EASTER WEEKEND USAC SPRINT HISTORY

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Lawrenceburg, Indiana (March 31, 2021)………Hey peeps.  Over the years, the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars have competed 20 times on Easter Weekend.  That rings true once again for the 21st time this weekend when the series visits Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway on Saturday night, April 3.

Since 1960, just three drivers have won multiple times on Easter weekend with the series, including A.J. Foyt (Reading 1960 & 1964), Tom Bigelow (Eldora in 1969 & 1977) as well as Gary Bettenhausen (Terre Haute 1974 & New Bremen 1976).

Eastern weekend has produced five first-time USAC National Sprint Car feature winners: Stan Bowman (Eldora 1962), Tom Bigelow (Eldora 1969), Paul Pitzer (Reading 1979), Frankie Kerr (Eldora 1994) and Logan Jarrett (Lawrenceburg 2015).  For Bowman, Pitzer and Jarrett, it stands as their only career USAC victories.  In fact, Bowman’s 1962 score was the first ever USAC event held at Eldora.

The most recent Easter weekend events held by the series came in 2017, the lone year that featured multiple races at different tracks, which were won by Chad Boespflug at Bloomington (Ind.) Speedway and by Chris Windom at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Ind.

Nine different venues have hosted Easter weekend USAC National Sprint Car shows.  Eldora has held events on 10 occasions, Reading (Pa.) Fairgrounds three times, and once each for Cincinnati, Ohio’s Tri-County Speedway, Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track, New Bremen (Ohio) Speedway, Beaver Dam (Wis.) Raceway, Lawrenceburg, Bloomington and Tri-State.

The USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship will be joined by the KOI Auto Parts UMP Modifieds and Bessler's U Pull & Save Hornets on Saturday night, April 3.

Pits open at 3pm ET, front gates open at 5pm, drivers meeting at 5pm and hot laps at 6pm with qualifying and racing immediately following.

Adult general admission tickets are $25, kids 7-12 are $7, children 6 and under are free.  Pit passes are $30.  Advance tickets are on sale now at www.TracPass.com.

Lawrenceburg Speedway is located at 351 E Eads Pkwy, Lawrenceburg, IN 47025.  The track phone number is (812) 539-4700 and their website can be found at www.lawrenceburgspeedway.com.

You can watch the full event LIVE on www.FloRacing.com and listen to the event LIVE on the USAC app.

Follow along with live updates on USAC’s social media accounts at www.facebook.com/usacracing, www.twitter.com/USACNation and on Instagram @usacnation.

Live timing for the event can be found on the Race Monitor app.

EASTER WEEKEND USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR WINNERS:

DATE / LOCATION / TRACK / DRIVER / TEAM / DISTANCE

4/17/1960: Reading, PA - Reading Fairgrounds - A.J. Foyt - A.J. Watson #2 - 30 L

4/22/1962: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Stan Bowman - Harold Beck #11 - 30 L

3/29/1964: Reading, PA - Reading Fairgrounds - A.J. Foyt - A.J. Foyt #2 - 30 L

4/18/1965: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Jud Larson - A.J. Watson #2 - 30 L

4/6/1969: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Tom Bigelow - Carl Gehlhausen #84 - 30 L

4/2/1972: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Rollie Beale - Ron Kilman #3 - 40 L

4/22/1973: Cincinnati, OH - Tri-County Speedway - Bruce Walkup - Don Siebert #60 - 40 L

4/14/1974: Terre Haute, IN - Terre Haute Action Track - Gary Bettenhausen - Willie Davis #24 - 40 L

4/18/1976: New Bremen, OH - New Bremen Speedway - Gary Bettenhausen - Willie Davis #24 - 40 L

4/10/1977: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Tom Bigelow - Sherman Armstrong #43 - 40 L

4/14/1979: Reading, PA - Reading Fairgrounds - Paul Pitzer - Bob Weikert #46 - 40 L

4/6/1980: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Rich Vogler - Don Siebert #2 - 40 L

4/2/1994: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Frankie Kerr - Stan Shoff #23s - 30 L

3/29/1997: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Kevin Huntley - Dennis Stone #3s - 30 L

4/11/1998: Beaver Dam, WI - Beaver Dam Raceway - Tony Elliott - Vance/Walker Racing #2 - 30 L

4/11/2009: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Jerry Coons Jr. - Dynamics, Inc. #69 - 30 L

4/19/2014: Rossburg, OH - Eldora Speedway - Dave Darland - Phillips Motorsports #71p - 30 L

4/4/2015: Lawrenceburg, IN - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Logan Jarrett - Jarrett Motorsports #29 - 30 L

4/14/2017: Bloomington, IN - Bloomington Speedway - Chad Boespflug - Dynamics, Inc. #69 - 30 L

4/15/2017: Haubstadt, IN - Tri-State Speedway - Chris Windom - Baldwin Brothers Racing #5 - 30 L