SPEEDWAY, Ind. — A docket featuring 13 events is on the agenda in 2025 for the 55th season of the USAC Silver Crown National Championship.
Seven dirt and six pavement events await at venues ranging from half-miles to 1.25 miles and on tracks varying from semi-banked to high-banked across the states of Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
The high banks of Indiana’s super-fast Salem Speedway welcome the USAC Silver Crown series back to the .555-mile paved oval on Saturday, August 9.
Salem has previously hosted the series on six occasions, first in 1988 won by Bob Frey, and again each year from 2016 through 2020, all of which were won by Kody Swanson.
The southern Indiana speed plant is one of USAC’s most tradition-rich tracks, hosting a total of 135 USAC national events dating back to 1956.
Dirt tracks open and close the 2025 USAC Silver Crown schedule with seven dates spread between the months and April and September. Indiana’s lone half-mile dirt oval, the Terre Haute Action Track, opens it up on Sunday, April 13, with the 21st installment of the Sumar Classic.Â
Mid-May brings the series to the thrill-a-second half-mile Belleville (Kan.) High Banks on Friday, May 16, for practice and Saturday, May 17, for race day in a USAC doubleheader alongside the NOS Energy Drink National Midgets, who’ll compete both nights on Belleville’s short track during the Huncovsky Classic.
Speaking of USAC doubleheaders, Eastern Storm delivers a mammoth one on Saturday, June 15, at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway for a smorgasbord full of star-studded action featuring both the USAC Silver Crown and AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship divisions at one venue on one night on the half-mile.
It’s back to the Sunflower State on Friday, July 18, and Saturday, July 19, for the second running of the Salt City 100 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds’ Salt City Speedway in Hutchinson. Friday presents practice for all teams leading into Saturday’s 100-lapper on the 1/2-mile.
Six pavement events dot the slate with the season launching on the asphalt with the annual Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic on Saturday, April 19, at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway.
A trip to the hallowed banks of Indiana’s Winchester Speedway follows with the running of the 34th Rich Vogler Classic on Sunday, May 4. The Hoosier Hundred brings the series once again to Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park on Friday, May 23, for the 68th edition of the Hoosier Hundred.
The largest and fastest track on the circuit, the 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway in Madison, Illinois, moves to a new, earlier date on Saturday, June 14, during NTT IndyCar Series weekend. For the first time since 2017, a July date awaits the USAC Silver Crown division on Wednesday night, July 23. Salem closes out the pavement portion of the schedule on Sunday, August 9.
The championship race will come down to a trio of the most tradition rich USAC Silver Crown events, all of which will serve as the final three races of the season in August and September.
The 62nd running of the Bettenhausen 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield provides the first of two dirt-mile adventures this season on Saturday, August 16.Â
Fair season in the Land of Lincoln continues two weeks later with the 71st running of the Ted Horn 100 at the Magic Mile of the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds in southern Illinois.
The final dirt run of the new year is set for Friday-Saturday, Sept. 19-20, as, for the 43rd time, the champ cars will compete in the 4-Crown Nationals at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway.
The event provides the only opportunity of the year to witness all three USAC national divisions in one night, plus the High Limit winged sprint cars.
2025 USAC SILVER CROWN SCHEDULE
April 13          Terre Haute Action Track       Terre Haute, Ind.
April 19          Toledo Speedway       Toledo, Ohio
May 4 Winchester Speedway           Winchester, Ind.
May 16-17      Belleville High Banks  Belleville, Kan.
May 23 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Brownsburg, Ind.
June 14           World Wide Technology Raceway     Madison, Ill.
June 21 Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Port Royal Speedway Port Royal, Pa.
July 18-19       Salt City Speedway     Hutchinson, Kan.
July 23 Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Brownsburg, Ind.
Aug. 9 Salem Speedway        Salem, Ind.
Aug. 16           Illinois State Fairgrounds       Springfield, Ill.
Aug. 30           Du Quoin State Fairgrounds   Du Quoin, Ill.
Sept. 19-20     Eldora Speedway       Rossburg, Ohio