After a five-year absence for USAC Silver Crown National Championship competition at Indiana’s Salem Speedway Fueled by the Hoosier Lottery, Kody Swanson didn’t miss a single beat on Saturday night.

The Kingsburg, California driver picked up right where he left off by leading all 100 laps from the pole position to capture his sixth consecutive USAC Silver Crown victory at the .555-mile paved oval following previous scores in 2016-2017-2018-2019-2020.

That tied the record for the most consecutive USAC Silver Crown victories by a single driver at one particular track, equaling Swanson’s very own streak of six straight triumphs at Ohio’s Toledo Speedway between 2018-2024, a run which ended back in April of this season.

However, Swanson wasn’t about to let his Salem dominance end any time soon in his Doran Binks Racing/Mission Foods – Wilke Orthodontics – Glenn Farms/Beast/Lanci Ford as he raced to his third USAC Silver Crown victory of the year and the 48th of his career.

That said, Swanson’s latest success at Salem came in a different manner than each of his past five scores, all of which were 75 laps in length. Saturday’s race marked the first 100-lap USAC event at Salem in nearly 57 years dating back to Rollie Beale’s Sprint Car win on the 33 degree high banks in October 1968.

That fact alone added another 33 percent to each team’s fuel load, thus altering the dynamics and feeling of the racecar for all at the start of the race.

“This is the most fuel we’ve run here, and I wanted to try and be aware of that early,” Swanson explained. “This place is so cool, but it’s got a lot of character to it. In three and four, if you time it wrong with your pedals, it can upset your car. So I tried to be aware of that all throughout the race as the fuel load burned off.”

Results USAC Silver Crown Series At Salem Speedway

1. Kody Swanson (1)

2. Justin Grant (5)

3. Dakoda Armstrong (4)

4. C.J. Leary (3)

5. Nathan Byrd (7)

 6. Kyle Steffens (8)

7. Derek Bischak (10)

8. Mario Clouser (2)

 9. Jake Trainor (11)

10. Billy Wease (6)

 11. Matt Westfall (12)

12. Taylor Ferns (9)

13. Dave Berkheimer (13)