USAC INDIANA MIDGET WEEK: TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY

USAC Indiana Midget Week returns to Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway this Sunday night, June 5, for round three of the seven-race mini-series for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. (Josh James Photo)

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Haubstadt, Indiana (June 1, 2022)………During the middle of last year’s USAC Indiana Midget Week, if you needed any more evidence that, for all intents and purposes, Kyle Cummins practically owns Tri-State Speedway, the Princeton, Indiana driver was there to cement that fact in the 1/4-mile dirt oval’s IMW debut.

Cummins shot to the lead early, lost it, gained it back, then stood his ground in warding off constant pressure down the stretch to earn his first career USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship feature victory at his “home track.”

Now, Cummins aims for déjà vu to play out as he vies for win number two this Sunday night, June 5, during round three of the seven-race mini-series at the Haubstadt, Indiana venue’s 30-lap feature which pays $4,000-to-win.

Cummins’ prowess in a Sprintcar at the southwestern Indiana track has been well-established with numerous victories, and he owns an all-time record six career USAC AMSOIL National Sprintcar victories at Tri-State. He reiterated his dominance by snaring the Midwest Sprintcar Series feature just moments before hopping in the midget and winning again in 2021.

Since his first start in 2019, Cummins hasn’t finished outside the top-six in USAC National Midget competition at Tri-State, scoring a 3third in the Fall of 2019 and 2020 as well as a 6th in October of 2021.

Thomas Meseraull (San Jose, Calif.) broke through for his first career USAC National Midget feature win at Tri-State in October of 2020. He backed it up with another victory there in the Fall of 2021 to become the only multi-time USAC Midget feature in the history of the track. In seven total Tri-State USAC Midget starts, he’s finished 3rd in 2011 and in the IMW round of 2021. He was also 8^th in 2019 and 10th in 2010.

Zach Daum (Pocahontas, Ill.) captured his first career USAC National Midget win at Tri-State back in 2011 during the running of the Hut 100. Daum also finished fifth at TSS in 2010 and made his last appearance with the USAC Midgets at TSS in 2012. Daum also picked up a POWRi victory at TSS in 2015. Daum’s Bundy Built Motorsports teammate Ethan Mitchell (Mooresville, NC) was a 22nd place finisher in his IMW run at TSS in 2021.

Jason McDougal (Broken Arrow, Okla.) can count himself among the winners of a USAC National Midget feature at Tri-State, taking the first of his career during the 2019 Harvest Cup, and was 6th in the IMW round in 2021.

Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) took a personal-best third with the series at Tri-State last Fall. He’s been a hard charger on multiple occasions in the midget at TSS, ripping from 16th to fifth in 2019 and from 19th to eighth in his first IMW go at TSS in 2021. He also recorded an eighth in 2020 and has also been a winner with the USAC AMSOIL Sprintcar National Championship at the track in 2021.

Logan Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) led the first seven laps of the 2019 USAC Midget race at TSS and wound up sixth in the final rundown. The 2018 USAC National Midget Champion and 2019 Indiana Midget Week king was 13th in his IMW run there in 2021 but came back with a seventh in October. In August of 2020, during the Indiana Sprint Week finale at TSS, Seavey set fast time.

Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Okla.) corralled a seventh place result in 2021’s IMW stop at Tri-State while defending IMW champion Buddy Kofoid (Penngrove, Calif.) scored a tenth. Kaylee Bryson (Muskogee, Okla.) took ninth in the Fall of 2020 and an 18th during IMW at TSS in 2021. Steve Buckwalter (Royersford, Pa.) was a tenth place finisher in his lone start at TSS in 2012.

Also returning to the fold is Overland Park, Kansas’ Jace Park, who won the semi-feature and finished 12th in the A-Main during his USAC debut at TSS last Fall, as well as Lubbock, Texas’ Brenham Crouch (15th in 2021), Snohomish, Washington’s Chance Crum (15th in October 2021), Colby, Kansas’ Bryant Wiedeman (16th in 2021) and St. Peters, Missouri’s Sam Johnson (16th in October 2021).

A wide swath of talent looks to make their initial mark at Tri-State, including third-place points driver Mitchel Moles (Raisin City, Calif.), plus multi-time series fast qualifier Taylor Reimer (Bixby, Okla.), 2017 BCRA Midget champ Maria Cofer (Macdoel, Calif.), third-place Ocala finisher Jade Avedisian (Clovis, Calif.), Badger Midget champion Chase McDermand (Springfield, Ill.) and two-time USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget titlist Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio), plus Kiwi Travis Buckley (Auckland, N.Z.), Hayden Reinbold (Gilbert, Ariz.), CB Industries Rookie Dominic Gorden (Clovis, Calif.) as well as Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports newcomers Mariah Ede (Fresno, Calif.) and Cade Lewis (Bakersfield, Calif.) and more.

Sunday’s USAC Indiana Midget Week event at Tri-State Speedway features the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship along with the Midwest Sprint Car Series.

The pits open at 3:30pm Central with grandstands opening at 4:30pm, the drivers meeting at 5:15pm and cars on track at 6pm.

Tickets and pit passes will be sold at the gate.  Adult general admission tickets are $30, students aged 13-18 are $20 and kids aged 12 & under are free. Pit passes are $35.

Every Indiana Midget Week event will be streamed LIVE on FloRacing at https://bit.ly/3u7ID2N.

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2022 INDIANA MIDGET WEEK SCHEDULE:

Friday, June 3: Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Ind.

Saturday, June 4: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Ind.

Sunday, June 5: Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Ind.

Wednesday, June 8: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, Ind.

Thursday, June 9: Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Ind.

Friday, June 10: Gas City I-69 Speedway – Gas City, Ind.

Saturday, June 11: Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Ind.

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY INDIANA MIDGET WEEK WINS:

1-Kyle Cummins

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY INDIANA MIDGET WEEK WINNERS:

2021: Kyle Cummins (6/6)

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINS:

2-Thomas Meseraull

1-Brady Bacon, Barry Butterworth, Lonnie Caruthers, Bryan Clauson, Kyle Cummins, Zach Daum, Jason McDougal, Mike McGreevy, Johnny Parsons, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & Sleepy Tripp

TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY USAC NATIONAL MIDGET WINNERS:

1969: Mike McGreevy (6/27)

1978: Sleepy Tripp (5/5)

1979: Johnny Parsons (6/15) & Barry Butterworth (8/24)

1980: Lonnie Caruthers (5/2)

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (5/12)

2010: Bryan Clauson (5/8)

2011: Zach Daum (5/21)

2012: Brady Bacon (6/2)

2019: Jason McDougal (10/19)

2020: Thomas Meseraull (10/10)

2021: Kyle Cummins (6/11) & Thomas Meseraull (10/9)

TRACK RECORDS FOR USAC NATIONAL MIDGETS AT TRI-STATE SPEEDWAY:

1 Lap – 6/6/2021 – Chris Windom – 13.377

3 Laps – 6/27/1969 – Bob Tattersall – 50.000

8 Laps – 6/8/2011 – Hunter Schuerenberg – 1:43.14

10 Laps – 5/21/2011 – Thomas Meseraull – 2:20.38

12 Laps – 10/19/2019 – Tanner Thorson – 2:59.89

40 Laps – 6/15/1979 – Johnny Parsons – 11:07.40

50 Laps – 6/27/1969 – Mike McGreevy – 14:15.27

INDIANA MIDGET WEEK CHAMPIONS: (2005-2021)

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

ALL-TIME INDIANA MIDGET WEEK WINS: (2005-2021)

9-Bryan Clauson & Kyle Larson

5-Christopher Bell & Tanner Thorson

4-Rico Abreu

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

2-Jerry Coons Jr., Buddy Kofoid, Davey Ray, Logan Seavey, Brad Sweet

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