SEAVEY SECURES USAC CAREER TRIPLE CROWN!
Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey – 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprintcar National Championship. (Josh James Artwork Photo)
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media
Speedway, Indiana (October 31, 2024)………In a span of two seasons, Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing went from being among the newest driver/team combinations in the sport to becoming United States Auto Club (USAC) Career Triple Crown champions.
After Seavey and Abacus teamed up to capture the 2023 USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship titles, they added a Sprintcar to the arsenal and showed no signs of letting up in a historic USAC AMSOIL Sprintcar National Championship season from start-to-finish in 2024.
Seavey (Sutter, California) is now one of only eight drivers who can lay claim to being a member of the USAC career Triple Crown club alongside Pancho Carter, Tony Stewart, Dave Darland, JJ Yeley, Jerry Coons Junior, Tracy Hines and Chris Windom.
Meanwhile, Noblesville, Indiana based Abacus Racing became just the second entrant to post championships in USAC’s Silver Crown, National Sprintcar and National Midget divisions, a feat previously only accomplished by the duo of Mike Curb & Cary Agajanian.
On his path to a 107-point edge in the final championship tally along with a $50,000 title prize, Seavey led the points for 42 of the 44 events – a span of eight months and 13 days between February 13 and October 26, both of which are all-time series records for the duration of holding the point lead.
Along the way, Seavey totaled 14 series victories in 2024, equaling the all-time USAC National Sprintcar season record set by Tom Bigelow in 1977. Furthermore, in July, Seavey became the first driver in 39 years to record four consecutive USAC National Sprintcar feature victories, a feat that hadn’t been achieved since Rick Hood’s similarly impressive 1985 campaign.
The 2024 USAC National Sprintcar season was the second busiest on record with 44 events, second only to the 51 held in 1977. During the run, Seavey led the series in feature wins (14), laps led (364), top-fives (31) and top-tens (38).
What makes this season all the more impressive is the fact that this was Seavey and Abacus Racing’s first foray into sprint cars together. Just as their first season in USAC Silver Crown and Midgets wound up, the Sprint Car too resulted in a resoundingly dominant performance and a title by year’s end.
“It’s unbelievable,” Seavey stated. “That’s the goal we set when starting this sprint car team, but we surely didn’t expect it to come in the first year. There’s hundreds of people who play a part in making these things go around to run the whole season, and to come out on top is unbelievable.”
Guided by Team Principal Brent Cox, Team Manager Kirk Simpson, Crew Chief Ronnie Gardner, plus Daniel Whitley, Trevor Reed, Liam Haigh, Johnny Cofer, Chris Mansell, Chad Vermeil, Missy Vermeil and partners, John Lunsford and Ken Gauze, the team found comfort right away and the chemistry was perfectly composed.
In February at Florida’s Volusia Speedway Park, despite engine troubles and a timely weather delay, Seavey and Abacus persevered to sweep the night and become the first to win multiple USAC AMSOIL Sprintcar National Championship features in a single night for the first time since Bud Kaeding at Terre Haute more than 22 years earlier in 2001. To add to that, Abacus became the first entrant to win their first two USAC National Sprint Car main events on the same day since Max Dowker at Winchester (Ind.) Speedway in 1975.
“Heading to Florida, we were optimistic, but wanted to be realistic,” Cox explained. “After two podium finishes to start the season (at Ocala), we ran into engine troubles on night three. Luckily, rain saved us and we could make the engine change and be ready for both races at Volusia to be run on the same night. Without a third engine in the trailer, we won them both after an energetic conversation between Logan and I earlier that day when he said, ‘we are in a hole.’ Well, I said, ‘we are not in the hole; we are standing next to it.’ I will remember that conversation for the rest of my life. It was hard because, as a team, we were not prepared as maybe we should have been. We are not the biggest team, and likely never will be. We work hard to take the resources we have to make it work. I always say, ‘I don’t want to be the biggest; I want to be the best.’”
With the point lead now securely in their hands, Seavey and Abacus continued their winning ways at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway, Terre Haute Action Track and Circle City Raceway during the month of May, the latter of which was the earliest in a season (May 23) that any driver had picked up his fifth win of the year since Larry Dickson on May 10, 1970.
Seavey carried his winning ways in Pennsylvania during June’s Eastern Storm by winning at Big Diamond Speedway one year removed from missing out on a transfer spot there. To close out the week, Seavey scored a photo finish triumph over Briggs Danner at the smallest track on the schedule – the 1/5-mile Action Track USA.
Seavey began his streak of four-straight USAC Sprint wins at Illinois’ Macon Speedway on the final weekend of June before landing three-straight at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway to kick off July, the last of which served as the opening night of NOS Energy Drink USAC Indiana Sprint Week Presented By Honest Abe Roofing. Seavey very nearly became the first driver since Parnelli Jones in 1961 to run his win streak to five with the series but came up a car length short to Kyle Cummins at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway.
Seavey added wins at Lawrenceburg Speedway and Circle City Raceway en route to his first Indiana Sprint Week title. At Lawrenceburg, he started 11th on his way to winning a race featuring seven lead changes among four drivers, tied for the most lead swaps ever in a USAC Indiana Sprint Week feature.
With 13 wins in the books, Seavey and Abacus had to wait another 11 races across two-and-a-half months before hitting paydirt again in October at Lawrenceburg’s $20,000-to-win Fall Nationals, tying Bigelow’s single season mark. Although coming up just shy of the win record, the team was able to clinch the championship one night early in the penultimate round at Oklahoma’s Red Dirt Raceway.
It was a surreal moment for the young and hungry team who has already reached heights in their two-year span that so few others have even come close to accomplishing.
“They put a lot of faith and belief in me that we could come out here and do this,” Seavey praised. “All the parts and pieces, and all the hard work that goes into coordinating a race team, it’s pretty unbelievable to only go full-time in this sport for two seasons and have three championships on their end. All the press in on me for the Triple Crown, and I’m obviously super excited about that, but the team definitely deserves the praise too.”
It certainly aids the situation when a driver can cross over to three different series with essentially the same supporting cast surrounding him, especially when that group has clicked as successfully as this one.
“Just having Ronnie and Kirk to work on this thing gives me so much confidence,” Seavey reiterated. “I’ve raced with Ronnie in the past on a few other cars, and getting to work with Kirk this year, he’s been a huge part of this effort to keep us on our toes and making us think a little bit differently on things, and was a key to help us in places where Ronnie and I may have struggled in the past. I already had confidence to go into the tracks where we’ve already been good at in the past. I feel like it really filled the void of the places I hadn’t been good at. Just having two guys over there that are really smart and really good at what they do was the key to what we had going on this year.”
Elsewhere, for the first time since 2012, each driver finishing inside the top-10 of the series standings also won at least one feature event: Logan Seavey, Brady Bacon, Daison Pursley, Kevin Thomas Jr., CJ Leary, Mitchel Moles, Robert Ballou, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant and Matt Westfall.
For the third consecutive year, Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma) finished as the runner-up in the standings, adding five wins to his credit. In May at Circle City, he made it 14 consecutive seasons with a USAC National Sprint Car feature win, breaking the mark of 13-straight years set by Sheldon Kinser between 1974-1986. In June at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, he became the winningest Eastern Storm driver of all-time with victory number seven. He followed up with his first win at Port Royal (Pennsylvania) Speedway in a decade as well as his first Indiana Sprint Week win in three years at Terre Haute in July.
In September at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway, Bacon earned his 50th series win as a driver for the Dynamics, Inc./Hoffman Auto Racing in the same state where he earned win number one for the team. Bacon capped the year by capturing a $10,000 bonus as the first two-time champion in the three-year history of the 10-race Bubby Jones Master of Going Faster series presented by Spire Sports + Entertainment. He also netted his crew chief, Matt Hummel, $2,500 as the champion.
Third-place points finisher Daison Pursley (Locust Grove, Oklahoma) made, perhaps, the most impressive drive of any non-winner with the series in 2024, advancing a series record 21 positions in a 23rd to 2nd charge at Bloomington (Ind.) Speedway in May. He also notched his first two career points-paying USAC National Sprintcar wins at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway in June and at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway during the 4-Crown Nationals.
En route to fourth in the standings, Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Alabama) won five times with the series, including the inaugural Justin Owen Memorial at Lawrenceburg in April for his first series win in 19 months. He became the fourth different driver for Rock Steady Racing to score the Spring Showdown at Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway in May. He was triumphant on his 33rd birthday in June at Pennsylvania’s Williams Grove Speedway after Briggs Danner ran out of fuel on the last corner of the last lap. KTJ added a Smackdown prelim night score at Kokomo in August before bagging a $20,000 payday in September after becoming the first five-time winner of the Haubstadt Hustler at Tri-State.
Five years to the day after his most recent Ocala victory, CJ Leary (Greenfield, Indiana) won again at the D-shaped Florida oval in February. For good measure, the fifth-place points finishing driver also was standing tall as the winner of the non-points inaugural Stoops Sprint Car Invitational at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a 10-car, 20-lap invitational. Leary once again led all series drivers with 10 fast qualifying times, the third time he has achieved the feature, and the only driver to do so more than once.
Mitchel Moles’ season was highlighted by an Eastern Storm title in which he recorded five top-five results in a six-night span. Furthermore, one year after becoming the first ever USAC National Sprint Car winner at Illinois’ Macon Speedway, the Raisin City, California native became the first ever repeat series winner at the 1/5-mile dirt oval for his only series win of the year on the road to a sixth place finish in points.
Robert Ballou (Rocklin, California) was on the winning side of the most electrifying finish of the year when he erased a half-straightaway deficit to Kyle Cummins on the last lap to win the opening night of #LetsRaceTwo in May at Eldora. His first series win in 18 months proved to be the closest finish of the USAC season – .016 seconds. In June, Ballou also became the third driver to surpass 500 career USAC National Sprint Car feature starts, joining Dave Darland and Brady Bacon.
Joining the brand new Petty Performance Racing team for 2024, Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) progressively jelled to become a consistent frontrunner. After calling his shot in July by declaring over the PA system, “we’re going to win at Kokomo,” he did just that 24 hours later for the team’s first win. Cummins and company added one more win on Friday the 13th in September at Circle City.
Justin Grant (Ione, California) experienced perhaps the strangest stat line in the history of USAC National Sprint Car racing by finishing ninth in points despite winning nine times! Inconsistency plagued his bid for a third-straight series title, but when he was on, he was on. He won the opening two rounds of the season in Ocala and rounded out the year with a win in the season finale at Red Dirt to become just the fourth driver in USAC Sprint Car history to win both the opener and the closer in a season, joining the likes of Pat O’Connor (1956), Steve Butler (1986) and Brady Bacon (2020).
In May, Grant bewildered the crowd by winning at Eldora, then promptly stuffing his car into the turn three wall and flipping over on his cooldown lap. He then won his 50th career USAC National Sprint Car race in May at Knoxville as well as the Indiana Sprint Week round at Tri-State. He picked up the prelim opener of Smackdown at Kokomo, then became the first 4-time Smackdown championship night winner two nights later with a lucrative $35,000 top prize.
Matt Westfall (Pleasant Hill, Ohio) snuck into 10th in points on the final weekend of the year after making the biggest charge to win during the 2024 series season. Starting 13th on the grid at Red Dirt, Westfall patrolled the bottom to the lead and to a highly popular win. Amid the process, it was the furthest back any driver had started and won a race with the series since Kevin Thomas Jr.’s 14th to 1st charge at Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway in 2021.
Briggs Danner (Allentown, Pennsylvania) posted his first three victories of the USAC National Sprint Car season in 2024. In June at Grandview, he became the first Pennsylvanian to win a USAC National Sprintcar feature since Frankie Kerr 25 years earlier in 1999 and the first Pennsylvanian to win a series race in his home state since Paul Pitzer at Reading in 1979. Danner went on to cement his status as a winner outside the confines of the Keystone State as well by capturing the Indiana Sprint Week finale in August at Bloomington and the inaugural Greg Staab Memorial at Lawrenceburg in October.
Hunter Maddox (Bedford, Indiana) raced his way to Rookie of the Year honors with the USAC National Sprint Cars in 2024. Maddox, who cut his racing teeth on dirt bikes, made 25 feature starts and finished 18th in the standings.
2024 USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINTCAR STAT LEADERS
Driver Champion: Logan Seavey
Entrant Champion: Abacus Racing #57
Most Feature Wins: 14-Logan Seavey
Rookie of the Year: Hunter Maddox
Most Laps Led: 364-Logan Seavey
Most Top-Fives: 31-Logan Seavey
Most Top-Tens: 38-Logan Seavey
Most Fast Qualifying Times: 10-CJ Leary
Most Heat Race Wins: 13-Robert Ballou
Most Feature Starts: 44-Brady Bacon, Robert Ballou, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant, C.J. Leary, Mitchel Moles, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey & Kevin Thomas Jr.
Biggest Charge of the Year: May 10: Bloomington Speedway – Daison Pursley (23rd to 2nd)
2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINTCAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP DRIVER TOP TEN POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)
POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN
1. 2987 Logan Seavey, Sutter, Calif.
2. 2880 Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, Okla.
3. 2718 Daison Pursley, Locust Grove, Okla.
4. 2645 Kevin Thomas Jr., Cullman, Ala.
5. 2625 CJ Leary, Greenfield, Ind.
6. 2561 Mitchel Moles, Raisin City, Calif.
7. 2550 Robert Ballou, Rocklin, Calif.
8. 2481 Kyle Cummins, Princeton, Ind.
9. 2476 Justin Grant, Ione, Calif.
10. 1804 Matt Westfall, Pleasant Hill, Ohio
2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINTCAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ENTRANT POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)
POS. PTS. ENTRANT, TEAM LOCATION
1. 2987 Abacus Racing, Noblesville, Ind. (#57)
2. 2880 Dynamics Inc., Milford, Ohio (#69)
3. 2718 Team AZ/Curb-Agajanian Racing, Brownsburg, Ind. (#21AZ)
4. 2645 Rock Steady Racing, Dupont, Ind. (#3R)
5. 2625 BGE Dougherty Motorsports, Evansville, Ind. (#15x)
6. 2561 Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports, Gilbert, Ariz. (#19AZ)
7. 2550 Ballou Motorsports, Tipton, Ind. (#12)
8. 2481 Petty Performance Racing, Litchfield Park, Ariz. (#3p)
9. 2476 TOPP Motorsports, Rochester, Ind. (#4)
10. 1875 2B Racing, Marion, Ind. (#2B)
2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINTCAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP ROOKIE DRIVER POINT STANDINGS: (TOP-10)
POS. PTS. DRIVER, HOMETOWN
1. 949 Hunter Maddox, Bedford, Ind.
2. 553 Kale Drake, Collinsville, Okla.
3. 494 Chance Crum, Snohomish, Wash.
4. 360 Rylan Gray, Greenfield, Ind.
5. 328 Trey Osborne, Columbus, Ohio
6. 314 Wesley Smith, Nixa, Mo.
7. 275 Todd Hobson, Clyde, Vic.
8. 267 Kayla Roell, Dillsboro, Ind.
9. 246 Saban Bibent, Cincinnati, Ohio
10. 127 Chase Howard, Nesbit, Miss.
11. 72 Gunnar Setser, Columbus, Ind.
12. 68 Shane Butler, Bushnell, Fla.
13. 68 Nic Harris, Atlanta, Ill.
14. 20 Jason Cherry, Blandon, Pa.
15. 10 Will Hull, Plainfield, Vt.
2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINTCAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE & RESULTS
Feb 9: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Feb 10: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Feb 13: Volusia Speedway Park – Barberville, FL
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Feb 13: Volusia Speedway Park – Barberville, FL
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Feb 15: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Feb 16: Ocala Speedway – Ocala, FL
WINNER: C.J. Leary (BGE-Dougherty Motorsports #15x)
Apr 13: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, IN
WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)
May 3: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, OH
WINNER: Robert Ballou (Ballou Motorsports #12)
May 4: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, OH
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
May 10: Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
May 11: Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, IN
WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)
May 21: Terre Haute Action Track – Terre Haute, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
May 22: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN
WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)
May 23: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
May 31: Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, IA
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Jun 1: Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, IA
WINNER: Daison Pursley (Team AZ Racing #21AZ)
Jun 11: (E) Grandview Speedway | Bechtelsville, PA
WINNER: Briggs Danner (Hogue Racing Enterprises #39)
Jun 12: (E) Bridgeport Motorsports Park | Swedesboro, NJ
WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)
Jun 13: (E) Big Diamond Speedway | Pottsville, PA
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Jun 14: (E) Williams Grove Speedway | Mechanicsburg, PA
WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)
Jun 15: (E) Port Royal Speedway | Port Royal, PA
WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics, Inc. #69)
Jun 16: (E) Action Track USA | Kutztown, PA
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Jun 28: Macon Speedway – Macon, IL
WINNER: Mitchel Moles (Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports #19AZ)
Jun 29: Macon Speedway – Macon, IL
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Jul 5: Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Jul 6: Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
July 26: Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
July 27: Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN
WINNER: Kyle Cummins (Petty Performance Racing #3p)
July 30: Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
July 31: Circle City Raceway | Indianapolis, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
August 1: Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN
WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics Inc. #69)
August 3: Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
August 4: Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN
WINNER: Briggs Danner (Hogue Racing Enterprises #39)
Aug 22: Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, IN
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Aug 23: Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, IN
WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)
Aug 24: Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, IN
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
Sep 7: (AE) Texarkana 67 Speedway – Texarkana, AR
WINNER: Brady Bacon (Dynamics Inc. #69)
Sep 13: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN
WINNER: Kyle Cummins (Petty Performance Racing #3p)
Sep 14: Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, IN
WINNER: Kevin Thomas Jr. (Rock Steady Racing #3R)
Sep 21: Eldora Speedway – Rossburg, OH
WINNER: Daison Pursley (Team AZ Racing #21AZ)
Sep 26: (SE) The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway – Speedway, IN
WINNER: C.J. Leary (BGE-Dougherty Motorsports #15x)
Oct 11: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, IN
WINNER: Briggs Danner (Hogue Racing Enterprises #39)
Oct 12: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, IN
WINNER: Logan Seavey (Abacus Racing #57)
Oct 25: (AE) Red Dirt Raceway – Meeker, OK
WINNER: Matt Westfall (Ray Marshall Motorsports #33m)
Oct 26: (AE) Red Dirt Raceway – Meeker, OK
WINNER: Justin Grant (TOPP Motorsports #4)
—————— KEY DEFINITIONS ——————
(AE) represents an event co-sanctioned by ASCS Elite Non-Wing
(E) represents an Eastern Storm event
(I) represents an Indiana Sprint Week event
(F) represents an event awarding feature points only
(A) represents an event awarding appearance points only
(SE) represents a non-points, special event
2024 USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STATISTICS
FEATURE WINS
14-Logan Seavey (Feb 13 at Volusia Speedway Park, Feb 13 at Volusia Speedway Park, May 10 at Bloomington Speedway, May 21 at the Terre Haute Action Track, May 23 at Circle City Raceway, Jun 13 at Big Diamond Speedway, Jun 16 at Action Track USA, Jun 29 at Macon Speedway, Jul 5 at Lincoln Park Speedway, Jul 6 at Lincoln Park Speedway, Jul 26 at Lincoln Park Speedway, Jul 30 at Lawrenceburg Speedway, Jul 31 at Circle City Raceway & Oct 12 at Lawrenceburg Speedway)
9-Justin Grant (Feb 9 at Ocala Speedway, Feb 10 at Ocala Speedway, Feb 15 at Ocala Speedway, May 4 at Eldora Speedway, May 31 at Knoxville Raceway, Aug 3 at Tri-State Speedway, Aug 24 at Kokomo Speedway, Aug 26 at Kokomo Speedway & Oct 26 at Red Dirt Raceway)
5-Brady Bacon (May 22 at Circle City Raceway, Jun 12 at Bridgeport Motorsports Park, Jun 15 at Port Royal Speedway, Aug 1 at the Terre Haute Action Track & Sep 7 at Texarkana 67 Speedway)
5-Kevin Thomas Jr. (Apr 13 at Lawrenceburg Speedway, May 11 at Tri-State Speedway, Jun 14 at Williams Grove Speedway, Aug 25 at Kokomo Speedway & Sep 14 at Tri-State Speedway)
3-Briggs Danner (Jun 11 at Grandview Speedway, Aug 4 at Bloomington Speedway & Oct 11 at Lawrenceburg Speedway)
2-Kyle Cummins (Jul 27 at Kokomo Speedway & Sep 13 at Circle City Raceway)
2-Daison Pursley (Jun 1 at Knoxville Raceway & Sep 21 at Eldora Speedway)
1-Robert Ballou (May 3 at Eldora Speedway)
1-C.J. Leary (Feb 16 at Ocala Speedway)
1-Mitchel Moles (Jun 28 at Macon Speedway)
1-Matt Westfall (Oct 25 at Red Dirt Raceway)
NON-POINTS SPECIAL EVENT WINS:
1-C.J. Leary (Sep 26 at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway)
FEATURE LAPS LED
364-Logan Seavey
190-Kevin Thomas Jr.
177-Justin Grant
133-Kyle Cummins
131-Brady Bacon
114-Mitchel Moles
113-Briggs Danner
83-Daison Pursley
20-Jake Swanson
19-Carson Garrett
12-Robert Ballou
10-Max Adams & C.J. Leary
9-Shane Cottle & Chase Stockon
7-Matt Westfall
5-Stevie Sussex
3-Joey Amantea & Jadon Rogers
1-Brayden Fox
TOP-FIVE FEATURE FINISHES
31-Logan Seavey
26-Brady Bacon
21-Daison Pursley
20-Kevin Thomas Jr.
19-C.J. Leary
18-Justin Grant
17-Robert Ballou
16-Mitchel Moles
14-Kyle Cummins
11-Briggs Danner
5-Chase Stockon
4-Carson Garrett & Jake Swanson
3-Shane Cottle
2-Alex Bright, Ricky Lewis, Jadon Rogers & Matt Westfall
1-Max Adams, Rylan Gray & Chase Johnson
TOP-TEN FEATURE FINISHES
38-Logan Seavey
37-Brady Bacon
35-Daison Pursley
33-Mitchel Moles & Kevin Thomas Jr.
32-CJ Leary
31-Robert Ballou
30-Kyle Cummins
29-Justin Grant
19-Briggs Danner
17-Chase Stockon
FEATURE STARTS
44-Brady Bacon, Robert Ballou, Kyle Cummins, Justin Grant, C.J. Leary, Mitchel Moles, Daison Pursley, Logan Seavey, Kevin Thomas Jr.
42-Matt Westfall
41-Carson Garrett
36-Chase Stockon
34-Joey Amantea & Jadon Rogers
33-Jake Swanson
29-Briggs Danner
25-Hunter Maddox
20-Ricky Lewis
17-Shane Cottle
16-Brandon Mattox
15-Charles Davis Jr. & Kale Drake
14-Anton Hernandez
13-Chance Crum
12-Alex Bright & Tom Harris
11-Max Adams
10-Harley Burns
9-Tye Mihocko & Trey Osborne
8-Korbyn Hayslett & Kobe Simpson
7-Hayden Reinbold & Wesley Smith
6-Saban Bibent, Nick Bilbee, Rylan Gray, Todd Hobson & Stevie Sussex
5-Timmy Buckwalter, Jack Hoyer, J.J. Hughes, Kayla Roell, Kyle Shipley & Scotty Weir
4-Zach Daum, Xavier Doney, J.T. Ferry, Brayden Fox & Frankie Guerrini
3-Brent Beauchamp, Geoff Ensign, Matt Goodnight, Weston Gorham, Chase Howard, Kyle Jones, Carmen Perigo, Zack Pretorius, Brady Short, Shawn Westerfeld & Paul White
2-Dustin Beck, Donny Brackett, Shane Butler, Logan Calderwood, Craig Carroll, Mario Clouser, Colten Cottle, Aric Gentry, Nic Harris, Hayden Harvey, Chase Johnson, R.J. Miller, Kendall Ruble, Brian Ruhlman, Nate Schank, Adyn Schmidt, Eric Schulz, Gunnar Setser, Matt Sherrell, Carson Short, Mark Smith, Cooper Sullivan & J.J. Yeley
1-Garrett Abrams, Ryan Barr, Robert Bell, Wyatt Burks, Rhett Butler, Brayden Clark, Sterling Cling, Brock Cottrell, Braxton Cummings, Steven Drevicki, Paul Dues, Dakota Earls, Nate Ervin, Scott Frack, Gabriel Gilbert, Ivan Glotzbach, Sam Hinds, Ronny Howard, Jason Howell, Ty Hulsey, Keith Martin, John Mollick, Evan Mosley, Anthony Nicholson, Seth Parker, Kody Swanson, Colt Treharn, Cody Williams, Joe Wood Jr. & Justin Zimmerman
ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL SPRINTCAR STATS
ALL-TIME USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DRIVER FEATURE WINS (1956-2024):
1. [62 wins] Dave Darland
2. [58 wins] Brady Bacon
3. [54 wins] Justin Grant
4. [52 wins] Tom Bigelow
5. [47 wins] Tracy Hines
6. [46 wins] Jack Hewitt
7. [45 wins] Larry Dickson
8. [44 wins] Kevin Thomas Jr.
9. [42 wins] Pancho Carter
10. [41 wins] Bryan Clauson
11. [40 wins] Gary Bettenhausen
12. [38 wins] Robert Ballou
13. [37 wins] Sheldon Kinser
14. [35 wins] Jon Stanbrough & Rich Vogler
16. [32 wins] Rollie Beale
17. [31 wins] Tyler Courtney
18. [30 wins] Chris Windom
19. [28 wins] Don Branson, A.J. Foyt, Levi Jones & J.J. Yeley
23. [26 wins] Tony Elliott & Dave Steele
25. [25 wins] Steve Butler, Jay Drake & Parnelli Jones
28. [24 wins] Logan Seavey
29. [23 wins] C.J. Leary & Roger McCluskey
31. [22 wins] Rick Hood, Bubby Jones & Sammy Sessions
34. [21 wins] Greg Weld
35. [20 wins] Kyle Cummins
36. [17 wins] Jerry Coons Jr., Jim Hurtubise & Bud Kaeding
39. [16 wins] Damion Gardner & Jud Larson
41. [15 wins] Bobby East, Cory Kruseman & Brian Tyler
44. [14 wins] Billy Cassella, Lee Kunzman, Chase Stockon & Bruce Walkup
48. [13 wins] Steve Chassey
49. [12 wins] Eric Gordon
50. [11 wins] Daron Clayton, Elmer George, Tommy Hinnershitz & Greg Leffler
54. [10 wins] Thomas Meseraull, Eddie Sachs, Tony Stewart & Johnny Thomson
58. [9 wins] Mario Andretti, Pat O’Connor, Hunter Schuerenberg & Robbie Stanley
62. [8 wins] Mike Bliss, Chet Fillip, Johnny Rutherford & Joe Saldana
66. [7 wins] Kevin Doty, Darren Hagen, Kenny Irwin Jr., Doug Kalitta, Jim Keeker, Bobby Santos, Brady Short, Kevin Thomas, Bobby Unser & Josh Wise
76. [6 wins] Emerson Axsom, Chad Boespflug, Kevin Briscoe, Shane Cottle, Jac Haudenschild, Jason McCord, Jan Opperman, Tom Sneva, George Snider, Jake Swanson & Dick Tobias
87. [5 wins] Larry Cannon, Dana Carter, Derek Davidson, Gene Lee Gibson, Jeff Gordon, Chuck Gurney, Shane Hmiel, Kevin Huntley, Frankie Kerr, Kelly Kinser, Eddie Leavitt, Jim Mahoney, Andy Michner, Johnny Parsons, Bill Puterbaugh, Tanner Thorson & Cole Whitt
104. [4 wins] Rob Chaney, Cary Faas, Jesse Hockett, Van Johnson, Steve Kinser, Michael Lewis, Ralph Liguori, Mitchel Moles, Don Nordhorn, Lee Osborne, Red Riegel, Ken Schrader, Al Smith & Danny Smith
118. [3 wins] Chuck Amati, Sonny Ates, Joe Barzda, Jeff Bloom, Mark Cassella, Jerry “Scratch” Daniels, Briggs Danner, Bob East, Bob Frey, Dickie Gaines, Wayne Hammond, Tray House, Kenny Jacobs, Tony Jones, Kyle Larson, Andy Linden, Charlie Masters, Mike Mosley, Larry Rice, Ron Shuman, Mitch Smith, Matt Westfall & Doug Wolfgang
141. [2 wins] Chad Boat, Marvin Carman, Ed Carpenter, Brad Doty, Ed Elisian, Nic Faas, Cy Fairchild, Brad Fox, Arnie Knepper, Danny Lasoski, Mack McClellan, Jason McDougal, James McElreath, Lealand McSpadden, Jim McWithey, Danny Milburn, Mat Neely, Ryan Newman, Fred “Jiggs” Peters, Jerry Poland, Daison Pursley, Casey Riggs, Bill Rose, Mickey Shaw, Terry Shepherd, Dean Shirley, Brad Sweet, Bob Sweikert, Kevin Swindell, Sammy Swindell, Mike Spencer, Bud Tingelstad, Billy Vukovich, Mike Ward & Carl Williams
176. [1 win] Donnie Adams, A.J. Anderson, Brad Armstrong, Tony Armstrong, Tommy Astone, Dick Atkins, Brent Beauchamp, Ryan Bernal, Jeff Bland Jr., Stan Bowman, Alan Brown, Karl Busson, Johnny Capels, David Cardey, Bob Cicconi, Henry Clarke, Troy Cline, Duke Cook, Mel Cornett, Allen Crowe, Billy Engelhart, Cotton Farmer, Aaron Farney, Gary Fedewa, Blake Fitzpatrick, Pat Flaherty, Joe Gaerte, Russ Gamester, Rickie Gaunt, Brian Gerster, Todd Gibson, Ron Gregory, Richard Griffin, Garrett Hansen, Jerry Hansen, Jim Hemmings, Josh Hodges, Bob Hogle, Jackie Howerton, Chuck Hulse, Logan Jarrett, Marc Jessup, Gordon Johncock, Chet Johnson, Page Jones, Bob Kinser, Mike Kirby, Fred Linder, Steve Long, Hank Lower, Brett Mann, Bobby Marshman, Larry Martin, Mike Martin, Brad Marvel, Justin Marvel, Rusty McClure, Bob McCoy, Jim McElreath, Charlie Musselman, Bobby Olivero, Jim Packard, Gary Patterson, Billy Pauch, Dave Peperak, Aaron Pierce, Paul Pitzer, Terry Pletch, Billy Puterbaugh Jr., Bud Randall, Byron Reed, Boston Reid, Rodney Ritter Jr., Brody Roa, David Roahrig, Jadon Rogers, Stephen Schnapf, Carson Short, Billy Shuman, Jimmy Sills, Smokey Snellbaker, Wib Spalding, Greg Staab, Randy Standridge, Ron Standridge, Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Kody Swanson, Tanner Swanson, Mike Sweeney, Jeff Swindell, Clark Templeman, Tyler Thomas, Bill Tyler, Rick Ungar, Lennie Waldo, Tyler Walker, Scotty Weir, Kenny Weld, Bob Wente, Chuck Weyant, Johnny White, Rip Williams, Jacob Wilson & Eddie Wirth
USAC NATIONAL SPRINTCAR CHAMPIONS:
1956: Pat O’Connor (Midwest) & Tommy Hinnershitz (Eastern), 1957: Elmer George (Midwest) & Bill Randall (Eastern), 1958: Eddie Sachs (Midwest) & Johnny Thomson (Eastern), 1959: Don Branson (Midwest) & Tommy Hinnershitz (Eastern), 1960: Parnelli Jones (Midwest) & A.J. Foyt (Eastern), 1961: Parnelli Jones, 1962: Parnelli Jones, 1963: Roger McCluskey, 1964: Don Branson, 1965: Johnny Rutherford, 1966: Roger McCluskey, 1967: Greg Weld, 1968: Larry Dickson, 1969: Gary Bettenhausen, 1970: Larry Dickson, 1971: Gary Bettenhausen, 1972: Sammy Sessions, 1973: Rollie Beale, 1974: Pancho Carter, 1975: Larry Dickson, 1976: Pancho Carter, 1977: Sheldon Kinser, 1978: Tom Bigelow, 1979: Greg Leffler, 1980: Rich Vogler, 1981: Sheldon Kinser, 1982: Sheldon Kinser, 1983: Ken Schrader, 1984: Rick Hood, 1985: Rick Hood, 1986: Steve Butler, 1987: Steve Butler, 1988: Steve Butler, 1989: Rich Vogler, 1990: Steve Butler, 1991: Robbie Stanley, 1992: Robbie Stanley, 1993: Robbie Stanley, 1994: Doug Kalitta, 1995: Tony Stewart, 1996: Brian Tyler, 1997: Brian Tyler, 1998: Tony Elliott, 1999: Dave Darland, 2000: Tony Elliott, 2001: J.J. Yeley, 2002: Tracy Hines, 2003: J.J. Yeley, 2004: Jay Drake, 2005: Levi Jones, 2006: Josh Wise, 2007: Levi Jones, 2008: Jerry Coons Jr., 2009: Levi Jones, 2010: Levi Jones (Dirt) & Shane Hmiel (Pavement), 2011: Levi Jones (Dirt) & Bobby Santos (Pavement), 2012: Bryan Clauson, 2013: Bryan Clauson, 2014: Brady Bacon, 2015: Robert Ballou, 2016: Brady Bacon, 2017: Chris Windom, 2018: Tyler Courtney, 2019: C.J. Leary, 2020: Brady Bacon, 2021: Brady Bacon, 2022: Justin Grant, 2023: Justin Grant, 2024: Logan Seavey
ALL-TIME USAC SPRINT CARENTRANT CHAMPIONS:
1961: Sterling Plumbing & Heating, 1962: Bruce Homeyer, 1963: Bruce Homeyer, 1964: Jud Phillips, 1965: Jack Colvin, 1966: Anderson Products, 1967: Rufus Gray, 1968: Ray Smith, 1969: Willie Davis, 1970: Kenny Lay, 1971: Willie Davis, 1972: Mauri Amerling, 1973: R-B Racing Associates, 1974: Conger & Stapp Racing, 1975: Ernie Ensign, 1976: Steve Stapp Racing, 1977: Sherman Armstrong, 1978: Sherman Armstrong, 1979: Lloyd Weaver, 1980: Gohr Distributing Co., 1981: Ben Leyba, 1982: Ben Leyba, 1983: Damon Fortune, 1984: Damon Fortune, 1985: Damon Fortune, 1986: Phil Poor, 1987: Jeff Stoops, 1988: Jeff Stoops, 1989: Dynamics, Inc., 1990: Johnny Vance Racing Team, Inc., 1991: Ron Stanley, 1992: Dynamics, Inc., 1993: Dynamics, Inc., 1994: Utopia Services, Inc., 1995: Niebel Engines, Inc., 1996: Dynamics, Inc., 1997: Dynamics, Inc., 1998: Vance-Walker Racing, 1999: Dynamics, Inc., 2000: Walker-Lamers Racing, 2001: Walker-Gratton Racing, 2002: Dynamics, Inc., 2003: Tony Stewart Racing, 2004: Dynamics, Inc., 2005: 2B Racing, 2006: Tony Stewart Racing, 2007: Tony Stewart Racing, 2008: Dynamics, Inc., 2009: Tony Stewart Racing, 2010: Tony Stewart Racing, 2011: Tony Stewart Racing, 2012: CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian, 2013: Tony Stewart Racing/Curb-Agajanian, 2014: Dynamics, Inc., 2015: Robert Ballou, 2016: Dynamics, Inc., 2017: Baldwin Brothers Racing, 2018: Clauson Marshall Newman Racing, 2019: Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports, 2020: Dynamics, Inc., 2021: Dynamics, Inc., 2022: TOPP Motorsports, 2023: TOPP Motorsports, 2024: Abacus Racing
ALL-TIME USAC SPRINT CAR ROOKIES OF THE YEAR
1971: Darl Harrison, 1972: Billy Cassella, 1973: Rich Leavell, 1974: Lee Osborne, 1975: Marvin Carman, 1976: Roger Rager, 1977: Eddie Leavitt, 1978: Tim Richmond, 1979: Jerry Carman, 1980: Frank Riddle, 1981: Steve Long & Johnny Coogan, 1982: Danny Milburn, 1983: Dean Shirley, 1984: Jerry Russell, 1985: Terry Shepherd, 1986: Kenny Jacobs, 1987: Rick Ungar, 1988: Dean Jacobs, 1989: Eric Gordon, 1990: Rick Howerton, 1991: Tony Stewart, 1992: Gary Cameron II, 1993: Kenny Irwin Jr., 1994: Bobby Smith, 1995: Mark Cassella, 1996: Gus Wasson, 1997: J.J. Yeley, 1998: Tracy Hines, 1999: Ryan Newman, 2000: Bud Kaeding, 2001: Ed Carpenter, 2002: Boston Reid, 2003: Michael Lewis & Mat Neely, 2004: Josh Ford & Josh Wise, 2005: Darren Hagen, 2006: Scotty Weir, 2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 2008: Chad Boat, 2009: Henry Clarke, 2010: Justin Grant, 2011: Coleman Gulick, 2012: C.J. Leary, 2013: Tyler Courtney, 2014: Jarett Andretti, 2015: Aaron Farney, 2016: Isaac Chapple, 2017: Stevie Sussex, 2018: Timmy Buckwalter & Logan Seavey, 2019: Dustin Clark, 2020: Jadon Rogers, 2021: Tanner Thorson, 2022: Emerson Axsom, 2023: Daison Pursley, 2024: Hunter Maddox
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