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15 Full-Time Entries Ready for USAC National Sprint Tour

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Speedway, Indiana (February 5, 2024) - It’s time to go racing in 2024 with the largest contingent of USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship full-time competitors in the 69-year history of the series.

The field of 15 full-time drivers and teams is stacked, packed and ready to hit the road for this coming year’s 54-race slate which begins with seven February dates in Florida at Ocala Speedway on February 9-10, Volusia Speedway Park on February 12-13 and another visit to Ocala Speedway on Feb. 15-16-17.

Here’s the full list of the 15 USAC National Sprint Car full-timers for 2024:

C.J. LEARY | BGE-DOUGHERTY MOTORSPORTS #15x

It’s back to the 15x for C.J. Leary for the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

In 2023, the Greenfield, Indiana racer notched his first full season under the BGE-Dougherty Motorsports banner, giving the team its best ever USAC points finish and continued to cement the team as one of the pre-eminent favorites entering 2024.

Leary has finished inside the top-10 of USAC National Sprint Car points in 10 consecutive years, and for the last five seasons, he’s come home fifth or better in the standings each year.

He’s currently on a string of eight straight years with a feature victory, including three in 2023 at Bloomington, Eldora and Kokomo, and also wrapped up the Bubby Jones Master of Goin’ Faster title Presented by Spire Sports + Entertainment.

The 2019 USAC National Sprint Car champ is hungry to build upon the foundation of success that was laid a year ago and aims to continue his stride into the new year of 2024.

KEVIN THOMAS JR. | ROCK STEADY RACING #3R

It’s the most excited he’s been for the start of a race season in a long time. Those are ear-catching words for a driver like Kevin Thomas Jr., who stands as one of the most successful USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship drivers of his era.

The Cullman, Alabama wheelman has teamed up with Rock Steady Racing as they plan an assault on the USAC National Sprint Car season in 2024.

Thomas, the owner of 39 series wins, ranks 11th all-time in that regard while Rock Steady, led by car owner Hank Byram, has raked in 25 victories, most notably over the past decade with driver Kyle Cummins who has moved on to Petty Performance Racing team for 2024.

Thomas already got a bit of a head start with his new team last September at Gas City, and despite early mechanical obstacles, KTJ recovered to win his heat and ran as high as fourth in the feature before slotting into seventh at the finish line.

With both KTJ and Rock Steady hankering for a first USAC title run and something to prove, this new combo is poised to make some noise in the new year.

JAKE SWANSON | 2B RACING #2B

Jake Swanson hit his stride in 2023 as he piloted the Team AZ Racing ride to a career-high four points-paying wins and a career best fifth place finish in the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship standings.

But that was then, and this is now. After five seasons with Team Arizona, Swanson has a new address for 2024 after being tabbed as the new driver of Scott Benic’s 2B Racing DRC/Claxton, which was occupied a year ago by Logan Seavey.

It’s one chapter closing and another opening with 2B Racing, which ranks 12th all-time in series wins with 33 and captured the 2005 USAC National Sprint Car title with Levi Jones at the wheel.

Swanson, who owns and operates a thriving racing shock business, during the week, got a couple beneficial runs with 2B in local Indiana competition, providing them a bit of a head start entering 2024.

Last year, Swanson hit the ground running by winning in his first sprint car start of the year. This time around, he aims to do the same on a team with a storied championship past with an eye on a championship future.

KYLE CUMMINS | PETTY PERFORMANCE RACING #3P

For more than a decade, Kyle Cummins and Rock Steady Racing were constant counterparts, racking up numerous wins in the Midwest while also cementing themselves among the premier pairings in the sport.

But David Bowie once told us about ch-ch-ch-changes! And that’s exactly what’s in store for the Princeton, Indiana driver during the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship campaign.

The brand-new Petty Performance Racing team was created by Arizona’s Jerry Petty who has transitioned from team sponsor and event sponsor into a team owner who will now field Cummins in pursuit of a USAC title in the coming year.

This formation comes on the heels of Cummins equaling his career best with four USAC National Sprint Car feature victories and a sixth-place finish in series points for 2023.

At press time, Cummins’ USAC National Sprint Car win total stands at 18, all of which have come with Rock Steady. For Cummins, it’s a new opportunity. It’s a new challenge. And among the plethora of musical chairs this offseason, this is among the most intriguing ones to watch, pairing a veteran driver with a brand-new team and the racing world to conquer.

JUSTIN GRANT | TOPP MOTORSPORTS #4

Tres. Drei. Trois. Pardon my French. But no matter how you say it – 3 is a magic number for Justin Grant in 2024.

Grant has won the past two series driving titles, and this year, he’ll push toward positioning himself among the top hierarchy of history which so few have reached by winning 3 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championships in a row.

Parnelli Jones scored three consecutive from 1960 to 62. Steve Butler notched three-straight between 1986 and 88. Robbie Stanley was crowned each year between 1991 and 93 and Levi Jones was the most recent to do the deed in 2009, 10 and 11.

Last year, Grant became the 10th driver to amass 400 career starts, and with 45 victories, another similar performance in 2024 will place him among the top-three all time in that category.

Grant enters year seven with TOPP Motorsports, who also will be eying three-in-a-row as an entrant champ, something only Damon Fortune, Tony Stewart Racing and Curb-Agajanian have done.

Grant and TOPP are on the mountaintop. They were the hunted a year ago. They’ll be the hunted in 2024. But as they’ll tell you, “Catch us if you can!”

MATT WESTFALL | RAY MARSHALL MOTORSPORTS #33m

A true renaissance man of motorsports, Matt Westfall has truly just about done it all in his racing career, and he’s done it with proficiency!

Over the years, his driving accomplishments have come in the form of championships in midgets and sprint cars and even modifieds and late models!

But his 2023 triumph at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway might have one-upped them all with it being his first USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car National Championship feature victory in more than 17 seasons!

Westfall’s 2022 performance saw him post career highs in all categories of USAC Sprint Car competition. In 2023, he equaled or exceeded his previous year’s exploits across the board.

The Buckeye racer is back on the USAC Sprint Car scene full-time again in 2024 with Ray Marshall Motorsports’ yellow number 33m as they pine to build upon what they’ve laid the groundwork for throughout these past several years.

Even at the age of 47, Westfall is proving himself to the racing world time and time again. And as time has proven, you have to admit he’s getting better. Getting better all the time.

BRADY BACON | DYNAMICS, INC. #69

Brady Bacon is on the brink of something special during the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

The Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native is back on the drive for five once more after finishing as the runner-up to Justin Grant in each of the past two seasons in 2022 and 2023 after Bacon himself captured two-in-a-row in 2020 and 2021.

No era of USAC Sprint Car racing has offered such a tug-of-war at the top of the championship fight since the era of the Larry and Gary Show between 1968 and 1971 when Dickson and Bettenhausen swapped a pair of titles across a four-year span.

In 2024, Bacon stands one title away from equaling Levi Jones as the driver with the most USAC National Sprint Car crowns. Furthermore, Bacon possesses the second most USAC National Sprint Car feature victories with 53 and is now within an arm’s reach of Dave Darland’s all-time record of 62.

Furthermore, Bacon stands alone by winning USAC Sprint Car features in more states than any other driver with 14. But more than anything else, Bacon wants one more ring for the thumb. And the only state he prefers to compete in is a championship state of mind in 2024.

JADON ROGERS | MICHAEL DUTCHER MOTORSPORTS #17GP

The combination of a winning driver and a victorious crew chief slash team owner have thus far made a fantastic match in their short time together.

Both Jadon Rogers and Michael Dutcher Motorsports possess that same energy and pedigree that has them riding high into 2024 as full-time USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship contenders.

The duo teamed up for the latter half of 2023 for nine USAC starts, accumulating four top-fives and six top-tens in that stretch, including an impressive 23rd to 5th run on the opening night of Sprint Car Smackdown at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway, plus a pair of fourths at Kokomo and Devil’s Bowl.

Over the past three years, no driver has won more sprint car races in the state of Indiana than Rogers, three of which came just last year in Dutcher’s patented number 17GP.

The 2020 USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year and the 2012 USAC Chief Mechanic of the Year have been on the verge of teaming up to chase the USAC trail in recent. Now, they feel on the verge of something even bigger and better in 2024.

MITCHEL MOLES | REINBOLD-UNDERWOOD MOTORSPORTS #19AZ

Perhaps no driver elicits the same electricity that Mitchel Moles exhibits each time he hits the track in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition.

That was proven by the fact that he prevailed in arguably the most exhilarating event of the 2023 USAC Sprint season when he outlasted multiple attacks on the final lap to win the debut at Illinois’ Macon Speedway.

But after what was admittedly an up and down 2023 season, the Raisin City, California native is preparing to rise up another level in 2024. He’s back in the saddle of the 19AZ full-time on the USAC tour, a team which sees Moles, owner and crew chief Andy Reinbold, plus co-owner Todd Underwood as the remaining constants from the year before.

The cast features several fresh faces turning the wrenches, including new car chief Dylan Cook, who won a USAC Sprint title with Justin Grant in 2022, plus the additions of Jacob Johnston and James Turnbull to the crew.

In what will be his third year on the USAC tour coming up, the former professional bass fisherman is angling to make year three one for the highlight reel!

DAISON PURSLEY | TEAM AZ RACING #21AZ

After a new beginning one year ago, it’s another fresh start for Daison Pursley in 2024!

Straight out of a season in which he was named USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship Rookie of the Year for KO Motorsports, the Locust Grove, Oklahoma driver now finds himself as the full-time wheelman for Team AZ Racing’s number 21AZ.

For the past five years, Team AZ has fielded Jake Swanson as its driver, but after he recently departed to 2B Racing, Pursley was tabbed for the new role.

Pursley and Team AZ’s relationship dates back to October of 2023 when both parties went USAC CRA racing during the Western World Championships at Cocopah, and quickly turned it from a one-weekend deal to a full-time ride after a spectacular two-night sweep of the event.

A good first impression goes a long way, and this combo has good vibes in spades rolling into the 2024 campaign. After all, they’re one of the few pairings in the sport who can lay claim to being undefeated.

It’s full steam into the new year, and now the focus is set on keeping the ball of momentum rolling starting in Florida and beyond!

LOGAN SEAVEY | ABACUS RACING #57

For Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing, winning two out of three USAC national championships together in 2023 ain’t bad. But it could even be better.

In response, the two entities have added a sprint car team to their arsenal for the upcoming 2024 campaign to achieve what only Tony Stewart and J.J. Yeley have done before – winning the coveted USAC Triple Crown in a single year.

Seavey comes off a season in which he won twice in USAC National Sprint Car competition for 2B Racing while garnering championship accolades in both the Midget and Silver Crown divisions for Abacus.

The team is new to the sprint car racing world this year, but don’t let that deceive you. Abacus Racing’s first full season of midget and Silver Crown racing resulted in a championship. Call it exceeding expectations but it was certainly no beginner’s luck.

Kirk Simpson will serve as the team’s crew chief on the DRC chassis powered by both 1-Way Technologies and Stanton powerplants.

Expectations are high for this group in its initial foray into sprint car racing, but there’s no one they’d rather have in their seat than Logan Seavey in the quest to grab the final prong of the USAC triple crown.

ROBERT BALLOU | BALLOU MOTORSPORTS #12

It’s back to the grind in 2024 for the winningest driver slash car owner in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship history.

For the past decade, he’s been a perennial front runner on the circuit, which includes a 2015 series championship and 32 victories as an independent aboard his instantly recognizable number 12.

However, last year wasn’t as kind in the win column for the Rocklin, California racer who enters his 19th season with the series.  That said, he finished a solid seventh in the standings with crew chief Derrick Bye as his right-hand man while finishing as the runner-up three times and garnering a couple fast qualifying times to boot.

The Mad Man has cemented his legacy as one of the premier USAC Sprint Car drivers of his era, and of any era, He’s 27 starts away from becoming the third driver with 500 career starts, plus his 37 feature triumphs are just three away from reaching 10th all-time.

Perhaps no driver has been able to make as many triumphant bounce backs as Robert Ballou, and in 2024, he aims to bounce back in a big way. Into the win column, into the championship fight and into the record books.

CARSON GARRETT | BGE-DOUGHERTY MOTORSPORTS #15

His journey from his Rocky Mountain Midget roots to becoming USAC’s 2023 National Most Improved Driver came quite quickly in some respects. But in other ways, it’s clear to say Carson Garrett has come a long way both geographically and behind the wheel of a racecar.

Although he’s been at this game for a few years now, last season was truly Carson Garrett’s first go-around on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship trail. That’s when the switch was flipped for the 22-year-old Littleton, Colorado racer as he recorded career bests in every single statistical category, notching three top-fives and came within a whisker of winning his first series feature at Illinois’ Macon Speedway.

Garrett returns in 2024 with the same exact deal, chasing the full USAC National Sprint Car season in the BGE Dougherty No. 15 as a teammate to C.J. Leary.

Although he admitted that the USAC Most Improved Driver award completely took him by surprise, there’s no question that he’s not going to sneak up on the competition in the coming year. It’s expected. For Carson Garrett has now officially arrived on the USAC National Sprint Car scene.

JOEY AMANTEA | JPA RACING #88J

Joey Amantea has made his mark in recent years on the USAC East Coast Sprint Car tour, but in 2024, he’s taking the show on the road full-time with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship.

The 19-year-old known as “The Big Show” will be a busy man in the new year, dividing his full-time racing duties with his full-time role as a college student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University.

Working his way up the ranks through quarter midgets, 600cc micros and as a multi-time USAC 360 sprint car winner, Amantea recently plugged in a 410 Newman’s racing engine into his family-owned Triple X.

Amantea branched out from his home in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania to dabble on the USAC national trail in 2023 and turned in a pair of top-10s at Kokomo and Lawrenceburg. The whole experience heightened the team’s desires to strive for even more in the new year.

New tracks, major competition and hitting the road. It’s all part of the continuous progression of the teenage Pennsylvanian. And if there’s any guarantees in life, bet the house on Joey Amantea putting on a big show in 2024.

TREY OSBORNE | BALDWIN-FOX RACING #5 & TREY OSBORNE #6

One year ago, he was named Non-Wing Sprint Car Rookie of the Year by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, but now Trey Osborne aspires to continue his rapid ascent as a Rookie with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship in 2024.

In a combined effort, the 21-year-old Ohioan will pilot Baldwin-Fox Racing’s DRC/Claxton number five in the majority of USAC events and fill in the remainder of the dates aboard his own Triple X number six powered by a Mopar.

As a hired gun, Osborne now finds himself on an even bigger scale with more eyes and more expectations on him than ever before. But the Don and Mel Kenyon disciple embraces the challenge as he prepares to take on the busiest and most hectic racing season of his young career.

Osborne, who stands a towering 6 foot 8, talked the talk and walked the walked in 2023, meeting his goal of winning three local Indiana races. In the coming year, he’s established a new aspiration of achieving his first three USAC victories.

And as history has already proven, it’s no tall tale to believe Trey Osborne will be a man of his word in 2024.

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Hight Limit Racing will expand to 50 races in 2024, create a Midweek Money Series and welcome the 2023 World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series champion Brad Sweet fulltime. The series will offer more than $5 million in prize money with $250,000 going to the champion from a $1 million points’ fund.

FloSports, a streaming sports platform out of Austin, Texas, has taken a minority equity stake in the series and will stream all events in a multi-year agreement.

The new series will allow for off-weekends to avoid conflicts with some of the sports’ Crown Jewel events.

“Brad and I literally grew up in this sport and our passion for sprint car racing runs deep,” said High Limit co-owner Kyle Larson in a press release . “The 2023 High Limit season went well, but we saw room for growth and more opportunities that were out there to make this division of racing stronger. Not only are we going to continue to run tight, highly-entertaining races for the fans, but we’re going to do it while raising purses and making the sport more financially viable for drivers and teams.”

Larson won three races in 2023 on his way to becoming the inaugural champion of the 11-race season that held all of their races midweek.

Two weeks ago, High Limit announced they had purchased Tony Stewart’s All-Star Circuit of Champions (ASCoC), fueling speculation that the two series could merge.

Last week after earning his fifth consecutive Outlaws title, Sweet said it was like a “walk-off homer” , suggesting his move from that series to the one he recently purchased was imminent.

A full schedule has not yet been announced but the renamed series, (known as the High Limit Sprint Car Series in 2023), will kick off at Volusia Speedway Park in Barberville, Florida in February. That track is owned by the parent company of the Outlaws.

“We’re working on a diverse and efficient schedule that will maximize the travel time for our teams,” Sweet said. “With increased purses and the availability for teams to also compete in the sport’s Crown Jewels that may not be High Limit-sanctioned, High Limit drivers and teams have the highest revenue opportunity in sprint car history, barring The Million in 2023. We’re proud of that and see it as a launching pad for the future of sprint car racing.”

After two previous iterations as a Late Model showcase, the Eldora Million was turned into a sprint car race in 2023 with Logan Schuchart crowned the winner . Tony Stewart helmed the independent race.

“The support of Kasey (Kahne), NAPA and everyone at Kasey Kahne Racing means a lot to me. We’ve accomplished a lot together and now we’ll go on a new adventure and try to add a High Limit championship to our resume. They’re taking this jump with me and that shows how strong and committed this team is.”

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Some of highlights of the schedule include two races held in conjunction with NASCAR events, at Texas Motor Speedway in April and one at Lakeside Speedway, less than 10 mile from Kansas Speedway in May. High Limit will return to the Dirt Track at Texas Motor Speedway in October for their finale.

High Limit will include some of the marquee ASCoC events including the Bob Weikert Memorial and Tuscarora 50 events at Port Royal (Penn.) Speedway. Though it was not announced in the High Limit release, FloRacing.com reports “the All Star Circuit of Champions have merged into the High Limit Racing brand.” FloRacing was the streaming broadcast partner of the ASCoC as well as High Limit in 2023.

Eldora Speedway will host High Limit Racing twice with a two-day midweek event in July and the 4-Crown Nationals in September.

High Limit Racing will take over from the Outlaws two marquee West Coast races in 2024, the Gold Cup Race of Champions at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico, California and the Skagit Nationals at Skagit Speedway in Burlington, Washington. Larson and Sweet are part owners of Silver Dollar.

Head-to-head national competition with the Outlaws has been tried before. In 1989, the United Sprint Association ran a 50-race schedule with Steve Kinser and Sammy Swindell battling for that championship. The series did not host another season.

The National Sprint Tour acquired another Outlaws legend Danny Lasoski for a 38-race national series in 2006. It also folded after one season. The National Sprint League held 28 races in 2015 and 26 in 2016 with Lasoski as champion both seasons, but the races were held primarily in the Midwest.

But those two previous attempts at a national series came in a different era before the prevalence of streaming platforms like FloSports and it remains to be seen if the third time is the charm.

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In three short weeks Fred Brownfield pulled together the winged sprint car pieces dropped by the Petty family (Competition, Dec. 12, 2005).

Brownfield, based in Snohomish, Washington, organized the National Sprint Tour as an alternative to the World of Outlaws. Brownfield and drivers such as Danny Lasoski, Jason Meyers, Brian Paulus, Steve Kinser and Shane Stewart don’t feel the World of Outlaws was promoting sprint car racing properly so they decided to form their own series.

Brownfield released a 2006 season schedule at the Chili Bowl in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Jan. 12 press release shows 36 dates, not including the Knoxville (Iowa) Nationals. That is not even half of what WoO had, but Brownfield suggests people check the series’ website, nationalsprinttour.com, often.

“There are already some new dates that aren’t on the sheet,” he said. “We’re changing by the minute.”

Kinser, who won his 20th WoO title in 2005, said he couldn’t be happier with what Brownfield pulled together. Kinser said he was disappointed when Richard and Kyle Petty withdrew their proposal to start a breakaway series, but things are on the upswing now.

“I think this is going to be pretty good,” Kinser said. “I was sort of surprised when the Pettys said they weren’t interested anymore, but I guess that’s done and over with.”

Kinser downplayed his role in helping keep sprint car racing organized and promoted properly, but he did acknowledge it has been a short off-season because of the work.

“I was doing all I can to put it all back together with the World of Outlaws, but it was something we couldn’t get done,” he said. “We gave them a chance to straighten things out and it didn’t happen, so it kind of forced things in a different direction.”

Speaking of a new series, USAC expects to have at least 10 but no more than 12 cars for the launch of its Silver Crown speedway division (Competition, Oct. 24, 2005) that will debut this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway, site of the sanctioning body’s season-opening Copper World Classic.

USAC had hoped for twice that many, but teams and sponsors have been slow to sign up given the pessimism surrounding the change from the old cars. The controversial new Silver Crown car is significantly faster than the one it replaces, in order to put on a show at larger, NASCAR-owned tracks. Critics say the new package steps over USAC’s “danger line.” Still, USAC isn’t having second thoughts.

“We’re not even close to where we want to be, but we’ve all agreed that where we’re at is a good place to build on,” said division director Owen Snyder.

As important as this week’s debut is last week’s addition of John Saunders to USAC’s board of directors. Saunders is senior vice president and chief operating officer of International Speedway Corp., which has encouraged its tracks to support USAC’s Silver Crown endeavor.

Saunders leads all marketing, sales, administration and operations aspects of ISC.

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Nst: cottage grove on 2006 calendar, national sprint tour adds cottage grove speedway to 2006 schedule as the list of speedways participating in the national sprint tour's 2006 season continues to grow, brownfield promotions has signed an agreement with cottage grove speedway to ....

NATIONAL SPRINT TOUR ADDS COTTAGE GROVE SPEEDWAY TO 2006 SCHEDULE

As the list of speedways participating in the National Sprint Tour's 2006 season continues to grow, Brownfield Promotions has signed an agreement with Cottage Grove Speedway to bring the country's newest 410 Sprint tour group to their quarter-mile clay oval in Cottage Grove Oregon on August 29, 2006.

"We are really pleased about having the National Sprint Tour visit Cottage Grove Speedway", stated Russell Leach, co-promoter of the speedway. "I believe that the new National Sprint Tour is going in the direction that a majority of the countries best drivers were working for, and it will be great to have Cottage Grove Speedway a part of something this positive."

"Although this is our first year of stepping up to promoting a national event, we have worked with Brownfield Promotions for several years and are very excited about the opportunity to present the fans of Oregon with great racing by many of the worlds best sprint car drivers."

Over the last 10 years many of the world's best sprint car drivers and teams have taken on the challenge of Cottage Grove Speedway's quarter-mile bull-ring. In 2006 not only will the likes of Steve "The King" Kinser, Danny "The Dude" Lasoski, Jason Meyers, Shane Stewart and more return with the National Sprint Tour, new faces like Mechanicsburg, PA driver Lucas Wolfe, 19 years of age and wheeling the Selma Shell Racing #11H will be visiting for the first time.

Brownfield Promotions, Inc., based in Snohomish, WA, may be had by contacted by email at [email protected]. Additional information, including teams and drivers committed to racing with the NST in 2006, is also available on the web site at www.nationalsprinttour.com

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How F1 sprint races work: New schedule, locations for 2024

Between the Racing Lines  |  Formula One is complicated, confusing and constantly evolving. This story is part of our guide to help any fan — regardless of how long they’ve watched the sport or how they discovered it — navigate the pinnacle of motorsports.

Sprint races are back, Formula One fans.

Terms within this sport sometimes seem complex — parc ferme, autoclaves, degradation, ECU, DRS , HANS and so on — but this is a rare case where you can guess the meaning simply from the name. A sprint race is a mad dash over one-third the normal race distance in which the top eight finishers score about one-third the points they’d receive in a normal grand prix.

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Like in 2023, six race weekends will feature sprints this season. China and Miami will make their sprint debuts while Austria, Qatar, Austin and Brazil remain on the slate for 2024.

However, the F1 Commission and World Motor Sport Council approved tweaks to the format. The schedule is still one practice session, two qualifying sessions, a sprint race and a grand prix for the weekend’s schedule, similar to last year, but with minor adjustments to when each session runs.

Here’s how it all goes down.

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F1 sprint race history and schedule

F1 introduced sprint races in 2021 in a bid to pack more spectacle into racing weekends with a format that would have drivers go flat-out from lights out to the checkered flag. After running three sprint weekends in 2021 and 2022, it doubled the number to six for 2023 and 2024.

The sport introduced a wrinkle to the format in 2023: the “Sprint Shootout.” In previous years, qualifying took place on Friday ahead of the Saturday sprint, and the sprint finishing order determined Sunday’s starting grid. That format featured two practice sessions, one on Friday and one Saturday. Last year, a Friday qualifying session set the order for the GP, and the Saturday sprint race had its own Saturday qualifying session. The Sprint Shootout replaced the Saturday practice session and followed a standard qualifying format, just with shorter times.

More changes have been made for 2024. The Sprint Shootout is now known as sprint qualifying, and has moved from Saturday to Friday, after the first practice session. The sprint qualifying session will start between 2.5 and 3.5 hours after first practice ends.

The 62-mile (100-km) sprint race remains on Saturday, followed by the grand prix qualifying session. Qualifying will start between three and four hours after the sprint race ends.

How do grid penalties impact the weekend?

There are still grid penalties to be aware of when it comes time for these weekends. Here’s how and when those will apply:

• First practice and Saturday qualifying grid penalties apply to Sunday’s grand prix
• Sprint qualifying grid penalties apply to the sprint race
• Sprint race grid penalties apply to the grand prix
• Power unit penalties will apply for the grand prix unless it is also a parc fermé breach, in which case it will be a pitlane start. This applies to both sprint and the grand prix.

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• Miami Grand Prix (May 3-5)
• Austrian Grand Prix (June 28-30)
• United States Grand Prix (October 18-20)
• Brazilian Grand Prix (November 1-3)
• Qatar Grand Prix (November 29-December 1)

This is an updated version of a story originally published in April 2023. 

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It’s qualifying day for World Finals at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Dirt Track and Brad Sweet is a busy man.

The soon to be five-time World of Outlaws champion is walking from one side of the pit area to the other. It’s a little hard to keep up with him. The topic du jour is no great secret after last week when Sweet and Kyle Larson made it official that they had purchased the All Stars Circuit of Champions from Tony Stewart.

His peers have questions. Sweet, while answering as many of them as he can, publicly says he cannot entirely respond until a little while longer.

For one, he has a 50-point advantage over David Gravel to protect over the next three nights. Becoming a five-time World of Outlaws champion is still a really important goal but then comes building the series that has become the talk of the industry over the past 15 months.

The High Limit Sprint Car Series he founded with Larson is now the second largest in the discipline and they have aims to become a true national tour alongside the World of Outlaws. It’s a dynamic that will soon change the landscape of an entire discipline.

The acquisition absolutely creates an air of competition, World of Outlaws versus High Limit and DirtVision versus FloRacing , but Sweet truly believes they can grow Sprint Car racing holistically in creating an alternative national series.

“We are going to try to be good stewards to the overall ecosystem of the sport,” Sweet told Sportsnaut . “We are trying to think about, with every move we make, the ramifications and small things that could hurt the sport in the short term — things we need to learn and evaluate.

“We need to make sure we don’t hurt the sport.

“We want to create sustainability for the teams, help drivers get to the next level, create value in sponsorships. We just have a lot of desire and passion for Sprint Car racing. If we just stay true to ourselves and the goal, I think the outcome will be great for the sport.”

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Naturally, World Racing Group, which operates World of Outlaws, doesn’t view the challenge in the same altruistic light as Sweet and Larson. Brian Carter, the CEO of the sanctioning body, says World of Outlaws intends to show the industry that it will continue to be the discipline’s standard bearer as it has been for over four decades.

“We have the best package,” Carter told Sportsnaut . “We have the best tracks. We’ll have the best roster and we control our own destiny with our broadcast partners, with CBS and DirtVision.

“In having all of that, those pieces together, we can focus on an objective and modify that as we need to when presented a competitive threat. Those things give us a significant advantage, not only the 44 years of operating and the brand awareness and loyalty, but it gives us an infrastructure that I think people may underestimate at this point.”  

It’s important, once again, to understand fully what this is all about.

There has been a growing tension between Sprint Car teams and World Racing Group over purses and what competitors perceive as too small a slice of the revenue generated by the DirtVision streaming platform .

At the same time, FloRacing has been on an acquisition binge over the past three years, one that has also included the rights to NASCAR regional and touring events. FloRacing has the rights to USAC, the All Stars and High Limit but effectively wants to have the most prestigious Sprint Car series within its catalogue too.

If not the World of Outlaws, it has turned to its partnership with Larson and now Sweet to build a commensurate series.

In addition to the legacy and established platform compared to World of Outlaws, High Limit also lacks the national star power to be perceived as a competitive 1b. That is why Sweet has made his pitch to the industry and has everyone waiting to see what the schedule, purses and full-time contingency package looks like.   

Shark Racing won the non-sanctioned Eldora Million in July with Logan Schuchart and team general manager Bill Klingbeil says two things are most important when it comes to deciding where to race next season — economic viability and the level of competition.

“Car owners in most motorsports aren’t making money,” Klingbeil said. “You know the expression, I’ll make you a million dollars if you give me two million, so the whole decision is about, ‘where can we race the best?’

“We want to race with the best. What makes the World of Outlaws the best right now is that you’re racing against the toughest competition night after night and that’s what makes fans tune in and come to tracks all over the country.

“We don’t need to dilute that product. We don’t want a fan to have to decide, ‘let me look at this schedule and look at this schedule’ to figure out where the best is racing.”

And that’s the biggest concern and challenge for Carter. He worries that this split, if it comes down to it, could confuse fans if talent starts getting evenly distributed. That’s both a selfish and big picture concern for the man who oversees World of Outlaws.

While things could change once the schedule and financial package is released, it seems like most current World of Outlaws platinum teams are committed to staying on the tour in this first year with an alternative.

Kasey Kahne Racing, which fields cars for Sweet and Kahne, are committed to High Limit. The biggest wild card, if he can be convinced to run the full tour, would be defending series runner-up Rico Abreu who has successfully run a true outlaw schedule the past couple of seasons.

True outlaw is dirt vernacular for a driver that doesn’t run a full season for any series or track but instead goes where he can make the most money on any given night. Abreu intends to remain a true outlaw in 2024.

“Yeah, for the most part,” Abreu said. “I’ve never really raced for a championship between the High Limit thing this year, just the 12-race schedule, which fit right into my schedule without altering anything.

“That was really convenient for us to get to all 12 races as we were on the road to either a World of Outlaws race or an All Stars race and it really worked for our schedule. I don’t see much change for me there.

“I want to see what the World of Outlaws present all the drivers and I want to see what High Limit presents all the drivers before I make a decision at the end of the day. But I’ll ultimately be a true outlaw and just keep building this brand that I’ve built in the Sprint Car industry.”

So even if Abreu isn’t part of a full-time national schedule, he does seem very much interested in the mid-week championship within a championship concept, which has a lot of value to Sweet too as Larson can race for the full points deal that way.

Could we see a High Limit midweek championship within the larger national championship?

“Obviously, I don’t want to spoil any of the announcements but I will say that I think we would all be fools to ignore the fact that Kyle Larson is a part of it and what he brings to the table with those midweek races,” Sweet said. “The midweek races, the viewership that we got, the at-track experience and atmosphere was big.

“I don’t want to spoil exactly what our plan is, but you know, I definitely think you’re going see some midweek racing incorporated into the bigger picture of what we announce here soon.”

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When asked about the changing landscape, veteran driver and now team owner Jason Sides sarcastically said ‘yippee,’ a reference to some of the expected infighting but he is generally optimistic.

“They’re putting some pressure on the Outlaws to step up their game and competition can be a good thing for everyone,” Sides said. “I think next year will be better for everyone compared to the past couple of years.

The owner of the 7s is also in the wait-and-see category.

“We need to see the schedule side-by-side, the economics, the number of races in the Midwest compared to maybe going out west and how that works out for you and your sponsors,” he added.

While both schedules are still TBA, signals are pointing that both series are going out to California and they could come back-to-back, so these are very much a pair of national tours. The All Stars Circuit of Champions contested most of its events in Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Another byproduct of the upcoming split is that World of Outlaws will have a new champion for the first time in half a decade with Sweet contesting the full High Limit Series schedule instead. The likes of David Gravel, Logan Schuchart and Spencer Bayston have been trying to unseat him for five years.

Would a championship mean as much if it doesn’t come against Sweet? Schuchart says it’s a factor.

“Yeah, it could for sure,” Schuchart said. “For 10 years, we’ve been on the tour and winning any race means you beat the best of the best. When I’m retired and done racing, I want wins on the World of Outlaws to be remembered as wins against the best teams in the country.

“If you see half the guys go High Limit and half stay with World of Outlaws, we could see those conversations. Right now, since I started racing World of Outlaws, the best teams race with us. They win the most crown jewels and the champion is the best Sprint Car driver in the world.

“If it gets split up, it might not mean as much, so we’ll see about that.”

On the other hand, Abreu believes that both tours will see their respective ‘cream rise to the top.’ He believes that the opportunity will create new challenges and additional stars on both platforms, not too dissimilar to Dirt Late Model racing.

“There will be teams that flop from the Outlaws to High Limit and elevate that series,” Abreu said “You know Brad and Kasey will split but what about (Carson) Macedo and (David) Gravel, (Sheldon) Haudenschild, the passion they have had for being on the World of Outlaws?

“It’s been their dream from day one to win a World of Outlaws championship. But what happens when a driver wants to win that championship but a team owner feels like High Limit makes more business sense? What about Donny Schatz, with 10 championships in 27 years? He’s been so committed to World of Outlaws but there has been frustration from Tony Stewart towards World of Outlaws and their decisions.

“So, it’s going to be really interesting when it gets to February and when it’s time to pick a side and to see which drivers and teams go where.”

Brock Zearfoss, who has driven his family owned car in the World of Outlaws the past three years, says the upcoming split will have one of two outcomes.

“It’s either it will drag the sport apart, and make it too diluted, or it’s going to bring more money to the sport and elevate it,” Zearfoss said. “I hope it’s the latter, because we want to race for more money and a team like ours really could use the extra help. It’s a touchy subject right, but I think everyone involved on both sides are trying to make Sprint Car racing better, it’s just how do we get there.”

The one thing Sweet says hasn’t gotten brought up enough is that he feels committed to growing Sprint Car racing in ways beyond increased purses or awareness for teams. He says High Limit wants to be part of safety innovations and facility renovations.

Sweet says the national tour version of the High Limit Series is about his role in the sport beyond his eventual retirement, whenever that might be.

“I think you get to a point in your career where you start thinking about the next chapter, and I feel really accomplished with everything, no matter what happens this weekend, whether I win my fifth or I don’t,” Sweet said. “I felt very accomplished after three to be honest.

“It’s hard to contend for these championships year in and year out so I’m just proud that we’ve been in this spot for five years. I have a five-year-old daughter, a family and a lot of things that excite me just as much as driving has in the past.”

The hardest part, both sides concede, is that the relationship between Sweet and Carter has been impacted to a certain degree because how does business not get personal when so much of this industry is the result an entire life’s body of work?

“So much of what Brad has achieved is because of the World of Outlaws,” Carter said. “We’ve contributed to his success and he has contributed to ours. He has been a great champion but there are just some things that we talked about when he said he was doing just 12 races that didn’t come true.

“That part is hard to swallow.

“But in the end, it’s my job to create opportunities for everyone in Sprint Car racing and we’ve created a huge opportunity. They’re going to take advantage of what we built.

“And candidly, anyone who invests in Sprint Car racing is going to benefit us because we’re in the lead, and we’re going to continue to promote the Greatest Show on Dirt. When you’re looking for the best Sprint Car show, people will still believe that is the World of Outlaws. That’s my job.”

Sweet says none of this is an attack on WRG and points out that there has always been two marquee tours.

“I think, anytime in business, business is a little bit cutthroat at times and you have to differentiate between business decisions and personal feelings,” Sweet said. “Just to be clar, this isn’t a personal attack on World Racing Group, Brian Carter, (WoO series director) Carlton Reimers.

“Like, I have the utmost respect for everything they do and they’ve done and there is no denying that FloRacing and DirtVision are two competitors fighting for viewership and streaming subscribers.

“But we view it as we’ve simply bought the All Stars and there have always been two series that co-existed in this ecosystem. We felt like, if we wanted it to grow any bigger, it wouldn’t be a good idea to try to start a third one.”

An immediate byproduct of the changing landscape is that it appears increasingly unlikely that what used to be the All Stars Circuit of Champions, now an expanded High Limit Series, will join the World of Outlaws as part of the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia Speedway in February.

“I don’t know how that will work now,” Carter said. “I have not been approached for a date. We have had All Star shows since I’ve owned Volusia Speedway. My expectation for the fans is that we’re going to create a show, and I don’t know entirely what that is, and we’ll probably have Outlaws show there but I haven’t been approached for a date for the All Stars.”

He says that is an unfortunate part of this changing landscape, that the World of Outlaws and what used to be the All Stars probably will not be working together as closely.

“We’ve always had a working relationship because of the history with all of the families that have been involved from the Emicks to the Lynches, the Millers and Guy Webb, Tony Stewart’s contributions.

“There is a great legacy there that I’m afraid may not be completely thought out on how this is going to exist going forward.”

Is there a version of this story where Carter believes both tours can grow and coexist together?

“I don’t know what the landscape looks like in five years,” Carter said. “My job is to make sure that World Racing Group and the World of Outlaws community, fans, drivers, tracks and everyone associated has something to look forward to well into the future.

“As it relates to anyone else or coexisting, we’ve had a schedule and we’ve been doing this for a long time, we’ve got good programs, we’ve done the right thing for the right reason for all these years and that will prevail,” Carter said. “As long as they can figure out how to do that within the balance of the sport, they’ll prevail too.

“I just don’t know how that works for them.”

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Simply put, there’s nothing else like golf betting. With the ever-present potential for longshot victories, at times seemingly unpredictable variance of performances, and crazy swings from hole to hole that can turn sure-fire winning bets into heartbreaking losses, no other major U.S. sport provides the same level of weekly intrigue that golf betting does on the PGA TOUR.

As a comparison, to get +10000 odds or greater when betting on football, you’d likely have to place a longshot future or build a crazy multi-leg parlay ( not advisable). The futures bet would take many months to potentially cash, while the true chances of that parlay winning would be extremely small.

With golf, though, single wagers for triple-digit longshots win somewhat regularly and usually only take four days (or fewer) to play out. In fact, 2024 started with six of the first nine PGA TOUR events being won by longshots with +10000 odds or higher. In the words of Golfbet’s own Ben Everill , “No other sport gives you the chance to hit a lottery ticket so often.” However, that early trend has been countered sharply as of late, with Scottie Scheffler’s four wins this year – at the Arnold Palmer Invitational, THE PLAYERS, the Masters and RBC Heritage – all coming as the pre-tournament favorite.

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All of this helps illustrate the fact that betting on golf can be fun, but very difficult. Throwing darts on longshots can be exhilarating if they’re in the mix come Sunday, but a lot less enjoyable if the favorite ultimately comes through with the victory that week. Therefore, it’s critically important to learn and remember how to bet responsibly if you are going to be wagering on PGA TOUR events.

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• Determine your bankroll, also known as a sports betting budget, for a specific timeframe. This should be an amount that you are comfortable with losing entirely without it impacting your overall financial wellbeing (ex: ability to pay bills). The timeframe for your bankroll should be long, as in multiple months or a year, not just one weekend of betting.
• Related to bankroll, it’s also important to choose and keep consistent with a unit size, which is your standard wager amount. Best practices are to have your unit size equal between 1-4 percent of your total bankroll. Keeping your unit size small will allow you to sustain funds during inevitable “cold streaks” and continue betting without the need to deposit again or increase your bankroll.
• Sports betting needs to be viewed as a type of paid entertainment. Since the odds are skewed notably in the sportsbooks’ favor, it’s very likely that you will not turn a profit from betting, especially in the long term if you are placing bets regularly. Therefore, it should be seen through a similar lens as paying to go see a movie, a show or a live sporting event. It’s entertainment that very likely comes at a cost, even if there is an off-chance that it could also result in winning money.
• Do not ever bet using funds that you don’t currently have. Betting with credit or borrowing funds from someone else to gamble can be extremely dangerous and result in losing amounts that you are unable to afford.
• Set limits on your deposit amounts and time spent betting. Most online sportsbooks now offer the ability for users to set these limits themselves, a critical feature that all bettors should use to ensure that they do not deposit more than their personal bankroll amount and don’t spend too much time focused on gambling.
• Never chase your losses. This is arguably the most common way by which bettors end up losing significant amounts, often more than they can afford to lose. Chasing losses involves placing more bets and/or wagering more than usual in hopes of winning back what was lost. This is a slippery slope where losses can compound quickly and possibly result in negative impacts on financial and mental well-being.
• Never bet while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, as those impair judgment and can potentially lead to placing larger or more bets than usual. If you are out at a sports bar with friends and have been drinking, do not bet. Wagering needs to be done with a clear mind to avoid potential unexpected losses or other issues.

Betting on PGA TOUR golf responsibly

As discussed earlier, betting on golf is different from betting on other sports. In many PGA TOUR events, there are sometimes 140 players or more in the field. That means picking a winner is much more difficult than in most other sports, but is also why some of the associated outright odds can be +10000 or higher. If you are new to golf betting, be sure to familiarize yourself with how to do so responsibly before placing your first wagers.

• Know the tournament format and rules. PGA TOUR events vary in field size, cut rules and playoff formats. This is particularly important in 2024 with “Signature Events.” This year there are eight limited-field Signature Events. The three player-hosted tournaments – The Genesis Invitational, Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by Mastercard and the Memorial Tournament presented by Workday – feature a 36-hole cut to the top 50 and ties, plus any player within 10 shots of the lead. The other five Signature Events do not have a cut.
• Withdrawals (WD): If a player withdraws from a tournament before teeing off, bets on that player are almost always voided. However, if he plays even just one hole and then withdraws (due to injury or illness, for example), wagers on that player are generally graded as losses.
• Limit your number of bets and overall exposure. With hundreds – if not thousands – of golf wagering options available just about every week, it’s important to self-restrict how many bets you place. A smart approach is to ask yourself, “If all of these bets lose, what will my total losses be?” It’s easy to think that at minimum some of your bets will win, but there is unfortunately always the chance that all of them will lose (even when diversifying with different bet types), so calculating your entire exposure is crucial. Always make sure that your total exposure – combined amount wagered – is not more than the bankroll that you’ve chosen.
• Don’t increase your exposure for big tournaments. The excitement of popular tournaments like THE PLAYERS, Signature Events and majors can lead many bettors to wagering more than usual. That increased risk can quickly lead to heavier losses than expected and potentially burning through an entire bankroll. Be sure to avoid getting caught up in the hoopla of a headline event by wagering more than normal.
• It’s a marathon, not a sprint. The golf calendar is unique in that it is close to never-ending. The 2024 PGA TOUR season runs from January through early September, but there are events in other months as well. If you plan to bet on golf every week throughout the season or year, it’s crucial to understand that you will likely have cold streaks spanning multiple tournaments. Therefore, your exposure for any one event should only be a portion of your total bankroll.

Gambling additiction help and treatment

Learning and following best practices for Responsible Gaming can help reduce the chances of sports betting potentially turning into a problem. However, it doesn’t eliminate that possibility completely. Plus, even if you are betting responsibly, it doesn’t mean that a friend or family member is doing so too. Therefore, having and spreading awareness of specialized Gambling Addiction resources is a key piece of the puzzle.

If you or someone you know may be struggling with a gambling problem, there are tailored care options available. Birches Health is a modern, digital treatment provider that has assembled a team of specially trained clinicians to help individuals dealing with gambling disorders and related problems. Birches Health provides a fully confidential experience with easy and quick intake, custom treatment plans and ongoing care.

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By Richie Murray

Speedway, Indiana (February 5, 2024)………It’s time to go racing in 2024 with the largest contingent of USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship full-time competitors in the 69-year history of the series.

The field of 15 full-time drivers and teams is stacked, packed and ready to hit the road for this coming year’s 54-race slate which begins with seven February dates in Florida at Ocala Speedway on February 9-10, Volusia Speedway Park on February 12-13 and another visit to Ocala Speedway on Feb. 15-16-17.

Here’s the full list of the 15 USAC National Sprint Car full-timers for 2024!

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C.J. LEARY | BGE-DOUGHERTY MOTORSPORTS #15x

It’s back to the 15x for C.J. Leary for the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

In 2023, the Greenfield, Indiana racer notched his first full season under the BGE-Dougherty Motorsports banner, giving the team its best ever USAC points finish and continued to cement the team as one of the pre-eminent favorites entering 2024.

Leary has finished inside the top-10 of USAC National Sprint Car points in 10 consecutive years, and for the last five seasons, he’s come home fifth or better in the standings each year.

He’s currently on a string of eight straight years with a feature victory, including three in 2023 at Bloomington, Eldora and Kokomo, and also wrapped up the Bubby Jones Master of Goin’ Faster title Presented by Spire Sports + Entertainment.

The 2019 USAC National Sprint Car champ is hungry to build upon the foundation of success that was laid a year ago and aims to continue his stride into the new year of 2024.

KEVIN THOMAS JR. | ROCK STEADY RACING #3R

It’s the most excited he’s been for the start of a race season in a long time. Those are ear-catching words for a driver like Kevin Thomas Jr., who stands as one of the most successful USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship drivers of his era.

The Cullman, Alabama wheelman has teamed up with Rock Steady Racing as they plan an assault on the USAC National Sprint Car season in 2024.

Thomas, the owner of 39 series wins, ranks 11th all-time in that regard while Rock Steady, led by car owner Hank Byram, has raked in 25 victories, most notably over the past decade with driver Kyle Cummins who has moved on to Petty Performance Racing team for 2024.

Thomas already got a bit of a head start with his new team last September at Gas City, and despite early mechanical obstacles, KTJ recovered to win his heat and ran as high as fourth in the feature before slotting into seventh at the finish line.

With both KTJ and Rock Steady hankering for a first USAC title run and something to prove, this new combo is poised to make some noise in the new year.

JAKE SWANSON | 2B RACING #2B

Jake Swanson hit his stride in 2023 as he piloted the Team AZ Racing ride to a career-high four points-paying wins and a career best fifth place finish in the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship standings.

But that was then, and this is now. After five seasons with Team Arizona, Swanson has a new address for 2024 after being tabbed as the new driver of Scott Benic’s 2B Racing DRC/Claxton, which was occupied a year ago by Logan Seavey.

It’s one chapter closing and another opening with 2B Racing, which ranks 12th all-time in series wins with 33 and captured the 2005 USAC National Sprint Car title with Levi Jones at the wheel.

Swanson, who owns and operates a thriving racing shock business, during the week, got a couple beneficial runs with 2B in local Indiana competition, providing them a bit of a head start entering 2024.

Last year, Swanson hit the ground running by winning in his first sprint car start of the year. This time around, he aims to do the same on a team with a storied championship past with an eye on a championship future.

KYLE CUMMINS | PETTY PERFORMANCE RACING #3P

For more than a decade, Kyle Cummins and Rock Steady Racing were constant counterparts, racking up numerous wins in the Midwest while also cementing themselves among the premier pairings in the sport.

But David Bowie once told us about ch-ch-ch-changes! And that’s exactly what’s in store for the Princeton, Indiana driver during the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship campaign.

The brand-new Petty Performance Racing team was created by Arizona’s Jerry Petty who has transitioned from team sponsor and event sponsor into a team owner who will now field Cummins in pursuit of a USAC title in the coming year.

This formation comes on the heels of Cummins equaling his career best with four USAC National Sprint Car feature victories and a sixth-place finish in series points for 2023.

At press time, Cummins’ USAC National Sprint Car win total stands at 18, all of which have come with Rock Steady. For Cummins, it’s a new opportunity. It’s a new challenge. And among the plethora of musical chairs this offseason, this is among the most intriguing ones to watch, pairing a veteran driver with a brand-new team and the racing world to conquer.

JUSTIN GRANT | TOPP MOTORSPORTS #4

Tres. Drei. Trois. Pardon my French. But no matter how you say it – 3 is a magic number for Justin Grant in 2024.

Grant has won the past two series driving titles, and this year, he’ll push toward positioning himself among the top hierarchy of history which so few have reached by winning 3 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championships in a row.

Parnelli Jones scored three consecutive from 1960 to 62. Steve Butler notched three-straight between 1986 and 88. Robbie Stanley was crowned each year between 1991 and 93 and Levi Jones was the most recent to do the deed in 2009, 10 and 11.

Last year, Grant became the 10th driver to amass 400 career starts, and with 45 victories, another similar performance in 2024 will place him among the top-three all time in that category.

Grant enters year seven with TOPP Motorsports, who also will be eying three-in-a-row as an entrant champ, something only Damon Fortune, Tony Stewart Racing and Curb-Agajanian have done.

Grant and TOPP are on the mountaintop. They were the hunted a year ago. They’ll be the hunted in 2024. But as they’ll tell you, “Catch us if you can!”

MATT WESTFALL | RAY MARSHALL MOTORSPORTS #33m

A true renaissance man of motorsports, Matt Westfall has truly just about done it all in his racing career, and he’s done it with proficiency!

Over the years, his driving accomplishments have come in the form of championships in midgets and sprint cars and even modifieds and late models!

But his 2023 triumph at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway might have one-upped them all with it being his first USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car National Championship feature victory in more than 17 seasons!

Westfall’s 2022 performance saw him post career highs in all categories of USAC Sprint Car competition. In 2023, he equaled or exceeded his previous year’s exploits across the board.

The Buckeye racer is back on the USAC Sprint Car scene full-time again in 2024 with Ray Marshall Motorsports’ yellow number 33m as they pine to build upon what they’ve laid the groundwork for throughout these past several years.

Even at the age of 47, Westfall is proving himself to the racing world time and time again. And as time has proven, you have to admit he’s getting better. Getting better all the time.

BRADY BACON | DYNAMICS, INC. #69

Brady Bacon is on the brink of something special during the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.

The Broken Arrow, Oklahoma native is back on the drive for five once more after finishing as the runner-up to Justin Grant in each of the past two seasons in 2022 and 2023 after Bacon himself captured two-in-a-row in 2020 and 2021.

No era of USAC Sprint Car racing has offered such a tug-of-war at the top of the championship fight since the era of the Larry and Gary Show between 1968 and 1971 when Dickson and Bettenhausen swapped a pair of titles across a four-year span.

In 2024, Bacon stands one title away from equaling Levi Jones as the driver with the most USAC National Sprint Car crowns. Furthermore, Bacon possesses the second most USAC National Sprint Car feature victories with 53 and is now within an arm’s reach of Dave Darland’s all-time record of 62.

Furthermore, Bacon stands alone by winning USAC Sprint Car features in more states than any other driver with 14. But more than anything else, Bacon wants one more ring for the thumb. And the only state he prefers to compete in is a championship state of mind in 2024.

JADON ROGERS | MICHAEL DUTCHER MOTORSPORTS #17GP

The combination of a winning driver and a victorious crew chief slash team owner have thus far made a fantastic match in their short time together.

Both Jadon Rogers and Michael Dutcher Motorsports possess that same energy and pedigree that has them riding high into 2024 as full-time USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship contenders.

The duo teamed up for the latter half of 2023 for nine USAC starts, accumulating four top-fives and six top-tens in that stretch, including an impressive 23rd to 5th run on the opening night of Sprint Car Smackdown at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway, plus a pair of fourths at Kokomo and Devil’s Bowl.

Over the past three years, no driver has won more sprint car races in the state of Indiana than Rogers, three of which came just last year in Dutcher’s patented number 17GP.

The 2020 USAC National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year and the 2012 USAC Chief Mechanic of the Year have been on the verge of teaming up to chase the USAC trail in recent. Now, they feel on the verge of something even bigger and better in 2024.

MITCHEL MOLES | REINBOLD-UNDERWOOD MOTORSPORTS #19AZ

Perhaps no driver elicits the same electricity that Mitchel Moles exhibits each time he hits the track in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship competition.

That was proven by the fact that he prevailed in arguably the most exhilarating event of the 2023 USAC Sprint season when he outlasted multiple attacks on the final lap to win the debut at Illinois’ Macon Speedway.

But after what was admittedly an up and down 2023 season, the Raisin City, California native is preparing to rise up another level in 2024. He’s back in the saddle of the 19AZ full-time on the USAC tour, a team which sees Moles, owner and crew chief Andy Reinbold, plus co-owner Todd Underwood as the remaining constants from the year before.

The cast features several fresh faces turning the wrenches, including new car chief Dylan Cook, who won a USAC Sprint title with Justin Grant in 2022, plus the additions of Jacob Johnston and James Turnbull to the crew.

In what will be his third year on the USAC tour coming up, the former professional bass fisherman is angling to make year three one for the highlight reel!

DAISON PURSLEY | TEAM AZ RACING #21AZ

After a new beginning one year ago, it’s another fresh start for Daison Pursley in 2024!

Straight out of a season in which he was named USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship Rookie of the Year for KO Motorsports, the Locust Grove, Oklahoma driver now finds himself as the full-time wheelman for Team AZ Racing’s number 21AZ.

For the past five years, Team AZ has fielded Jake Swanson as its driver, but after he recently departed to 2B Racing, Pursley was tabbed for the new role.

Pursley and Team AZ’s relationship dates back to October of 2023 when both parties went USAC CRA racing during the Western World Championships at Cocopah, and quickly turned it from a one-weekend deal to a full-time ride after a spectacular two-night sweep of the event.

A good first impression goes a long way, and this combo has good vibes in spades rolling into the 2024 campaign. After all, they’re one of the few pairings in the sport who can lay claim to being undefeated.

It’s full steam into the new year, and now the focus is set on keeping the ball of momentum rolling starting in Florida and beyond!

LOGAN SEAVEY | ABACUS RACING #57

For Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing, winning two out of three USAC national championships together in 2023 ain’t bad. But it could even be better.

In response, the two entities have added a sprint car team to their arsenal for the upcoming 2024 campaign to achieve what only Tony Stewart and J.J. Yeley have done before – winning the coveted USAC Triple Crown in a single year.

Seavey comes off a season in which he won twice in USAC National Sprint Car competition for 2B Racing while garnering championship accolades in both the Midget and Silver Crown divisions for Abacus.

The team is new to the sprint car racing world this year, but don’t let that deceive you. Abacus Racing’s first full season of midget and Silver Crown racing resulted in a championship. Call it exceeding expectations but it was certainly no beginner’s luck.

Kirk Simpson will serve as the team’s crew chief on the DRC chassis powered by both 1-Way Technologies and Stanton powerplants.

Expectations are high for this group in its initial foray into sprint car racing, but there’s no one they’d rather have in their seat than Logan Seavey in the quest to grab the final prong of the USAC triple crown.

ROBERT BALLOU | BALLOU MOTORSPORTS #12

It’s back to the grind in 2024 for the winningest driver slash car owner in USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship history.

For the past decade, he’s been a perennial front runner on the circuit, which includes a 2015 series championship and 32 victories as an independent aboard his instantly recognizable number 12.

However, last year wasn’t as kind in the win column for the Rocklin, California racer who enters his 19th season with the series. That said, he finished a solid seventh in the standings with crew chief Derrick Bye as his right-hand man while finishing as the runner-up three times and garnering a couple fast qualifying times to boot.

The Mad Man has cemented his legacy as one of the premier USAC Sprint Car drivers of his era, and of any era, He’s 27 starts away from becoming the third driver with 500 career starts, plus his 37 feature triumphs are just three away from reaching 10th all-time.

Perhaps no driver has been able to make as many triumphant bounce backs as Robert Ballou, and in 2024, he aims to bounce back in a big way. Into the win column, into the championship fight and into the record books.

CARSON GARRETT | BGE-DOUGHERTY MOTORSPORTS #15

His journey from his Rocky Mountain Midget roots to becoming USAC’s 2023 National Most Improved Driver came quite quickly in some respects. But in other ways, it’s clear to say Carson Garrett has come a long way both geographically and behind the wheel of a racecar.

Although he’s been at this game for a few years now, last season was truly Carson Garrett’s first go-around on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship trail. That’s when the switch was flipped for the 22-year-old Littleton, Colorado racer as he recorded career bests in every single statistical category, notching three top-fives and came within a whisker of winning his first series feature at Illinois’ Macon Speedway.

Garrett returns in 2024 with the same exact deal, chasing the full USAC National Sprint Car season in the BGE Dougherty No. 15 as a teammate to C.J. Leary.

Although he admitted that the USAC Most Improved Driver award completely took him by surprise, there’s no question that he’s not going to sneak up on the competition in the coming year. It’s expected. For Carson Garrett has now officially arrived on the USAC National Sprint Car scene.

JOEY AMANTEA | JPA RACING #88J

Joey Amantea has made his mark in recent years on the USAC East Coast Sprint Car tour, but in 2024, he’s taking the show on the road full-time with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship.

The 19-year-old known as “The Big Show” will be a busy man in the new year, dividing his full-time racing duties with his full-time role as a college student majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University.

Working his way up the ranks through quarter midgets, 600cc micros and as a multi-time USAC 360 sprint car winner, Amantea recently plugged in a 410 Newman’s racing engine into his family-owned Triple X.

Amantea branched out from his home in the Pocono mountains of Pennsylvania to dabble on the USAC national trail in 2023 and turned in a pair of top-10s at Kokomo and Lawrenceburg. The whole experience heightened the team’s desires to strive for even more in the new year.

New tracks, major competition and hitting the road. It’s all part of the continuous progression of the teenage Pennsylvanian. And if there’s any guarantees in life, bet the house on Joey Amantea putting on a big show in 2024.

TREY OSBORNE | BALDWIN-FOX RACING #5 & TREY OSBORNE #6

One year ago, he was named Non-Wing Sprint Car Rookie of the Year by the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, but now Trey Osborne aspires to continue his rapid ascent as a Rookie with the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship in 2024.

In a combined effort, the 21-year-old Ohioan will pilot Baldwin-Fox Racing’s DRC/Claxton number five in the majority of USAC events and fill in the remainder of the dates aboard his own Triple X number six powered by a Mopar.

As a hired gun, Osborne now finds himself on an even bigger scale with more eyes and more expectations on him than ever before. But the Don and Mel Kenyon disciple embraces the challenge as he prepares to take on the busiest and most hectic racing season of his young career.

Osborne, who stands a towering 6 foot 8, talked the talk and walked the walked in 2023, meeting his goal of winning three local Indiana races. In the coming year, he’s established a new aspiration of achieving his first three USAC victories.

And as history has already proven, it’s no tall tale to believe Trey Osborne will be a man of his word in 2024.

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