Sprintacular Set for July 4 & 5 at LPS
- Series News Release
- Jul 4
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Series News Release - USAC Media
Putnamville, Indiana (July 4, 2024) - It’s the most Sprintacular time of the year!
The United States of America’s 249th birthday weekend takes us to not one, but two-straight USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship events on Friday-Saturday night, July 4-5, at Putnamville, Indiana’s Honest Abe Roofing Lincoln Park Speedway.
The 5/16-mile dirt oval is the playground for the 11th annual Sprintacular, which commences with a 30-lap, $6,000-to-win feature on Friday followed by a $10,000 winner’s share for Saturday’s 40-lap grand finale.
Let’s check out some of the storylines for the upcoming double race weekend!
LOGAN LOGGING LINCOLN PARK WINS
Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing were an unstoppable force one year ago as they swept both nights of the Sprintacular en route to the 2024 USAC National Sprint Car championship. For good measure, they even set a new one-lap USAC track record on the opening night of Sprintacular 2024 at a time of 11.959 seconds.
In fact, they won all three USAC National Sprint Car shows at Lincoln Park a year ago, having their streak stopped earlier this April with a third place result.
At press time, Seavey and Abacus stand fifth in series points. They finished a close second last weekend at Ohio’s Fremont Speedway, but a win (or two) on Hoosier soil would certainly lift their spirits heading into a summer stretch which will soon include USAC Indiana Sprint Week, a title they won a year ago.
THE TWO HORSE RACE
Kyle Cummins enters this weekend with his largest USAC National Sprint Car point lead of the year (107). To add to it, he’s the most recent USAC winner at Lincoln Park after scoring an April win, and he’s also the most recent series winner in general after collecting a win at Ohio’s Millstream Speedway last Sunday.
Furthermore, Cummins has so far accumulated 21 consecutive top-10 feature results to open the USAC National Sprint Car season, the most since C.J. Leary’s title season in 2019. Cummins owns two career USAC National Sprint Car wins at Lincoln Park and also took top honors at the 2019 edition of Sprintacular.
Justin Grant remains Cummins’ closest foe in the title fight. Grant’s six wins are only surpassed by Cummins’ seven. Grant recently punctuated his 97th career USAC feature victory, just three shy of becoming the eighth driver to reach the 100 win mark in the club’s history.
However, the record that could be tied this weekend is the all-time USAC National Sprint Car win record with Dave Darland at 62, Brady Bacon at 61 and Justin Grant at 60. A Grant win (or wins) would be a record book moment. His Sprintacular resume consists of a couple victories in 2018 and 2022.
THE SPRINTACULAR SEVEN
In fact, seven past Sprintacular winners are expected to compete in this weekend’s edition.
Five of them have each accrued two wins a piece since the event originated back in 2015: Robert Ballou, Justin Grant, C.J. Leary, Logan Seavey and Kevin Thomas Jr. Two more have each notched on previous win in the event: Shane Cottle and Kyle Cummins.
Three drivers in this weekend’s field possess previous USAC National Sprint Car wins at Lincoln Park but are looking to park it in victory lane for their first Sprintacular victory: Mitchel Moles, Chase Stockon and Jake Swanson.
THE RETURN OF THE THROTTLE
Perhaps no driver is more consistently terrific at Sprintacular than Shane Cottle, who has recorded 13 top-ten finishes in 14 career starts in the event, while also grabbing top-fives in seven of those 14.
Cottle’s highwater Sprintacular moment came in 2020 when he raced from sixth to the win. The longtime veteran has yet to make a USAC Sprint Car start this year, and has 348 in his career, which ranks 15th all-time.
Cottle will drive Jeff Olson’s number 34 this weekend, which has been a track championship winning team at Lincoln Park Speedway in recent years for the likes of Shane Hollingsworth and Brent Beauchamp. Count on them to be contenders this weekend.
MOLES ROLLS
Over his past eight starts, Mitchel Moles has strung together an average finish of 4.25. In that stretch, he’s finished as the runner-up three times and fourth another three times. Over the course of the season, he’s been the fast qualifier a series-leading six times.
Needless to say, Moles and Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports are hungry for a victory and Lincoln Park Speedway could be the spot for it to happen for the first time in a full calendar year.
Moles is having a bit of a breakout year on the consistency side, which has him third in the standings. A victory at Lincoln Park would be most welcome, and they even won a USAC Sprint Car feature there in the summer of 2022.
PUTNAMVILLE PILOTS
Kyle Shipley and Jadon Rogers are among the Lincoln Park regulars who’ve already won on the local scene during the 2025 season.
Shipley captured a victory at Lincoln Park’s season opener in April while Rogers took home a first place trophy in late May at the Putnamville oval.
Both have shown their prowess in USAC competition of late with Shipley leading his first USAC laps and finishing a career best sixth with the series at Lincoln Park in April. Rogers has won 12 times at Lincoln Park dating back to 2019, and owns a USAC National Sprint Car win, that coming at Tri-State Speedway in 2022.
RACE DETAILS
The 11th annual Sprintacular awaits this weekend, Friday-Saturday, July 4-5 at Putnamville, Indiana’s Lincoln Park Speedway.
On Friday, the program consists of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus DIRTcar UMP Modifieds & Bombers. Front gates open at 5pm with the drivers meeting at 5:30 and cars on track at 6:15pm. General admission tickets are $30 with kids 12 and under are free. Pit passes are $45.
On Saturday, the program consists of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, plus Indiana Super Stocks & IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Cars. Front gates open at 5pm with the drivers meeting at 5:30 and cars on track at 6:15pm. General admission tickets are $30, kids 12 and under are free. Pit passes are $45.
Both nights of the event can be watched LIVE on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/usac.
USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Kyle Cummins-1525, 2-Justin Grant-1418, 3-Mitchel Moles-1280, 4-Briggs Danner-1207, 5-Logan Seavey-1180, 6-Robert Ballou-1158, 7-Jake Swanson-1136, 8-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1079, 9-C.J. Leary-1065, 10-Kale Drake-1051.
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