SPEEDWAY, Ind. – A handful of schedule changes have been made to the August USAC Silver Crown Series schedule.
The schedule on Indianapolis 500 weekend is kickstarted Friday, Aug. 21, with the Dave Steele Carb Night Classic at the .686-mile paved oval of Lucas Oil Raceway in Clermont, Ind., featuring the USAC Silver Crown Series and the Road to Indy presented by Cooper Tires.
The Silver Crown debut at Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Speedway, the inaugural Bill Holland Memorial, is on as scheduled at the half-mile dirt oval. The Saturday, Aug. 15 round at the .555-mile paved highbanks of Indiana’s Salem Speedway will proceed as scheduled as well for the running of the Joe James-Pat O’Connor Memorial.
The Sunday, Aug. 2 event scheduled to occur at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway in Madison, Ill. has been canceled due to the rescheduling of events at the paved 1.25-mile.
Furthermore, the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield will remain closed and the Saturday, Aug. 22 Bettenhausen 100 race at the one-mile dirt oval will not be able to proceed on the original schedule date.
USAC and track promoters are continuing to work on scheduling further events for the USAC Silver Crown Series in the month of August and beyond.