In what was his 96th career USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature start, Carson Garrett finally broke through to become first-time series winner during Saturday night’s $10,000-to-win Sprintacular finale at Putnamville, Indiana’s Honest Abe Roofing Lincoln Park Speedway.

In a racelong duel alongside fellow first-time USAC winning hopeful Hayden Reinbold, Garrett (Littleton, Colorado) fell in and out of the top spot four different times before making the winning move with eight laps remaining, then surviving multiple restart attempts down the stretch at the wheel of his Epperson Racing/Epperson Painting – Sherwin Williams – BGE Motorsports/DRC/Claxton Chevy.

The victory was also the first in USAC competition for longtime competitors Epperson Racing in six seasons. Overall, it’s the team’s third USAC score with a third different driver, scoring wins with Tyler Thomas at Kokomo Speedway in 2018 and Shane Cottle at Gas City I-69 Speedway in 2019.

Garrett joined the Epperson Racing team for a part-time schedule at the beginning of the 2025 season, and it has admittedly been an up-and-down first half of the year. In four USAC attempts this year, they’ve made two feature starts and missed the main event on two other occasions. They took 10th at Lincoln Park in April and 21st in the Sprintacular opener on Friday night.

However, when opportunity knocked on Saturday night, Garrett and Epperson were in position to make their mark. Despite losing the lead to Reinbold on two different occasions during the 40-lap feature, they fought back each time to park themselves in victory lane.

“We’ve struggled for quite a while this year,” Garrett admitted. “This means a lot to me and my family everyone who’s helped me along the way. I wouldn’t want to have anybody else here helping me out. It’s just awesome to put this thing in victory lane.”

USAC National Sprints Results: Lincoln Park Speedway Saturday

1. Carson Garrett (2)

2. Kevin Thomas Jr. (7)

3. Logan Seavey (6)

 4. Hayden Reinbold (1)

5. Robert Ballou (5)

6. Cale Coons (12)

7. Justin Grant (10)

 8. Kale Drake (11)

 9. Mitchel Moles (15)

10. Shane Cottle (24)

11. C.J. Leary (4)

12. Daison Pursley (17)

13. Briggs Danner (25-P)

14. Tye Mihocko (21)

15. Chase Stockon (16)

16. Kyle Cummins (3)

17. Brandon Mattox (18)

 18. Stevie Sussex (9)

19. Austin Nigh (19)

20. Geoff Ensign (14)

21. Jake Swanson (26-P)

22. Joey Amantea (23)

23. Wesley Smith (20)

24. Kyle Johnson (22)

25. Todd Hobson (13)

26. Jadon Rogers (8). NT