Briggs Danner and Hogue Racing Enterprises were counting down the days until they could get their chance at redemption on Friday night at Tri-City Speedway in Granite City, Illinois.

Just 13 days earlier, the Allentown, Pennsylvania driver’s wall contact and subsequent flip on the final lap of Sprint Car Smackdown XIV at Indiana’s Kokomo Speedway resulted in heartbreak that weighed heavily on their minds until they got a crack at their next opportunity.

When opportunity knocked, Danner answered at Tri-City. Starting fourth in the 30-lap feature, Danner tracked down Kyle Cummins for the lead on the 14th circuit, then ran away from the pack to earn his third USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victory of the season in his E. Schneider & Sons – Aw Shucks Roasted Corn/DRC/Rider Chevy.

“I’ve got to thank Tim (Hogue) and Tyler; this one’s for them,” Danner said. “They put a lot of work in after Kokomo, and we’ve just tried to forget about it and move on. Tonight made that a little easier.”

In what was the first visit by the USAC Sprint Cars to Tri-City’s 3/8-mile dirt oval since 2019, for both Danner and Hogue, it was the first time they’d ever laid eyes on the joint.

“It’s awesome,” Danner exclaimed. “It’s a place we’ve never been to and it’s really cool traveling to these new places and running well. I knew right from qualifying it was going to be pretty sweet. I wasn’t quite sure what the track was going to do there during the feature after a little bit of track work. I felt like it started to clean off in some spots but it was so dirty, it was hard to hit. So I kept running where I felt good.”

Danner’s sixth career USAC National Sprint Car triumph moved him into 76th place all-time alongside the likes of Emerson Axsom, Chad Boespflug, Kevin Briscoe, Shane Cottle, Jac Haudenschild, Jason McCord, Jan Opperman, Tom Sneva, George Snider, Jake Swanson and Dick Tobias.

USAC National Sprint Cars Results At Tri-City Speedway

1. Briggs Danner (4)

 2. Kyle Cummins (2)

3. Chase Stockon (1)

4. Justin Grant (6)

 5. Mario Clouser (3)

 6. Cale Coons (14)

7. Logan Seavey (5)

8. Mitchel Moles (7)

9. Kevin Thomas Jr. (12)

10. Jake Swanson (13)

11. Gunnar Setser (16)

12. Kale Drake (10)

 13. C.J. Leary (15)

14. Jadon Rogers (11)

15. Brandon Mattox (19)

16. Hayden Reinbold (18)

 17. Kobe Simpson (17)

18. Braydon Cromwell (21)

19. Wesley Smith (9)

20. Anthony Nicholson (20)

21. Dakota Earls (22)

 22. Ricky Lewis (8). NT