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USAC East Coast 360 Drivers Set to Chase Bonus Money During Eastern Storm

For the 19th year, the legendary Eastern Storm swings into the Northeast as the stars of the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship invade the East Coast.

The national tour stretches from California to New Jersey and brings some of the biggest names in sprint car racing, including Justin Grant, Robert Ballou, Brady Bacon, Chase Stockton, Mitchell Moles and Pennsylvania’s own Briggs Danner. Danner has already scored a USAC East Coast feature victory this season and remains a fan favorite throughout the region. He also won the last time the USAC National Sprint Cars visited Grandview Speedway and now competes full-time with the national series, making him one of the drivers many eyes will be watching throughout the week.

This year’s Eastern Storm will provide a true measuring stick for the talent-rich drivers of the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars as they battle the nation’s best across six races in six nights.

Several USAC East Coast competitors are planning to take on select events throughout the swing. Joe Kata of Goshen, New York, plans to compete Tuesday night at Grandview Speedway. Jason Cherry of Blandon, Pennsylvania, has both Grandview and Port Royal Speedway circled on his calendar. Brett Rose of Martinsburg, West Virginia, has several races selected, including Friday’s stop at Williams Grove Speedway. Shane Braxton of West Grove is looking to gain additional seat time during the week, while Brendan Hires has expressed interest in both Grandview and the finale at Action Track USA on June 21.

Meanwhile, several East Coast regulars are preparing to tackle the entire tour with 410 power under the hood. Reigning USAC East Coast champion Steven Drevicki of Reading, Pennsylvania, three-time consecutive winner Christian Bruno of Deptford, New Jersey, and rookie contender Olivia Thayer of Hanover are all expected to compete throughout the week.

USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms president Ed Aikin of Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, says he plans to compete in at least two events. Meanwhile, 2025 Rookie of the Year Ronald Helmick of Boyertown will begin the week at Grandview and evaluate the remainder of the schedule one race at a time. Both are expected to campaign 410-powered entries.

One of the biggest incentives for East Coast teams is the USAC National Series 360 Bonus Program. The nightly bonus pays on top of the standard event purse and rewards the top-finishing 360-powered competitors:

* $250 for the highest-finishing 360
* $150 for the second-highest-finishing 360
* $100 for the third-highest-finishing 360

The bonus program is designed to encourage the hard-charging warriors of the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars to support the club and compete alongside the nation’s best. Better yet, your USAC East Coast license is valid for all Eastern Storm events.

The 2026 Eastern Storm schedule begins Tuesday at Grandview before heading to Bridgeport Motorsports Park, then on to Big Diamond Speedway. The tour continues Friday at Williams Grove, Saturday at Port Royal, and wraps up at Action Track USA on Father’s Day weekend.

It’s a race fan’s dream. National champions, rising stars, local heroes, and East Coast regulars will battle side-by-side for six straight nights. From Briggs Danner defending his home-state reputation to Christian Bruno’s hot streak, Steven Drevicki’s championship pedigree, and a host of hungry 360 competitors chasing bonus money, there will be no shortage of storylines.

The best of the best from across the country and right here in your backyard are about to collide.

REINBOLD REIGNS AT CIRCLE CITY

USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK OPENER

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

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

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Karter Sarff (12.620)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Mack Leopard

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Jacob Denney

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Jakeb Boxell

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Drake Edwards

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

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

2026 USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK PREVIEW!

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (June 8, 2026)………It’s a racing junkie’s dream!

Six nights at six different racetracks await the USAC Midget National Championship for the 22nd annual edition of USAC Indiana Midget Week on June 9-14, 2026.

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 9, then it’s on to Paragon on Wednesday, June 10, and to Putnamville’s Lincoln Park Speedway on Thursday, June 11.

Bloomington Speedway starts the weekend on Friday, June 12; Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway on Saturday, June 13; with the finale set for Kokomo Speedway on Sunday, June 14.

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

The Indiana Midget Week champion will earn a prize of $15,000 for their efforts in a week that truly tests the physical, mental and mechanical abilities of each driver, crew and machine.

Let’s dig into it! Here’s a smorgasbord of storylines we’re watching entering USAC Indiana Midget Week 2026.

DRAKE & SEAVEY BRING IMW CHAMPIONSHIP CREDENTIALS

Kale Drake enters this week as the defending Indiana Midget Week champion. Just three drivers previously have captured back-to-back IMW titles: Shane Cottle (2005 & 2006), Rico Abreu (2014 & 2015) and Buddy Kofoid (2021 & 2022).

Drake won the Circle City opener a year ago, and finished every race of the week on the podium for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports.

This year, though, Drake will drive the RMS Racing No. 4, which has won twice in Indiana Midget Week competition in 2021 and 2022 with Thomas Meseraull at the wheel. Drake has finished 8th and 6th in his two USAC starts this year.

Overall, two USAC Indiana Midget Week champions will be in the field this week with Drake joining two-time champ Logan Seavey, who captured titles in both 2019 and 2023, and also possesses four IMW feature victories.

DENNEY LEADS THE CHARGE

Jacob Denney was the only multi-time winner of Indiana Midget Week in 2025, scoring victories at both Paragon and Kokomo.

Denney (Galloway, Ohio) enters the week as the USAC National Midget point leader by a single marker over Kevin Thomas Jr. after Denney was triumphant in the most recent series event at Kokomo in April.

After gaining his first USAC national win in 2022 at Lincoln Park, Denney owns four overall IMW feature triumphs. His best IMW points finish to date is a 3rd in both 2022 and 2025.

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

Additionally, four of the last five Indiana Midget Week champs have also captured the USAC National Midget title in the same season: Buddy Kofoid (2021-22), Logan Seavey (2023) and Daison Pursley (2024).

VETERANS VYING FOR A BREAKTHROUGH

Justin Grant is among the drivers who’ve come so close to an Indiana Midget Week titles over the years, finishing as the runner-up in 2022, 2023 and 2025. Grant’s one and only IMW win to date came seven years ago in 2019! He won the 2026 season opener at Kokomo in April for CB Industries, and stands just one point out of the lead in the USAC National Midget race at the moment.

Kevin Thomas Jr. is in a similar boat. His most recent Indiana Midget Week win came in 2018! Last year, he finished a career best 4th in Indiana Midget Week points with consistent finishes in his 4 Kings Racing ride. He’s run inside the top-four in both of his USAC National Midget starts this year, and now aims to put 4 Kings in USAC victory lane for the first time.

RETURN OF CANNON

Reigning USAC National Midget champion Cannon McIntosh returns to the seat of the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports No. 71K to compete at Indiana Midget Week in 2026.

McIntosh has been absent with the series so far this year, but will now take on all six nights of action this week.

The Bixby, Oklahoma racer last won an Indiana Midget Week race in 2022, and tallied a best IMW points finish of 3rd back in 2024.

SHARK WEEK

Karter Sarff will be the pilot of the Paul May Motorsports No. 71m throughout the entirety of Indiana Midget Week.

The Mason City, Illinois racer was impressive in IMW action in 2025, finishing 5th in the standings with top finishes of 3rd at Circle City and 6th at Paragon. He was also the fastest qualifier at both Paragon and Kokomo.

Nicknamed “The Shark,” Sarff captured the POWRi Midget championship in 2023 and was named the Turkey Night Grand Prix Rookie of the Year in 2025.

YOUNG GUNS OF MIDGET WEEK

The thing that makes Indiana Midget Week exciting is the unpredictability, and the prospect of up-and-coming drivers making big impressions throughout the week.

Gavin Miller did just that in 2023 when he became a first-time USAC National Midget feature winner at Bloomington. Hayden Reinbold and Drake Edwards have already won USAC National Midget main events, but a first Indiana Midget Week win could very well be on the horizon this week.

Another group of young guns looking to become first-time USAC National Midget winners during Indiana Midget Week include Jakeb Boxell, Zach Wigal, Colton Robinson, Gunnar Setser, Brecken Reese, and Trevor Cline, just to name a few.

Fourteen drivers have accomplished that feat over the years: Johnny Rodriguez, Shane Cottle, Brady Bacon, Steve Buckwalter, Kyle Larson, Christopher Bell, Tanner Thorson, Spencer Bayston, Tyler Courtney, Chris Windom, Kyle Cummins, Corey Day, Jacob Denney, and Gavin Miller.

Furthermore, another new name, Drew Sherman, the son of standout racer Jeremy Sherman, will also be making his USAC debut in a second Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports entry.

#100 ON THE HORIZON THIS WEEK

If all goes according to plan, Indiana Midget Week will celebrate its 100th event during the upcoming series this week.

With 98 events taking place dating back to its 2005 origins, the Paragon Speedway round on Wednesday, June 10, is slated to be the 100th event run in the series’ 22-year history at press time.

USAC Hall of Famer Jay Drake won the inaugural feature race held at Lawrenceburg Speedway on August 18, 2005. Since then, 254 different drivers have started an Indiana Midget Week feature.

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

Larson and Rico Abreu have clocked in with the most top qualifying times in IMW history with nine each. Jerry Coons Jr. has recorded the most career IMW feature starts (64) and top-10 results (42). Meanwhile, Clauson collected 28 top-fives in his IMW career, which still ranks number one all-time.

RACE DETAILS

For more information on each event of USAC Indiana Midget Week 2026, visit www.usacracing.com, go to the menu, then go to the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship page. From there, click on “Event Info” next to the corresponding event on the schedule.

The entire week of events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-150, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.-149, 3-Justin Grant-147, 4-Jakeb Boxell-138, 5-Zach Wigal-131, 6-Gavin Miller-119, 7-Kale Drake-115, 8-Gunnar Setser-109, 9-Hayden Reinbold-95, 10-Colton Robinson-95.

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK CHAMPIONS:

2005: Shane Cottle

2006: Shane Cottle

2007: Jerry Coons Jr.

2008: Tracy Hines

2009: Bryan Clauson

2010: Tracy Hines & Brad Kuhn

2011: Bryan Clauson

2012: Darren Hagen

2013: Christopher Bell

2014: Rico Abreu

2015: Rico Abreu

2016: Bryan Clauson

2017: Shane Golobic

2018: Spencer Bayston

2019: Logan Seavey

2020: Kyle Larson

2021: Buddy Kofoid

2022: Buddy Kofoid

2023: Logan Seavey

2024: Daison Pursley

2025: Kale Drake

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FEATURE WINS: (2005-2025)

9-Bryan Clauson & Kyle Larson

6-Buddy Kofoid

5-Christopher Bell & Tanner Thorson

4-Rico Abreu, Jacob Denney & Logan Seavey

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

2-Jerry Coons Jr., Thomas Meseraull, Daison Pursley, Davey Ray, Brad Sweet & Ryan Timms

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

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WINNERS BY TRACK (2005-2025)

CIRCLE CITY RACEWAY: 2021-Corey Day, 2023-Buddy Kofoid, 2025-Kale Drake

PARAGON SPEEDWAY: 2020-Kyle Larson, 2021-Thomas Meseraull, 2025-Jacob Denney

LINCOLN PARK SPEEDWAY: 2010-Brad Sweet, 2011-Bryan Clauson, 2012-Bryan Clauson, 2013-Christopher Bell, 2014-Dave Darland, 2015-Bryan Clauson, 2016-Tanner Thorson, 2017-Michael Pickens, 2018-Chad Boat, 2019-Tanner Thorson, 2020-Kyle Larson, 2020-Chris Windom, 2021-Tanner Thorson, 2022-Jacob Denney, 2023-Buddy Kofoid, 2024-Emerson Axsom

BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY: 2008-Davey Ray, 2009-Brad Kuhn, 2010-Shane Cottle, 2011-Kyle Larson, 2012-Levi Jones, 2013-Bryan Clauson, 2014-Christopher Bell, 2015-Christopher Bell, 2016-Christopher Bell, 2017-Tyler Courtney, 2019-Tyler Courtney, 2021-Buddy Kofoid, 2022-Buddy Kofoid, 2023-Gavin Miller, 2024-Daison Pursley

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY: 2021-Kyle Cummins, 2022-Thomas Meseraull, 2023-Jacob Denney, 2024-Logan Seavey

KOKOMO SPEEDWAY: 2006-Brady Bacon, 2007-Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 2008-Bryan Clauson, 2009-Bryan Clauson, 2010-Brad Kuhn, 2011-Michael Pickens, 2012-Kyle Larson, 2013-Christopher Bell, 2014-Bryan Clauson, 2016-Rico Abreu, 2017-Spencer Bayston, 2018-Kevin Thomas Jr., 2020-Tanner Thorson, 2021-Chris Windom, 2022-Cannon McIntosh, 2024-Daison Pursley, 2025-Jacob Denney

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FAST QUALIFYING TIMES: (2005-2025)

9-Rico Abreu & Kyle Larson

5-Bryan Clauson & Justin Grant

4-Brady Bacon, Logan Seavey & Chris Windom

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

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

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

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK TOP-5 FINISHES: (2005-2025)

28-Bryan Clauson

22-Tracy Hines

21-Jerry Coons Jr. & Kyle Larson

19-Justin Grant

18-Logan Seavey Chris Windom

17-Tanner Thorson

16-Buddy Kofoid

15-Rico Abreu

14-Brad Kuhn

13-Darren Hagen

12-Brady Bacon, Christopher Bell, Tyler Courtney & Cannon McIntosh

11-Kevin Thomas Jr.

10-Spencer Bayston, Shane Cottle & Brad Sweet

9-Emerson Axsom & Daison Pursley

8-Dave Darland, Jacob Denney & Michael Pickens

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

5-Bobby East, Shane Golobic, Davey Ray & Bryant Wiedeman

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

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

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

1-Bubba Altig, Jade Avedisian, Brent Beauchamp, Clinton Boyles, Chance Crum, Drake Edwards, Andrew Felker, Brian Gerster, Ryan Kaplan, Ethan Mitchell, Jace Park, Taylor Reimer, Hayden Reinbold, Johnny Rodriguez, Karter Sarff, Gio Scelzi, Hunter Schuerenberg, Holly Shelton, K.J. Snow, Jon Stanbrough, Chase Stockon, Gary Taylor, Dillon Welch & Zach Wigal

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK TOP-10 FINISHES: (2005-2025)

42-Jerry Coons Jr.

35-Tracy Hines

34-Bryan Clauson

32-Justin Grant

29-Chris Windom

28-Logan Seavey & Tanner Thorson

27-Brady Bacon & Zach Daum

26-Rico Abreu

25-Kevin Thomas Jr.

24-Darren Hagen & Brad Kuhn

22-Buddy Kofoid & Kyle Larson

21-Cannon McIntosh & Michael Pickens

17-Steve Buckwalter, Dave Darland & Thomas Meseraull

16-Spencer Bayston, Chad Boat, Shane Cottle & Daison Pursley

15-Tyler Courtney

14-Shane Golobic

13-Jacob Denney Bobby East

12-Christopher Bell & Jason McDougal

11-Kyle Cummins & Brad Sweet

10-Caleb Armstrong, Emerson Axsom, Levi Jones & Tyler Thomas

9-Gavin Miller & Bryant Wiedeman

8-Kaylee Bryson, Tanner Carrick, Brad Loyet & Taylor Reimer

7-Davey Ray

6-Jade Avedisian, Alex Bright, Andrew Felker, Chase McDermand, Brad Mosen, Ryan Robinson & Ryan Timms

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

4-Brenham Crouch, Carson Macedo, Hayden Reinbold, Chase Stockon & Kevin Swindell

3-Clinton Boyles, Cole Carter, Shane Hmiel, Kody Swanson & Zach Wigal

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

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

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USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK FEATURE STARTS: (2005-2025)

64-Jerry Coons Jr.

58-Zach Daum

53-Justin Grant

48-Thomas Meseraull

46-Brady Bacon & Tanner Thorson

45-Chris Windom

44-Dave Darland & Kevin Thomas Jr.

42-Steve Buckwalter & Bryan Clauson

40-Darren Hagen & Tracy Hines

38-Michael Pickens

37-Logan Seavey

36-Brad Kuhn & Cannon McIntosh

35-Rico Abreu

32-Chad Boat

30-Davey Ray

28-Alex Bright & Tyler Courtney

27-Bobby East & Daison Pursley

26-Levi Jones

25-Tyler Thomas

24-Shane Cottle, Kyle Larson, Jason McDougal & Ethan Mitchell

23-Caleb Armstrong, Kyle Cummins & Buddy Kofoid

22-Shane Golobic

21-Tanner Carrick & Hayden Reinbold

20-Spencer Bayston

19-Jacob Denney & Bryant Wiedeman

18-Christopher Bell

17-Brad Loyet, Taylor Reimer & Brad Sweet

16-Jade Avedisian, Emerson Axsom & Kaylee Bryson

15-Brenham Crouch, Chase McDermand & Holly Shelton

14-Cole Bodine, Gavin Miller & Ryan Robinson

13-Brad Mosen & Ryan Timms

12-Ronnie Gardner, Jake Neuman & Gage Walker

11-Jake Andreotti, Mario Clouser, Chance Crum, Tucker Klaasmeyer, Danny Stratton, Dillon Welch & Hayden Williams

10-Chase Barber, Andrew Felker, Sam Johnson, Jimi Quin, Nathan Smee & Cole Whitt

9-Trevor Kobylarz, Andrew Layser, Josh Wise & Zeb Wise

8-Brenden Bright, Corey Day, Kale Drake, Shane Hmiel, Chase Johnson, Kyle Jones, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & Kevin Swindell

7-Dalton Armstrong, Brent Beauchamp, Cole Carter, Henry Clarke, Maria Cofer, Drake Edwards, Tom Hessert III, Trey Marcham, Chase Randall, Levi Roberts, Matt Smith, Kody Swanson & Zach Wigal

6-Dakoda Armstrong, Brian Carber, Ryan Greth, Trey Gropp, Shane Hollingsworth, Jesse Love, Brayton Lynch, Carson Macedo, Matt Westfall & Daniel Whitley

5-Austin Brown, Jesse Colwell, Chelby Hinton, C.J. Leary, Mitchel Moles, Dustin Morgan & Billy Pauch Jr.

4-Gary Altig, Ryan Bernal, Clinton Boyles, David Budres, Ryan Criswell, Ricky Ehrgott, Scott Hatton, Holley Hollan, Dayne Kingshott, Ricky Lewis, Tyler Nelson, Jace Park, Chase Stockon, Tanner Swanson, Gary Taylor, Bryce Townsend & Nick Wean

3-Garrett Aitken, Isaac Chapple, Cale Coons, Hank Davis, Tony DiMattia, Jay Drake, Mariah Ede, Karsyn Elledge, A.J. Fike, Josh Ford, Noah Gass, Chett Gehrke, Brian Gerster, Dominic Gorden, Zane Hendricks, Mike Hess, Darren Jenkins, Ryan Kaplan, Jimmy Light, Critter Malone, Kaiden Manders, Dene McAllan, Justin Peck, Parker Price-Miller, Brecken Reese, Johnny Rodriguez, Corbin Rueschenberg, Karter Sarff, Hunter Schuerenberg, Gunnar Setser, Ryan Smith, Steven Snyder Jr., Jon Stanbrough, Bryan Stanfill & Jeremy Warren

2-A.J. Anderson, Teddy Beach, Kyle Beilman, Lance Bennett, Alex Bowman, Jakeb Boxell, Blake Brannon, Cody Brewer, Daron Clayton, Kellen Conover, Colten Cottle, Courtney Crone, Robert Dalby, Ryan Durst, Tony Elliott, Damion Gardner, Rylan Gray, Bobby Grewohl, Frankie Guerrini, Chuck Gurney Jr., Garrett Hansen, Nathan High, Chase Jones, Cade Lewis, Greg Lueckert, Brock Maskovich, Jaimie McKinlay, Matt Moore, Adam Pierson, Daryn Pittman, Domain Ramsay, Colton Robinson, Gio Scelzi, Kent Schmidt, Matt Sherrell, Jimmy Simpson, K.J. Snow & Jason Yount

1-Robert Ballou, Adam Barth, Chris Baue, Jeff Bland Jr., Adam Bolyard, Kaidon Brown, Mark Brown, Travis Buckley, Adam Clarke, Trevor Cline, Shane Cockrum, Kyle Craker, Justin Dickerson, Sean Dodenhoff, Don Droud Jr., Dave Ely, Murray Erickson, A.J. Felker, Blake Fitzpatrick, Alfred Galedrige, Bradley Galedrige, Ron Gregory, Mason Hannagan, Russ Harper, Jonathan Hendrick, Ted Hines, Matt Hummel, Logan Jarrett, Cory Kruseman, Michael Lewis, Joe Liguori, Andy Malpocker, Mario Marietta, Chance Morton, Seth Motsinger, Mat Neely, Brian Postle, Brody Roa, Kayla Roell, Jadon Rogers, Nick Rowe, Jeff Schindler, Stephen Schnapf, Kyle Schuett, Alex Schutte, Jonathan Shafer, Casey Shuman, Landon Simon, Jake Slotten, Adam Taylor, Brandon Wagner, Todd Wanless & John Wolfe

ILLINOIS SWEEP!

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

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**David Gasper flipped during the second heat.

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

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

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

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

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

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

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (14.615)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Charles Davis

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins

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

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

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

Bruno Is Unstoppable at Selinsgrove

Coming into 2026 with a handful of victories already under his belt, Christian Bruno has elevated his game to another level. With three consecutive wins, the New Jersey standout driving for Gene Frankowiak continues to cash big checks and build even bigger expectations as the calendar turns towards Eastern Storm.

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

When the green flag waved, it was Aikin showing exactly why experience matters. The veteran immediately took command, hustling around the Snyder County half-mile and holding off the charging pack in the opening laps. But the battle at the front quickly intensified as Drevicki and Bruno reeled in the No. 7 machine. Racing side-by-side with the leader, Bruno found speed where few could, ripping around the outside groove to seize the lead on lap seven.

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

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

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

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

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

E Schnider and Sons Heat 1: 1. Steven Drevicki (Drevicki 19) 2. Ronald Helmick (Helmick 22R) 3. Ed Aikin (Aikin/Butler 7) 4.Joey Crilly (Kelly 51) 5. Jason Cherry (Cherry 67) 6. Steve Downs ( Downs 12) 7. Brett Rose ( Rose Bros 45R) 8. Shane Braxton ( Braxton 35)

BDB Graphics Heat 2: 1. Christian Bruno (Franckowiak 3BC) 2. Kyle Spence (Fraker 42) 3. Kenny Miller III (Miller 23m) 4. Joe Kata (Kata 10) 5. Brendan Hires ( Danner 2) 6. Olivia Thayer (Thayer 39t) 7. Dale Schweikart (Schweikart 78) 8. Greg Shepsis (Shepsis 75)

Baer Den Farms A-Main: 1. Christian Bruno (8) 2. Kenny Miller III (7) 3. Steven Drevicki (5) 4. Kyle Spence (6) 5. Ed Aikin (2) 6. Joe Kata (4) 7. Brendan Hires (10) 8. Ronald Helmick (3) 9. Jason Cherry (9) 10. Olivia Thayer (12) 11. Steve Downs (11) 12. Brett Rose (13) 13. Dale Schweikart (14) 14. Shane Braxton (15) 15. Joey Crilly (1) 16. Greg Shepsis (16)

Awards:

Hoosier Tire Poker Chip: Jason Cherry
C&C Landscape Hard Charger: Christian Bruno
JPA Products Hard Luck Award: Joey Crilly
Bitner Auto Motive Fast Time: Steven Drevicki
J&W Home Improvments top Crate or 305: Greg Shepsis
RAD Race Wear Hot Lap Hero: Christian Bruno

Next Race: Selinsgrove June 27th

DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!

MOLES RISES TO VICTORY AT RED HILL

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

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

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (14.545)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jadon Rogers

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

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

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

USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS RUMBLE AT SANTA MARIA SATURDAY
By Lance Jennings

JUNE 2, 2025... This Saturday, June 6th, the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will make their first of three appearances at Santa Maria Speedway. The twelfth point race and “Equipment Share Night” will also showcase the IMCA Modifieds and Creations Coastal Mini Stocks. Located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange at 1900 Hutton Road in Nipomo, California, the pit booth at "The West's Best Short Track" will open at 1:00pm, front gates open at 4:00pm, time trials at 5:00pm, and racing will begin at 6:00pm. For more information, visit the track’s website at santamariaspeedway.net or call 805.619.0478.

For those that cannot be at the races, a live stream will be broadcast by FloRacing.com.

NOTICE TO RACERS:
- ALL RACERS MUST PURCHASE THEIR USAC LICENSE / MEMBERSHIPS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE EVENT AT USACRACING.COM OR USACLICENSE.COM. (If racers have a membership question, contact Julie Tanaka at julietanaka@aol.com.)
- ENTRY FEE: There is an entry fee due at registration / pill pick.
- TRANSPONDERS: Transponders ARE MANDATORY and will be available to rent.
- ONE WAY RADIOS / RACECEIVERS: One way radios ARE MANDATORY.
- TIRE RULE: The Hoosier 105/16 Medium or Medium 1 will be the only approved right rear tire. Only SC12 left rear tires will be permitted and front tires must be Hoosier.
- RULE BOOK: The series rule book is online at usacracing.com.
- FUEL: Fuel will be available at the race track.
- MUFFLERS: Mufflers are required at Santa Maria Speedway.
- ROLLS SCAFFOLD 360 CHALLENGE: The top finishing 360 Sprint Car is eligible for an extra $360 per night if they finish in the top-six. If there are multiple 360s in the top-six, then the bonus will go to the highest finishing 360 in that main event. If the award is not claimed, then the pot will increase by an additional $360 at the next race until there is a winner. Once the bonus is earned, the process will start over until it is won again. If the award has not been won or whatever money is left over at season’s end will then be divided among the top three in points running a 360 engine.

Santa Maria Speedway has been a popular stop for non-winged sprint car racing since their opening night on May 31, 1964 when Hal Minyard took the checkered flags with the original California Racing Association. Since 2005, the 1/3-mile facility has held thirty-four (34) USAC/CRA Sprint Car events and Ricky Lewis won the last appearance on July 5, 2025. Former champions, “The Demon” Damion Gardner and “The Pride of Garden Grove” Brody Roa are tied for the USAC/CRA lead with four victories. R.J. Johnson set the 1-lap track record of 13.206 on May 3, 2025 and the complete Perris USAC/CRA win list is at the end of this release.

Heading to Santa Maria, two-time and defending USAC/CRA champion R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona has a 114-point advantage over the competition. Driving the Petty Performance Racing #1P Avanti Windows & Doors / Apache Transport Sherman, Johnson set fast time and topped the May 23rd “Salute to Indy” at Perris Auto Speedway. To date, the two-time defending champion has posted three feature wins, six Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, four heat race victories, eleven top-10 finishes, and 47 feature laps led on the season. Currently ranked seventh with fourteen career wins, the second generation driver will be looking to continue his championship bid with a Santa Maria triumph.

Camarillo, California’s Ricky Lewis is second in the chase for the USAC/CRA championship. Driving for three teams and most recently the Chris Bonneau owned #15 Priced Right Auto Sales / Australian Outback Plants DRC, Lewis skipped the “Salute to Indy” to race in the Indiana. At press time, Ricky has six feature wins, three Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, four hard charger awards, nine top-10 finishes, and 91 feature laps led to his credit. Currently ranked sixth overall with eighteen career triumphs, Ricky might skip Santa Maria to race in the Midwest.

“The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams of Yorba Linda, California ranks third in the USAC/CRA point standings. Piloting the Tom & Christy Dunkel #17W Inland Rigging / Maxima Oil Triple X, Williams scored fifth in the “Salute to Indy” at Perris. To date, the former co-rookie of the year has three heat race victories and eight top-10 finishes in the campaign. Currently tied with Ryan Bernal and Matt Mitchell with eleven career wins, “The Big Game Hunter” will have his sights on his first win of the season this Saturday night.

After running ninth at the Lake Perris Fairgrounds, Westminster, California’s Brecken Guerrero has climbed to fourth in the USAC/CRA championship point standings. Racing the Rachel Guerrero owned #98B Doug’s Auto Body / Bill’s Jerky DRC, the former PAS Young Gun Sprint Car Champion has posted one heat race victory and six top-10 finishes on the season. This Saturday night, Guerrero will be looking for the first series win of his career at Santa Maria.

One the strength of his seventh place finish on May 23rd at Perris Auto Speedway, Verne Sweeney of Lomita, California has climbed to fifth in the chase for the championship. Driving the Rachel Guerrero owned #98B Doug’s Auto Body / Bill’s Jerky DRC, Sweeney has recorded one heat race victory and five top-10 finishes on the year. This Saturday, the veteran driver will have his sights on his victory at Santa Maria Speedway.

Currently ranked eleventh in points, Wayne Siddle of Tucson, Arizona leads the chase for rookie of the year honors over “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira, Bryan Whitley, Zate Legend, Cale Coons, Jim Vanzant, Joshua Shipley, David Perry Jr., Troy DeGaton, A.J. Hernandez, Koen Crawford, Broedy Graham, Drake Cardey, B.J. Fernandez, and Grant Schaadt.

Among the other drivers expected to be in action are Connor Lundy, Dayton Shelton, Connor Speir, “The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James, Tommy “Thunder” Malcolm, Blake Hendricks, Kaleb Montgomery, “Hollywood” Danny Faria Jr., Ryan Timmons, and more.

Santa Maria Speedway is located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange at 1900 Hutton Road in Nipomo, California. Adult tickets are $25, Senior and Military tickets are $23, Student tickets are $10, Kids tickets (11-17) are $10, and Children (10 and under) are FREE. For more event information, visit the track’s website at santamariaspeedway.net or call 805.619.0478.

For more information on the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series, visit the United States Auto Club (USAC) website at usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC/CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
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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-R.J. Johnson.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS: 1. R.J. Johnson-822, 2. Ricky Lewis-708, 3. Austin Williams-665, 4. Brecken Guerrero-518, 5. Verne Sweeney-517, 6. Connor Lundy-480, 7. Dayton Shelton-456, 8. Charles Davis Jr.-451, 9. A.J. Bender-444, 10. Eddie Tafoya Jr.-401, 11. Wayne Siddle (R)-307, 12. Braden Chiaramonte-267, ---. Daylin Perreira (R)-267, 14. Connor Speir-264, 15. Bruce St. James-248, 16. Kevin Thomas Jr.-245, 17. Bryan Whitley (R)-231, 18. Stevie Sussex-215, 19. Zate Legend (R)-205, 20. Tommy Malcolm-149.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 6-Ricky Lewis, 3-R.J. Johnson, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.

SANTA MARIA AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA 1-LAP QUALIFYING RECORD: R.J. Johnson – 13.206 (05/03/25)

SANTA MARIA AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 4-Damion Gardner, 4-Brody Roa, 3-Ryan Bernal, 2-Max Adams, 2-Rickie Gaunt, 2-Cory Kruseman, 2-Mike Spencer, 2-Austin Williams, 1-Tyler Brown, 1-Braden Chiaramonte, 1-Nic Faas, 1-Garrett Hansen, 1-R.J. Johnson, 1-Mike Kirby, 1-Ricky Lewis, 1-Tommy Malcolm, 1-Blake Miller, 1-Kaleb Montgomery, 1-Danny Sheridan, 1-Cody Williams, 1-Rip Williams.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE
February 14: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
February 28: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
March 13: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
April 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (RAIN)
April 17: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
April 18: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
May 2: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
May 15: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
May 16: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
May 23: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
June 6: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
June 20: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
July 4: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA (Doug Fort Memorial)
July 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
August 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 5: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 6: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 26: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
October 3: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
October 10: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ
October 22: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 23: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
November 7: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
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* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC National Sprint Cars.
This schedule is subject to change.

USAC East Coast Charges Back to Selinsgrove Friday Night

The roar from last weekend’s spectacular feature at Selinsgrove Speedway has barely faded, and the stars of the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars are already preparing for another showdown this Friday night at the famed half-mile oval.

Fans are still buzzing about an unforgettable battle for the win that saw Christian Bruno charge from the eighth starting position to Victory Lane. Bruno tracked down race leader Steven Drevicki in the closing stages and made the winning pass with just four laps remaining after a spectacular duel through heavy lap traffic. The pair put on a show for the Selinsgrove faithful, at one point racing four-wide as they sliced through slower cars in a breathtaking display of wingless sprint car racing.

The victory also propelled Bruno to the top of the USAC East Coast championship standings, overtaking Drevicki in the process. Drevicki now sits in pursuit, while Kenny Miller III remains firmly in the title hunt as the season continues to heat up.

Several drivers will be looking to improve upon their performances from last weekend. Ronald Helmick turned heads with a career-best effort at Selinsgrove, showcasing impressive speed in his first appearance at the Snyder County facility. Ed Aikin led the field to green and spent much of the early portion of the race among the frontrunners before ultimately finishing seventh. Meanwhile, Kyle Spence showed plenty of promise aboard the Fraker-owned No. 42 and will be searching for an even stronger result this time around. A handful of additional teams and drivers are expected to join an already stout field, adding even more intrigue to Friday night’s event.

With the dust barely settled from one of the season’s most exciting races, the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms are ready to saddle back up and do it all again.

Joining the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars on the card will be the 305 Winged Sprint Cars and the Limited Late Models, creating a three-division program packed with excitement from start to finish.

If last Saturday was any indication, fans will want to arrive early and buckle up for another thrilling night of side-by-side racing at Selinsgrove Speedway. With championship momentum on the line and a field hungry for redemption, Friday night promises to be another can’t-miss chapter in the 2026 USAC East Coast season.

RUN TO RED HILL!

TWO NIGHTS OF USAC SPRINTS JUNE 5-6

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Sumner, Illinois (June 3, 2026)………Red Hill Raceway, it’s good to be back!

This time, USAC heads back to Red Hill for a brand new event on the calendar – the Illinois Sprint Car Championship – for two-straight nights of action this weekend on June 5-6, with Friday’s feature paying $6,000-to-win and Saturday’s winner bringing home $10,000.

It’s only been two months since the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship last took on the Sumner, Illinois 1/3-mile dirt oval, but the feeling is still fresh.

Both nights of the event will be co-sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprints. Friday night’s program will utilize the Midwest Thunder format while Saturday night’s show will present the traditional USAC format.

Let’s get up to speed with a couple servings of storylines for the Red Hill weekend!

A SPRING IN GRANT’S STEP AT RED HILL

Justin Grant was victorious in the most recent USAC National Sprint Car race held at Red Hill in the spring, back on April 3. As a matter of fact, it was also his most recent series victory.

Starting fifth that night, Grant quickly made up ground, chasing down Robert Ballou on the 17th lap before leading the final 14 circuits to earn the victory.

Grant currently ranks second in USAC points, 88 out of the lead behind Kyle Cummins.

MOLES RACY AT RED HILL

Back in April, Mitchel Moles set a new one-lap USAC National Sprint Car track record at Red Hill with a time of 14.327 seconds, which broke the mark formerly held by his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports teammate, Hayden Reinbold.

In two outings at Red Hill, Moles finished 4th in 2025 and 2nd in 2026. He currently ranks third in the standings, and a couple more good runs this weekend could help vault him back into the title race.

SEAVEY, ONE YEAR LATER

One year ago, in June of 2025, Logan Seavey punctuated his first visit to Red Hill with a USAC National Sprint Car victory.

Seavey also owns the 8-lap USAC National Sprint Car track record at Red Hill with a time of 2:00.261, set during a heat race win in 2025.

Seavey’s last USAC National Sprint Car victory came all the way back in February, and a Red Hill score this weekend would be welcomed quite well by the 2024 series champion.

NEW RIDE FOR LEARY

C.J. Leary will drive the Hunter Maddox Racing #24x on both nights of racing at Red Hill this weekend. Maddox was the 2024 USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year.

Leary, the 2019 USAC National Sprint Car driving champion, was previously entered in Maddox’s car back in February on the final night of Winter Dirt Games at Florida’s Ocala Speedway.

In Leary’s two USAC appearances at Red Hill, he finished 5th in 2025 and 10th in April 2026.

Leary has driven the Fox Brothers-Brayden Fox Racing No. 53 in USAC competition since April, but the Leary-Fox combo is only slated to run a partial USAC schedule in 2026, and will return on the July 3-4 Sprintacular weekend at Putnamville, Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway.

BALLOU A RED HILL FRONT RUNNER

Robert Ballou’s strongest run of the 2026 USAC National Sprint Car season so far came at Red Hill back in April. There, he led the initial 16 laps en route to a fourth place result in his Ballou Motorsports No. 12.

Now, the veteran owner/driver looks to reach USAC victory lane for the first time in 2026. The next victory would be the 40th of the Rocklin, California native’s career.

Ballou won a Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint A-Main at Red Hill in 2024.

RED HILL IS ROGERS’ JAM

Jadon Rogers has already won at Red Hill during the 2026 season, and it came in dramatic fashion!

In May, Rogers passed Wesley Smith on the last lap to win a USAC Wholesale Batteries MRA Sprint Car Series / Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series combined event. That same evening, Rogers was also the fastest qualifier.

Over the past three seasons, Rogers has won a grand total of four sprint car features at Red Hill, all of which have come under the Midwest Thunder banner.

COONS A PASSING PHENOM

Cale Coons is not only the leading USAC National Sprint Car Rookie driver to this point in 2026. He also leads the USAC National Parallax Group Passing Master standings entering the month of June.

Coons has passed a total of 49 cars in feature events thus far in 2026, all of which he has completed in USAC National Sprint Car competition.

At Red Hill, he finished a strong 7th back in April of this year.

RED HILL WINNERS

All in all, six drivers in this weekend’s field have previously won at Red Hill.

Jadon Rogers has four wins at Red Hill, while Chase Stockon has two. Logan Seavey and Justin Grant each have one win apiece with USAC over the past two seasons. Robert Ballou and Wesley Smith have also added single Red Hill victories on their resume.

Among the top-10 in the USAC standings, point leader Kyle Cummins is yet to win at Red Hill as is Mitchel Moles, Briggs Danner, Jake Swanson, Kevin Thomas Jr. and C.J. Leary.

RACE DETAILS

On Friday, June 5, at Red Hill Raceway, pits open at 3:00pm Central, front gates open at 5:30pm, drivers meeting at 6pm and hot laps at 7pm with qualifying and racing to follow. Grandstand admission for ages 13 & up is $30 while kids age 6-12 are $5 and children age 5 & under are free. Pit passes are $40 apiece.

On Saturday, June 6, at Red Hill Raceway, pits open at 3:00pm Central, front gates open at 5pm, drivers meeting at 5:30pm and hot laps at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing to follow. Grandstand admission for ages 13 & up is $30 while kids age 6-12 are $5 and children age 5 & under are free. Pit passes are $40 apiece.

On both nights of the Illinois Sprint Car Championship at Red Hill, the program features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship co-sanctioned by the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprints, plus DIRTcar Modifieds and B Mods.

Both nights of the event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026. Friday night’s event can be watched LIVE on Amazon Prime.

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

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT RED HILL RACEWAY

1-Derek Davidson, Justin Grant, Billy Puterbaugh Jr. & Logan Seavey

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT RED HILL RACEWAY

1996: Billy Puterbaugh Jr. (8/10)

1998: Derek Davidson (10/3)

2025: Logan Seavey (6/13)

2026: Justin Grant (4/3)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT RED HILL RACEWAY

1 Lap - 4/3/2026 – Mitchel Moles – 14.327

8 Laps - 6/13/2025 – Logan Seavey – 2:00.261

RED HILL RACEWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR FEATURE RESULTS

1996 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Billy Puterbaugh Jr., 2. Jack Hewitt, 3. Gary Blum, 4. Brian Hayden, 5. Brian Tyler, 6. Wil Newlin, 7. Dave Peperak, 8. Eric Gordon, 9. Mark Cassella, 10. Tim Cox, 11. Bryan Ruble, 12. Tony Elliott, 13. Ray Morgan, 14. Doug Kalitta, 15. Dave Steele, 16. Victor Hensley, 17. Bryon Walters, 18. Jerry Ruble, 19. Tray House. NT

1998 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Derek Davidson, 2. Dave Darland, 3. Brian Tyler, 4. Brian Hayden, 5. Tony Elliott, 6. Kevin Thomas, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Terry Pletch, 9. Jack Hewitt, 10. Alex Shanks, 11. Robbie Rice, 12. Kevin Miller, 13. Tim Cox, 14. Kent Christian, 15. Gary Hayhurst Jr., 16. Levi Jones, 17. Roger Chaudion, 18. Mark Cummins, 19. Rusty McClure, 20. Brandon Petty, 21. Hud Cone, 22. Matt Jewell. NT

2025 FEATURE: (32 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (2), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Chase Stockon (11), 4. Mitchel Moles (5), 5. C.J. Leary (1), 6. Jake Swanson (7), 7. Kale Drake (13), 8. Briggs Danner (10), 9. Carson Garrett (14), 10. Charles Davis Jr. (15), 11. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 12. Gunnar Setser (8), 13. Kayla Roell (17), 14. Justin Grant (4), 15. Logan Calderwood (19), 16. Abby Hohlbein (21), 17. Tony Helton (22), 18. Kobe Simpson (20), 19. Robert Ballou (9), 20. Hayden Reinbold (6), 21. Jadon Rogers (18), 22. Sam Scott (16), 23. Harley Burns (23). NT

APRIL 3, 2026 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (5), 2. Mitchel Moles (6), 3. Briggs Danner (10), 4. Robert Ballou (3), 5. Kyle Cummins (4), 6. Jake Swanson (1), 7. Cale Coons (9), 8. Jadon Rogers (8), 9. Logan Seavey (7), 10. C.J. Leary (18), 11. Chase Stockon (14), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (2), 13. Logan Calderwood (20), 14. Gunnar Setser (15), 15. Chance Crum (12), 16. Kyle Shipley (17), 17. Hayden Reinbold (19), 18. David Gasper (11), 19. Brandon Mattox (16), 20. Trey Osborne (13), 21. Aric Gentry (22), 22. Bryce Andrews (24), 23. Austin Hawkins (25), 24. Chelby Hinton (21), 25. Chet Williams (23), 26. James Boyd (26). NT

TO THE ARCH!

USAC SILVER CROWN AT WWT RACEWAY Sunday, June 7

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Madison, Illinois (June 3, 2026)………For the 13th time, USAC Silver Crown National Championship racing will take a trip to the biggest, boldest and fastest circuit on the series trail this Sunday, June 7.

The OutFront Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, just outside of Saint Louis, brings the series to the 66-lap, 82.5-mile extravaganza on the 1.25-mile paved oval.

It’s all part of NTT IndyCar Series weekend where one ticket gets you all of the action on Sunday, including Silver Crown, IndyCar and the IndyNXT Series.

This is the place where 180 mph speeds for USAC Silver Crown cars are the norm, and where drafting is a key factor in a discipline where that isn’t the norm.

With that said, here’s six fast storylines!

3 PAST WINNERS

Three past WWT Raceway USAC Silver Crown winners will be in the field this Sunday: Bobby Santos, Davey Hamilton Jr. and Dakoda Armstrong.

Santos (Franklin, Massachusetts) won the race on back-to-back occasions in 2013-2014. Hamilton (Boise, Idaho) got his first and only USAC Silver Crown victory to date at WWT back in 2023. Armstrong had the upper hand in 2024 as he raced to victory.

GRANT LEADS THE WAY

Justin Grant enters Sunday’s race as the USAC Silver Crown point leader by a three marker margin.

However, he’s got some business to take care of following the heartbreak he experienced in May’s season opener on the dirt of Hutchinson, Kansas.

There, after leading the first 98 laps from the pole, his car ran out of fuel coming to the white flag. He hung on for second, but he is still the point leader after gaining six bonus points for capturing the pole and leading the most laps.

He’s been good at WWT over his first five starts, finishing 6th, 4th, 3rd, 2nd and 4th.

KAYLEE DEBUTS WITH NEW TEAM

Kaylee Bryson, the only woman to win a USAC Silver Crown event, returns to the series with a new team on Sunday.

Abacus Racing has partnered with Droplight to field Bryson in select USAC Silver Crown races on dirt and pavement under the banner of Abacus Racing Powered by Droplight.

Back in 2024, Bryson was terrific at WWT as she raced to a third place result, her finest finish with the series on a pavement track.

A QUARTER CENTURY IN WAITING FOR LEWIS

It’s been a quarter century since Michael Lewis last competed in a WWT Raceway USAC Silver Crown race. It’s been 21 years since he competed in a USAC race of any kind!

The Noblesville, Indiana driver stepped away from the sport around that time two decades ago. But now, in 2026, Lewis is back in the game and will compete in all six pavement USAC Silver Crown events on the series schedule aboard the Klatt Enterprises No. 6.

Lewis’ resume shows four career USAC National Sprint Car victories, plus an additional eight triumphs in USAC National Midget competition, all on pavement. However, a first career USAC Silver Crown win would mean the world to him.

DANNER TAKES ON THE PAVEMENT

The Doran Racing No. 77 is a familiar sight at the front of the USAC Silver Crown field, especially on pavement tracks. The team won at WWT in 2022, then won again there in 2025.

But that was with Kody Swanson as the driver. The eight-time series champion has vacated the seat to take on the role of USAC Silver Crown Series Director for 2026, and will not compete with the series this year.

Stepping in the seat is Briggs Danner, a nine-time USAC National Sprint Car winner, who is taking on the full USAC Silver Crown series for the first time in 2026 on both dirt and pavement tracks. The team is now entered under Doran-Swanson Racing, named as such for Kevin Doran and the Mark Swanson Encore Team.

DUOS DUELING

Two car teams are a bit of a rarity in USAC Silver Crown racing. Of course, over the years, we’ve seen the Viceroy entries for Al Unser and Mario Andretti, as well as the Tony Stewart Racing cars for the likes of Levi Jones and Bobby East, just to name a couple.

There will be two multi-car teams competing at WWT this Sunday with full-time competitors C.J. Leary and Mario Clouser in a pair of Team AZ/Petty/Ross/Curb-Agajanian machines. Pavement aces Colton Bettis and Jake Trainor will also be teamed up in twin AP Driver Development entries.

Clouser finished a best of 3rd at WWT in 2022 while Leary grabbed 4th in 2024. Trainor debuted at WWT in 2025, but an accident in turns one and two ended his night prematurely. Bettis will be making his WWT debut.

ROOKIES & VETS

Sunday’s lineup consists of three drivers making their WWT debuts: Briggs Danner, Colton Bettis and Brent Yarnal, who’ll be joined by 15 others who’ve experienced this place before in a USAC Silver Crown car.

Nathan Byrd finished 5th at WWT in 2022 as did Jackson Macenko, who earned his best career series result to date with a 5th in 2025. Kyle O’Gara raced to 8th in 2023. Gregg Cory took 13th in both 2024 and 2025. Dave Berkheimer, meanwhile, finished 16th in 2024.

RACE DETAILS

The OutFront Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling features the USAC Silver Crown Championship at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois on Sunday, June 7.

The schedule for USAC Silver Crown race day consists of the front gates opening at 11:30am. Silver Crown practice runs from Noon-12:45pm, followed by qualifying at 1:45pm and the 66-lap, 82.5-mile Silver Crown main event at 5:45pm. All times are central.

Advance tickets are on sale now at: https://www.tixr.com/groups/wwtraceway/events/bommarito-500-weekend-157645

The event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026. The event can also be watched LIVE on Amazon Prime.

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USAC SILVER CROWN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-73, 2-Hayden Reinbold-70, 3-C.J. Leary-64, 4-Kyle Steffens-61, 5-Mario Clouser-58, 6-Chase Stockon-55, 7-Briggs Danner-52, 8-Steve Gennetten-49, 9-Danny Jennings-46, 10-Kip Hughes-43.

WWTR USAC SILVER CROWN ENTRY LIST: (18)

5 DAKODA ARMSTRONG/New Castle, IN (C & A Motorsports)

6 MICHAEL LEWIS/Noblesville, IN (Klatt Enterprises)

8 KYLE STEFFENS/St. Charles, MO (Steffens Motorsports)

11 KAYLEE BRYSON/Muskogee, OK (Abacus Racing Powered by Droplight)

14 DAVEY HAMILTON JR./Boise, ID (Hamilton-DB Racing)

20 MARIO CLOUSER/Auburn, IL (Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian Racing)

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

26 (R) COLTON BETTIS/Lutz, FL (Sam Pierce Racing)

29 (R) BRENT YARNAL/Phoenix, AZ (Brent Yarnal)

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

32 GREGG CORY/Shelbyville, IN (Williams-Cory Racing)

40 NATHAN BYRD/Goodyear, AZ (Meyer Auto Research)

77 BRIGGS DANNER/Allentown, PA (Doran-Swanson Racing)

91 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA (Hemelgarn Racing)

92 KYLE O’GARA/Beech Grove, IN (Kazmark Motorsports)

98 BOBBY SANTOS/Franklin, MA (DJ Racing)

124 JACKSON MACENKO/Cincinnati, OH (Brad Hayes Racing)

126 JAKE TRAINOR/Medway, MA (Sam Pierce Racing)

(R) represents a USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year contender

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC SILVER CROWN AT WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY RACEWAY:

1 Lap - 8/16/2024 - Kody Swanson - 30.239 - 148.814 mph

60 Laps - 6/25/2016 - Tanner Swanson - 44:33.031 - 101.009 mph

80 Laps - 6/14/2014 - Bobby Santos - 49:46.000 - 120.563 mph

USAC SILVER CROWN WINS AT WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY RACEWAY:

2-Bobby Santos & Kody Swanson

1-Pat Abold, Dakoda Armstrong, Davey Hamilton Jr., Tracy Hines, Ryan Newman, Dave Steele, Tanner Swanson & J.J. Yeley

USAC SILVER CROWN WINNERS AT WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY RACEWAY:

1997: Pat Abold (9/14)

1998: J.J. Yeley (10/17)

1999: Ryan Newman (7/30)

2000: Tracy Hines (5/7)

2001: Dave Steele (8/25)

2013: Bobby Santos (6/1)

2014: Bobby Santos (6/14)

2016: Tanner Swanson (6/25)

2022: Kody Swanson (8/19)

2023: Davey Hamilton Jr. (8/27)

2024: Dakoda Armstrong (8/16)

2025: Kody Swanson (6/14)

PAST USAC SILVER CROWN RESULTS AT WORLD WIDE TECHNOLOGY RACEWAY:

1997 FEATURE (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Pat Abold (2), 2. Dave Steele (5), 3. Dan Drinan (10), 4. Kenny Irwin Jr. (25), 5. Robby Flock (6), 6. Tony Stewart (4), 7. Jimmy Sills (3), 8. Dave Darland (21), 9. Ryan Newman (12), 10. Mike Gregg (26), 11. Russ Gamester (17), 12. Jim Keeker (19), 13. Brian Tyler (22), 14. Ronnie Burke (30), 15. Eric Gordon (23), 16. Wally Pankratz (27), 17. Chuck Gurney (11), 18. Jason McCord (29), 19. Gary Irvin (24), 20. Donnie Beechler (13), 21. Bentley Warren (20), 22. Jack Hewitt (7), 23. Chuck Leary (1), 24. Ricky Logan (28), 25. Mike Bliss (9), 26. Kevin Thomas (14), 27. Davey Hamilton (8), 28. Johnny Parsons (16), 29. Gary Hieber (18), 30. Tracy Hines (15). NT

1998 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. J.J. Yeley (17), 2. Tracy Hines (12), 3. Ryan Newman (2), 4. Jason Leffler (3), 5. Bentley Warren (8), 6. Jason McCord (14), 7. Brad Armstrong (15), 8. Davey Hamilton (9), 9. Billy Puterbaugh Jr. (18), 10. Pat Abold (27), 11. Eric Gordon (19), 12. Derek Davidson (22), 13. Dave Darland (20), 14. Johnny Parsons (29), 15. Rebel Jackson Jr. (26), 16. Brian Tyler (10), 17. Jimmy Sills (6), 18. Mike Brooks (28), 19. Robby Flock (11), 20. Gary Hieber (25), 21. Doug Didero (24), 22. Dave Steele (1), 23. Kevin Bloomstran (30), 24. Jack Hewitt (16), 25. Jerry Coons Jr. (23), 26. Chet Fillip (21), 27. Stevie Reeves (13), 28. Dan Drinan (5), 29. Russ Gamester (4), DQ. Chuck Leary (7). 56:47.64

1999 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ryan Newman (6), 2. Kenny Irwin Jr. (8), 3. Jack Hewitt (1), 4. Gary Hieber (18), 5. Tracy Hines (5), 6. Russ Gamester (7), 7. Bentley Warren (15), 8. Brad Noffsinger (12), 9. Jimmy McCune (17), 10. Dave Darland (20), 11. Robby Flock (14), 12. Todd Kane (19), 13. Chuck Leary (2), 14. Brian Gerster (21), 15. Paul White (23), 16. Tony Elliott (4), 17. Tom Capie (27), 18. Rebel Jackson Jr. (16), 19. J.J. Yeley (26), 20. Brian Paulus (9), 21. Jason Leffler (3), 22. Brian Tyler (13), 23. Randy Bateman (30), 24. Chet Fillip (11), 25. Billy Puterbaugh Jr. (24), 26. Rich Tobias Jr. (29), 27. Keith Butler (28), 28. Jimmy Sills (10), 29. Jason McCord (22), 30. Jay Drake (25). 59:46.88

2000 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tracy Hines (4), 2. Jason Leffler (6), 3. Brad Noffsinger (1), 4. J.J. Yeley (5), 5. John Heydenreich (26), 6. Jack Hewitt (15), 7. Dan Drinan (12), 8. Jimmy McCune (27), 9. Russ Gamester (8), 10. Brian Paulus (20), 11. Dave Darland (11), 12. Jay Drake (16), 13. Brian Gerster (18), 14. Billy Whittaker (22), 15. Todd Kane (23), 16. Jimmy Kite (28), 17. Bobby McMahan (24), 18. Kasey Kahne (17), 19. Tom Capie (29), 20. Jimmy Sills (7), 21. Jon Herb (14), 22. Bud Kaeding (3), 23. Paul White (2), 24. Chet Fillip (21), 25. Tony Elliott (30), 26. Brian Tyler (10), 27. Ed Carpenter (13), 28. Jason McCord (25), 29. Ryan Newman (9), 30. Gary Hieber (19). NT

2001 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Dave Steele (1), 2. Tracy Hines (10), 3. Mike Bliss (7), 4. Paul White (8), 5. Brian Tyler (6), 6. J.J. Yeley (2), 7. Ed Carpenter (11), 8. Kasey Kahne (9), 9. Bud Kaeding (14), 10. Chet Fillip (26), 11. Gary Hieber (27), 12. John Heydenreich (19), 13. Jerry Coons Jr. (17), 14. Billy Puterbaugh Jr. (22), 15. Jason McCord (15), 16. Rich Tobias Jr. (21), 17. Tom Capie (16), 18. A.J. Fike (18), 19. Robby Flock (24), 20. Dave Darland (4), 21. Derek Davidson (20), 22. Eric Butze (28), 23. Jay Drake (12), 24. Tony Elliott (13), 25. Bentley Warren (30), 26. Michael Lewis (23), 27. Dane Carter (25), 28. John Nervo (29), 29. Aaron Fike (3), 30. Russ Gamester (5). 51:14.28

2013 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bobby Santos (5), 2. Kody Swanson (3), 3. Chris Windom (1), 4. Brian Tyler (10), 5. Jacob Wilson (7), 6. Jerry Coons Jr. (8), 7. Levi Jones (6), 8. Bobby East (2), 9. Shane Hollingsworth (11), 10. A.J. Fike (4), 11. David Byrne (15), 12. Zach Daum (12), 13. Jarett Andretti (9), 14. Tracy Hines (14), 15. Aaron Pierce (13), 16. Randy Bateman (16). NT

2014 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Bobby Santos (5), 2. Tracy Hines (1), 3. Bobby East (3), 4. Caleb Armstrong (7), 5. Kody Swanson (12), 6. Jarett Andretti (4), 7. Cale Thomas (9), 8. Chris Windom (13), 9. Tanner Swanson (2), 10. David Byrne (6), 11. Randy Bateman (10), 12. Patrick Lawson (11), 13. Jacob Wilson (8). 49:46.000

2016 FEATURE: (60 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tanner Swanson (1), 2. Chris Windom (5), 3. Austin Nemire (4), 4. David Byrne (6), 5. Joe Liguori (9), 6. Justin Grant (7), 7. Casey Shuman (8), 8. Hunter Schuerenberg (12), 9. Jerry Coons Jr. (3), 10. Shane Cottle (11), 11. Kody Swanson (2), 12. Patrick Lawson (10), 13. Tad Roach (13). 44:33.031

2022 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kody Swanson (1), 2. Davey Hamilton Jr. (7), 3. Mario Clouser (5), 4. Justin Grant (3), 5. Nathan Byrd (12), 6. Kyle Robbins (11), 7. Eric Gordon (14), 8. Bryan Gossel (17), 9. Taylor Ferns (6), 10. C.J. Leary (9), 11. Bobby Santos (2), 12. Brian Tyler (8), 13. Travis Welpott (15), 14. Derek Bischak (10), 15. Patrick Lawson (13), 16. Logan Seavey (4), 17. Dave Berkheimer (19), 18. Gregg Cory (16), 19. Tom Paterson (18), 20. Mike McVetta (20). 1:07:32.395

2023 FEATURE: (80 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Davey Hamilton Jr. (6), 2. Bobby Santos (3), 3. Justin Grant (9), 4. Logan Seavey (2), 5. Derek Bischak (7), 6. Trey Burke (11), 7. Kaylee Bryson (10), 8. Kyle O'Gara (8), 9. Mario Clouser (5), 10. Dakoda Armstrong (13), 11. Taylor Ferns (12), 12. Bryan Gossel (17), 13. Nathan Moore (19), 14. Kody Swanson (1), 15. Travis Welpott (18), 16. Matt Westfall (14), 17. Nathan Byrd (22), 18. Mike McVetta (16), 19. C.J. Leary (4), 20. Tom Paterson (20), 21. Aaron Pierce (15), 22. Patrick Lawson (21). 1:05:05.708

2024 FEATURE: (60 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Dakoda Armstrong (3), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Kaylee Bryson (5), 4. C.J. Leary (2), 5. Bobby Santos (14), 6. Mario Clouser (8), 7. Nathan Byrd (7), 8. Logan Seavey (4), 9. Kyle Steffens (10), 10. Bryan Gossel (12), 11. Patrick Lawson (11), 12. Kody Swanson (1), 13. Gregg Cory (13), 14. Davey Hamilton Jr. (9), 15. Nathan Moore (16), 16. Dave Berkheimer (15). 46:58.536

2025 FEATURE: (66 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kody Swanson (1), 2. Dakoda Armstrong (4), 3. Bobby Santos (2), 4. Justin Grant (5), 5. Jackson Macenko (11), 6. Kyle Steffens (7), 7. Mario Clouser (6), 8. Billy Wease (12), 9. Nathan Byrd (10), 10. Taylor Ferns (9), 11. Matt Westfall (16), 12. Kaylee Bryson (14), 13. Gregg Cory (17), 14. C.J. Leary (3), 15. Derek Bischak (13), 16. Jake Trainor (8), 17. Tyler Roahrig (15), 18. Dave Berkheimer (18). NT

BRYSON JOINS NEW ABACUS-DROPLIGHT

USAC SILVER CROWN TEAM,

DEBUTS June 7 AT WWTR

Indianapolis, Indiana (June 1, 2026)………Abacus Racing announced today that it has partnered with Droplight to field a select-race USAC Silver Crown entry under the banner of Abacus Racing Powered by Droplight.

The new program will feature accomplished driver Kaylee Bryson behind the wheel of the No. 11 machine, making its debut this Sunday, June 7, during the OUTFRONT Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois.

Droplight's presence in motorsports continues to expand as the company deepens its commitment to grassroots racing through a new partnership with Abacus Racing for the 2026 USAC Silver Crown Series.

A key component of the program is the addition of Bryson, one of the most accomplished female drivers in USAC competition. In May 2024, she became the first female driver to win a USAC national feature event when she captured victory at Kansas’ Belleville High Banks in a Silver Crown event.

Bryson was named the 2022 USAC National Most Improved Driver, and in 2023, earned USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year honors. Additionally, Bryson became the first woman to compete in the Saturday night A-Main at the 2022 Chili Bowl Nationals. In 2025, she became the first woman to win Trans-Am championships in two different classes.

“We've had the opportunity to work with Kaylee over the years, and she immediately stood out as a perfect fit for this program,” Abacus Racing Team Principal Brent Cox added. “Her talent, professionalism, and determination align with everything we're trying to build.”

Joseph Anderson, Co-Founder and CEO of Droplight, echoed that sentiment.

“When Brent shared Kaylee's racing résumé and her story, we immediately recognized not only an outstanding driver, but someone who embodies the values we look for in our partners and ambassadors,” said Anderson. “We believe she has tremendous potential both on and off the racetrack, and we're excited to support the next chapter of her career.”

Bryson is equally enthusiastic about the opportunity.

“Having already built a strong relationship with Brent and the Abacus team, this was an opportunity I couldn't pass up,” said Bryson. “The professionalism, vision, and commitment behind this program are exciting. I'm grateful for the opportunity to represent Abacus Racing, Droplight, and all of our partners, and I'm looking forward to getting started this weekend.”

The program will showcase Desnuda Organic Tequila as the primary sponsor for pavement events and Ichor Water as the primary sponsor for dirt events. The No. 11 program will receive support from Postgame Ice, CG CPAs, Indy Custom Stone, Forecheck Marketing, Indy Powersports, Logical Systems Inc. (LSI), Design Service Solutions (DSS), and Droplight.

The debut weekend is particularly fitting, as the USAC Silver Crown Series shares the stage with the NTT INDYCAR Series, further connecting the developmental roots of American open wheel racing with its highest level of competition.

According to Abacus Racing Team Principal Brent Cox, the partnership was a natural evolution following his introduction to Droplight founders Phil Williams and Joseph Anderson.

“When I first met Phil and Joe, it was clear we shared many of the same values,” said Cox. “Grassroots America, hard work, small business, supporting the underdog, and a passion for racing. What began as support for our No. 57 sprint car program with Logan Seavey quickly evolved into conversations about building something together in Silver Crown. The more we talked, the more it became obvious that this partnership was meant to happen.”

For Droplight, the move represents another step in building a motorsports platform that connects racing, business, and brand development.

“We believe racing remains one of the most authentic ways to build meaningful relationships and elevate great brands,” said Matthew Porter, Chief Racing Officer for Droplight. “Our experience with Abacus Racing has been exceptional, and we recognize that the foundation of INDYCAR was built through USAC and the Silver Crown Series. When Brent presented the opportunity, it aligned perfectly with our commitment to grassroots America and the communities that support our ecosystem.”

CORN BELT KING!

BACON BOLTS TO KNOXVILLE GLORY ONCE MORE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

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

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

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Brady Bacon

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

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

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

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

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

HALF-MILE MASTER!

CUMMINS CHECKS OFF KNOXVILLE VICTORY

AT CORN BELT CLASH OPENER

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cummins, meanwhile, instantly entered the mix, advancing two spots up to third behind Miller and Leary.

“The first couple laps, I felt good,” Cummins related. “I think C.J. was definitely faster than I was, but as the run went on, I felt like, if I fell back far enough to see the cushion, I could start running him back down. As my tires got heat in them, I think I became a little bit better, but then we always seemed to have a yellow.”

On the fourth lap, Miller got on the bike in a major way on the turn three cushion, rising his left side wheels to the sky before landing back on all fours. The ordeal allowed Leary to instantly close up the gap for the lead. One lap later, Leary went topside around Miller in turn four to pick off the top spot.

Miller changed course after the cushion excursion by rolling around the bottom. Cummins took advantage of the situation and used the high line to escape around Miller for the runner-up position on lap seven.

Nine laps into it, sixth running Jake Swanson endured a frightening incident when his right front spindle broke as he entered the high line in turn three. The sudden jettisoning of his right front wheel from the car promptly sent his car digging into the dirt and flipping into orbit. Swanson was able to climb out and walk away.

On the ensuing restart, Cummins took his first shot at Leary for the lead, to no avail, as Leary gapped Cummins to the tune of 1.5 seconds. That lead was quickly erased when 22nd running Dakota Earls flipped upside down in turn four on the 13th lap. He too was able to climb out and walk away.

For the next restart, Cummins was able to get side-by-side with Leary through turns one and two, but Leary successfully thwarted the attack for the time being and once again matriculated out to a full second advantage. That said, yet another stoppage halted the action on lap 16 when 16th running Riley Kreisel slowed with a flat left rear tire that forced him into the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area.

That set the stage for Cummins to make his winning move as he built a head of steam on the front straightaway, then successfully cleared Leary to assume the number one position on lap 17.

“On the restart before, I was all messed up,” Cummins admitted. “The next one, I went through the middle and was like ‘naw, not good.’ But the middle was better in three and four, so I decided to not even think about sliding him. I just wanted to get a start, get around one and two, and hopefully, break some momentum and get him in three and four because I thought I could stick a lot better there. When we took off, I was backpedaling down the straightaway. I’m like, ‘come on man. Go!’ I thought this is the only time I can get it. It’s extremely tough to pass somebody, and once I got out there and could see the cushion, I thought, ‘we got to go.’ It about bit me a couple times there.”

A lap later, Grant followed suit to second while Bacon slotted into third as Leary fell back to fourth in the pecking order. Meanwhile, Cummins’ lead had blossomed to nearly two seconds with the laps winding down.

Cummins finished the job to win by a 1.777 second margin over Grant, Bacon and Leary with Briggs Danner rounding out the top-five.

Bacon always seems to find his way to the front at Knoxville, and this night was no exception. In 14 career USAC National Sprint Car starts at the track dating back to 2010, he's finished on the podium an incredible 12 times. In this one, he advanced 11th to thirrd to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.

Leary led the most laps (12) throughout the feature, and wound up finishing fourth, equaling his best result of the USAC National Sprint Car season thus far. The performance made him the K & N Filters Clean Air Award honoree.

Danner was the night’s LearnLab Fast Qualifier, pacing the field with a time of 18.562 seconds. It was the sixth career USAC National Sprint Car Fast Qualifying time for Danner, tying him for 81st place all-time with Daron Clayton, Derek Davidson, Eric Gordon, Jac Haudenschild, James McElreath, Ken Schrader, Mike Bliss, Richard Griffin and Tray House.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 29, 2026 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track – Co-Sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Racing Association

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-18.562; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-18.622; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-18.627; 4. Gavin Miller, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-18.716; 5. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-18.757; 6. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-18.760; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-18.764; 8. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-18.765; 9. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-18.781; 10. Ryan Bernal, 17, Dunkel-18.870; 11. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-18.919; 12. Riley Kreisel, 91, Kreisel-18.946; 13. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-18.951; 14. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-19.018; 15. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-19.021; 16. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-19.191; 17. Steven Snyder Jr., 87, CB/Spire-19.229; 18. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-19.237; 19. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-19.262; 20. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-19.267; 21. Justin Zimmerman, 1, Herrell-19.499; 22. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-19.522; 23. Glen Saville, 75, Grasmere-19.694; 24. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-19.724; 25. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-19.910; 26. Jake Kouba, 6K, Kouba-20.402; 27. Ben Woods, 11B, B & R-20.664; 28. Clinton Bruns, 7, Bruns-21.483; 29. Lance Silvers, 7x, Silvers-23.066; 30. Jonathan Hughes, 67, Hughes-23.759.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jake Swanson (2), 2. Briggs Danner (6), 3. Ryan Bernal (3), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 5. Charles Davis Jr. (1), 6. Gavin Miller (5), 7. Kobe Simpson (7), 8. Trey Osborne (9), 9. Troy Carey (8), 10. Clinton Bruns (10). 2:38.908

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (3), 2. Brady Bacon (4), 3. Steven Snyder Jr. (1), 4. Kyle Cummins (6), 5. Mitchel Moles (5), 6. R.J. Johnson (7), 7. Chase Stockon (2), 8. Glen Saville (8), 9. Jake Kouba (9), 10. Lance Silvers (10). NT

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (4), 2. Robert Ballou (2), 3. C.J. Leary (5), 4. Hayden Reinbold (1), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Justin Zimmerman (7), 7. Riley Kreisel (3), 8. Dakota Earls (8), 9. Ben Woods (9). NT

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (2), 2. Riley Kreisel (1), 3. Kobe Simpson (3), 4. Ben Woods (9), 5. Troy Carey (7), 6. Dakota Earls (5), 7. Jake Kouba (8), 8. Clinton Bruns (10), 9. Lance Silvers (11), 10. Glen Saville (4), 11. Trey Osborne (6). 3:26.672

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

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Gavin Miller, Laps 5-16 C.J. Leary, Laps 17-25 Kyle Cummins.

**Jake Swanson flipped on lap 9 of the feature. Dakota Earls flipped on lap 13 of the feature.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1138, 2-Justin Grant-1044, 3-Mitchel Moles-1025, 4-Briggs Danner-942, 5-Logan Seavey-937, 6-Chase Stockon-897, 7-Jake Swanson-886, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-884, 9-C.J. Leary-833, 10-Robert Ballou-795.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-49, 2-Hayden Reinbold-43, 3-Logan Calderwood-39, 4-Chase Stockon-38, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 6-Briggs Danner-36, 7-Robert Ballou-35, 8-Justin Grant-34, 9-Kyle Cummins-31, 10-Brady Bacon-31.

CORN BELT CLASH PARALLAX GROUP POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-10, 2-Chase Stockon-9, 3-Ben Woods-8, 4-Kobe Simpson-7, 5-Kyle Cummins-6, 6-Briggs Danner-5, 7-Steven Snyder Jr.-5, 8-Troy Carey-5, 9-Robert Ballou-4, 10-R.J. Johnson-3.

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

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Briggs Danner (18.658)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Briggs Danner (18.562)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jake Swanson

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Logan Seavey

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cale Coons

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Chase Stockon

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: C.J. Leary (12 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Brady Bacon (11th to 3rd)

BRUNO GOES BACK-TO-BACK

WITH USAC EAST COAST AT SELINSGROVE

By: Kurt Bettler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

RAD Hot Lap Fast Time: Christian Bruno

Bitner Automotive Hot Lap Fast Time: Christian Bruno

Hoosier Tire Pill Draw: Greg Shepsis

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

JPA Hard Luck Award: Thomas Radivoy

J & W Home Improvement Best Crate: Greg Shepsis

CORN BELT CLASH!

KNOXVILLE GREETS USAC SPRINTS May 29-30

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Knoxville, Iowa (May 28, 2026)………Knoxville Raceway is a special place on its own. But to race in the shadow of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame on induction weekend is incomparable.

The Sprint Car Capital of the World welcomes the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship to Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway for back-to-back nights of full programs on May 29-30.

The Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash presents $10,000-to-win for the Friday night opener followed by Saturday night’s $15,000-to-win finale at the famed 1/2-mile.

Gary Bettenhausen, Dick Tobias, Sammy Sessions, Tom Bigelow, Sheldon Kinser and Sammy Swindell are among the few who have won a USAC National Sprint Car main event at Knoxville and are also enshrined in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame.

They are the embodiment of what so many great racers aspire to achieve. To win a USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship main event at Knoxville is truly an iconic feat. To win on Hall of Fame weekend at Knoxville, that’s what dreams are made of.

Brady Bacon, Justin Grant, and Kevin Thomas Jr., among others, have added USAC wins of their own in recent years at Knoxville, and someday, their names are sure to be called upon at the NSCHOF.

Drivers make their name at this place. Always have and always will. After all, a place christened as The Sprint Car Capital of the World has that type of presence.

this weekend, we’ll find out who’s next to make their mark at one of the most legendary dirt tracks in the world.

Let’s check out six storylines to keep tabs on this weekend.

KNOXVILLE MASTERS

Four past Knoxville Raceway USAC National Sprint Car winners will be in the field for this weekend’s event, namely Brady Bacon (5 wins across 2011, 2019, 2020 & 2025); Justin Grant (twice in 2017 & 2023); Jake Swanson (once in 2023); and Kevin Thomas Jr. (once in 2025).

Bacon already won a USAC National Sprint Car feature on a half-mile this year in mid-May at Eldora. Grant is seeking his 98th and 99th career USAC national victories this weekend.

Swanson’s only series win this year to date came on a half-mile at Volusia Speedway Park in Florida. Thomas Jr.’s Knoxville victory in 2025 was his first of the year, and this weekend, he aims to reach victory lane for the first time in 2026.

CRISP BACON & SWEET CORN

Only one driver has won more than two USAC National Sprint Car features at Knoxville Raceway. In fact, that driver has won five throughout his illustrious career, and that’s Brady Bacon.

The Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native scored at Knoxville in 2011, then swept both nights of the Corn Belt Clash in 2019, capped the weekend with a triumph in 2020, and then did the deed again on the opening night of the 2025 event.

In 13 career Knoxville USAC Sprint Car starts, Bacon has only finished outside the top-three twice. He flipped while running fourth on night two of the 2025 event. Bacon’s Knoxville USAC Sprint Car profile features five wins, five seconds and a third.

HALF-MILE PROWESS FOR CUMMINS

Kyle Cummins has already checked off victories at two of the most famous dirt half-miles on the USAC National Sprint Car schedule in 2026, winning at both the Terre Haute Action Track in April and Eldora Speedway in May.

Could a first Knoxville triumph be next in the cards for Cummins, the driver who currently leads the series standings and is the defending champion?

He made the best run of his Knoxville career in his most recent appearance in 2025 where he advanced from his 18th starting spot to finish 3rd, earning himself hard charger honors.

21AZ GOIN’ FOR THREE WITH GAVIN

Team AZ / Curb-Agajanian Racing will have Gavin Miller in the seat for the weekend. Miller finished 10th in his USAC National Sprint Car debut with the team at Bloomington Speedway in May.

The team has won twice at Knoxville over the past three seasons. In 2023, they scored a last lap victory with Jake Swanson at the wheel of the No. 21AZ, then repeated the feat in 2024 with Daison Pursley as their wheelman, which was his first career USAC National Sprint Car points-paying victory.

this weekend, the team will try to repeat the feat with a third different driver at Knoxville as Miller looks to tally his first USAC feature win as the driver of the No. 21AZ.

COASTERS SEARCHIN’

A few coastal invaders will be rolling in for the Corn Belt Clash, including USAC CRA champion R.J. Johnson, plus Charles Davis Jr., Ryan Bernal from the west, while Steven Snyder Jr. arrives from the east.

One-time USAC National Sprint Car main event winner Bernal will wheel one of the top rides on the USAC CRA circuit, the Tom & Christy Dunkel No. 17. Reigning USAC CRA champion Johnson will pilot a car for event sponsor Petty Performance Racing while Davis will be in the seat of his own No. 47.

Coming in from the east coast is Maryland’s Steven Snyder Jr. in a CB Industries-Spire Motorsports machine. Snyder’s only two previous USAC National Sprint Car starts came at Eldora’s half-mile a couple weeks back. There, Snyder finished 10th in the opener and an impressive 4th on night two after starting 14th.

All but Sndyer own previous Corn Belt Clash experience with Bernal corralling a runner-up finish in 2025; while Johnson was 12th in 2025; and Davis 15th in 2025.

IT’S A HARD KNOX LIFE

Seven drivers currently residing inside the top 10 of the USAC National Sprint Car points are vying for a first Knoxville triumph this weekend.

Point leader Kyle Cummins (1st) is among those on the list as are Mitchel Moles (2nd), Logan Seavey (4th), Briggs Danner (5th), Chase Stockon (7th), C.J. Leary (9th) and Robert Ballou (10th).

Moles recently conquered the Terre Haute half-mile for the Hulman Classic last week. Seavey is eying his first series victory since February. Danner won the most recent series race at Circle City a week ago.

Stockon led the first 20 laps of last year’s 25-lap Knoxville opener before finishing 2nd. Leary set a new Knoxville USAC track record in 2025 at 18.442 seconds. Ballou possesses both the 10-lap and 16-lap Knoxville USAC track records, and finished 2nd there in 2017.

RACE DETAILS:

The Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash will take place on Friday-Saturday, May 29-30. Friday’s feature will be 25 laps in length and pay $10,000-to-win. Saturday’s feature will be 30 laps in length and pay $15,000-to-win.

The sixth edition of the Corn Belt Clash features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship co-sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Racing Association, plus Knoxville Championship 360 Sprint Cars will be on the card on Friday while the Knoxville Championship 410 Sprint Cars will be on hand Saturday.

Each night, the pits open at 3pm Central with the front gates opening at 5:30pm and hot laps at 6:30pm followed by qualifying and racing.

On Friday, general admission tickets (Rows 1-21) are $20 Adult, $15 Teens, $10 Age 12-6, Age 5 and Under Free. Reserved tickets (Rows 22-40) are $25 Adult, $20 Teens, $15 Age 12-6, Age 5 and Under Free. Pit passes are $45.

On Saturday, general admission tickets (Rows 1-21) are $25 Adult, $20 Teens, $15 Age 12-6, Age 5 and Under Free. Reserved tickets (Rows 22-40) are $30 Adult, $25 Teens, $20 Age 12-6, Age 5 and Under Free. Pit passes are $45. Pit passes are $45.

Advance tickets are on sale at www.KnoxvilleRaceway.com.

The entire weekend of events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1058, 2-Mitchel Moles-970, 3-Justin Grant-969, 4-Logan Seavey-892, 5-Briggs Danner-871, 6-Jake Swanson-855, 7-Chase Stockon-853, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-840, 9-C.J. Leary-765, 10-Robert Ballou-742.

CORN BELT CLASH WINNERS:

2019: Brady Bacon (7/5) & Brady Bacon (7/6)

2020: Tyler Courtney (7/10) & Brady Bacon (7/11)

2023: Jake Swanson (6/3)

2024: Justin Grant (5/31) & Daison Pursley (6/1)

2025: Brady Bacon (5/30) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/31)

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT KNOXVILLE RACEWAY:

5-Brady Bacon

2-Tyler Courtney & Justin Grant

1-Gary Bettenhausen, Tom Bigelow, Bud Kaeding, Sheldon Kinser, Daison Pursley, Sammy Sessions, Jake Swanson, Sammy Swindell, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Dick Tobias

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT KNOXVILLE RACEWAY:

1968: Gary Bettenhausen (9/6)

1971: Dick Tobias (6/5)

1972: Sammy Sessions (6/3)

1973: Tom Bigelow (6/3)

1982: Sheldon Kinser (6/5)

1988: Sammy Swindell (6/11)

2010: Bud Kaeding (8/8)

2011: Brady Bacon (8/7)

2017: Justin Grant (6/3)

2018: Tyler Courtney (6/9)

2019: Brady Bacon (7/5) & Brady Bacon (7/6)

2020: Tyler Courtney (7/10) & Brady Bacon (7/11)

2023: Jake Swanson (6/3)

2024: Justin Grant (5/31) & Daison Pursley (6/1)

2025: Brady Bacon (5/30) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/31)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT KNOXVILLE RACEWAY:

1 Lap - 5/30/2025 - C.J. Leary - 18.442

8 Laps - 8/8/2010 - Bryan Clauson - 2:38.80

10 Laps - 7/11/2020 - Robert Ballou - 3:09.379

12 Laps - 6/3/2023 - J.J. Yeley - 4:14.99

16 Laps - 7/11/2020 - Robert Ballou - 5:25.068

25 Laps - 7/6/2019 - Brady Bacon - 9:11.86

30 Laps - 7/11/2020 - Brady Bacon - 10:19.56

40 Laps - 6/3/1972 - Sammy Sessions - 16:21.23

PAST KNOXVILLE RACEWAY USAC SPRINT CAR FEATURE RESULTS:

1968 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Gary Bettenhausen, 2. Jerry "Scratch" Daniels, 3. Larry Dickson, 4. Greg Weld, 5. Wib Spalding, 6. Carl Williams, 7. Mike Mosley, 8. Don Brown, 9. Don Thomas, 10. Ralph Liguori, 11. Bill Puterbaugh, 12. Rollie Beale, 13. Dee Jones, 14. Johnny Parsons

1971 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Dick Tobias, 2. Sammy Sessions, 3. Ray Lee Goodwin, 4. Lee Kunzman, 5. Tom Bigelow, 6. Rollie Beale, 7. Gary Bettenhausen, 8. Johnny Parsons, 9. Karl Busson, 10. Jimmy Oskie, 11. Don Nordhorn, 12. Darl Harrison, 13. Larry Rice, 14. Merle Bettenhausen, 15. Joe Saldana, 16. Jim Malloy, 17. Larry Cannon, 18. Doc Dawson, 19. Greg Weld, 20. Bill Puterbaugh

1972 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Sammy Sessions, 2. Don Nordhorn, 3. Greg Weld, 4. Tom Bigelow, 5. Billy Thrasher, 6. Rollie Beale, 7. Bob Pratt, 8. Bill Puterbaugh, 9. Johnny Parsons, 10. Larry Cannon, 11. Joe Saldana, 12. Steve Cannon, 13. Gary Ponzini, 14. Bruce Walkup, 15. Billy Cassella, 16. Karl Busson, 17. Bill Koepfer, 18. Larry Dickson, 19. Rick Goudy, 20. Charlie Masters

1973 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Tom Bigelow, 2. Rollie Beale, 3. Pancho Carter, 4. Gary Bettenhausen, 5. Don Nordhorn, 6. Larry Cannon, 7. Lee Kunzman, 8. Johnny Parsons, 9. Sammy Sessions, 10. Jackie Howerton, 11. John Toth, 12. Ronnie Rough, 13. Mel Cornett, 14. Art Bisch, Jr., 15. Bruce Walkup, 16. Billy Engelhart, 17. Tony Simon, 18. Greg Leffler, 19. Rich Leavell, 20. Steve Shultz.

1982 FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Sheldon Kinser, 2. Rich Vogler, 3. Johnny Coogan, 4. Jack Hewitt, 5. Duke Cook, 6. Manny Rockhold, 7. Bill Robinson, 8. Steve Long, 9. Danny Milburn, 10. Jeff Swindell, 11. David Smith, 12. T.J. Giddings, 13. Buddy Wallen, 14. Jerry Potter, 15. Mackie Heimbaugh, 16. Mike Brooks, 17. Joe Saldana, 18. Jim Moughan, 19. Tim Deaver, 20. Mike Thomas

1988 FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Sammy Swindell, 2. Randy Smith, 3. Jeff Tuttle, 4. Lee Brewer, Jr., 5. Steve Butler, 6. Jerry Richert, Jr., 7. Jamie Moyle, 8. Mike Peters, 9. Rich Bubak, 10. Danny Thoman, 11. Rick Ungar, 12. Kenny Jacobs, 13. Bob White, 14. Tod Bishop, 15. Mark Shaffer, 16. Tray House, 17. Tim Monson, 18. Danny Lasoski, 19. Ray Lipsey, 20. Terry McCarl.

2010 FEATURE: (26 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Daron Clayton, 4. Scotty Weir, 5. Damion Gardner, 6. Bryan Clauson, 7. Robert Ballou, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Casey Shuman, 10. Dave Darland, 11. Levi Jones, 12. Mike Hess, 13. Casey Riggs, 14. Jerry Coons Jr., 15. Jon Stanbrough, 16. Tracy Hines, 17. Kyle Larson, 18. Kyle Cummins, 19. Chris Urish, 20. Shane Hmiel, 21. Keith Bloom, 22. Ricky Williams. NT

2011 FEATURE: (26 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Chris Windom, 3. Jerry Coons Jr. 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Travis Rilat, 7. Hunter Schuerenberg, 8. Keith Bloom Jr., 9. Levi Jones, 10. Tracy Hines, 11. Robert Ballou, 12. Hud Cone, 13. Joey Moughan, 14. Mike Spencer, 15. Bill Rose, 16. Coleman Gulick, 17. Dustin Morgan, 18. Mike Moore, 19. Wes McIntyre, 20. Damion Gardner, 21. Casey Riggs, 22. Bud Kaeding, 23. Stu Snyder, 24. Blake Fitzpatrick, 25. Justin Grant, 26. Dave Darland. NT

2017 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Robert Ballou, 3. Chad Boespflug, 4. Chase Stockon, 5. C.J. Leary, 6. Chris Windom, 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 8. Josh Hodges, 9. Shane Cottle, 10. Brady Bacon, 11. Isaac Chapple, 12. Dave Darland, 13. Stevie Sussex, 14. Carson Short, 15. Aaron Farney, 16. Hunter Schuerenberg, 17. Dustin Smith, 18. Tyler Courtney, 19. R.J. Johnson, 20. Brody Roa, 21. Nick Bilbee, 22. Jon Stanbrough. NT

2018 FEATURE: (30 laps – starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (6), 2. C.J. Leary (3), 3. Brady Bacon (1), 4. Justin Grant (5), 5. Brody Roa (9), 6. Chase Stockon (4), 7. Robert Ballou (10), 8. Dave Darland (17), 9. Chris Windom (12), 10. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (7), 11. Jarett Andretti (11), 12. Chad Boespflug (2), 13. Josh Hodges (15), 14. Tom Harris (14), 15. Nick Bilbee (8), 16. Glen Saville (21), 17. Wyatt Burks (20), 18. Brandon Stevenson (13), 19. Robert Bell (22), 20. Rob Caho, Jr. (19), 21. Frank Rodgers (23), 22. Kelly Graham (24), 23. Isaac Chapple (16), 24. Katlynn Leer (18). 10:45.63

2019 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (25 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (6), 2. Chris Windom (1), 3. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (3), 4. Tyler Courtney (10), 5. Justin Grant (7), 6. Ryan Bernal (9), 7. Chase Stockon (5), 8. Jason McDougal (20), 9. C.J. Leary (8), 10. Matt Westfall (2), 11. Wyatt Burks (12), 12. Wesley Smith (11), 13. Don Droud, Jr. (13), 14. Korey Weyant (21), 15. Nick Bilbee (16), 16. Timmy Buckwalter (4), 17. Josh Hodges (22), 18. Mario Clouser (23), 19. Carson Short (19), 20. Dave Darland (15), 21. Anthony Nicholson (18), 22. Riley Kreisel (24), 23. Chad Boespflug (14), 24. Landon Simon (17). 9:11.86 (New Track Record)

2019 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (2), 2. C.J. Leary (4), 3. Tyler Courtney (6), 4. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (5), 5. Chris Windom (8), 6. Justin Grant (1), 7. Jason McDougal (7), 8. Chase Stockon (3), 9. Ryan Bernal (12), 10. Carson Short (11), 11. Matt Westfall (9), 12. Korey Weyant (23), 13. Wyatt Burks (10), 14. Josh Hodges (20), 15. Nick Bilbee (14), 16. Dave Darland (19), 17. Mario Clouser (16), 18. Steve Irwin (24), 19. Kory Schudy (22), 20. Anthony Nicholson (21), 21. Riley Kreisel (13), 22. Chad Boespflug (15), 23. Timmy Buckwalter (18), 24. Wesley Smith (17). 11:08.75

2020 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (3), 2. Brady Bacon (4), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Chris Windom (9), 5. C.J. Leary (8), 6. Ryan Bernal (14), 7. Carson Short (7), 8. Jake Swanson (10), 9. Logan Seavey (20), 10. Wesley Smith (19), 11. Chase Stockon (17), 12. Wyatt Burks (1), 13. Kevin Thomas Jr. (16), 14. Nick Bilbee (5), 15. Tanner Thorson (18), 16. Riley Kreisel (2), 17. Matt Westfall (15), 18. Shane Cottle (22), 19. Don Droud Jr. (23), 20. Jack Wagner (21), 21. Brian VanMeveren (12), 22. Dustin Clark (13), 23. Robert Ballou (11), 24. Dennis Gile (24). NT

2020 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (1), 2. Justin Grant (2), 3. C.J. Leary (3), 4. Chris Windom (5), 5. Tyler Courtney (4), 6. Ryan Bernal (8), 7. Carson Short (6), 8. Robert Ballou (19), 9. Chase Stockon (7), 10. Jake Swanson (10), 11. Tanner Thorson (14), 12. Riley Kreisel (15), 13. Logan Seavey (13), 14. Nick Bilbee (9), 15. Wyatt Burks (11), 16. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 17. Don Droud Jr. (23), 18. Shane Cottle (21), 19. Matt Westfall (17), 20. Dennis Gile (20), 21. Dustin Clark (16), 22. Wesley Smith (18), 23. Glen Saville (24), 24. Dave Darland (22). 10:19.560

2023 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jake Swanson (6), 2. Brady Bacon (5), 3. Mitchel Moles (7), 4. C.J. Leary (1), 5. Emerson Axsom (3), 6. Matt Westfall (12), 7. Chase Johnson (19), 8. Justin Zimmerman (17), 9. Daison Pursley (10), 10. Riley Kreisel (13), 11. Robert Ballou (16), 12. Wesley Smith (9), 13. Carson Garrett (8), 14. Kyle Cummins (4), 15. Justin Grant (2), 16. Charles Davis Jr. (21), 17. J.J. Yeley (15), 18. Matt Mitchell (18), 19. Chase Stockon (14), 20. Logan Seavey (23-P), 21. Dalton Stevens (22), 22. Max Adams (11), 23. Logan Calderwood (20). NT

MAY 31, 2024 FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Brady Bacon (4), 3. Daison Pursley (5), 4. Jake Swanson (13), 5. Chase Johnson (7), 6. Xavier Doney (10), 7. Mitchel Moles (1), 8. Logan Seavey (8), 9. Kyle Cummins (17), 10. J.J. Yeley (23), 11. Robert Ballou (15), 12. Matt Westfall (9), 13. C.J. Leary (6), 14. Carson Garrett (26), 15. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 16. Hunter Maddox (20), 17. Jadon Rogers (16), 18. Joey Amantea (14), 19. Chase Stockon (3), 20. Charles Davis Jr. (22), 21. Korbyn Hayslett (19), 22. Kobe Simpson (21), 23. Logan Calderwood (18), 24. Eric Schulz (25), 25. Dakota Earls (24), 26. Wesley Smith (11). NT

JUNE 1, 2024 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Daison Pursley (1), 2. Brady Bacon (6), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 4. C.J. Leary (4), 5. Kyle Cummins (11), 6. Justin Grant (5), 7. Robert Ballou (8), 8. Mitchel Moles (13), 9. Jake Swanson (2), 10. J.J. Yeley (17), 11. Chase Johnson (15), 12. Matt Westfall (16), 13. Carson Garrett (3), 14. Chase Stockon (14), 15. Jadon Rogers (20), 16. Charles Davis Jr. (22), 17. Korbyn Hayslett (19), 18. Logan Calderwood (21), 19. Kobe Simpson (23), 20. Joey Amantea (12), 21. Logan Seavey (10), 22. Xavier Doney (7), 23. Wesley Smith (18), 24. Eric Schulz (24). NT

MAY 30, 2025 FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (5), 2. Briggs Danner (2), 3. Chase Stockon (1), 4. Robert Ballou (8), 5. Justin Grant (7), 6. Kale Drake (15), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 8. Kyle Cummins (9), 9. Ryan Bernal (13), 10. Jake Swanson (11), 11. C.J. Leary (6), 12. R.J. Johnson (4), 13. Mitchel Moles (12), 14. Logan Seavey (17), 15. Wyatt Burks (19), 16. Carson Garrett (10), 17. Gunnar Setser (23), 18. Stevie Sussex (20), 19. Charles Davis Jr. (21), 20. Kobe Simpson (18), 21. Hayden Reinbold (22), 22. Glen Saville (24), 23. Logan Calderwood (16), 24. Jadon Rogers (14). NT

MAY 31, 2025 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 2. Ryan Bernal (7), 3. Kyle Cummins (18), 4. Justin Grant (5), 5. Gunnar Setser (9), 6. Chase Stockon (11), 7. Logan Seavey (15), 8. Robert Ballou (10), 9. Briggs Danner (12), 10. Mitchel Moles (6), 11. Jake Swanson (1), 12. Logan Calderwood (13), 13. R.J. Johnson (19), 14. Wyatt Burks (23), 15. Charles Davis Jr. (16), 16. Carson Garrett (22), 17. Hayden Reinbold (14), 18. Kobe Simpson (20), 19. Braydon Cromwell (21), 20. Kale Drake (8), 21. C.J. Leary (2), 22. Brady Bacon (4), 23. A.J. Johnson (17), 24. Jadon Rogers (24). NT

The Return of Wingless Sprint Cars to Selinsgrove Saturday Night

The thunder of non-wing sprint cars is set to return to Selinsgrove Speedway this Saturday night as the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars make their long-awaited return to the Snyder County half-mile for the first time in nearly four years.

Mother Nature has not been kind to the series at Selinsgrove in recent seasons. The tour was scheduled to compete at the speedway three different times in 2025, but every event was washed away by rain, leaving fans eager to finally see wingless action roar back onto the famed oval.

The last time the series visited Selinsgrove in 2022, it was Joey Amantea scoring the victory over Briggs Danner and Mikey Thompson.

A new crop of contenders now prepares to battle for victory lane honors in 2026.

Fresh off his Bedford Speedway triumph earlier this season, Kenny Miller III is expected to be in action after enduring a rough outing at Big Diamond Speedway last Friday night. Joining him is recent Big Diamond winner Christian Bruno, who carries plenty of momentum into the weekend.

The championship fight is already heating up between reigning series champion Steven Drevicki and Bruno. After three races, just a single point separates the two drivers in the standings. Drevicki is still searching for his first USAC East Coast victory of 2026, but the veteran has consistently been in contention every time the green flag has dropped.

Veteran competitor Ed Aikin is hoping Selinsgrove provides a turnaround in fortune. Aikin brings years of experience around the fast half-mile, and after suffering a motor issue at the season opener, recording a top-10 finish at Bedford, and enduring a flip in his No. 7 machine at Big Diamond, the team is eager to rebound in a big way.

Olivia Thayer has experienced a rollercoaster start to her season and now looks ahead to making her first wingless sprint start at Selinsgrove alongside Joe Kata and Ronald Helmick.

Several additional newcomers and returning competitors are expected to fill the pit area Saturday night as the field prepares for one of the most anticipated stops of the season.

Joining the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms will be the Super Late Models, 305 Winged Sprints, and Limited Late Models for a loaded night of racing action at Selinsgrove Speedway.

USAC East Coast

A damp and dreary night in Minersville brought 20 cars pit side to tackle the tricky 3/8-mile oval of Big Diamond Speedway.

Joe Kata and Steven Drevicki picked up heat race victories before Bridgeton, New Jersey’s Kyle Spence drew the pole position alongside Kata for the 25-lap feature event.

The racing surface proved challenging all night long, featuring a slick bottom groove paired with a very healthy curb around the speedway.

At the drop of the green flag, Spence showed the way over Kata and Drevicki as the field searched for grip around the Minersville oval.

On lap six, Kata’s strong run came to an abrupt end in turn four when the JKR No. 10 bicycle-flipped and capsized, bringing out the caution flag.

The ensuing restart brought complete pandemonium exiting turn four. Kenny Miller III struck an infield tire and turned over, collecting Ed Aikin, who was also sent upside down in the incident. Blaine Emery, who had been enjoying a strong top-five run, along with Ronald Helmick and several others, were eliminated from contention.

Lap six completely changed the complexion of the race. Christian Bruno had actually worked his way past Spence prior to the caution, but the pass was negated by the yellow flag.

When racing resumed, Spence led the field back to green, but Bruno knew he had a car capable of getting the job done.

Bruno officially snagged the lead on lap eight with a thrilling high-to-low move coming out of turn four. From there, Steven Drevicki began reeling the leader in, applying heavy pressure during the closing laps while Spence kept himself firmly in contention in third.

Meanwhile, Olivia Thayer continued her impressive drive through the field, working past Bruce Buckwalter Jr. with slight contact as she charged toward a top-five finish.

In traffic, Drevicki made one final attempt at Bruno with two laps remaining, but it was not enough. Bruno held strong to claim the victory at Big Diamond Speedway.

The CNC Landscaping Hard Charger Award went to Matthew Swift, who advanced from 17th to 7th. Ronald Helmick received the Hoosier Tire Poker Chip Award, while Blaine Emery earned the Hard Luck Award. Steven Drevicki captured the Bittner Automotive Fast Time Award, and picked up the Hot Lap Fast Time honors.

Feature Finish:

1. Christian Bruno (Started 5th, Finished 1st)
2. Steven Drevicki (Started 3rd, Finished 2nd)I
3. Kyle Spence (Started 1st, Finished 3rd)
4. Olivia Thayer (Started 10th, Finished 4th)
5. Stan Ploski III (Started 14th, Finished 5th)
6. Joey Crilly (Started 13th, Finished 6th)
7. Matthew Swift (Started 17th, Finished 7th)
8. Greg Shepsis (Started 18th, Finished 8th)
9. Bruce Buckwalter Jr. (Started 7th, Finished 9th)
10. Scott Frack (Started 9th, Finished 10th)
11. Jakob Stitzel (Started 12th, Finished 11th)
12. Kenny Miller III (Started 8th, Finished 12th)
13. Blaine Emery (Started 4th, Finished 13th)
14. Ronald Helmick (Started 6th, Finished 14th)
15. Ed Aikin (Started 11th, Finished 15th)
16. Joe Kata (Started 2nd, Finished 16th)
17. Larry McVay (Started 19th, Finished 17th)
18. Shane Braxton (Started 16th, Finished 18th)
19. Brett Rose (Started 15th, Finished 19th)

DNS: Dan Malley

GO BRIGGS OR GO HOME!

DANNER DOMINATES CIRCLE CITY SALUTE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Indianapolis, Indiana (May 21, 2026)……For Briggs Danner, Circle City Raceway just seemed to be one of those places that he couldn’t connect with over the years in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition.

Yet, during Thursday night’s Circle City Salute Presented by Desnuda Tequila, Danner found the Indianapolis, Indiana 1/4-mile dirt oval to his liking, much thanks to a monster curb that bit others, but was one that Danner’s car found bite on.

Danner (Allentown, Pennsylvania) took advantage of a turn two stumble by Logan Seavey to take over the lead on lap 17 of the 40-lap main event, then scurried away from the field for the remaining 24 laps to win by a whopping 6.439 second margin, the largest in the series since October 2023.

The $10,000 earned by Danner was his second USAC National Sprint Car win of the season and the ninth of his career, tying himself with Mario Andretti, Pat O’Connor, Hunter Schuerenberg and Robbie Stanley for 58th place on the all-time list.

“To be standing here is pretty crazy,” stated Danner, who possessed an average finishing position of eighth at CCR. “This is one of my worst places, and I feel like every time I come here, I just never really get going. To get going good on the curb there, and racing with Logan, that was a really good race we had going there. I’m super happy to be standing here. This is an awesome feeling for myself, for sure.”

Danner and his Hogue Racing Enterprises/E. Schneider & Sons – Keystone Cap/DRC/Rider Chevy were lined up on the pole position for the feature, but it was outside front row starter Seavey who patrolled the pace throughout much of the first half of the distance as he beat Danner to the line by a wheel to lead lap one.

Initially working the lower half of the track, Danner ultimately moved up to the gnarly cushion by lap three and began to stalk Seavey lap after lap. Just before the midway point, Seavey began to slide himself into each turns one and three, drifting up from the middle of the racetrack to the top, thus stifling any momentum Danner had built up on the high line.

That said, Danner was always just within arm’s reach of Seavey. On the 17th lap, Danner slid under Seavey getting into turn one. Wheel to wheel by the time both reached the top of turn two, Seavey tripped over the turn two cushion, allowing Danner, Mitchel Moles, Kyle Cummins and Jake Swanson all to race by as Seavey went Tom Petty style, free-falling back to fifth in the blink of an eye.

“I felt very curb reliant there,” Danner acknowledged. “I kind of couldn't get a very good start on the bottom, but once we got going, I knew I could set pace. Honestly, following him a little bit probably helped me out in setting my pace for the rest of the race. I felt pretty good on restarts, but he was really good at taking up the racetrack and made it difficult to pass. Once or twice, I got a run and we would get a yellow and it kind of killed our run there.”

From there on out, it was a mad scramble for every position within the top-five, except for the lead. Cummins raced into second on lap 26 after Moles stumbled on the turn two cushion, all while Danner built up a nearly three second advantage.

On the 29th circuit, Danner experienced his closest call of the night. As he approached the smoking lapped car of 18th running Logan Calderwood, the two made contact with their wheels bouncing off each other in turn one. While Danner escaped the incident, Calderwood spun to a stop.

“He was kind of blowing up in front of me and switching lanes,” Danner explained. “I caught a break to escape that one and not get tangled up.”

In the meantime, then sixth running Seavey’s right rear tire began to get low on air. Compensating with his new reality, Seavey hit the bottom of the track and went to work. First, he got by Thomas Meseraull for fifth on lap 30, then picked off Swanson for fourth on lap 33 before falling back to fifth on lap 37.

However, second running Moles found more turn two turmoil on the cushion with three laps remaining, and dropped four spots. The biggest beneficiary was the low-riding Seavey who scooted up three positions along the bottom from fifth to second as Cummins and Swanson also got caught in the commotion.

By that time, Danner was long gone silver, half a lap ahead of his nearest challenger. Danner won it with relative ease as Seavey nipped Cummins for second at the stripe. Meseraull took fourth in his first USAC National Sprint Car start of the season while Jake Swanson rounded out the top-five.

Additionally, Danner led the most laps (24) en route to a commanding victory to earn the K & N Filters Clean Air Award for the evening.

To start the night, Cummins set a new one-lap Circle City USAC National Sprint Car track record in LearnLab Qualifying with a time of 11.601 seconds, breaking the mark of 11.819, set by Mitchel Moles in 2022. It was also Cummins’ third-straight fast qualifying time with the series over the past week at Eldora, Terre Haute and Circle City. The 24th fast time of Cummins’ career with the series tied him for 19th all-time alongside Gary Bettenhausen and J.J. Yeley.

Adding on to his accolades for the night, Cummins also advanced seven positions in the feature from his 10th starting position to land on the podium in the third position. As the biggest mover of the race, he picked up the night’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 21, 2026 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – Circle City Salute Presented by Desnuda Organic Tequila – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-11.601 (New Track Record); 2. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-11.609; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-11.824; 4. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-11.923; 5. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-11.924; 6. Chance Crum, 83c, Crum-11.929; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-11.986; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-11.993; 9. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-12.026; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-12.032; 11. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-12.060; 12. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-12.071; 13. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-12.078; 14. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-12.093; 15. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-12.115; 16. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-12.147; 17. Gunnar Setser, G5, Setser-12.149; 18. Jacob Denney, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-12.151; 19. Thomas Meseraull, 24, Simon-12.192; 20. Jakeb Boxell, 54, Westfall-12.192; 21. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-12.238; 22. Shane Cottle, 34, Olson-12.242; 23. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-12.272; 24. Noah Whitehouse, 21, Hajduk-12.301; 25. Rylan Gray, 06, Gray-12.324; 26. Ricky Lewis, 2E, Epperson-12.405; 27. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-12.410; 28. Chet Williams, 38, Williams-12.460; 29. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-12.521; 30. Todd Hobson, 77, Wingo/Bishop-12.553; 31. Michael Clark, 8, Clark-12.688; 32. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-12.699; 33. Austin Nigh, 97, Nigh-12.702; 34. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-12.735; 35. Rob Caho Jr., 78, Caho-13.025; 36. Jake Simmons, 7s, Simmons-13.468; 37. Jack Hoyer, 11, Hoyer-13.658.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jadon Rogers (1), 2. Hayden Reinbold (3), 3. Robert Ballou (4), 4. Gunnar Setser (2), 5. Jake Swanson (5), 6. Kyle Cummins (6), 7. Rylan Gray (7), 8. Hunter Maddox (9), 9. Todd Hobson (8). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Shane Cottle (1), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Mitchel Moles (6), 4. Jacob Denney (2), 5. Logan Calderwood (3), 6. Chance Crum (5), 7. Charles Davis Jr. (7), 8. Rob Caho Jr. (9), 9. 8-Michael Clark (8). 2:05.325

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Thomas Meseraull (2), 2. Zack Pretorius (1), 3. Chase Stockon (3), 4. Justin Grant (6), 5. Logan Seavey (5), 6. Cale Coons (4), 7. Brandon Mattox (8), 8. Chet Williams (7), 9. Jake Simmons (9). 2:06.937

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Trey Osborne (6), 2. Noah Whitehouse (1), 3. Briggs Danner (5), 4. C.J. Leary (4), 5. Jakeb Boxell (2), 6. David Gasper (3), 7. Austin Nigh (8), 8. Jack Hoyer (9), 9. Troy Carey (7). 2:11.537

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (1), 2. David Gasper (4), 3. Cale Coons (3), 4. Chance Crum (2), 5. Charles Davis Jr. (6), 6. Jack Hoyer (12), 7. Austin Nigh (8), 8. Hunter Maddox (10), 9. Michael Clark (15), 10. Rylan Gray (5), 11. Jake Simmons (16), 12. Troy Carey (13), 13. Rob Caho Jr. (11), 14. Brandon Mattox (7), 15. Todd Hobson (14), 16. Chet Williams (9). NT

FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (1), 2. Logan Seavey (2), 3. Kyle Cummins (10), 4. Thomas Meseraull (7), 5. Jake Swanson (3), 6. Mitchel Moles (6), 7. Shane Cottle (9), 8. Trey Osborne (4), 9. Hayden Reinbold (16), 10. Justin Grant (5), 11. Robert Ballou (12), 12. Cale Coons (14), 13. Kevin Thomas Jr. (13), 14. C.J. Leary (15), 15. Chase Stockon (18), 16. Chance Crum (11), 17. Zack Pretorius (22), 18. Jakeb Boxell (21), 19. Gunnar Setser (20), 20. David Gasper (19), 21. Logan Calderwood (17), 22. Jadon Rogers (8), 23. Charles Davis Jr. (24), 24. Noah Whitehouse (23). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-16 Logan Seavey, Laps 17-40 Briggs Danner.

**Ricky Lewis flipped during qualifying. Chet Williams flipped during the semi. Todd Hobson flipped during the semi.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1058, 2-Mitchel Moles-970, 3-Justin Grant-969, 4-Logan Seavey-892, 5-Briggs Danner-871, 6-Jake Swanson-855, 7-Chase Stockon-853, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-840, 9-C.J. Leary-765, 10-Robert Ballou-742.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-48, 2-Hayden Reinbold-43, 3-Logan Calderwood-39, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 5-Briggs Danner-35, 6-Justin Grant-32, 7-Robert Ballou-31, 8-Chase Stockon-30, 9-Kyle Cummins-27, 10-Trey Osborne-26.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: May 29-30, 2026 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jake Swanson (11.925)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (11.601)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jadon Rogers

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Thomas Meseraull

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Shane Cottle

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Trey Osborne

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Kyle Cummins

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Briggs Danner (24 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Kyle Cummins (10th to 3rd)

MOLES, GUNS & MONEY!

IT’S A FIRST TIME HULMAN CLASSIC WINNER

AT TERRE HAUTE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Terre Haute, Indiana (May 20, 2026)………The Terre Haute Action Track is where it all began for Mitchel Moles and Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports.

Exactly four years ago to the day, May 20, 2022, Moles made an impressive USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship debut, leading 19 of the 30 laps before losing the lead late and finishing second. Since then, the Raisin City, California racer had always felt that it had been one that he let slip away.

Fast forward to Wednesday night’s 56th annual Tony Hulman Classic at the western Indiana 1/2-mile dirt oval on May 20, 2026, where Moles used the lessons he’s learned in that four year span to finally reign triumphant at Terre Haute for the first time in his career.

This time around, once Moles gained the lead on the opening lap, he never once relinquished his grip as he continuously increased his advantaged throughout the distance, leading all 30 laps from the pole position to earn a commanding 4.388 second margin of victory at the helm of his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy.

“This is where I cut my teeth with (car owner) Andy (Reinbold),” Moles reflected. “We lost one to C.J. (Leary), and I told Andy that if I was ever back in that position again, I wasn’t going to lose it. I now knew what to do and I knew what I did wrong. When you mess something up, it’s always good to come back. But I didn’t think it would take me four years. Andy let me crash a bunch of stuff to get to this point, so this win is really for him.”

As Moles pulled into victory lane, it became apparent that his right rear tire was deflated, but it hung on just long enough. With the win, Moles earned a $10,000 prize, plus the custom rifle that has been awarded to the Hulman Classic winner for well over half a century. It all seemed fitting for the driver who is an avid hunter in his spare time away from the racetrack.

“I love money and I love guns, so this one’s a really good one for us,” Moles exclaimed.

Moles’ win was his second of the USAC National Sprint Car season and the seventh of his career, tying him with Kevin Doty, Darren Hagen, Kenny Irwin Jr., Doug Kalitta, Jim Keeker, Bobby Santos, Brady Short, Kevin Thomas, Bobby Unser and Josh Wise.

Speaking of Kalitta, he served as the night’s grand marshal, returning to the Terre Haute Action Track 30 years after his 1996 Tony Hulman Classic victory. The 1994 USAC National Sprint Car champion later turned to drag racing where he captured the 2023 and 2025 NHRA Top Fuel titles.

As for Moles, he continued his roll with his ninth top-five result with the series in his past 11 starts, a stretch which has included five top-two finishes and a pair of wins.

“I’m happy for my whole team,” Moles stated. “My guys have been working really hard. They’ve battled adversity and they’ve battled with the problems I’ve given them even before that. I was trying to talk them out of everything they were doing with the car. Andy kind of gave me the look, and I’m like, ‘okay, I’ll go away.’

Throughout the entire duration, all were on the chase to track down Moles. Chase Stockon made moves early, diving under outside front row starter Robert Ballou for the second position in turn three on the second lap. Jake Swanson followed suit past Ballou into third moments later.

After David Gasper (18th) slowed to a stop on the front straightaway on lap six, the ensuing restart resulted in a major melee on the back straight.

Defending Hulman Classic winner Justin Grant got a run to the inside of Swanson for the third spot on lap seven. The two cars touched wheels, sending Grant spinning backwards into the outside wall, which lifted his rear wheels off the ground and crumpled his rear bumper and tail tank, but he managed to keep going.

Meanwhile, Swanson's front end was knocked out from the resulting contact. Without any control, Swanson veered nose first into the inside guardrail, which sprayed a shower of sparks and spun his car around 180 degrees to a stop all while traffic scattered every which way to avoid getting caught in the incident. With that, Swanson’s race was over.

Grant’s car displayed no other signs of wear on the restart as he and Stockon proceeded to exchange the second position five times on each end of the Action Track in a two lap span between the seventh and ninth circuit. Stockon crossed over Grant’s turn three maneuver on lap nine to secure the spot.

Kevin Thomas Jr. ran down Grant with an inside move on the back straight on lap 15 to gain the third position. During the final laps, Grant threw the kitchen sink at him, but Thomas was able to thwart off the pressure to maintain the show position.

Down the stretch, Moles continuously ratcheted up his lead to two seconds, to three, and to four, and had little to no pressure at the end as he sliced his way through the tail end of the field, taking no chances as he remained on the hammer.

“I wasn’t going to give up or slow down; that’s how you lose these races,” Moles admitted. “To beat guys like Chase (Stockon) and Robert (Ballou) and Justin (Grant) and Kyle Cummins, those guys have been so good here. So, I’m very, very, very happy to pull this one off, and hopefully, it’s one of many to come.”

In the end, it was all Moles who finished the job nearly a straightaway ahead of runner-up Stockon with Thomas third, Grant fourth and Ballou fifth as Hulman Classic winners occupied all top-five positions in the feature results.

Moles led all 30 laps of the feature from start to finish. By leading the most laps, he was not only the night's feature winner, he also was the winner of the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

In his first Hulman Classic start, Cale Coons came home as the Rod End Supply Hard Charger. Coons started all the way back in the 18th position and went on to finish 10th in the feature.

Kyle Cummins was the LearnLab Fast Qualifier for second year in a row at the Hulman Classic with a lap of 19.587 seconds, best in the field of 29 cars. It was also his second consecutive USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time on two different 1/2-mile dirt tracks in a span of five days (Eldora & Terre Haute). Cummins’ 23rd career quick time with the series tied him with Logan Seavey and Jon Stanbrough for 21st place all-time.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 20, 2026 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 56th Tony Hulman Classic – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-19.567; 2. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-19.578; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-19.682; 4. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-19.849; 5. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-19.863; 6. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-19.941; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-20.002; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-20.010; 9. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-20.079; 10. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-20.106; 11. J.J. Yeley, 51, Horn-20.114; 12. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-20.117; 13. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-20.162; 14. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-20.330; 15. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-20.386; 16. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-20.391; 17. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-20.494; 18. Max Adams, 42, Cheney-20.510; 19. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-20.536; 20. Jack Hoyer, 11, Hoyer-20.609; 21. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-20.695; 22. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-20.813; 23. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-20.903; 24. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-20.914; 25. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-21.016; 26. Adam Taylor, 8T, Doherty-21.019; 27. Jake Simmons, 7s, Simmons-21.747; 28. Carl Rhuebottom, 83, Rhuebottom-23.005; 29. Austin Nigh, 97, Nigh-NT.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (3), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 3. Kyle Cummins (6), 4. Jake Swanson (5), 5. Logan Seavey (2), 6. Trey Osborne (1), 7. Jadon Rogers (7), 8. Harley Burns (8), 9. Brandon Mattox (9), 10. Carl Rhuebottom (10). 2:45.701

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (2), 2. J.J. Yeley (3), 3. Chase Stockon (6), 4. Briggs Danner (4), 5. Robert Ballou (5), 6. Hunter Maddox (1), 7. Jack Hoyer (7), 8. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 9. Adam Taylor (9), 10. Austin Nigh (10). 2:46.628

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (6), 2. Ricky Lewis (3), 3. Logan Calderwood (2), 4. Mitchel Moles (5), 5. Max Adams (1), 6. Cale Coons (7), 7. David Gasper (4), 8. Troy Carey (8), 9. Jake Simmons (9). 2:45.951

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. David Gasper (1), 2. Jadon Rogers (2), 3. Charles Davis Jr. (5), 4. Harley Burns (4), 5. Jack Hoyer (3), 6. Adam Taylor (8), 7. Brandon Mattox (7), 8. Austin Nigh (10), 9. Troy Carey (6), 10. Jake Simmons (9), 11. Carl Rhuebottom (11). 4:15.326

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (1), 2. Chase Stockon (5), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9), 4. Justin Grant (4), 5. C.J. Leary (7), 6. Kyle Cummins (6), 7. Robert Ballou (2), 8. Hayden Reinbold (8), 9. Briggs Danner (10), 10. Cale Coons (18), 11. Ricky Lewis (12), 12. Trey Osborne (15), 13. Logan Seavey (13), 14. Logan Calderwood (14), 15. Charles Davis Jr. (21), 16. Max Adams (17), 17. Hunter Maddox (16), 18. Jack Hoyer (23), 19. J.J. Yeley (11), 20. Harley Burns (22), 21. Jadon Rogers (20), 22. Jake Swanson (3), 23. Adam Taylor (24), 24. David Gasper (19). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Mitchel Moles.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-985, 2-Justin Grant-917, 3-Mitchel Moles-904, 4-Logan Seavey-821, 5-Chase Stockon-814, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-796, 7-Briggs Danner-795, 8-Jake Swanson-791, 9-C.J. Leary-725, 10-Robert Ballou-695.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-46, 2-Logan Calderwood-39, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-37, 4-Hayden Reinbold-36, 5-Briggs Danner-35, 6-Justin Grant-32, 7-Robert Ballou-30, 8-Chase Stockon-27, 9-Trey Osborne-26, 10-Brady Bacon-23.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 21, 2026 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – Circle City Salute Presented by Desnuda Organic Tequila – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kevin Thomas Jr. (19.495)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (19.567)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: C.J. Leary

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Justin Grant

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: David Gasper

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Mitchel Moles (30 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Cale Coons (18th to 10th)

HOOSIER HUNDRED RAINED OUT,

POSTPONED TO THURSDAY JUNE 25

Brownsburg, Indiana (May 19, 2026)………In coordination with USAC, USF Championships presented by Continental, and the All-Star National Pavement Midget Series, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park has announced a scheduling change for this Friday night’s May 22nd Carb Night Classic.

Due to the expected inclement weather that does not provide a safe racing window on Friday, the Hoosier Hundred and Night Before the 500 races will be moved to Thursday Night Thunder on Thursday, June 25, at IRP's .686-mile paved oval in Brownsburg, Indiana.

Both the USF2000 Championship presented by Continental and PRO2000 Championship presented by Continental events will now be held on one-day with practice, qualifying, and feature races taking place on Thursday, May 21.

A schedule of events will be released in due course for Thursday’s event. General admission tickets will only be available at the gate for $10. No pit passes or reserved seating will be available for sale.

All tickets and camping will now be valid for Thursday Night Thunder on June 25. Preferred parking that was purchased will be refunded directly to your method of payment. All questions should be directed to lucasoilraceway@nhra.com or by calling the track’s front office at (317) 969-8600.

RIFLEMEN!

USAC SPRINTS FACE OFF AT TERRE HAUTE

FOR 56TH HULMAN CLASSIC May 20

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Terre Haute, Indiana (May 18, 2026)………For more than a half century, the Tony Hulman Classic has been an event that every USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car driver desires to win.

The 56th annual chapter of the longest running USAC National Sprint Car event, dating back to 1971, returns to western Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track on Wednesday night, May 20.

Up for grabs is the glory of winning the Hulman Classic, the coveted rifle trophy and the $10,000 reward for a night’s worth of work on Indiana’s only 1/2-mile dirt oval.

Here are six storylines to watch!

THE HULMAN SIX

Six past Hulman Classic winners are expected to compete this Wednesday, including three-time winner Robert Ballou (2015-2016-2022), J.J. Yeley (1997 & 2003), Justin Grant (2025), Kevin Thomas Jr. (2017), Chase Stockon (2019) and Logan Seavey (2024).

Grant, Stockon and Seavey have already won in USAC National Sprint Car competition this season. Thomas Jr. and Ballou are among those looking to add their first tally of 2026 at the Action Track this weekend.

Yeley, meanwhile, returns to the Hulman Classic for the first time since 2004! Yeley, the 2001 and 2003 series champion, owns six USAC National Sprint Car victories in his career at Terre Haute, plus one special event.

ON THE HUNT FOR A RIFLE

Half the drivers currently ranking inside the top-10 of the USAC National Sprint Car point standings are seeking a first Hulman Classic victory. That’s a list that includes the likes of Kyle Cummins, Mitchel Moles, Jake Swanson, Briggs Danner and C.J. Leary.

Cummins and Leary already own USAC National Sprint Car feature wins at Terre Haute, but they’d also like to add the Hulman Classic’s famous rifle trophy to their collection this Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Cummins (2021 & 2023), Swanson (2024) and Leary (2025) have all finished as the runner-up at the Hulman Classic in recent years. Moles was 4th in 2023 while Danner was 10th in 2025.

CUMMINS’ CHECKLIST

Speaking of Cummins, he continues to roll with 11-straight top-five USAC National Sprint Car feature finishes entering the Hulman Classic, including a 1st and a 2nd last weekend at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway.

The defending champ enters the week as the series point leader by 74 markers, and back in April of this year, he scored his first career Terre Haute USAC National Sprint Car victory in the Jim Hurtubise Classic.

Twice, Cummins has finished as the runner-up at the Hulman in 2021 and 2023, and the coveted rifle is calling his name.

LEWIS HAS BEEN EVERYWHERE, MAN

Ricky Lewis’ best career USAC National Sprint Car feature finish came at the Tony Hulman Classic in 2025 where he finished 3rd after starting 10th.

This year, Lewis leads all drivers with eight USAC sanctioned sprint car victories across three different series: six with CRA and once each with the Southwest series and the MRA series.

However, a first USAC National Sprint Car win has eluded him thus far. Perhaps the Hulman Classic will be the night. Seven drivers have earned their first USAC National Sprint Car victory during the Hulman Classic: George Snider (1971), Joe Saldana (1973), Chet Johnson (1982), Cary Faas (1992), Dave Darland (1993), J.J. Yeley (1997) and Terry Pletch (1999).

GRAND MARSHAL KALITTA

Thirty years after his 1996 Tony Hulman Classic victory, Doug Kalitta will serve as grand marshal for the 56th running of the event featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track on Wednesday night, May 20.

Prior to becoming the 2023 and 2025 NHRA Top Fuel dragster champion, Kalitta rose to prominence in USAC competition between 1990-1998, culminating in a National Sprint Car driving championship in 1994.

Across the USAC National Sprint Car and National Midget disciplines, Kalitta won 10 sprint features and seven in midgets. Twelve of his 17 career USAC national victories came at the paved high banks of Indiana’s Winchester Speedway with four more coming at Indianapolis Raceway Park’s paved oval.

However, there is one particular victory that stands out – his lone dirt USAC victory at the Terre Haute Action Track on May 12, 1996, where he passed Kevin Thomas with five laps remaining to win the 26th running of the Tony Hulman Classic.

HISTORY OF THE RIFLE

On June 19, 1966, prior to the advent of the Hulman Classic, the reward for winning each of the Twin 30-lap USAC National Sprint Car features at Terre Haute was a pair of rifles, each of which would hold a 30-30 cartridge, referring to a .30 caliber bullet and 30 grains of powder.

The tradition stuck, and nowadays, one treasured rifle has been annually awarded to the Hulman Classic winner dating back to 1971. To this day, it remains, perhaps, the most coveted trophy in all of USAC racing.

RACE DETAILS

this Wednesday’s May 20th 56th annual Tony Hulman Classic features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus UMP DIRTcar Modifieds. Pits open at 3pm Eastern with front gates opening at 5pm, the drivers meeting at 6pm and cars on track at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.

Advance tickets are on sale now at https://www.terrehauteactiontrack.com/. Advance tickets are $30 for grandstand seating. Kids age 12 and under are free. Pit passes are $40. Grandstand seating is included as well as access to the controlled Pit Pass area. Infield admission is $15 and allows for access to the grass infield of the Action Track through the tunnel at the far right (turn one side) of the main grandstand.

The event can be watched live in its entirety on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-918, 2-Justin Grant-844, 3-Mitchel Moles-828, 4-Logan Seavey-780, 5-Jake Swanson-760, 6-Briggs Danner-744, 7-Chase Stockon-736, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-725, 9-C.J. Leary-659, 10-Robert Ballou-637.

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT THE TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK:

1 Lap - 5/21/2014 - Brady Bacon - 19.225

4 Laps - 5/4/1986 - Larry Gates - 1:36.18

6 Laps - 5/17/2003 - Kurt Gross - 2:07.21

7 Laps - 5/21/2024 - Shane Cottle - 2:35.29

8 Laps - 10/12/2012 - Hunter Schuerenberg - 2:39.40

10 Laps - 6/17/2000 - Jon Stanbrough - 3:29.13

12 Laps - 9/10/2011 - Jon Stanbrough - 4:02.90

30 Laps - 10/1/2021 - Chris Windom - 10:31.97

40 Laps - 5/4/1975 - Pancho Carter - 15:52.96

50 Laps - 8/13/1967 - Rollie Beale - 22:41.72

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TONY HULMAN CLASSIC WINS:

3-Robert Ballou, Cary Faas, Levi Jones & Chris Windom

2-Steve Butler, Pancho Carter, Jerry Coons Jr., Dave Darland, Jack Hewitt, Jon Stanbrough, Rich Vogler & J.J. Yeley

1-Brady Bacon, Gary Bettenhausen, Jeff Bloom, Daron Clayton, Tyler Courtney, Jay Drake, Eric Gordon, Justin Grant, Tracy Hines, Rick Hood, Chet Johnson, Bud Kaeding, Doug Kalitta, Sheldon Kinser, Cory Kruseman, Eddie Leavitt, James McElreath, Jan Opperman, Terry Pletch, Joe Saldana, Logan Seavey, Ron Shuman, George Snider, Chase Stockon, Kevin Thomas Jr., Dick Tobias & Bruce Walkup

TONY HULMAN CLASSIC WINNERS:

1971: George Snider

1972: Bruce Walkup

1973: Joe Saldana

1974: Gary Bettenhausen

1975: Pancho Carter

1976: Jan Opperman

1977: James McElreath

1978: Dick Tobias

1979: Pancho Carter

1980: Eddie Leavitt

1981: Sheldon Kinser

1982: Chet Johnson

1983: Jack Hewitt

1984: Rick Hood

1985: Ron Shuman

1986: Rich Vogler

1987: Steve Butler

1988: Steve Butler (Indianapolis Raceway Park)

1989: Rich Vogler (Indianapolis Raceway Park)

1990: Jeff Bloom (Indianapolis Raceway Park)

1991: Eric Gordon (Indianapolis Raceway Park)

1992: Cary Faas

1993: Dave Darland

1994: Cary Faas

1995: Jack Hewitt

1996: Doug Kalitta

1997: J.J. Yeley

1998: Cary Faas

1999: Terry Pletch

2000: Jay Drake

2001: Tracy Hines

2002: Jon Stanbrough

2003: J.J. Yeley

2004: Cory Kruseman

2005: Levi Jones

2006: Daron Clayton

2007: Jon Stanbrough

2008: Levi Jones

2009: Levi Jones

2010: Jerry Coons Jr.

2011: Chris Windom

2012: Bud Kaeding

2013: Jerry Coons Jr.

2014: Dave Darland

2015: Robert Ballou

2016: Robert Ballou

2017: Kevin Thomas Jr.

2018: Tyler Courtney

2019: Chase Stockon

2020: Chris Windom

2021: Chris Windom

2022: Robert Ballou

2023: Brady Bacon

2024: Logan Seavey

2025: Justin Grant

**Held at the Terre Haute Action Track 1971-1987, 1992-Present

**Held at Indianapolis Raceway Park 1988-1991

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TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK USAC SPRINT CAR WINS:

8-Gary Bettenhausen, Jack Hewitt & Chris Windom

6-Bubby Jones, Sheldon Kinser & J.J. Yeley

5-Jim Hurtubise, Levi Jones, Jon Stanbrough & Rich Vogler

4-Brady Bacon, Justin Grant, Bud Kaeding, Roger McCluskey & Chase Stockon

3-Robert Ballou, Don Branson, Steve Butler, Pancho Carter, Daron Clayton, Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Jay Drake, Cary Faas, Tracy Hines, Rick Hood & Joe Saldana

2-Rollie Beale, Tom Bigelow, Dave Darland, Cory Kruseman, Johnny Rutherford, Logan Seavey, Dick Tobias, Kevin Thomas Jr., Bruce Walkup & Greg Weld

1-Billy Cassella, Steve Chassey, Bryan Clauson, Mel Cornett, Kyle Cummins, Larry Dickson, Ed Elisian, Tony Elliott, Aaron Farney, A.J. Foyt, Richard Griffin, Chuck Gurney, Tommy Hinnershitz, Tray House, Chet Johnson, Tony Jones, Doug Kalitta, Frankie Kerr, Steve Kinser, C.J. Leary, Eddie Leavitt, Andy Linden, Bobby Marshman, Charlie Masters, Rusty McClure, James McElreath, Jim McElreath, Jim McWithey, Jan Opperman, Terry Pletch, Larry Rice, Eddie Sachs, Sammy Sessions, Ron Shuman, George Snider, Robbie Stanley, Brad Sweet, Kevin Thomas & Bobby Unser

TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK USAC SPRINT CAR WINNERS:

1957: Ed Elisian (6/16) & Andy Linden (8/18)

1958: Eddie Sachs (6/22) & Tommy Hinnershitz (8/17)

1959: Don Branson (6/21) & Jim McWithey (8/16)

1960: Don Branson (6/12) & Jim Hurtubise (8/21)

1961: Jim Hurtubise (6/11) & Jim Hurtubise (8/13)

1962: Jim Hurtubise (6/17) & Jim Hurtubise (8/12)

1963: Roger McCluskey (6/16) & Bobby Marshman (8/11)

1964: A.J. Foyt (6/14) & Don Branson (8/9)

1965: Johnny Rutherford (6/13) & Johnny Rutherford (8/15)

1966: Roger McCluskey (6/19), Roger McCluskey (6/19) & Roger McCluskey (9/14)

1967: Bobby Unser (6/11), Greg Weld (6/11), Rollie Beale (8/13) & Greg Weld (9/10)

1968: Gary Bettenhausen (6/16), Larry Dickson (8/11) & Gary Bettenhausen (9/8)

1969: Gary Bettenhausen (8/10) & Gary Bettenhausen (10/19)

1970: Jim McElreath (6/21), Dick Tobias (8/9) & Bruce Walkup (9/13)

1971: George Snider (5/1) & Gary Bettenhausen (8/8)

1972: Bruce Walkup (4/30), Charlie Masters (6/11) & Rollie Beale (8/19)

1973: Joe Saldana (5/5), Mel Cornett (6/9) 7 Sammy Sessions (8/5)

1974: Gary Bettenhausen (4/14) & Sheldon Kinser (8/4)

1975: Pancho Carter (5/4), Joe Saldana (6/1), Gary Bettenhausen (8/3) & Tom Bigelow (9/21)

1976: Jan Opperman (5/1), Tom Bigelow (6/6), Gary Bettenhausen (8/1) & Chuck Gurney (10/31)

1977: James McElreath (5/7), Sheldon Kinser (6/5), Bubby Jones (7/31) & Pancho Carter (9/25)

1978: Dick Tobias (5/6), Billy Cassella (6/4) & Bubby Jones (9/24)

1979: Pancho Carter (5/5), Bubby Jones (5/6), Bubby Jones (6/3), Bubby Jones (8/5) & Bubby Jones (9/23)

1980: Eddie Leavitt (5/3), Steve Chassey (5/4), Joe Saldana (6/29), Rich Vogler (8/3) & Rich Vogler (9/21)

1981: Sheldon Kinser (5/3), Rich Vogler (8/9) & Sheldon Kinser (9/7)

1982: Chet Johnson (5/9), Sheldon Kinser (6/20), Steve Kinser (8/8) & Larry Rice (9/5)

1983: Jack Hewitt (5/8), Rich Vogler (6/19) & Jack Hewitt (8/28)

1984: Rick Hood (6/10) & Steve Butler (8/26)

1985: Ron Shuman (5/5), Rick Hood (6/9) & Rick Hood (8/25)

1986: Rich Vogler (5/4) & Sheldon Kinser (8/3)

1987: Steve Butler (5/3) & Steve Butler (5/23)

1990: Jack Hewitt (7/8)

1991: Jack Hewitt (7/7)

1992: Rusty McClure (7/12) & Cary Faas (10/11)

1993: Dave Darland (5/2) & Robbie Stanley (7/11)

1994: Cary Faas (5/1) & Tray House (7/17)

1995: Jack Hewitt (4/30) & Jack Hewitt (7/16)

1996: Doug Kalitta (5/12), Kevin Thomas (7/12) & Jack Hewitt (10/5)

1997: J.J. Yeley (6/27), J.J. Yeley (7/23) & Jack Hewitt (10/4)

1998: Cary Faas (5/29) & Tony Elliott (8/14)

1999: Tracy Hines (5/8), Tony Jones (6/17), Jerry Coons Jr. (6/18), Frankie Kerr (6/19) & Terry Pletch (7/21)

2000: Jay Drake (6/15), Richard Griffin (6/16), Jay Drake (6/18) & Jay Drake (7/28)

2001: Tracy Hines (5/19), Bud Kaeding (10/20) & Bud Kaeding (10/20)

2002: Jon Stanbrough (5/11), Cory Kruseman (7/27) & J.J. Yeley (10/5)

2003: J.J. Yeley (5/17), Tracy Hines (7/26), J.J. Yeley (8/14 Special Event) & J.J. Yeley (10/4)

2004: Cory Kruseman (5/22), J.J. Yeley (7/24) & Bud Kaeding (9/4)

2005: Levi Jones (7/22), Levi Jones (9/30) & Levi Jones (10/1)

2006: Daron Clayton (10/6) & Daron Clayton (10/7)

2007: Jon Stanbrough (5/19)

2008: Levi Jones (5/22)

2009: Levi Jones (5/21), Brad Sweet (7/15) & Jon Stanbrough (9/12)

2010: Jerry Coons Jr. (5/27), Jon Stanbrough (7/14) & Jon Stanbrough (9/11)

2011: Chris Windom (7/13) & Chris Windom (9/10)

2012: Bud Kaeding (5/24), Daron Clayton (7/18) & Chase Stockon (10/12)

2013: Kevin Thomas Jr. (7/17) & Jerry Coons Jr. (8/31)

2014: Dave Darland (5/21), Bryan Clauson (7/16) & Brady Bacon (9/18)

2015: Aaron Farney (7/15) & Robert Ballou (9/18)

2016: Robert Ballou (5/25), Chase Stockon (7/17) & Chris Windom (10/15)

2017: Chris Windom (9/15) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (10/14)

2018: Tyler Courtney (5/23), Tyler Courtney (7/25) & Brady Bacon (9/14)

2019: Chase Stockon (5/22), Tyler Courtney (7/24) & Justin Grant (9/13)

2020: Chris Windom (7/1), Justin Grant (7/29) & Chris Windom (9/18)

2021: Chris Windom (5/26), Logan Seavey (7/28) & Chris Windom (10/1)

2022: C.J. Leary (5/20) & Robert Ballou (5/22)

2023: Brady Bacon (5/23) & Justin Grant (7/26)

2024: Logan Seavey (5/21) & Brady Bacon (8/1)

2025: Chase Stockon (7/31) & Justin Grant (10/3)

2026: Kyle Cummins (4/12)

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PAST TONY HULMAN CLASSIC FEATURE RESULTS:

1971 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. George Snider, 2. Don Nordhorn, 3. Sammy Sessions, 4. Jim McElreath, 5. Larry Cannon, 6. Rollie Beale, 7. Merle Bettenhausen, 8. Butch Wilkerson, 9. Karl Busson, 10. Jimmy Oskie, 11. Pancho Carter, 12. Bobby Black, 13. Jimmy Caruthers, 14. Jim Malloy, 15. Jerry Poland, 16. Dee Jones, 17. Johnny Parsons, 18. Lennie Waldo, 19. Jerry McClung, 20. Joe Saldana. NT

1972 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Bruce Walkup, 2. George Snider, 3. Sammy Sessions, 4. Lee Kunzman, 5. Larry Cannon, 6. Jim McElreath, 7. Tom Bigelow, 8. Don Nordhorn, 9. Bill Puterbaugh, 10. Gary Ponzini, 11. Johnny Parsons, 12. Joe Saldana, 13. Sonny Ates, 14. Merle Bettenhausen, 15. Larry Dickson, 16. Carl Williams, 17. Billy Cassella, 18. Dick Tobias, 19. Pancho Carter, 20. Gary Bettenhausen.

1973 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Joe Saldana, 2. Rollie Beale, 3. Don Nordhorn, 4. Bruce Walkup, 5. Sammy Sessions, 6. John Toth, 7. Lee Kunzman, 8. Tony Simon, 9. Jerry Poland, 10. Johnny Parsons, 11. Fred Linder, 12. Bob Kinser, 13. Rich Leavell, 14. Mel Cornett, 15. Chuck Booth, 16. Jim McElreath, 17. Larry Dickson, 18. Pancho Carter, 19. Billy Cassella, 20. Larry Cannon, 21. A.J. Foyt, 22. Sheldon Kinser, 23. Greg Weld, 24. Billy Shuman, 25. Bill Puterbaugh, 26. Jerry Nemire, 27. Ralph Liguori, 28. Charlie Masters.

1974 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Gary Bettenhausen, 2. Jan Opperman, 3. George Snider, 4. A.J. Foyt, 5. Pancho Carter, 6. Sheldon Kinser, 7. Billy Cassella, 8. Mel Cornett, 9. Greg Leffler, 10. Rollie Beale, 11. Don Nordhorn, 12. Tom Bigelow, 13. Joe Saldana, 14. Butch Wilkerson, 15. Bruce Walkup, 16. Johnny Parsons, 17. Jackie Howerton, 18. Lee Osborne, 19. Bill Puterbaugh, 20. Chuck Booth.

1975 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Pancho Carter, 2. Lee Osborne, 3. George Snider, 4. Tom Bigelow, 5. Sheldon Kinser, 6. Jimmy Caruthers, 7. Thad Dosher, 8. Steve Cannon, 9. Tommy Astone, 10. Sonny Ates, 11. Bruce Walkup, 12. Larry Cannon, 13. Chuck Booth, 14. Chuck Gurney, 15. Gary Bettenhausen, 16. Joe Saldana, 17. Sammy Sessions, 18. Billy Engelhart, 19. Gordy Lee, 20. Jim McElreath.

1976 FEATURE: (39 laps) 1. Jan Opperman, 2. Pancho Carter, 3. Bubby Jones, 4. Dana Carter, 5. Bruce Walkup, 6. Chuck Gurney, 7. Sheldon Kinser, 8. Rollie Beale, 9. Billy Cassella, 10. Larry Dickson, 11. Karl Busson, 12. Tom Bigelow, 13. Roger Rager, 14. Kenny Weld, 15. Lee Osborne, 16. Tommy Astone, 17. James McElreath, 18. Bill Puterbaugh, 19. Joe Saldana, 20. Bobby Olivero.

1977 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. James McElreath, 2. Clark Templeman, 3. Roger Rager, 4. Billy Cassella, 5. Jerry Weeks, 6. Bubby Jones, 7. Jackie Howerton, 8. Larry Rice, 9. Rich Vogler, 10. Dana Carter, 11. Greg Leffler, 12. Johnny Parsons, 13. Mark Alderson, 14. Gary Bettenhausen, 15. Tom Bigelow, 16. Ron Shuman, 17. Sheldon Kinser, 18. Steve Chassey, 19. Bob Frey, 20. Joe Saldana.

1978 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Dick Tobias, 2. Duke Cook, 3. Lealand McSpadden, 4. Rich Leavell, 5. Rich Vogler, 6. Chuck Gurney, 7. Bobby Olivero, 8. Clark Templeman, 9. Greg Leffler, 10. Roger Rager, 11. Tom Bigelow, 12. Billy Cassella, 13. Ron Shuman, 14. Junior Parkinson, 15. Bruce Walkup, 16. Pancho Carter, 17. Sheldon Kinser, 18. Roy Hicks, 19. Johnny Parsons, 20. Eddie Leavitt.

1979 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Pancho Carter, 2. Sheldon Kinser, 3. Larry Rice, 4. Johnny Parsons, 5. Bob East, 6. Bruce Walkup, 7. Billy Cassella, 8. Rich Vogler, 9. Tom Bigelow, 10. Jim McElreath, 11. Joe Saldana, 12. Mark Alderson, 13. Mack McClellan, 14. Hal Browning, 15. Duke Cook, 16. Steve Chassey, 17. Bubby Jones, 18. Dave Peperak, 19. Paul Pitzer, 20. Dana Carter.

1980 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Eddie Leavitt, 2. Steve Chassey, 3. Pancho Carter, 4. Sheldon Kinser, 5. Bobby Olivero, 6. Mack McClellan, 7. Gary Iulg, 8. Jerry Weeks, 9. Larry Dickson, 10. Phil Miller, 11. Johnny Parsons, 12. Larry Rice, 13. Larry Gates, 14. Rich Vogler, 15. Gary Bettenhausen, 16. Curt Kelley, 17. Mark Alderson, 18. Paul Pitzer, 19. Bill Tyler, 20. Tom Bigelow, 21. Joe Saldana. NT

1981 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Sheldon Kinser, 2. Smokey Snellbaker, 3. Eddie Leavitt, 4. Tom Bigelow, 5. Bubby Jones, 6. Joe Saldana, 7. Bill Tyler, 8. Jerry Potter, 9. Larry Rice, 10. Steve Ball, 11. Rick Nichols, 12. Dave Peperak, 13. Tim Boyd, 14. Johnny Coogan, 15. Johnny Parsons, 16. Red Bledsoe, 17. Larry Gates, 18. Jack Hewitt, 19. Ron Shuman, 20. Duke Cook.

1982 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chet Johnson, 2. Randy Kinser, 3. Roger Rager, 4. Chuck Amati, 5. Duke Cook, 6. Kelly Kinser, 7. Allen Barr, 8. Steve Long, 9. Jac Haudenschild, 10. Bob Christian, 11. Andy Hillenburg, 12. Leon Gentry, 13. Jerry Nemire, 14. David Smith, 15. Jerry Weeks, 16. Ken Schrader, 17. Rich Vogler, 18. Sheldon Kinser, 19. Johnny Parsons, 20. Eddie Leavitt.

1983 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jack Hewitt, 2. Ken Schrader, 3. Kelly Kinser, 4. Larry Dickson, 5. Randy Kinser, 6. Roger Rager, 7. Sheldon Kinser, 8. Brent Kaeding, 9. Dean Shirley, 10. Larry Rice, 11. Leon Gentry, 12. Steve Long, 13. Johnny Kemp, 14. Tom Bigelow, 15. Bob Kinser, 16. Larry Martin, 17. Van Gurley, 18. Greg Staab, 19. Rich Vogler, 20. David Smith. NT

1984 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rick Hood, 2. Larry Martin, 3. Larry Rice, 4. Jac Haudenschild, 5. Steve Butler, 6. Ken Schrader, 7. Denny Donaldson, 8. Johnny Parsons, 9. Gary Gray, 10. Joe Saldana, 11. Sheldon Kinser, 12. Keith Campbell, 13. Mike Johnson, 14. Jerry Russell, 15. Jerry Nemire, 16. Gay Rolofson, 17. David Smith, 18. Tray House, 19. Tom Bigelow, 20. Warren Mockler. NT

1985 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ron Shuman, 2. Sheldon Kinser, 3. Larry Rice, 4. Jeff Heywood, 5. Brad Noffsinger, 6. Mike Sweeney, 7. Gary Bettenhausen, 8. Bobby Michnowicz, 9. Rick Hood, 10. Eddie Wirth, 11. Bob Meli, 12. Tony Elliott, 13. Jimmy Oskie, 14. Terry Shepherd, 15. Bill VonHelmolt, 16. Kevin Thomas, 17. Warren Mockler, 18. Bubby Jones (#92c), 19. Steve Butler, 20. Johnny Parsons, 21. Eddie Leavitt, 22. Jerry Russell. NT

1986 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rich Vogler, 2. Jac Haudenschild, 3. Steve Butler, 4. Larry Gates, 5. Tony Elliott, 6. Andy Stapp, 7. Larry Rice, 8. Jeff Donelson, 9. Jack Ziegler, 10. Craig Keel, 11. Louie Mann, 12. Dave Feese, 13. David Smith, 14. Alan Brown, 15. Nick Fornoro Jr., 16. Sheldon Kinser, 17. Rick Hood, 18. Manny Rockhold, 19. Ron Shuman, 20. Leon Gentry, 21. Tom Bigelow. NT

1987 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Steve Butler, 2. Randy Kinser, 3. Kelly Kinser, 4. Tom Bigelow, 5. Tray House, 6. Larry Rice, 7. Dave Feese, 8. Rick Hood, 9. Rich Vogler, 10. Kevin Thomas, 11. Andy Stapp, 12. Duke Cook, 13. Jack Ziegler, 14. Warren Mockler, 15. Kevin Huntley, 16. Keith Campbell, 17. Dave Darland, 18. Dave Peperak, 19. Rick Ungar, 20. Manny Rockhold. NT

1988 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Steve Butler, 2. Mark Alderson, 3. Kevin Huntley, 4. Bob Frey, 5. Greg Staab, 6. Jack Hewitt, 7. Jim Childers, 8. Tray House, 9. Rick Hood, 10. Larry Rice, 11. Jerry Nemire, 12. Charlie Fisher, 13. Paul Stender, 14. Gene Lee Gibson, 15. Rich Vogler, 16. Mack McClellan, 17. Mike Blake, 18. Jeff Bloom, 19. Tony Elliott, 20. Blake Hollingsworth. NT

1989 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rich Vogler, 2. Steve Butler, 3. Wayne Hammond, 4. Gary Fedewa, 5. Mark Alderson, 6. Jeff Gordon, 7. Eric Gordon, 8. David Harrison, 9. Bob Frey, 10. Frank Weiss, 11. Jack Hewitt, 12. Jerry Nemire, 13. Jim Moulis, 14. Tim Champlin, 15. Kevin Huntley, 16. Dave Durnwald, 17. John Murphy, 18. Jim Mahoney, 19. Gary Bettenhausen, 20. Greg Staab. NT

1990 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jeff Bloom, 2. Bob Frey, 3. Jeff Gordon, 4. Johnny Parsons, 5. Bob Cicconi, 6. Eric Gordon, 7. Jim Mahoney, 8. Roy Caruthers, 9. Dave Durnwald, 10. Charlie Workman, 11. Curt Kelley, 12. Doug Heveron, 13. Don Schilling, 14. Rick Howerton, 15. Brad Marvel, 16. Steve Butler, 17. Greg Staab, 18. Gene Lee Gibson, 19. Red Stauffer, 20. Bruce Field. NT

1991 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Eric Gordon, 2. Robbie Stanley, 3. Mark Alderson, 4. Bob Cicconi, 5. Steve Butler, 6. Tony Stewart, 7. Donnie Adams, 8. Jim Mahoney, 9. Randy Sweet, 10. Rick Howerton, 11. Frank Riddle, 12. Doug Kalitta, 13. Jim Keeker, 14. Tommy Nichols, 15. Brad Marvel, 16. Gene Lee Gibson, 17. Bill Rose, 18. Tim Champlin, 19. Tray House, 20. Greg Staab. 10:50.35

1992 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cary Faas, 2. Dave Darland, 3. Steve Butler, 4. Tony Elliott, 5. Robbie Stanley, 6. Joe Roush, 7. Eric Gordon, 8. Kent Christian, 9. Tony Stewart, 10. Manny Rockhold, 11. Brad Marvel, 12. Gary Cameron II, 13. Jon Stanbrough, 14. Tony Ploughe, 15. Dave Peperak, 16. Tray House, 17. Doug Kalitta, 18. Blake Hollingsworth, 19. Rusty McClure, 20. Brian Hayden. NT

1993 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Jack Hewitt, 3. Tray House, 4. Steve Butler, 5. Kevin Thomas, 6. Eric Gordon, 7. Byron Reed, 8. Brad Marvel, 9. Larry Bland, 10. Bill Rose, 11. Kim Mock, 12. Greg Reed, 13. Robbie Stanley, 14. Cary Faas, 15. Gary Cameron II, 16. Leon Gentry, 17. Tony Elliott, 18. Jim Moughan, 19. Blake Hollingsworth, 20. Terry Shepherd. NT

1994 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cary Faas, 2. Robbie Stanley, 3. Gary Fisher, 4. Brian Hayden, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Tony Elliott, 7. Tray House, 8. Ray Morgan, 9. Jack Hewitt, 10. Todd Kane, 11. Rusty McClure, 12. Tim Cox, 13. Greg Wilson, 14. Greg Staab, 15. Terry Pletch, 16. Derek Davidson, 17. Bill Rose, 18. Kevin Thomas, 19. Doug Kalitta, 20. Blake Hollingsworth. NT

1995 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jack Hewitt, 2. Eric Gordon, 3. Tray House, 4. Kevin Thomas, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Terry Shepherd, 7. Terry Pletch, 8. Tony Elliott, 9. Bill Rose, 10. Brian Hayden, 11. Tony Stewart, 12. Doug Kalitta, 13. Derek Davidson, 14. Gary Fisher, 15. Brad Marvel, 16. Kevin Doty, 17. Jon Stanbrough, 18. Mark Cassella, 19. Byron Reed, 20. Cary Faas. NT

1996 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Doug Kalitta, 2. Brad Marvel, 3. Kevin Thomas, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Dave Steele, 6. Brian Tyler, 7. Brian Hayden, 8. Jon Stanbrough, 9. Rusty McClure, 10. Greg Staab, 11. Derek Davidson, 12. Bill Rose, 13. Danny Williams Jr., 14. Gus Wasson, 15. Wil Newlin, 16. Dean Billings, 17. Mark Cassella, 18. Brett Pool, 19. Terry Pletch, 20. Jack Hewitt, 21. Dave Peperak, 22. Tray House. NT

1997 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. J.J. Yeley, 2. Jack Hewitt, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Kent Christian, 5. Cory Kruseman, 6. Kevin Thomas, 7. Mark Cassella, 8. Cary Faas, 9. Jon Stanbrough, 10. Tony Elliott, 11. Rusty McClure, 12. Tim Cox, 13. Brian Hayden, 14. Brian Tyler, 15. Jason McCord, 16. Gus Wasson, 17. Dave Steele, 18. Greg Stephens, 19. Dave Peperak, 20. Derek Davidson, 21. Robbie Rice, 22. Wil Newlin. NT

1998 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cary Faas, 2. Kevin Doty, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. Tony Elliott, 5. Kevin Thomas, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Brian Hayden, 8. Tim Cox, 9. Terry Pletch, 10. Todd Kane, 11. Derek Davidson, 12. Robbie Rice, 13. Rusty McClure, 14. Brian Tyler, 15. Jack Hewitt, 16. Eric Gordon, 17. Jason McCord, 18. Brad Fox, 19. Kenny Carmichael, 20. Dave Steele, 21. Jon Stanbrough, 22. Dave Darland. 10:56.90

1999 FEATURE: (30 Laps) 1. Terry Pletch, 2. Jack Hewitt, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. Tony Elliott, 5. Todd Kane, 6. Kevin Briscoe, 7. Dave Darland, 8. Kevin Thomas, 9. Kevin Doty, 10. Kenny Carmichael, 11. Bill Rose, 12. Rusty McClure, 13. Robbie Rice, 14. Cory Kruseman, 15. Derek Scheffel, 16. Eric Gordon, 17. Kevin Miller, 18. Tracy Hines, 19. Brad Fox, 20. Jay Drake, 21. Jerry Coons, Jr., 22. Mike Mann. NT

2000 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jay Drake, 2. Kasey Kahne, 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Bud Kaeding, 5. Derek Davidson, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Terry Pletch, 8. Jack Hewitt, 9. Cory Kruseman, 10. Tony Elliott, 11. Brian Tyler, 12. Dave Darland, 13. Jonathan Vennard, 14. Bill Rose (#77), 15. Brandon Petty, 16. Justin Marvel, 17. Eric Gordon, 18. Eric Burns, 19. Jerry Coons, Jr., 20. J.J. Yeley, 21. Derek Scheffel, 22. Kevin Briscoe. NT

2001 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Tony Elliott, 3. Kevin Briscoe, 4. Gregg Dillion, 5. Terry Pletch, 6. Bill Rose, 7. Dave Darland, 8. Derek Davidson, 9. Robbie Rice, 10. Jonathan Vennard, 11. Jerry Coons, Jr., 12. Chris Gurley, 13. Jason Knoke, 14. Jon Stanbrough, 15. Dustin Smith, 16. Eric Burns, 17. J.J. Yeley, 18. Dickie Gaines, 19. Brian Hayden, 20. Jimmy Laser, 21. Bud Kaeding, 22. Brian Tyler. NT

2002 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jon Stanbrough, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Tony Elliott, 4. Jay Drake, 5. Boston Reid, 6. A.J. Anderson, 7. J.J. Yeley, 8. Derek Davidson, 9. Justin Marvel, 10. Levi Jones, 11. Brian Tyler, 12. Jerry Coons, Jr., 13. Derek Scheffel, 14. Jason Knoke, 15. Terry Pletch, 16. Kevin Thomas, 17. Dickie Gaines, 18. Wil Newlin, 19. Jack Hewitt, 20. Rick Hayden, 21. Brandon Petty, 22. Kent Christian. NT

2003 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. J.J. Yeley, 2. Cory Kruseman, 3. Boston Reid, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Brian Tyler, 7. Jonathan Vennard, 8. Tony Elliott, 9. Bill Rose, 10. Dave Darland, 11. Matt Westfall, 12. Derek Scheffel, 13. Mat Neely, 14. Jay Drake, 15. Marc Jessup, 16. John Scott, 17. Kyle Wissmiller, 18. Jon Stanbrough, 19. Jerry Coons, Jr., 20. Jimmy Laser, 21. Tracy Hines, 22. John Wolfe, 23. A.J. Anderson. NT

2004 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Jay Drake, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Tony Elliott, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Josh Wise, 8. Levi Jones, 9. Marc Jessup, 10. Jerry Coons, Jr., 11. Brian Tyler, 12. Matt Westfall, 13. Kevin Huntley, 14. Shane Hollingsworth, 15. Bud Kaeding, 16. Shane Cottle, 17. Brian Hayden, 18. Josh Ford, 19. Derek Scheffel, 20. John Scott, 21. Justin Marvel, 22. Boston Reid, 23. Kyle Wissmiller. NT

2005 FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Levi Jones, 2. Mat Neely, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Daron Clayton, 7. Dave Darland, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Bud Kaeding, 10. Tom Hessert, 11. Justin Marvel, 12. Bill Rose, 13. Don Droud Jr., 14. Dickie Gaines, 15. Kent Christian, 16. Jay Drake, 17. Josh Wise, 18. Scott Hatton, 19. A.J. Anderson, 20. Critter Malone, 21. Ryan Pace, 22. Marc Jessup, 23. Jonathan Vennard, 24. Shane Cottle. NT

2006 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Daron Clayton, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Dustin Morgan, 4. Shane Cottle, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Dickie Gaines, 7. Jonathan Vennard, 8. Darren Hagen, 9. Brady Short, 10. Mat Neely, 11. Dave Darland, 12. Bud Kaeding, 13. Hunter Schuerenberg, 14. Brady Bacon,15. Lucas Wolfe, 16. Charles Davis Jr., 17. Josh Wise, 18. Levi Jones, 19. Shane Hollingsworth, 20. Jimmy Light, 21. Scotty Weir, 22. Bret Mellenberndt. NT

2007 FEATURE: (30 laps – Halted at 24 due to curfew) 1. Jon Stanbrough, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Jesse Hockett, 4. Darren Hagen, 5. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 6. Mat Neely, 7. Brady Short, 8. Levi Jones, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Brad Sweet, 11. Critter Malone, 12. Jake Martens, 13. Dustin Morgan, 14. Brady Bacon, 15. Damion Gardner, 16. Kyle Robbins, 17. Chris Windom, 18. Daron Clayton, 19. Neil Shepherd, 20. Hunter Schuerenberg, 21. Kyle Wissmiller, 22. Danny Williams Jr., 23. Robert Ballou, 24. Kevin Swindell, 25. Shane Cottle. NT

2008 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Levi Jones, 2. Brad Kuhn, 3. Darren Hagen, 4. Daron Clayton, 5. Cole Whitt, 6. Thomas Meseraull, 7. Shane Cottle, 8. Chad Boat, 9. Jerry Coons Jr., 10. Dave Darland, 11. Jon Stanbrough, 12. Brady Bacon, 13. Tracy Hines, 14. Hunter Schuerenberg, 15. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 16. Brad Sweet, 17. Neil Shepherd, 18. Jesse Hockett, 19. Brady Short, 20. Jeff Bland Jr., 21. Robert Ballou, 22. Damion Gardner. NT

2009 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Levi Jones, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Jesse Hockett, 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 5. Chris Windom, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Jeff Bland Jr., 8. Hunter Schuerenberg, 9. Chad Boat, 10. Brad Sweet, 11. Shane Hmiel, 12. Cole Whitt, 13. Darren Hagen, 14. Brady Short, 15. Thomas Meseraull, 16. Josh Wise, 17. Jonathan Hendrick, 18. Damion Gardner, 19. Bill Rose, 20. Ryan Kaplan, 21. Bud Kaeding, 22. Jon Stanbrough. NT

2010 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Levi Jones, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Shane Cottle, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Ricky Williams, 9. Brady Short, 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 11. Blake Fitzpatrick, 12. Chase Stockon, 13. Russ Harper, 14. Daren Krockenberger, 15. Robert Ballou, 16. J.C. Bland, 17. Brandon Mattox, 18. Critter Malone, 19. Eric Krockenberger, 20. Shawn Krockenberger, 21. Kurt Gross, 22. Shane Hmiel, 23. Justin Grant, 24. Jon Stanbrough, 25. Chris Windom, 26. Henry Clarke. NT

2011 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Keith Bloom Jr., 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Damion Gardner, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Mike Spencer, 10. Levi Jones, 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 12. Wes McIntyre, 13. Dustin Morgan, 14. Chad Boespflug, 15. Critter Malone, 16. Blake Fitzpatrick, 17. Tracy Hines, 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 19. Chase Stockon, 20. Justin Grant, 21. Jonathan Hendrick, 22. Daron Clayton, 23. Coleman Gulick. NT

2012 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bud Kaeding, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Damion Gardner, 4. Shane Cottle, 5. Coleman Gulick, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Levi Jones, 8. Jerry Coons, Jr., 9. Justin Grant, 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 11. Dave Darland, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Chris Windom, 14. Kyle Larson, 15. Darren Hagen, 16. Bobby East, 17. Casey Shuman, 18. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 19. Chase Stockon, 20. Thomas Meseraull, 21. Blake Fitzpatrick, 22. Wes McIntyre, 23. Jonathan Hendrick. NT

2013 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Chase Stockon, 10. Daron Clayton, 11. Kyle Cummins, 12. Kevin Thomas Jr., 13. Shane Cottle, 14. Justin Grant, 15. Tyler Courtney, 16. Korey Weyant, 17. Nick Drake, 18. Kevin Studley, 19. Braylon Fitzpatrick, 20. Blake Fitzpatrick, 21. Jake Simmons, 22. Kurt Gross, 23. Brandon Mattox. 14:43.98

2014 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Chris Windom, 7. Robert Ballou, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Shane Cottle, 10. Bryan Clauson, 11. C.J. Leary, 12. Daron Clayton, 13. Hunter Schuerenberg, 14. Shane Cockrum, 15. Jarett Andretti, 16. Aaron Farney, 17. Carson Short, 18. Chris Gurley, 19. Brandon Mattox, 20. Justin Grant, 21. Mitch Wissmiller, 22. Mark Smith, 23. Jerry Coons Jr. NT

2015 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Chris Windom, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 7. Chase Stockon, 8. C.J. Leary, 9. Brady Bacon, 10. Tyler Courtney, 11. Thomas Meseraull, 12. Hunter Schuerenberg, 13. Shane Cottle, 14. Justin Grant, 15. Aaron Farney, 16. Tracy Hines, 17. Brady Short, 18. Jarett Andretti, 19. J.J. Hughes, 20. Kyle Robbins, 21. Mario Clouser, 22. Chad Boespflug. NT

2016 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Thomas Meseraull, 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Chris Windom, 6. Chase Stockon, 7. Shane Cottle, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Jerry Coons Jr., 10. Justin Grant, 11. Aaron Farney, 12. Chad Boespflug, 13. C.J. Leary, 14. Jarett Andretti, 15. Kyle Cummins, 16. Bill Rose, 17. J.J. Hughes, 18. Max McGhee, 19. Landon Simon, 20. Mitch Wissmiller, 21. Carson Short, 22. Tony DiMattia. NT

2017 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Chris Windom, 3. Chase Stockon, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Dave Darland, 6. Tyler Courtney, 7. Justin Grant, 8. C.J. Leary, 9. Kyle Cummins, 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11. Jarett Andretti, 12. Chad Boespflug, 13. Stevie Sussex, 14. Josh Hodges, 15. Scotty Weir, 16. Kyle Robbins, 17. Joe Bares, 18. Brandon Mattox, 19. Joss Moffatt, 20. Dylan Shaw, 21. Shane Cottle, 22, Robert Ballou. NT

2018 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (2), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 3. Shane Cottle (1), 4. Chris Windom (10), 5. Chase Stockon (3), 6. C.J. Leary (5), 7. Robert Ballou (11), 8. Justin Grant (14), 9. Brady Bacon (4), 10. Chad Boespflug (8), 11. Jerry Coons Jr. (13), 12. Nick Bilbee (16), 13. Dave Darland (9), 14. Kyle Cummins (7), 15. Isaac Chapple (19), 16. Bill Rose (17), 17. Aric Gentry (23), 18. Brandon Morin (21), 19. Nate McMillin (20), 20. Robert Bell (22), 21. Timmy Buckwalter (15), 22. Jadon Rogers (18), 23. Brandon Mattox (12). NT

2019 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (2), 2. Chris Windom (5), 3. Tyler Courtney (4), 4. Robert Ballou (7), 5. Justin Grant (10), 6. Brady Bacon (3), 7. Jason McDougal (11), 8. Carson Short (1), 9. C.J. Leary (6), 10. Isaac Chapple (16), 11. Bill Balog (9), 12. Chad Boespflug (14), 13. Brandon Mattox (13), 14. Brian VanMeveren (15), 15. Steve Thomas (18), 16. Paul May (17), 17. Nate McMillin (12), 18. Kevin Thomas, Jr. (8), 19. Eric Perrott (19), 20. Tye Mihocko (20). NT

2020 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chris Windom (1), 2. Justin Grant (5), 3. Chase Stockon (7), 4. Jake Swanson (8), 5. Carson Short (14), 6. Tanner Thorson (10), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 8. Max Adams (2), 9. Brandon Morin (18), 10. Anton Hernandez (9), 11. Matt Westfall (11), 12. Brandon Mattox (15), 13. Chris Phillips (19), 14. Kendall Ruble (12), 15. Nate McMillin (20), 16. Steve Thomas (21), 17. Dustin Smith (16), 18. Brady Bacon (6), 19. C.J. Leary (22), 20. Nick Bilbee (13), 21. Mitchell Davis (17), 22. Mitch Wissmiller (3).

2021 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chris Windom (6), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Brady Bacon (9), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 5. Justin Grant (1), 6. C.J. Leary (4), 7. Robert Ballou (15), 8. Jake Swanson (13), 9. Riley Kreisel (5), 10. Logan Seavey (10), 11. Tanner Thorson (22), 12. Chase Stockon (8), 13. Cole Bodine (11), 14. Davey Ray (2), 15. Matt Westfall (17), 16. Nick Bilbee (19), 17. Mario Clouser (20), 18. Charles Davis Jr. (12), 19. Brandon Mattox (24-P), 20. Paul Nienhiser (23-P), 21. Chase Johnson (14), 22. Tye Mihocko (18), 23. Mitch Wissmiller (21), 24. Max Adams (16). NT

2022 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (5), 2. Brady Bacon (2), 3. Logan Seavey (1), 4. Justin Grant (3), 5. C.J. Leary (6), 6. Jake Swanson (11), 7. Emerson Axsom (9), 8. Max Adams (13), 9. Dustin Clark (19), 10. Jason McDougal (17), 11. Chase Stockon (7), 12. Nick Bilbee (15), 13. Matt Westfall (12), 14. Shane Cockrum (20), 15. Sterling Cling (14), 16. Cole Bodine (21), 17. Charles Davis Jr. (16), 18. Brandon Morin (22), 19. Mitchel Moles (4), 20. Jadon Rogers (10), 21. Brian Hayden (18), 22. Brandon Mattox (8). NT

2023 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (1), 2. Kyle Cummins (2), 3. Jake Swanson (5), 4. Mitchel Moles (6), 5. C.J. Leary (13), 6. Max Adams (4), 7. Emerson Axsom (9), 8. Logan Seavey (12), 9. Daison Pursley (11), 10. Chase Stockon (14), 11. Matt Westfall (17), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 13. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 14. Carson Garrett (16), 15. Travis Thompson (21), 16. Ivan Glotzbach (22), 17. Hunter Maddox (20), 18. Justin Grant (3), 19. Brandon Mattox (15), 20. Jadon Rogers (19), 21. Tim Creech (18), 22. Robert Ballou (10). NT

2024 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (5), 2. Jake Swanson (2), 3. Brady Bacon (4), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 5. C.J. Leary (9), 6. Daison Pursley (12), 7. Chase Stockon (13), 8. Robert Ballou (3), 9. Mitchel Moles (7), 10. Shane Cottle (10), 11. Joey Amantea (19), 12. Matt Westfall (14), 13. Ricky Lewis (8), 14. Kyle Cummins (15), 15. Justin Grant (11), 16. Max Adams (16), 17. Jadon Rogers (20), 18. Charles Davis Jr. (18), 19. Brandon Mattox (22), 20. Saban Bibent (17), 21. Matt Goodnight (23), 22. Tye Mihocko (21), 23. Nate Ervin (24), 24. Carson Garrett (6). NT

2025 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (4), 2. C.J. Leary (3), 3. Ricky Lewis (10), 4. Kyle Cummins (6), 5. Jake Swanson (11), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 7. Chase Stockon (5), 8. Hayden Reinbold (15), 9. Gunnar Setser (7), 10. Briggs Danner (9), 11. Logan Seavey (8), 12. Shane Cottle (19), 13. Saban Bibent (14), 14. Chance Crum (13), 15. Wyatt Burks (12), 16. Brandon Mattox (16), 17. Adam Taylor (21), 18. Tony Helton (20), 19. Mitchel Moles (2), 20. Hunter Maddox (17), 21. Todd Hobson (18). NT

CIRCLE CITY SALUTE!

USAC SPRINTS HIT INDY ON May 21

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Indianapolis, Indiana (May 18, 2026)………There’s nothing finer than Indy in the month of May.

But while the NTT INDYCAR Series competitors prepare for 500 miles on the other side of the city at IMS, a different breed of open wheel racing will be slinging dirt at Indianapolis, Indiana’s Circle City Raceway, located on the southeast side of Indy.

The USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship takes on the 1/4-mile CCR bullring for 40 laps this Thursday night, May 21, for $10,000-to-win at the Circle City Salute Presented by Desnuda Organic Tequila.

It’s time to get after it and it’s time to read up on some of the storylines heading into this week!

SALUTE TO THE WINNERS

Four Circle City Salute races have produced four different Circle City Salute feature winners.

While Mother Nature officially won the 2025 round, it was Jake Swanson and Kyle Cummins who raced to victory on back-to-back nights back in 2023. In the Spring of 2024, it was Brady Bacon and Logan Seavey who traded turns by winning each of the two nights. Of that group, Swanson, Cummins and Seavey are expected to compete on Thursday.

As far as Seavey and Cummins, the past two USAC National Sprint Car champions are both tied as the winningest USAC National Sprint Car drivers of all-time at Circle City. Each driver possesses three CCR USAC wins apiece.

CIRCLE CITY SENSATIONS

Last weekend, C.J. Leary became the new Ironman of USAC National Sprint Car racing after making his 328th consecutive feature start dating back to the 2017 season. Over the years, Circle City has been very kind to C.J. He’s been the winner of a pair of USAC National Sprint Car feature events at the track in 2022 and 2025, both during Indiana Sprint Week.

Justin Grant scored his first Circle City USAC National Sprint Car win last September in a 30-lap race that featured five different lead changes. Grant led the last half of the bunch, leading the final 15 laps en route to victory.

Kevin Thomas Jr. was one of the early winners in the history of Circle City Raceway, scoring the September USAC National Sprint Car round there in 2022.

RUM SUCCESS

Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports won the very first Circle City USAC National Sprint Car feature back in 2021 with Tanner Thorson at the helm.

Since 2022, Mitchel Moles has been the pilot off the team’s No. 19AZ, and has reeled off four career fast qualifying awards at Circle City, including a one-lap USAC track record run of 11.819 seconds in 2022, which still stands today.

this Thursday, Moles and RUM are vying for their first Circle City USAC win together after finishing as the runner-up in both of their series starts there in 2025.

DENNEY MAKES DEBUT

Jacob Denney’s first ever start in a sprint car resulted in a feature victory, and it came right at Circle City this past April as he led the final seven laps to gain the win in Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car competition.

Now, Denney will make his first USAC National Sprint Car appearance at the very same track this Thursday night with the very same team – the Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian Racing No. 21AZ – a car which has won twice with USAC at Circle City with Jake Swanson in 2023 and C.J. Leary in 2025.

Of note, the last driver to win in his first career USAC National Sprint Car start was Tanner Swanson at Indiana’s Anderson Speedway in 2008. The last driver to accomplish the feat on dirt was Tony Jones at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track in 1999.

Denney is one of the premier drivers on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship tour, and currently ranks as the series point leader after winning in April at the Kokomo Grand Prix.

HEY TONIGHT! CCR WINNERS ALL AROUND

Cale Coons made his USAC National Sprint Car debut at Circle City in 2024, but in September 2025, he returned to win a Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car main event at Circle City. this Thursday, USAC’s leading National Sprint Car Rooke aims for his first career series win.

Over the past two seasons, Jadon Rogers has won three Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car features at Circle City. Ricky Lewis has picked up four scores of his own at Circle City in 2024-2025 between local, Midwest Thunder 410 and BOSS competition. Robert Ballou got one at CCR in early 2024 as did Shane Cottle in 2025.

Zack Pretorius performed likewise, winning twice at Circle City in 2024-2025, once each with BOSS and the Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Cars. All the aforementioned drivers plan to compete this Thursday night.

SPECIAL APPEARANCES

The Circle City Salute will also feature special guest appearances during the event.

Boomer, the mascot of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers, will be in attendance as will Nitro, the mascot of the ECHL’s Indy Fuel. Furthermore, the Gordon Pipers will also be on hand to perform the national anthem.

The t-shirt cannon will also be loaded up and fired off as race fans can away with some racewear to add to their wardrobe.

RACE DETAILS

this Thursday night’s May 20th Circle City Salute Presented by Desnuda Organic Tequila features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midgets Pits open at 4pm Eastern with front gates opening at 5pm, the drivers meeting at 6pm and cars on track at 6:30pm followed by qualifying and racing.

Advance tickets are on sale now at https://www.myracepass.com/tracks/3792/tickets/1512753. General admission tickets are available at the ticket booth the day of the event. GA tickets for ages 13 and up are $30. GA tickets for ages 12 and under are $15. Pit passes are $40.

The event can be watched live in its entirety on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT CIRCLE CITY RACEWAY

1 Lap - 9/16/2022 - Mitchel Moles - 11.819

10 Laps - 9/16/2022 - Jadon Rogers - 2:04.23

12 Laps - 9/16/2022 - Jake Swanson - 2:39.26

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT CIRCLE CITY RACEWAY

3-Kyle Cummins & Logan Seavey

2-C.J. Leary

1-Brady Bacon, Justin Grant, Jake Swanson, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Tanner Thorson

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT CIRCLE CITY RACEWAY

2021: Tanner Thorson (9/17)

2022: C.J. Leary (7/25) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (9/16)

2023: Jake Swanson (5/24), Kyle Cummins (5/25), Kyle Cummins (7/24) & Logan Seavey (9/15)

2024: Brady Bacon (5/22), Logan Seavey (5/23), Logan Seavey (7/31) & Kyle Cummins (9/13)

2025: C.J. Leary (7/30) & Justin Grant (9/12)

CIRCLE CITY SALUTE RESULTS

MAY 24, 2023 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jake Swanson (4), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Brady Bacon (5), 4. Justin Grant (6), 5. Robert Ballou (1), 6. Mitchel Moles (8), 7. C.J. Leary (12), 8. Chase Stockon (10), 9. Daison Pursley (16), 10. Carson Garrett (7), 11. Emerson Axsom (17), 12. Rylan Gray (2), 13. Logan Seavey (9), 14. Charles Davis Jr. (14), 15. Scotty Weir (18), 16. Thomas Meseraull (19), 17. Jadon Rogers (15), 18. Matt Westfall (11), 19. Kevin Thomas Jr. (13), 20. Tye Mihocko (20), 21. Tyler Hewitt (22), 22. Ricky Lewis (21). NT

MAY 25, 2023 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (2), 2. Jake Swanson (3), 3. Brady Bacon (8), 4. Emerson Axsom (7), 5. Matt Westfall (9), 6. Daison Pursley (14), 7. Chase Stockon (18), 8. Thomas Meseraull (5), 9. C.J. Leary (17), 10. Mitchel Moles (15), 11. Logan Seavey (19), 12. Tye Mihocko (12), 13. Justin Grant (6), 14. Robert Ballou (1), 15. Rylan Gray (13), 16. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 17. Jadon Rogers (21), 18. Dave Darland (20), 19. Carson Garrett (4), 20. Charles Davis Jr. (10), 21. Jake Scott (16), 22. Sterling Cling (22). NT

MAY 22, 2024 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (5), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 3. Daison Pursley (14), 4. Robert Ballou (6), 5. Chase Stockon (9), 6. Mitchel Moles (8), 7. Jadon Rogers (11), 8. Ricky Lewis (10), 9. Chance Crum (20), 10. Matt Westfall (13), 11. Logan Seavey (21), 12. Carson Garrett (24), 13. Hunter Maddox (22), 14. Joey Amantea (18), 15. Justin Grant (4), 16. Jake Swanson (12), 17. Anton Hernandez (15), 18. Shane Cottle (1), 19. C.J. Leary (16), 20. Matt Goodnight (19), 21. Charles Davis Jr. (17), 22. Kyle Cummins (7), 23. Brent Beauchamp (23), 24. Harley Burns (2). NT

MAY 24, 2024 FEATURE: (40 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (3), 2. Brady Bacon (5), 3. Daison Pursley (7), 4. Ricky Lewis (9), 5. Robert Ballou (8), 6. Kyle Cummins (1), 7. C.J. Leary (6), 8. Chase Stockon (10), 9. Carson Garrett (4), 10. Mitchel Moles (13), 11. Shane Cottle (2), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (11), 13. Justin Grant (12), 14. Chance Crum (23), 15. Jake Swanson (18), 16. Jadon Rogers (14), 17. Matt Westfall (16), 18. Brent Beauchamp (20), 19. Brandon Mattox (17), 20. Joey Amantea (21), 21. Harley Burns (24), 22. Anton Hernandez (15), 23. Charles Davis Jr. (19), 24. Frankie Guerrini (22). NT

BACON BEATS ‘EM DOWN AT ELDORA,

TIES DARLAND FOR 2ND ON USAC SPRINT WIN LIST

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Rossburg, Ohio (May 16, 2026)………Throughout Brady Bacon’s remarkable USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car career, he’s posted some staggering statistical facts and figures.

On Saturday night at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native put another one on the board of substantial significance.

Bacon controlled the entire 30-lap distance as he raced to his 62nd career USAC National Sprint Car feature victory, tying himself for second place on the all-time series win list alongside Dave Darland.

Starting from the pole in his Chris Dyson Racing/Concord American Flagpole – Racer Magazine/Triple X/Rider Chevy, Bacon had little trouble in dismantling the 24-car field on the 1/2-mile dirt oval for his first triumph of the 2026 USAC season.

Bacon led every single lap en route to a 3.025 second score to capture the #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG finale and a $12,000 top prize.

Bacon’s fourth career Eldora USAC National Sprint Car win was his third during #LetsRaceTwo, which he had also previously achieved in 2018 and 2025. Furthermore, Bacon’s latest success finally came to him following four runner-up finishes in his first seven starts with the series in 2026, including one 24 hours earlier.

Grant remains the all-time USAC National Sprint Car win leader with 67, but Bacon was able to edge one win closer as he hopes to get back in the race to the top of the series win list despite running a partial USAC schedule this season.

“It’s definitely cool,” Bacon said of equaling Darland on the list. “Hopefully, we can get some more and sneak past Justin in a little bit.”

Despite starting his race on the inside line, Bacon imposed his will and quickly jumped to the top ahead of outside front row starter. As Bacon settled into commanding the top spot. Grant slotted into second by the end of the opening lap. But from there on out, for all intents and purposes, all were chasing Bacon.

The lone red flag of the night occurred on lap six when 23rd running Paul Dues flipped upside down in turn one. He was able to climb out and walk away.

After the restart, a high wire act commenced among the top-four with Bacon leading the charge up top next to the outside wall ahead of Grant, Friday night Eldora winner Kyle Cummins and Briggs Danner.

By lap 10, Bacon’s lead stood at two full seconds. By the halfway mark on lap 15, Bacon’s advantage had ballooned to 3.4 seconds, a full straightaway distance over Grant as Bacon worked past lapped traffic with relative ease.

“Starting position was everything tonight,” Bacon explained. “We’re really good when it’s a fast along a pretty hard and treacherous cushion. I knew that if we got up front and didn’t make any mistakes, we’d be pretty hard to beat. Lapped traffic got a little weird there because they were throwing up so much dust that it made it hard to see the wall. That was a little tricky off turn two but the car was really good. The guys bring me a car capable of winning every night, so I’m glad to finally get this win. We’ve had a lot of second places this year.”

Bacon was committed to the top, never wavering on the high side momentum he’d built over the first several laps of the race, and had no inkling of letting loose of that grip anytime soon.

“Even the lapped cars were actually holding a pretty good pace on the bottom,” Bacon explained. “I got a little worried about that, but I was still kind of gaining on them and knew it was going to be really hard for someone to pass me if I just kept my momentum up. Luckily, not many of the lapped cars were in my lane. It gave me free range to do what I wanted, but there were a couple times I had to slide them. I was really good when I slid across turn two, and that was encouraging. If I had to get in a battle with someone, I could slide across really good.”

The only position in play was everything behind Bacon. Cummins made his move as he slid Grant in turn one for the second spot. Danner followed suit past Grant for third on lap 22. Likewise, Moles overtook Grant for fourth on lap 26, while Steven Snyder Jr. snookered both Grant and Moles in the waning laps to rise to fourth all while Grant fell back to sixth.

In the end, and through it all, Bacon was the dominant force, crossing the line as a USAC National Sprint Car winner for a record-extending 16th consecutive season, dating back to 2011. Cummins finished a distant second, with Danner third, Snyder fourth and Moles rounding out the top-five.

It was all clean air for Bacon from start to finish in the feature as he led every single one of the 30 laps to pick up the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

In just his second career USAC National Sprint Car appearance, Snyder is making waves. In the feature, he advanced +10 from his 14th starting spot to finish fourth, making him the night’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger.

C.J. Leary set a brand new USAC National Sprint Car record by qualifying for his 328th consecutive feature start with the series dating back to November 2017. His new Ironman mark broke the previous record of 327 held by Justin Grant.

On Friday, Kyle Cummins got his first Eldora feature win. On Saturday, he collected his first fast time at The Big E in LearnLab Qualifying. Overall, it's Cummins' 21st career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time, tying him with the great A.J. Foyt for 24th place all-time.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 16, 2026 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-15.734; 2. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-15.799; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-15.822; 4. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-15.834; 5. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.854; 6. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-15.918; 7. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-15.952; 8. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-15.962; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-15.964; 10. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-15.971; 11. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-15.975; 12. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-16.023; 13. Steven Snyder Jr., 87, CBI/Spire-16.095; 14. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-16.130; 15. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-16.194; 16. Shawn Westerfeld, 4J, Fischesser/Owen-16.289; 17. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-16.300; 18. Max Adams, 40, Hery-16.310; 19. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-16.392; 20. Paul Dues, 87x, Dues-16.395; 21. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-16.412; 22. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-16.486; 23. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-16.513; 24. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-16.531; 25. Nate Carle, 14c, Carle-16.540; 26. Braxton Cummings, 71B, Cummings-16.643; 27. Todd Hobson, 44, Soudrette-17.047.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (4), 2. Steven Snyder Jr. (2), 3. Kyle Cummins (6), 4. Jake Swanson (3), 5. Mitchel Moles (5), 6. Trey Osborne (7), 7. Shawn Westerfeld (1), 8. Troy Carey (8), 9. Nate Carle (9). 2:08.820

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (1), 2. Briggs Danner (4), 3. Cale Coons (6), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 5. Logan Seavey (5), 6. Zack Pretorius (2), 7. Kobe Simpson (8), 8. Paul Dues (7), 9. Braxton Cummings (9). 2:12.334

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (5), 2. Jadon Rogers (3), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Max Adams (1), 5. Chase Stockon (4), 6. Hayden Reinbold (2), 7. Logan Calderwood (7), 8. Brandon Mattox (8), 9. Todd Hobson (9). 2:13.651

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-6 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Calderwood (3), 2. Shawn Westerfeld (1), 3. Troy Carey (5), 4. Kobe Simpson (4), 5. Todd Hobson (9), 6. Paul Dues (2), 7. Braxton Cummings (8), 8. Nate Carle (7), 9. Brandon Mattox (6). 2:59.071

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (1), 2. Kyle Cummins (6), 3. Briggs Danner (9), 4. Steven Snyder Jr. (14), 5. Mitchel Moles (3), 6. Justin Grant (4), 7. Hayden Reinbold (16), 8. Logan Seavey (2), 9. Cale Coons (5), 10. Max Adams (17), 11. Trey Osborne (18), 12. Robert Ballou (8), 13. Chase Stockon (10), 14. Zack Pretorius (15), 15. Jake Swanson (11), 16. Jadon Rogers (13), 17. C.J. Leary (7), 18. Logan Calderwood (19), 19. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12), 20. Shawn Westerfeld (20), 21. Troy Carey (21), 22. Kobe Simpson (22), 23. Todd Hobson (23), 24. Paul Dues (24). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Brady Bacon.

**Paul Dues flipped on lap 6 of the feature.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-918, 2-Justin Grant-844, 3-Mitchel Moles-828, 4-Logan Seavey-780, 5-Jake Swanson-760, 6-Briggs Danner-744, 7-Chase Stockon-736, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-725, 9-C.J. Leary-659, 10-Robert Ballou-637.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-39, 2-Cale Coons-38, 3-Hayden Reinbold-36, 4-Briggs Danner-34, 5-Justin Grant-32, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-31, 7-Robert Ballou-30, 8-Chase Stockon-24, 9-Brady Bacon-23, 10-Trey Osborne-23.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 20, 2026 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 56th Tony Hulman Classic – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (16.032)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (15.734)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: C.J. Leary

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Robert Ballou

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Brady Bacon

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Logan Calderwood

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Brady Bacon (30 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Steven Snyder Jr. (14th to 4th)

RICKY LEWIS GOES BACK-TO-BACK

WITH USAC CRA AT CASA GRANDE

By: Lance Jennings

Casa Grande, Arizona (May 16, 2026)……… Ricky Lewis of Oxnard, California completed the sweep by winning Saturday night’s Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car event at Central Arizona Speedway.

Starting fifth in his Bonneau Motorsports owned Priced Right Auto Sales #15 DRC, Lewis took the lead from R.J. Johnson on the eighth lap, then led the remaining 23 laps to earn $5,000 for scoring his sixth USAC CRA victory of the season and the 18th of his career.

Lewis was also the winner of Friday night’s main event at Central Arizona.

“Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., Johnson, J.J. Yeley, and hard charger “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira rounded out the top-five drivers.

With temperatures nearly reaching 100 degrees and constant winds throughout the day, twenty-six cars checked in to battle at the Pinal County Fairgrounds oval. Two-time and defending USAC CRA champion, R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona was the night’s fast qualifier with a time of 16.298 seconds over Lewis, Elijah Gile, Brecken Guerrero, and leading rookie Wayne Siddle. This marked the nineteenth career Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Award for the driver of the Petty Performance Racing owned Avanti Windows & Doors #1P Sherman.

After setting fast time, Johnson charged to victory in the 10-lap Sexton Fire Protection First Heat Race. The multi-time Arizona Sprint Car Champion finished ahead of Eddie Tafoya Jr., Verne Sweeney, Justin Kierce, Guerrero, Grant Schaadt, Zate Legend, Connor Lundy, and “The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James.

Before heading to the Midwest, Buckeye, Arizona’s “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr. topped the 10-lap Roy Miller Freight Lines Second Heat Race. The owner / driver of the MP Environmental #47 DRC was followed by J.J. Yeley, Lewis, Perreira, Siddle, Troy DeGaton, Vance Wofford, Leland Fuller and Jonas Reynolds.

For the second night in a row, “The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams of Yorba Linda, California took the checkered flags in a 10-lap heat race. Piloting the Tom & Christy Dunkel owned Inland Rigging #17W Triple X, Williams won the Rescue Mission Alliance Third Heat over Elijah Gile, Dayton Shelton, Cole Wakim, Koen Crawford, A.J. Hernandez, Patrick Krob, and Mickey Gile.

After racing from sixteenth to fifth, Hilo, Hawaii’s “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira scored the night’s Hard Charger Award / “Best Passing Job” honors at Central Arizona Raceway. For his efforts, the owner / driver of the Southwest Building Solutions #21P DRC took home an extra $100 courtesy of photographer Steve Lafond. In addition, Daylin earned back-to-back Rolls Scaffolding 360 Challenge bonus money worth $720.

The Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series will battle at Perris Auto Speedway on Saturday, May 23rd for the historic “Salute to Indy.” For more information on the series, visit usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: May 16, 2026 – Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, Arizona

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-16.298; 2. Ricky Lewis, 15, Bonneau-16.389; 3. Elijah Gile, 33p, Petty-16.394; 4. Brecken Guerrero, 98B, Guerrero-16.547; 5. Wayne Siddle, 007, Siddle-16.584; 6. Cole Wakim, 17, Dunkel-16.605; 7. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-16.628; 8. J.J. Yeley, 2, Yeley-16.643; 9. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-16.654; 10. Bruce St. James, 1AZ, St. James-16.728; 11. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-16.741; 12. Dayton Shelton, 4D, Shelton-16.814; 13. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-16.943; 14. Jonas Reynolds, 0, JP1-16.981; 15. A.J. Hernandez, 72, Hernandez-17.090; 16. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-17.140; 17. Daylin Perreira, 21p, Perreira-17.170; 18. Koen Crawford, 48, Crawford-17.204; 19. Grant Schaadt, 88G, Schaadt-17.293; 20. Troy DeGaton, 39T, DeGaton-17.452; 21. Mickey Gile, 23AZ, Sussex-17.542; 22. Justin Kierce, 13, Kierce-17.802; 23. Leland Fuller, 3, Fuller-17.969; 24. Patrick Krob, 3K, Krob-18.049; 25. Zate Legend, z8, Legend-18.072; 26. Vance Wofford, 116, Wofford-18.560.

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. R.J. Johnson, 2. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 3. Verne Sweeney, 4. Justin Kierce, 5. Brecken Guerrero, 6. Grant Schaadt, 7. Zate Legend, 8. Connor Lundy, 9. Bruce St. James. NT

ROY MILLER FREIGHT LINES SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Charles Davis Jr., 2. J.J. Yeley, 3. Ricky Lewis, 4. Daylin Perreira, 5. Wayne Siddle, 6. Troy DeGaton, 7. Vance Wofford, 8. Lealand Fuller, 9. Jonas Reynolds. NT

RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Austin Williams, 2. Elijah Gile, 3. Dayton Shelton, 4. Cole Wakim, 5. Koen Crawford, 6. A.J. Hernandez, 7. Patrick Krob, 8. Mickey Gile. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (5), 2. Charles Davis Jr. (8), 3. R.J. Johnson (6), 4. J.J. Yeley (10), 5. Daylin Perreira (16), 6. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (9), 7. Bruce St. James (11), 8. Elijah Gile (4), 9. Brecken Guerrero (3), 10. Dayton Shelton (12), 11. Koen Crawford (17), 12. Verne Sweeney (15), 13. Wayne Siddle (2), 14. A.J. Hernandez (14), 15. Zate Legend (23), 16. Grant Schaadt (18), 17. Cole Wakim (1), 18. Justin Kierce (21), 19. Mickey Gile (20), 20. Austin Williams (7), 21. Vance Wofford (24), 22. Troy DeGaton (19), 23. Connor Lundy (13), 24. Patrick Krob (22). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Cole Wakim, Laps 2-4 Elijah Gile, Laps 5-7 R.J. Johnson, Laps 8-30 Ricky Lewis.

STEVE LAFOND PHOTOS HARD CHARGER: Daylin Perreira (16th to 5th)

ROLLS SCAFFOLDING 360 CHALLENGE WINNER: Daylin Perreira

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-740, 2-Ricky Lewis-708, 3-Austin Williams-596, 4-Connor Lundy-480, 5-Brecken Guerrero-465, 6-Verne Sweeney-462, 7-Charles Davis Jr.-451, 8-A.J. Bender-444, 9-Dayton Shelton-416, 10-Eddie Tafoya Jr.-329.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 23, 2026 – Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, California – Salute to Indy

RICKY LEWIS STAYS HOT AT CASA GRANDE

By: Lance Jennings

Casa Grande, Arizona (May 15, 2026)………Ricky Lewis continued his winning ways on Friday night at Central Arizona Speedway.

Driving the Bonneau Motorsports owned Priced Right Auto Sales #15 DRC, the Oxnard, California driver claimed the $3,000 Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car victory, which was shortened from 30 laps to 20 laps after several cautions and red flags.

Elijah Gile, “The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams, R.J. Johnson, and Eddie Tafoya Jr. followed after Ricky earned his fifth triumph of the campaign.

With 22 cars signed in and a reported temperature of 95 degrees during time trials, Lewis began the night by posting his eighth career Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Award. Now tied with Tony Jones, C.J. Leary, Richard Vander Weerd, and Rip Williams, Ricky’s time of 15.935 seconds bested leading rookie Wayne Siddle, Cole Wakim, Tafoya, and Gile.

“The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams of Yorba Linda, California earned his first heat race victory of the season by topping the 10-lap Sexton Fire Protection First Heat Race. Piloting the Tom & Christy Dunkel owned Inland Rigging #17w Triple X, Williams finished ahead of Lewis, “ The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James, Tafoya, “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., Connor Lundy, and Mickey Gile.

The 10-lap Roy Miller Freight Lines Second Heat Race went to Tempe, Arizona’s Stevie Sussex. Racing the Jack Yeley owned Avanti Windows & Doors #2 Twister, Sussex was followed Elijah Gile, Siddle, “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira, B.J. Fernandez III, Dayton Shelton, and Jonas Reynolds.

The night’s third and final heat race sponsored by Rescue Mission Alliance was captured by R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona. The pilot of the Petty Performance Racing owned Avanti Windows & Doors #1p Sherman, Johnson was chased by Cole Wakim, J.J. Yeley, A.J. Hernandez, Verne Sweeney, and Brecken Guerrero.

After racing from 20th to 11th in his first USAC CRA start of 2026, Moorpark, California’s Jonas Reynolds scored the night’s Hard Charger Award / “Best Passing Job” honors at Central Arizona Raceway. For his efforts, the driver of the JP1 Racing owned Blud Lubricants DRC took home an extra $100 courtesy of photographer Steve Lafond.

The Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series is back at Central Arizona Raceway on Saturday, May 16th. For more information on the series, visit usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: May 15, 2026 – Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, Arizona

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Ricky Lewis, 15, Bonneau-15.935; 2. Wayne Siddle, 007, Siddle-16.056; 3. Cole Wakim, 17, Dunkel-16.187; 4. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 51T, Tafoya-16.257; 5. Elijah Gile, 33p, Petty-16.284; 6. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-16.360; 7. Bruce St. James, 1AZ, St. James-16.397; 8. Daylin Perreira, 21p, Perreira-16.479; 9. Brecken Guerrero, 98B, Guerrero-16.486; 10. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-16.486; 11. Stevie Sussex, 2, Yeley-16.498; 12. J.J. Yeley, 2y, Yeley-16.519; 13. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-16.528; 14. Dayton Shelton, 4D, Shelton-16.587; 15. A.J. Hernandez, 72, Hernandez-16.833; 16. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-16.836; 17. B.J. Fernandez III, 87, Fernandez-16.893; 18. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-17.089; 19. Mickey Gile, 23AZ, Sussex-17.174; 20. Jonas Reynolds, 0, JP1-17.246; 21. Joshua Shipley, 2x, Shipley-NT; 22. Travis DeGaton, 39T, DeGaton-NT.

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Austin Williams, 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. Bruce St. James, 4. Eddie Tafoya Jr., 5. Charles Davis Jr., 6. Connor Lundy, 7. Mickey Gile. NT

ROY MILLER FREIGHT LINES SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Stevie Sussex, 2. Elijah Gile, 3. Wayne Siddle, 4. Daylin Perreira, 5. B.J. Fernandez III, 6. Dayton Shelton, 7. Jonas Reynolds. NT

RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. R.J. Johnson, 2. Cole Wakim, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. A.J. Hernandez, 5. Verne Sweeney, 6. Brecken Guerrero. NT

FEATURE: (20 laps, shortened due to time constraints, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (6), 2. Elijah Gile (2), 3. Austin Williams (8), 4. R.J. Johnson (1), 5. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (3), 6. Daylin Perreira (10), 7. Dayton Shelton (14), 8. Brecken Guerrero (11), 9. Wayne Siddle (5), 10. Verne Sweeney (18), 11. Jonas Reynolds (20), 12. A.J. Hernandez (15), 13. Stevie Sussex (7), 14. B.J. Fernandez III (17), 15. Mickey Gile (19), 16. Cole Wakim (4), 17. Charles Davis Jr. (12), 18. Bruce St. James (9), 19. Connor Lundy (16), 20. Troy DeGaton (#39T) (22), 21. J.J. Yeley (13), 22. Joshua Shipley (21). NT.

**J.J. Yeley flipped during qualifications. Bruce St. James flipped during lap 2 of the feature. B.J. Fernandez III flipped during lap 7 of the feature. Stevie Sussex flipped during lap 10 of the feature. A.J. Hernandez flipped during lap 19 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Elijah Gile, Laps 12-20 Ricky Lewis.

STEVE LAFOND PHOTOS HARD CHARGER: Jonas Reynolds (20th to 11th)

NEW AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-662, 2-Ricky Lewis-627, 3-Austin Williams-565, 4-Connor Lundy-456, 5-A.J. Bender-444, 6-Verne Sweeney-417, 7-Brecken Guerrero-412, 8-Charles Davis Jr.-376, 9-Dayton Shelton-367, 10-Eddie Tafoya Jr.-267.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 16, 2026 – Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, Arizona

CUMMINS CHARGES BACK,

LEADS FINAL LAP TO WIN ELDORA’S #LETSRACETWO OPENER

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Rossburg, Ohio (May 15, 2026)………There once was a time in which Kyle Cummins admittedly struggled on 1/2-mile tracks.

Those days are long gone.

In his 17th career Eldora USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature start, the Princeton, Indiana native finally conquered the Rossburg, Ohio 1/2-mile dirt oval during Friday night’s #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG opener, a victory worth $12,000.

Cummins captured the victory in dramatic fashion, losing the lead to Justin Grant on the white flag lap before ripping it right back on the 30th and final lap to earn his third feature victory of the USAC National Sprint Car season in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy.

It took a long time to get to this point for Cummins, certainly on the 1/2-miles. He got one at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park in 2025, then notched another at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track in April of this year. Now, he finds himself on the hallowed Eldora USAC win list.

“Eldora Speedway is something special,” Cummins stated. “It’s been on the list for a long time. I never came to win. I just came to try and survive. Like this year at Terre Haute, I showed up and decided I wanted to win. I didn’t want to just be riding around.”

Cummins’ 2025 campaign at Eldora was seemingly a harbinger of things to come. He finished on the podium in all three of his USAC National Sprint Car starts at the track that year, including a third in the spring, followed by a pair of runner-up finishes in September. Lest we mention the agonizing heartbreak of his near victory during #LetsRaceTwo in 2024 in which Robert Ballou erased a half-straightaway deficit on the final lap to nip Cummins at the line by a mere .016 seconds.

Initially, Chase Stockon held the lead from his outside front row position and remained there for the first five laps. But the third place starting Cummins reached the point on the sixth lap, first diving under Briggs Danner in turns three and four, then moments later, sliding past Stockon for the top spot in turn one.

With four laps remaining, Cummins was trouncing the field to the tune of six seconds ahead of Grant. However, that was quickly dissolved when Jakeb Boxell clobbered the turn one wall and flipped several times, catching major airtime in the process. In his first career USAC National Sprint Car feature start, Boxell had moved up from 24th to 13th before the accident. During the semi-feature, he impressively drove from 10th to the win.

The incident also just happened to occur directly in front of Cummins who narrowly avoided contact. However, it appeared a piece of the carnage from Boxell’s accident struck Cummins’ sun visor / name plate that was affixed to his car, causing a bit of a vision obstruction as it slightly askewed itself from its normal placement on the upper right side of his frame.

“When he crashed, it smashed my visor in front of my face,” Cummins revealed. “I thought, ‘oh, I can deal with it.’ But when I took the green, I couldn’t even see the cushion. So, I knew it was going to be close there. I got a really good rhythm there and started feeling pretty good. Then, after that red, it kind of joggled stuff and I thought I’d be all right. As soon as we took the green, that thing was flapping in front of my face. All I needed was a couple laps here. If it would’ve been one more, I don’t know.”

On top off all that, Cummins full straightaway advantage and certain victory were all but gone. Now, he had Grant hot on his heels for the restart with three laps remaining. Grant stalked Cummins throughout lap 28, but coming to the white flag, Grant shot his shot, diving into turn three and sliding across the chrome of Cummins’ front bumper, seemingly within inches of sparking contact.

Cummins responded by turning down under Grant off turn four as Grant beat him to the start/finish line by about the width of credit card. Entering turn one for the final time, Cummins had the slider line set up to his advantage. There, he dove under Grant and slid himself all the way up to the turn two wall. That’s when the two made bumper-to-bumper contact. Grant ricocheted into the wall with his right rear tire, which thwarted all his momentum.

“Going down into three, I thought I got a good run, and all of a sudden, I saw him and was like, ‘I have to try to make a run,’ Cummins recalled. “I actually peeled off one time under (Robert) Ballou and got a pretty good run down the straightaway. I thought, ‘okay, I’ll do that and I can beat him. Going in, I’m like, ‘oh, I got him, I got him.’ Then, he’s turning under, and I’m going to take it in there. I did that once on a lapped car and about got in the fence and about tore the ladder off it.”

Escaping away, Cummins crossed the finish line 1.358 seconds to the good as the winner. Bacon capitalized on the last lap kerfuffle to grab a second place finish by a wheel over Grant. Danner took fourth while Stockon rounded out the top-five. Trey Osborne, who ran as high as second at the midway point and was running fourth on the final corner of the final lap, suffered an apparent engine issue and slowed dramatically as his car crawled across the line in a disheartening 12th place.

Cummins’ 33rd career USAC National Sprint Car feature triumph moved him past Rollie Beale for sole possession of 17th place on the all-time series win list. And if there was anything you could count on this night, Cummins wasn’t going to let a win at Eldora slip through his fingers any longer. Not a chance.

“That’s what Eldora is all about,” Cummins exclaimed. “Justin Grant is one of the best there is here. I felt like I was able to put it on the fence like you need to and make some good runs there. The last couple laps, I was just holding on, but he got a good run there. I got a pretty good diamond, and it’s the last lap at Eldora, so we just sailed in there. I thought he would turn down the hill and get back past me, and I think we bumped a little bit there. That’s for the win, baby. It’s hard racing and it’s tough to get them, especially being out in the lead for a while.”

Meanwhile, Grant reached a milestone by becoming just the seventh driver to reach 500 career USAC National Sprint Car feature starts, joining Dave Darland (797), Robert Ballou (560), Brady Bacon (543), Chase Stockon (532), C.J. Leary (508), and Kevin Thomas Jr. (503).

Grant also recorded his 42nd career USAC National Sprint Car fast time during the LearnLab Qualifying session, which moved him into a tie for sixth place all-time alongside Thomas Jr.

Furthermore, eighth place finisher Leary equaled an all-time USAC National Sprint Car record with his 327th consecutive USAC National Sprint Car feature start, tying Grant’s mark. Leary has started every feature event dating back to 2017.

Australian Todd Hobson advanced 22nd to 9th in the feature. Not only was the +13 run his best career USAC result, it also earned him Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.

Cummins led 24 of the final 25 laps. But when it came to crunch time, he led the right one. By leading the most laps, he earned the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 15, 2026 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-15.875; 2. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-15.892; 3. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-15.999; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-16.042; 5. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-16.149; 6. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-16.153; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-16.201; 8. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-16.307; 9. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-16.328; 10. Steven Snyder Jr., 87, CBI/Spire-16.337; 11. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-16.360; 12. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-16.360; 13. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-16.439; 14. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-16.446; 15. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-16.470; 16. Max Adams, 40, Hery-16.535; 17. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-16.542; 18. Hunter Maddox, 24, Maddox-16.571; 19. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-16.596; 20. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-16.625; 21. Shawn Westerfeld, 4J, Fischesser/Owen-16.631; 22. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-16.637; 23. Nate Carle, 14c, Carle-16.685; 24. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-16.692; 25. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-16.811; 26. Tony Helton, 87H, Helton-16.930; 27. Todd Hobson, 44, Soudrette-16.953; 28. Braxton Cummings, 71B, Cummings-17.053; 29. Jakeb Boxell, 54, Westfall-17.143; 30. Ryan Barr, 21B, Barr-17.153; 31. Paul Dues, 87x, Dues-17.241; 32. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-NT.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (6), 2. Mitchel Moles (4), 3. C.J. Leary (3), 4. Chase Stockon (5), 5. Troy Carey (2), 6. Shawn Westerfeld (1), 7. Harley Burns (7), 8. Jakeb Boxell (8). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (1), 2. Steven Snyder Jr. (4), 3. Briggs Danner (5), 4. Logan Seavey (6), 5. Jadon Rogers (3), 6. Hunter Maddox (2), 7. Tony Helton (7), 8. Ryan Barr (8). 2:16.167

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (3), 2. Jake Swanson (5), 3. Kobe Simpson (2), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 5. Nate Carle (1), 6. Todd Hobson (6), 7. Paul Dues (7), 8. Hayden Reinbold (8). 2:19.388

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (5), 2. Trey Osborne (4), 3. Kyle Cummins (6), 4. Zack Pretorius (1), 5. Logan Calderwood (2), 6. Max Adams (3), 7. Braxton Cummings (7), 8. Brandon Mattox (8). 2:23.336

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jakeb Boxell (10), 2. Max Adams (2), 3. Todd Hobson (5), 4. Braxton Cummings (8), 5. Hayden Reinbold (1), 6. Paul Dues (9), 7. Hunter Maddox (3), 8. Shawn Westerfeld (4), 9. Harley Burns (6), 10. Tony Helton (7), 11. Brandon Mattox (12). 3:43.194

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (3), 2. Brady Bacon (7), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Briggs Danner (1), 5. Chase Stockon (2), 6. Logan Seavey (5), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 8. C.J. Leary (14), 9. Todd Hobson (22), 10. Steven Snyder Jr. (12), 11. Braxton Cummings (23), 12. Trey Osborne (13), 13. Jake Swanson (4), 14. Robert Ballou (8), 15. Mitchel Moles (11), 16. Max Adams (16), 17. Logan Calderwood (19), 18. Cale Coons (9), 19. Hayden Reinbold (25-P), 20. Zack Pretorius (21), 21. Jadon Rogers (15), 22. Troy Carey (17), 23. Nate Carle (20), 24. Jakeb Boxell (24), 25. Kobe Simpson (18). NT

(P) represents a provisional starter

**Jakeb Boxell flipped on lap 27 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Chase Stockon, Laps 6-28 Kyle Cummins, Lap 29 Justin Grant, Lap 30 Kyle Cummins.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-839, 2-Justin Grant-779, 3-Mitchel Moles-763, 4-Logan Seavey-725, 5-Jake Swanson-722, 6-Chase Stockon-695, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-695, 8-Briggs Danner-673, 9-C.J. Leary-622, 10-Robert Ballou-590.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-38, 2-Logan Calderwood-38, 3-Justin Grant-32, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-31, 5-Robert Ballou-30, 6-Briggs Danner-28, 7-Hayden Reinbold-27, 8-Chase Stockon-24, 9-Brady Bacon-23, 10-Chelby Hinton-22.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 16, 2026 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Brady Bacon (16.178)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (15.875)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Justin Grant

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Cale Coons

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Robert Ballou

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Brady Bacon

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Jakeb Boxell

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Kyle Cummins (24 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Todd Hobson (22nd to 9th)

ONE TICKET, ONE EVENING!

USAC & INDYCAR ON ONE BILL AT WWT RACEWAY June 7

Madison, Illinois (MAY 13, 2026)………One ticket, one evening!

The USAC Silver Crown Championship, the NTT INDYCAR Series and the INDY NXT by Firestone series are part of a tripleheader lineup, all on one ticket for Sunday, June 7, 2026, at World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, just outside of Saint Louis.

One ticket grants you admission to the entirety of the day’s racing events at the 1.25-mile paved oval.

USAC Silver Crown’s slate for the day includes practice from Noon-12:45pm, followed by qualifying from 1:45-2:30pm. A USAC Silver Crown driver autograph session will take place from 4:00-4:30pm with the 66-lap OUTFRONT Route 66 Classic Presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling feature set to take the green flag at 5:45pm. All times are Central.

Also on the night’s docket is the 77-lap INDY NXT main event at 4:30pm and the 260-lap Bommarito Automotive Group 500 Presented by Axalta and Valvoline INDYCAR race at 8:25pm.

It’s the fastest race on the USAC Silver Crown calendar with speeds reaching 180 miles per hour on the straightaways.

Advance tickets are on sale now at www.wwtraceway.com or by calling the ticket office at (618) 215-8888 ext. 1.

To sponsor a lap for the USAC Silver Crown race, visit https://wwtraceway.com/lap-sponsors/ or call Clay at 618-215-8888 ext 117 or email chamm@wwtraceway.com to reserve your lap or be a sponsor.

STARTING TIMES:

9:30 AM - 8:15 PM: Will Call Hours (201 Madison Road)

10:00 AM: Parking Lot Opens

11:30 AM: All Gates Open

11:30 AM-Post VL: Paddock Opens

12:45-1:45 PM: U.S. Air Force Band of Mid-America – Rock

12:00-12:45 PM: USAC Silver Crown Practice

1:45-2:30 PM: USAC Silver Crown Qualifying

2:00 PM: Private Suites & Chalets Open

2:30-3:30 PM: Midway Stage - SICW Championship Wrestling

2:30 PM-End of Race: NTT INDYCAR SERIES Garage Opens

3:00-4:00 PM: NTT INDYCAR SERIES Driver Autograph Session (Midway at American Legion Booth)

3:00 PM: Bommarito Automotive Group Turn 4 Hospitality Opens

3:30-4:20 PM: Concert (Turn 4 Stage)

4:00-4:30 PM: USAC Silver Crown Autograph Session

4:30-5:15 PM: INDY NXT by Firestone Race (77 Laps)

5:45-6:35 PM: OUTFRONT Route 66 Classic presented by Welsch Heating & Cooling USAC Silver Crown Race (66 Laps)

6:40-7:10 PM: Midway Stage - SICW Championship Wrestling Finale

7:15-7:25 PM: Police Tribute Laps

7:30 PM: NTT INDYCAR SERIES Driver Introductions (Turn 4 - Midway Stage)

8:25 PM: 10th Annual Bommarito Automotive Group 500 presented by Axalta and Valvoline NTT INDYCAR SERIES Race (260 Laps)

10:35-11:35 PM: Concert (Turn 4 Stage)

A BIGGIE AT THE BIG E!

#LETSRACETWO WITH USAC & WOO AT ELDORA MAY 15-16

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Rossburg, Ohio (May 13, 2026)………What you’ll get at Eldora Speedway this weekend is truly the best of both worlds!

There’s no place like Eldora Speedway, and there’s no event like #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG.

The legendary Rossburg, Ohio 1/2-mile dirt oval will be home to USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Car racing with both series competing in a dream doubleheader on back-to-back nights, Friday-Saturday, May 15-16.

$12,000 are on the line each night for the victor of the 10th running of the event featuring a whole wings and no wings.

Here’s some biggie storylines for The Big E!

BACON-SEAVEY DOUBLE DUTY

At least two drivers will perform double-duty with and without the wing this weekend: Brady Bacon and Logan Seavey.

Bacon is the defending USAC winner at #LetsRaceTwo from 2025. He also scored the USAC #LetsRaceTwo round in 2018, one of his three career USAC National Sprint Car victories at Eldora. He has also won with a wing at Eldora before, taking the 4-Crown round in 2017. He’ll be at the controls of the Chris Dyson No. 20 in the USAC portion and the TKH Motorsports No. 21H with WoO.

Seavey hasn’t won a #LetsRaceTwo feature as of yet, finishing as the USAC runner-up in 2024. But he has won in all three USAC national divisions at Eldora, including the sprint car in 2023. He’ll pilot the Abacus Racing No. 57 USAC car and the CB Industries-Spire Motorsports No. 87 WoO car.

LEARY ON IRONMAN RECORD WATCH

C.J. Leary is on the cusp of the all-time USAC National Sprint Car Ironman streak. He enters the weekend with 326 consecutive feature starts with the series dating back to 2017. Justin Grant currently holds the record of 328 between 2017 and 2025.

Leary won the second night of #LetsRaceTwo back in 2023, one of his two Eldora USAC Sprint Car wins. He also took the 4-Crown back in 2017. this weekend, he’ll drive the Fox Brothers Racing No. 53.

REINBOLD-UNDERWOOD ON A HOT STREAK

Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports is entering the weekend on a hot streak, winning the last two USAC features run over the past two weekends.

On May 2, Mitchel Moles took the team’s No. 19AZ to his first victory of the USAC National Sprint Car season at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway.

On May 9, Hayden Reinbold followed suit by winning in his first career USAC Silver Crown start in Reinbold-Underwood’s No. 119 USAC Silver Crown car at the Kansas State Fairgrounds.

Mitchel, Hayden and Reinbold-Underwood have all teamed up to win USAC main events at Eldora, but none in a sprint car so far. Moles scored his first Silver Crown win there in 2024, while Reinbold tallied his first USAC Midget win at the place in 2025.

Now, they’ll have their chance to tame The Big E behind the wheel of a pair of Reinbold-Underwood USAC National Sprint Cars. Moles finished 4th at #LetsRaceTwo in 2025, while Reinbold took 20th.

CUMMINS EYING ELDORA REDEMPTION

Defending series champion Kyle Cummins continues to check items off his list as he has once again climbed to the top of the USAC National Sprint Car standings.

Recently, he won his first Terre Haute USAC feature in April’s Jim Hurtubise Classic on the famed 1/2-mile dirt oval. Now, he aims to knock off a victory at another famed 1/2-mile dirt oval – Eldora Speedway.

Cummins has put himself inside the top-five in four of his last five #LetsRaceTwo starts dating back to 2022. But it’s the first night of 2024 at Eldora he wants redemption on. Cummins led laps 23 through 29.99999 until barely being nipped at the line by Robert Ballou while Cummins was .016 seconds behind at the line.

FOUR #LETSRACETWO WINNERS

With four wins apiece, Robert Ballou and Justin Grant are knotted up at the top for the most feature wins in #LetsRaceTwo history, which dates back to 2015.

Oddly enough, on three of those occasions, Ballou and Grant won at #LetsRaceTwo on the same weekend: 2015, 2017, and 2024. Ballou added one in 2021 while Grant notched another in 2023.

In all, eight drivers have won the USAC portion of #LetsRaceTwo: Robert Ballou (4), Justin Grant (4), Tyler Courtney (3), Brady Bacon (2), Chad Boespflug (1), Bryan Clauson (1), C.J. Leary (1) and Chris Windom (1). Half of those - Ballou, Grant, Bacon, and Leary – will all be fighting for more wins this weekend.

Meanwhile, Briggs Danner won at Eldora last Fall. He and Logan Seavey are the lone two Eldora USAC Sprint Car winners also seeking a first #LetsRaceTwo triumph.

On the flip side, several USAC front runners are shooting for a first career Eldora USAC National Sprint Car win. Among that group are Kyle Cummins, Mitchel Moles, Jake Swanson, Kevin Thomas Jr., and Chase Stockon, which make up half of the current top-10 in the standings, plus series winners Trey Osborne and Jadon Rogers, as well as top Rookie Cale Coons, just to name a few.

SNYDER & BOXELL DEBUT

Two highly notable USAC National Sprint Car debuts are taking place at Eldora this weekend.

Steven Snyder Jr. will be in the CB Industries / Spire Motorsports No. 87, a ride which won the USAC National Sprint Cars’ most recent trip to Eldora in September 2025 with Daison Pursley driving. Snyder was the 2025 USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year and led the first six laps of a USAC National Midget feature at Eldora that same season.

Jakeb Boxell, meanwhile, will drive the No. 54 car owned by his mentor, Matt Westfall. Boxell finished 3rd and 6th in his first two Eldora outings with the USAC National Midgets in 2025. Westfall won his first USAC National Sprint Car feature at Eldora in 2006.

RACE DETAILS

#LetsRaceTwo features two-straight nights of full racing programs featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the NOS Energy Drink World of Outlaws Sprint Cars on Friday, May 15 and Saturday, May 16.

On both days, pit gates open at 2pm Eastern. The grandstands open at 4pm. The drivers meeting will take place at 5pm and cars will be on track at 6pm with qualifying and racing for both divisions immediately following.

Advance tickets are on sale now at https://eldoraspeedway.showare.com/eventperformances.asp?evt=553. For ages 14 and up, general admission tickets are $35 while reserved seats are $40. For ages 13 and under, general admission tickets are free while reserved seats are $10. Pit passes are $45 each night.

The USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car portion of the event from Eldora can be watched LIVE on FloRacing both nights at https://flosports.link/usac2026. The World of Outlaws portion of the event will be shown on https://www.dirtvision.com/.

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-760, 2-Mitchel Moles-723, 3-Justin Grant-701, 4-Jake Swanson-674, 5-Logan Seavey-660, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-638, 7-Chase Stockon-630, 8-Briggs Danner-605, 9-C.J. Leary-567, 10-Robert Ballou-547.

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT ELDORA SPEEDWAY:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ALL-TIME #LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT WINS:

4-Robert Ballou & Justin Grant

3-Tyler Courtney

2-Brady Bacon

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

ALL-TIME #LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT WINNERS:

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

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

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

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

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

2020: Not Held

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

2022: Rained Out

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

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

2025: Brady Bacon (5/2)

ELDORA SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS:

13-Jack Hewitt

9-Larry Dickson & Tracy Hines

7-Robert Ballou, Pancho Carter & Rich Vogler

6-Rollie Beale, Tom Bigelow, Tyler Courtney, Justin Grant & Bubby Jones

5-Dave Darland, & Jac Haudenschild

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

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

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

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

ELDORA SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT WINNERS:

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

1963: Allen Crowe (5/12)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1989: Steve Butler (9/24)

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

1991: Jack Hewitt (9/22)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2011: Kyle Larson (9/24)

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

2013: Chris Windom (9/21)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2022: Justin Grant (9/24)

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

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

2025: Brady Bacon (5/2), Briggs Danner (9/18) & Daison Pursley (9/20)

#LETSRACETWO USAC SPRINT RESULTS (2015-PRESENT):

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

2025 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (3), 2. Justin Grant (6), 3. Kyle Cummins (2), 4. Mitchel Moles (1), 5. Robert Ballou (8), 6. Kale Drake (15), 7. Chase Stockon (11), 8. Briggs Danner (13), 9. C.J. Leary (7), 10. Logan Seavey (9), 11. Matt Westfall (16), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (10), 13. Korbyn Hayslett (20), 14. Jake Swanson (12), 15. Jadon Rogers (19), 16. Gunnar Setser (18), 17. Saban Bibent (21), 18. Shawn Westerfeld (5), 19. Hunter Maddox (22), 20. Hayden Reinbold (14), 21. Zack Pretorius (23), 22. Kayla Roell (25-P), 23. Ryan Barr (17), 24. Braydon Cromwell (24), 25. Kyle Shipley (4). NT

KALITTA NAMED HULMAN CLASSIC

GRAND MARSHAL FOR May 20 AT TERRE HAUTE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Terre Haute, Indiana (May 12, 2026)………Thirty years after his 1996 Tony Hulman Classic victory, Doug Kalitta will serve as grand marshal for the 56th running of the event featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track on Wednesday night, May 20.

Prior to becoming the 2023 and 2025 NHRA Top Fuel dragster champion, Kalitta rose to prominence in USAC competition, culminating in a National Sprint Car driving championship in 1994.

Across the USAC National Sprint Car and National Midget disciplines, Kalitta won 10 sprint features and seven in midgets. Twelve of his 17 career USAC national victories came at the paved high banks of Indiana’s Winchester Speedway with four more coming at Indianapolis Raceway Park’s paved oval.

However, there is one particular victory that stands out – his lone dirt USAC victory at the Terre Haute Action Track on May 12, 1996, where he passed Kevin Thomas with five laps remaining to win the 26th running of the Tony Hulman Classic.

“My car was blowing out smoke and I think my left rear tire was just about flat, but that thing held on. There was a lot going on at the end of that race,” Kalitta recalled of the final laps of his 1996 Hulman Classic triumph. “The Hulman Classic was always on the list to win, or anything at Terre Haute, because it’s one of the coolest places I’ve ever gotten to run. I always looked forward to racing there every year. To win there was a big moment for me. I didn’t win a lot on dirt, so to get a win at the Terre Haute Action Track and the Hulman Classic meant a lot.”

The crew chief on Kalitta’s sprint cars during those halcyon days of the mid-1990s was National Sprint Car Hall of Fame driver Rick Ferkel, who stood in victory lane alongside Kalitta while hoisting the rifle annually awarded to the Hulman Classic winner.

To this day, the rifle remains one of Kalitta’s most prized racing rewards, and retains a prominent position in his trophy case, despite his crew chief’s notion.

“Rick always used to give me a hard time because my dad was a big hunter, and said, ‘you should’ve given that to your dad,” Kalitta said with a laugh.

Kalitta was a marquee talent during the 1990s and was a featured player on ESPN’s Thunder series, becoming a fixture in USAC from his 1990 debut until his final run in the spring of 1998. That said, his foray into USAC was quite uncommon. The Kalitta family’s background was drag racing. His uncle is Motorsports Hall of Fame of America inductee Connie Kalitta, and his cousin was Scott Kalitta, an 18-time winner between NHRA’s Top Fuel and Funny Car divisions.

So, how did Doug get the itch to go a completely different route from straight lines to ovals? It began with four-time USAC National Midget feature winner Don Schilling, and indirectly, involved USAC’s all-time winningest driver, Rich Vogler.

“I probably have to thank Rich Vogler more than anybody,” Kalitta explained of how he got started in USAC. “He and Don used to have a lot of battles and Don always seemed to get the worst of it. So, he’d bring his car back to the shop and it would be all wrecked. Growing up, my dad had a welding supply business and I was all into welding. I worked at different machine shops welding, fabricating and whatever, then I started working for Connie on airplanes and that’s kind of the thing I was good at and what a lot of people needed. So, I ended up helping Don, and after a while, he was like, ‘man.’ I think he felt sorry for me. He said, ‘you spend all this time helping me put these cars back together; we ought to talk to Connie and see if we can have you start running this Volkswagen (midget) he had.”

“My first year, I ran the ARCA Midget series, then I ended up running Don’s car on the pavement,” Kalitta added. “Then, we decided to run the whole USAC series and figure out the dirt thing (with the help of Bob East).”

Through it all, Doug was a constant frontrunner in USAC racing, finishing fourth in 1993 USAC National Sprint Car points and 1st in 1994, and was the runner-up with the series in both 1995 and 1996. In 1991, he was the USAC National Midget Rookie of the Year after finishing a career best third in the standings.

Kalitta dabbled a bit in other forms of racing. However, by the late 1990s, drag racing beckoned, and Kalitta answered the call.

“I ran some ARCA Stock Cars for six or seven races, and I never pushed for the Indy Racing League too much. I just never had a good opportunity there,” Kalitta explained of the other possible avenues at the time. “But before I started running midgets, I worked on Connie’s (top fuel) car for about eight years. A seat in one was just impossible to open up between my cousin and Connie both driving. So, I was wanting to drive something once I got the opportunity. Drag racing was always very intriguing to me. So, I was always looking forward to the opportunity once a seat opened up, and it finally did. With the timing of what was going on at the business too, it kind of presented itself to go drag racing.”

To this day, Kalitta remains in touch with the USAC National Sprint Car scene. His business, Kalitta Charters, sponsors the Dooling/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports No. 63 driven by Rookie point leader Cale Coons.

After all these years, Kalitta looks back on his USAC career with great fondness.

“We were all out there trying to whoop on each other,” Kalitta reminisced. “It was very competitive and it was the time of my life.”

The 56th annual Tony Hulman Classic featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus Modifieds takes place on Wednesday night, May 20, at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track. Pits open at 3pm Eastern with the front gates opening at 5pm, the drivers meeting at 6pm, and cars on track at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.

Grandstand tickets are $30. Infield admission is $15 and allows for access to the grass infield of the Action Track through the tunnel at the far right (turn one side) of main grandstand. Kids age 12 and under are free. Pit passes are $40.

USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS AT CASA GRANDE THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY
By Lance Jennings

MAY 11, 2026... Starting this Friday, May 15th, the stars of the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series will clash at Central Arizona Raceway for two nights of action. Friday’s event will pay $3,000-To-Win and Saturday’s show will pay $5,000-To-Win with a $500 cash bonus available both nights. The IMCA SportMods and IMCA Stock Cars will join the showcase at the Pinal County Fairgrounds located in Casa Grande, Arizona. The Spectator Gates will open at 5:00pm, and Racing is scheduled for 7:00pm on both days. For more event information, visit the track’s website at centralazraceway.com or call 520.754.0407.

For those that cannot be at the races, a live stream will be broadcast by FloRacing.com.

NOTICE TO RACERS:
- ALL RACERS MUST PURCHASE THEIR USAC LICENSE / MEMBERSHIPS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE EVENT AT USACRACING.COM OR USACLICENSE.COM. (If racers have a membership question, contact Julie Tanaka at julietanaka@aol.com.)
- ENTRY FEE: There is an entry fee due at registration / pill pick.
- TRANSPONDERS: Transponders ARE MANDATORY and will be available to rent.
- ONE WAY RADIOS / RACECEIVERS: One way radios ARE MANDATORY.
- TIRE RULE: The Hoosier 105/16 Medium or Medium 1 will be the only approved right rear tire. Only SC12 left rear tires will be permitted and front tires must be Hoosier.
- RULE BOOK: The series rule book is online at usacracing.com.
- TIRES & FUEL: Fuel will be available at the race track. Tires ARE NOT AVAILABLE at the race track.
- ROLLS SCAFFOLD 360 CHALLENGE: The top finishing 360 Sprint Car is eligible for an extra $360 per night if they finish in the top-six. If there are multiple 360s in the top-six, then the bonus will go to the highest finishing 360 in that main event. If the award is not claimed, then the pot will increase by an additional $360 at the next race until there is a winner. Once the bonus is earned, the process will start over until it is won again. If the award has not been won or whatever money is left over at season’s end will then be divided among the top three in points running a 360 engine.

ADDITIONAL BONUSES / PAYOUTS:
- $500-To-Start on both nights.
- The top-five 360s in the main event are eligible for a bonus on both nights. 1-$500, 2-$400, 3-$300, 4-$200, 5-$100.
- $200 tow money for anyone outside of Arizona.
- Tire giveaway each night.
- $100 Hard Charger Award each night thanks to Steve Lafond.

Since April 11, 2025, the fast 3/8-mile clay oval has hosted six USAC/CRA events. Logan Seavey swept both nights of last October’s “Western World Championships” while David Gasper, R.J. Johnson, Ricky Lewis, and Kevin Thomas Jr. have also claimed victory. Mitchel Moles established the 1-lap track record of 15.024 seconds on October 24, 2025.

Entering the ninth point race, two-time and defending USAC/CRA champion R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona has a 48-point advantage over the competition. Driving the Petty Performance Racing #1P Avanti Windows & Doors / Apache Transport Sherman, Johnson finished second to Ricky Lewis in the May 2nd Ventura return. At press time, the multi-time Arizona Sprint Car Champion has two feature wins, four Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, two heat race victories, eight top-10 finishes, and 29 feature laps led on the season. Now ranked seventh with thirteen career wins, the second generation driver will be looking to top the Friday and Saturday shows.

On the strength of scoring his fourth win at on May 2nd, Camarillo, California’s Ricky Lewis ranks second in the chase for the championship. Driving for three different teams, Lewis has also posted two Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, four hard charger awards, seven top-10 finishes, and 49 feature laps led to his credit. Currently ranked sixth overall with sixteen career wins, Lewis might skip Casa Grande to race in the Midwest.

“The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams of Yorba Linda, California sits third in the USAC/CRA point standings. Racing the Tom & Christy Dunkel #17W Inland Rigging / Maxima Oil Triple X, Williams placed seventh at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. To date, the former co-rookie of the year has recorded six top-10 finishes and is tied with Ryan Bernal and Matt Mitchell with eleven career wins. “The Big Game Hunter” will have his sights on his first win of the year at Central Arizona Raceway.

San Diego, California’s A.J. Bender is fourth in the championship standings. The pilot of the Kim & Richard Bender #21 Rolls Scaffold / Matrix Construction Services DRC scored eighteenth after mechanical issues ended his night. At press time, the former Turkey Night Grand Prix 360 Sprint Car winner has two heat race victories, one hard charger award, five top-10 finishes, and 24 feature laps led on the season. After finding engine problems, A.J. is looking for a ride to compete this Friday and Saturday night.

Connor Lundy of Peoria, Arizona ranks fifth in the championship point chase. Driving the family owned #97 Apache Transport / Jugo Superfoods DRC, Lundy scored sixteenth in the May 2nd main event at Ventura. To date, last season’s rookie of the year has two heat race victories, one hard charger award, five top-10 finishes, and 21 feature laps led to his credit. The young driver is moving up the USAC/CRA ranks and will have his sights on a victory at Casa Grande.

Tucson, Arizona’s Wayne Siddle leads the chase for rookie of the year honors over Bryan Whitley, “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira, Cale Coons, Zate Legend, Jim Vanzant, Joshua Shipley, Davis Perry Jr., Broedy Graham, Troy DeGaton, and Koen Crawford.

Among the other drivers expected to be in action are Verne Sweeney, Brecken Guerrero, “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., Dayton Shelton, Braden Chiaramonte, Eddie Tafoya Jr., Stevie Sussex, “The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James, Troy DeGaton, Travis DeGaton, and more.

Central Arizona Raceway is located on the Pinal County Fairgrounds at 512 S. Eleven Mile Corner Road in Casa Grande, Arizona. To get to the track, take Exit 194 from Interstate 10, then head east seven miles to the fairgrounds. Adult tickets are $20, Senior/Military tickets are $18, Young Adult tickets (11-17) are $10, Kids (10 and under) are FREE. For more event and ticket information, visit centralazraceway.com or call 520.754.0407.

For more information on the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series, visit the United States Auto Club (USAC) website at usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC/CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
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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-R.J. Johnson.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 4-Ricky Lewis, 2-R.J. Johnson, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.

CASA GRANDE AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA 1-LAP QUALIFYING RECORD: Mitchel Moles – 15.024 (10/24/25)

CASA GRANDE AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 2-Logan Seavey, 1-David Gasper, 1- R.J. Johnson, 1-Ricky Lewis, 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS: 1. R.J. Johnson-592, 2. Ricky Lewis-544, 3. Austin Williams-493, 4. A.J. Bender-444, 5. Connor Lundy-428, 6. Verne Sweeney-370, 7. Brecken Guerrero-360, 8. Charles Davis Jr.-343, 9. Dayton Shelton-312, 10. Braden Chiaramonte-267, 11. Kevin Thomas Jr.-245, 12. Wayne Siddle (R)-207, 13. Connor Speir-204, 14. Eddie Tafoya Jr.-201, 15. Bryan Whitley (R)-179, 16. Stevie Sussex-170, 17. Bruce St. James-162, 18. Daylin Perreira (R)-144, 19. Cale Coons (R)-143, 20. Zate Legend (R)-127.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE
February 14: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
February 28: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
March 13: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
April 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (RAIN)
April 17: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
April 18: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
May 2: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
May 15: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 16: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 23: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)
June 6: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
June 20: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
July 4: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA (Doug Fort Memorial)
July 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
August 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 5: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 6: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 26: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
October 3: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
October 10: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ
October 22: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 23: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
November 7: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
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* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC National Sprint Cars.
This schedule is subject to change.

USAC East Coast to Join High Limit Sprints at Port Royal

After rain wiped out the first scheduled appearance at Port Royal, officials from the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars and Port Royal Speedway went to work searching for another opportunity to bring wingless sprint car racing back to The Speed Palace.

With support from Aw Shucks Roasted Corn and a few key phone calls, a new date is officially locked in.

Sunday, July 26th, the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms will join the High Limit Racing at Port Royal Speedway for what is shaping up to be one of the biggest sprint car events of the summer.

Winged stars and wingless warriors sharing the same stage under the lights at Port Royal creates a must-see night for race fans across Pennsylvania and beyond.

A huge part of making this event possible is Aw Shucks Roasted Corn, a family-owned business based in Allentown that has become a fan favorite throughout the Lehigh Valley since 1998. Known for their roasted super sweet corn brushed with butter and topped with their famous secret southwest spice blend and parmesan cheese, Aw Shucks has built a reputation for serving one of the most unique and recognizable food experiences at events across the region.

Their mission remains simple: provide and serve the best and highest quality piece of corn on the planet while supporting their customers, community, staff, and vendors every step of the way.

And remember — all you have to say is: “Give me an Aw Shucks!”

Fans unable to attend can catch the action live on FloRacing, but there is nothing like experiencing a premier sprint car show live from the grandstands at Port Royal Speedway Trackside Media.

SALT CITY STUNNER!

REINBOLD REIGNS AT HUTCH

IN HIS FIRST USAC SILVER CROWN START

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Hutchinson, Kansas (May 9, 2026)………Any way you slice it, the odds were stacked against Hayden Reinbold during Saturday night’s 3rd running of the Evans Building Salt City 100 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson.

In what was his first career USAC Silver Crown appearance, Reinbold didn’t even make it to the green flag on the initial start after wall contact in turn four. Restarting 17th, he even went a lap down to the leader just 10 circuits into the 100-lapper.

Even after surging forward in the second half of the race, with 13 laps to go, Reinbold still ran fifth. With three laps to go, he occupied third behind the top-two drivers in series points a year ago. Furthermore, a half-straightaway deficit to the leader still stood in his path.

But at the end of it all, the 22-year-old Gilbert, Arizona native could proudly proclaim that he owned a perfect winning percentage of 100 in his USAC Silver Crown career.

One-for-one.

Reinbold made his winning move on lap 99 of 100 when racelong leader Justin Grant’s fuel tank ran dry just 1.5 laps from the finish line. Capitalizing on the situation, Reinbold scurried along the bottom of turns three and four on the 1/2-mile dirt oval, leading the final two laps to earn one of the most stunning victories in series history, considering all the circumstances.

“This is so much fun,” Reinbold exclaimed. “I don’t know if anybody has ever come from a lap down and went on to go win it. I’m kind of gassed. My legs are cooked. I fell off the cage.”

Reinbold did, in fact, fall off the roll cage on his victory lane celebration, but it was no harm, no foul. Funny thing is it took 101 starts for Reinbold to score his first career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory in 2025 at Eldora. The Silver Crown car took just one try, and he now shares a unique stat with Jimmy Horton as the holder of an unblemished 100 percent Silver Crown winning percentage.

It had been nearly 42 years since a driver won in his first career USAC Silver Crown start, but Reinbold decided to take it upon himself to become the latest to achieve the feat at the wheel of his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME Electrical – RDI Development – JUGO/DRC/Stanton Chevy.

Marv Carman was the most recent driver to win in his first ever USAC Silver Crown start at the Minnesota State Fairgrounds in 1984. In fact, only eight drivers have ever pulled off the feat: Jim McElreath (1971 Nazareth), A.J. Foyt (1971 Illinois State Fairgrounds), Danny Smith (1982 Eldora), Rick Hood (1982 Indiana State Fairgrounds), Jimmy Horton (1983 Nazareth), Herb Copeland (1983 Oklahoma City), Marv Carman (1984 Minnesota State Fairgrounds) and now Reinbold.

The way it all played out at Hutch could not have possibly been more dramatic. As the field was approaching the green flag on the initial start, Reinbold’s wheels got caught in the wet, causing the car to push straight into the outside turn four wall before coming to a stop and necessitating a yellow flag.

The contact was slight, but with a full fuel load and it being his first time in the car, it can be chalked it up to a inexperience and a learning moment.

“At the start, I just got tight and the track was greasy,” Reinbold explained. “I got caked in mud and I couldn’t get a tear-off off.”

Initially, it didn’t seem to get all that much better for Reinbold. While continuing to gain footing and gather laps, Reinbold lost a lap as pole starter Justin Grant blitzed by him just 10 laps into the race. However, with the aid of a lap 21 caution, Reinbold received his lap back per a rule that was instituted by the series a few years ago.

From there on, Reinbold got to work. He marched his way into the top-five by lap 64, using a part of the racetrack that had been relatively underutilized, much to his surprise.

“No one was going to the bottom of three and four, surprisingly,” Reinbold offered. “I felt like it was really juiced up down there, so I asked if I should go to the bottom (over the two-way radio). Since no one else was going down there, I went down there.”

Running the infield berm with his front wheels elevated on top of it at times, Reinbold still ran fifth with as little as 13 laps to go. He got to fourth on lap 88 when Chase Stockon fell out of contention due to a lack of fuel. He rose to third on lap 93 as he ducked under defending race winner Briggs Danner in turns three and four. Reinbold finally won a tug-of-war with C.J. Leary for second entering turn one with three laps to go.

But Reinbold still had to track down Grant who remained about a second ahead of him at the time with the laps dwindling. However, Grant noticeably didn’t have quite the drive off the corners as he did just moments earlier. Reinbold quickly ate up Grant’s interval on the back straight on lap 99, and completed the pass for the lead on the bottom of turns three and four just moments later.

On the final lap, Grant remained within a couple car lengths of Reinbold’s back bumper on the high side of turns one and two. That’s when Grant’s car appeared to practically shut off as the last fumes of fuel sloshed around. That allowed Reinbold to turn a narrow lead into an astonishing 3.042 second victory.

Grant crossed the line a disappointing second just inches in front of C.J. Leary in third. Kyle Steffens came home a strong fourth after starting 10th while Mario Clouser rounded out the top-five, bouncing back after suffering a flat right rear tire on lap 39 and running out of fuel on lap 88.

Additionally, Reinbold not only won the race, but he also did it with a flourish. Officially, he advanced seven positions to the lead from his eighth starting spot. That said, everyone saw him win the thing after restarting 17th. Either way you slice it, his spectacular back-to-front victory earned him Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors.

Motorsports, like life, can deliver a cruel fate when everything is seemingly going perfect. That was the case for Grant who won the pole and led 98 of the 100 laps before running out of fuel on the white flag lap. By leading the most laps, he was the night’s K & N Filters Clean Air Award recipient.

Grant’s start to the night was quite an adventure, as it was for all competitors. Grant literally broke the Hutchinson one-lap USAC Silver Crown track record three times during the night. He did it once in the first qualifying session before rain hit and washed the session out. With everybody required to requalify, Grant lowered the record twice more on his LearnLab re-Qualifying run with a lap of 20.789 seconds. It was the 13th career USAC Silver Crown fast qualifying time for JG, tying him with J.J. Yeley for sixth place all-time.

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 9, 2026 – Kansas State Fairgrounds – Hutchinson, Kansas – 1/2-Mile Dirt Oval – 3rd Evans Building Salt City 100

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 91, Hemelgarn-20.789 (New Track Record); 2. C.J. Leary, 21, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-21.031; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-21.060; 4. Mario Clouser, 20, Team AZ/Petty/Rossi/Curb-Agajanian-21.218; 5. Briggs Danner, 10, DMW-21.394; 6. Kale Drake, 92, Kazmark-21.542; 7. Chase Stockon, 69, Pink 69-21.598; 8. Hayden Reinbold, 119, Reinbold/Underwood-21.684; 9. Jake Swanson, 6, Klatt-21.749; 10. Kyle Steffens, 8, Steffens-22.274; 11. Bret Tripplett, 65, SV-22.525; 12. Kip Hughes, 160, Hughes-22.617; 13. Steve Gennetten, 64, GGR-22.694; 14. Danny Jennings, 61, Jennings-22.827; 15. Gregg Cory, 32, Williams/Cory-23.405; 16. Bryan Gossel, 06, Gossel-NT; 17. Dave Berkheimer, 31, Berkheimer-NT.

FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (8), 2. Justin Grant (1), 3. C.J. Leary (2), 4. Kyle Steffens (10), 5. Mario Clouser (4), 6. Chase Stockon (7), 7. Briggs Danner (5), 8. Steve Gennetten (13), 9. Danny Jennings (14), 10. Kip Hughes (12), 11. Gregg Cory (15), 12. Jake Swanson (9), 13. Bret Tripplett (11), 14. Mitchel Moles (3), 15. Kale Drake (6), 16. Dave Berkheimer (17), 17. Bryan Gossel (16). 48:06.009

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-98 Justin Grant, Laps 99-100 Hayden Reinbold

**Bryan Gossel flipped during practice.

USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-73, 2-Hayden Reinbold-70, 3-C.J. Leary-64, 4-Kyle Steffens-61, 5-Mario Clouser-58, 6-Chase Stockon-55, 7-Briggs Danner-52, 8-Steve Gennetten-49, 9-Danny Jennings-46, 10-Kip Hughes-43.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-38, 2-Logan Calderwood-36, 3-Robert Ballou-30, 4-Justin Grant-29, 5-Briggs Danner-28, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-28, 7-Hayden Reinbold-27, 8-Chase Stockon-24, 9-Chelby Hinton-22, 10-Jadon Rogers-21.

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 22, 2026 – Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park – Brownsburg, Indiana – .686-Mile Paved Oval – 69th Hoosier Hundred

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (21.019)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (20.789)

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Justin Grant (98 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Hayden Reinbold (8th to 1st)

ROGERS’ LAST LAP RALLY BEATS SMITH AT RED HILL

By: Ray Cunningham

Sumner, Illinois (May 9, 2026)……… Jadon Rogers passed Wesley Smith on the last lap to win Saturday night’s USAC Wholesale Batteries MRA Sprint Car Series / Midwest Thunder 410 Sprint Car Series non-points special event at Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Illinois.

Earlier in the evening, Rogers (Worthington, Indiana) also fired the first salvo by winning time trials with the only lap in the 14-second bracket.

Smith, the Nixa, Missouri chauffeur, grabbed the lead from Wyatt Burks on the first lap, and led every lap but one in the 25-lap main event. But a restart after a caution on the last lap for a spin set up Rogers pass of Smith for the win.

Meanwhile, Topeka, Kansas wheelman Burks battled all night long, running inside the top-five of the feature before making a mad dash to make the podium at the end with a third in the Land of Lincoln. Arizonans Logan Calderwood and Cameron La Rose rounded out the top-five.

Burks won the first heat and Smith captured the second heat. Both won in impressive fashion to lead the MRA stalwarts to front row feature starting spots.

USAC MRA regulars Dakota Earls of Independence, Missouri and Luke Howard of Overland Park, Kansas were also on hand. Unfortunately, neither fared as well as Smith or Burks. Howard finished just outside the top ten in 11th. Earls flipped at the mid-point of the feature, ending his night in 16th. He was not injured.

USAC MRA returns to action next Friday night, May 15, at Electric City Raceway in Butler, Missouri for the Butler Brawl.

USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: May 9, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois – Non-Points Special Event

FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-14.930; 2. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-15.204; 3. Wyatt Burks, 11w, Burks-15.676; 4. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-15.709; 5. Luke Howard, 2, Lewis-16.119; 6. Chet Williams, 38, Williams-16.208; 7. Glen Saville, 75, Grasmere-16.868; 8. Collin Jackson, 64c, Jackson-17.668.

SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Cameron La Rose, 13p, Petty-15.101; 2. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-15.208; 3. Wesley Smith, 44, Smith-15.438; 4. Adyn Schmidt, 12s, Schmidt-15.953; 5. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-16.059; 6. Collin Ambrose, 36, Ambrose-16.215; 7. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-16.358; 8. Austin Hawkins, 5A, Hawkins-16.473; 9. Eric Perrott, 10x, Perrott-19.552.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Wyatt Burks (2), 2. Jadon Rogers (4), 3. Logan Calderwood (1), 4. J.J. Hughes (3), 5. Chet Williams (6), 6. Luke Howard (5), 7. Glen Saville (7), 8. Collin Jackson (8). NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Wesley Smith (2), 2. Cameron La Rose (4), 3. Adyn Schmidt (1), 4. David Gasper (3), 5. Aric Gentry (7), 6. Dakota Earls (5), 7. Collin Ambrose (6), 8. Austin Hawkins (8), 9. Eric Perrott (9). NT

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jadon Rogers (3), 2. Wesley Smith (2), 3. Wyatt Burks (1), 4. Logan Calderwood (5), 5. Cameron La Rose (4), 6. Adyn Schmidt (6), 7. David Gasper (8), 8. J.J. Hughes (7), 9. Chet Williams (9), 10. Aric Gentry (10), 11. Luke Howard (11), 12. Glen Saville (13), 13. Austin Hawkins (16), 14. Collin Ambrose (14), 15. Collin Jackson (15), 16. Dakota Earls (12), 17. Eric Perrott (17). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-24 Wesley Smith, Lap 25 Jadon Rogers.

NEXT USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE: May 15, 2026 – Electric City Speedway – Butler, Missouri

HUTCH OPENS!

USAC SILVER CROWN SEASON BEGINS

May 8-9 AT KANSAS STATE FAIRGROUNDS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Hutchinson, Kansas (May 5, 2026)………The mighty Kansas State Fairgrounds in the heart of Hutchinson is where USAC Silver Crown National Championship dreams begin in 2026.

The Hutch half-mile dirt oval presents the third running of the Evans Building Salt City 100, the opening race on the calendar for the dirt champ cars.

The beautiful balance between speed, patience, bravery and concentration for 100 laps is critical at a place like Hutch. It exudes history; it demands attention; and it’s where racers from coast-to-coast will put their talents to the test with a full-on practice on Friday, May 8, followed by the real deal, a full slate on race day, Saturday, May 9.

The amalgamation of all these elements is the reason we’ll be there. That’s the reason you should be there. Now let’s make some history! Here are a few of the storylines to watch this weekend at Hutch.

A PERFECT 10 IN KANSAS

In 10 USAC Silver Crown races contested in the state of Kansas dating back to 2006, there have been exactly 10 different race winners!

Aaron Pierce became the first to do so with a “new generation” Silver Crown car at Kansas Speedway in 2006 while J.J. Yeley drove A.J. Foyt’s No. 14 to glory at the same place in the same car type in 2007.

At the Belleville High Banks, Tracy Hines (2013), Kody Swanson (2014), Chris Windom (2015), Brady Bacon (2023), Kaylee Bryson (2024) and Justin Grant (2025) have all won.

Kevin Thomas Jr., meanwhile, took top honors at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in 2024 as did Briggs Danner in 2025. Both will be in this weekend’s Hutchinson field, and will attempt to change that narrative.

DANNER ON DEFENSE AT SALT CITY

Briggs Danner captured his first career USAC Silver Crown victory during the Salt City 100 a year ago, leading the final 22 laps to score the win.

The Allentown, Pennsylvania racer was clutch in crunch time as he raced from third to first in a three-lap stretch between the 77th and 79th circuit, then had just enough tread on his right rear tire down the stretch to earn his first ever victory with the series in just his 10th start.

In 2026, the 24-year-old Danner will tackle a new challenge as he takes on a championship run with the USAC Silver Crown National Championship for DDMW Motorsports, a joint team effort between Lebanon, Ohio’s Doran Racing and Phoenix, Arizona’s DMW Motorsports who will continue to run their operations out of separate shops.

GRANT ON TITLE ALERT

Justin Grant has a USAC Silver Crown victory in Kansas as recently as last year, but that one came over at Belleville. Now, the Ione, California racer is eager to knock out a first on his win list this weekend at Hutch.

Grant comes into the 2026 season as the defending USAC Silver Crown champion, earning previous titles in 2020 and 2025. Once again, he’s back with Hemelgarn Racing for their 10th consecutive season as a Silver Crown combo.

His Hutch record thus far isn’t all that flashy at the moment, with finishes of 13th and 6th to his credit thus far, incidentally, being his two worst dirt finishes with the series in each of the two past years.

LEARY & CLOUSER HIGHLIGHT TWO-CAR ATTACK

C.J. Leary and Mario Clouser will run full-time as teammates in pursuit of the 2026 USAC Silver Crown National Championship under the Team AZ-Petty-Rossi/Curb-Agajanian banner.

Leary will drive the team’s No. 21 entry while Clouser will pilot the No. 20 DRC/Stanton-powered machine on both the dirt and pavement circuits throughout the 11-race tour.

Both team cars shared the front row and the lead of last year’s Salt City 100. Leary set a new Silver Crown track record at Hutch with a time of 20.994 seconds as well in 2025. Clouser proceeded to lead the first 42 laps before Leary held it for the next 36 circuits.

Leary went on to finish as the runner-up in both the race and the championship fight a year ago. Clouser bowed out early from the race with a mechanical issue, but still managed 10th. Leary also led 15 laps of the 2024 race, but an accident while battling for the lead with just 16 laps to go sent him upside down.

REINBOLD TWIN CAR TEAM DEBUTS

A pair of Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports cars are set to do the full allotment of six dirt USAC Silver Crown races in 2026. One for series winner Mitchel Moles and another for series newcomer Hayden Reinbold.

Neither driver has yet made a Hutchinson appearance. Moles (Raisin City, California) won a USAC Silver Crown race at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in 2024. Reinbold (Gilbert, Arizona) was named the 2025 USAC National Most Improved Driver for his work in USAC’s National Sprint Car and Midget divisions. But now, he will get the chance to tackle the big cars.

Of note, there are three multi-car teams making the trip to Hutchinson. Briggs Danner & Bruce St. James (DDMW Motorsports), C.J. Leary & Mario Clouser (Team Arizona-Petty-Rossi/Curb-Agajanian) and Mitchel Moles & Hayden Reinbold (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports).

NEW YEAR, NEW WINNERS ON THE HORIZON?

A new year brings new hopes, new dreams, and perhaps, new names who can rise to the forefront to become first-time USAC Silver Crown winners in the 2026 season. Especially considering the fact that first-time series winners have emerged in each of the first two Hutchinson races in 2024 and 2025.

Among those names on the list this year are Jake Swanson (Klatt Enterprises #6), Chase Stockon (Pink 69 Racing #69), Kyle Steffens (Steffens Motorsports #8) and Kale Drake (Kazmark Motorsports #92).

Kip Hughes (Hughes #160) returns to the Salt City 100 where he had the best run of his career one year ago, a fifth place finish. Fellow Salt City returnees include six-time Hutchinson Grand Nationals winner Danny Jennings (Grace #61), Gregg Cory (Williams-Cory #32), Dave Berkheimer (Berkheimer #31), and Steve Gennetten (GGR #64).

Bryan Gossel (Gossel #06), the 2020 USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the Year, will make his first Silver Crown appearance at Hutchinson. He has previously made sprint car starts at the track with ASCS and NCRA. USAC Southwest Sprint Car point leader Bruce St. James (DDMW #110) will make his first ever USAC Silver Crown appearance as well as Bret Triplett (SV Motorsports #65).

RACE DETAILS:

The Friday, May 8, program will feature USAC Silver Crown practice only, plus URSS Sprint Car heat races as well as complete shows for the IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA SportMods and IMCA Hobby Stocks. General admission tickets are $20 and kids tickets are $15. Pit passes are $40. Pits open at 3pm Central with the front gates opening at 5pm and cars on track at 6:15pm followed by qualifying and racing.

The Saturday, May 9, program will feature USAC Silver Crown practice, qualifying and racing, plus URSS Sprint Car racing. General admission tickets are $35 and kids tickets are $17.50. Pit passes are $40. Pits open at Noon Central with the front gates opening at 5pm and cars on track at 6:30pm followed by qualifying and racing.

Advance tickets are on sale now at https://saltcityracingllc.com/.

Saturday night’s program will feature full LIVE coverage on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC SILVER CROWN AT THE KANSAS STATE FAIRGROUNDS

1 Lap - 7/19/2025 - C.J. Leary - 20.994

KANSAS STATE FAIRGROUNDS USAC SILVER CROWN WINS

1-Briggs Danner & Kevin Thomas Jr.

KANSAS STATE FAIRGROUNDS USAC SILVER CROWN WINNERS

2024: Kevin Thomas Jr. (7/20)

2025: Briggs Danner (7/19)

USAC SILVER CROWN WINNERS IN KANSAS:

1-Brady Bacon, Kaylee Bryson, Briggs Danner, Justin Grant, Tracy Hines, Aaron Pierce, Kody Swanson, Kevin Thomas Jr., Chris Windom & J.J. Yeley

PAST SALT CITY 100 RESULTS

2024 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 2. Logan Seavey (5), 3. Trey Osborne (6), 4. Chase Stockon (7), 5. Kody Swanson (8), 6. Kaylee Bryson (11), 7. Kyle Steffens (9), 8. Nathan Moore (16), 9. Danny Jennings (13), 10. Gregg Cory (14), 11. Mario Clouser (4), 12. C.J. Leary (2), 13. Justin Grant (3), 14. Chris Fetter (15), 15. Kip Hughes (12), 16. Trey Burke (10), 17. Dave Berkheimer (17), 18. Steve Gennetten (18), 19. Danny Long (19). NT

2025 FEATURE: (100 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (3), 2. C.J. Leary (1), 3. Chase Stockon (7), 4. Matt Westfall (6), 5. Kip Hughes (11), 6. Justin Grant (5), 7. Danny Jennings (13), 8. Saban Bibent (10), 9. Travis Mahoney (12), 10. Mario Clouser (2), 11. Kyle Steffens (9), 12. Jake Swanson (4), 13. Shane Cockrum (8), 14. Dave Berkheimer (14). 46:54.175 (New Track Record)

SILVER TO GOLD!

MOLES ROLLS TO FIRST USAC SPRINT WIN

OF 2026 AT TRI-STATE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Haubstadt, Indiana (May 2, 2026)………”We won at Haubstadt!”

Mitchel Moles finally traded in his silver for gold during Saturday night’s 13th running of the Spring Showdown at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway.

After several close calls in recent years – and in recent weeks – in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition, the Raisin City, California native hustled past Jadon Rogers with eight laps remaining to corral his first victory of the series season.

Moles’ latest triumph came after finishing as the runner-up in three of his past four USAC National Sprint Car feature starts this season, finally parking his Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports/AME – Mesilla Valley Transportation/Spike/Stanton Chevy in victory lane.

A frequent frontrunner at the 1/4-mile dirt oval, Moles had finished on the podium in each of his past two Spring Showdown starts in 2024 and 2025, and was second in the USAC Indiana Sprint Week round at the track in 2024. This time, he was on the top step after finally putting his personal checkmark next to a Tri-State Triumph.

“Man, I feel like I’ve been so close,” Moles exhaled. “It was around this time last year that Justin (Grant) and I were going at it, but I gave it up with a couple laps to go. But tonight, Jadon and I got to firing some slide jobs over there and neither of us wanted to give it up. We both haven’t won a ton of USAC races. He gave it his all and I was giving it my all, and I think that’s what makes it great for the fans.”

Ironically, Moles’ feature victory came on the same night one of his finest streaks came to a close. Moles had been the fastest qualifier for four consecutive USAC National Sprint Car events at Tri-State dating back to 2024. On this night, he was beaten to the punch by Kyle Cummins to the tune of a mere .017 seconds.

Turns out, it was just fine for Moles as he notched his sixth career USAC National Sprint Car victory, tied for 78th on the all-time list alongside Emerson Axsom, Chad Boespflug, Kevin Briscoe, Shane Cottle, Jac Haudenschild, Jason McCord, Jan Opperman, Tom Sneva, George Snider and Dick Tobias.

Starting fifth on the grid for the 30-lap feature, Moles quickly rose to the second position on the first lap of the feature, instigating a nearly race long pursuit of frontrunner Rogers.

Rogers, still on the med from a broken left fibula suffered about six weeks ago, looked exemplary at the same place he picked up his one and only USAC National Sprint Car win to date back in 2022. Rogers sliced through the thick of the traffic as he kept Moles at bay for the time being. But Moles never strayed too far behind from there on out.

In a spectacular sequence on the 18th lap, Rogers and Moles threw hands and exchanged the lead four times in a single trip around The Class Track. Moles was able to dive under Rogers for the position in both turns one and three. However, at the exit of turns two and four, Rogers managed to fend off Moles’ attack and drive back underneath to resecure the lead by a .038 second margin at the stripe, about the diameter of a front wheel.

The caution fell on lap 18 when Robert Ballou (7th) and Aric Gentry (21st) stopped sideways in turns one and two. On the ensuing restart, Moles had his hands full with Kevin Thomas Jr. for the next three laps, but Moles was able to shake loose and gain some ground on Rogers once again.

Ninth running Eli Wilhelmus’s dramatically slowing car necessitated a yellow flag on lap 23, bringing Moles right to within a whisper of Rogers’ rear bumper. On the first lap of the resumption, Moles’ toured the middle of turns three and four, and glided up in front of Rogers at the exit of turn four to gain the lead for the first time.

“I think we just rolled it in a little more,” Moles explained regarding the evolution of the track surface throughout the course of the feature. “It took a little longer for that one to get picked up, and we rolled it in even more. So, I think that hurt (Jadon’s) run. I’ve been beaten like that before here, so I knew what (Kevin Thomas Jr.) was doing and I knew if I could kind of mimic that. I don’t know where their racecar was at, but when you’re good at Haubstadt, everybody’s stuff seems to go.”

All that said, Rogers kept his foot in it, and by the time the two reached turn four on lap 24, Rogers returned the favor and slid across the nose of Moles to retake the spot. Yet, a split second after Rogers found himself at the front once again, the caution was displayed for a two-car tangle between Eli Wilhelmus and Cale Coons, who were involved in a tussle for 15th place at the time. As a result, Rogers was moved back behind Moles for the next restart.

On the lap 24 restart, Moles distanced himself from the pack. Meanwhile, a battle was raging for third between Thomas and Kyle Cummins. But it was then and there that a catastrophe nearly came to fruition. As Cummins went topside around Thomas off turn two and down the back straightaway, Thomas’ right front tire and Cummins’ left rear tire brushed each other, sending Cummins’ car careening full speed sideways through the infield before he somehow managed to straighten himself out and rejoin the field, albeit after losing two positions to drop to fifth.

Up front, Moles had a firm grip on the number one spot and took it straight to the checkered flag to win by a 1.564 second margin over Rogers in second with Thomas taking third. Moles’ teammate, Hayden Reinbold, also demonstrated his best series finish of the year with a fourth. Cummins wound up rounding out the top-five.

For the first 22 laps of tonight's feature, Rogers was firmly established at the top of the leaderboard. In the end, he came home as the runner-up finisher to earn the K & N Filters Clean Air Award for the most laps led.

Donny Brackett raced with a damaged Jacobs Ladder during the feature, but it wasn’t enough to slow him a bit in his ex-Kyle Cummins ride. Starting 16th, Brackett raced his way up to a seventh place result, the best finish of his USAC National Sprint Car career in what was his 17th series start. He was honored as the Rod End Supply Hard Charger.

Cummins was the night’s LearnLab Fast Qualifier. His lap of 13.416 seconds represented his 20th career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time, a number which moved him to 25th place all-time alongside fellow series champions Jerry Coons Jr., Tony Elliott and Roger McCluskey.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 2, 2026 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 13th Spring Showdown – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-13.418; 2. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.435; 3. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-13.450; 4. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-13.705; 5. Eli Wilhelmus, 55, Wilhelmus-13.722; 6. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-13.761; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.867; 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-13.901; 9. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-13.986; 10. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-13.996; 11. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-14.017; 12. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-14.028; 13. Chet Williams, 38, Williams-14.082; 14. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-14.093; 15. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-14.186; 16. Donny Brackett, 4B, Brackett-14.197; 17. Carson Short, 21m, Edwards-14.229; 18. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.254; 19. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.271; 20. Kendall Ruble, 17, Ruble-14.314; 21. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-14.402; 22. Sam Scott, 7s, Scott-14.602; 23. Adyn Schmidt, 12s, Schmidt-14.734; 24. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.828; 25. James Boyd, 16B, Boyd-14.838; 26. Brady Short, 61m, Edwards-14.850; 27. Austin Cory, 49, Cory-14.880; 28. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-14.942; 29. Reed Whitney, 87, Whitney-14.971; 30. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-15.252; 31. Collin Ambrose, 36, Ambrose-15.430; 32. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-15.487; 33. Austin Hawkins, 5A, Hawkins-15.507.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (6), 2. Carson Short (2), 3. Chet Williams (3), 4. Aric Gentry (1), 5. Briggs Danner (4), 6. Eli Wilhelmus (5), 7. James Boyd (7), 8. Reed Whitney (8), 9. Austin Hawkins (9). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Robert Ballou (3), 3. C.J. Leary (4), 4. Jadon Rogers (5), 5. Jake Swanson (2), 6. Sam Scott (1), 7. Troy Carey (8), 8. Brady Short (7). 2:15.918

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Hayden Reinbold (6), 2. Chase Stockon (2), 3. Harley Burns (3), 4. Logan Seavey (5), 5. Adyn Schmidt (1), 6. Logan Calderwood (4), 7. Austin Cory (7), 8. Collin Ambrose (8). 2:19.333

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 2. Kendall Ruble (2), 3. Cale Coons (1), 4. Justin Grant (6), 5. Trey Osborne (4), 6. Donny Brackett (3), 7. Kobe Simpson (7), 8. Dakota Earls (8). 2:25.328

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Eli Wilhelmus (1), 2. Donny Brackett (3), 3. Logan Calderwood (2), 4. Sam Scott (4), 5. Troy Carey (8), 6. Brady Short (9), 7. James Boyd (5), 8. Kobe Simpson (7), 9. Collin Ambrose (11), 10. Austin Hawkins (13), 11. Reed Whitney (10), 12. Dakota Earls (12), 13. Austin Cory (6). NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (5), 2. Jadon Rogers (2), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 4. Hayden Reinbold (4), 5. Kyle Cummins (6), 6. Justin Grant (3), 7. Donny Brackett (16), 8. C.J. Leary (10), 9. Logan Seavey (1), 10. Chet Williams (13), 11. Robert Ballou (14), 12. Briggs Danner (9), 13. Harley Burns (15), 14. Chase Stockon (19), 15. Cale Coons (24), 16. Kendall Ruble (20), 17. Adyn Schmidt (23), 18. Jake Swanson (18), 19. Aric Gentry (21), 20. Logan Calderwood (11), 21. Eli Wilhelmus (8), 22. Trey Osborne (12), 23. Sam Scott (22), 24. Carson Short (17). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-22 Jadon Rogers, Laps 23-30 Mitchel Moles.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-760, 2-Mitchel Moles-723, 3-Justin Grant-701, 4-Jake Swanson-674, 5-Logan Seavey-660, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-638, 7-Chase Stockon-630, 8-Briggs Danner-605, 9-C.J. Leary-567, 10-Robert Ballou-547.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Cale Coons-38, 2-Logan Calderwood-36, 3-Robert Ballou-30, 4-Justin Grant-29, 5-Briggs Danner-28, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-28, 7-Chase Stockon-23, 8-Chelby Hinton-22, 9-Jadon Rogers-21, 10-Hayden Reinbold-20.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACES: May 15-16, 2026 – Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, Ohio – #LetsRaceTwo Presented by LGMG – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

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CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Mitchel Moles (13.669)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Kyle Cummins (13.418)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Hayden Reinbold

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Eli Wilhelmus

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Jadon Rogers (22 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Donny Brackett (16th to 7th)

TWICE AS NICE!

CUMMINS GOES BACK TO BACK

AT BLOOMINGTON’S LARRY RICE CLASSIC

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Bloomington, Indiana (May 1, 2026)………Prior to Friday night, only driver Tony Elliott and car owner Ralph Potter had graced victory lane at the Larry Rice Classic on more than one occasion.

After Friday night, you can add Kyle Cummins and Petty Performance Racing to that list, as the reigning USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Champion driver and entrant backed up their Larry Rice Classic victory from one year ago to become the first back-to-back winners of the event at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway.

Elliott won for Potter when the event debuted in 1993 as a USAC National Midget race. Potter returned to victory lane in 1994 with Tony Stewart piloting his V6 powered midget. Elliott returned to glory in the 1998 event, the first time it was held as a USAC National Sprint Car event.

It’s safe to say Cummins is officially on a roll of late, as he conquered his second consecutive USAC National Sprint Car triumph, while extending his top-five finishing streak to eight while also advancing his championship point lead to 45.

The Princeton, Indiana racer’s third career USAC victory at Bloomington’s red clay 1/4-mile oval was the 32nd of his USAC National Sprint Car career, moving him past Tyler Courtney and into a tie with 1973 series champion Rollie Beale for 17th place on the all-time list.

Cummins led all but the first lap of the 30-lap main event in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy, blazing a trail out front for the final 29 circuits without much in the way of a creditable threat from all those who gave chase.

Starting from the outside of the front row, Cummins initially used the low line to bolt past pole sitter Kevin Thomas Jr. for the lead on the second lap. Thomas paced the first trip around until Cummins shot to the bottom of turn one on the second lap, blew past him and never looked back.

But Cummins has never fancied himself as much of a huggy-pole type of driver, a badge of honor that the event’s grand marshal, 1995 Larry Rice Classic winner Kevin Thomas, held claim to throughout his illustrious career in the Hoosier state.

“I’ve been coming here a long time ever since I first started. I’ve just always loved it. You’ve got the cushion to ride,” Cummins recalled. “But there at the beginning, I’m running around the bottom and I’m like, ‘I know this feels wrong.’ I was glad that the lapped cars came in there to move me to the top. Then, I knew once I got to three and four, on the top, it was definitely better.”

By the ninth lap, Cummins had reached the tail end of the field while carrying a full second lead ahead of Thomas, Chase Stockon, Jake Swanson and Mitchel Moles. However, on the 10th lap, any thought of Cummins getting caught in gridlock any time soon was put to rest as Gabriel Gilbert (20th) suddenly slowed on the front straightaway. Jadon Rogers nearly ramped over Gilbert’s left rear tire in the process, but kept on going. Gabriel did not return after being towed to the pits.

On the lap 11 restart, Thomas drifted high as he approached the back bumper of Cummins in turn three. Stockon took full advantage and drove underneath to swipe second. In medias res, Stockon was the only driver able to hang with Cummins for even a brief moment.

An even briefer moment saw Cummins bike in turns three and four on lap 14. Once he wrestled control back, Stockon was unable to capitalize. Mere moments later, Briggs Danner (9th) veered off the exit of turn four, then proceeded to glide slideways along the outside front straightaway wall before coming to a rest, miraculously all without making contact. The culprit was a broken steering mechanism, knocking him out of the race.

For Cummins, however, it was a chance to reel it in for a moment after a slight hiccup. But it was no harm, no foul essentially. It was just a part of the experience.

“One lap, I just grabbed the wheel and I thought I was either going to crash or I was going to win. It was one or the other,” Cummins explained. “Sometimes, you can’t really see it. You just gas it up, and hopefully, it skims through the holes. Even like the last lap, I’m like, ‘oh, did I get in too tight?’ But it makes it a little exciting and gets your blood pumping a little bit.”

After the midway restart, Swanson followed the path to third past Thomas on lap 16, then Swanson dug by Stockon to grab second on lap 19. Moles followed suit to third place on lap 20 as Stockon drifted outside of the low groove and fell to fourth.

With five to go, Moles swung around the outside of the bottom-hugging Swanson in turns one and two, and slotted himself into second. That said, the time was nigh, and Cummins was a full straightaway ahead of any of his nearest challengers.

Cummins sealed the deal by crossing under Rusty Nunn’s double checkered flags by a 1.997 second margin. Moles finished second for the third time in his past four starts. Swanson took third with Stockon fourth and Thomas rounding out the top-five.

By leading 29 of the 30 laps in the feature en route to victory, Cummins picked up the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

Swanson nearly dumped it when he biked in his heat race. He ultimately gathered it up and grabbed a transfer spot to make his way into the big show. In the feature, he raced into the third spot to finish on the podium. That earned him the event’s Sober Joe Recovery of the Night honor.

Trey Osborne advanced 24th to 15th in the feature. The plus-nine performance made him the Rod End Supply Hard Charger for the evening.

Moles turned the 32nd USAC National Sprint Car LearnLab Fast Qualifying time of his career with a lap of 11.432 seconds. That moved him past 1977-1981-1982 series champion Sheldon Kinser, a Bloomington native, for 13th place on the all-time list. It's the second consecutive year that Moles was the fastest qualifier for the Larry Rice Classic.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 1, 2026 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 19th Larry Rice Classic – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-11.432; 2. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-11.447; 3. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-11.472; 4. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-11.648; 5. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-11.669; 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-11.725; 7. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-11.790; 8. Jack Hoyer, 11, Hoyer-11.807; 9. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-11.822; 10. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-11.823; 11. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-11.826; 12. Kyle Shipley, 0G, Black Gold-11.834; 13. Chance Crum, 24p, Paul-11.849; 14. Gavin Miller, 21AZ, Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian-11.861; 15. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-11.876; 16. Ricky Lewis, 2E, Epperson-11.877; 17. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-11.919; 18. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-11.928; 19. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-11.944; 20. Rylan Gray, 06, Gray-12.005; 21. Gabriel Gilbert, 10G, Gilbert-12.104; 22. Hunter Maddox, 24m, Maddox-12.124; 23. Colin Parker, 16K, Knight-12.157; 24. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-12.173; 25. Kole Kirkman, 18K, Dice-12.227; 26. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-12.265; 27. Adam Taylor, 8T, Doherty-12.306; 28. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-12.353; 29. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-12.360; 30. Braxton Cummings, 71B, Cummings-12.368; 31. Bryce Andrews, 17, MSR-12.386; 32. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-12.443; 33. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-12.475; 34. Austin Cory, 49, Cory-12.510; 35. Todd Hobson, 77, Wingo Bishop-12.556; 36. Austin Hawkins, 5A, Hawkins-13.479.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (2), 2. Gabriel Gilbert (1), 3. Kyle Cummins (5), 4. Mitchel Moles (6), 5. Chance Crum (3), 6. Trey Osborne (8), 7. C.J. Leary (4), 8. Kole Kirkman (7), 9. Brandon Mattox (9). 2:01.979

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Robert Ballou (2), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr (5), 3. Hunter Maddox (1), 4. Justin Grant (4), 5. Logan Seavey (6), 6. Gavin Miller (3), 7. Jadon Rogers (7), 8. Austin Cory (9), 9. Braxton Cummings (8). 2:04.952

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cale Coons (3), 2. Hayden Reinbold (2), 3. Harley Burns (4), 4. Jake Swanson (6), 5. Logan Calderwood (5), 6. Colin Parker (1), 7. Adam Taylor (7), 8. Todd Hobson (9), 9. Bryce Andrews (8). 2:02.938

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Rylan Gray (2), 2. Ricky Lewis (3), 3. Chase Stockon (6), 4. Troy Carey (1), 5. Jack Hoyer (5), 6. Kyle Shipley (4), 7. Kobe Simpson (8), 8. Austin Hawkins (9), 9. Dakota Earls (7). 2:04.649

FIVE STAR BODIES SEMI: (12 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (1), 2. Gavin Miller (3), 3. Trey Osborne (5), 4. Jadon Rogers (6), 5. Kobe Simpson (8), 6. Braxton Cummings (14), 7. Todd Hobson (11), 8. Brandon Mattox (16), 9. Adam Taylor (7), 10. Austin Hawkins (12), 11. Kole Kirkman (9), 12. Austin Cory (10), 13. Dakota Earls (13), 14. Bryce Andrews (15), 15. Kyle Shipley (2), 16. Colin Parker (4). NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (2), 2. Mitchel Moles (6), 3. Jake Swanson (4), 4. Chase Stockon (3), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 6. Cale Coons (7), 7. Robert Ballou (9), 8. Logan Seavey (5), 9. Justin Grant (14), 10. Gavin Miller (17), 11. Jack Hoyer (12), 12. Rylan Gray (10), 13. C.J. Leary (13), 14. Harley Burns (15), 15. Trey Osborne (24), 16. Logan Calderwood (11), 17. Jadon Rogers (23), 18. Chance Crum (16), 19. Ricky Lewis (18), 20. Hayden Reinbold (19), 21. Hunter Maddox (21), 22. Troy Carey (22), 23. Briggs Danner (8), 24. Gabriel Gilbert (20). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Kevin Thomas Jr., Laps 2-30 Kyle Cummins.

**Kyle Shipley & Colin Parker flipped during the semi.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-688, 2-Jake Swanson-643, 3-Mitchel Moles-640, 4-Justin Grant-638, 5-Logan Seavey-609, 6-Chase Stockon-588, 7-Kevin Thomas Jr.-566, 8-Briggs Danner-562, 9-C.J. Leary-512, 10-Robert Ballou-499.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-36, 2-Justin Grant-29, 3-Cale Coons-29, 4-Briggs Danner-28, 5-Robert Ballou-27, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-24, 7-Chelby Hinton-22, 8-Jadon Rogers-21, 9-Hayden Reinbold-20, 10-Chase Stockon-18.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 2, 2026 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Indiana – 13th Spring Showdown – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

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CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jake Swanson (11.829)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Mitchel Moles (11.432)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Robert Ballou

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cale Coons

Indy Powersports Fourth Heat Winner: Rylan Gray

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: C.J. Leary

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Kyle Cummins (29 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Trey Osborne (24th to 15th)

Sober Joe Coffee Recovery of the Night: Jake Swanson

SOUTHERN INDIANA SHOWCASE!

BLOOMINGTON & TRI-STATE UP NEXT

FOR USAC SPRINTS MAY 1-2

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 29, 2026)………The Red Clay & The Class Track.

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

The first of this weekend’s USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship rounds take us to Bloomington Speedway on Friday, May 1, for the 19th running of the Larry Rice Classic.

The following night, Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway will host the 13th running of the Spring Showdown on Saturday, May 2.

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

HOME-CUMMINS

Kyle Cummins won both the Larry Rice Classic and the Spring Showdown on the same weekend one year ago, becoming the first driver in USAC National Sprint Car history to win at Bloomington and Tri-State on consecutive evenings.

Those victories helped propelled the Princeton, Indiana native to the USAC National Sprint Car driving championship in 2025, and entering this weekend, he resides right at the top of the standings once again.

He’s won twice at Bloomington in his USAC career, and seven more times at Tri-State with USAC, and was victorious in his most recent USAC National Sprint Car start on April 12 at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track, part of his ongoing streak of seven consecutive top-five finishes with the series.

Cummins gives no indication of slowing down any time soon, winning last Sunday’s non-sanctioned Kokomo Speedway sprint car feature by a hefty margin.

LEARY LIKE A FOX

C.J. Leary’s past two USAC National Sprint Car starts have resulted in two of his best runs of the 2026 season, finishing 5th at both Lawrenceburg and Terre Haute. And he accomplished it at the wheel of the Fox Brothers/Brayden Fox Racing No. 53.

It’s the same team which won the Bloomington Speedway track championship with Brad Fox in 1997 and again in 2024 with Brad’s son, Brayden Fox, as the driver. Brad also won a USAC Indiana Sprint Week feature at Bloomington in 1997.

Leary reigned victorious in the 2023 Larry Rice Classic at Bloomington, and has come close to scoring a win at Tri-State’s Spring Showdown, finishing second and coming within four laps of winning in 2018. Leary also owns Bloomington’s USAC National Sprint Car track record of 10.685 seconds.

KTJ’s BREAD & BUTTER

Kevin Thomas Jr. possesses a whopping 13 career USAC National Sprint Car feature victories between Bloomington and Tri-State. He’s the all-time leading winner at Tri-State with nine, and has gathered four more at Bloomington in his career.

He’s also one of just four drivers to win both the Larry Rice Classic and Spring Showdown in his career, along with Brady Bacon, Chris Windom and Kyle Cummins.

In fact, his trio of Spring Showdown wins ranks number one all-time, grabbing the top prize in the event in 2013-2018-2024. He also added a Larry Rice Classic to his tally in 2021.

In 2026, however, KTJ remains on the hunt for his first USAC win of the season.

MILLER DEBUT AT BLOOMINGTON

Bloomington’s Larry Rice Classic also presents the first opportunity of the year to see the Team Arizona/Curb-Agajanian Racing No. 21AZ in USAC competition. It was announced earlier in the season that the team set forth a part-time USAC National Sprint Car schedule with drivers Gavin Miller and Jacob Denney sharing driving duties.

Miller will be first up as he gets the call to make his first career USAC National Sprint Car appearance at a track that is near and dear to his career. The Allentown, Pennsylvania native has won two career USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget features at Bloomington.

Just last week, Miller made an impressive sprint car debut for the team at Kokomo, finishing fourth and fifth in his first ever sprint car drivers versus a stout field that contained many USAC regulars.

Of note, the most recent driver to win in his very first career USAC National Sprint Car feature start was Tanner Swanson at Indiana’s Anderson Speedway in 2008.

FAST TIMIN’ MOLES

Mitchel Moles was the quickest qualifier for both the Larry Rice Classic and the Spring Showdown one year ago in 2025.

In fact, the Raisin City, California racer has been the fastest qualifier in each of his past four tries at the Haubstadt, Indiana track dating back to 2024. Last year, he tied the all-time mark with 15 USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying times during the season, equaling Kevin Thomas Jr.’s mark from 2018.

But now, Moles is more than ready to break through to victory lane. He’s finished as the runner-up in two of his past three series starts this month at Red Hill and Terre Haute.

LARRY RICE CLASSIC HISTORY

The Larry Rice Classic began as a USAC National Midget event in 1993 and 1994 at Bloomington Speedway. The event transformed into an unsanctioned sprint car event for 1995 and 1996 before going under the USAC National Sprint Car banner in 1998, where it has remained since, albeit off and on for a number of years.

The event honors the legacy, the life and the memory of Rice, the three-time USAC national driving champion (1973 Midget and 1977 & 1981 Silver Crown) who later became a much-loved color commentator for ESPN’s Thunder Series of USAC races on national television. Rice passed away in 2009 at the age of 63.

Four past Larry Rice Classic winners will be in this Friday’s field at Bloomington: Kevin Thomas Jr. (2021), C.J. Leary (2023), Logan Seavey (2024) and Kyle Cummins (2025).

Ralph Potter (1993-1994) is the only multi-time winning Larry Rice Classic car owner. Three more teams have an opportunity to repeat their feat this Friday: 2B Racing (2012), Abacus Racing (2024) and Petty Performance Racing (2025).

SPRING SHOWDOWN HISTORY

The Spring Showdown began in 2012, and has affirmed its position as one of the early season staples of the USAC National Sprint Car schedule ever since.

Four past Spring Showdown champions are excepted to compete in this weekend’s 13th running, including three-time winner Kevin Thomas Jr., two-time victor Kyle Cummins, plus one-time winners Justin Grant and Chase Stockon.

RACE DETAILS

Friday’s Larry Rice Classic on May 1 at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and Super Stocks. Pits open at 4pm Eastern with the grandstands opening at 5pm, drivers meeting at 5:45pm & cars on track at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing to immediately follow.

General Admission tickets are $30 for ages 13 and up, and free for ages 12 and under. Pit passes are $40 for ages 11 and up and $15 for ages 10 and under. Advance tickets on sale now at https://www.myracepass.com/tracks/1175/tickets/1514850.

Saturday’s Spring Showdown on May 2 at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway presents the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Midwest Mini Sprint Association. Pits open at 3pm Central, grandstands at 4pm, drivers meeting at 5:15pm and cars on track at 6pm followed immediately by qualifying and racing. Adult general admission tickets are $30, students (ages 13-18) $20 & children 12 and under free.

Both events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing both nights at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY

1 Lap - 4/12/2019 - C.J. Leary - 10.685

6 Laps - 7/25/2003 - Kent Christian - 1:13.96

8 Laps - 7/18/2008 - Jesse Cramer - 1:36.63

10 Laps - 4/14/2017 - Kevin Thomas Jr. - 1:51.72

12 Laps - 4/14/2017 - Chase Stockon - 2:20.84

30 Laps - 4/12/2019 - Brady Bacon - 6:47.18

LARRY RICE CLASSIC WINS

2-Tony Elliott

1-A.J. Anderson, Brady Bacon, Kevin Briscoe, Kyle Cummins, Dave Darland, Derek Davidson, Jay Drake, Bobby East, Cory Kruseman, C.J. Leary, Logan Seavey, Tony Stewart, Kevin Thomas, Kevin Thomas Jr., Chris Windom & J.J. Yeley

LARRY RICE CLASSIC WINNERS

1993: Tony Elliott

1994: Tony Stewart

1995: Kevin Thomas

1996: Derek Davidson

1998: Tony Elliott

1999: Cory Kruseman

2000: Jay Drake

2001: A.J. Anderson

2002: Kevin Briscoe

2003: J.J. Yeley

2011: Chris Windom

2012: Bobby East

2013: Dave Darland

2019: Brady Bacon

2021: Kevin Thomas Jr.

2023: C.J. Leary

2024: Logan Seavey

2025: Kyle Cummins

BLOOMINGTON SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS:

5-Bryan Clauson

4-Kevin Thomas Jr.

3-Dave Darland

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

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

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY

1 Lap - 7/30/2000 - Levi Jones - 12.644

6 Laps - 7/17/2005 - Hud Cone - 1:20.59

8 Laps - 7/15/2006 - Shane Hollingsworth - 1:49.65

10 Laps - 9/2/2006 - Dave Darland - 2:09.02

12 Laps - 9/14/2013 - Chase Stockon - 2:42.02

30 Laps - 7/18/2015 - Brady Short - 7:31.50

SPRING SHOWDOWN USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS

3-Kevin Thomas Jr.

2-Kyle Cummins

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

SPRING SHOWDOWN USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS

2012: Hunter Schuerenberg (5/12)

2013: Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/11)

2014: Daron Clayton (4/26)

2015: Brady Bacon (4/18)

2016: Chase Stockon (4/16)

2017: Chris Windom (4/15)

2018: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/28)

2020: Stephen Schnapf (6/14)

2021: Kyle Cummins (4/17)

2023: Justin Grant (4/15)

2024: Kevin Thomas Jr. (5/11)

2025: Kyle Cummins (5/10)

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS

9-Kevin Thomas Jr.

7-Kyle Cummins

5-Daron Clayton

4-Cory Kruseman

3-Justin Grant & Rick Hood

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

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

USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS RETURN TO VENTURA FOR 550th EVENT SATURDAY
By Lance Jennings

APRIL 27, 2026... Ventura Raceway is the place to be this Saturday as the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will take center stage at the seaside oval. The May 2nd showcase is the 550th event in series history and will also feature the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC Western States Midgets, VRA Hobby Stocks, IMCA Sport Compacts, and VRA Junior Classes. Located at the Ventura County Fairgrounds at 10 West Harbor Blvd. in Ventura, California, the Pit Gates will open at Noon, the Front Gates open at 3:00pm, with Racing scheduled for 5:30pm at “The Best Little Dirt Track in America.” For more event information, visit the track’s website at venturaraceway.com or call 805.648.RACE.

For those that cannot be at the races, a live stream will be broadcast by FloRacing.com.

NOTICE TO RACERS:
- ALL RACERS MUST PURCHASE THEIR USAC LICENSE / MEMBERSHIPS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE EVENT AT USACRACING.COM OR USACLICENSE.COM. (If racers have a membership question, contact Julie Tanaka at julietanaka@aol.com.)
- ENTRY FEE: There is an entry fee due at registration / pill pick.
- TRANSPONDERS: Transponders ARE MANDATORY and will be available to rent.
- ONE WAY RADIOS / RACECEIVERS: One way radios ARE MANDATORY.
- TIRE RULE: The Hoosier 105/16 Medium or Medium 1 will be the only approved right rear tire. Only SC12 left rear tires will be permitted and front tires must be Hoosier.
- RULE BOOK: The series rule book is online at usacracing.com.
- TIRES & FUEL: Fuel and Tires will be available at the race track.
- ROLLS SCAFFOLD 360 CHALLENGE: The top finishing 360 Sprint Car is eligible for an extra $360 per night if they finish in the top-six. If there are multiple 360s in the top-six, then the bonus will go to the highest finishing 360 in that main event. If the award is not claimed, then the pot will increase by an additional $360 at the next race until there is a winner. Once the bonus is earned, the process will start over until it is won again. If the award has not been won or whatever money is left over at season’s end will then be divided among the top three in points running a 360 engine.

Since May 22, 2004, the Ventura County Fairgrounds has held twenty-two USAC/CRA Sprint Car races. “The Ripper” Rip Williams won the USAC/CRA debut on May 22, 2004 and “The Kruser” Cory Kruseman leads all drivers with six series wins. It should be noted that Troy Rutherford (twice) and Tanner Boul, who won the last Ventura USAC/CRA event on June 11, 2022, have won using a smaller iron block 360 engine. “The Bullet” Blake Miller established the 1-lap track record of 11.675 seconds on October 25, 2008 and the complete series win list at Ventura is at the bottom of this release.

Entering the eight point race, two-time and defending champion R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona sits atop the standings with a 56-point advantage. Driving the Petty Performance Racing #1P Avanti Windows & Doors / Apache Transport Sherman, Johnson claimed his second win of the year on April 17th and finished third the following night at Central Arizona Raceway. In addition, the 2005 rookie of the year has posted four Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, one heat race victory, seven top-10 finishes, and 29 feature laps led on the season. Now ranked seventh overall with thirteen career wins, the second generation driver will be looking to add a Ventura triumph to his resume.

After finishing fourth and second at Central Arizona Raceway, Camarillo, California’s Ricky Lewis has climbed to second in the chase for the championship. Driving for three different teams, Lewis has three feature wins, one Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Award, four hard charger awards, six top-10 finishes, and 40 feature laps led to his credit. Currently ranked sixth overall with fifteen career wins, Lewis might skip Ventura to race in the Midwest.

“The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams of Yorba Linda, California ranks third in the USAC/CRA point standings. Racing the Tom & Christy Dunkel #17W Inland Rigging / Maxima Oil Triple X, Williams recorded a twelfth and sixth place finishes in the Casa Grande, Arizona doubleheader. At press time, the former co-rookie of the year has recorded five top-10 finishes and is tied with Ryan Bernal and Matt Mitchell with eleven career wins. This Saturday, “The Big Game Hunter” will have his sights on his first win of the season.

San Diego, California’s A.J. Bender sits fourth in the championship points. The pilot of the Kim & Richard Bender #21 Rolls Scaffold / Matrix Construction Services DRC scored thirteenth after a flip retired his chassis on April 17th. The team rebounded the following night with a borrowed car from the Chiaramonte Family to score ninth at Central Arizona Raceway. At press time, the former Turkey Night Grand Prix 360 Sprint Car winner has two heat race victories, one hard charger award, five top-10 finishes, and 24 feature laps led on the season. A.J. will be looking for the second USAC/CRA win of his career at Ventura Raceway.

Connor Lundy of Peoria, Arizona is fifth in the championship point chase. Driving the family owned #97 Apache Transport / Jugo Superfoods Sherman, Lundy scored fourteenth after a crash ended his night on April 17th and scored seventeenth the following night in his backup 360 car. To date, last season’s rookie of the year has two heat race victories, one hard charger award, five top-10 finishes, and 21 feature laps led to his credit. The young driver is moving up the USAC/CRA ranks and will have his sights on earning his first win this Saturday night at Ventura.

Tucson, Arizona’s Wayne Siddle leads the chase for rookie of the year honors over “The Pineapple” Daylin Perreira, Cale Coons, Bryan Whitley, Jim Vanzant, Joshua Shipley, Broedy Graham, Troy DeGaton, and Koen Crawford.

Among the other drivers expected to be in action are “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., Verne Sweeney, Dayton Shelton, Brecken Guerrero, Eddie Tafoya Jr., Connor Speir, “The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James, Blake Hendricks, Tommy “Thunder” Malcolm, and more.

Ventura Raceway is located on the Ventura County Fairgrounds at 10 West Harbor Blvd. in Ventura, California. Adult tickets are $25, Senior tickets (60 and older) are $22, Active Military tickets (ID Required) are $22, Student tickets (with ID) are $22, and Children’s tickets (12 and under) are FREE. For more event information, visit the track’s website at venturaraceway.com or call 805.648.RACE.

For more information on the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series, visit the United States Auto Club (USAC) website at usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC/CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
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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-R.J. Johnson.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 3-Ricky Lewis, 2-R.J. Johnson, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.

VENTURA AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA 1-LAP QUALIFYING RECORD: Blake Miller – 11.675 (10/25/08)

VENTURA AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 6-Cory Kruseman, 2-Damion Gardner, 2-Troy Rutherford, 2-Mike Spencer, 2-Rip Williams, 1-Alan Ballard, 1-Tanner Boul, 1-Tyler Brown, 1-Mike Kirby, 1-Blake Miller, 1-Brody Roa, 1-Richard Vander Weerd, 1-Scotty Weir.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS: 1. R.J. Johnson-517, 2. Ricky Lewis-461, 3. Austin Williams-429, 4. A.J. Bender-411, 5. Connor Lundy-393, 6. Charles Davis Jr.-343, 7. Verne Sweeney-329, 8. Dayton Shelton-312, 9. Brecken Guerrero-311, 10. Braden Chiaramonte-267, 11. Kevin Thomas Jr.-245, 12. Wayne Siddle (R)-207, 13. Eddie Tafoya Jr.-201, 14. Stevie Sussex-170, 15. Daylin Perreira (R)-144, 16. Cale Coons (R)-143, 17. Connor Speir-134, 18. Bruce St. James-120, 19. Bryan Whitley (R)-111, 20. Jim Vanzant (R)-107.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE
February 14: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
February 28: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
March 13: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
April 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (RAIN)
April 17: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
April 18: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
May 2: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, CA
May 15: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 16: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 23: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)
June 6: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
June 20: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
July 4: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA (Doug Fort Memorial)
July 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
August 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 5: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 6: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 26: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
October 3: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
October 10: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ
October 22: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 23: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
November 7: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
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* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC National Sprint Cars.
This schedule is subject to change.

DENNEY’S 100TH USAC MIDGET START

NETS KOKOMO GRAND PRIX GLORY

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Kokomo, Indiana (April 26, 2026)………Over the course of Jacob Denney’s past two USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature starts at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway, he passed a grand total of 32 cars.

There was his 17th to 1st performance in June of 2025, and another plus-16 run from 19th to 3rd during this past Saturday night’s series season opener.

However, during Sunday night’s 8th Kokomo Grand Prix finale, Denney’s outside front row starting position didn’t necessitate such hustle and bustle through traffic.

Instead, the Galloway, Ohio driver took over the lead on lap three and was never headed for the remaining 28 laps aboard his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/JBL Audio – TRD – Mobil 1 – Curb/LynK/Speedway Toyota.

To top it all off, Denney’s latest victory came in his 100th career USAC National Midget feature start. Of his seven career series victories, three have now come at Kokomo’s 1/4-mile dirt oval within the past calendar year, his first of the batch coming 365 days ago on the dot.

“This one’s pretty special,” Denney beamed. “I knew we had the car yesterday to get it done but we had a tire blow in the heat race that set us back. It could’ve ended up way worse from where we started, but we made a lot of positions up, so I knew we had great car speed.”

Denney’s seventh career victory moved him inside the top-100 in terms of all-time career USAC National Midget feature wins. He now stands tied for 99th place alongside Tommy Astone, Jack Hewitt, Don Horvath, Page Jones, Kenneth Nichols, Larry Patton, Les Scott, Len Sutton, Ryan Timms, and Johnnie Tolan.

While Denney didn’t have to face the challenge of having to pass more than three quarters of the field in a 30-lap span on this night, he did have to use precision in every maneuver he made while contesting for the early lead and working through traffic throughout the rest of the feature.

Denney outlined the character of the track, which had snuck up and bit several drivers on a night when six different wheelmen got upside down: Thomas Meseraull, Colton Robinson, and Trevor Cline during qualifying, plus Tyler Watkins and Kyle Jones in their respective heat races as well as Drake Edwards in the feature.

“Tonight, I was trying to do something different and not blast through the holes until I really had to,” Denney explained. “Every lap here, it changes on the bottom. One lap, there was no hole, and then one lap later, I went down into one and about turned it over.”

Very nearly, Denney almost became a victim of the same circumstance as the others in the main event. But he had an altered plan of attack.

“Every time I found a hole, I tried moving up a little bit more, then came back across,” Denney shared. “I didn’t want to hit a hole, get tight and miss the bottom coming off of turn four because, unless you’re running the top or all the way down on the (infield) tires, there’s really nothing else to hit. I tried moving all around to miss the holes. I hit them sometimes, but I had a car to navigate really well and that’s what you’ve got to have on tracks like this.”

Denney’s teammate, Gavin Miller, led the opening pair of laps after starting on the pole position. That said, Denney had already made his presence felt just before he took over the lead. On lap two, Denney slid by Miller in turns three and four. Miller answered for the time being by slicing back under to reoccupy the spot. Moments later, Denney slipped his car under Miller’s entering turn one, then immediately ran off with the race, and the lead, in his hands.

Having the lead is certainly advantageous in most situations, but in this case, it had the double benefit of also allowing Denney to maneuver around and search the track surface on his own rather than being caught embedded in the pack.

“I about had (Miller) down the back straightaway, but then he washed up,” Denney recalled. “After that, I was trying to slide him to see if there was anything else out there because, on the first couple of laps, nobody really knows where to go. You’re always kind of guessing. I tried to see if those marbles were good down through there, if I had to keep racing them. But it just wasn’t very good and he got me back. Then I stuck with what got me there at the end.”

By the midway point, Denney was up on Miller by nearly a half-straightaway. But on lap 18, that’s when Denney did his best Major Taylor and Fausto Coppi impression, as he dug his right rear tire into an unfriendly portion of the surface, which sent him on “the bike” with only two of his four wheels remaining grounded. Denney, however, motored on after resuming on all four wheels, eventually.

Denney lost a chunk of his lead with the brief mishap, but just a few ticks later, Drake Edwards (8th) and Kale Drake (9th) hooked chrome entering turn three. Edwards subsequently spun sideways, then flipped upside down. Drake, meanwhile, continued on and finished the race sixth after starting 16th to pick up Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. Edwards was able to restart at the tail, and went on to finish 14th.

During the second half, Denney was unflappable as he prevailed by a 1.127 second margin over Miller, while Kevin Thomas Jr. took third. Saturday night Kokomo Grand Prix winner Justin Grant crossed the line in fourth and Jakeb Boxell rounded out the top-five for the second consecutive evening.

Denney led all but the first two circuits of the 30-lap feature. By virtue of leading the most laps, he was named the recipient of the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

4 Kings Racing swept LearnLab Qualifying during both nights of the Kokomo Grand Prix. On Saturday night, it was Kevin Thomas Jr. setting the pace. On Sunday, it was Jakeb Boxell’s turn as he recorded a time of 12.907 seconds to tally his first career USAC National Midget fast qualifier award.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 26, 2026 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th Kokomo Grand Prix

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-12.907; 2. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-13.225; 3. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.318; 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-13.320; 5. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.326; 6. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.326; 7. Mack Leopard, 14L, McDermand-13.331; 8. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.360; 9. Drake Edwards, 40D, McDermand-13.361; 10. Zach Wigal, 18, O'Dell-13.381; 11. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-13.448; 12. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-13.451; 13. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.530; 14. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-13.541; 15. Thomas Meseraull, 7x, Engler-13.547; 16. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-13.558; 17. Rylan Gray, 81G, Gray-13.565; 18. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-13.595; 19. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.627; 20. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-13.627; 21. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-13.674; 22. Hayden Wise, 94, Ninety-Four-13.678; 23. Chelby Hinton, 4B, Klatt-13.693; 24. Tony Helton, 22H, Gray-14.588; 25. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-NT; 26. Tyler Watkins, 7, Watkins-NT.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr (5), 2. Rylan Gray (1), 3. Jakeb Boxell (6), 4. Zach Wigal (3), 5. Colton Robinson (2), 6. Chelby Hinton (8), 7. Mack Leopard (4), 8. Tyler Watkins (9). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (5), 2. Brecken Reese (2), 3. Gunnar Setser (3), 4. Kale Drake (7), 5. Hayden Reinbold (6), 6. Adam Taylor (1), 7. Tony Helton (8), 8. Logan Seavey (4). NT

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (3), 2. Drake Edwards (4), 3. Gavin Miller (5), 4. Brandon Carr (1), 5. Ethan Mitchell (6), 6. Hayden Wise (7), 7. Bradley Cox (8), 8. Kyle Jones (2). NT

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

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Gavin Miller, Laps 3-30 Jacob Denney.

**Thomas Meseraull flipped during qualifying. Colton Robinson flipped during qualifying. Trevor Cline flipped during qualifying. Tyler Watkins flipped during the first heat. Kyle Jones flipped during the third heat. Drake Edwards flipped on lap 18 of the feature.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Jacob Denney-150, 2-Kevin Thomas Jr.-149, 3-Justin Grant-147, 4-Jakeb Boxell-138, 5-Zach Wigal-131, 6-Gavin Miller-119, 7-Kale Drake-115, 8-Gunnar Setser-109, 9-Hayden Reinbold-95, 10-Colton Robinson-95.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-36, 2-Briggs Danner-28, 3-Cale Coons-28, 4-Robert Ballou-25, 5-Justin Grant-24, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-24, 7-Chelby Hinton-22, 8-Hayden Reinbold-20, 9-Chase Stockon-18, 10-Brady Bacon-18.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: June 9, 2026 – Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th Kokomo Grand Prix

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Jakeb Boxell (13.138)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Jakeb Boxell (12.907)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Jacob Denney

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Justin Grant

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Jacob Denney (28 laps led)

GRANT LIFTS THE LID,

OPENS USAC MIDGET SEASON WITH KOKOMO GP WIN

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Kokomo, Indiana (April 25, 2026)………“I love Kokomo Speedway, and I love winning here even more.”

Justin Grant has done plenty of that in his career at the Indiana 1/4-mile dirt bullring, notching a total of 14 USAC national victories over the years, the majority of them in a sprint car.

But after finally tallying his first ever Kokomo USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship triumph one year ago, the Ione, California native repeated the feat once more during Saturday night’s Kokomo Grand Prix.

This time around, the fourth starting Grant raced his way into the lead past Zach Wigal on the 13th circuit of the 30-lap main event, then led the remaining 18 trips to put his CB Industries/NOS Energy Drink/Spike/Speedway Toyota into victory lane once again.

Grant’s latest triumph tied an all-time record for season opening USAC National Midget feature wins with his third on Saturday night at Kokomo. Grant had previously won the series season opener in 2017 at the Southern Illinois Center and again in 2022 at Florida’s Ocala Speedway.

Only three other drivers own three career USAC National Midget season opening victories: Steve Lotshaw, Tony Stewart and Rich Vogler. Each of those three can also count themselves as USAC National Midget champions, a group that Grant wants to accompany in 2026. After coming out swinging right out of the gate, Grant is certainly right on track.

“It’s awesome to get the first one and to get the first one of the season out of the way,” Grant exhaled. “We had a good year last year with (car owner) Chad (Boat) and this 87, and felt really good again tonight. I’m really excited, not only here, but for the whole midget schedule.”

Grant’s 97th career USAC national feature win was also the 21st of his USAC National Midget career. He surpassed A.J. Foyt on the all-time midget win list to move into a five-way tie for 31st place all-time alongside Steve Cannon, Jimmy Caruthers, Rex Easton and Ken Schrader.

Furthermore, Grant’s Kokomo score was the 600th midget feature win for the Toyota engine across several series, dating back to its very first win, the 2006 USAC Copper World Classic at Arizona’s Phoenix International Raceway, won by driver Dave Steele and car owner Steve Lewis.

Initially, pole starter Wigal darted out to the lead, narrowly nipping Jakeb Boxell at the stripe to pace the first lap. Meanwhile, Grant was hustling from his outside row two starting position, sliding by Boxell on the bottom of turn one on the eighth lap.

Over the next five laps, Grant steadily mowed down Wigal’s path as the front two plunged into lapped traffic. On lap 13, as Wigal approached the rear bumper of USAC debut-er Todd Kluever, Wigal’s momentum was snaggled. Simultaneously, Grant sprung to the outside of both Wigal and Kluever off the exit of turn four to assume his role as the new leader.

Grant, who stands at the top of the leaderboard in terms of all-time USAC National Sprint Car wins at Kokomo with 12, thoroughly demonstrated the fact that, in a midget, you can make maneuvers that might not necessarily be viable in a sprint car, such as the one that granted him the race lead on this night.

“Midgets are fun and they take a little bit of a different discipline,” Grant explained. “You can squeeze them into smaller holes and make things happen. Then, they are harder to finish on the other end because the motor bogs down and the guy will drive back by you. They’re easier to get yourself in and get by the guy, but they’re harder to keep them behind you. So, you’ve got to play things a little differently than you would in a sprint car. To find the last few percent, it’s quite a bit different from sprint car to midget, especially at places you’re familiar with. I’ve got so many sprint car habits here, I find myself having to be conscious of that and be conscious of breaking those habits when I get in the midget.”

In the meantime, Grant opened up a 10 car length lead over Wigal. Behind the top-two, it was a constant mad scramble for position between Boxell and his 4 Kings Racing teammate, Kevin Thomas Jr., as well as series Rookie Trevor Cline, all of whom exchanged spots a handful of times between them in the latter half of the race.

For Grant, it was practically a Carnival cruise during the final laps, although things got a bit too close for comfort with three laps to go. On lap 28, as Grant diamonded from the top of turn three to the bottom of turn four, the 20th place car of Rylan Gray suddenly closed up shop and headed for the infield, directly in front of Grant. Grant took evasive action by splitting to the right between Gray and 21st running Brandon Carr. It was no harm, no foul for Grant, as it turned out.

Down the stretch, nothing stopped the train that Grant kept a rollin’ as he crossed the finish line 2.796 seconds ahead of runner-up Zach Wigal, while Jacob Denney scurried from the inside of row 10 to round out the podium in third place. Kevin Thomas Jr. took fourth while Boxell tallied fifth.

Grant also led the most laps in the feature (18) to earn the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

Meanwhile, Denney has passed an astounding 32 cars in his past two USAC National Midget feature starts at Kokomo. He advanced 16 positions on Saturday from his 19th starting spot to finish third and earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. Last June, he also passed 16, going 17th to first.

Kevin Thomas Jr. set a new all-time USAC National Midget record in LearnLab Qualifying. His lap of 13.074 seconds at Kokomo provided him his fifth career opening night fast qualifying time with the series. That broke a record he had previously held along with the incomparable Mel Kenyon. Interestingly, of KTJ’s 11 career fast qualifying times with the series, five have come on opening night.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 25, 2026 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th Kokomo Grand Prix

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14, 4 Kings-13.074; 2. Colton Robinson, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.176; 3. Jacob Denney, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.176; 4. Justin Grant, 87, CBI-13.230; 5. Jakeb Boxell, 54, 4 Kings-13.233; 6. Trevor Cline, 55, Cline-13.311; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-13.331; 8. Zach Wigal, 18, O'Dell-13.331; 9. Hayden Wise, 94, Ninety-Four-13.361; 10. Gunnar Setser, 43, Arnold-13.415; 11. Brecken Reese, 20Q, Reese-13.425; 12. Ethan Mitchell, 19m, Bundy Built-13.436; 13. Rylan Gray, 81G, Gray-13.449; 14. Mack Leopard, 14L, McDermand-13.464; 15. Thomas Meseraull, 7x, Engler-13.473; 16. Kale Drake, 4, RMS-13.475; 17. Chelby Hinton, 4B, Klatt-13.551; 18. Gavin Miller, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.581; 19. Hayden Reinbold, 19AZ, Reinbold-Underwood-13.637; 20. Kyle Jones, 7TX, Engler-13.652; 21. Brandon Carr, 98K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.777; 22. Bradley Cox, 45, Mason-13.892; 23. Todd Kluever, 55K, TK2-13.908; 24. Adam Taylor, 7T, ATM-14.143; 25. Robert Carson, 99K, Carson-14.998.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Gunnar Setser (3), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 3. Kale Drake (1), 4. Justin Grant (5), 5. Hayden Reinbold (7), 6. Rylan Gray (2), 7. Robert Carson (9), 8. Bradley Cox (8), 9. Logan Seavey (4). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jakeb Boxell (5), 2. Zach Wigal (4), 3. Chelby Hinton (1), 4. Brecken Reese (3), 5. Colton Robinson (6), 6. Kyle Jones (7), 7. Todd Kluever (8), 8. Mack Leopard (2). NT

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ethan Mitchell (3), 2. Thomas Meseraull (2), 3. Gavin Miller (1), 4. Trevor Cline (5), 5. Hayden Wise (4), 6. Brandon Carr (7), 7. Jacob Denney (6), 8. Adam Taylor (8). NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (4), 2. Zach Wigal (1), 3. Jacob Denney (19), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 5. Jakeb Boxell (3), 6. Trevor Cline (2), 7. Gunnar Setser (7), 8. Kale Drake (13), 9. Chelby Hinton (14), 10. Ethan Mitchell (8), 11. Colton Robinson (5), 12. Gavin Miller (15), 13. Thomas Meseraull (12), 14. Logan Seavey (20), 15. Hayden Reinbold (16), 16. Brecken Reese (10), 17. Hayden Wise (9), 18. Kyle Jones (17), 19. Bradley Cox (24), 20. Mack Leopard (23), 21. Brandon Carr (18), 22. Adam Taylor (25), 23. Todd Kluever (21), 24. Rylan Gray (11), 25. Robert Carson (22). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Zach Wigal, Laps 13-30 Justin Grant.

**Mack Leopard flipped during the second heat.

USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Justin Grant-78, 2-Zach Wigal-74, 3-Kevin Thomas Jr.-74, 4-Jacob Denney-70, 5-Jakeb Boxell-68, 6-Trevor Cline-61, 7-Gunnar Setser-60, 8-Kale Drake-55, 9-Chelby Hinton-52, 10-Ethan Mitchell-51.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-36, 2-Briggs Danner-28, 3-Cale Coons-28, 4-Robert Ballou-25, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-24, 6-Chelby Hinton-22, 7-Justin Grant-21, 8-Hayden Reinbold-20, 9-Chase Stockon-18, 10-Brady Bacon-18.

NEXT USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: April 26, 2026 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Indiana – 1/4-Mile Dirt Oval – 8th Kokomo Grand Prix

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kevin Thomas Jr. (13.154)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Kevin Thomas Jr. (13.074)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Gunnar Setser

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Jakeb Boxell

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Ethan Mitchell

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Justin Grant (18 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Jacob Denney (19th to 3rd)

14TH TO 1ST!

LEWIS STEALS USAC MRA SPRINT OPENER

WITH LAST LAP PASS AT SPRINGFIELD

By: Ray Cunningham

Springfield, Missouri (April 25, 2026)………Ricky Lewis’ last lap pass netted him the victory in a spectacular USAC MRA Sprint Car season opener on Saturday night at Missouri’s Springfield Raceway.

Twenty-seven cars had checked into the pits at Springfield with drivers hailing from eight different states to compete in the inaugural Aubren Dudley Memorial, paying $4,000 to win and $400 to start.

Wesley Smith from nearby Nixa, Missouri took quick time in hot laps/time trials, turning in a run of 12.157 seconds. Interestingly enough, Oxnard, California’s Lewis was not able to take a time, setting the stage for his wild drive in the 25-lap feature, coming from 14th on the grid to the eventual win.

Racing in the four heats was fast and furious as Lone Jack, Missouri’s Jack Wagner took the first heat in the JHR 77. Luke Howard, from Overland Park, Kansas, came home first in the second heat, driving the Lewis 2. Lewis, after posting no time, had to start scratch in heat race number three, but charged from seventh to first for the victory. Chris Parkinson of Gladstone, Missouri raced to the win in the fourth and final heat.

With a storm blowing in on the radar, a quick decision was made by track officials to scrap intermission, and subsequently the semi-feature for USAC MRA, which meant that all cars were now eligible to run the main event.

Twenty-six of the 27 cars in attendance made the call for the feature sponsored by All Metal Recycling. With $4,000 on the line for first place, and the bragging rights that come with winning the first ever USAC MRA feature and the first ever Aubren Dudley Memorial, the racing was truly spectacular. And it wasn’t just for the win, but throughout the 26-car starting lineup as several drivers looking like they had a legitimate shot at victory.

Early on, positions were swapped at an amazing rate at the head of the pack, while Lewis steadily worked his way to the front, eventually taking the lead. But the old adage, “it ain’t over till it’s over,” certainly applied to this one!

After a late race caution, Lewis was penalized two spots for taking off too early on the restart and was docked two positions. This moved Wesley Smith to the lead and Cromwell to second place. Smith took off like a man possessed, but coming out of turn four, he slipped off the cushion, giving the lead to Cromwell, which also moved Lewis up to second. As they came down for the white flag, Cromwell was in first, Lewis second, and Smith third.

But Lewis was gaining, and then pulled off a massive slide job going into turn three that stuck. Lewis beat Cromwell to the line by about a car length, with Smith in third, Wyatt Burks in fourth, and Jack Wagner fighting his way up to fifth following a right rear tire going down earlier in the feature, which sent him to the back for the restart that followed.

Chase Howard, Bryson Smith, Kobe Simpson, Chris Parkinson, and Justin Johnson completed the top 10 finishers in that order.

USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 25, 2026 – Springfield Raceway – Springfield, Missouri – Aubren Dudley Memorial

FIRST QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Wesley Smith, 44, Smith-12.157; 2. Jack Wagner, 77, Hockett-12.422; 3. Justin Johnson, 27, Johnson-12.521; 4. Tyler Kent, 7, Kent-13.358; 5. Junior Parkinson, 93, Weld-13.482; 6. Mark Lane, 33L, Lane-NT; 7. Samuel Wagner, 73, Wagner-NT.

SECOND QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Bryson Smith, 33, Smith-12.548; 2. Luke Howard, 2, Howard-12.656; 3. Blake Bowers, 52, Bowers-12.704; 4. Dakota Earls, 15E, Earls-12.778; 5. Ronny Howard, 44H, Howard-13.704; 6. Kyle Gorham, 18K, Gorham-14.219; 7. Lance Silvers, 7x, Silvers-14.321.

THIRD QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Wyatt Burks, 11w, Burks-12.317; 2. Tom Curran, 11x, Curran-12.661; 3. Tyler Burton, 03, Burton-12.999; 4. James Turnbull, 11T, Turnbull-13.980; 5. Jared McCarty, 44m, McCarty-15.262; 6. Kobe Simpson, 21K, Simpson-NT; 7. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-NT.

FOURTH QUALIFYING GROUP: 1. Chase Howard, 13, Howard-12.387; 2. Braydon Cromwell, 4, Cromwell-12.605; 3. Chris Parkinson, 65, Parkinson-12.737; 4. Jake Kouba, 6, Kouba-12.926; 5. Tim Kent, 79, Kent-13.301; 6. Jesse Bebee, 45, Bebee-14.138.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jack Wagner (3), 2. Wesley Smith (4), 3. Samuel Wagner (7), 4. Justin Johnson (2), 5. Tyler Kent (1), 6. Junior Parkinson (5), 7. Mark Lane. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Luke Howard (4), 2. Bryson Smith (3), 3. Dakota Earls (1), 4. Blake Bowers (2), 5. Ronny Howard (5), 6. Lance Silvers (7), 7. Kyle Gorham (6). NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (7), 2. Wyatt Burks (4), 3. Kobe Simpson (6), 4. Tyler Burton (2), 5. James Turnbull (1), 6. Jared McCarty (5), 7. Tom Curran (3). NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chris Parkinson (2), 2. Chase Howard (4), 3. Braydon Cromwell (3), 4. Jake Kouba (1), 5. Tim Kent (5), 6. Jesse Bebee (6). NT

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (14), 2. Braydon Cromwell (8), 3. Wesley Smith (1), 4. Wyatt Burks (6), 5. Jack Wagner (5), 6. Chase Howard (3), 7. Bryson Smith (4), 8. Kobe Simpson (19), 9. Justin Johnson (9), 10. Chris Parkinson (7), 11. Samuel Wagner (18), 12. Tyler Burton (12), 13. Jake Kouba (13), 14. Tim Kent (20), 15. Blake Bowers (10), 16. Jared McCarty (23), 17. Tyler Kent (16), 18. Junior Parkinson (22), 19. Lance Silvers (25), 20. Mark Lane (27), 21. Kyle Gorham (26), 22. Luke Howard (2), 23. Dakota Earls (11), 24. Ronny Howard (21), 25. Jesse Bebee (24), 26. James Turnbull (17), 27. Tom Curran. NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Wesley Smith, Laps 2-3 Luke Howard, Laps 4-13 Jack Wagner, Laps 14-17 Ricky Lewis, Laps 18-19 Wesley Smith, Laps 20-24 Braydon Cromwell, Lap 25 Ricky Lewis.

USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR SERIES POINTS: 1-Ricky Lewis-150, 2-Braydon Cromwell-145, 3-Wesley Smith-143, 4-Wyatt Burks-141, 5-Jack Wagner-139, 6-Chase Howard-137, 7-Bryson Smith-135, 8-Kobe Simpson-133, 9-Justin Johnson-131, 10-Chris Parkinson-129.

NEXT USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE: May 9, 2026 – Red Hill Raceway – Sumner, Illinois – Non-Points Special Event

Miller III Benefits at Bedford

Kurt Bettler:

Friday night at Bedford Speedway saw Kenny Miller III capitalize when it mattered most, picking up the Malley Pool Water victory in dramatic fashion.

A field of 21 cars signed in for the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms and a special sponsor with Malley Pool Water putting $100 extra into all the drivers envelopes at the end of the night! With heat race wins going to Miller III, Ed Aikin, and Kyle Spence. Following the redraw, Joe Kata and Spence led the field to the green flag.

At the start, Spence established himself as an early contender, working the outside groove to take the lead over Kata. Briggs Danner, starting ninth after his win the previous weekend at Bridgeport, advanced quickly through the field. A caution on lap two reset the pace, and by lap five Danner had closed in on the leader. Utilizing the outside lane, he moved past Spence to take control of the race.

Christian Bruno advanced from seventh to third in the early stages, while Miller worked forward into second position by lap 12. Danner appeared firmly in command, navigating traffic effectively and extending his advantage to over six seconds.

On the final lap, while negotiating lapped traffic on the frontstretch, Danner made contact with a slower car and flipped big time into turn 1 bringing out the red flag and ending his bid for the win. He exited the car under his own power.

The incident set up a green-white-checkered finish, with Miller, Bruno, Spence, and Steven Drevicki contending for the victory.

On the restart, Miller utilized the outside line while Bruno advanced on the bottom. The two ran side-by-side to the white flag, with Spence and Drevicki battling for third behind them. In the final set of corners, Bruno drew even, but Miller maintained enough momentum to edge ahead at the line.

Miller secured the victory over Bruno, followed by Spence and Drevicki, with Kata completing the top five.

MALLEY POOL WATER FEATURE FINISH:1. KENNY MILLER III (5) 2. Christian Bruno (7) 3. Kyle Spence (2) 4. Steven Drevicki (6) 5. Joe Kata (2) 6. Ed Aikin (4) 7. Ronald Helmick (8) 8. Blaine Emery (4) 9. Bruce Buckwalter (13) 10. Olivia Thayer (11) 11. Jake Galloway (14) 12. Jakob Stizel (20) 13. Scott Frack (10) 14. Brett Rose (17) 15. Jason Cherry (15) 16. Briggs Danner (9) 17. Dan Malley (18) 18. Shane Braxton (12) 19. Anthony Fascone Jr. (19) 20. Larry VcVay (16) DNS: Brendan Hires (N/T)

Lap Leaders: Kyle Spence 1-4 Briggs Danner 5-23 Kenny Miller III 24-25

E Schneider and Sons Heat 1: KENNY MILLER III (MILLER 23M) 2. Briggs Danner (Hogue 39) 3. Ronald Helmick (Helmick 22r) 4. Scott Frack (Frack 39X) 5. Bruce Buckwalter (Buckwalter 83) 6. Larry VcVay (Kelly 51) 7. Dan Malley ( Malley (H20)

BDB Graphics Heat 2: 1. ED AIKIN (AIKIN/BUTLER 7) 2. Blaine Emery (Emery 12) 3. Joe Kata (Kata 10) 4. Olivia Thayer (Thayer 39T) 5. Jake Galloway (Galloway 27g) 6. Brett Rose (Rose Bros 45R) 7. Brendan Hires (Danner 2)

Malley Pool Water Heat 3: 1.KYLE SPENCE (Fraker 42) 2. Steven Drevicki (Drevicki 19) 3. Christian Bruno (Franckowiak 3BC) 4. Shane Braxton (Braxton 35) 5. Jason Cherry (Cherry 67) 6. Jakob Stitzel (Stitzel 2k) 7. Anthony Foscone Jr (Foscone 14)

Notes: Brendan Hires lost a motor charging from the back to 2nd in his heat on the last lap

A USAC East Coast Series Record 21 Cars at Bedford, the series high was 16 in years past

Hoosier Tire Poker Chip: Steven Drevicki C&C Hard Charger: Jakob Stitzel +7 JPA Racing Products Hard Luck: Brendan Hires Bitner Fast Time: Briggs Danner Radical Race Wear Hotlap Hero: Briggs Danner

Series Returns at Big Diamond in Minersville Pa on May 22nd

USAC MIDGET KOKOMO GP SHIFTS TO SAT-SUN, APRIL 25-26

By: Richie Murray - USAC Media

Kokomo, Indiana (April 24, 2026)………The dates for this weekend’s Kokomo Grand Prix have been shifted by one day and will now run on Saturday and Sunday, April 25-26.

With a rain out on the originally scheduled date of Friday, April 24, the decision has been made to contest the complete event over the weekened with two consecutive nights of full programs for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway.

The Kokomo Grand Prix will feature the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship and Kokomo Sprint Cars on each night at the 1/4-mile dirt oval.

On both nights, the pits will open at 3pm Eastern with the grandstands opening at 3pm. The drivers meeting is set for 5:30pm with cars hitting the track at 6pm followed by hot laps, qualifying and racing.

Adult general admission tickets for each night of the Kokomo Grand Prix are $30 with kids age 12 and under free. Pit passes are $40 for all ages each night.

The field will feature past Kokomo Grand Prix winners Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Alabama), Justin Grant (Ione, California) and Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio), plus two-time series champion Logan Seavey (Sutter, California) and many more.

Past Kokomo Grand Prix feature winners include Rico Abreu (2014 twice), Darren Hagen (2015), Brady Bacon (2017 twice), Tyler Courtney (2018-19), Kevin Thomas Jr. (2019), Emerson Axsom (2021), Chris Windom (2021), Jacob Denney (2025) and Justin Grant (2025).

Both nights of the event can also be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

KOKOMO GRAND PRIXVIEW!

USAC MIDGET SEASON BEGINS APRIL 24-25

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Kokomo, Indiana (APRIL 23, 2026)………At last, it is here!

The 71st season of USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship competition gets underway this Friday-Saturday night, April 24-25, at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway.

The Kokomo Grand Prix kicks the 29-race season off this weekend, featuring two-straight nights of full programs featuring the midgets alongside Kokomo Speedway’s sprint car division.

New driver and owner combinations, brand new shiny toys, along with a hungry group of series veteran drivers and teams are all set to take on the journey to a championship that consumes them all through Thanksgiving weekend.

The quest begins now. So, here are six storylines to set the stage for this weekend, and throughout the year.

FULL-TIMERS

Several drivers have indicated their full-time status on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National tour in 2026, all of whom are vying for their first ever series championship.

Among them are Justin Grant (CB Industries); Thomas Meseraull and Kyle Jones (Tim Engler); Kevin Thomas Jr. and Jakeb Boxell (4 Kings Racing); Jacob Denney, Gavin Miller, Colton Robinson and Brandon Carr (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports); Kale Drake (RMS Racing); Hayden Reinbold (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports); Brecken Reese (Jeff Reese); Mack Leopard (Chase McDermand Racing); Bradley Cox (Cappy Mason); and Hayden Wise (Ninety-Four Racing).

Two-time series champion Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing), Gunnar Setser (Kevin Arnold) and Zach Wigal (Pat O’Dell) plan to run the high majority, if not all, the events on the season’s calendar as well.

JACOB’S LADDER

Jacob Denney enters this weekend’s Kokomo Grand Prix as the defending season opener winner at the Kokomo Grand Prix.

The Galloway, Ohio driver will now vie to become the first driver to win back-to-back USAC National Midget season opening features since Brad Sweet in 2009-2010.

Denney continued his rise last season with three wins and a career best fourth place finish in the USAC National Midget point standings in his first season with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports. Two of his three wins during the season came at Kokomo.

Over the past four seasons with the series, he’s finished 8th, 7th, 5th and 4th in the standings, and is primed to contend for his first championship this year.

TRIPLE CROWN QUEST

Justin Grant has won a lot of USAC races at Kokomo Speedway in his career, 13 in fact! Twelve of them have come in USAC National Sprint Cars, making him the all-time leader with the series at the track.

However, last year, he was finally able to grab his first ever USAC National Midget triumph at Kokomo, which was his first for the CB Industries team, and it came on the final night of the Kokomo Grand Prix.

During the latter half of the 2025 season, he was dogged by a broken left foot that is now pretty much healed. He’s already won a pair of USAC National Sprint Car races this year. Now, he’s poised to finally get a first career USAC National Midget title, which would complete his career USAC Triple Crown.

HEART & SOUL OF KTJ

Kevin Thomas Jr. is a large part of Kokomo Grand Prix lore, as he’s the only driver to start all 12 feature events in the history of the event. Furthermore, he also prevailed in the closest finish in the history of the event back in 2019, where he passed Justin Grant on the final corner of the final lap to score the win.

The Cullman, Alabama racer will run it back with 4 Kings Racing for his second full season with the team during the 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship campaign.

KTJ enters the new year coming off his strongest run with the series in a decade. In 2025, he accumulated 10 top-fives, 19 top-tens and a single fast qualifying time in 23 series starts, but a first win still awaits.

This year, Thomas will drive the team’s No. 14 machine, sporting a special partnership with the Purple Heart Foundation, whose mission is to enhance the quality of life of Purple Heart recipients and other honorably discharged veterans and their families through critical assistance grants, providing resources related to TBI, PTS, mental health, and suicide prevention, academic scholarships and service dogs.

A HISTORY OF SEASON OPENERS

The Kokomo Grand Prix marks the start of the 71st season of USAC National Midget competition. This is the fourth occasion in which Kokomo will open the season, having previously done so in 2014, 2015 and 2025, with Rico Abreu, Darren Hagen and Jacob Denney winning, respectively.

Overall, Steve Lotshaw, Tony Stewart and Rich Vogler share the record for the most USAC National Midget season opening wins with three apiece.

Justin Grant can equal that record this Friday after previously scoring in 2017 at the Southern Illinois Center and in 2022 at Florida’s Ocala Speedway. In 2018, Logan Seavey won the season opener indoors at the Southern Illinois Center, and of course, Denney in 2025 at Kokomo. All aim to achieve a similar feat this Friday night at Kokomo.

In nine instances, the season opening winner has gone on to win the USAC National Midget title later that same year: Mel Kenyon (1968), Rich Vogler (1978), Steve Lotshaw (1979), Jason Leffler (1999), Bryan Clauson (2011), Rico Abreu (2014), Logan Seavey (2018), Tyler Courtney (2019) and Buddy Kofoid (2021).

THE ROOKIE BATTLE BEGINS

Also part of the mix of the storylines entering the 2026 season are the USAC National Midget Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year contenders.

A pair of those drivers – Colton Robinson and Brandon Carr – are part of the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports stable, which has produced 10 of the past 21 Rookies of the Year with the series: Darren Hagen (2005), Bryan Clauson (2006), Kyle Larson (2011), Rico Abreu (2012), Christopher Bell (2013), Carson Macedo (2016), Tanner Carrick (2017), Logan Seavey (2018), Buddy Kofoid (2020) and Gavin Miller (2023).

Robinson (Titusville, Florida) made eight starts last year, with a pair of top-ten feature finishes. Carr (Sheffield, England) posted five starts in 2025, and is a bit of a rarity in the realm of USAC racing. The last known Englishman to win a USAC National Midget main event was Paul Bates in 1968.

Furthermore, Bradley Cox will drive for longtime Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association driver/car owner Cappy Mason. Cox (Black Forest, Colorado) made a pair of starts last year, and also was victorious in a heat race at Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway.

Hayden Wise (Huntersville, North Carolina) makes her first foray into USAC National Midget racing in 2026 for the family-owned Ninety-Four Racing team. Wise is a past USAC champion, capturing the 2021 Senior Honda Pavement .25 Midget title. Her uncle, Josh Wise, is a two-time USAC national driving champion in midgets (2005) and sprint cars (2006).

RACE DETAILS

The Kokomo Grand Prix will feature the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship and Kokomo Sprint Cars on each night at the 1/4-mile dirt oval on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25. On both nights, the pits will open at 3pm Eastern with the grandstands opening at 3pm. The drivers meeting is set for 5:30pm with cars hitting the track at 6pm followed by hot laps, qualifying and racing.

Adult general admission tickets for each night of the Kokomo Grand Prix are $30 with kids age 12 and under free. Pit passes are $40 for all ages each night.

Both nights of the event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGETS AT KOKOMO SPEEDWAY:

1 Lap - 4/5/2019 - Dillon Welch - 12.665 - 71.062 mph

8 Laps - 6/20/2010 - Steve Buckwalter - 1:51.62 - 64.505 mph

10 Laps - 4/5/2019 - Tanner Carrick - 2:10.06 - 69.199 mph

12 Laps - 4/13/2018 - Holly Shelton - 2:46.01 - 65.056 mph

KOKOMO GRAND PRIX WINS:

2-Rico Abreu, Brady Bacon & Tyler Courtney

1-Emerson Axsom, Jacob Denney, Justin Grant, Darren Hagen, Kevin Thomas Jr. & Chris Windom

KOKOMO GRAND PRIX WINNERS:

2014: Rico Abreu (4/11) & Rico Abreu (4/12)

2015: Darren Hagen (4/11)

2016: Rained Out

2017: Brady Bacon (4/8) & Brady Bacon (4/9)

2018: Tyler Courtney (4/13)

2019: Tyler Courtney (4/5) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/6)

2020: Not Held

2021: Emerson Axsom (4/30) & Chris Windom (5/1)

2022: Rained Out

2023: Rained Out

2024: Rained Out

2025: Jacob Denney (4/26) & Justin Grant (4/27)

KOKOMO USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS:

7-Rich Vogler

6-Mel Kenyon

3-Rico Abreu, Brady Bacon, Bryan Clauson, Jimmy Davies, Bob Wente & Chris Windom

2-Chuck Arnold, Tyler Courtney, Jacob Denney, Bobby Grim, Page Jones, Mike McGreevy, Ken Schrader, Bob Tattersall & Kevin Thomas Jr.

1-Tommy Astone, Emerson Axsom, Spencer Bayston, Christopher Bell, Tom Bigelow, Bud Bogard, Frank Burany, Pancho Carter, Danny Caruthers, Jimmy Caruthers, Tommy Copp, Rex Easton, Tony Elliott, Billy Engelhart, Gene Force, Justin Grant, Darren Hagen, Gene Hartley, Jack Hewitt, Tracy Hines, Brad Kuhn, Lee Kunzman, Kyle Larson, Critter Malone, Cannon McIntosh, Don Meacham, Jerry Nuckles, Forrest Parker, Michael Pickens, Daison Pursley, Ron Shuman, Graham Standring, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Mike Streicher, Dave Strickland, Len Sutton, Shorty Templeman, Tanner Thorson, Sleepy Tripp, Jerry Weeks & J.J. Yeley

KOKOMO USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS:

1956: Forrest Parker (7/28)

1957: Len Sutton (6/23) & Rex Easton (8/17)

1958: Frank Burany (5/24)

1959: Gene Force (5/29) & Shorty Templeman (7/12)

1960: Jimmy Davies (5/29), Bod Bogard (6/25), Gene Hartley (7/24) & Bob Wente (8/13)

1961: Jimmy Davies (5/29) & Jimmy Davies (7/30)

1962: Tommy Copp (6/30) & Bob Tattersall (7/29)

1964: Bob Wente (7/11)

1965: Mel Kenyon (5/30), Bobby Grim (6/26) & Bobby Grim (7/24)

1966: Chuck Arnold (5/29) & Bob Tattersall (8/27)

1967: Mike McGreevy (5/29), Chuck Arnold (6/17) & Mike McGreevy (7/22)

1968: Bob Wente (6/30) & Don Meacham (7/21)

1969: Lee Kunzman (5/31)

1970: Dave Strickland (5/30) & Tom Bigelow (8/1)

1971: Danny Caruthers (7/16) & Jimmy Caruthers (8/7)

1972: Pancho Carter (8/26)

1973: Billy Engelhart (7/14)

1975: Sleepy Tripp (7/9)

1976: Tommy Astone (7/7)

1977: Mel Kenyon (7/13)

1978: Ron Shuman (8/23) & Jerry Weeks (8/23)

1979: Mel Kenyon (6/14) & Mel Kenyon (7/11)

1980: Rich Vogler (6/11) & Rich Vogler (7/10)

1981: Rich Vogler (6/10) & Ken Schrader (7/8)

1982: Ken Schrader (6/10) & Mel Kenyon (7/7)

1983: Rich Vogler (6/8) & Rich Vogler (7/13)

1984: Jerry Nuckles (6/6)

1985: Rich Vogler (6/29)

1987: Mel Kenyon (6/24)

1988: Mike Streicher (6/22) & Rich Vogler (8/17)

1990: Graham Standring (8/8)

1991: Jack Hewitt (8/7)

1992: Page Jones (8/19)

1993: Critter Malone (8/11)

1994: Page Jones (7/27)

1995: Tony Elliott (8/23)

2000: Tracy Hines (8/27)

2003: J.J. Yeley (6/15)

2006: Brady Bacon (8/20)

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (8/12)

2008: Bryan Clauson (8/10)

2009: Bryan Clauson (6/14)

2010: Brad Kuhn (6/20)

2011: Michael Pickens (6/12)

2012: Kyle Larson (6/17)

2013: Christopher Bell (6/16)

2014: Rico Abreu (4/11), Rico Abreu (4/12) & Bryan Clauson (6/15)

2015: Darren Hagen (4/11)

2016: Rico Abreu (6/5)

2017: Brady Bacon (4/8), Brady Bacon (4/9) & Spencer Bayston (6/11)

2018: Tyler Courtney (4/13) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (6/3)

2019: Tyler Courtney (4/5) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/6)

2020: Tanner Thorson (6/21) & Chris Windom (9/26)

2021: Emerson Axsom (4/30), Chris Windom (5/1) & Chris Windom (6/12)

2022: Cannon McIntosh (6/11)

2024: Daison Pursley (6/9)

2025: Jacob Denney (4/26), Justin Grant (4/27) & Jacob Denney (6/8)

PAST KOKOMO GRAND PRIX RESULTS

2014 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Dave Darland, 3. Christopher Bell, 4. Chris Windom, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Zach Daum, 9. Shane Hollingsworth, 10. Tanner Thorson, 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 12. Andrew Felker, 13. Parker Price-Miller, 14. Tyler Thomas, 15. Tyler Courtney, 16. Davey Ray, 17. Daniel Robinson, 18. Austin Brown, 19. Darren Hagen, 20. Shane Cottle, 21. Justin Peck, 22. Taylor Ferns, 23. Spencer Bayston, 24. Seth Motsinger, 25. Alex Bright, 26. Colten Cottle. NT

2014 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Tanner Thorson, 3. Christopher Bell, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Tyler Thomas, 6. Kevin Thomas Jr., 7. Andrew Felker, 8. Zach Daum, 9. Parker Price-Miller, 10. Shane Hollingsworth, 11. Colten Cottle, 12. Tyler Courtney, 13. Seth Motsinger, 14. Davey Ray, 15. Chris Windom, 16. Bryan Clauson, 17. Michael Pickens, 18. Darren Hagen, 19. Alex Bright, 20. Steve Buckwalter, 21. Jake Blackhurst, 22. Dave Darland, 23. Austin Brown, 24. Caleb Armstrong, 25. Brady Bacon, 26. Spencer Bayston. NT

2015 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Darren Hagen, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Steve Buckwalter, 5. Davey Ray, 6. Andrew Felker, 7. Dave Darland, 8. Tyler Thomas, 9. Jerry Coons Jr., 10. Tyler Courtney, 11. Shane Hollingsworth, 12. Gage Walker, 13. Zach Daum, 14. Isaac Chapple, 15. Spencer Bayston, 16. Justin Grant, 17. Jim Radney, 18. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 19. Ryan Greth, 20. Kevin Thomas Jr., 21. Alex Bright, 22. Justin Peck. NT

2017 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Spencer Bayston, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Justin Grant, 7. Chris Windom, 8. Tyler Thomas, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Ryan Robinson, 11. Chad Boat, 12. Holly Shelton, 13. Gage Walker, 14. Alex Bright, 15. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 16. Jake Neuman, 17. Tanner Carrick, 18. Brayton Lynch, 19. Tyler Nelson, 20. Shane Golobic. NT

2017 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Tanner Thorson, 3. Tyler Courtney, 4. Rico Abreu, 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 6. Spencer Bayston, 7. Dave Darland, 8. Shane Golobic, 9. Ryan Robinson, 10. Holly Shelton, 11. Davey Ray, 12. Jerry Coons Jr., 13. Alex Bright, 14. Tyler Thomas, 15. Tyler Nelson, 16. Jake Neuman, 17. Brayton Lynch, 18. Ryan Greth, 19. Chad Boat, 20. Justin Grant, 21. Chris Windom, 22. Chase Jones, 23. Tanner Carrick. NT

2018 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (5), 2. Chad Boat (8), 3. Brady Bacon (7), 4. Spencer Bayston (3), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Zeb Wise (12), 7. Logan Seavey (2), 8. Thomas Meseraull (16), 9. Ryan Robinson (4), 10. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 11. Holly Shelton (9), 12. Tucker Klaasmeyer (13), 13. Dave Darland (20), 14. Andrew Felker (17), 15. Jerry Coons Jr. (18), 16. Brayton Lynch (15), 17. Tanner Carrick (10), 18. Kyle Craker (14), 19. Gage Walker (23). 20. Alex Bright (21), 21. Tyler Thomas (11), 22. Chase Jones (22), 23. Kyle Schuett (19), 24. Matt Moore (24). NT

2019 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Tyler Courtney (6), 2. Jason McDougal (3), Chris Windom (4), 4. Zeb Wise (12), 5. Kevin Thomas Jr. (1), 6. Logan Seavey (8), 7. Thomas Meseraull (2), 8. Dillon Welch (7), 9. C.J. Leary (5), 10. Tanner Carrick (16), 11. Dave Darland (21), 12. Chad Boat (10), 13. Tyler Thomas (20), 14. Jesse Colwell (11), 15. Tucker Klaasmeyer (13), 16. Andrew Layser (15), 17. Holley Hollan (14), 18. Ethan Mitchell (24), 19. Cole Bodine (22), 20. Karsyn Elledge (23), 21. Zane Hendricks (18), 22. Jerry Coons Jr. (17), 23. Justin Peck (19), 24. Tony DiMattia (9). NT

2019 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting position in parentheses) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4), 2. Justin Grant (3), 3. Zeb Wise (6), 4. Jason McDougal (2), 5. C.J. Leary (8), 6. Chris Windom (1), 7. Tucker Klaasmeyer (12), 8. Logan Seavey (13), 9. Tyler Courtney (5), 10. Thomas Meseraull (10), 11. Jesse Colwell (15), 12. Chad Boat (7), 13. Jake Neuman (16), 14. Ace McCarthy (14), 15. Dillon Welch (11), 16. Andrew Layser (22), 17. Holley Hollan (17), 18. Jerry Coons Jr. (20), 19. Zane Hendricks (19), 20. Cole Bodine (21), 21. Tanner Carrick (9), 22. Sterling Cling (24), 23. Dave Darland (18), 24. Ethan Mitchell (23). NT

2021 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Emerson Axsom (2), 2. Cannon McIntosh (3), 3. Chris Windom (1), 4. Justin Grant (9), 5. Buddy Kofoid (8), 6. Daison Pursley (4), 7. Tanner Thorson (17), 8. Ethan Mitchell (12), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (13), 10. Thomas Meseraull (16), 11. Bryant Wiedeman (7), 12. Kyle Cummins (14), 13. Logan Seavey (10), 14. Clinton Boyles (15), 15. Hayden Reinbold (18), 16. Brandon Waelti (20), 17. Bryan Stanfill (19), 18. Chase Randall (5), 19. Brenham Crouch (6), 20. Jason McDougal (11). NT

2021 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chris Windom (1), 2. Buddy Kofoid (8), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (13), 4. Tanner Thorson (7), 5. Emerson Axsom (6), 6. Justin Grant (5), 7. Logan Seavey (9), 8. Thomas Meseraull (11), 9. Brenham Crouch (16), 10. Kyle Cummins (4), 11. Cannon McIntosh (12), 12. Chase Randall (2), 13. Bryant Wiedeman (14), 14. Clinton Boyles (18), 15. Jason McDougal (15), 16. Ethan Mitchell (10), 17. Hayden Reinbold (17), 18. Brandon Waelti (20), 19. Daison Pursley (3), 20. Bryan Stanfill (19). NT

2025 NIGHT #1 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jacob Denney (5), 2. Cannon McIntosh (1), 3. Daison Pursley (7), 4. Kale Drake (11), 5. Justin Grant (6), 6. Gavin Miller (10), 7. Karter Sarff (9), 8. Drake Edwards (4), 9. Steven Snyder Jr. (8), 10. Cale Coons (16), 11. Logan Seavey (2), 12. Kyle Jones (17), 13. Gunnar Setser (18), 14. Frankie Guerrini (13), 15. Sam Johnson (15), 16. Steve Buckwalter (14), 17. Bryan Stanfill (20), 18. Brecken Reese (19), 19. Dan Bennett (21), 20. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 21. Hayden Reinbold (12), 22. Jason Bennett (22), 23. Michael Magic (23), 24. Chris Baue (24). NT

2025 NIGHT #2 FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Justin Grant (2), 2. Steven Snyder Jr. (1), 3. Logan Seavey (4), 4. Cannon McIntosh (10), 5. Kale Drake (15), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7), 7. Daison Pursley (3), 8. Karter Sarff (5), 9. Drake Edwards (6), 10. Gavin Miller (12), 11. Hayden Reinbold (14), 12. Jacob Denney (8), 13. Gunnar Setser (16), 14. Emerson Axsom (18), 15. Frankie Guerrini (13), 16. Sam Johnson (19), 17. Brecken Reese (17), 18. Cale Coons (9), 19. Thomas Meseraull (11), 20. Kyle Jones (24), 21. Dan Bennett (22), 22. Jason Bennett (23), 23. Chris Baue (21), 24. Steve Buckwalter (20). NT

EVERY USAC INDIANA SPRINT WEEK RACE TO PAY $10,000-TO-WIN;

STIPULATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR JULY 23 COMPETITORS AT IMS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 22, 2026)………The biggest Indiana Sprint Week ever just got even bigger in 2026!

The 39th annual running of USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented by K & N Filters will pay $10,000-to-win at each and every one of the nine events on the calendar, up from $8,000 a year ago.

Furthermore, this year’s edition of Indiana Sprint Week will pay $25,000 to the champion with an overall point fund of more than $50,000.

ISW 2026 consists of an all-time record of nine events at nine different racetracks across a 10-night span between July 23-August 1.

The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway begins the racing feast on July 23, then the tour takes on Lincoln Park Speedway on July 24, Kokomo Speedway on July 25, Lawrenceburg Speedway on July 26 and Circle City Raceway on July 27 before a one-day breather away from the action on July 28.

The ISW tour then travels to Paragon Speedway on July 29, then it’s onward to the Terre Haute Action Track on July 30 for the Don Smith Classic. The penultimate round takes the series to Bloomington Speedway for the Sheldon Kinser Memorial on July 31, and then to the finale at Tri-State Speedway on August 1.

IMS Indiana Sprint Week Field Stipulations Announced for July 23 Opener

The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway will open 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week Presented by K & N Filters on Thursday night, July 23, and will feature an invitational field as determined by several different categories, same as last year’s inaugural event.

Those who will be eligible to compete in the event at the 1/5-mile dirt oval located inside of turn three at the world-famous IMS will have to fit in one of the following categories:

1) Finished inside the top 30 of the 2025 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship point standings.

2) Finished inside the top 30 of the 2025 USAC Indiana Sprint Week point standings.

3) Ranks inside the top 30 of the 2026 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship standings as of July 5.

4) Ranks inside the top 10 of the 2026 Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car standings as of July 5.

5) Any currently active driver who has previously won an Indiana Sprint Week main event. Drivers must have competed in at least one USAC national event in either the 2025 or 2026 season.

6) Plus, two Indianapolis Motor Speedway promoters options.

The IMS event was a rousing success in 2025, but with the confines of the event, parameters have been put into place to help ensure its success.

The $10,000-to-win Indiana Sprint Week event at IMS will pay appearance points toward the season-long USAC National Sprint Car standings. However, no points will be offered toward the 2026 Indiana Sprint Week standings.

Justin Grant captured The Dirt Track at IMS’ debut appearance on the Indiana Sprint Week schedule in 2025, charging from fifth to the lead just after the midway point of the 35-lap main event.

Among the drivers chasing the 2026 USAC Indiana Sprint Week title are past ISW champions Robert Ballou (2015), Brady Bacon (2016 & 2023), Kevin Thomas Jr. (2017 & 2021), C.J. Leary (2019), Chase Stockon (2020), Justin Grant (2022) and Logan Seavey (2024) along with recent ISW feature winners Kyle Cummins, Mitchel Moles, Briggs Danner and Jake Swanson, along with many more.

Indiana Sprint Week was established in 1988 and enters its 39th year in 2026. USAC began sanctioning Indiana Sprint Week in 1996. Since 1988, 228 Indiana Sprint Week events have been contested. Dave Darland is the all-time winningest driver in Indiana Sprint Week history with 20 victories. Levi Jones and Kevin Thomas own the most Indiana Sprint Week titles with four apiece.

Information for each and every USAC Indiana Sprint Week event can be found on www.usacracing.com.

2026 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PRESENTED BY K & N FILTERS SCHEDULE

Jul 23 - The Dirt Track at IMS - Speedway, Indiana - 1/5 Mile

Jul 24 - Lincoln Park Speedway - Putnamville, Indiana - 5/16 Mile

Jul 25 - Kokomo Speedway - Kokomo, Indiana - 1/4 Mile

Jul 26 - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - 3/8 Mile

Jul 27 - Circle City Raceway - Indianapolis, Indiana - 1/4 Mile

Jul 29 - Paragon Speedway - Paragon, Indiana - 3/8 Mile

Jul 30 - Terre Haute Action Track - Terre Haute, Indiana - Don Smith Classic - 1/2 Mile

Jul 31 - Bloomington Speedway - Bloomington, Indiana - Sheldon Kinser Memorial - 1/4 Mile

Aug 1 - Tri-State Speedway - Haubstadt, Indiana - 1/4 Mile

Malley Pool Water / Can-Am Weekend Builds Anticipation

News Date: 4/22/2026

The competitors are set for a massive USAC East Coast doubleheader, kicking off Friday, April 24 at the legendary Bedford Speedway. With nearly 90 years of history, Bedford remains one of Pennsylvania’s most respected battlegrounds and a staple on the schedule.
Friday night’s event is backed by Malley Pool Water, a trusted name out of Montgomery, New York. For more than 20 years, Malley Trucking Inc. has delivered clean, reliable water to homeowners, commercial pool installers, and municipalities—helping customers get their pools ready quickly and efficiently for the summer season.
Bedford Schedule & Info:
Gates open at 5:00 PM, with racing set to begin at 7:30 PM. General admission is $18.
After Mother Nature wiped out the 2025 event, anticipation for the return to Bedford is even higher.
The action continues Saturday, April 25 at the “Speed Palace,” Port Royal Speedway—one of the most iconic stops in sprint car racing. The wingless sprints take center stage with Can-Am Power Sports adding bonus money to the program.
Can-Am, a brand of Bombardier Recreational Products, is known worldwide for high-performance ATVs, side-by-sides, and three-wheeled machines. Built on cutting-edge engineering and powered by industry-leading Rotax engines, Can-Am machines are designed for speed, durability, and performance in the toughest conditions.
Both Malley Pool Water and Can-Am Power Sports are also contributing start money for all qualified cars, adding even more incentive for teams to make the show.
Port Royal Schedule & Info:
Pits open at 3:00 PM, grandstands at 4:00 PM, and racing begins at 6:00 PM. General admission is $30, pit admission is $40, and all competitors are required to run mufflers.
Last weekend at Bridgeport Motorsports Park delivered a high-intensity, slide-job-filled program. Briggs Danner picked up the win, but the depth of the field was impossible to ignore.
Olivia Thayer stormed from the back to 13th, earning hard charger honors. Steven Drevicki charged late to third, while Kenny Miller III led much of the race before getting caught late.
Christian Bruno impressed in his debut with a top-five run, and Bruce Buckwalter showed serious speed with a heat win and top-10 finish. Brendan Hires turned in a career-best fourth, battling up front with Danner for much of the night.
Looking to rebound, Ed Aikin returns after early trouble, while Ronald Helmick aims for a cleaner night after mechanical issues cut his debut short. Kyle Spence and Joe Kata also look to build on solid opening runs.
Two nights, two historic tracks, added start money, and a loaded field—it’s shaping up to be a pivotal early-season weekend for the USAC East Coast Sprint Cars presented by Baer Den Farms.

2026 USAC HALL OF FAME TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Join us for the 2026 USAC Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Wednesday, July 1!

The event will take place at USAC Headquarters located at 4910 W 16th St. Speedway, Indiana 46224.

A luncheon ticket is required and must be reserved in advance at https://usacracing.ticketspice.com/2026-hof-ceremony. Tickets will be available at will call.

The luncheon starts at noon Eastern. The hall of fame ceremony is slated to begin after the luncheon at 1:00pm and is open to the public at this time.

USAC’s 13th hall of fame class includes officials Jack Beckley and John Cooper, plus car owner Blackie Fortune, promoter Sam Nunis, as well as drivers Johnny Parsons, George Snider and Tom Sneva.

The 2026 USAC Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be held between race days during the BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Championship at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

USAC headquarters are located just across the street from turn one of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

REINBOLD RAISES THE STAKES

FOR ‘26 USAC MIDGET SEASON

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (APRIL 21, 2026)………No driver showed more growth throughout the past USAC season than Hayden Reinbold.

Now, the 22-year-old Gilbert, Arizona native is back on the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship trail full-time again in 2026 as the driver of the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports No. 19AZ on the 29-race tour.

The results don’t lie about his performance from one year ago. In 2025, he surpassed his total combined USAC National Midget output from his first five years in a single season.

He earned two top-fives in 2025, after accruing one total in his first five years with the series. His seven top-ten finishes in 2025 doubled from the seven total he earned between 2020-2024. Late in 2025, he became a first-time USAC National Midget winner in what was his 101st career series start, leading to an 11th place result in the standings.

It’s an elevation Reinbold chalks up to more seat time.

“It’s just about running a lot more,” Reinbold explained. “Of course, any time you're in a car, you're gaining knowledge, laps and just getting the feel for things. Midgets are the first cars I raced. I was just learning to drive them, then learning to race.”

At the conclusion of the 2025 campaign, coupled between his exploits in USAC’s National Midget and National Sprint Car divisions, Reinbold was named the USAC National Most Improved Driver.

“It was cool to be recognized for our efforts and our progress throughout the years,” Reinbold beamed. “I was super honored to receive it.”

In fact, Reinbold is a rarity. He didn’t grow up competing in quarter midgets, karts, outlaw karts or anything in that realm. His first race of any kind was a USAC National Midget event at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port City Raceway as a 16-year-old in 2020.

All those years paid off in September of 2025 during the 4-Crown Nationals at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway where Reinbold not only earned his first career fast qualifying time with the series, but also his first ever USAC feature victory, just in the nick of time as he slowed across the finish line, practically running on fumes.

“That was super fun,” Reinbold recalled. “When we showed up, I knew we were going to be pretty good because our midget program is really good on big tracks that have grip. There were grip spots throughout the track and I was pretty excited about it. We almost ran out of fuel, but we were super-fast. When your car is that good, I can run around sliding myself. When I ran the bottom, I just kept gaining speed on them.”

In 2025, he was the first Arizonan to be named USAC’s National Most Improved Driver since Jerry Coons Jr. in 2001. Now, 2026 presents an even greater opportunity to continue his rise up the USAC National Midget tally.

When posed the question of where he looks to find improvement in his game this year, Reinbold provided a simple two-word answer. “Drive harder.”

Reinbold will start off his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2026 beginning with back-to-back nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway for the Kokomo Grand Prix on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25.

ENGLISHMAN CARR A USAC MIDGET

ROOKIE OF THE YEAR CONTENDER IN 2026

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 20, 2026)………Three years ago, Brandon Carr moved to the United States. Two years ago, he made his dirt track debut. A little over a year ago, he took his first laps in a midget.

Now, this year, the Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England native is set to take on a full season of USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship racing for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports.

In 2026, the 18-year-old Brit will compete for KKM at all 29 events on the schedule and is among the drivers who’ll be vying for Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year honors with the series.

Carr made five USAC National Midget feature starts during the 2025 campaign, but the transition from paved road courses to dirt ovals certainly had its share of learning curves. For year two, he enters the season more confident after getting a full taste of the nuances of dirt racing during the last season.

“I'm really excited to be able to compete again for KKM,” Carr said. “The first year was a bit hard to learn the dirt and all that stuff. So, this year, I understand it a lot better, and the guys of KKM have helped me a lot. We actually get to push forward and show what we've learned in the last year.”

For much of Carr’s racing life, he’s competed in karts. Since the age of six, he’s raced on each side of the pond in his native England and in the United States. In the karting discipline, he’s nailed down such impressive accolades as the Florida Winter Series Championship (2017), British Kart Championship (2022), Kart Masters Championship (2022), and Stars Championship (2023).

More recently, when he hasn’t been on dirt, Carr has been competing in pavement late models. This past March, he was the inaugural IHRA Pro Late Model winner at Virginia’s Pulaski County Motorsports Park.

Although he counts Jeff Gordon as the racer he most admires, dirt racing wasn’t a part of Carr’s personal racing vocabulary until quite recently. Gordon, of course, captured the 1990 USAC National Midget title before going on to an incredible NASCAR Cup Series Career where he was a four-time champion in 1995-1997-1998-2001.

Now residing in Mooresville, North Carolina, toward the end of the 2024 season, Carr jumped in a micro sprint. From there, plans were made to run a midget at the Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa the following January.

But first, Carr’s actual initial dirt midget race came indoors at the Southern Illinois Center in Du Quoin in December 2024 in a 4 Kings Racing ride. Despite missing a transfer spot to the feature that night, Carr liked what he experienced, and soon, he had a full order of dirt racing on his menu.

“It's all been karts and no car stuff, no dirt stuff,” Carr explained. “And then, all of a sudden, we jumped on dirt and we liked it. So, we’ve just kept pushing towards it.”

Carr’s sponsor, J. Davidson Scrap Metal, has been a familiar sight on the sprint cars and midgets of fellow Brit racer Tom Harris who has assisted Carr in his introduction to the dirt. Since then, the learning process has never wavered as Carr continues to increase his comfortability on dirt.

“Just getting comfortable with being able to throw it in the corner and be on the gas flat out at the speeds we go and then be confident that it's not going to flip over or you are not going to slide off the top of the track or into the wall,” Carr cited as the first part of the equation of a dirt midget. “Getting to grips with all that and how much gas and brake to use at the same time, just little techniques like that that I hadn't used before or learned before.”

While Carr will be on the hunt for his initial USAC National Midget win in 2026, he has already picked off a win with POWRi in October 2025, leading all 30 laps of the Charlene Meents Memorial at Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port City Raceway.

“That was great,” Carr exclaimed. “We had three nights, and the first night I just struggled a little bit of trying to learn the track. On the second night, we had a lot better run but still made mistakes on my end that made it a bit more hard work in the race. On the last night, the team just told me just go for it; we’ve got nothing to lose. We got a good qualifying lap, had a good heat race and that put us on the pole for the feature. Then, I just didn't make any mistakes and kept it calm on the bottom and on the top.”

Paul Bates is believed to be the most recent Brit to win a USAC National Midget feature event, doing so in 1968 at California’s Cajon Speedway. Now, Carr will take his shot.

Carr will start off his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2026 beginning with back-to-back nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway for the Kokomo Grand Prix on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25.

A NEW HOME FOR DRAKE WITH RMS

FOR ’26 USAC MIDGET SEASON

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 20, 2026)………Kale Drake has a new address for the 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season.

The 20-year-old Collinsville, Oklahoma native will pilot the RMS Racing No. 4 on the full 29-race tour this coming year after competing for the past two-plus seasons with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports.

Drake, the 2025 USAC Indiana Midget Week champion, has made 46 career series starts, winning three features over the past two seasons. Last year, he took fifth in series points, winning twice overall at Missouri’s Sweet Springs Motorsports Park and Indiana’s Circle City Raceway. In 2024, he won a BC39 preliminary feature at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Now, Drake is excited for a new chapter with RMS, one that has already seen him get his feet wet with a few starts already this year for the team, including a third at Oklahoma City’s I-44 Speedway just a little more than a week ago. But this deal for the new combo began at the tail end of last year when Drake was a free agent looking for a new home.

“I talked to (RMS Crew Chief) Lacey (Doyle) a little bit at Ventura,” Drake recalled. “She said she didn't really have another driver for next year, and I really didn't have any for-sure plans. I just kind of threw it at her and said, ‘if you want a driver, I might be down to race with you all.’ They got back to me I ended up driving for them at the Chili Bowl. Her and (car owner) Dave (Estep) called me and I drove up to Cedar Lake and they showed me around their shop and their operation. We talked about it and it all kind of snowballed from there.”

Not only will Drake be racing for RMS, he’ll also be working for them full-time at their Cedar Lake, Indiana headquarters, getting fully intertwined with the team’s daily operations.

“I took the opportunity to come up there and work with them full-time,” Drake said of his new opportunity at RMS. “I’m going to work in their shop this year and travel around racing with them, just doing as much midget racing as we possibly can and see what that can turn it into. We have really similar goals and we both want to win and be the best version of ourselves. That goes a long ways, I think.”

Drake has made all 46 of his USAC National Midget career starts thus far for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports. Drake explained the reasoning behind them not pairing up in 2026.

“It wasn’t like there was any parting in that sort,” Drake explained. “When Keith offered me the job at KKM and I got to move up here and pursue this full time, the whole end goal was for me to be hired by another team, to become a racecar driver and do this for a living. So, when that opportunity was there, it was like, this is what you came out here to do. You came out here to prove yourself and show what you're capable of. Now that other drivers and other teams are seeing that, you need to take the opportunity and run with it.”

Several drivers have driven for KKM over the years, 124 of them, in fact, just in USAC National Midget competition alone dating back to 1985! Although Drake and KKM have gone their separate ways, Drake is thankful for the first chance he was offered to run USAC full-time.

“Keith, in a way, said that this is no one's forever home, but we like showing you off, help build you up to what you're capable of and push you along the ranks,” Drake elaborated. “For them to give me that ground to really do that was pretty cool. To work with them and accomplish some really big things last year was really good for me. I'm forever grateful for everything they've done. Working with that whole crew was super cool and I learned a ton. I definitely wouldn't be here without them.”

As for his new digs at RMS, Drake is eager to get the USAC National Midget season underway with a team that has won 22 career USAC National Midget feature events, including some of the biggest in the sport, namely the Turkey Night Grand Prix, the BC39 and the Hangtown 100.

“I know it's going to be a process, but, it's something that I'm really looking forward to,” Drake acknowledged. “I'm going to do our best to speed it up as quickly as possible, but you can't really skip that, so I'm looking forward to it. I look forward to the work that goes into it. So, there's a lot of it to be done, and I'm really excited for what's to come.”

Drake will start off his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2026 beginning with back-to-back nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway for the Kokomo Grand Prix on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25.

Danner Slides His Way Into Victory

Allentown’s Briggs Danner rolled into Bridgeport Raceway Park with one goal—win. He got it, but not without a full-throttle fight from start to finish.

Jonathon Swanson led the field to green in the 2026 USAC East Coast opener presented by Baer Den Farms, but the early spotlight didn’t stay there long. The “Thriller,” Kenny Miller III, wasted no time slicing forward from fourth to grab the lead and set the pace.

Behind him, the pressure was building. Danner was on the move from eighth, while defending series champ Steven Drevicki charged from sixth—two heavy hitters zeroing in fast.

A lap 12 caution for Jason Cherry reset the field, but by lap 19, traffic turned the race into a chess match at full speed. Danner and Miller went to war, threading through lapped cars with precision and aggression—while Drevicki stayed glued to the fight, keeping the leaders honest and ready to capitalize.

Further back, Olivia Thayer turned heads with a charge from 22nd after transferring through the semi, and Bruce Buckwalter stayed steady inside the top 10 despite a tough redraw.

But up front, it was Danner’s moment.

Through traffic, with Miller throwing everything he had at him, Danner made the decisive moves when it mattered most—sliding, gripping, and powering his way to victory lane in the Hogue Enterprises No. 39, backed by E. Schneider & Sons and Aw Shucks Corn.

Miller crossed in second, strong but hungry for more. Drevicki showed championship form in third, keeping the pressure on throughout. Brendan Hires finished fourth, marking his best career run with USAC, and Christian Bruno impressed in his new 3BC ride, charging to fifth.

(BDB Graphics) Heat 1: 1.Ken Miller III (Miller 23m) 2. Briggs Danner (Houge 39) 3. Joe Kata (Kata 10) 4. Tommy Kunsman (Kunsman 21k) 5. Ed Aikin (Butler/Aikin 7) 6. Jake Galloway (Galloway 27g) 7. Frank Frascio (Frasco 186) 8. Patrick Chilmonik (Chilmonik 1)

(E Schneider and Sons) Heat 2: 1. Bruce Buckwalter (Buckwalter 83) 2. Rich Carnathan ( Carnathan 64) 3. David Swanson (Swanson 117) 4. Jared Kreider (Kreider 24) 5. Dan Malley (Malley H20) 6. Jason Cherry (Cherry 67) 7. Dirk Rimrott (Rimrott 4) 8. Ryan Roulette (Roulette 67R)

(Boulevard Truck Repair) Heat 3: 1. Steven Drevicki (Drevicki 19) 2. Brendan Hires (Danner 2) 3. Ronald Helmick (Helmick 22R) 4. Matthew Swift (Swift 03) 5. JR Fulper (Fulper 67) 6. Larry VcVay (Kelly 51) 7. Olivia Thayer (Thayer 39T) 8. Shane Braxton ( Braxton 35)

(CAN-AM) Heat 4: John Swanson (Swanson 17) 2. Christan Bruno (Franckowiak 3BC) 3. Stan Poloski III ( Poloski 27) 4. Kyle Spence ( Fraker 42) 5. Anthony Foscone (Foscone 14) 6. Heidi Hedin (Hedin 3H) 7. Greg Shepsis (Shepsis 75) 8. Joey Crilly (Crilly 22)

(Boulevard Truck Repair) Semi-Feature. 1. Jason Cherry 2. Olivia Thayer 3. Shane Braxton 4. Jake Galloway 5. Joey Crilly 6. Heidi Hedin 7. Ryan Roulette 8. Greg Shepsis 9. Larry McVay 10. Dirk Rimrott 11 (DNS) Frank Frasco 12. (DNS) Patrick Chilmonik

BAER DEN FARMS A-MAIN 1. BRIGGS DANNER (8) 2. Kenny Miller III (4) 3. Steven Drevicki (6) 4. Brendan Hires (2) 5. Christain Bruno (7) 6. Jonathan Swanson (1) 7. Joe Kata (9) 8. Tommy Kunsman (13) 9. Bruce Buckwalter (5) 10. Kyle Spence (16) 11. Stan Poloski III (12) 12. JR Fulper (19) 13. Olivia Thayer (22) 14. Jared Kreider (14) 15. Jake Galloway (24) 16. Matthew Swift (15) 17. Dan Malley (18) 18. Rich Carnathan (3) 19. Jason Cherry (21) 20. Ed Aikin (17) 21. Shane Braxton (23) 22. Ronald Helmick (11) 23. David Swanson (10) 24. Anthony Foscone Jr DNS

Patrick Chilmonik flipped in heat 1.

Greg Shepsis flipped in the semi.

Hoosier Tire Winner: JR Fulper

Fast Time of the night presented by Bitner Auto: Danner

Hotlap fast time presented by Radical: Steven Drevicki

C&C Landscape Hard Charger: Olivia Thayer

J&W Custom Homes Best 305 or Crate: Stan Poloski III

JPA Hard Luck Award: Matthew Swanson

R.J. JOHNSON TOPS USAC CRA SPRINTS FRIDAY

AT CASA GRANDE

By: Lance Jennings

Casa Grande, Arizona (April 17, 2026)………Starting third, R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona powered by “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr. on lap eleven and held off several challenges from teammate “KTJ” Kevin Thomas Jr. to score the Friday night win at Central Arizona Raceway.

For Johnson, the $3,000 Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car victory was his second win of the campaign and he netted an extra $500 bonus for his efforts. The two-time and defending champion raced the Petty Performance Racing #1p Avanti Windows & Doors Sherman to the checkered flag over Thomas, Davis, Ricky Lewis, and Cale Coons.

Starting on the pole position, Davis found the inside groove to his liking and started to extend his advantage over the field. Johnson used the extra momentum from the outside line to reel in the leader. R.J. began to challenge Davis for the top sport, but the veteran driver remained strong.

With ten laps down, Johnson mounted another charge from the top groove that proved successful. Once out front, Johnson began to put some distance between himself and the field as Davis faced heavy pressure from Thomas. Thomas was successful in taking second away from Davis and soon set his sights after Johnson.

By this time in the race, R.J. was dealing with heavy traffic and his progress was slowed. Thomas was able to move within striking distance but found himself slowed by the back markers. Once cleared, he charged again after Johnson, but it was not to be as Johnson secured the thirteenth USAC CRA triumph of his career.

Cullman, Alabama’s “KTJ” Kevin Thomas Jr., opened the night by posting the ninth Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Award of his career. The pilot of the Petty Performance Racing #33p Avanti Windows & Doors Sherman turned the fastest lap with a time of 15.255 seconds over Braden Chiaramonte, Cale Coons, Johnson, “The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams and the rest of the 23 drivers in attendance.

After earning the Fast Qualifier Award, Thomas went on to claim the night’s 8-lap Sexton Fire Protection First Heat Race win. The regular with the USAC National Series finished ahead of Lewis, Johnson, Joshua Shipley, Daylin Perreira, Verne Sweeney, Brody Wake, and Stevie Sussex.

The 8-lap Roy Miller Freight Lines Second Heat Race went to “The Radio Flyer” Bruce St. James from Apache Junction, Arizona. The owner/driver of the #1AZ Central Arizona Raceway Maxim with a 360 engine was followed by Wayne Siddle, Chiaramonte, Davis, Koen Crawford, Williams, Lonnie Hochstetler, and Rickey Kinney. Bruce later earned an extra $200 bonus from Avanti Windows & Doors for being the second best finishing 360 in the 30-lap main event.

The night’s third and final heat race, sponsored by Rescue Mission Alliance, was captured by Connor Lundy of Peoria, Arizona. Driving the Matt Lundy owned #97 Apache Transport Sherman, last season’s Rookie of the Year took the 8-lap victory over Coons, A.J. Bender, Dayton Shelton, Brecken Guerrero, Mickey Gile, and Justin Kierce.

After racing from fourteenth to fourth, Ricky Lewis scored the night’s Hard Charger Award / “Best Passing Job” honors at Central Arizona Raceway. For his efforts, Lewis took home an extra $350 courtesy of Avanti Windows & Doors, along with photographer Steve Lafond. Ricky also took home the $720 Rolls Scaffold 360 Challenge bonus and an extra $300 for being the top finishing 360 from Avanti Windows and Doors.

The Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series is back at Central Arizona Raceway on Saturday, April 18th. For more information on the series, visit www.usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC CRA Facebook, X, and Instagram pages.

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 17, 2026 – Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, Arizona

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFYING: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 33p, Petty-15.265; 2. Braden Chiaramonte, 73B, OCC-15.528; 3. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-15.573; 4. R.J. Johnson, 1p, Petty-15.573; 5. Austin Williams, 17w, Dunkel-15.585; 6. A.J. Bender, 21, Bender-15.593; 7. Stevie Sussex, 2, Yeley-15.634; 8. Charles Davis Jr., 47, Davis-15.697; 9. Dayton Shelton, 4D, Shelton-15.827; 10. Daylin Perreira, 21p, Perreira-15.884; 11. Koen Crawford, 48, Crawford-15.885; 12. Connor Lundy, 97, Lundy-15.893; 13. Ricky Lewis, 78x, Bonneau-15.900; 14. Bruce St. James, 1AZ, St. James-16.021; 15. Brecken Guerrero, 98B, Guerrero-16.041; 16. Joshua Shipley, 2x, Shipley-16.162; 17. Wayne Siddle, 007, Siddle-16.163; 18. Mickey Gile, 23AZ, Gile-16.262; 19. Verne Sweeney, 98, Guerrero-16.304; 20. Lonnie Hochstetler, 31H, Hochstetler-16.331; 21. Justin Kierce, 43, Kierce-16.621; 22. Brody Wake, 78, Wake-16.810; 23. Rickey Kinney Jr., 81K, Kinney-16.909.

SEXTON FIRE PROTECTION FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Ricky Lewis, 3. R.J. Johnson, 4. Joshua Shipley, 5. Daylin Perreira, 6. Verne Sweeney, 7. Brody Wake, 8. Stevie Sussex. NT

ROY MILLER FREIGHT LINES SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Bruce St. James, 2. Wayne Siddle, 3. Braden Chiaramonte, 4. Charles Davis Jr., 5. Koen Crawford, 6. Austin Williams, 7. Lonnie Hochstetler, 8. Rickey Kinney Jr., NT

RESCUE MISSION ALLIANCE THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature) 1. Connor Lundy, 2. A.J. Bender, 3. Cale Coons, 4. Dayton Shelton, 5. Brecken Guerrero, 6. Mickey Gile, 7. Justin Kierce. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. R.J. Johnson (3), 2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (6), 3. Charles Davis Jr. (1), 4. Ricky Lewis (14), 5. Cale Coons (4), 6. Braden Chiaramonte (5), 7. Bruce St. James (8), 8. Daylin Perreira (12), 9. Dayton Shelton (11), 10. Brecken Guerrero (15), 11. Verne Sweeney (19), 12. Austin Williams (9), 13. A.J. Bender (2), 14. Connor Lundy (7), 15. Justin Kierce (21), 16. Mickey Gile (18), 17. Lonnie Hochstetler (20), 18. Joshua Shipley (16), 19. Stevie Sussex (10), 20. Wayne Siddle (17), 21. Rickey Kinney Jr. (22), 22. Koen Crawford (13). NT

**Rickey Kinney Jr. flipped on lap 7 of the feature. A.J. Bender, Lonnie Hochstetler & Justin Kierce flipped on lap 26 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-10 Charles Davis Jr., Laps 11-30 R.J. Johnson

AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS / STEVE LAFOND PHOTOS HARD CHARGER: Ricky Lewis (14th to 4th)

NEW AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-R.J. Johnson-445, 2-Ricky Lewis-384, 3-Austin Williams-366, 4-A.J. Bender-360, 5-Connor Lundy-360, 6-Charles Davis Jr.-296, 7-Verne Sweeney-291, 8-Brecken Guerrero-271, 9-Dayton Shelton-267, 10-Braden Chiaramonte-208.

NEXT AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: April 18, 2026 – Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, Arizona

ROBINSON READIES FOR USAC MIDGET

ROOKIE RUN WITH KKM IN 2026

Columbus, Indiana (APRIL 16, 2026)………Colton Robinson will contend for USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship Rookie of the Year honors as he prepares for a full season run with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports on the series’ 29-race schedule in 2026.

The upcoming season will mark the Titusville, Florida native’s second year competing in the KKM number 67K after making eight starts on the 2025 USAC trail. Last year, he nailed down a pair of top-10 finishes with a ninth at California’s Merced Speedway and a 10th at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway.

“I’m really excited to be back with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports,” Robinson said. “Having a year of experience under my belt with this team gives me a lot of confidence going into 2026. The goal is to keep improving, be competitive every night, and put us in position to win races.”

The 2026 USAC National Midget schedule will take the 16-year-old Robinson to 21 different tracks across the United States. The diverse schedule will test both driver and team across a wide range of racing conditions throughout the season.

Robinson showed steady progress during the 2025 season. Among his highlights were cracking the starting lineup for both nights of the prestigious BC39 Presented by Avanti Windows & Doors at The Dirt Track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Robinson cut his racing teeth in karts on dirt tracks in his native Florida. Early on, he showed success, capturing Junior division titles in the Florida Dirt Championship Series and the Florida Karting Series.

By the age of 13, he found his way to micro sprint racing, competing for one of the all-time greats in the discipline, Frank Flud. Soon, Robinson was standing in victory lane at venues such as Tulsa, Oklahoma’s Port City Raceway and Ocala, Florida’s Marion County Speedway.

With a full season ahead and a year of experience in the bank, Robinson is poised to take the next step and become a regular contender on the national stage for KKM, the Columbus, Indiana based team which leads all USAC National Midget entrants with an incredible 164 feature wins and 13 entrant titles.

Robinson also extends his sincere appreciation to primary sponsor Precise Tooling Solutions of Columbus, Indiana for their continued support.

“Precise Tooling Solutions has been a huge part of my racing career,” Robinson added. “I’m grateful for their continued belief in me, and I’m excited to represent them as we take on a full season with KKM.”

Now, Robinson looks to build on his experience with the team and contribute to that historic total with feature victories of his own in 2026.

Robinson will start off his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2026 beginning with back-to-back nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway for the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24-25.

JONES JOINS ENGLER FOR

FULL 2026 USAC NATIONAL MIDGET SEASON

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (APRIL 16, 2026)………Kyle Jones has teamed up with car owner and engine builder Tim Engler to take on the full USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship schedule in 2026.

Jones (Kennedale, Texas) will be one of two full-time Engler entries on the USAC tour this coming season. Jones will drive the number 7TX while teammate Thomas Meseraull returns to the seat of the number 7x.

Since his series debut in 2015, the 32-year-old Jones has amassed 52 career USAC National Midget starts. The bulk of it has come within the past two seasons for Joyner Motorsports. One year ago, he grabbed a top-five finish with the series at Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway.

Now, the full-time racer is set to go to work on the 29-race slate in 2026 with a new address.

“I'm extremely excited about it just because of the knowledge that Tim brings to the table,” Jones said. “Building an engine is no small feat. You've got to be pretty smart to know what you're doing there. With the knowledge he's got and Donnie Gentry, the crew chief behind the program, this team is really stellar. Donnie and I click really well on what we like on the racecar and what we’d like the feel to be. I think the more we run together, the better we're going to be.”

For Jones, it’s not his first foray with Engler’s team. Back in January of this year, he ran the Chili Bowl Nationals for the team, finishing ninth on his prelim night and 12th in the final night’s B-Main.

“We ran some races last year together, and we got to run Chili Bowl together, and had some success right off the bat running with other series,” Jones recalled. “But I’m really looking forward to seeing what we can do with USAC. Something I've always wanted to do is win a USAC race, and I really feel like we've got the team, the partners and the motor to get it done.”

Engler debuted his midget team in 2023 with Meseraull and has been active with the series since. The Engler-built EA Stealth Ford engine utilized by the team is somewhat unique to midget racing, often being the only team to with the EA Stealth under the hood. However, in 2025, Jones got to run the engine with Joyner’s team in the latter half of the season. More recently, Jones drove Joyner’s car, which was equipped with an EA Stealth, to a runner-up finish with POWRi at I-44 Speedway in Oklahoma City last weekend.

Jones likes what he’s experienced thus far.

“(Tim) has been working on it and fine tuning it now for, I think, five or so years,” Jones estimated. “I run a different car with Corey Joyner some throughout the year as well with the EA Stealth engine and it runs great there too. We've really had a lot of success with that. They're top notch.”

Jones has been the driver for a one-car team over the past couple of USAC campaigns. This year, he’ll have a sidekick in Meseraull who has won with the series, won with this engine and has over a quarter century of midget racing experience at the top level of the sport.

“There's not many more guys that have been around midget racing as long as Thomas has,” Jones praised. “He's been around it and knows the ins and outs of it. He might say, ‘hey, maybe you might try this or maybe this might be better for you,’ and vice versa. I've been around for a while as well, and I hope I can be an asset to Thomas in that aspect as well.”

Jones is a highly versatile driver who estimates he has about 65-70 races on his schedule this year. Over the past couple of weeks, he’s finished in the runner-up spot in both a sprint car and a midget. But midget racing just hits different for Jones, and that’s what keeps him wanting more.

“In midget racing, we go to tracks and places where most cars of this speed can't go, just because of the size of the tracks that we're on most of the time. Jets in a gymnasium is the quote for it. I think it's spot on,” Jones offered. “It's pretty incredible how fast everything happens in a midget. I feel like in a sprint car, when they get slowed down, you’ve got a lot more time to make decisions based on how big the track size is and how fast you're going. It can depend on that. But in midget racing, everything happens in a split second.”

Jones knows from experience, as he explained.

“You're just up on top of the wheel 24/7, especially with USAC,” Jones acknowledged. “There's 15 to 18 guys that can win every night. So, you're racing just as hard for 11th as you would be for second or third. That's what makes it exciting for me. There's not just five or six guys who are going out there and dominating. Anybody can win on any night.”

He’s already living his dream. Now, Jones plans to make his dream of becoming a USAC National Midget feature winner a reality in 2026.

Jones will start off his USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season in 2026 beginning with back-to-back nights at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway for the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24-25.

2026 WESTERN WORLD EXPANDS TO 3 NIGHTS AT

CENTRAL ARIZONA RACEWAY OCT 22-23-24

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Casa Grande, Arizona (April 14, 2026)………The 2026 edition of the Western World Championships has expanded to three-straight nights of racing at Casa Grande’s Central Arizona Raceway on October 22-23-24.

The 59th annual running of one of dirt track racing’s most prestigious events will feature three consecutive sprint car doubleheader nights.

Both the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC CRA Sprint Car Series will compete in a combined show on all three nights.

Furthermore, the 360s of the USAC Avanti Windows & Doors Southwest Sprint Car Series will also compete on the card in a separate event across all three nights of Western World.

The event has expanded from two nights of racing to three in 2026. The last time three-straight nights of racing action took place at the Western World was 11 years ago in 2015.

The event garners some of the biggest car counts of the season as talented drivers from coast to coast arrive to compete for Western World glory, which boasts an incredible history dating back to 1968 in the state of Arizona.

Logan Seavey swept both nights of the USAC National / CRA Sprint Car portion of the Western World Championships in 2025, collecting more than $43,000 across two nights of racing. Brady Bacon was victorious in the final night’s 360 feature.

This year’s two Western World preliminary nights will pay $7,500-to-win for the USAC National / CRA feature event each evening. The final night feature event for USAC National / CRA will pay out $35,000-to-win and $1,000-to-start.

The Western World will also serve as the finale for the 2026 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

Ticket sales, event times and more will be announced soon. For more information on the 59th annual Western World Championships, please visit https://www.usacracing.com/ and https://www.centralazraceway.com/.

GRANT’S USAC MIDGET TITLE QUEST CONTINUES

IN YEAR TWO WITH CBI IN 2026

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 14, 2026)………Justin Grant is back in the seat of the CB Industries No. 87 for the 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season, as he searches for his first career title with the series.

Grant begins his second year of USAC National Midget racing with CBI when the season fires up at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway with the running of the Kokomo Grand Prix on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25.

The Ione, California native owns multiple USAC driving titles in both the Silver Crown (2020 & 2025) and AMSOIL National Sprint Car (2022 & 2023) divisions. One year ago, he finished as the runner-up in the USAC National Midget standings, the third time he’s done so over the last four seasons.

A USAC National Midget championship in 2026 would complete the third and final prong of the USAC Career Triple Crown, an achievement he’s fully cognizant of.

“I'm excited that I have a good opportunity to go chase a midget title,” Grant stated. “(The Triple Crown) is definitely a goal. It's a box on my list that's currently unchecked. I've got a great opportunity to do that and I'm really excited to be in that position and excited to go work with (team owner) Chad (Boat) again. I'm not hurt and I feel like things are looking good. I feel like through Chili Bowl, we were really working well together and I feel like I got really comfortable in the car. I'm really excited about it.”

During January’s Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Grant finished second in his Friday night prelim feature, then was in position late to make the winning move in the final night A-Main when trouble ended his bid prematurely in heartbreaking fashion.

Grant’s initial year with CBI in USAC National Midget competition in 2025 netted him three victories at Kokomo, Belleville and The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to go along with 12 top-fives and 17 top-tens in 23 starts. Year two presents an opportunity to up the game even further.

“Ideally, you want year two to be better than year one,” Grant said. “I think that's kind of where we are with Chad, the rest of the CBI guys and I. I feel like, last year, we were kind of figuring each other out and figuring out what roles we were leaning into as far as how to communicate and how to mesh and all of that. At the Chili Bowl this year, I feel like we were on a lot better page. Not that we weren’t last year, but this year, we want to finish that mesh up a little bit, communicate well and lean into both of our roles as well as we can and go win some races.”

Of course, injury saddled Grant for much of the latter half of the 2025 schedule after breaking his left foot in a July sprint car crash. A clean bill of health for 2026 has already seen him win twice on the USAC National Sprint Car circuit by mid-April. Back in prime form, Grant plans to translate that early success to the midgets.

“I’m a lot better in the in the last year,” Grant revealed. “The foot's coming around and now it's pretty good, so good that it's not even a consideration and not an issue. Now, I can go focus on doing my job. If nothing else, it's a lot less of a nuisance and a hassle just having to get somebody to carry things for me and have somebody help me do everything. That was a bit of a pain. The in-car stuff wasn't terrible, but it was uncomfortable. You can deal with that once you’re racing and you're locked-in and doing your thing. My energy was down and it was just a little bit of a hurdle. So, it’s nice to have that out of the way for right now.”

USAC TRIVIA NIGHT THIS Friday, April 17

Speedway, Indiana (April 14, 2026)………Test your USAC knowledge and support the racing community at USAC Trivia Night on Friday, April 17 from 7-10pm Eastern at USAC Headquarters, located at 4910 W. 16th Street in Speedway, Indiana.

Pre-register for the event now at https://www.raceaid.fund/raceaidevents/raceaid-trivia-night. You can also show up on the night of the event and pay your admission at the door.

For $15 per person, you can win prizes by playing trivia games throughout the night with questions pertaining to USAC racing history! Food and drinks will be served and good company will be on hand.

If you are joining us, be sure to come with a charged up cell phone in order to play the games. If you do not have a cell phone, there will be a paper option available.

USAC star Mitchel Moles confirmed he’ll be in attendance, while more drivers have submitted prizes for the USAC trivia winners.

All proceeds benefit USAC RaceAid to supporting racers in times of need.

USAC RaceAid provided over $70,000 of support in 2025. These events allow USAC RaceAid to continue to continue to aid racers in need.

Included among the prizes are Indianapolis Grand Prix suite tickets, Indianapolis 500 qualifications tickets, gift cards, signed memorabilia, car panels, visors, gloves, USAC merchandise, and much more!

Since 1959, the United States Auto Club Benevolent Foundation (now USAC RaceAid) has provided financial aid to the families of auto racing participants with ties to USAC who have been injured and/or need assistance. USAC RACEAID also provides support to surviving family members with immediate and ongoing expenses. Over the years, the foundation has provided millions of dollars to help members and their families in times of need. The needs, whether small or large, never cease.

To donate to USAC RaceAid, please visit www.RaceAid.Fund.

USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS EYE CASA GRANDE THIS FRIDAY & SATURDAY
By Lance Jennings

APRIL 13, 2026... Starting this Friday, April 17th, the quest for the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Championship will head to Central Arizona Raceway for two nights of action. Friday’s event will pay $3,000-To-Win and Saturday’s show will pay $5,000-To-Win with a $500 cash bonus available both nights. SportMods and Stock Cars will join Friday’s show and the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC Southwest 360 Sprint Cars and Modifieds will be a part of the Saturday showcase. Located in Casa Grande, Arizona at the Pinal County Fairgrounds, the Spectator Gates will open at 5:00pm, and Racing is scheduled for 7:00pm on both days. For more event information, visit the track’s website at centralazraceway.com or call 520.754.0407.

For those that cannot be at the races, a live stream will be broadcast by FloRacing.com.

NOTICE TO RACERS:
- ALL RACERS MUST PURCHASE THEIR USAC LICENSE / MEMBERSHIPS ONLINE PRIOR TO THE EVENT AT USACRACING.COM OR USACLICENSE.COM. (If racers have a membership question, contact Julie Tanaka at julietanaka@aol.com.)
- ENTRY FEE: There is an entry fee due at registration / pill pick.
- TRANSPONDERS: Transponders ARE MANDATORY and will be available to rent.
- ONE WAY RADIOS / RACECEIVERS: One way radios ARE MANDATORY.
- TIRE RULE: The Hoosier 105/16 Medium or Medium 1 will be the only approved right rear tire. Only SC12 left rear tires will be permitted and front tires must be Hoosier.
- RULE BOOK: The series rule book is online at usacracing.com.
- TIRES & FUEL: Fuel will be available at the race track. Tires ARE NOT AVAILABLE at the race track.
- TIMES: Pill Draw: 4:20pm, Driver's Meeting: 5:20pm, Hot Laps: 6:20pm.
- ROLLS SCAFFOLD 360 CHALLENGE: The top finishing 360 Sprint Car is eligible for an extra $360 per night if they finish in the top-six. If there are multiple 360s in the top-six, then the bonus will go to the highest finishing 360 in that main event. If the award is not claimed, then the pot will increase by an additional $360 at the next race until there is a winner. Once the bonus is earned, the process will start over until it is won again. If the award has not been won or whatever money is left over at season’s end will then be divided among the top three in points running a 360 engine.

ADDITIONAL BONUSES / PAYOUTS:
- $500-To-Start on both nights, up to 24 cars in the main event.
- Two drawings each night for 5 gallons of methanol.
- Drawing for 1 tire each night.
- $350 Hard Charger Award each night thanks to Avanti Windows & Doors and Steve Lafond.

Since April 11, 2025, the fast 3/8-mile clay oval has hosted four USAC/CRA events. Logan Seavey swept both nights of last October’s “Western World Championships” while Ricky Lewis and David Gasper also claimed victory. Mitchel Moles established the 1-lap track record of 15.024 seconds on October 24, 2025.

Heading to Casa Grande, two-time and defending series champion R.J. Johnson of Laveen, Arizona has a 44 point advantage. Driving the Petty Performance Racing #1P Avanti Windows & Doors / Apache Transport Sherman, Johnson has one feature win, four Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Awards, one heat race victory, five top-10 finishes, and 8 feature laps led on the season. Currently tied with Bryan Clauson with twelve career wins, the second generation driver will be looking to sweep the Friday and Saturday shows.

Yorba Linda, California’s “The Big Game Hunter” Austin Williams ranks second in the USAC/CRA point standings. Piloting the Tom & Christy Dunkel #17W Inland Rigging / Maxima Oil Triple X, Williams has posted four top-10 finishes during the campaign. To date, “The Big Game Hunter” is tied with Ryan Bernal and Matt Mitchell with eleven career wins and he will have his sights on his first win of 2026.

Connor Lundy of Peoria, Arizona sits third in the championship point chase. Racing the family owned #97 Apache Transport / Jugo Superfoods Sherman, Lundy has one heat race victory, one hard charger award, and five top-10 finishes to his credit. Last season’s rookie of the year will be looking to score his first USAC/CRA victory at Central Arizona Raceway.

Camarillo, California’s Ricky Lewis is fourth in the USAC/CRA point standings. The owner/driver of the #41 Mesilla Valley Transportation / Morris Family Farms DRC has three feature wins, one Woodland Auto Display Fast Time Award, three hard charger awards, four top-10 finishes, and 24 feature laps led on the season. Currently ranked sixth overall with fifteen wins, Lewis might skip Casa Grande to race in the Midwest.

A.J. Bender of San Diego, California’s is ranked fifth in the chase for the USAC/CRA championship. Piloting the Kim & Richard Bender #21 Rolls Scaffold / Matrix Construction Services DRC, Bender has two heat race victories, one hard charger award, four top-10 finishes, and 24 feature laps led in the campaign. The former Turkey Night Grand Prix 360 Sprint Car winner will have his sights on the second USAC/CRA win of his career.

Tucson, Arizona’s Wayne Siddle leads the chase for rookie of the year honors over Bryan Whitley, Jim Vanzant, Broedy Graham, and Troy DeGaton.

Among the other drivers expected to be in action are Verne Sweeney, “Chargin” Charles Davis Jr., Brecken Guerrero, Dayton Shelton, Eddie Tafoya Jr., Connor Speir, Tommy “Thunder” Malcolm, Stevie Sussex, Cale Coons, Josh Shipley, and more.

Central Arizona Raceway is located on the Pinal County Fairgrounds at 512 S. Eleven Mile Corner Road in Casa Grande, Arizona. To get to the track, take Exit 194 from Interstate 10, then head east seven miles to the fairgrounds. Adult tickets are $20, Senior/Military tickets are $18, Young Adult tickets (11-17) are $10, Kids (10 and under) are FREE. For more event and ticket information, visit centralazraceway.com or call 520.754.0407.

For more information on the Avanti Windows & Doors USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series, visit the United States Auto Club (USAC) website at usacracing.com and the social media for USAC Racing. You can also find exclusive content on the USAC/CRA Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.
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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-R.J. Johnson.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 3-Ricky Lewis, 1-R.J. Johnson, 1-Kevin Thomas Jr.

CASA GRANDE AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA 1-LAP QUALIFYING RECORD: Mitchel Moles – 15.024 (10/24/25)

CASA GRANDE AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR WINS: 2-Logan Seavey, 1-David Gasper, 1-Ricky Lewis

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS: 1. R.J. Johnson-366, 2. Austin Williams-322, 3. Connor Lundy-317, 4. Ricky Lewis-316, 5. A.J. Bender-315, 6. Verne Sweeney-247, 7. Charles Davis Jr.-227, 8. Brecken Guerrero-224, 9. Dayton Shelton-216, 10. Wayne Siddle-137, ---. Eddie Tafoya Jr.-137, 12. Connor Speir-134, 13. Bryan Whitley-111, 14. Jim Vanzant-107, 15. Kevin Thomas Jr.-82, 16. Blake Hendricks-62, 17. Daylin Perreira-57, 18. Broedy Graham-56, 19. Logan Calderwood-52, 20. Brent Sexton-35.

2026 AVANTI WINDOWS & DOORS USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES SCHEDULE
February 14: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: R.J. Johnson)
February 28: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ (Winner: Kevin Thomas Jr.)
March 13: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 14: Imperial Valley Raceway – Imperial, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
March 21: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Winner: Ricky Lewis)
April 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (RAIN)
April 17: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
April 18: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 2: Ventura Raceway – Ventura, CA
May 15: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 16: Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ
May 23: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA (Salute to Indy)
June 6: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
June 20: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
July 4: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA (Doug Fort Memorial)
July 11: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
August 15: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 5: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 6: Calistoga Speedway – Calistoga, CA (Louie Vermeil Classic)
September 19: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
September 26: Santa Maria Speedway – Nipomo, CA
October 3: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
October 10: Mohave Valley Raceway – Mohave Valley, AZ
October 23: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
October 24: *Central Arizona Raceway – Casa Grande, AZ (Western World Championships)
November 7: Perris Auto Speedway – Perris, CA
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* = Co-Sanctioned Event with USAC National Sprint Cars.
This schedule is subject to change.

CHECKED OFF!

CUMMINS COLLECTS FIRST TERRE HAUTE USAC WIN

AT JIM HURTUBISE CLASSIC

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Terre Haute, Indiana (April 12, 2026)………Kyle Cummins has accomplished a great deal of notable achievements in his USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship career, chiefly speaking of the 31 career feature victories as well as his series driving championship one year ago.

That said, one feat that had forever eluded the Princeton, Indiana racer was a USAC National Sprint Car win at Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track.

That is, until Sunday night at the 23rd running of the Jim Hurtubise Classic.

Starting fifth, Cummins roared to the lead past Mitchel Moles just five laps into the 30-lap feature to break through for his first USAC National Sprint Car win at the famed 1/2-mile dirt oval in his 16th career series start at the track dating back to 2009.

For Cummins, there’s not really anything he could place into the same realm as the feat he was able to pull off at the Action Track in his Petty Performance Racing/Avanti Windows & Doors – JUGO Superfoods/Mach-1/Stanton Chevy No. 3p.

“Nothing else,” when asked if anything could compare to taming the Terre Haute Action Track in USAC competition. “There through the middle of the race, I might not have been as good. Then, towards the end, I got mad and just freaking drove it. It was either going to blow up or win. It didn’t matter.”

While Cummins actually owns a previous triumph at Terre Haute with the Midwest Sprint Car Series in 2021, this moment stood as one of his proudest moments. Take into consideration that his first career USAC National Sprint Car appearance came at the Terre Haute Action Track as a 16-year-old newcomer in 2003. The end result saw Cummins transported to the hospital after vaulting over the turn three wall during a heat race.

Furthermore, Cummins’ latest score was his first USAC National Sprint Car win of the season following six consecutive top-five results on the series trail, including a second place finish 24 hours earlier at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway after leading the initial 12 laps before being overtaken for the number one spot.

“It hasn’t been a rough year, but we just hadn’t won any races,” Cummins acknowledged. “I really felt good about last night but I was disappointed. I’ll take second there last night if it meant winning tonight.”

In his first race as the series point leader in 2026, the defending champ notched his 31st career USAC National Sprint Car victory, tying him with Tyler Courtney for 18th place on the all-time list.

Cummins hustled his way into the prime position on Sunday night as he delivered a slide job on Moles in turn one on the fifth lap. By lap 10, he had worked his way into traffic, first by Australian Troy Carey and then by Illinoisan James Lyerla. However, Cummins’ lead over Moles had shrunk in half from 1.6 seconds down to 0.9 just prior to the halfway mark.

Logan Seavey, who had muscled into third and was posing a challenge to Moles for second, stopped atop turn four with a flat right rear tire on the 15th lap, which sent him to the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area for fresh rubber. Restarting at the tail of the field, he rushed back to ninth. A solid result, all things considered.

Soon, 2019 Hurtubise Classic winner Justin Grant came into range as he charged under Moles for the second position in the third turn on the 19th go around. Moles performed a half-spin in the process, but motored on, albeit now in third.

The red flag was displayed on lap 20 when Cannon McIntosh and Ricky Lewis tangled in turn four amid a battle for the 11th position. McIntosh wound up with the short end of the stick in the deal as he flipped upside down. Lewis continued on to finish seventh.

A wild scramble on the ensuing lap 21 restart saw both Moles and Jake Swanson drift past Grant in turn three, sending Moles back to second and Swanson to third while Grant fell down the running order to fourth. At the same time, 2015 Hurtubise Classic victor Robert Ballou stopped at the bottom of turns three and four with a downed left rear tire while running seventh. He returned to the tail of the field with a new tire, and crossed under the checkered flag 11th in the final tally.

Following one last final restart on lap 22, Cummins separated himself from Moles by a handful of car lengths initially. With five to go, Moles dug into the cushion in turns three and four and lost valuable ground as Cummins spurted away to freedom. Cummins began to mathematically equate the laps down the stretch. He didn’t want to let this opportunity slip from his grip.

“We got behind the first couple of laps there, but we made same good moves and got to the lead,” Cummins recounted. “It’s a long time around Terre Haute. Thirty laps just feels likes it’s forever and ever. I thought surely we’ve got to be getting close, and they’re like ‘ah, 21 laps.’ I was hoping it was a 25-lapper!”

Nonetheless, whether the main event distance was 25 or 30 laps, Cummins had the field covered as he crossed the stripe 1.597 seconds ahead of Mitchel Moles. Justin Grant took third with Jake Swanson fourth and C.J. Leary rounding out the top-five.

Cummins had plenty of clean air this evening after taking the lead on lap five. He led the remaining 26 laps to get the win as well as the K & N Filters Clean Air award.

Meanwhile, Briggs Danner followed up the previous night’s win with another solid performance at Terre Haute. He raced from 14th to sixth in the feature to earn Rod End Supply Hard Charger honors. The sixth is his best career USAC National Sprint Car finish to date at Terre Haute.

It was a first for Justin Grant in LearnLab Qualifying. Never before had he been a USAC National Sprint Car Fast Qualifier at the Terre Haute Action Track. On Sunday, he finally got it done with a top lap of 21.267 seconds. His 42nd career quick time with the series tied him with Kevin Thomas Jr. for sixth place all-time.

Rusty McClure, who captured the one and only USAC National Sprint Car win of his career during the 1992 Jim Hurtubise Classic, was on hand for the evening’s event and served as grand marshal.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 12, 2026 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 23rd Jim Hurtubise Classic – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-21.267; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-21.460; 3. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-21.632; 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-21.709; 5. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-21.817; 6. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-21.838; 7. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-21.943; 8. Cannon McIntosh, 5G, KO-22.046; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-22.072; 10. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-22.175; 11. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-22.266; 12. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-22.323; 13. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-22.363; 14. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-22.486; 15. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-22.818; 16. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-22.973; 17. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-23.334; 18. James Lyerla, 11, JL-23.458; 19. Adam Taylor, 8T, Doherty-23.530; 20. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-23.642; 21. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-23.774; 22. Troy Carey, 45N, Carey-24.082.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Jake Swanson (4), 2. Trey Osborne (2), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Kevin Thomas Jr. (5), 5. David Gasper (1), 6. Cale Coons (3), 7. Troy Carey (8), 8. Adam Taylor (7). 2:51.123

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (6), 2. Robert Ballou (2), 3. C.J. Leary (5), 4. Cannon McIntosh (4), 5. Brandon Mattox (7), 6. Aric Gentry (1), 7. Logan Calderwood (3). 2:49.720

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (5), 2. Briggs Danner (2), 3. Chase Stockon (4), 4. Logan Seavey (6), 5. Ricky Lewis (3), 6. Hayden Reinbold (7), 7. James Lyerla (1). 2:53.875

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (5), 2. Mitchel Moles (1), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Jake Swanson (7), 5. C.J. Leary (2), 6. Briggs Danner (14), 7. Ricky Lewis (11), 8. Cale Coons (10), 9. Logan Seavey (4), 10. Chase Stockon (9), 11. Robert Ballou (13), 12. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 13. Trey Osborne (12), 14. Logan Calderwood (19), 15. Brandon Mattox (17), 16. Hayden Reinbold (18), 17. David Gasper (15), 18. Adam Taylor (22), 19. James Lyerla (20), 20. Troy Carey (21), 21. Cannon McIntosh (8), 22. Aric Gentry (16). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Mitchel Moles, Laps 5-30 Kyle Cummins.

**Cannon McIntosh flipped on lap 20 of the feature.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-610, 2-Justin Grant-587, 3-Jake Swanson-570, 4-Mitchel Moles-562, 5-Logan Seavey-551, 6-Briggs Danner-531, 7-Chase Stockon-518, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-500, 9-C.J. Leary-472, 10-Trey Osborne-443.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-36, 2-Briggs Danner-28, 3-Cale Coons-28, 4-Robert Ballou-25, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-22, 6-Hayden Reinbold-19, 7-Justin Grant-18, 8-Chase Stockon-18, 9-Brady Bacon-18, 10-Chelby Hinton-17.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: May 1, 2026 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Indiana – 19th Larry Rice Classic – 1/4-Mile Dirt Track

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CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (21.015)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (21.267)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Jake Swanson

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Kyle Cummins

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Kyle Cummins (26 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Briggs Danner (14th to 6th)

BRIGGS BURG!

DANNER RIM RIDES TO JUSTIN OWEN MEMORIAL SCORE

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Lawrenceburg, Indiana (April 11, 2026)………Briggs Danner rode the rim of Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway to perfection during Saturday night’s third annual Justin Owen Memorial Presented by Tempstar.

The Allentown, Pennsylvania native raced from his fifth place starting spot and into the lead just before the midway point of the 30-lap feature, then fended off Kyle Cummins on multiple restarts down the stretch to capture his first USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship win of the 2026 season.

Danner’s second USAC National Sprint Car triumph at Lawrenceburg’s 3/8-mile dirt oval was the eighth overall of his career, tying him with Mike Bliss, Chet Fillip, Johnny Rutherford, Joe Saldana and Jake Swanson for 62nd place on the all-time list.

The race was held in memory of Justin Owen, the 2022 sprint car track champion at Lawrenceburg who lost his life in a racing accident at the track in 2023. For Danner, it was certainly special to add his name alongside Kevin Thomas Jr. (2024) and Justin Grant (2025) as winners of the event.

“I feel like this is what it’s all about – for Justin,” Danner stated. “This is a really cool deal to be able to come out and be a part of it.”

Danner had an inkling the track was going to be to his liking. For him, it was just a matter of the high line giving him what he needed after being a bit thinner early on. In the end, Danner had his Hogue Racing Enterprises/E. Schneider & Sons – Keystone Cap/DRC/Rider Chevy dialed in.

“What a car this was to drive tonight,” Danner exclaimed. “It was making my job very easy, for sure. This was a helluva night and if we can keep them going this way, we’ll be okay.”

In a span of about a half lap on the third circuit of the feature, Danner picked off two off the top of turn four, eking around the outside of Jake Swanson for fourth, then nipping Mitchel Moles at the stripe in the blink of an eye later for third. Danner kept on pedaling near the outside wall, and blitzed his way by Justin Grant for second off the turn two top rope.

Cummins, meanwhile, had led from the outset. But soon, he reached the tail end of the field and Danner snipped the interval rather quickly, matching each and every one of Cummins’ needle-threading maneuvers along the way on the high banks.

By lap 13, Danner was right on Cummins’ rear bumper. Changing course, however, when Danner saw daylight on the bottom of turn three under Cummins, he left the top and went on the attack down low. Danner dove to the bottom of the track, then slid up in front of Cummins as he rose up the turn four banking, clearing the way to take over up front with authority.

After Austin Nigh (19th) spun to a stop in between turns three and four on the 19th lap, Danner’s 2.320 second lead over Cummins was erased. Cummins, with a new lease on his feature life, took instant capitalization of his reprieve to make a bid for the lead on the lap 19 restart. As Cummins drifted ahead of Danner in turn one, Danner quickly flicked the steering wheel and charged back under Cummins to re-secure the one spot.

But just when Danner thought he was back in the clear, Trey Osborne (11th) spun on the infield berm in turns three and four, which collected Cannon McIntosh (12th), grinding both to a halt. For McIntosh, the 2025 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Champion, it was his first USAC National Sprint Car start in nearly five years. Earlier in the night, McIntosh captured a heat race win in his first run for KO Motorsports.

In turn, it set up another restart for Danner to go face-to-face with, and with Cummins hot on his trail.

“That was probably the longest 20 laps of my life, just waiting for the checker to fall,” Danner admitted. “I didn’t want to see those restarts come because I felt like I was in a rhythm and doing a good job on my part. To fend off Kyle on restarts is tough. He’ll be aggressive and he’s very calculating. He knows what he’s doing.”

This time, however, Cummins didn’t have a move on Danner in turn one. Danner was simply in another zip code as he muscled away once more, and “Danner” was all she wrote.

Danner defeated Cummins to the finish line by a 1.382 second margin with Justin Grant rounding out the podium in third. Robert Ballou made a late rally on the bottom to finish fourth while C.J. Leary rounded out the top-five.

Earning the $100 K & N Filters Clean Air award was Danner who led a race-high 18 laps en route to victory. Danner also added $400 to the bank for qualifying second quickest. The extra cash was one of the many rewards issued throughout the evening as part of the Justin Owen Memorial.

C.J. Leary lined his wallet with $150 for grabbing LearnLab Fast Qualifying honors, which provided the famed Fox No. 53 its first fast time award at Lawrenceburg since 2010 with Jon Stanbrough behind the wheel. For Leary, it was the 58th fast time of his USAC National Sprint Car career, just two behind Tracy Hines for third place all-time. Leary also bagged an extra $400 for laying down the second fastest time during hot laps.

USAC National Sprint Car Rookie David Gasper had a quite lucrative Lawrenceburg debut. The young Californian’s 23rd to 14th run in the feature netted him the Hard Charger award for the night. He collected $1,000 in Justin Owen Memorial cash for his efforts, plus $150 more from Rod End Supply.

Ryan Barr came up one spot short of the feature, but still came home with some extra money as the first non-transfer of the semi-feature. He was the recipient of the $264 Justin Owen Memorial bonus, plus the standard $200 USAC non-transfer money.

Four drivers earned bonuses by finishing fourth in their respective heat races in honor of Justin Owen's car number #4J. They were C.J. Leary, Logan Calderwood, Jadon Rogers and Cale Coons.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 11, 2026 – Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – 3rd Annual Justin Owen Memorial Presented by Tempstar – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. C.J. Leary, 53, Fox-14.210; 2. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.223; 3. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-14.313; 4. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-14.420; 5. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.434; 6. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.514; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.514; 8. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.531; 9. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-14.537; 10. Austin Nigh, 97, Nigh-14.616; 11. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-14.634; 12. Shawn Westerfeld, 4J, Fischesser/Owen-14.674; 13. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.742; 14. Nate Carle, 14c, Carle-14.757; 15. Cannon McIntosh, 5G, KO-14.760; 16. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-14.771; 17. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.812; 18. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-14.967; 19. Kyle Shipley, 0G, Black Gold-15.024; 20. Zack Pretorius, 9z, Pretorius-15.063; 21. Chelby Hinton, 2B, 2B Racing-15.090; 22. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-15.129; 23. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-15.162; 24. Ryan Barr, 21B, Barr-15.216; 25. Braxton Cummings, 71B, Cummings-15.260; 26. David Gasper, 77s, Sturgeon-15.521; 27. Dustin Webber, 9, Webber-15.802; 28. Zach Lamb, 73, Lamb-16.216; 29. Evan Mosley, 2, Barkdull-16.331; 30. Aric Gentry, 10, Gentry-16.646; 31. Colin Parker, 16K, Knight-NT.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (2), 2. Robert Ballou (4), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (3), 4. C.J. Leary (6), 5. Kyle Cummins (5), 6. Chelby Hinton (1), 7. Braxton Cummings (7), 8. Evan Mosley (8). NT

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (6), 2. Trey Osborne (2), 3. Jake Swanson (5), 4. Logan Calderwood (1), 5. David Gasper (7), 6. Aric Gentry (8), 7. Nate Carle (3), 8. Austin Nigh (4). NT

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Cannon McIntosh (3), 2. Hayden Reinbold (1), 3. Justin Grant (6), 4. Jadon Rogers (4), 5. Logan Seavey (5), 6. Kyle Shipley (2), 7. Dustin Webber (7). NT

INDY POWERSPORTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps, top-5 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Mitchel Moles (6), 2. Ricky Lewis (3), 3. Zack Pretorius (2), 4. Cale Coons (5), 5. Shawn Westerfeld (4), 6. Ryan Barr (1). NT

FIVE STAR RACE CAR BODIES SEMI: (10 laps, top-4 transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Aric Gentry (6), 2. Nate Carle (2), 3. Austin Nigh (1), 4. Braxton Cummings (7), 5. Ryan Barr (5), 6. Evan Mosley (9), 7. Kyle Shipley (3), 8. Chelby Hinton (4), 9. Dustin Webber. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Briggs Danner (5), 2. Kyle Cummins (2), 3. Justin Grant (4), 4. Robert Ballou (11), 5. C.J. Leary (6), 6. Jake Swanson (1), 7. Mitchel Moles (3), 8. Cale Coons (10), 9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (15), 10. Jadon Rogers (13), 11. Chase Stockon (8), 12. Trey Osborne (18), 13. Hayden Reinbold (21), 14. David Gasper (23), 15. Logan Seavey (9), 16. Zack Pretorius (19), 17. Ricky Lewis (17), 18. Logan Calderwood (20), 19. Chelby Hinton (25-P), 20. Shawn Westerfeld (14), 21. Nate Carle (16), 22. Austin Nigh (12), 23. Cannon McIntosh (7), 24. Braxton Cummings (22), 25. Aric Gentry (24). NT

(P) represents a provisional starter.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Kyle Cummins, Laps 13-30 Briggs Danner.

**Kyle Shipley flipped during the semi.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-527, 2-Justin Grant-511, 3-Jake Swanson-501, 4-Logan Seavey-496, 5-Mitchel Moles-486, 6-Chase Stockon-469, 7-Briggs Danner-469, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-453, 9-C.J. Leary-406, 10-Brady Bacon-402.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Logan Calderwood-31, 2-Cale Coons-26, 3-Robert Ballou-23, 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-22, 5-Briggs Danner-20, 6-Chase Stockon-18, 7-Brady Bacon-18, 8-Chelby Hinton-17, 9-Hayden Reinbold-17, 10-Justin Grant-15.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: April 12, 2026 – Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, Indiana – 23rd Jim Hurtubise Classic – 1/2-Mile Dirt Track

‍CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Justin Grant (14.317)

Second Fastest in Hot Laps: C.J. Leary (14.425)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: C.J. Leary (14.210)

Second Fastest Qualifier: Briggs Danner (14.223)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Chase Stockon

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Briggs Danner

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: Cannon McIntosh

USAC Gear Fourth Heat Winner: Mitchel Moles

4th Place Heat Race Finishers: C.J. Leary, Logan Calderwood, Jadon Rogers & Cale Coons

Five Star Bodies Semi Winner: Aric Gentry

First Semi Non-Transfer: Ryan Barr

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Briggs Danner (18 laps led)

Rod End Supply / Justin Owen Memorial Hard Charger: David Gasper (23rd to 14th)

DOUBLE UP!

THE BURG & TERRE HAUTE

HOST USAC SPRINTS April 11-12

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (April 8, 2026)………Two of USAC’s most oft-visited dirt tracks are on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship slate This weekend in the state of Indiana.

Both of which present some of the fastest and most exhilarating racing action of the season.

Lawrenceburg Speedway’s 3/8-mile oval presents the third annual Justin Owen Memorial on Saturday, April 11. The Terre Haute Action Track’s 1/2-mile oval showcases the series for the 23rd running of the Jim Hurtubise Classic on Sunday, April 12.

ONE-TWO-GRANT

Eleven of Justin Grant’s 67 career USAC National Sprint Car victories have come at the two tracks on This weekend’s docket – Lawrenceburg (7) and Terre Haute (4).

The Ione, California native is the defending winner of the Justin Owen Memorial. Furthermore, he’s the most recent USAC National Sprint Car winner at Terre Haute last Fall. Additionally, he’s also the winner of the two most recent series races, scoring at Florida’s Ocala Speedway in February and again at Illinois’ Red Hill Raceway last weekend.

His seven career USAC National Sprint Car wins at Lawrenceburg are tied with Dave Darland for the most all-time of any driver. He also owns four USAC National Sprint Car wins at Terre Haute, including the Hurtubise Classic in 2019.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT FOR BALLOU

Last week, Robert Ballou experienced an accident with a grinder that sliced open one of his wrists that required stitches. During last weekend’s feature at Red Hill, he felt the pain but still led 12 laps and finished fourth for his best result of the year thus far.

With another week of healing, the Rocklin, California racer is geared up to take on a pair of tracks in which he was won USAC races at.

Ballou has won three USAC National Sprint Car features in his career at Terre Haute, including the 2015 Hurtubise Classic. He reigned triumphant at Lawrenceburg back in 2011.

OWNING BOTH PLACES

Speaking of winning USAC National Sprint Car main events at both Lawrenceburg and Terre Haute, there are six drivers in This weekend’s field who meet that criteria: Justin Grant, Kevin Thomas Jr., Logan Seavey, Chase Stockon, Robert Ballou and C.J. Leary.

Grant owns 11 series wins between the two places (7 at Terre Haute & 4 at Lawrenceburg). Thomas Jr. possesses eight (6 at Lawrenceburg & 2 at Terre Haute). Seavey has seven (5 at Lawrenceburg & 2 at Terre Haute).

Stockon’s first two career USAC National Sprint Car wins came at these two tracks. Overall, he has five victories between the two joints (4 at Terre Haute & 1 at Lawrenceburg). For Ballou, it’s four (1 at Lawrenceburg & 3 at Terre Haute). It’s three for Leary (2 at Lawrenceburg & 1 at Terre Haute).

BURG, BUT NO HAUTE…YET

On the flip side, there are two more drivers who’ve experienced USAC National Sprint Car victory lane at Lawrenceburg, but a win at Terre Haute has eluded them thus far: Kyle Cummins and Briggs Danner.

Cummins has won twice with USAC at Lawrenceburg in his career, including last Fall. Meanwhile, Danner has one from late in the 2024 season.

At Terre Haute, Cummins has twice finished as the runner-up with USAC in 2021 and 2023, and has finished on the podium on another two occasions in 2024 and 2025. He did win at Terre Haute with the Midwest Sprint Car Series in 2021.

Thus far, Danner’s best Terre Haute performance has come with the USAC Silver Crown in a fourth place run in 2025. His best USAC Sprint Car run so far at T.H.A.T. was an 8th in 2024.

Both Cummins and Danner are vying for their first USAC National Sprint Car wins of the year this coming weekend. Cummins enters on a streak of five consecutive top-five finishes while Danner had his best run of the year, a third, last Friday at Red Hill.

HONORING J.O.

Saturday’s third annual Justin Owen Memorial is a special one, honoring the life and memory of the driver who passed away in a qualifying crash during the April 2023 USAC event at Lawrenceburg.

The 26-year-old Owen was the 2022 sprint car track champion at Lawrenceburg, scoring two feature wins en route to the title at the 3/8-mile dirt oval in southeastern Indiana where he’d long been a regular competitor for several seasons. Among his greatest achievements were a victory in the season-closing Dick Gaines Memorial at Lawrenceburg in 2022. With USAC, Owen made two feature starts, both at Lawrenceburg in 2019 and 2021.

For Saturday, $8,004 will be up for grabs to the feature winner and $804 to start. Bonus money has also been added to the purse courtesy of friends, family, sponsors, donations and t-shirt sales.

Among the bonuses are rewards for second fastest hot lap time, second fastest qualifying time, fourth place finisher in each heat race, first non-transfer in the semi-feature, fourth place in the feature, and more.

Furthermore, Shawn Westerfeld will be on hand to compete in the event as the driver of the Fischesser-Owen Racing #4J, the same team with which Owen drove for.

THE INCREDIBLE HERK

It’s been five years since the last Jim Hurtubise Classic was held. Between 1990-2021, it was a yearly occurrence at the Terre Haute Action Track, but the event returns to the schedule this Sunday.

The race honors the late, great Hurtubise, the 1993 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and 2015 USAC Hall of Fame inductee who achieved what seemed nearly impossible, winning five consecutive USAC National Sprint Car feature events at Terre Haute between 1960 and 1962.

Hurtubise, of North Tonawanda, N.Y., stood the racing world on its ears in 1960 when he flirted with the 150-mph barrier at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway where he was that year’s Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year. National Championship wins for Hurtubise came at Sacramento, Calif., Langhorne, Pa. and Springfield, Ill. (twice), before suffering serious burns in an accident at Milwaukee, Wisc. in 1964.

He was the last driver to wheel a front-engine car at the Indianapolis 500 in 1968. A spectacular Sprint Car racer, he won 14 USAC features and was also an accomplished stock car racer, having won the 1966 Atlanta 500 NASCAR Cup race.

Rusty McClure, who captured his one and only career USAC National Sprint Car victory during the 1992 Jim Hurtubise Classic at the Terre Haute Action Track, will serve as the grand marshal.

RACE DETAILS

Saturday’s April 11 Justin Owen Memorial features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus the DIRTcar UMP Modifieds. Pits open at 2pm Eastern, with the front gates opening at 5pm, the drivers meeting at 5:15pm and hot laps at 6pm with qualifying and racing to follow.

Advance tickets on sale now at https://www.lawrenceburgspeedway.com/. Grandstand admission for ages 13 & up is $25. Kids age 12 & under are $10. Pit passes are $35. Kids pit passes are $15.

Sunday’s April 12 Jim Hurtubise Classic features the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus Modifieds. Pits open at 2pm Eastern with front gates opening at 4pm, the drivers meeting at 5:30pm, hot laps at 6pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.

Tickets are $30 for grandstand seating. Kids age 12 and under are free. Pit passes are $40. Infield admission is $15 and allows for access to the grass infield of the Action Track through the tunnel at the far right (turn one side) of the main grandstand.

This weekend’s two events can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac2026.

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Logan Seavey-459, 2-Kyle Cummins-454, 3-Jake Swanson-439, 4-Justin Grant-437, 5-Mitchel Moles-423, 6-Chase Stockon-420, 7-Brady Bacon-402, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-401, 9-Briggs Danner-386, 10-Trey Osborne-353.

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT LAWRENCEBURG SPEEDWAY:

1 Lap - 7/9/2008 - Levi Jones - 12.926

8 Laps - 9/28/2013 - Tracy Hines - 1:51.91

10 Laps - 7/10/2008 - Cole Whitt - 2:18.19

12 Laps - 10/1/2016 - Stevie Sussex - 2:51.39

30 Laps - 10/1/2016 - Josh Hodges - 7:21.09

JUSTIN OWEN MEMORIAL WINS:

1-Justin Grant & Kevin Thomas Jr.

JUSTIN OWEN MEMORIAL WINNERS:

2024: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/13)

2025: Justin Grant (4/12)

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINS AT LAWRENCEBURG SPEEDWAY:

7-Dave Darland & Justin Grant

6-Kevin Thomas Jr.

5-Logan Seavey & Jon Stanbrough

4-Jack Hewitt

3-Brady Bacon, Kevin Briscoe, Bryan Clauson & Rick Hood

2-Kyle Cummins, Tony Elliott, Levi Jones, C.J. Leary, Danny Milburn & Brian Tyler

1-Robert Ballou, Jeff Bland Jr., Mark Cassella, Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Briggs Danner, Kevin Doty, Jay Drake, Dickie Gaines, Damion Gardner, Josh Hodges, Logan Jarrett, Thomas Meseraull, Rodney Ritter Jr., Brady Short, Chase Stockon, Kevin Thomas, Chris Windom, Josh Wise & J.J. Yeley

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS AT LAWRENCEBURG SPEEDWAY:

1983: Danny Milburn (9/18)

1984: Rick Hood (6/9) & Danny Milburn (9/16)

1985: Rick Hood (6/8)

1986: Rick Hood (6/7)

1988: Jack Hewitt (6/4)

1989: Rodney Ritter Jr. (7/1)

1992: Kevin Thomas (8/8)

1993: Jack Hewitt (7/10)

1994: Jon Stanbrough (6/18)

1995: Jack Hewitt (7/1)

1996: Mark Cassella (8/31)

1997: Brian Tyler (7/19) & Brian Tyler (8/30)

1998: Kevin Doty (5/30), Dave Darland (7/18) & Dave Darland (8/29)

1999: Kevin Briscoe (6/5), Jack Hewitt (7/22) & Tony Elliott (8/28)

2000: Kevin Briscoe (7/22) & Tony Elliott (8/26)

2001: Dave Darland (7/26)

2002: Kevin Briscoe (7/25)

2003: J.J. Yeley (5/31), Jay Drake (6/1) & Jon Stanbrough (7/24)

2004: Jon Stanbrough (7/22)

2005: Dickie Gaines (7/21)

2006: Jon Stanbrough (4/22)

2007: Levi Jones (4/21), Jon Stanbrough (7/11) & Dave Darland (7/12)

2008: Jeff Bland Jr. (7/9) & Brady Short (7/10)

2009: Josh Wise (4/18), Dave Darland (7/10), Jerry Coons Jr. (8/22 Special Event) &

Damion Gardner (10/2)

2010: Jerry Coons Jr. (4/17) & Dave Darland (7/9)

2011: Robert Ballou (7/10), Levi Jones (10/1)

2012: Justin Grant (7/15) & Chase Stockon (9/29)

2013: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/6), Kevin Thomas Jr. (7/14) & Bryan Clauson (9/28)

2014: Justin Grant (4/5) & Bryan Clauson (9/27)

2015: Logan Jarrett (4/4), Brady Bacon (7/12) & Thomas Meseraull (10/3)

2016: Dave Darland (4/2), Bryan Clauson (7/10) & Josh Hodges (10/1)

2017: Chris Windom (4/1), C.J. Leary (7/9) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (9/30)

2018: Tyler Courtney (7/22) & Justin Grant (9/29)

2019: Justin Grant (7/21) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (10/5)

2020: C.J. Leary (7/26) & Brady Bacon (10/3)

2021: Brady Bacon (4/3), Logan Seavey (7/25) & Kevin Thomas Jr. (10/2)

2022: Kyle Cummins (10/1)

2023: Justin Grant (7/24) & Justin Grant (10/7)

2024: Kevin Thomas Jr. (4/13) & Logan Seavey (7/30), Briggs Danner (10/11) & Logan Seavey (10/12)

2025: Justin Grant (4/12), Logan Seavey (7/27), Kyle Cummins (10/10) & Logan Seavey (10/11)

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TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CARS AT THE TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK:

1 Lap - 5/21/2014 - Brady Bacon - 19.225

4 Laps - 5/4/1986 - Larry Gates - 1:36.18

6 Laps - 5/17/2003 - Kurt Gross - 2:07.21

7 Laps - 5/21/2024 - Shane Cottle - 2:35.29

8 Laps - 10/12/2012 - Hunter Schuerenberg - 2:39.40

10 Laps - 6/17/2000 - Jon Stanbrough - 3:29.13

12 Laps - 9/10/2011 - Jon Stanbrough - 4:02.90

30 Laps - 10/1/2021 - Chris Windom - 10:31.97

40 Laps - 5/4/1975 - Pancho Carter - 15:52.96

50 Laps - 8/13/1967 - Rollie Beale - 22:41.72

JIM HURTUBISE CLASSIC WINS:

5-Chris Windom (2011-16-17-20-21)

3-Jack Hewitt (1990-91-95)

2-Brady Bacon (2014-18)

1-Robert Ballou (2015), Jerry Coons, Jr. (2013), Tony Elliott (1998), Justin Grant (2019), Tray House (1994), Tony Jones (1999), Rusty McClure (1992), Jon Stanbrough (2010), Robbie Stanley (1993), Chase Stockon (2012), Kevin Thomas (1996) & J.J. Yeley (1997)

PAST JIM HURTUBISE CLASSIC WINNERS:

1990: Jack Hewitt

1991: Jack Hewitt

1992: Rusty McClure

1993: Robbie Stanley

1994: Tray House

1995: Jack Hewitt

1996: Kevin Thomas

1997: J.J. Yeley

1998: Tony Elliott

1999: Tony Jones

2010: Jon Stanbrough

2011: Chris Windom

2012: Chase Stockon

2013: Jerry Coons Jr.

2014: Brady Bacon

2015: Robert Ballou

2016: Chris Windom

2017: Chris Windom

2018: Brady Bacon

2019: Justin Grant

2020: Chris Windom

2021: Chris Windom

TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK USAC SPRINT CAR WINS:

8-Gary Bettenhausen, Jack Hewitt & Chris Windom

6-Bubby Jones, Sheldon Kinser & J.J. Yeley

5-Jim Hurtubise, Levi Jones, Jon Stanbrough & Rich Vogler

4-Brady Bacon, Justin Grant, Bud Kaeding, Roger McCluskey & Chase Stockon

3-Robert Ballou, Don Branson, Steve Butler, Pancho Carter, Daron Clayton, Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Jay Drake, Cary Faas, Tracy Hines, Rick Hood & Joe Saldana

2-Rollie Beale, Tom Bigelow, Dave Darland, Cory Kruseman, Johnny Rutherford, Logan Seavey, Dick Tobias, Kevin Thomas Jr., Bruce Walkup & Greg Weld

1-Billy Cassella, Steve Chassey, Bryan Clauson, Mel Cornett, Larry Dickson, Ed Elisian, Tony Elliott, Aaron Farney, A.J. Foyt, Richard Griffin, Chuck Gurney, Tommy Hinnershitz, Tray House, Chet Johnson, Tony Jones, Doug Kalitta, Frankie Kerr, Steve Kinser, C.J. Leary, Eddie Leavitt, Andy Linden, Bobby Marshman, Charlie Masters, Rusty McClure, James McElreath, Jim McElreath, Jim McWithey, Jan Opperman, Terry Pletch, Larry Rice, Eddie Sachs, Sammy Sessions, Ron Shuman, George Snider, Robbie Stanley, Brad Sweet, Kevin Thomas & Bobby Unser

TERRE HAUTE ACTION TRACK USAC SPRINT CAR WINNERS:

1957: Ed Elisian (6/16) & Andy Linden (8/18)

1958: Eddie Sachs (6/22) & Tommy Hinnershitz (8/17)

1959: Don Branson (6/21) & Jim McWithey (8/16)

1960: Don Branson (6/12) & Jim Hurtubise (8/21)

1961: Jim Hurtubise (6/11) & Jim Hurtubise (8/13)

1962: Jim Hurtubise (6/17) & Jim Hurtubise (8/12)

1963: Roger McCluskey (6/16) & Bobby Marshman (8/11)

1964: A.J. Foyt (6/14) & Don Branson (8/9)

1965: Johnny Rutherford (6/13) & Johnny Rutherford (8/15)

1966: Roger McCluskey (6/19), Roger McCluskey (6/19) & Roger McCluskey (9/14)

1967: Bobby Unser (6/11), Greg Weld (6/11), Rollie Beale (8/13) & Greg Weld (9/10)

1968: Gary Bettenhausen (6/16), Larry Dickson (8/11) & Gary Bettenhausen (9/8)

1969: Gary Bettenhausen (8/10) & Gary Bettenhausen (10/19)

1970: Jim McElreath (6/21), Dick Tobias (8/9) & Bruce Walkup (9/13)

1971: George Snider (5/1) & Gary Bettenhausen (8/8)

1972: Bruce Walkup (4/30), Charlie Masters (6/11) & Rollie Beale (8/19)

1973: Joe Saldana (5/5), Mel Cornett (6/9) 7 Sammy Sessions (8/5)

1974: Gary Bettenhausen (4/14) & Sheldon Kinser (8/4)

1975: Pancho Carter (5/4), Joe Saldana (6/1), Gary Bettenhausen (8/3) & Tom Bigelow (9/21)

1976: Jan Opperman (5/1), Tom Bigelow (6/6), Gary Bettenhausen (8/1) & Chuck Gurney (10/31)

1977: James McElreath (5/7), Sheldon Kinser (6/5), Bubby Jones (7/31) & Pancho Carter (9/25)

1978: Dick Tobias (5/6), Billy Cassella (6/4) & Bubby Jones (9/24)