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EVENT INFO: SWEET SPRINGS USAC MIDGETS: 7/11/2021

UPCOMING USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT

 

DATE:

Sunday, July 11, 2021

 

SERIES:

USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship

 

TRACK:

Sweet Springs Motorsports Complex (Sweet Springs, Missouri) – 1/6-mile dirt oval

 

EVENT:

John Hinck Championship featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship & Non-Wing Outlaw Micro Sprints

 

STARTING TIMES:

Pits open at 2:30pm CDT with the pit sweep occurring at 3pm.  Front gates open at 4pm while cars hit the track at 6pm CDT with qualifying and racing to immediately follow.

 

TICKETS:

General admission tickets for Sunday at Sweet Springs are $20 with children age 12 and under free.  USAC member pit passes are $30 with non-members $35.  Tickets will be available at the gate on both race days.

 

TRACK ADDRESS:

12917 MO-127, Sweet Springs, MO 65351

 

TRACK PHONE:

(660) 335-4522

 

TRACK WEBSITE:

http://www.sweetspringsraceway.com/

 

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. 40 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       $6,000

2          67       $3,000

3          64       $1,500

4          61       $1,000

5          58       $800

6          55       $700

7          52       $600

8          49       $550

9          46       $525

10       43       $500

11       41       $475

12       39       $450

13       37       $440

14       35       $430

15       33       $420

16       31       $410

17       29       $400

18       27       $400

19       25       $400

20       23       $400

21       23       $400

22       23       $400

Non-Transfers: $100