HAUBSTADT, Ind. — The Haubstadt Hustler is one of the marquee events of the entire USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season.
This Saturday, September 13, a whole slew of challengers will be putting it all on the line with a $20,000 prize awaiting at the end of 40 laps on the intense quarter-mile dirt oval they call Tri-State Speedway.
5-TIME HUSTLER
Kevin Thomas Jr. has won the Haubstadt Hustler a record five times in his career, including the most recent edition in 2024. No other driver has won the Haubstadt Hustler more than twice! He’s also the winningest USAC driver at the track with nine career scores.
The Cullman, Alabama native has won the event in 2013-2017-2018-2021-2024 and never started on the front row any of those previous victories. Oddly enough, all five of his triumphs have come after starting in the second row: 3rd in 2013, 4th in 2017, 3rd in 2018, 4th in 2021 and 4th in 2024.
KTJ also comes in on a personal high at Tri-State after reigning victorious in the most recent USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car appearance there in August of this year during Indiana Sprint Week.
FOUR SCORE & MORE
Kevin Thomas Jr. is among the four past Haubstadt Hustler winners to do battle this coming Saturday along with Kyle Cummins, Chase Stockon and Jadon Rogers.
For all of Cummins’ seven career Tri-State wins, only one of them has come during the Haubstadt Hustler back in 2016. The current USAC National Sprint Car point leader already won this year’s Spring Showdown at Tri-State.
Chase Stockon achieved Haubstadt Hustler glory in 2020. Before his Terre Haute victory this past July, that had been his most recent USAC score. This Saturday, he’ll try to keep the momentum rolling into The Class Track.
Jadon Rogers’ lone USAC National Sprint Car victory to date came during the Haubstadt Hustler of 2022. For Saturday, he’ll be back in the family-owned No. 14, the very same numeral he sported in the 2022 win.
Perhaps, not surprisingly, three of the four past Haubstadt Hustler winners in this Saturday’s field have won sprint car races at Tri-State in 2025 between USAC and the Midwest Thunder 410 Series. Cummins has won twice, Rogers twice and Thomas once.
$100,000 TRIFECTA
Justin Grant, Kyle Cummins and Logan Seavey are vying for their share of the USAC NOS Energy Drink Hoosier Trifecta at Tri-State.
Two Trifecta events remain with a pair of $20,000-to-win USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car showdowns on Saturday, September 13, at Tri-State Speedway’s Haubstadt Hustler and on Saturday, October 11, during Lawrenceburg Speedway’s Fall Nationals.
Grant took round one of the Trifecta in August at Kokomo Speedway’s Sprint Car Smackdown ahead of runner-up Cummins and third-place finisher Seavey. Now Grant is chasing a clean sweep worth more than $100,000 in total prize money if he can win at both Tri-State and Lawrenceburg.
The driver with the highest average Trifecta finishing position and also finishes inside the top-three in the trio of events will earn the prize – over 100,000 dollars in total to win all three, a $20,000 bonus to finish second or better in all three and $10,000 bucks to capture a top-three result in all three.
ROELL ON A RAIL
The last time Kayla Roell competed in a USAC National Sprint Car event at Tri-State in August, she made quite a bit of history.
She started things off by becoming the first woman to win a USAC National Sprint Car heat race. In the feature, she crossed the line in the ninth position, the best ever result for a woman in series history.
The Dillsboro, Indiana native and high school wrestling champion has extensive winning experience at Tri-State, scoring five career Midwest Mini Sprint Association wins at the track.
A BURKS’ KINDA KNIGHT
Wyatt Burks is becoming a hot commodity on the USAC National Sprint Car trail of late. Just last Saturday, the Topeka, Kansas racer finished his race on the podium with a third at Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway.
Not only was it his best career finish, it was also his first career top-five with the USAC National Sprint Cars.
For this weekend, the four-time USAC Midwest Wingless Racing Association Sprint Car champion will be back in the seat of the Knight Racing No. 16K as he eyes his Haubstadt Hustler debut.
