Silver Crown Notes: Wealthy Vogler Basic

WINCHESTER, Ind. — 4 previous Winchester Speedway winners and a complete host of hungry others will tackle the legendary excessive banks for this Friday night time’s June 27 USAC Silver Crown Wealthy Vogler Basic on the jap Indiana pace plant well-known for its excessive speeds, excessive depth and excessive drama.

Among the many 19 entries within the area are 4 drivers who’ve beforehand tamed the 37-degree excessive banks of their USAC profession.

FOUR PAST WINNERS

Kody Swanson enters because the winner of the previous three USAC Silver Crown races at Winchester in 2022-2023-2024 and has captured the pole place in all 4. He additionally enters as the latest sequence winner on the pavement at WWT Raceway on June 14.

Present sequence level chief Justin Grant scored the win in a photograph end over Swanson within the inaugural Silver Crown spherical at Winchester in 2021. Brian Tyler makes his return to the sequence following a three-year absence. He captured a pair of USAC Dash Automotive wins on the monitor in 1997-1998, and another shock entry.

HELLO NEWMAN

The shock of the entry checklist is Kazmark Motorsports fielding Ryan Newman, an 18-time NASCAR Cup Collection winner and the 2008 winner of the Daytona 500. Newman, the 1999 USAC Silver Crown champion, has skilled his share of USAC victories at Winchester, 5 in actual fact. He received 4 instances in USAC Midget competitors at Winchester between 1998-1999 and in addition added a USAC Nationwide Dash Automotive victory in 1999.

Apparently, Newman is the latest driver to win 4 consecutive USAC options with a single sequence at Winchester Speedway. It’s a document Swanson is aiming to tie this Friday. Newman additionally swept each ends of the Wealthy Vogler Basic in 2000, which was a NAMARS sanctioned Dash and Midget doubleheader that 12 months.

ONE SPOT

One other pair of drivers want to bounce over the hump after garnering runner-up finishes in latest USAC Silver Crown outings at Winchester, together with Logan Seavey (2nd in 2022) and Bobby Santos (2nd in 2023 & 2024). Whereas Seavey is looking for his first profession Silver Crown win on the pavement, Santos is among the many most embellished pavement specialists in USAC historical past and is vying for his first win of the USAC Silver Crown season.

BACK TO THE BANKS

Earlier Winchester USAC Silver Crown podium finishers Taylor Ferns (third in 2022) and C.J. Leary (third in 2024) may also tackle the banks this Friday as will high USAC Silver Crown Rookie of the 12 months contender Jackson Macenko (tenth in 2024).

Additionally again within the area for Friday are those that have earlier Winchester Silver Crown begins. The checklist consists of Nathan Byrd (eleventh in 2022 & 2024), Matt Westfall (thirteenth in 2023), Gregg Cory (thirteenth in 2024), Dakoda Armstrong (14th in 2024), Kyle Steffens (fifteenth in 2024), Dave Berkheimer (nineteenth in 2021) and Tyler Roahrig (twenty second in 2024).

ROOKIES

In the meantime, Jake Trainor and Colton Bettis are the lone drivers in Friday’s lineup with out earlier USAC Silver Crown racing expertise at Winchester. However each have skilled racing groups behind them with Klatt Enterprises (Trainor) and Sam Pierce Racing (Bettis) routinely being among the many quickest at Winchester for many years.

Each Trainor and Bettis have been dynamite on the pavement with Trainor lately garnering midget and dash automotive wins on the asphalt, together with Might’s Little 500, at Anderson (Ind.) Speedway, whereas Bettis has been a grasp on the Florida winged pavement dash automotive circuit.