BRANDON, S.D. — The payout for the inaugural Huset’s Speedway USAC Nationals has continued to grow by leaps and bounds with a final purse totaling $236,000.
The three-night event for the USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget and USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Championship is set for Sept. 10-12.
The $236,000 figure makes the Huset’s Speedway USAC Nationals the highest combined purse for a USAC sprint car and mdget doubleheader.
Nights one and two, on Friday, Sept. 10 and Saturday, Sept. 11, will showcase a unique format that begins with each driver drawing and placing themselves into a group to qualify, followed by heat races, last chance qualifiers and feature events for both classes.
Night one and two preliminary features for both sprint cars and midgets will pay $5,000 to win and $500 to start each night. Prelim night sprint car features will be 25 laps each night with midgets racing for 30 laps.
During the final night, Championship Night on Sept. 12, no qualifying will be held. All lineups will be based off the accumulation of points earned throughout the first two nights. Two new champions will be crowned with a 40-lap feature for sprint cars and a 100-lap main event for the midgets with each being rewarded a $20,000 payday. Both A-mains will reward starters with a minimum of $1,000 to start.
The event is the highest paying event of the USAC season.
Only twice in USAC’s history have series events been held at the three-eighths-mile dirt oval of Huset’s Speedway. Kenny Irwin Jr. won the midget debut there in 1996, while Chad Boespflug swept both nights of a 410 sprint car meet at the track in 2016.
Seeing an uncertain future in recent years, Huset’s Speedway was purchased by longtime sprint car owner and, more recently, track owner Tod Quiring and is under the management of Doug Johnson, who also manages Jackson Motorplex in Minnesota.
Matt Wood, a longtime sprint car and midget team owner, who recently joined forces with USAC and entered the promotion side of things with the inaugural running of the Hangtown 100 in Placerville, Calif. in 2019, is also the promoter of the USAC Nationals.