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EVENT INFO: KOKOMO INDIANA MIDGET WEEK - 6/12/2021

UPCOMING USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT

 

DATE:

Saturday, June 12, 2021

 

SERIES:

USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship

 

TRACK:

Kokomo Speedway (Kokomo, Indiana) – 1/4-mile dirt oval

 

EVENT:

Indiana Midget Week featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship & Kokomo Sprints

 

TICKETS:

Save $5 with purchase of advance tickets at www.TracPass.com.  Tickets and pit passes will also be sold at the gate.  General admission tickets are $30, kids aged 12 and under are free.  Pit passes are $35.

 

STARTING TIMES:

Pits open at 3pm EDT with grandstands opening at 3pm and hot laps at 6pm.

 

TRACK ADDRESS:

2455 N Davis Rd, Kokomo, IN 46901

 

TRACK PHONE:

(765) 459-3877

 

TRACK WEBSITE:

http://kokomospeedway.net/

 

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Watch LIVE on http://www.FloRacing.com/ at https://bit.ly/3frPoW6.

Listen LIVE on the USAC app

Follow along with live updates on https://www.facebook.com/usacracing/ & https://twitter.com/USACNation

Live timing on the Race Monitor app

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USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FORMAT

Formats may be altered from base formats listed here at the discretion of the chief steward.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifying is two (2) laps to be run consecutively with the fastest lap counting as the official qualifying time.

 

HEAT RACES

10 laps. Top-6 cars are inverted in each heat race based on qualifying results.  The fastest car starts 6th, the second fastest car starts 5th and so on.  For the 4th row on back, cars will line up straight up, based on their qualifying times.

 

HEAT #1:

4 Heats: Cars qualifying 1, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 25, 29, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars qualifying 1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 19, 22, and so on will start behind invert.

 

HEAT #2:

4 Heats: Cars qualifying 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 26, 30, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars qualifying 2, 5, 8, 11, 14, 17 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 20, 23, and so on will start behind invert.

 

HEAT #3:

4 Heats: Cars qualifying 3, 7, 11, 15, 19, 23 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 27, 31, and so on will start behind invert.

3 Heats: Cars qualifying 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 21, 24, and so on will start behind invert.

 

HEAT #4:

Cars qualifying 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 will start in inverted order. Cars qualifying 28, 32 and so on will start behind invert.

 

C-MAIN (If Needed)

The 15th fastest car in qualifying, and on back, that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the C-Main.  10 laps. Top-4 finishers will start in the last two rows of the semi-feature based on their finishing order in the C-Main.

 

SEMI-FEATURE:

Cars that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the semi-feature event based on their qualifying times.  12 laps.

4 Heats: Finishers 1-6 earn a spot in the feature event.

3 Heats: Finishers 1-7 earn a spot in the feature event.

 

FEATURE:

Starting positions determined by qualifying time, 6 fastest at the front, with the 6 fastest qualifiers who transferred through their heat races inverted by their qualifying time in the first three rows, positions 1-6.  The fastest car starts 6th, the second fastest car starts 5th and so on.  If a heat race winner is not in the top-6 inversion, that driver will line up directly behind the six-car invert, based on their qualifying time, from fastest to slowest, followed by the balance of the field based on qualifying time. 30 laps. 22 starting cars (not including earned provisionals).

 

MIDGET TIRE RULES:

Right rear: SP2 or SP3

Left rear: D12 or harder

Right front: Hoosier

Left front: Hoosier

 

RACE OFFICIALS:

Chief Steward: Levi Jones

Race Director: Kirk Spridgeon

 

USAC MEMBERSHIP:

Must be a member to earn points

Must be a member to earn contingency awards

Member insurance is $200,000 excess medical

Visit www.usacracing.org for to apply for membership

 

USAC RADIO FREQUENCY:

464.5500

Mandatory Driver Radio is Required

 

MIDGET FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS.  PTS.   PURSE

1          70       $4,000

2          67       $1,500

3          64       $1,000

4          61       $750

5          58       $600

6          55       $500

7          52       $450

8          49       $400

9          46       $375

10       43       $355

11       41       $325

12       39       $315

13       37       $305

14       35       $295

15       33       $290

16       31       $285

17       29       $280

18       27       $275

19       25       $275

20       23       $275

21       23       $275

22       23       $275

Non-Transfers: $100