2020 Gas City Speedway | Indiana Midget Week

Gas City's Midget Week Tradition Resumes June 17

Gas City’s origins with Indiana Midget Week began in 2005, the very first year of the mini-series. Fifteen years later, it’s still home-sweet-home.

Jun 12, 2020 by Richie Murray

Gas City's Midget Week Tradition Resumes June 17

Gas City I-69 Speedway’s origins with Indiana Midget Week began in 2005, the very first year of the mini-series. Fifteen years later, it’s still home-sweet-home for the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets with their 14^th appearance at the ¼-mile dirt oval.

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Shane Cottle (2006-07) and Darren Hagen (2011-12) are the only multi-time USAC National Midget feature winners at Gas City, and both did it in consecutive years.

Last year’s Gas City IMW winner Justin Grant has every wave of momentum riding with him entering the 2020 IMW round two event at Gas City on Wednesday, June 17, having just won the last two USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car races last weekend at Iowa’s 34 Raceway and Missouri’s Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 as well the most recent USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature event on May 23 at Port City Raceway in Oklahoma.

In 2019, Grant (Ione, Calif.) wired all 30 laps to win the IMW feature at Gas City and is one of four previous IMW Gas City feature winners in this year’s field, along with Steve Buckwalter (2010), Kyle Larson (2013) and Tanner Thorson (2015), twice a winner on the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget trail this year, outdoors at Ocala, Fla. and indoors at Du Quoin, Ill.

Five additional drivers entered in the field have won in USAC Sprint Car competition at Gas City, including Dave Darland and Kevin Thomas Jr., both two-time winners, as well as Brady Bacon, Tyler Courtney and Chris Windom, who’ve all won once. Courtney and Windom have each won a singular USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget feature in 2020, Courtney at Port City and Windom at Ocala.

Reigning Gas City Sprint Car track champion Thomas Meseraull is also entered in this year’s IMW Gas City Midget lineup as an RMS teammate to the 2018 Gas City Sprint Car champ, Clinton Boyles.

Following the opener at Paragon, on Wednesday, June 17, the series travels northbound to the quarter-mile Gas City I-69 Speedway, whose origins with the IMW series date to the inaugural year in 2005. Next, on both Thursday, June 18 and Friday, June 19, Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville joins the IMW docket for the 11th straight year with two-straight nights of racing.

The three-eighths of a mile Lawrenceburg Speedway, which hosted the very first IMW event in 2005, serves as the penultimate race of the mini-series on Saturday, June 20. The 2020 IMW finale at Kokomo Speedway comes to the quarter mile venue on Sunday, June 21, which first hosted USAC Midget racing in USAC’s inaugural season of 1956.

All six Indiana Midget Week events will also feature local sprint car racing as part of the racing festivities. All nights of the IMW, along with all USAC National events in 2020, will be live on FloRacing.

Fields at each venue will be capped at 48 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midgets and 45 Sprint Cars. Limited spots remain. Competitor entry for Indiana Midget Week is now open for the events not filled yet, including for Sprint Cars as well at https://usacracing.ticketspice.com/2020-midget-week-entry-for-competitors. There, you may also purchase pit passes when entering a car.