2014 USAC Honda .25 Dirt Series Undoubtably a Great Success

The last checkered flag flew on the 2014 USAC Honda .25 Dirt Triple Crown National Championship Series at the finale at the South Jersey Club in Atco, NJ.  The 5 race “Dirt only Series” was a huge success! The majority of the USAC sanctioned dirt venues are geographically located in the upper North East and the dirt racers responded with great enthusiasm and big car counts, making it a great success.

Congratulations to your 2014 USAC Honda .25 Midget Dirt National Champions! Aleksander Andrecs (Junior Honda), Conner Weiss (Senior Honda), Zachary Curtis (Heavy Honda), Briggs Danner (Light 160), Hanna Flood (Heavy 160, Unrestricted Animal), Bradan Andrecs (Junior Animal), Mike Thompson (Senior Animal), Connor Gross (Light World Formula), Jesse James Bartleson (Heavy World Formula)

In the Jr Honda class, Alek Andrecs won the series over Blake Davis, Gregory Borgeson, twin brother Bradan Andrecs and Logan Bauman.  Sr Honda winner Conner Weiss bested 2^nd place finisher Jared Edwards by 6 points only to have 3^rd place Adrianna Delliponti, 4^th place Tori O’Neal and 5^th place Johnathon Galagher have a tie breaker decide their fate as they all earned 159 points.

Heavy Honda winner Zachary Curtis won by just 3 points over 2^nd place Logan Snyder.  Third place was Zakery Vickers, 4^th Joe Toth and Mathew Hopkins took 5^th.

Honda Lt 160, as always, was very competitive with Briggs Danner finishing at the top by just 3 points over Andrew Layser.   Another 3 points separated 3^rd place Johnathon Gallagher.  Connor Gross and Kane Rogers rounded out the top 5. 

Retiring driver, Hanna Flood took the Honda Hvy 160 championship over Zakery Vickers, Levi Crowl, Austin Bellemare and Zachary Curtis.

Briggs Jr Animal was won by Bradan Andrecs just 3 points ahead of his twin brother Alek.  Tanner Van Doren took 3^rd while Bennett Skelton and Preston Lattomus rounded out the top 5.

 Sr Animal winner was first time USAC Series Champ Mike Thompson.  Briggs Danner and Andrew Layser 2^nd and 3^rd spots were decided by a tie-breaker as only 3 points separtated 4^th place finisher Johnathan Gallagher as Connor Gross took 5^th place.

The Briggs Un-Restricted Animal Class was won by Hanna Flood followed by Steven Kisamore, Joe Toth, Ray Kable and Keighley Saylor.  Connor Gross took the Briggs Lt World Formula championship by just 3 points over Briggs Danner.  Ray Kable finished a solid 3^rd with the tie breaker deciding Brandon Shipley 4^th and Mike Thompson 5^th.  Briggs Hvy World Formula winner was Jesse James Bartleson.  The tie breaker decided 2^nd place Levi Crowl, over 3^rd place finisher Hanna Flood and just 3 points separated 4^th place Seth Spayd and 5^th place Steven Kisamore.

USAC would like to thank all of the Rookies that raced the 2014 USAC Honda .25 Dirt Tour this season.  “Each one of these beginning drivers are very important to the continued success of the USAC Program.”  James Fries, Michael Hoffmaster, Bobby Klein, Kiley Kupp, Lucas Kostic, Mason Mazzerle, Cody Doyle, Brody Mazzerle, Robert Goodman, Julia James, Colton Gerber, Jonathon Morehouse, Kaitlyn Stradley, Mikey Tansey, Austin Dean, PJ Bozowski, Sydney Mancini, Alex Williams, Mitchell Hamilton, Wyatt Burgess, Erika Heller, & Lucas Roberson.

We look forward to seeing the top 5 finishers in the series as they are honored at the USAC .25 Banquet, December, in conjunction with the PRI Show.