INDIANAPOLIS — A busy weekend of sprint car, midget and USAC Silver Crown at Lucas Oil Raceway has now all been condensed to a single day.
The Hoosier Classic, originally scheduled over two nights, will now take place within a single day — Saturday, Aug. 14 — at the .686-mile paved oval.
The shift to a Saturday-only schedule of events has been put into place due to a less-than-ideal weather forecast for the originally scheduled Hoosier Classic opener on Friday.
The inaugural Hoosier Classic will feature all three open wheel divisions back-to-back-to-back on under the Saturday night lights, concluding with a $10,000-to-win 50-lap sprint car feature, followed by a $10,000-to-win 50-lap Browns Oil Champion Midget feature and the grand finale, a 100-lap USAC Silver Crown race paying $12,000-to-win.
Saturday’s schedule will now have the gates opening at 11 a.m. Eastern, followed by the drivers meeting at 2:50 p.m.; stands opening at 3 p.m.; sprint car practice at 3:30 p.m.; midget practice at 4:20 p.m.; USAC Silver Crown practice at 5:10 p.m.; sprint car qualifying at 6pm; midget qualifying at 6:45pm; Silver Crown qualifying at 7:30 p.m.; and opening ceremonies at 8:05 p.m.
Main events get underway at 8:30 p.m. Eastern, leading off with the sprint car feature followed by the midget feature at 9:15 p.m. and the USAC Silver Crown feature at 10 p.m.
The Hoosier Classic trifecta will also feature drivers competing on The Oval at Lucas Oil Raceway for their shot at taking home a staggering $100,000.
The Fatheadz $100K Challenge is up for grabs to anyone that can win all three of the Hoosier Classic races. If a driver and team can win two of those three events, they will collect $50,000.
Due to the schedule change, the previously announced 25-lap USAC Silver Crown Shootout non-points special event has been removed from the schedule.
The racing at LOR coincides with a massive weekend of racing scheduled in central Indiana. Just down the road at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course, a new NTT IndyCar Series race, the Big Machine Spiked Coolers GP, will also be held on Saturday before the NASCAR Cup Series’ Verizon 200 at the Brickyard takes the road course for the first time on Sunday, Aug. 15.
Hoosier Classic tickets are now on sale at www.bit.ly/HoosierClassic. General admission tickets are $25, with children age 12 and under free. Pit passes are $35.
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