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Chase Elliott in USAC Midget at Bubba this weekend

2/2/2021

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- For Chase Elliott, the interest to jump into a midget was practically immediate as soon as he began applying his attention toward it, coinciding with his rise up the NASCAR ranks where he ultimately became a first-time Cup champion in 2020. Elliott, of Dawsonville, Ga., was recently named the driver of the CB Industries No. 84 for the season opening USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget events this weekend on Feb. 5-6 at Bubba Raceway Park in...more

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McIntosh Joins Dave Mac for 2021 USAC Season

1/22/2021

By Richie Murray (speedway, IN) -- Cannon McIntosh, the fifth-place finishing driver in USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget points for 2020, will return to the family-owned Dave Mac Motorsports team for the 2021 season as announced via social media video on the team's Twitter page Thursday afternoon. PHOTO CREDIT: DB3 Images McIntosh earned two victories in his one and only year with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports during 2020 at Missouri's Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex and...more

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2021 schedule for USAC National Midgets released

12/11/2020

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- USAC's 2021 NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season will consist of 43 events at dirt ovals from Florida to Pennsylvania, from Indiana to Oklahoma, and from Arizona to California, and several places in between. The 43 events are the most for the series since 49 were on the slate back in 1988. A slew of brand-new events highlights the schedule, which begins with a two-night Winter Dirt Games showdown at Bubba Raceway Park in Ocala,...more

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USAC's Closest Finishes of 2020

12/2/2020

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- Cannon McIntosh earned the closest feature finish of the 2020 USAC National season in a compiled list that fully encompasses all 60 events run this past year. McIntosh's last lap, last corner victory over Chris Windom had a difference of just 0.056 sec. between the two at the finish line of the September 4 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature at Missouri's Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex. PHOTO CREDIT: Lonnie Wheatley In fact, midget...more

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Windom claims USAC Midgets title after closest bat...

11/27/2020

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Speedway, IN) -- A USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget season unlike any other wound up as the closest championship race in series history - one single point between champion Chris Windom and runner-up Tyler Courtney in the final tally for 2020. A season that began with a two-and-a-half month absence from the racetrack between March and May due to the COVID-19 pandemic, finished with Windom (Canton, Ill.) completing his career Triple Crown with USAC's three...more

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Grant headlines Midwest Midget Championship

7/15/2018

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Fairbury, NE) -- Justin Grant busted his way into the win column Saturday night in the Inaugural Riverside Chevrolet "Midwest Midget Championship" presented by Westin Meats and Schmidt's Sanitation at Jefferson County Speedway to become the eighth different winner in the first nine races of the USAC P1 Insurance National Midget season. It's admittedly been an up-and-down 2018 racing season for Justin Grant. PHOTO CREDIT: Rich Forman One year ago, the Ione,...more

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Night one of USAC Midgets at Jefferson County rain...

7/13/2018

By USAC Media (Fairbury, NE) -- Continuous rains that began to fall just before hot laps put an end to night one of the Inaugural Riverside Chevrolet "Midwest Midget Championship" presented by Westin Meats & Schmidt's Sanitation at Jefferson County Speedway. Racing will continue Saturday, July 14 at Jefferson County Speedway with the USAC P1 Insurance National Midgets. The standard format will be utilized for the event, concluding with a 40-lap feature event. Those in attendance at the track...more

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USAC Midwest Midget Championship this weekend at J...

7/13/2018

By Lonnie Wheatley (Fairbury, NE) -- The inaugural USAC Midwest Midget Championship continues this weekend This Friday and Saturday, July 13-14, the USAC National Midget series will take to the 1/5-mile Jefferson County Speedway clay oval in Fairbury, NE, for the Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship presented by Westin Packaged Meats and Schmidt’s Sanitation. PHOTO CREDIT: TeeJay Crawford Along with the USAC National Midgets, the JayHusker Non-Wing Micro Sprints will be in action on...more

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Axsom Aces USAC Midwest Midget Championship finale...

7/18/2021

By Lonnie Wheatley (Fairbury, NE) -- Emerson Axsom picked a fine time to find his way back into USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget Series victory lane. After all, a $10,000 winner’s share awaited the winner of Saturday night’s Fourth Annual Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship presented by Westin Packaged Meats and Schmidt’s Sanitation feature event winner atop the 1/5-mile Jefferson County Speedway clay oval that put the wraps on “Mid-America Midget Week”. PHOTO CREDIT: Lonnie...more

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Seeding to set lineup for Saturday night at Jeffer...

7/17/2021

By Richie Murray, USAC Media (Fairbury, NE) -- This Saturday night’s $10,000-to-win USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget event at Jefferson County Speedway in Fairbury, Nebraska will feature a unique format to seed the field based on Friday night’s finishing order. The Midwest Midget Championship at the 1/5-mile dirt oval, the Mid-America Midget Week finale, begins on Friday, July 16, and will utilize the traditional format of single-car qualifying, followed by heat races, semi-feature and a...more

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