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UPCOMING USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENT

 

DATE:

Saturday, May 21, 2022

 

SERIES:

USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship

 

TRACK:

Terre Haute Action Track (Terre Haute, Indiana) – 1/2-mile, dirt oval

 

EVENT:

52nd annual Tony Hulman Classic featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship & RaceSaver 305 Sprint Cars

 

STARTING TIMES:

Pits open at 3pm Eastern, front gates at 3pm, drivers meeting at 6pm and hot laps at 6:30pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.

 

TICKETS:

General admission grandstands tickets are $30. Kids age 10 and under are free.

Infield tickets are $20. Kids age 10 and under are free.

Pit passes are $35.

 

TRACK ADDRESS:

3901 S US-41, Terre Haute, IN 47802

 

TRACK PHONE:

Track: (812) 232-4040

 

TRACK WEBSITE:

http://www.thactiontrack.com/

 

MEDIA COVERAGE:

Watch LIVE on http://www.FloRacing.com/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

 

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR 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

8 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)

10 laps. The 15th through 28th fastest cars in qualifying that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the C-Main.  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:

12 laps. The 14 fastest cars in qualifying that did not transfer through the heat races will line up straight-up in the semi-feature event. Finishers 1-6 earn a spot in the feature event if 4 heats were held. Finishers 1-7 earn a spot in the feature event if 3 heats were held.

 

FEATURE:

30 laps. 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.  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. 22 starting cars (not including earned provisionals).

 

SPRINT TIRE RULES:

Right rear: 105/18-15 Medium, Hard, F85A

Left rear: Hoosier

Right front: Hoosier

Left front: Hoosier

 

RACE OFFICIALS:

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 to apply for membership

 

USAC RADIO FREQUENCY

464.5500

Mandatory Driver Radio is Required

 

SPRINT FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS.   PTS.    PURSE

1         70       $10,000

2         67       $5,000

3         64       $2,500

4         61       $1,750

5         58       $1,500

6         55       $1,200

7         52       $1,100

8         49       $1,000

9         46       $950

10       43       $900

11       41       $800

12       39       $775

13       37       $750

14       35       $725

15       33       $700

16       31       $675

17       29       $650

18       27       $625

19       25       $600

20       23       $600

21       23       $600

22       23       $600

**Non-Transfers: $150