team’s machine for the two-night Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series event on Friday-Saturday, November 1-2. Team AZ has won each of the last three Western World features with Jake Swanson (2022) and Daison Pursley (2023).

“Originally, I was going to drive for Bill Michael out there, then the Silver Crown deal came about,” Leary revealed. “We just wanted to work together and just feel each other out a little bit and try to build on that notebook a little bit for next year. Hopefully, we can win two races.”

Leary’s USAC accolades also include the AMSOIL National Sprint Car championship, the Eastern Storm title and the Indiana Sprint Week crown, all of which he earned in 2019. In 2012, Leary was named USAC National Sprint Rookie of the Year, and in 2023, earned the Bubby Jones Master of Going Faster Championship Presented By Spire Sports + Entertainment.

The 2025 USAC Silver Crown schedule will be announced in December.

SEAVEY SECURES USAC CAREER TRIPLE CROWN!

2024 USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR REVIEW

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (October 31, 2024)………In a span of two seasons, Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing went from being among the newest driver/team combinations in the sport to becoming USAC Career Triple Crown champions.

After Seavey and Abacus teamed up to capture the 2023 USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship titles, they added a sprint car to the arsenal and showed no signs of letting up in a historic USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season from start-to-finish in 2024.

Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) is now one of only eight drivers who can lay claim to being a member of the USAC career Triple Crown club alongside Pancho Carter, Tony Stewart, Dave Darland, J.J. Yeley, Jerry Coons Jr., Tracy Hines and Chris Windom.

Meanwhile, Noblesville, Indiana based Abacus Racing became just the second entrant to post championships in USAC’s Silver Crown, National Sprint Car and National Midget divisions, a feat previously only accomplished by the duo of Mike Curb & Cary Agajanian.

On his path to a 107-point edge in the final championship tally along with a $50,000 title prize, Seavey led the points for 42 of the 44 events – a span of eight months and 13 days between February 13 and October 26, both of which are all-time series records for the duration of holding the point lead.

Along the way, Seavey totaled 14 series victories in 2024, equaling the all-time USAC National Sprint Car season record set by Tom Bigelow in 1977. Furthermore, in July, Seavey became the first driver in 39 years to record four consecutive USAC National Sprint Car feature victories, a feat that hadn’t been achieved since Rick Hood’s similarly impressive 1985 campaign.

The 2024 USAC National Sprint Car season was the second busiest on record with 44 events, second only to the 51 held in 1977. During the run, Seavey led the series in feature wins (14), laps led (364), top-fives (31) and top-tens (38).

What makes this season all the more impressive is the fact that this was Seavey and Abacus Racing’s first foray into sprint cars together. Just as their first season in USAC Silver Crown and Midgets wound up, the Sprint Car too resulted in a resoundingly dominant performance and a title by year’s end.

“It’s unbelievable,” Seavey stated. “That’s the goal we set when starting this sprint car team, but we surely didn’t expect it to come in the first year. There’s hundreds of people who play a part in making these things go around to run the whole season, and to come out on top is unbelievable.”

Guided by Team Principal Brent Cox, Team Manager Kirk Simpson, Crew Chief Ronnie Gardner, plus Daniel Whitley, Trevor Reed, Liam Haigh, Johnny Cofer, Chris Mansell, Chad Vermeil, Missy Vermeil and partners, John Lunsford and Ken Gauze, the team found comfort right away and the chemistry was perfectly composed.

In February at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park, despite engine troubles and a timely weather delay, Seavey and Abacus persevered to sweep the night and become the first to win multiple USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship features in a single night for the first time since Bud Kaeding at Terre Haute more than 22 years earlier in 2001. To add to that, Abacus became the first entrant to win their first two USAC National Sprint Car main events on the same day since Max Dowker at Winchester (Ind.) Speedway in 1975.

“Heading to Florida, we were optimistic, but wanted to be realistic,” Cox explained. “After two podium finishes to start the season (at Ocala), we ran into engine troubles on night three. Luckily, rain saved us and we could make the engine change and be ready for both races at Volusia to be run on the same night. Without a third engine in the trailer, we won them both after an energetic conversation between Logan and I earlier that day when he said, ‘we are in a hole.’ Well, I said, ‘we are not in the hole; we are standing next to it.’ I will remember that conversation for the rest of my life. It was hard because, as a team, we were not prepared as maybe we should have been. We are not the biggest team, and likely never will be. We work hard to take the resources we have to make it work. I always say, ‘I don’t want to be the biggest; I want to be the best.’”

With the point lead now securely in their hands, Seavey and Abacus continued their winning ways at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway, Terre Haute Action Track and Circle City Raceway during the month of May, the latter of which was the earliest in a season (May 23) that any driver had picked up his fifth win of the year since Larry Dickson on May 10, 1970.

Seavey carried his winning ways in Pennsylvania during June’s Eastern Storm by winning at Big Diamond Speedway one year removed from missing out on a transfer spot there. To close out the week, Seavey scored a photo finish triumph over Briggs Danner at the smallest track on the schedule – the 1/5-mile Action Track USA.

Seavey began his streak of four-straight USAC Sprint wins at Illinois’ Macon Speedway on the final weekend of June before landing three-straight at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway to kick off July, the last of which served as the opening night of NOS Energy Drink USAC Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing. Seavey very nearly became the first driver since Parnelli Jones in 1961 to run his win streak to five with the series but came up a car length short to Kyle Cummins at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway.

Seavey added wins at Lawrenceburg Speedway and Circle City Raceway en route to his first Indiana Sprint Week title. At Lawrenceburg, he started 11th on his way to winning a race featuring seven lead changes among four drivers, tied for the most lead swaps ever in a USAC Indiana Sprint Week feature.

With 13 wins in the books, Seavey and Abacus had to wait another 11 races across two-and-a-half months before hitting paydirt again in October at Lawrenceburg’s $20,000-to-win Fall Nationals, tying Bigelow’s single season mark. Although coming up just shy of the win record, the team was able to clinch the championship one night early in the penultimate round at Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway.

It was a surreal moment for the young and hungry team who has already reached heights in their two-year span that so few others have even come close to accomplishing.

“They put a lot of faith and belief in me that we could come out here and do this,” Seavey praised. “All the parts and pieces, and all the hard work that goes into coordinating a race team, it’s pretty unbelievable to only go full-time in this sport for two seasons and have three championships on their end. All the press in on me for the Triple Crown, and I’m obviously super excited about that, but the team definitely deserves the praise too.”

It certainly aids the situation when a driver can cross over to three different series with essentially the same supporting cast surrounding him, especially when that group has clicked as successfully as this one.

“Just having Ronnie and Kirk to work on this thing gives me so much confidence,” Seavey reiterated. “I’ve raced with Ronnie in the past on a few other cars, and getting to work with Kirk this year, he’s been a huge part of this effort to keep us on our toes and making us think a little bit differently on things, and was a key to help us in places where Ronnie and I may have struggled in the past. I already had confidence to go into the tracks where we’ve already been good at in the past. I feel like it really filled the void of the places I hadn’t been good at. Just having two guys over there that are really smart and really good at what they do was the key to what we had going on this year.”

Elsewhere, for the first time since 2012, each driver finishing inside the top-10 of the series standings also won at least one feature event: Logan Seavey, Brady Bacon, Daison Pursley, Kevin Thomas Jr., C.J. Leary, Mitchel Moles, Robert Ballou, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant and Matt Westfall.

For the third consecutive year, Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.) finished as the runner-up in the standings, adding five wins to his credit. In May at Circle City, he made it 14 consecutive seasons with a USAC National Sprint Car feature win, breaking the mark of 13-straight years set by Sheldon Kinser between 1974-1986. In June at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, he became the winningest Eastern Storm driver of all-time with victory number seven. He followed up with his first win at Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway in a decade as well as his first Indiana Sprint Week win in three years at Terre Haute in July.

In September at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway, Bacon earned his 50th series win as a driver for the Dynamics, Inc./Hoffman Auto Racing in the same state where he earned win number one for the team. Bacon capped the year by capturing a $10,000 bonus as the first two-time champion in the three-year history of the 10-race Bubby Jones Master of Going Faster series presented by Spire Sports + Entertainment. He also netted his crew chief, Matt Hummel, $2,500 as the champion.

Third-place points finisher Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Okla.) made, perhaps, the most impressive drive of any non-winner with the series in 2024, advancing a series record 21 positions in a 23rd to 2nd charge at Bloomington (Ind.) Speedway in May. He also notched his first two career points-paying USAC National Sprint Car wins at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway in June and at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway during the 4-Crown Nationals.

En route to fourth in the standings, Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) won five times with the series, including the inaugural Justin Owen Memorial at Lawrenceburg in April for his first series win in 19 months. He became the fourth different driver for Rock Steady Racing to score the Spring Showdown at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway in May. He was triumphant on his 33rd birthday in June at Pennsylvania’s Williams Grove Speedway after Briggs Danner ran out of fuel on the last corner of the last lap. KTJ added a Smackdown prelim night score at Kokomo in August before bagging a $20,000 payday in September after becoming the first five-time winner of the Haubstadt Hustler at Tri-State.

Five years to the day after his most recent Ocala victory, C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) won again at the D-shaped Florida oval in February. For good measure, the fifth-place points finishing driver also was standing tall as the winner of the non-points inaugural Stoops Sprint Car Invitational at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 10-car, 20-lap invitational. Leary once again led all series drivers with 10 fast qualifying times, the third time he has achieved the feature, and the only driver to do so more than once.

Mitchel Moles’ season was highlighted by an Eastern Storm title in which he recorded five top-five results in a six-night span. Furthermore, one year after becoming the first ever USAC National Sprint Car winner at Illinois’ Macon Speedway, the Raisin City, California native became the first ever repeat series winner at the 1/5-mile dirt oval for his only series win of the year on the road to a sixth place finish in points.

Robert Ballou (Rocklin, Calif.) was on the winning side of the most electrifying finish of the year when he erased a half-straightaway deficit to Kyle Cummins on the last lap to win the opening night of #LetsRaceTwo in May at Eldora. His first series win in 18 months proved to be the closest finish of the USAC season – .016 seconds. In June, Ballou also became the third driver to surpass 500 career USAC National Sprint Car feature starts, joining Dave Darland and Brady Bacon.

Joining the brand new Petty Performance Racing team for 2024, Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) progressively jelled to become a consistent frontrunner. After calling his shot in July by declaring over the PA system, “we’re going to win at Kokomo,” he did just that 24 hours later for the team’s first win. Cummins and company added one more win on Friday the 13th in September at Circle City.

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) experienced perhaps the strangest stat line in the history of USAC National Sprint Car racing by finishing ninth in points despite winning nine times! Inconsistency plagued his bid for a third-straight series title, but when he was on, he was on. He won the opening two rounds of the season in Ocala and rounded out the year with a win in the season finale at Red Dirt to become just the fourth driver in USAC Sprint Car history to win both the opener and the closer in a season, joining the likes of Pat O’Connor (1956), Steve Butler (1986) and Brady Bacon (2020).

In May, Grant bewildered the crowd by winning at Eldora, then promptly stuffing his car into the turn three wall and flipping over on his cooldown lap. He then won his 50th career USAC National Sprint Car race in May at Knoxville as well as the Indiana Sprint Week round at Tri-State. He picked up the prelim opener of Smackdown at Kokomo, then became the first 4-time Smackdown championship night winner two nights later with a lucrative $35,000 top prize.

Matt Westfall (Pleasant Hill, Ohio) snuck into 10th in points on the final weekend of the year after making the biggest charge to win during the 2024 series season. Starting 13th on the grid at Red Dirt, Westfall patrolled the bottom to the lead and to a highly popular win. Amid the process, it was the furthest back any driver had started and won a race with the series since Kevin Thomas Jr.’s 14th to 1st charge at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway in 2021.

Briggs Danner (Allentown, Pa.) posted his first three victories of the USAC National Sprint Car season in 2024. In June at Grandview, he became the first Pennsylvanian to win a USAC National Sprint Car feature since Frankie Kerr 25 years earlier in 1999 and the first Pennsylvanian to win a series race in his home state since Paul Pitzer at Reading in 1979. Danner went on to cement his status as a winner outside the confines of the Keystone State as well by capturing the Indiana Sprint Week finale in August at Bloomington and the inaugural Greg Staab Memorial at Lawrenceburg in October.

Hunter Maddox (Bedford, Indiana) raced his way to Rookie of the Year honors with the USAC National Sprint Cars in 2024. Maddox, who cut his racing teeth on dirt bikes, made 25 feature starts and finished 18th in the standings.

2024 USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STAT LEADERS

Driver Champion: Logan Seavey

Entrant Champion: Abacus Racing #57

Most Feature Wins: 14-Logan Seavey

Rookie of the Year: Hunter Maddox

Most Laps Led: 364-Logan Seavey

Most Top-Fives: 31-Logan Seavey

Most Top-Tens: 38-Logan Seavey

Most Fast Qualifying Times: 10-C.J. Leary

Most Heat Race Wins: 13-Robert Ballou

Most Feature Starts: 44-Brady Bacon, Robert Ballou, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant, C.J. Leary, Mitchel Moles, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey & Kevin Thomas Jr.

Biggest Charge of the Year: May 10: Bloomington Speedway – Daison Pursley (23rd to 2nd)

2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVER POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 2987 Logan Seavey, Sutter, Calif.

2. 2880 Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, Okla.

3. 2718 Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Okla.

4. 2645 Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Ala.

5. 2625 C.J. Leary, Greenfield, Ind.

6. 2561 Mitchel Moles, Raisin City, Calif.

7. 2550 Robert Ballou, Rocklin, Calif.

8. 2481 Kyle Cummins, Princeton, Ind.

9. 2476 Justin Grant, Ione, Calif.

10. 1804 Matt Westfall, Pleasant Hill, Ohio

11. 1800 Carson Garrett, Littleton, Colo.

12. 1768 Chase Stockon, Fort Branch, Ind.

13. 1559 Jake Swanson, Anaheim, Calif.

14. 1499 Briggs Danner, Allentown, Pa.

15. 1432 Jadon Rogers, Worthington, Ind.

16. 1322 Joey Amantea, Mount Pocono, Pa.

17. 1008 Ricky Lewis, Camarillo, Calif.

18. 949 (R) Hunter Maddox, Bedford, Ind.

19. 890 Shane Cottle, Kansas, Ill.

20. 593 Brandon Mattox, Terre Haute, Ind.

21. 570 Alex Bright, Collegeville, Pa.

22. 553 (R) Kale Drake, Collinsville, Okla.

23. 494 (R) Chance Crum, Snohomish, Wash.

24. 429 Max Adams, Loomis, Calif.

25. 402 Tom Harris, Banbury, Oxfordshire, UK

26. 360 (R) Rylan Gray, Greenfield, Ind.

27. 353 Tye Mihocko, Peoria, Ariz.

28. 328 (R) Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio

29. 314 (R) Wesley Smith, Nixa, Mo.

30. 275 (R) Todd Hobson, Clyde, Vic.

31. 267 (R) Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Ind.

32. 246 (R) Saban Bibent, Cincinnati, Ohio

33. 231 Xavier Doney, Odessa, Mo.

34. 192 Timmy Buckwalter, Douglassville, Pa.

35. 127 (R) Chase Howard, Nesbit, Miss.

36. 126 Zach Daum, Pocahontas, Ill.

37. 123 Brent Beauchamp, Fairland, Ind.

38. 114 Mario Clouser, Auburn, Ill.

39. 72 (R) Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Ind.

40. 68 (R) Shane Butler, Bushnell, Fla.

41. 68 (R) Nic Harris, Atlanta, Ill.

42. 46 Kody Swanson, Kingsburg, Calif.

43. 24 Sterling Cling, Tempe, Ariz.

44. 20 (R) Jason Cherry, Blandon, Pa.

45. 10 (R) Will Hull, Plainfield, Vt.

2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANT POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)

POS. PTS. ENTRANT, TEAM LOCATION

1. 2987 Abacus Racing, Noblesville, Ind. (#57)

2. 2880 Dynamics Inc., Milford, Ohio (#69)

3. 2718 Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian Racing, Brownsburg, Ind. (#21AZ)

4. 2645 Rock Steady Racing, Dupont, Ind. (#3R)

5. 2625 BGE Dougherty Motorsports, Evansville, Ind. (#15x)

6. 2561 Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports, Gilbert, Ariz. (#19AZ)

7. 2550 Ballou Motorsports, Tipton, Ind. (#12)

8. 2481 Petty Performance Racing, Litchfield Park, Ariz. (#3p)

9. 2476 TOPP Motorsports, Rochester, Ind. (#4)

10. 1875 2B Racing, Marion, Ind. (#2B)

11. 1804 Ray Marshall Motorsports, Forest, Ohio (#33m)

12. 1800 BGE Dougherty Motorsports, Evansville, Ind. (#15)

13. 1768 KO Motorsports, Owensville, Ind. (#5s)

14. 1471 Hogue Racing Enterprises, Westampton, N.J. (#39)

15. 1322 JPA Racing, Cresco, Pa. (#88J)

16. 1008 Stensland Motorsports, Fort Wayne, Ind. (#41)

17. 949 Hunter Maddox Racing, Bloomington, Ind. (#24m)

18. 935 Michael Dutcher Motorsports, Cicero, Ind. (#17GP)

19. 890 Epperson Racing, Camby, Ind. (#2E)

20. 722 Baldwin-Fox Racing, West Lafayette, Ind. (#5)

21. 583 Brandon Mattox Racing, Cory, Ind. (#28)

22. 570 Heffner Racing Enterprises, Hellertown, Pa. (#27)

23. 484 Crum Racing, Mooresville, Ind. (#26)

24. 402 Tom Harris Motorsport, Tipton, Ind. (#84)

25. 360 Gray Brothers, Greenfield, Ind. (#06)

26. 310 KO Motorsports, Owensville, Ind. (#5K)

27. 246 Wedgewood Motorsports, Lebanon, Ohio (#98)

28. 241 Dave Wilson Special, Brownsburg, Ind. (#5T)

29. 231 Doney-Lawson Racing, Odessa, Mo. (#74)

30. 212 Trey Osborne Racing, Indianapolis, Ind. (#11T)

31. 192 Hummer Motorsports, Belvidere, N.J. (#20)

32. 187 Daming-Swanson Motorsports, Danville, Ind. (#5T)

33. 128 Paul Hazen, Columbia City, Ind. (#57H)

34. 127 Ronny Howard, Nesbit, Miss. (#13)

35. 126 Daum Motorsports, Greenville, Ill. (#5d)

36. 123 Lauren Beauchamp, Needham, Ind. (#11)

37. 114 Mario Clouser Motorsports, Chatham, Ill. (#6)

38. 86 On The Gass Racing, Advance, Ind. (#17)

39. 68 Landon Butler Racing, Bushnell, Fla. (#18)

40. 68 Nic Harris, Atlanta, Ill. (#N2)

41. 27 Cheney Racing, Arcadia, Calif. (#42)

42. 24 Sterling Cling Racing, Franklin, Ind. (#34)

43. 20 Cherry Motorsports, Blandon, Pa. (#67c)

44. 10 Sy Allen, Plainfield, Vt. (#7s)

2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)

POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN

1. 949 Hunter Maddox, Bedford, Ind.

2. 553 Kale Drake, Collinsville, Okla.

3. 494 Chance Crum, Snohomish, Wash.

4. 360 Rylan Gray, Greenfield, Ind.

5. 328 Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio

6. 314 Wesley Smith, Nixa, Mo.

7. 275 Todd Hobson, Clyde, Vic.

8. 267 Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Ind.

9. 246 Saban Bibent, Cincinnati, Ohio

10. 127 Chase Howard, Nesbit, Miss.

11. 72 Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Ind.

12. 68 Shane Butler, Bushnell, Fla.

13. 68 Nic Harris, Atlanta, Ill.

14. 20 Jason Cherry, Blandon, Pa.

15. 10 Will Hull, Plainfield, Vt.

2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE & RESULTS

Feb 9: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL

WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)

Feb 10: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL

WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)

Feb 13: Volusia Speedway Park – Barberville, FL

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

Feb 13: Volusia Speedway Park – Barberville, FL

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

Feb 15: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL

WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)

Feb 16: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL

WINNER: C.J. Leary (BGE-Dougherty Motorsports #15x)

Apr 13: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, IN

WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)

May 3: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, OH

WINNER: Robert Ballou (Ballou Motorsports #12)

May 4: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, OH

WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)

May 10: Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, IN

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

May 11: Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, IN

WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)

May 21: Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, IN

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

May 22: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN

WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)

May 23: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

May 31: Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, IA

WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)

Jun 1: Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, IA

WINNER: Daison Pursley (Team AZ Racing #21AZ)

Jun 11: (E) Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, PA

WINNER: Briggs Danner (Hogue Racing Enterprises #39)

Jun 12: (E) Bridgeport Motorsports Park | Swedesboro, NJ

WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)

Jun 13: (E) Big Diamond Speedway | Pottsville, PA

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

Jun 14: (E) Williams Grove Speedway | Mechanicsburg, PA

WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)

Jun 15: (E) Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA

WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)

Jun 16: (E) Action Track USA | Kutztown, PA

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

Jun 28: Macon Speedway – Macon, IL

WINNER: Mitchel Moles (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19AZ)

Jun 29: Macon Speedway – Macon, IL

WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)

Jul 5: Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, IN