2023 USAC Dairyland 100 at Madison International Speedway

Kody Swanson Takes The Cheddar At Madison Dairyland 100

Kody Swanson tames Madison to win Dairyland 100 with the USAC Silver Crown Series.

Jun 24, 2023 by Tyler Burnett

Kody Swanson Takes The Cheddar At Madison Dairyland 100

Throughout the first three events of the 2023 USAC Silver Crown National Championship season, Kody Swanson had dominated the stat book in terms of total laps led.

The Kingsburg, Calif. native led all three races for a total of 163 out of a possible 246 laps – more than two-thirds of all the laps that had been run thus far this season.

Despite that fact, he had zero wins to show for his efforts.

Throughout Friday night’s Bytec Dairyland 100 at Wisconsin’s Madison International Speedway, the seven-time series champion put that odd little anomaly to bed with a dominant wire-to-wire performance, leading all 100 laps in his Doran-Binks Racing/Mission Foods – Glenn Farms/Beast/Lanci Ford.

The victory was Swanson’s first of the year in Silver Crown competition, and his record-extending 38th overall, as he captured his third career triumph with the series at Madison in four tries, having made the drive to winner’s circle in 2018-19-23.

In 2022, Swanson’s early season swoon left him winless throughout the first handful of rounds before finally finding his mojo in late June. In 2023, the timeline matches up once again with Swanson winning the first race held following the summer solstice.

For Swanson, this win came not a moment too soon.

Jun 23, 2023

2023 USAC Dairyland 100 at Madison International Speedway

Highlights USAC Dairyland 100 at Madison - Silver Crown Series

Winning Quote From Kody Swanson

“We’ve been trying all year, it just hasn’t quite fallen our way. We’ve been running well on the dirt too, but we just haven’t been strong enough to finish at the end. Logan (Seavey) was the class of the field last week at Port Royal. Bobby (Santos) was really good at IRP. Justin (Grant) and Brady (Bacon) were both great at Belleville. So, there’s a lot of top-caliber guys you’re trying to win against. That’s why each one of these races that you do win means a lot.”