INDIANAPOLIS – Steven Drevicki, the three-time defending USAC Rapid Tire East Coast Sprint Car Series champion, will run a part-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series schedule next season.
Drevicki, from Reading, Pa., has several events circled on his calendar with the series, including the two East Coast swings by the USAC national sprint cars through Pennsylvania in April and June.
Also on the docket for Drevicki are July’s Indiana Sprint Week, all three events at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, Sprint Car Smackdown in August at Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway as well as the majority of the two and three-race weekends throughout the campaign.
All of those will be first-time venues for the 29-year-old driver.
Drevicki will compete for DeGre Motorsports on the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car circuit, the same team with which he raced for on a regular basis between 2009 and 2015 in micro sprints and midgets, collecting ARDC Midget titles in 2014-15 along the way.
However, it’s a completely new set of challenges the combo will face and embark on in 2021, with more traveling and a plethora of new race tracks throughout the year – a challenge Drevicki is eager to take on.
“Our biggest hurdle as a team will be not knowing the racetracks out there,” said Drevicki, who has three career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature starts. “I feel pretty good about the nine shows we have here in Pennsylvania. I’ve raced at those tracks and I, at least, feel like I know what I’m in for. The challenge of it is just the learning experience, but I think that’s the fun, exciting part of it, to challenge ourselves.
“I know that we’ll continue to get better the more we race out there and the more we get to go those tracks a second and third time, it’s definitely going to help.”
Drevicki and DeGre remained friends over the past half-decade as Drevicki transitioned to sprint cars, but the two remained friends, with DeGre helping out and supporting many of Drevicki’s racing endeavors.
The two had talked here and there about putting a deal together to make the leap to the USAC national scene. However, since the conclusion of the 2020 season, it became more than just talk and a deal was struck.
“(DeGre) approached me about doing it seriously over the last couple of months,” Drevicki explained. “Not a full schedule – for what we can to do out of Pennsylvania, it’s a little hard – but we’ve put together a solid schedule of races and we’re just looking to travel. We had a lot of success running together and had a lot of fun, and I’m really looking forward to it.”
“It’s not like it’s a new team for me completely,” Drevicki continued. “I know who I’m working with and it’s something I’ve been working towards since our midget days. We talked about getting out to Indiana, and to the area a little more, but because of work or schedules, it’s never worked out. This year, I was planning to do that, but COVID affected it and then we ended up pretty busy in Pennsylvania once we actually got racing.”
Drevicki will maintain his presence in USAC’s East Coast 360 Sprint Car series in the family-owned No. 19 where he’s won 12 feature events and all three championships since its inception in 2018, competing against stout competition and running highly competitively against National competition when those occasions have risen.
He qualified for all three of his Eastern Storm appearances in 2019, giving him the confidence that he can race with the best of the best in USAC national competition.
“I’m looking forward and excited to having something solid put together to get out there, travel and see new tracks and rise up to the challenge,” Drevicki said.