LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. – As a USAC Indiana Midget Week championship representative in last year’s starting lineup at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway, Logan Seavey knew full well what it took to compete and win during the most intense and busy week(s) of the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship season.
The 2019 IMW titalist from Sutter, California, showed the way at the 3/8-mile oval to survive and withstand a late-race cascade of cautions and challenges levied by eventual 2021 IMW champ Buddy Kofoid.
This Saturday night, June 4, Seavey, Kofoid and a whole bunch more take the show to the high-banked dirt track for the first time since that point, for round two of the mini-series at Lawrenceburg, the track in which the first ever Indiana Midget Week race was held back in 2005.
In addition to Seavey’s 2021 victory, he roared to victory during Indiana Sprint Week at Lawrenceburg a little less than two months later. In Indiana Midget Week competition at the Burg, Seavey has also taken third in 2019 and ninth in 2018.
Buddy Kofoid shares the same team and car number (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports No. 67) as Lawrenceburg’s first Indiana Midget Week winner, Jay Drake, in 2005, who currently serves with the team as its manager and driver coach. Penngrove, California’s Kofoid, the reigning USAC National Midget and Indiana Midget Week champion, led the first five laps of the 2020 IMW appearance at Lawrenceburg en route to a second-place finish, then finished second once more in 2021.
Zach Daum (Pocahontas, Illinois) has been a consistent frontrunner during IMW at Lawrenceburg and scored a victory in the event during the 2013 season. He’s also finished sixth in 2019 as well as seventh in 2010, ninth in 2011 and 2014, and 10th in 2012.
Thomas Meseraull (San Jose, California) nearly scored a victory in the 2020 IMW round at Lawrenceburg, finishing third after leading a race-high 21 laps. Meseraull was also the fastest qualifier in 2020 and also earned a USAC National Sprint Car win at the track in 2015.
Steve Buckwalter (Royersford, Pennsylvania) notched a third in 2009 at Lawrenceburg for his best IMW result at the track and also finished ninth in 2010. His 12-lap track record from 2009 has also stood the test of time, clocking in at 2:59.60.
Justin Grant (Ione, California) possesses a record of four USAC National Sprint Car victories at Lawrenceburg in his career. A fourth-place finish during IMW in 2021 at Lawrenceburg has been the best thus far along with a seventh in 2017, although, he does own a fast qualifying time there during IMW in 2019.
Cannon McIntosh (Bixby, Oklahoma) has made a trio of successful Lawrenceburg IMW appearances, finishing inside the top 10 in each instance, earning fifth in 2019 followed by a hard-charging 22nd to sixth run in 2020 and a ninth in 2021.
Brenham Crouch’s debut on the Lawrenceburg high banks brought him his best career USAC National Midget finish when the Lubbock, Texas driver garnered a fifth-place result during Indiana Midget Week in 2021 after starting back in the 13th position.
Muskogee, Oklahoma’s Kaylee Bryson burst onto the scene with a sterling seventh-place performance during Lawrenceburg’s IMW feature in 2020. She followed it up with an eighth-place finish in 2021 after starting 19th.
Jason McDougal (Broken Arrow, Oklahoma), recently tabbed to take over as the pilot of the Reinbold-Underwood Motorsports No. 19, finished ninth at Lawrenceburg’s IMW round in 2020. His teammate, Hayden Reinbold (Gilbert, Arizona) qualified an impressive sixth at the event in 2021 but endured a flip during the heat race which prevented him from participating in the feature.
Back in the Burg lineup are Mooresville, North Carolina’s Ethan Mitchell (15th in 2021), St. Peters, Missouri’s Sam Johnson (17th in 2018), Snohomish, Washington’s Chance Crum (18th in 2021), Macdoel, California’s Maria Cofer (18th in 2020), Princeton, Indiana’s Kyle Cummins (20th in 2021) and Colby, Kansas’ Bryant Wiedeman (12th in 2021) while Blake Brannon will be looking to qualify for his first Burg feature after falling shy of the last transfer spot by two positions in the 2021 meet.
Seeking their first Lawrenceburg on-track experiences on Saturday night are third-place points driver Mitchel Moles (Raisin City, California), plus multi-time series fast qualifier Taylor Reimer (Bixby, Oklahoma), third-place Ocala finisher Jade Avedisian (Clovis, Calif.), Badger Midget champion Chase McDermand (Springfield, Ill.) and two-time USAC Midwest Thunder SpeeD2 Midget titlist Jacob Denney (Galloway, Ohio), plus Kiwi Travis Buckley (Auckland, N.Z.), CB Industries Rookies Dominic Gorden (Clovis, Calif.) and Jace Park (Overland Park, Kan.) as well as Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports newcomers Mariah Ede (Fresno, Calif.) and Cade Lewis (Bakersfield, Calif.)