FAIRBURY, Neb. — The USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget series Mid-America Midget Week wraps up in a big way at Jefferson County Speedway on July 15-17 with the fourth annual Riverside Chevrolet Midwest Midget Championship presented by Westin Packaged Meats and Schmidt‘s Sanitation.
After weaving the way through the Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex in Missouri on Sunday night, July 11, Red Dirt Raceway in Meeker, Okla., for Tuesday Night Thunder on July 13 and then Solomon Valley Raceway in Beloit, Kan., for the Chad McDaniel Memorial on July 14, USAC‘s Mid-America Midget Week comes to a conclusion at Jefferson County Speedway.
The week culminates with a 40-lap, $10,000-win main event on Saturday night, July 17.
It will wrap up a full weekend of racing atop the fifth-mile clay oval that includes two full racing cards of qualifying, heats and feature events on Friday and Saturday following a Thursday night practice sessions as the USAC Midgets invade Nebraska for the only time in 2021.
The community has stepped up to support the marquee event with more than $40,000 in purse money to be distributed during the event made possible a number of community members eager to ensure that the event continues to grow in Fairbury, Neb., during the coming years.
While the racing will be intense, there will be time to decompress and socialize as well with a shrimp boil and bar-b-que to follow the Thursday night practice from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. for all race teams, crews and fans at the campground north of the track with a free concert in the beer garden following each night of racing action as well.
The event co-sanctioned with the Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association will be accompanied on both nights by the NOW 600/Jay-Husker Non-Wing and Restricted A Class Micro Sprints.
After Justin Grant topped the inaugural USAC Midwest Midget Championship in 2018, Tyler Courtney has topped the finale over each of the past two years with Jason McDougal and reigning USAC Midget champion Chris Windom snaring preliminary feature wins.
Windom will be one of several past USAC Midget champions in competition at the Midwest Midget Championship along with Logan Seavey (2018) and Minden Nevada‘s Tanner Thorson (2016).
Buddy Kofoid currently holds the upper hand in the USAC Midget title chase aboard one of the potent Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports entries that has cracked victory lane at Jefferson County Speedway just once with a Thorson win in 2017.
After winning the Indiana Midget Week crown in June, Kofoid‘s advantage in the overall title chase stands at 47 points over Windom entering Mid-America Midget Week with others among the current top five including Emerson Axsom, Justin Grant and Thorson.
Other leading USAC contenders include the likes of Thomas Meseraull, Daison Pursley, Seavey, Kevin Thomas Jr., Jason McDougal and Cannon McIntosh among others as Wyoming‘s Zac Taylor and Colorado‘s Keith Rauch lead the way among the RMMRA ranks.