SEAVEY, GRANT & COURTNEY TRIPLE UP WITH USAC IN 2021

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Speedway, Indiana (October 20, 2021)………Logan Seavey, Justin Grant and Tyler Courtney tripled up during the 2021 USAC National season by winning main events in all three USAC National series.

It’s just the fifth time in history that at least three drivers have won feature events in all three USAC National series during the same season, and the first such occasion that’s arisen in 11 years.  The feat was previously done in 1998, 2003, 2006 and 2010.

For Seavey, it was the Sutter, California driver’s first-time capturing wins in all three in 2021: Silver Crown twice at Selinsgrove, Pa. and Ohio’s Eldora Speedway; Sprint Cars thrice at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg, Gas City and Terre Haute dirt ovals; and Midgets once thus far at Lawrenceburg.

For Grant, of Ione, Calif., it’s the third time he’s accomplished the feat (2017 & 2018), and he’s now one of just eight drivers in USAC history to do it at least three times in his USAC career, joining Dave Steele, Dave Darland, Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Tracy Hines, Rich Vogler and J.J. Yeley.

Grant scored a Silver Crown victory on the high banks of Winchester (Ind.) Speedway this past summer in July and has also added one with the NOS Energy Drink National Midgets at Lanco in Pa., plus seven AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature wins at Ocala, Fla.; Pa.’s Grandview and Selinsgrove Speedways; Kokomo, Ind. on three different dates and at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind.

Likewise, for Courtney, it was his third time experiencing the USAC trifecta after previously doing so in 2017 and 2019.  All four of the Indianapolis, Indiana native’s USAC victories came at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, in three different types of racecars.  Courtney added Sprint wins in May and September, plus a Silver Crown triumph in June and checked off the third class with the Midget in September.

Jack Hewitt (1998) and Kyle Larson (2011) remain the only drivers to win in all three USAC National divisions on the same day, both instances which came true during the 4-Crown Nationals at Eldora.

Since the advent of the Silver Crown series in 1971, no driver has won in all three USAC National divisions more often than Dave Steele, who did the deed on six happenings, including five years in a row between 2001 and 2005.

Twenty-nine different drivers have won USAC Silver Crown, National Sprint Car and National Midget features within a single season.  Between those 29, the occurrence has arisen 56 times over the past 51 seasons.

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DRIVERS POSTING USAC SILVER CROWN, NATIONAL SPRINT & NATIONAL MIDGET WINS IN A SINGLE YEAR:

1972: Tom Bigelow

1973: None

1974: None

1975: None

1976: None

1977: Pancho Carter

1978: Pancho Carter

1979: None

1980: Rich Vogler

1981: Rich Vogler

1982: Ron Shuman

1983: Ken Schrader

1984: Rick Hood

1985: None

1986: None

1987: None

1988: None

1989: Rich Vogler

1990: None

1991: Jack Hewitt

1992: None

1993: Mike Bliss

1994: None

1995: Kenny Irwin Jr.

1996: Kenny Irwin Jr.

1997: Dave Darland

1998: Jack Hewitt, Dave Steele & Tony Elliott

1999: Dave Darland & Ryan Newman

2000: Jay Drake & Dave Darland

2001: J.J. Yeley & Dave Steele

2002: Dave Steele & J.J. Yeley

2003: J.J. Yeley, Dave Steele & Jay Drake

2004: Bobby East & Dave Steele

2005: Dave Steele & Dave Darland

2006: Josh Wise, Tracy Hines & Bud Kaeding

2007: Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & Jerry Coons Jr.

2008: Dave Darland & Jerry Coons Jr.

2009: Bobby Santos

2010: Bryan Clauson, Jerry Coons Jr., Shane Hmiel & Tracy Hines

2011: Kyle Larson

2012: Bobby East & Bryan Clauson

2013: Tracy Hines

2014: None

2015: None

2016: None

2017: Tyler Courtney & Justin Grant

2018: Justin Grant

2019: Tyler Courtney & Brady Bacon

2020: None

2021: Tyler Courtney, Justin Grant & Logan Seavey

**In 2003, J.J. Yeley became the only driver to win national races in all three series on pavement & dirt in the same year.

TIMES WINNING IN ALL THREE USAC DIVISIONS IN THE SAME SEASON:

6-Dave Steele

5-Dave Darland

3-Jerry Coons Jr., Tyler Courtney, Justin Grant, Tracy Hines, Rich Vogler & J.J. Yeley

2-Pancho Carter, Bryan Clauson, Jay Drake, Bobby East, Jack Hewitt & Kenny Irwin Jr.

1-Brady Bacon, Tom Bigelow, Mike Bliss, Tony Elliott, Shane Hmiel, Rick Hood, Bud Kaeding, Kyle Larson, Ryan Newman, Bobby Santos, Ken Schrader, Logan Seavey, Ron Shuman, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. & Josh Wise