In his first race as USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car racing’s career win king, Justin Grant performed an encore performance on Friday night during the third running of the Ashlea Albertson Memorial at Indianapolis, Indiana’s Circle City Raceway.

One week after surpassing Dave Darland at the top of the list with series victory number 63, the Ione, California native added one more to the record book with triumph number 64 in his TOPP Motorsports/NOS Energy Drink – TOPP Industries – LA Poly/Maxim/Kistler Chevy.

Starting third, Grant raced his way into the lead by lap nine, then led five laps before relinquishing the top spot momentarily to Gunnar Setser. Two laps later, Grant fought his way back to the front, then led the remaining 15 circuits of the 30-lapper to earn his first career win at the 1/4-mile dirt oval.

Circle City hasn’t been all that kind to Grant over the years. In 10 career series starts at CCR, he held an uncharacteristically subpar average finish of 12.1. Furthermore, his 10th victory of the 2025 USAC National Sprint Car campaign is the second time he’s reached double figures in a single season.

“This car has been so, so good lately; it’s been so fun,” Grant complimented. “We usually dread coming to Circle City. I didn’t think we’d ever win a race here. But we found some things earlier this year here, and then at The Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, we were really good and I feel like it’s a really similar surface to here.”

In fact, he’s just the third driver in series history to have multiple seasons of 10 or more USAC National Sprint Car victories: Larry Dickson (1968 & 1970), Pancho Carter (1976 & 1977) and Justin Grant (2023 & 2025).

Grant was sporting a bit of a different look at Circle City. After a crash at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway a month-and-a-half ago, he was fitted with a hard cast to assist in the healing process of his broken left foot. Although still hobbling around with the aid of a pair of crutches, Grant was sans cast for the first time since late July.

“I was able to get out of my cast this week,” Grant revealed. “I thought my foot wasn’t hurting, but once I got it out of the cast, it was hurting again. I felt like this one would’ve been tough in the cast. When I could be 75 percent in the brake pedal and 100 percent in the throttle pedal smashing around Kokomo, I could do that. Being 20 percent in both of them was really, really hard for me, which you had to do a lot of here tonight.”

USAC National Sprints Results: Friday At Circle City Raceway

1. Justin Grant (3)

2. Mitchel Moles (6)

 3. Briggs Danner (7)

 4. Chase Stockon (12)

5. Gunnar Setser (1)

6. C.J. Leary (10)

7. Ricky Lewis (8)

8. Kevin Thomas Jr. (4)

9. Kyle Cummins (5)

10. Logan Seavey (9)

11. Todd Hobson (17)

12. Chance Crum (16)

13. Carson Garrett (18)

14. Rylan Gray (20)

15. Kayla Roell (13)

 16. Zack Pretorius (21)

17. Hayden Reinbold (11)

 18. Kale Drake (22)

 19. Shane Cottle (14)

 20. Matt Goodnight (23)

21. Matt Westfall (19)

22. Beau Brandon (24)

 23. Jake Swanson (2)

24. Jadon Rogers (15). NT