FORMAT: USAC Nationals at Huset’s Speedway
Preliminary Nights
– A pill draw draft will determine the order of heat race selection.
– Heat race placement selection will see drivers pick which heat to participate in and the order to qualify.
– Qualifying: All cars qualify – there will be six groups determined by heat race. Cars will qualify in the order picked by drivers. 36 points will be given for fast time in each group, dropping by three points per position thereafter.
– Six 10 lap Heat Races: Top eight cars inverted in heats by qualifying points/time. 36 points will be given for first place, dropping by three points per position thereafter. Three cars – first place (regardless of point total), and the two highest in total points (total points include qualifying and heat points) in each heat – transfer to the night one and night two A-Main. All others go to the night one and night two Last Chance Qualifiers.
– Three 12 lap Last Chance Qualifiers: Total points from qualifying and heat race finishes will be used to line up the LCQs. Lineups will be straight up based on points. The top three in total points will start on the pole in each respective LCQ. The next three in total points will start outside pole in each respective LCQ, and so on. The top two from each LCQ will transfer to the night one and night two A-Mains but will not earn LCQ points. Fifty points will be awarded for third place in the LCQs, dropping by two points for each position thereafter.
– A-Main: 30 Laps, 24 Cars – First place and the two highest in points from heat races, plus two transfers from each LCQ. LCQ cars will line up by points behind direct transfers out of heats. The top 12 in total points will line up inverted. The next six in total points transferring directly out of the heats will line up 13th through 18th, straight up. LCQ transfers will line up behind heat race transfers straight up based on points.
– One hundred points will be awarded to the A-Main winner, dropping by two per position thereafter.
Championship Night
No Qualifying. Lineups based on total points from night one and night two.
Six 10 lap Heat Races: The top eight cars will be inverted in heats by total points from night one and two. Thirty-six points will be given for first place, dropping by three points per position thereafter.
Total points will then be tallied to line up D, C, B, and A-Mains. The top 20 in points go to the A-Main, positions 21-36 in points go to B-Main, positions 37-52 in points go to the C-Main, and all others go to the D-Main.
D-Main: 10 Laps. Top 4 transfer to the tail of the C-Main. No points awarded.
C-Main: 15 Laps, 20 Cars. Top 4 transfer to the tail of the B-Main. No points awarded.
B-Main: 20 Laps, 20 Cars. Top 4 transfer to the tail of the A-Main. No points awarded.
A-Main: 100 Laps, 24 Cars. Top 12 inverted by points, followed by next eight in points lined straight up, followed by B-Main transfers. 150 points awarded for first place, dropping three points per position thereafter. Yellow laps counted for first 50 laps.
**Ties in overall points will be broken by qualifying times.
**Promoter reserves the right to add provisional starters to the Championship Night A-Main.
**Possible mandatory fuel stop between laps 40 and 50 of the Championship Night A-Main.