USAC’s 2012 Las Vegas Ignite Midget Series concludes Saturday at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring in Nevada and 47 points separate the top two drivers in the standings.
Darren Hagen will take an unsurmountable 199-point USAC Mopar National Midget lead into the November 22 “Turkey Night Grand Prix” at Perris, Calif. as the 2012 USAC racing season concludes at Perris Auto Speedway.
Tracy Hines knew that all of the laps he had turned in a sprint car this season at Canyon Speedway Park in Peoria, Ariz., would come in handy when he made his first-ever start in a midget at the three-eighths-mile during the Western Classic on Saturday night.
Faced with the first weekend of the off-season, following last weekend’s World Finals for the World of Outlaws, Kraig Kinser did what any true racer would do. He climbed right back in his car and went racing.
USAC World Record Run Chief Steward David Petrali has received ratification from FIA recognizing World Speed Records established during September at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah.
Whether slots, blackjack or sprint cars is an interest, the trio will be combined next March when the World of Outlaws STP Series returns to Las Vegas for the Outlaws in Vegas, Baby!
One of America’s most revered motorsports events returns to the USAC fold in 2013 with an exciting addition to its tradition-laden program, when the 36th “Belleville Nationals” unfolds at the historic Belleville (Kansas) High Banks.
The Noblesville, Ind. driver has a huge 75-point lead over Tracy Hines entering the final events, which include this weekend’s “Budweiser Oval Nationals” Sprint races at Perris, Calif., the November 9-10 National Midget races at Peoria, Ariz. and the season-ending November 22 “Turkey Night Grand Prix” Midget race at Perris.
Consistency has been a key element for Tracy Hines this season with the USAC Amsoil National Sprint Car Series. He continued that trend over the weekend as he finished among the Top-10 in each of the two nights of the Parker Store Hall of Fame Classic at Canyon Speedway Park in Peoria, Ariz.
Kraig Kinser begins World Finals week today with an appearance at the Hendrickcars.com retail location in Hickory, N.C. Kinser and his team will have their race car and transporter on display all day at the store, which is located at 1171 Lenoir Rhyne Blvd. Kinser will on-hand to greet fans, sign autographs and be available to the media from 12–1 p.m. Eastern.
Tristan McKee (No. 77 Zeigler.com Chevrolet) scored his third ARCA Menards Series victory of the season in Friday’s Atlas 200 at Madison International Speedway.
Brandon Jones was the top-finishing Toyota with a fifth-place result in Friday’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS) race at Daytona International Speedway.
The 39-year-old Sieg from Tucker, Georgia, led the final two of 105 over-scheduled laps and capitalized on an overtime shootout to notch his first career victory in his 424th series start at the World Center of Racing.
