Logan Seavey and Abacus Racing went from being among the newest driver/team combinations in the sport to becoming USAC career Triple Crown winners within two seasons.
After Seavey and Abacus teamed up to capture the 2023 USAC Silver Crown and USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship titles, they added a sprint car to the arsenal and showed no signs of letting up in a historic USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season in 2024.
Seavey is one of eight drivers who can lay claim to being a member of the USAC career Triple Crown club alongside Pancho Carter, Tony Stewart, Dave Darland, J.J. Yeley, Jerry Coons Jr., Tracy Hines and Chris Windom.
Abacus Racing became just the second entrant to post championships in USAC’s Silver Crown, National Sprint Car and National Midget divisions, a feat previously only accomplished by the duo of Mike Curb & Cary Agajanian.
On his path to a 107-point edge in the final championship tally along with a $50,000 title prize, Seavey led the points for 42 of the 44 events — a span of eight months and 13 days between Feb. 13 and Oct. 26, both of which are all-time series records for the duration of holding the point lead.
Along the way, Seavey totaled 14 series victories in 2024, equaling the all-time USAC National Sprint Car season record set by Tom Bigelow in 1977. Furthermore, in July, Seavey became the first driver in 39 years to record four consecutive USAC National Sprint Car feature victories, a feat that hadn’t been achieved since Rick Hood’s similarly impressive 1985 campaign.
The 2024 USAC National Sprint Car season was the second busiest on record with 44 events, second only to the 51 held in 1977.
Seavey led the series in feature wins (14), laps led (364), top fives (31) and top 10s (38).
What makes this season all the more impressive is the fact that this was Seavey and Abacus Racing’s first foray into sprint cars together.
“It’s unbelievable,” Seavey stated. “That’s the goal we set when starting this sprint car team, but we surely didn’t expect it to come in the first year. There’s hundreds of people who play a part in making these things go around to run the whole season, and to come out on top is unbelievable.”
For the third consecutive year, Brady Bacon finished as the runner-up in the standings, adding five wins to his credit. In May at Circle City, he made it 14 consecutive seasons with a USAC National Sprint Car feature win, breaking the mark of 13-straight years set by Sheldon Kinser between 1974-1986.
In June at New Jersey’s Bridgeport Motorsports Park, he became the winningest Eastern Storm driver of all-time with victory number seven. He followed up with his first win at Port Royal (Pa.) Speedway in a decade as well as his first Indiana Sprint Week win in three years at Terre Haute in July.
In September at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway, Bacon earned his 50th series win as a driver for the Dynamics, Inc./Hoffman Auto Racing in the same state where he earned win number one for the team.
Third-place points finisher Daison Pursley made, perhaps, the most impressive drive of any non-winner with the series in 2024, advancing a series record 21 positions in a 23rd to second charge at Bloomington (Ind.) Speedway in May. He also notched his first two career points-paying USAC National Sprint Car wins at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway in June and at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway during the 4-Crown Nationals.
En route to fourth in the standings, Kevin Thomas Jr. won five times with the series. C.J. Leary finished fifth in the standings.
Justin Grant won nine features, but inconsistency left him ninth in the standings.
Hunter Maddox was named rookie of the year.
The Points
- Logan Seavey 2,987
- Brady Bacon 2,880
- Daison Pursley 2,718
- Kevin Thomas Jr. 2,645
- C.J. Leary 2,625
- Mitchel Moles 2,561
- Robert Ballou 2,550
- Kyle Cummins 2,481
- Justin Grant 2,476
- Matt Westfall 1,804
Winners
Logan Seavey 14
Justin Grant 9
Brady Bacon 5
Kevin Thomas Jr. 5
Brigs Danner 3
Kyle Cummins 2
Daison Pursley 2
Robert Ballou 1
C.J. Leary 1
Mitchel Moles 1
Matt Westfall 1