DU QUOIN, Ill. – Winners, champions, young talent and veterans have already filed their entries for the sixth running of the Shamrock Classic presented by Dooling Machine Products at the Southern Illinois Center on March 11-12.
One week remains for competitors to file their entries for the event that features back-to-back nights of USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget racing with two complete programs across two nights with a 40-lap, $2,000-to-win midget feature on Friday night and culminating with Saturday’s $10,000-to-win, 50-lap A-Main for the midgets!
Thus far, 28 midget drivers and teams have entered the Shamrock Classic, both races which are considered non-points special events for the USAC Midgets, meaning zero points will be awarded toward the national championship. It’s all about pride and glory with drivers shooting for the pot of gold trophy and the check with their name on it at the end of the night.
Among those already entered are a pair of past Southern Illinois Center midget winners in RMS Racing entries. Justin Grant, the 2020 USAC Silver Crown champion, won the Shamrock Classic in March of 2017. Teammate Thomas Meseraull is a 2018 midget winner at the sixth-mile dirt oval, picking up RMS Racing’s first victory.
Four-time USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Champion Brady Bacon is entered in the TKH Motorsports No. 21H while USAC Triple Crown titlist Jerry Coons Jr. will strap in the No. 2MD for Marc Dailey Racing. Coons is the 2006-07 USAC National Midget champion.
Entered in a Dave Mac-Dalby Motorsports machine is Cannon McIntosh who scored a Shamrock Classic victory in 2019, which was his first USAC National Midget victory. Daniel Robinson will drive a familiar No. 57, but this time, it’s for RAB Racing. Robinson tallied a USAC Midwest Regional Midget triumph at SIC in September of 2021.
Two-time Indiana Midget Week champ Shane Cottle will pilot a Hodges Automotive entry in the Shamrock Classic, with whom he’s competed for in the USAC National Sprint Car ranks over the past couple of seasons. He’s joined by three-time POWRi Midget champ Zach Daum of Pocahontas, Ill. in a car owned by Harris Racing.
Three-time and defending Badger Midget king Chase McDermand will be in one of two Mounce-Stout Motorsports entries alongside teammate Jacob Denney, a two-time and defending USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget titlist. Bryan Stanfill, one of 14 drivers to win a USAC-sanctioned feature in four different decades, is back in the saddle of the Griffiths Motorsports No. 75AU along with many more.
Past Shamrock Classic midget winners include Shane Golobic (2016), Justin Grant (2017), Logan Seavey (2018), Cannon McIntosh (2019) and Tanner Thorson (2020). The event was not held in 2021.
Shamrock Classic Midget Entry List (As of Feb. 28, 2022)
06 – Ryan Gray
08 – Cannon McIntosh
2J – Justin Grant
2MD – Jerry Coons Jr.
3N – Jake Neuman
7x – Thomas Meseraull
10c – Dalton Camfield
11 – Logan Anderson
11m – Kendall Ruble
15 – R.J. Corson
16c- Dave Camfield
17c – Devin Camfield
21H – Brady Bacon
36 – Chris Baue
40 – Chase McDermand
51 – Zach Boden
51B – Joe B. Miller
51R – Thomas Harris
53 – Sean Robbins
56 – Matt Veatch
56x – Mark Chisholm
57 – Daniel Robinson
61m – Jacob Denney
75AU – Bryan Stanfill
81 – Anton Hernandez
86 – Shane Cottle
88 – Terry Babb
91 – Zach Daum