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EVENT INFO: LANCO EASTERN MIDGET WEEK - 8/8/2020

UPCOMING USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT

 

DATE:

Saturday, August 8, 2020

 

SERIES:

USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship

 

TRACK:

Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway (Newmanstown, Pennsylvania) – 1/8-mile, dirt oval

 

EVENT:

“Eastern Midget Week” featuring the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship & Wingless Micros

 

STARTING TIMES:

1:00 PM - Pit Gates Open for Trailer Parking

3:30 PM – Pit Admission Sales Begin

3:30 PM – Gates Open for Advance Ticket Holders

4:30 PM – Gates Open for General Admission Ticket Holders

5:15 PM – Wingless 600 Drivers’ Meeting (Pill Draw Ends)

5:30 PM – USAC Drivers’ Meeting

5:30 PM – Clear Pre-Race Pit Pass Holders from Pit Area

5:45 PM – Wingless 600 Warm Ups

6:00 PM - USAC Warm Ups

6:30 PM - Time Trials

(All Times Eastern)

 

TICKETS:

Adult (Ages 13 +) General Admission - $20.00

Child (Ages 6 - 12) General Admission - $5.00

Child (Under 6) General Admission - FREE

Advance Adult (Ages 13 +) Grandstand Admission - $25.00

Advance Child (Ages 6 -12) General Admission - $7.00

Pit Admission - $35.00

Pit Admission with Lanco or USAC Membership - $30.00

Advanced General Admission tickets are on sale at the pit shack during our Saturday night race events at Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway.  Advanced General Admission tickets will also be sold on the day of the race from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the pit shack.

While all seats will be general admission, purchasing tickets in advance will permit fans to enter at 3:30 p.m. - one hour prior to everyone else. Blankets, seat cushions, etc. may be put down upon entering the spectator seating area to reserve your seats (we will not allow seats to be saved prior to 3:30 p.m.). Fans with advance tickets may then walk down to the pit area, where they will have approximately two hours (3:30 to 5:30 p.m.) to tour the pits and meet the USAC stars. The pits will be cleared of spectators at 5:30 p.m.

 

TRACK ADDRESS:

180 Sunnyside Rd, Newmanstown, PA 17073

 

TRACK PHONE:

(717) 949-3559

 

TRACK WEBSITE:

http://www.clydemartinspeedway.com/

 

MEDIA COVERAGE:

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

Listen LIVE on the USAC app on your phone or online at http://mixlr.com/usac-official/

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

Live timing on the Race Monitor app and USAC 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:

The 14 fastest cars in qualifying that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the semi-feature event.  12 laps. Finishers 1-6 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, 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       $3,500

2          67       $1,500

3          64       $1,000

4          61       $800

5          58       $600

6          55       $500

7          52       $450

8          49       $425

9          46       $400

10       43       $375

11       41       $350

12       39       $340

13       37       $330

14       35       $320

15       33       $310

16       31       $300

17       29       $300

18       27       $300

19       25       $300

20       23       $300

21       23       $300

22       23       $300

Non-Transfers: $100