UPCOMING USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT

DATE:

Saturday, July 15, 2023

SERIES:

USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship

TRACK:

Jefferson County Speedway (Fairbury, Nebraska) – 1/5-mile dirt oval

EVENT:

Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship presented by Westin Packaged Meats & Schmidt’s Sanitation featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship co-sanctioned by the Rocky Mountain Midget Association, plus the NOW 600/Jay-Husker Non-Wing and Restricted Micro Sprints

Free concert after the races both nights at the beer garden.

STARTING TIMES:

Gates open at 5pm Central, drivers meeting at 5:30pm and cars on track at 6pm, followed by qualifying & racing.

Practice will be held from 5-7pm Central on Thursday, July 13.  Pit passes are $20 and grandstands are free. There will be a free Shrimp Boil/BBQ at the track campground at 8pm after practice for all race teams, fans, etc.

TICKETS:

General admission tickets to the event are just $30 for adults with High School students and younger just $5 each night.  Two-night reserved seating is $50 and are available online at www.jeffersoncountyspeedway.com under the “Buy Tickets” tab.

All-access pit passes will be unlimited and available at the pit gate on day of show only.

TRACK ADDRESS:

56885 PWF Rd., Fairbury, NE 68352

TRACK PHONE:

(405) 823-8095

TRACK WEBSITE:

jeffersoncountyspeedway.myracepass.com

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Watch LIVE on FloRacing at  https://flosports.link/3Kdc2na

Listen LIVE on the USAC app or online at http://mixlr.com/usac-official/

Follow along with live updates on https://www.facebook.com/usacracing/ & https://twitter.com/USACNation

Live timing on the Race Monitor app

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT

Formats may be altered from base formats listed here at the discretion of the chief steward.

QUALIFICATIONS

No Qualifying

HEAT RACES

Heat race lineups will be based on the finishing order of Friday’s event. Friday night’s feature winner will receive the one seed with the second-place finisher getting the second seed, and so on. For Saturday, those seeds, in essence, will act as the official qualifying time.

The number one seed will line up in the 6th position of Saturday’s heat race one and the number two seed will line up in the 6th position of heat race two, and so forth. From there on, the “traditional” USAC format will take over.  The top-four will transfer to the feature if four heats are held.  The top-five will transfer if three heats are held.

10 laps. Top-6 cars are inverted in each heat race based on seed.  For the 4th row on back, cars will line up straight up, based on their seed.

HEAT #1:

4 Heats: Cars seeded 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 25, 29, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars seeded 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 19, 22, and so on will start behind invert.

HEAT #2:

4 Heats: Cars seeded 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 26, 30, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars seeded 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 20, 23, and so on will start behind invert.

HEAT #3:

4 Heats: Cars seeded 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 27, 31, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars seeded 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 21, 24, and so on will start behind invert.

HEAT #4:

Cars seeded 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 will start in inverted order. Cars seeded 28, 32 and so on will start behind invert.

SEMI-FEATURE:

12 laps. The top-seeded cars that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the semi-feature event. Finishers 1-6 earn a spot in the feature event if 4 heats were held. Finishers 1-7 earn a spot in the feature event if 3 heats were held.

FEATURE:

40 laps. 22 starting cars (not including earned provisionals). Starting positions determined by seed, top-six seeds at the front, with the top-six seeds who transferred through their heat races inverted by their seed the first three rows, positions 1-6.  The top seed starts 6th, the second best seed starts 5th and so on.  If a heat race winner is not in the top-6 inversion, that driver will line up directly behind the six-car invert, based on their seed, from best seed to lowest seed, followed by the balance of the field based on their seed.

MIDGET TIRE RULES:

Left Front: D12 or D15

Right Front: D12, D15 or D20

Left Rear: D12 or D20

Right Rear: SP3 Only

**Right-rear tire will be stamped to be run during qualifications, heat race and feature.

**Changing tire will result in being put to the tail of feature.  If a tire is punctured, it must be verified by series official and replaced with a used tire.

RACE OFFICIALS:

Race Director: Kirk Spridgeon

USAC MEMBERSHIP:

Must be a member to earn points

Must be a member to earn contingency awards

Member insurance is $200,000 excess medical

Visit www.usaclicense.com to apply for membership

USAC RADIO FREQUENCY:

464.5500

Mandatory Driver Radio is Required

MIDGET FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS.  PTS.   PURSE

1.       70      $10,000

2.       67      $3,000

3.       64      $1,500

4.       61      $1,200

5.       58      $1,000

6.       55      $900

7.       52      $800

8.       49      $700

9.       46      $650

10.     43      $600

11.     41      $575

12.     39      $550

13.     37      $525

14.     35      $500

15.     33      $500

16.     31      $500

17.     29      $500

18.     27      $500

19.     25      $500

20.     23      $500

21.     23      $500

22.     23      $500

Non-Transfers: $100