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By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Wayne City, Illinois (October 17, 2019)………Big track or small track, Tyler Courtney has seemingly excelled at venues of all dimensions throughout the 2019 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget season. Thursday night at the smallest track on the campaign, the 1/8-mile Wayne County Speedway in Wayne City, Illinois, Courtney delivered his second-straight late-race heroic ...

Wayne City, Illinois (October 14, 2019)………Four past winners are in this year’s lineup for the sixth running of the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Jason Leffler Memorial this Thursday night, October 17, at Wayne County Speedway in Wayne City, Illinois.   Tyler Thomas (Collinsville, Okla.) enters as the reigning race winner at 1/8-mile dirt bullring in southern Illinois.  He ...

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Terre Haute, Indiana (October 9, 2019)………The last dance.  The last chance.  One more time for USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing in the Midwest before heading westward bound comes to Indiana’s Terre Haute Action Track this Friday night, October 11.  It’s the first of two nights of racing at the track as the World ...

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  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Rossburg, Ohio (September 28, 2019)………Tyler Courtney had all the right moves in Saturday night’s 4-Crown Nationals presented by NKT.tv USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature, but when you’re amidst a high-speed game of chess on the banks of Eldora Speedway, you’ve got to have all the right moves at just the ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Rossburg, Ohio (September 28, 2019)………Tyler Courtney reached unprecedented territory following Saturday night’s 4-Crown Nationals presented by NKT.tv USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature.   Not even the likes of three-in-row winners Jud Larson, Bubby Jones, Jack Hewitt or Steve Butler can claim four consecutive USAC National Sprint Car victories at Eldora Speedway. ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Rossburg, Ohio (September 28, 2019)………Entering Saturday’s USAC Silver Crown season finale at Eldora Speedway, the formula was simple.  A 4th place finish or better by Brady Bacon was what he needed to secure Klatt Enterprises’ first series owner title.   Bacon defied all notions of running “just good enough.”  His intentions were fully ...

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  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Rossburg, Ohio (September 27, 2019)………So far, so good.  Kevin Thomas, Jr.’s debut in the Chris Dyson Racing USAC Silver Crown car went as smoothly as he could have planned for by winning the pole for Saturday night’s season finale 4-Crown Nationals presented by NKT.tv at Eldora Speedway.   Thomas drew the final ...

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Swindell Can Join Legends List at Springfield Sunday By Jay Hardin Track Enterprises Staff Springfield, IL (September 18, 2019)-Germantown, Tennessee veteran race car driver Jeff Swindell has achieved many milestones in his long and storied career.  From countless sprint car victories, to two Hoosier Hundred wins, to even serving as a member of A.J. Foyt’s pit crew, Jeff has put ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Springfield, Illinois (September 17, 2019)………The entry list for Sunday’s 58th running of the Bettenhausen 100 presented by Brandt has been revealed with 38 USAC Silver Crown Champ Car drivers and teams ready to take on the legendary Springfield mile at the Illinois State Fairgrounds.   Five past Bettenhausen 100 winners are entered for ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Springfield, Illinois (September 16, 2019)………The glorious roar of the USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series returns to the iconic Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield this Sunday, September 22, for the 58th running of the Bettenhausen 100 presented by Brandt, honoring the great racing family based out of Tinley Park, Ill.  The DIRTcar Modifieds ...

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Terre Haute, Indiana (September 13, 2019)………Justin Grant remembers going a long way in his first visit to the Terre Haute Action Track in 2010. Friday night, the Ione, Calif. native showed he’s come a long way in another aspect since his humbling introduction to the famed western Indiana half-mile nearly a decade earlier, winning ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Terre Haute, Indiana (September 9, 2019)………Friday’s Jim Hurtubise Classic begins a USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car doubleheader weekend in the Hoosier state this Friday, September 13, at one of USAC’s longest-tenured venues, the Terre Haute Action Track, which hosted its first USAC Sprint Car event more than six decades ago, in 1957. Friday’s ...

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media Speedway, Indiana (September 5, 2019)………Before he had even laid eyes on The Dirt Track at IMS, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway had already occupied a special place within the heart of Zeb Wise. He’d been triumphant in a quarter midget at the Battle at the Brickyard and also became the first ever winner on The ...

  By: Richie Murray – USAC Media   Speedway, Indiana (September 4, 2019)………Kyle Larson literally became the last man standing on the final lap of the Stoops Pursuit during Wednesday’s opening night of the Driven2SaveLives BC39 powered by NOS Energy Drink at The Dirt Track at IMS.   On the last lap of the fifth and final segment of the ...