SEEDING TO SET LINEUP FOR SATURDAY’S USAC MID-AMERICA MIDGET WEEK FINALE AT FAIRBURY, NEB.
Fairbury, Nebraska (July 13, 2022)………The $10,000-to-win USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget event at Fairbury, Nebraska’s Jefferson County Speedway on Saturday night, July 16, will feature a unique format to seed the field based on Friday night’s finishing order.
The Midwest Midget Championship at the 1/5-mile dirt oval, the Mid-America Midget Week finale, begins on Friday, July 15, and will utilize the traditional format of single-car qualifying, followed by heat races, semi-feature and a 30-lap feature event paying $4,000-to-win, with the starting lineup based on qualifying results and heat race winners.
The format for the Saturday, July 16, portion of the program will not include qualifying. Instead, heat race lineups will be based on the finishing order of Friday’s event. Friday night’s feature winner will receive the one seed with the second-place finisher getting the second seed, and so on. For Saturday, those seeds, in essence, will act as the official qualifying time.
The number one seed will line up in the 6th position of Saturday’s heat race one and the number two seed will line up in the 6th position of heat race two, and so forth. From there on, the “traditional” USAC format will take over with the top-four transferring if four heat races are held and top-five transferring if three heat races are held, plus semi-feature transfers, etc.
The fastest top-six “seeds” who transfer through the heats will occupy the first three rows of Saturday’s feature, followed by heat race winners, then the balance of the field based on their seeds, to set the starting lineup for the 40-lap finale paying $10,000-to-win and $500 to start.
Of note, Friday night’s provisional feature starters will receive their seed based on their finishing order in the semi-feature rather than where they finished in the feature.
Furthermore, Friday will be a full points event, awarding points for qualifying, heats and the feature event. Saturday’s event will pay points for the feature only.
THE DETAILS:
On both nights, the gates will open at 5pm Central with cars on track at 6:30pm.
Unlimited general admission tickets will be sold day of show beginning at 5pm with reserved seating only presale as described above. All-access pit passes will be unlimited and available at the pit gate on day of show only.
All access pit passes are $35 (kids 5 and under are only $10) and will be available at the pit gate and front gate on the day of show only.
Campground spots at the track with hookups are sold-out but there is a few “dry camping” spots available on the southside of the track and they are first come, first serve or there are full hook-up camping spots at Crystal Springs just a mile away. Camping and area info can be found at www.visitoregontrail.org or at the Fairbury, Nebraska Chamber of Commerce.
The NOW 600/Jay-Husker Non-Wing and Restricted “A” Class Micro Sprints will also be in action each night.
General admission tickets to the event are just $20 for adults on Friday night and $30 on Saturday with High School students and younger just $5 each night. Reserved seating is $50 (available in two-day packages only) and are available online at www.jeffersoncountyspeedway.com under the “Buy Tickets” tab.
Both nights of the Midwest Midget Championship from Jefferson County Speedway will be streamed live on FloRacing at https://bit.ly/3dgONXz.