SPEEDWAY, Ind. — The Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship returns for 2026 with an increased $20,000 reward going to the driver who accrues the most combined points throughout the USAC national season.
The honor encompasses attaining points throughout each and every points-paying USAC Silver Crown, AMSOIL National Sprint Car and NOS Energy Drink National Midget series event during the 2026 campaign. USAC’s 2026 national schedule encompasses 95 events from coast-to-coast.
Over the past five seasons since 2021, the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship top prize has quadrupled from $5,000 to $20,000.
Justin Grant earned 4,982 points across USAC’s three national divisions in 2025. In doing so, he became the first five-time titlist of the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship (2017-2021-2022-2023-2025).
This year marks the 28th year of the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship. Curb has offered the reward annually since the 1999 USAC season to honor USAC’s top overall points champion.
Once known as the USAC Super License, the title was rechristened as the National Drivers Championship in recent years to more properly represent the accomplishment of achieving the feat, which so few have done.
Previous champions include many of the greatest names in USAC’s illustrious history, including four drivers who’ve won the award on at least three different occasions. Among them are Justin Grant (5), Tracy Hines (4), Bryan Clauson (3) and J.J. Yeley (3). Two-time champions include Tyler Courtney, Dave Darland and Josh Wise. The one-time winners list consists of Brady Bacon, Jerry Coons Jr., Jay Drake, Logan Seavey, Cole Whitt and Chris Windom.
The new Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Champion will be honored at USAC’s Night of Champions in December of 2026.
