OCALA, Fla. — Logan Seavey possesses a knack for winning USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship races in the state of Florida.
After all, he’s accomplished that very thing in each of the past three seasons, including just three days earlier.
However, all four of those previous victories occurred at Volusia Speedway Park, an hour east of where he added a long-awaited piece to his personal checklist on Thursday night during round four of Winter Dirt Games XVII Presented by Yokohama Tire at Ocala Speedway.
At Ocala, Seavey had previously landed on the podium five different times, including a pair of runner-up finishes in 2024, plus a trio of third place results across 2020 and 2024. But never in his career had he won at the tricky three-eighths-mile dirt track. That is, until Thursday night.
Seventh-starting Seavey raced around the outside of Kyle Cummins on lap 26 of the 30-lap main event, then paced the remaining five circuits to become the first two-time winner of the 2026 USAC season at the wheel of his Abacus Racing/Mountain Mechanical – Droplight – Indy Powersports/DRC/Stanton Chevy.
“I think it was two years ago – our first year with this team – we were so close. I think we were on the podium all four nights. I just couldn’t get the job done,” Seavey remembered.
The 35th win of Seavey’s USAC National Sprint Car career tied Rich Vogler and Jon Stanbrough for 14th place on the all-time series win list.
Seavey’s burst up through the field from his inside row four starting position arrived after a close call in qualifying. The final car out in qualifying, driven by Briggs Danner, set fast time, knocking Seavey out of the all-important sixth spot. With the six-car invert, that would’ve put Seavey on the pole for the feature, which theoretically would have made it an easier drive for the USAC Triple Crown champion.
Seavey had to be on the ball from the drop of the green flag to pick his way through the pack, requiring much meticulousness and precision in his drive to the front.
“I had a little issue there qualifying tonight and barely missed the invert,” Seavey lamented. “Luckily, they did an awesome job with the racetrack all day long from start to finish. It was really racy and we could race around here all day. That’s all we can ask for. To come from seventh and drive by six really fast racecars just shows how good of a job everybody working on this thing is doing for me and I just can’t thank those guys enough. I’m glad to pull one out here, finally.”
Initially, all eyes were on Trey Osborne who had captured his first USAC victory just 24 hours earlier. On this night, he had scored the pole position for the second evening in a row, and for a little while, it appeared to be déjà vu for him once more as he bolted out to the early lead with Justin Grant, Kyle Cummins and Brady Bacon in tow.
A lap-seven yellow flag stymied the pace as Danner slowed on the back straight without brakes, which wound up prematurely ending his race. Meanwhile, under caution, Grant stopped with a flat left-rear tire.
Upon the resumption, Seavey began his surge, slotting into third as he slid in front of Bacon off turn four on lap 12. Despite flirting with disaster on a couple occasions, Seavey had found his groove.
“Early, I kind of thought maybe that I could make speed in the middle; there’s a little banking there in the middle,” Seavey explained. “There were a few times I slipped up and I thought I was in trouble. I just held the pedal down and was up on the flat. But there was some grip for the right rear and I could get a good launch.”
By halfway, Cummins began reeling Osborne in for the lead, and even briefly showed him a nose on entry to turn three. But on the 18th trip, Cummins proved to be too strong and got a drive under Osborne on the back stretch before clearing him with relative ease entering the third turn.
After separate incidents involving Jadon Rogers and Ryan Harrison on lap 20, the field bunched up for the ensuing restart. There, Seavey lunged under Osborne in turn three to occupy second with 10 laps to go. Bacon, Moles and Chase Stockon soon followed suit past Osborne in the laps to come as Osborne drifted back to sixth in the running order.
Trailing the leader by a full second, Seavey began to chip away ever so slightly at Cummins’ advantage down the stretch. On lap 26, Seavey chiseled out a huge chunk of his deficit with a massive run along the topside of the back stretch which allowed him to vault around the outside of Cummins in turns three and four and swiftly move into the lead with just five laps to go.
“The backstretch was getting really clean and everybody was struggling to drive across,” Seavey noted. “I didn’t expect to pass Kyle right there. He struggled off turn two and I think he was trying to get down to the moisture. I think the opposite was probably the better idea to just drive across. I thought maybe I could slide him into three but he just didn’t get off two good, and I just hammered down and tried to pinch him down into three and do my best not to slide over the flat in turn four.”
That proved to be the winning moment for Seavey who escaped away from the pack down the stretch to finish off a 1.080-second victory.
Bacon got by Cummins for second with four laps left with Cummins slotting into third, Moles fourth and Stockon rounding out the top five.
USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship, Ocala Speedway, Ocala, Fla., Feb. 12, 2026
LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-13.907; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-13.914; 3. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.949; 4. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-13.967; 5. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-14.018; 6. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-14.056; 7. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.127; 8. Hayden Reinbold, 19, Reinbold/Underwood-14.133; 9. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.134; 10. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.145; 11. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-14.225; 12. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-14.238; 13. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-14.303; 14. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-14.365; 15. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.381; 16. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-14.452; 17. Tom Harris, 84, Harris-14.457; 18. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-14.532; 19. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.538; 20. Chelby Hinton, 2B, 2B Racing-14.599; 21. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.679; 22. Ryan Harrison, 97UK, Harrison-14.771; 23. Chase Howard, 13, Howard-14.798; 24. Greg Mitchell, 001, Mitchell-16.224.
K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (4), 2. Jadon Rogers (1), 3. Jake Swanson (3), 4. Briggs Danner (6), 5. Justin Grant (5), 6. Ryan Harrison (8), 7. Logan Calderwood (2). 1:59.470
TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Kyle Cummins (6), 2. Gunnar Setser (3), 3. Chelby Hinton (7), 4. Harley Burns (2), 5. Brady Bacon (5), 6. Tom Harris (1), 7. Hayden Reinbold (4), 8. Chase Howard (8). NT
K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (1), 2. Robert Ballou (3), 3. Mitchel Moles (6), 4. C.J. Leary (2), 5. Chase Stockon (4), 6. Trey Osborne (5), 7. Cale Coons (7), 8. Greg Mitchell (8). 2:00.159
FEATURE: (30 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Logan Seavey (7), 2. Brady Bacon (2), 3. Kyle Cummins (5), 4. Mitchel Moles (4), 5. Chase Stockon (9), 6. Trey Osborne (1), 7. Jake Swanson (10), 8. Robert Ballou (12), 9. Gunnar Setser (11), 10. Kevin Thomas Jr. (19), 11. Justin Grant (3), 12. C.J. Leary (14), 13. Cale Coons (20), 14. Harley Burns (13), 15. Chelby Hinton (17), 16. Logan Calderwood (23), 17. Tom Harris (16), 18. Jadon Rogers (15), 19. Ryan Harrison (18), 20. Greg Mitchell (22), 21. Chase Howard (21), 22. Briggs Danner (6), 23. Ricky Lewis (8).
