INDIANAPOLIS – Indiana’s USAC schedule will resume with a busy stretch of seven events in an eight-night span, including the rescheduled Indiana Midget Week mini-series.
The sequence kicks off June 14 with the return of the AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series, followed by the 16th edition of Indiana Midget Week, featuring the NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midget Series.
Indiana Midget Week was originally scheduled for June 2-7, before the extended break caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced a rescheduling of the six-night affair.
All the USAC events held during June in Indiana will follow state guidelines, limiting seating capacity to 50 percent at all venues.
The June 14 date will take the AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series to Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind., for the 44th visit by the series to the southwestern Indiana quarter-mile dirt track.
Two nights later, on June 16, the popular Indiana Midget Week tour commences with six consecutive nights of USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget racing.
First up is the three-eighths-mile of Paragon Speedway, located just a little less than an hour southwest of Indianapolis, which will make its debut on the Indiana Midget Week schedule by hosting its first NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midget Series race since 1985 and its first USAC-sanctioned race of any kind since 1998.
Following the opener at Paragon, on June 17, the series travels northbound to the quarter-mile Gas City I-69 Speedway, whose origins with the Indiana Midget Week series date to the inaugural year in 2005.
Next, on Thursday, June 18, the five-sixteenths-mile Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville, Ind., is back on the Indiana Midget Week docket for the 11th straight year.
The quarter-mile red clay of Bloomington Speedway provides the surface as Indiana Midget Week enters the weekend on Friday, June 19.
The three-eighths of a mile Lawrenceburg Speedway, which hosted the very first IMW event in 2005, serves as the penultimate race of the mini-series on June 20, while the Indiana Midget Week finale at Kokomo Speedway comes to the quarter-mile venue on June 21.
Kokomo first hosted USAC midget racing in the club’s inaugural season of 1956.
All the Indiana Midget Week events will also feature local sprint car racing as part of the racing festivities.
With the movement of Indiana Midget Week, the scheduled USAC National Midget Series event at The Dirt Oval at Route 66 on June 20 has been postponed for potential rescheduling.
United States Auto Club June Schedule Update
Date – Venue – Location (series)
June 14 – Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, Ind. (sprint cars)
June 16 – Paragon Speedway – Paragon, Ind. (midgets)
June 17 – Gas City I-69 Speedway – Gas City, Ind. (midgets)
June 18 – Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, Ind. (midgets)
June 19 – Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, Ind. (midgets)
June 20 – Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, Ind. (midgets)
June 21 – Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, Ind. (midgets)