Category: USAC News
Darren Hagen outduels Bryan Clauson by 92 thousandths of a second to win USAC Non-Wing Sprint feature at Bubb’a Winter Games!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE USAC NON-WING PHOTOS OF THE ACTION AT BUBBA RACEWAY PARK! Blink your eyes. You missed it. USAC and the Florida Mini Sprints had fantastic races with one separated by less than one-tenth of a second for the win. The Mini Sprints had some excitement right out of the gate when in [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Damion Gardner takes USAC Non-Wing Sprint opener at Bubba Raceway Park!
USAC Amsoil Wingless Sprints and the Florida Mini Sprints put a combined 48 cars on track and the battles were on! The Florida Mini Sprints Association put on yet another fantastic show with some locals up against some out of state rivals. On lap 1 David Pleaugh found himself broken down on the front straight [...]
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Tony Stewart Racing: Levi Jones Looks To Continue Climbing USAC Hierarchy
Jones Looks To Continue Climbing USAC Hierarchy Seven-Time Champion Set To Begin 2012 Season in Florida INDIANAPOLIS (Feb. 9, 2012) – When Levi Jones fires off the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing No. 20 Chevrolet Performance/Curb Records/Maxim Sprint Car on Thursday night, it won’t be just another United States Auto Club (USAC) season opener. After winning [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
ASCS vs. USAC “The Trilogy Grudge Match”
Kevin Montgomery PEORIA, Ariz. (February 8th, 2012) – The use of USAC and ASCS in the same sentence is usually cause for some debate over the animosity of two of the largest Sprint Car sanctions in America and most often results in further deliberation on which is better. In 2012 the truth will be forthcoming [...]
Category: American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) News, Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Caleb Armstrong takes Turkey Night Grand Prix
Irwindale, CA – November 25, 2011 By: USAC Caleb Armstrong of New Castle, Ind. led the final 81 laps to win Thursday night’s 71st “Turkey night Grand Prix” USAC Mopar National/Western Midget race at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, Calif. He passed Kody Swanson on lap 18 and held off repeated challenges from several challengers in [...]
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71st ‘Turkey Night Grand Prix’ Affects 11 USAC Standings; Midgets, Sprints, Ford Focus Combine at Irwindale
by Dick Jordan INDIANAPOLIS — Next Thursday night’s 71st Annual “Turkey Night Grand Prix” at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, Calif. will conclude USAC’s 2011 racing season but not without an impact on eleven (11) different USAC championships! The National Drivers Championship, Mopar National Midget, Mopar Western Midget, National Midget Pavement, AMSOIL Western Sprint, Western Classic [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Levi Jones Earns Unprecedented Fifth USAC Sprint Car Title
Tony Stewart Racing Driver Now a Seven-Time USAC Champion HANFORD, Calif. (Nov. 13, 2011) – Levi Jones can still remember the first time he strapped into a Sprint Car – a type of open-wheel racecar with an extremely high power-to-weight ratio. It was June 1998 and Jones was 16 years old, and on that day [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Levi Jones gets emotional Gold Crown Midget Nationals win & doubles up with Non-Wing Sprint win as well at Tri-City Speedway!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM TRI-CITY SPEEDWAY GOLD CROWN MIDGET NATIONALS! Tri City Speedway — Pontoon Beach, IL Race Results for 10/8/2011 410 Non-Winged Sprints – A-Main — 22 Cars Finish Car No Driver Hometown 1 57 Levi Jones Olney, IL 2 99B Brady Bacon Sapulpa, OK 3 71P Jerry Coons Jr Plainfield, IN [...]
Category: Illinois, Sprint Car & Midget News, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
Kyle Larson gets Gold Crown Midget Nationals win on Night 2! Brady Bacon takes Non-Wing Sprint win at Tri-City Speedway!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM THE GOLD CROWN MIDGET NATIONALS AT TRI-CITY SPEEDWAY! Tri City SpeedwayPontoon Beach, IL Race Results for 10/7/2011 410 Non-Winged Sprints – A-Main — 25 Cars Finish Car No Driver Hometown 1 99B Brady Bacon Sapulpa, OK 2 22 Casey Shuman Tempe, AZ 3 57 Levi Jones Olney, IL 4 [...]
Category: Illinois, Sprint Car & Midget News, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
Darren Hagen takes Gold Crown Midget Nationals opener! Levi Jones gets Non-Wing Sprint win at Tri-City Speedway!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM THE GOLD CROWN MIDGET NATIONALS AT TRI-CITY SPEEDWAY! Tri City Speedway — Pontoon Beach, IL Race Results for 10/6/2011 410 Non-Winged Sprints – A-Main — 29 Cars Finish Car No Driver Hometown 1 57 Levi Jones Brownsburg, IN 2 71P Jerry Coons Jr Plainfield, IN 3 51 Mike Hess [...]
Category: Illinois, Sprint Car & Midget News, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
Points a priority at Gold Crown Nationals
The 3rd Annual “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” are on tap Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill. and at least three drivers will have their eye squarely on the National points ramifications. Defending Mopar USAC National Midget Champion Bryan Clauson, Darren Hagen and spectacular rookie Kyle Larson are separated by just [...]
Category: Illinois, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
“GOLD CROWN” QUESTION – CAN ANYBODY BEAT LARSON?
“GOLD CROWN” QUESTION – CAN ANYBODY BEAT LARSON? The lingering question surrounding the October 6-7-8 “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” at Tri-City Speedway in Pontoon Beach, Ill. is “Can anybody beat Kyle Larson?” That question became valid after Larson’s “clean sweep” of the recent “4-Crown Nationals” at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. The 3rd Annual “Gold [...]
Category: Illinois, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
ONE OF THE COUNTRY”S LARGEST MIDGET PURSES UP FOR GRABS AT THE 3RD ANNUAL GOLD CROWN MIDGET NATIONALS!
Teams support new purse structure as they get ready for one of Midget Racing’s grandest events! PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (September 11, 2011) — Kevin and Tammy Gundaker announced today the 3rd Annual Gold Crown Midget Nationals will offer one of Midget Racing’s richest payout for competitors with a total purse of over $100,000! The event, [...]
Category: Illinois, Tri-City Speedway, USAC News
Numerous Illini Drivers Ready for DuQuoin
DuQuoin, IL-The two state fairs in Illinois continue a tradition of motorsports entertainment that dates back to the earliest part of the twentieth century and part of the reason fans flock to the mile dirt tracks at Springfield and DuQuoin has always been the presence of local drivers trying to race and win against national [...]
Category: DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, Illinois, USAC News
Ted Horn 100 Win Could Propel Illinois Driver to Second USAC Title
Three Former Champs at Top of Title Chase DuQuoin, IL august 29, 2011-When the crowd filed into the beautiful DuQuoin State Fairgrounds grandstand on September 5, 2010 its doubtful Kody Swanson was one of the favorites picked to win that evening’s Ted Horn 100 USAC Silver Crown race. However, thanks to a new procedure and [...]
Category: DuQuoin State Fairgrounds, Illinois, USAC News
Brian Tyler Wins Tony Bettenhausen 100 at Springfield Mile!!!!!
CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MILE! Springfield, IL-(August 20)-Brian Tyler now has to buy another cow for his farm in North Carolina as the transplanted Michigan driver names each animal after a Silver Crown victory. The former USAC Sprint car champion led the last 86 laps of the 50th Tony Bettenhausen 100 [...]
Category: Illinois, Springfield Mile, Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Brady Bacon Sweeps USAC Knoxville Non-wing Nationals!
by Bill Wright KNOXVILLE RACEWAY, Knoxville, IA, August 7, 2011 – With another great crowd on hand, Brady Bacon was without peer at the third running of the USAC Knoxville Non-wing Nationals on Sunday night at the Knoxville Raceway. Bacon posted quick-time, won his heat and the feature. It was the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma driver’s [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
Coons takes Hoosier 100
Indianapolis, IN )May 27)-Add Tucson, Arizona’s Jerry Coons Jr. to the impressive list of winners of the Hoosier Hundred held at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The 2008 USAC Silver Crown champ gained his first 100-mile dirt track win at the historic oval by holding off repeated challenges from defending USAC Silver Crown champion Levi Jones [...]
Category: Sprint Car & Midget News, USAC News
