66 NEW TRACK RECORDS SET IN 2021 USAC COMPETITION
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media
Speedway, Indiana (December 29, 2021)………Sixty-six new track records were established by 31 different drivers across USAC’s Silver Crown, AMSOIL National Sprint Car and NOS Energy Drink National Midget divisions during the 2021 season.
In 2021, USAC National Midget drivers established 35 new track records while the USAC National Sprint Cars rewrote the record books on 27 occasions, with the USAC Silver Crown series setting four.
No driver earned more of them in the past year than Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.) with seven while Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) was the only driver to score new track records in all three of USAC’s national series, six overall.
Meanwhile, seven drivers set new track records in at least two USAC national series in 2021. Joining Grant and Windom were Minden, Nevada’s Tanner Thorson (5 Sprint & Midget), Broken Arrow, Oklahoma’s Brady Bacon (4 Sprint & Midget), Collegeville, Pennsylvania’s Alex Bright (3 Sprint & Midget), San Jose, California’s Thomas Meseraull (3 Sprint & Midget) and Cullman, Alabama’s Kevin Thomas Jr. (3 Sprint & Midget).
Of the most notable records set this past season, many overtook those that had been imprinted into the history books a long period of time, spanning multiple decades.
Windom’s time of 19.506 in June erased the 50-year-old one-lap USAC Sprint Car record of 23.420, set by Mitch Smith all the way back in the series’ last appearance at Pennsylvania’s Selinsgrove Speedway in 1971.
Kevin Thomas Jr.’s non-stop, 30-lap USAC Sprint Car feature win at Indiana’s Paragon Speedway in August, a time of 8:28.95, shattered the previous fastest race of that distance at the track, set in 1982 by Rich Vogler at 12:01.780.
Likewise, Windom’s green-to-checker run at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track in October was more than 24 seconds quicker than the previous USAC Sprint Car 30-lap best of 10:56.90, set by Cary Faas in 1998.
Jason McDougal’s time of 2:10.840 destroyed the previous 8-lap USAC Midget mark at Paragon in June, a record held by Wes Stafford since 1977 of 2:21.83.
Perhaps the most electrifying qualifying lap of the season with the USAC Midgets was Daison Pursley’s time of 9.972 at Pennsylvania’s Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway in August, the first sub 10-second at the 1/8-mile dirt oval, which bested Spencer Bayston’s former mark of 10.128 from 2018.
Twenty-five years after USAC Midgets’ last showing at South Dakota’s Huset’s Speedway in 1996 in which Tracy Hines turned a single lap of qualifying in 13.923 seconds, the record was broken on the first night of September’s USAC Nationals by Shane Golobic, then reset one evening later by Mitchel Moles at a sterling 12.776.
Cannon McIntosh’s one-lap of 12.347 at California’s Bakersfield Speedway in November just barely nipped Billy Boat’s 26-year-old stranglehold of the qualifying mark, which he had held since 1995 at 12.349.
Kody Swanson’s record pole run at Winchester (Ind.) Speedway may have come in the debut for USAC Silver Crown racing at the half-mile high banks, but it was a doozy. His 14.459 second lap was the fastest one-lap average speed during the entire USAC national season at 124.490 mph.
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USAC NATIONAL TRACK RECORDS SET IN 2021:
7-Chris Windom (Sprint & Midget)
6-Justin Grant (Silver Crown, Sprint & Midget)
5-Tanner Thorson (Sprint & Midget)
4-Brady Bacon (Sprint & Midget)
3-Emerson Axsom (Midget)
3-Alex Bright (Sprint & Midget)
3-Cannon McIntosh (Midget)
3-Thomas Meseraull (Sprint & Midget)
3-Kevin Thomas Jr. (Sprint & Midget)
2-Robert Ballou (Sprint)
2-Timmy Buckwalter (Sprint)
2-Buddy Kofoid (Midget)
2-Brandon Mattox (Sprint)
2-Daison Pursley (Midget)
2-Chase Randall (Midget)
2-Chase Stockon (Sprint)
1-Ryan Bernal (Sprint)
1-Isaac Chapple (Sprint)
1-Brenham Crouch (Midget)
1-Kyle Cummins (Sprint)
1-Briggs Danner (Sprint)
1-C.J. Leary (Silver Crown)
1-Carson Macedo (Midget)
1-Jason McDougal (Midget)
1-Mitchel Moles (Midget)
1-Paul Nienhiser (Sprint)
1-Davey Ray (Silver Crown)
1-Logan Seavey (Sprint)
1-Jonathan Shafer (Midget)
1-Kody Swanson (Silver Crown)
1-Ryan Timms (Midget)
4 NEW USAC SILVER CROWN TRACK RECORDS:
Silver Crown | Winchester Speedway | 1 Lap | 7/22/2021 | Kody Swanson | 14.459
Silver Crown | Winchester Speedway | 100 Laps | 7/22/2021 | Justin Grant | 37:06.331
Silver Crown | Selinsgrove Speedway | 1 Lap | 8/8/2021 | C.J. Leary | 21.185
Silver Crown | Eldora Speedway | 12 Laps | 9/25/2021 | Davey Ray | 3:54.24
27 NEW USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP TRACK RECORDS:
National Sprint | Bubba Raceway Park | 30 Laps | 2/11/2021 | Kevin Thomas Jr. | 7:45.762
National Sprint | Grandview Speedway | 10 Laps | 4/22/2021 | Alex Bright | 2:24.412
National Sprint | Big Diamond Speedway | 1 Lap | 4/23/2021 | Timmy Buckwalter | 14.924
National Sprint | Big Diamond Speedway | 8 Laps | 4/23/2021 | Brandon Mattox | 2:05.481
National Sprint | BAPS Motor Speedway | 10 Laps | 4/24/2021 | Isaac Chapple | 3:26.334
National Sprint | Path Valley Speedway Park | 1 Lap | 4/25/2021 | Brady Bacon | 10.943
National Sprint | Path Valley Speedway Park | 10 Laps | 4/25/2021 | Justin Grant | 2:00.41
National Sprint | Path Valley Speedway Park | 12 Laps | 4/25/2021 | Brady Bacon | 2:28.157
National Sprint | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 1 Lap | 6/16/2021 | Justin Grant | 15.799
National Sprint | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 8 Laps | 6/16/2021 | Timmy Buckwalter | 2:11.630
National Sprint | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 12 Laps | 6/16/2021 | Paul Nienhiser | 3:43.172
National Sprint | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 30 Laps | 6/16/2021 | Robert Ballou | 8:47.620
National Sprint | Selinsgrove Speedway | 1 Lap | 6/17/2021 | Chris Windom | 19.506
National Sprint | Selinsgrove Speedway | 8 Laps | 6/17/2021 | Briggs Danner | 2:51.334
National Sprint | Bloomsburg Fair Raceway | 1 Lap | 6/20/2021 | Chase Stockon | 15.936
National Sprint | Bloomsburg Fair Raceway | 10 Laps | 6/20/2021 | Robert Ballou | 2:45.324
National Sprint | Plymouth Speedway | 8 Laps | 7/1/2021 | Chase Stockon | 1:52.510
National Sprint | Lincoln Park Speedway | 10 Laps | 7/29/2021 | Kyle Cummins | 2:09.325
National Sprint | Paragon Speedway | 30 Laps | 8/22/2021 | Kevin Thomas Jr. | 8:28.95
National Sprint | Huset’s Speedway | 1 Lap | 9/10/2021 | Logan Seavey | 12.576
National Sprint | Huset’s Speedway | 8 Laps | 9/11/2021 | Brandon Mattox | 2:00.15
National Sprint | Huset’s Speedway | 10 Laps | 9/12/2021 | Ryan Bernal | 2:09.61
National Sprint | Circle City Raceway | 1 Lap | 9/17/2021 | Brady Bacon | 12.163
National Sprint | Circle City Raceway | 10 Laps | 9/17/2021 | Thomas Meseraull | 2:07.99
National Sprint | Terre Haute Action Track | 30 Laps | 10/1/2021 | Chris Windom | 10:31.97
National Sprint | Arizona Speedway | 1 Lap | 11/12/2021 | Tanner Thorson | 14.390
National Sprint | Arizona Speedway | 8 Laps | 11/13/2021 | Thomas Meseraull | 2:01.520
35 NEW USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK NATIONAL MIDGET TRACK RECORDS:
National Midget | Paragon Speedway | 8 Laps | 6/4/2021 | Jason McDougal | 2:10.840
National Midget | Tri-State Speedway | 1 Lap | 6/6/2021 | Chris Windom | 13.377
National Midget | Circle City Raceway | 1 Lap | 6/9/2021 | Brady Bacon | 12.869
National Midget | Lincoln Park Speedway | 12 Laps | 6/10/2021 | Justin Grant | 2:47.227
National Midget | Red Dirt Raceway | 8 Laps | 7/13/2021 | Cannon McIntosh | 1:49.120
National Midget | Solomon Valley Speedway | 12 Laps | 7/15/2021 | Daison Pursley | 2:32.00
National Midget | Jefferson County Speedway | 10 Laps | 7/16/2021 | Justin Grant | 1:50.360
National Midget | Grandview Speedway | 1 Lap | 8/3/2021 | Kevin Thomas Jr. | 13.970
National Midget | Grandview Speedway | 8 Laps | 8/3/2021 | Alex Bright | 1:53.83
National Midget | Grandview Speedway | 10 Laps | 8/3/2021 | Jonathan Shafer | 2:35.22
National Midget | Grandview Speedway | 30 Laps | 8/3/2021 | Chris Windom | 7:45.45
National Midget | Action Track USA | 1 Lap | 8/4/2021 | Tanner Thorson | 10.881
National Midget | Action Track USA | 10 Laps | 8/4/2021 | Thomas Meseraull | 1:54.72
National Midget | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 1 Lap | 8/5/2021 | Alex Bright | 16.275
National Midget | Bridgeport Motorsports Park | 8 Laps | 8/5/2021 | Buddy Kofoid | 2:14.20
National Midget | Bloomsburg Fair Raceway | 1 Lap | 8/6/2021 | Tanner Thorson | 15.600
National Midget | Bloomsburg Fair Raceway | 10 Laps | 8/6/2021 | Chris Windom | 2:42.345
National Midget | Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway | 1 Lap | 8/7/2021 | Daison Pursley | 9.972
National Midget | Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway | 10 Laps | 8/7/2021 | Chase Randall | 1:46.508
National Midget | The Dirt Track at IMS | 10 Laps | 8/19/2021 | Emerson Axsom | 2:04.91
National Midget | Huset’s Speedway | 1 Lap | 9/11/2021 | Mitchel Moles | 12.776
National Midget | Huset’s Speedway | 30 Laps | 9/11/2021 | Chris Windom | 7:31.12
National Midget | Huset’s Speedway | 10 Laps | 9/12/2021 | Emerson Axsom | 2:12.56
National Midget | Arizona Speedway | 1 Lap | 11/12/2021 | Cannon McIntosh | 14.828
National Midget | Arizona Speedway | 8 Laps | 11/12/2021 | Emerson Axsom | 2:03.650
National Midget | Bakersfield Speedway | 1 Lap | 11/16/2021 | Cannon McIntosh | 12.347
National Midget | Bakersfield Speedway | 12 Laps | 11/16/2021 | Chase Randall | 2:31.417
National Midget | Placerville Speedway | 1 Lap | 11/18/2021 | Tanner Thorson | 11.397
National Midget | Placerville Speedway | 12 Laps | 11/18/2021 | Tanner Thorson | 2:25.95
National Midget | Placerville Speedway | 30 Laps | 11/18/2021 | Ryan Timms | 6:07.97
National Midget | Placerville Speedway | 10 Laps | 11/19/2021 | Brenham Crouch | 1:56.949
National Midget | Merced Speedway | 10 Laps | 11/23/2021 | Chris Windom | 2:00.070
National Midget | Merced Speedway | 12 Laps | 11/23/2021 | Carson Macedo | 2:28.240
National Midget | Merced Speedway | 30 Laps | 11/23/2021 | Justin Grant | 6:14.350
National Midget | Merced Speedway | 1 Lap | 11/24/2021 | Buddy Kofoid | 11.635
