Robert Ballou returned the favor to Brady Bacon in more ways than one during Saturday night’s USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship event at Odessa, Missouri’s I-70 Motorsports Park.

The USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Racing Association event at Osborn, Missouri’s U.S. 36 Raceway, scheduled for Friday, May 13, has been canceled due to saturated grounds following overnight rain.

Kansas City, Kansas -- With the havoc that Mother Nature had been playing on the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship of late, it nearly seemed as if it had been five years since the series last completed a feature event.

It’s been more than a quarter century since USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship racing has hit the high banks of Odessa, Missouri’s I-70 Motorsports Park.

Over the decades, a total of twelve Friday the 13th movies have been produced. In USAC racing’s history, 19 such events have taken place on the 13th day of the month on a Friday.

For non-racing folk, when the weather gets nice, plans are made to head to the lake. For racing drivers, teams and fans alike, this weekend, the plans call for a trip to Lakeside.

Haubstadt, Indiana -- This weekend’s edition of #LetsRaceTwo, featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the World of Outlaws NOS Energy Drink Sprint Cars, scheduled for May 6-7 at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway, has been canceled.

Kaylee Bryson will make her USAC Silver Crown debut when the series makes its first ever appearance at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway on Saturday night, June 18.

The United States Auto Club released the conclusion of the most complete and exhaustive tire testing process ever conducted in grassroots racing after four tire samples taken at a February event were initially found not to meet the manufacturer benchmark by an initial laboratory test.

Haubstadt, Indiana -- The 10th running of the Spring Showdown featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and Midwest Sprint Car Series, scheduled for Saturday, April 30, at Haubstadt, Indiana’s Tri-State Speedway, has been canceled due to severe thunderstorms that are forecasted to arrive during the night’s racing event.

Bloomington, Indiana -- As much a fixture of spring as the blooming of the flowers and trees, it seems apropos that the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship makes an annual early season trip to southern Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway.

The 2022 Keith Kauffman Classic at Port Royal Speedway will go down as a race for the ages, as “Speed Palace” rivals Anthony Macri and Logan Wagner waged an all-out war on Saturday night for the $10,000 crown, exchanging challenge after challenge and slider after slider until a final lap block by Macri sealed his winning fate, ultimately securing his second Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 victory in three tries, now with five on his career.

Ready to battle head-to-head with the notorious Pennsylvania Posse, the Tezos All Star Circuit of Champions presented by Mobil 1 will continue their 2022 campaign with a three-race slate through the heart of the Keystone State, activating the extended weekend with a stop at Bloomsburg Fair Raceway in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, on Thursday evening, April 21.

Following a season in which he only finished outside the top-ten on two occasions, Brady Bacon opened his defense of the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship with a pair of 15th and 16th place results.

Chillicothe, Ohio -- For many, Atomic Speedway will be a new experience come this Saturday night, April 16, when the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship returns to the Chillicothe, Ohio racetrack for the first time since 2010’s abbreviated event.