FAYETTEVILLE, Ga. — Dale Howard rolled through the 2025 United Sprint Car Series Outlaw Thunder Tour Presented By Hoosier Racing Tire to dominate the 40-race season and win his first USCS National Championship.
Along the way, Howard also swept the USCS Southern Region title and claimed the Mid-South Region Championship for the third time.
Howard topped the USCS wins list for 2025 with 13 USCS victories ad brought his series career win total to 40.
This places him sixth on the all-time USCS winners’ list. Howard competed in all 40 USCS races in 2025. In addition to his Nation leading 13 wins, he turned in 34 top-five finishes plus 39 top-10 finishes.
Howard also gained 102 positions in the 2025 USCS competition and was the series’ Wilwood Disc Brakes Hard Charger of the Year.
The 16-time USCS National Champion Terry Gray drove to a second-place finish in the 2025 USCS title chase, and for the first time in many years, the Bartlett Bullet failed to post a USCS win. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Inductee competed in all 40 season events and turned in 12 top-five finishes plus 28 top-10 finishes.
Gray also finished in second place in the USCS Southern Thunder and USCS Mid-South Thunder regional point standings.
Lance Moss took the third spot in the 2025 USCS National point standings with four wins, 15 top-five finishes, and 30 top-10 finishes in 37 races. Moss missed three races due to transporter issues that kept him out of the battle for the National Championship runner-ip spot. Moss was also third in the USCS Mid-South Regional series standings and fourth in the USCS Southern Region.
The Ripley Rooster, Jeff Willingham of Ripley, Miss., had perfect attendance on the 2025 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour. That feat propelled him to fourth place in the National point standings for the eighth year in a row.
In 40 races, the Ripley Rooster drove to a pair of top-five finishes and 14 top-10 finishes. Willingham finished third in the USCS Southern Thunder regional series standings and fourth in the USCS Mid-South Region.
Hayden Martin took the fifth spot in the 2025 USCS National point standings. Martin turned in one win, five top-five finishes and ten top-10 finishes. Martin also placed fifth in the USCS Mid-South regional series points chase.
Sixth through 10th in the 2025 USCS Outlaw Thunder Tour National point, respectively, were 2025 USCS National Rookie of the Year Trey Meredith in sixth place, followed by Chase Howard, who won one 2025 main event at Clayhill Motorsports Park in August in seventh place.
The 2025 USCS Southern Thunder Tour regional series Rookie of the Year, 15-year-old Coen McDaniel followed in eighth place. Four-time 2025 USCS feature winner Derek Hagar was ninth and Lane Whittington rounded out the top 10.
