USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car teams will visit southern Indiana for a two-track weekend on May 1 and May 2. The 19th Larry Rice Classic is scheduled for Bloomington Speedway on Friday, May 1, and the 13th Spring Showdown will follow at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt on Saturday, May 2. General admission is $30 per night, and both events will be streamed live on FloRacing.

Kyle Cummins leads the USAC national standings and arrives as the defending dual-winner at Bloomington Speedway and Tri-State from 2025. He added a USAC victory at Terre Haute earlier this month and also won a dominant unsanctioned feature at Kokomo. Cummins has a run of seven straight USAC top-five finishes heading into the May weekend.

Primary challengers include C.J. Leary, driving the Fox Brothers/Brayden Fox Racing No. 53, the 2023 Larry Rice Classic winner who holds Bloomington’s one-lap record at 10.685 seconds, and Kevin Thomas Jr., who has 13 career USAC feature wins between Bloomington and Tri-State and who won the Spring Showdown in 2013, 2018 and 2024 and the Larry Rice Classic in 2021. Thomas has not recorded a USAC feature win in 2026 as of this preview. Four past Larry Rice Classic winners, Thomas Jr., Leary, Logan Seavey and Cummins, are entered for Friday’s program. Team Arizona/Curb-Agajanian will debut a part-time No. 21AZ entry at Bloomington driven by Gavin Miller and Jacob Denney, with Miller set to make his first USAC National Sprint Car start after strong Kokomo performances. Mitchel Moles has been a frequent fast qualifier at both Bloomington and Tri-State in recent seasons.

Two reports conflict on the winner and standings following the USAC NOS Energy Drink midget 30‑lap feature at Kokomo Speedway. One report credits Jacob Denney in the No. 67 Kunz/Curb‑Agajanian entry with the win and the other credits Justin Grant. The sources also differ on the event date, with one listing April 25 and the other April 26, and they disagree on qualifying results, heat winners and the points standings.

According to one account, Jacob Denney won the 30‑lap feature after taking the lead on lap 3 and leading to the finish. That report lists Gavin Miller second and Kevin Thomas Jr. third. It names Jakeb Boxell as the LearnLab fast qualifier with a 12.907 and lists the Dirt Draft hot‑lap leader at 13.138. Heat winners are listed as Kevin Thomas Jr., Jacob Denney and Justin Grant, and that account puts Denney atop the national championship standings with 150 points, Thomas at 149 and Justin Grant at 147.

An alternate account credits Justin Grant with the 30‑lap victory after he took the lead from Zach Wigal on lap 13. That version lists Wigal second and Denney rallying from 19th to third and earning the Rod End Supply Hard Charger award. It lists Kevin Thomas Jr. as the LearnLab fast qualifier with a 13.074 and the Dirt Draft hot‑lap leader at 13.154. Heat winners are named as Gunnar Setser, Jakeb Boxell and Ethan Mitchell, with Boxell also noted as a heat winner. That account records different season points: Grant 78, Wigal and Thomas tied at 74, and Denney 70.

Both reports describe a series of on‑track incidents, including qualifying flips involving Thomas Meseraull, Colton Robinson and Trevor Cline, heat‑race flips involving Tyler Watkins and Kyle Jones, and a flip by Drake Edwards in the feature on lap 18. Coverage did not indicate life‑threatening injuries from the qualifying, heat or feature incidents. The conflicting accounts may reflect different timing and tally updates, such as night totals versus an updated national tally. Verify the official finishing order, qualifying times, heat results, the correct event date and the points standings against USAC timing and results before publication, and confirm which tally each source used. The USAC midget series will pause and resume on June 9 at Circle City Raceway in Indianapolis.

Kale Drake has signed with RMS Racing to drive the team’s No. 4 car for the full 29-race USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. The 20-year-old from Collinsville, Oklahoma, will relocate to RMS’s Cedar Lake, Indiana, shop to work full time with the team, and his season is scheduled to begin at the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24-25.

The move marks a personnel shift in the USAC paddock as Drake leaves a high-profile development program to join a new race team. He arrives after more than two seasons with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, carrying 46 USAC National Midget starts and three USAC feature wins over the past two seasons, including victories at Sweet Springs Motorsports Park and Circle City Raceway. Drake won the 2025 USAC Indiana Midget Week title, finished fifth in the 2025 USAC National Midget standings, and won a BC39 preliminary feature at Indianapolis in 2024. He also ran several events for RMS before signing, including a third-place finish at I-44 Speedway in Oklahoma City.

Discussions about the signing began late last year between Drake, RMS crew chief Lacey Doyle and owner Dave Estep. RMS brings 22 USAC National Midget feature wins and marquee victories, including Turkey Night, the BC39 and the Hangtown 100, and the team expects Drake to help extend that success.

Brandon Carr, 18, from Sheffield, England and now based in Mooresville, North Carolina, will run the full 29-event 2026 USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship with Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports (KKM) and is targeting the Max Papis Innovations Rookie of the Year honor.

Carr moved to the United States three years ago and advanced to USAC competition after a decorated karting career. His karting titles include the Florida Winter Series (2017), the British Kart Championship (2022), Kart Masters (2022) and the Stars Championship (2023).

He made five USAC National Midget feature starts in 2025 and began racing on dirt in late 2024, making his first dirt midget start at Du Quoin in December 2024.

Carr won the POWRi Charlene Meents Memorial at Port City Raceway in Tulsa in October 2025, leading all 30 laps, and captured the inaugural IHRA Pro Late Model at Pulaski County Motorsports Park in March 2026.

Carr says the extra dirt experience has boosted his confidence for a full national campaign, and he credits KKM with accelerating his development.

J. Davidson Scrap Metal, with assistance from fellow Brit Tom Harris, backed Carr and helped secure the full-season ride with KKM.

He will launch his USAC campaign at Kokomo Speedway’s Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24–25, will adapt to the busy national schedule while pursuing rookie honors, and aims to become the first British winner of a USAC National Midget feature since Paul Bates in 1968.

Colton Robinson, a 16-year-old from Titusville, Florida, will run the full 29-race USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship schedule in 2026 for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, vying for Rookie of the Year. Robinson will return to KKM for a second year after making eight USAC starts in 2025 and will pilot the No. 67K. His full-season campaign will be backed by primary sponsor Precise Tooling Solutions and will begin at the Kokomo Grand Prix on April 24 and 25 at Kokomo Speedway.

In 2025 Robinson posted two top-10s, finishing ninth at Merced Speedway and 10th at Bloomington Speedway, and he qualified both nights of the BC39 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He graduated from karting and micro sprint competition and has wins at Port City Raceway and Marion County Speedway. Robinson said his goals for 2026 are to improve, be competitive every night and put the team in position to win.

Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports will field Robinson at 21 tracks during the 29-race schedule. KKM, based in Columbus, Indiana, has 164 USAC National Midget feature wins and 13 entrant titles, and it is the series’ winningest entrant.

Kyle Jones has signed with car owner and engine builder Tim Engler to drive the No. 7TX in a full-season effort that will contest the 29-race USAC National Midget championship in 2026. Engler’s program will campaign the EA Stealth Ford engine with Donnie Gentry as crew chief, and veteran Thomas Meseraull returns as Jones’ teammate in the No. 7x. The program opens with back-to-back Kokomo Grand Prix nights at Kokomo Speedway on April 24-25.

Jones, 32, of Kennedale, Texas, has 52 career USAC National Midget starts since his 2015 debut. He ran Engler’s EA Stealth Ford late in 2025 and previously drove an EA Stealth Ford for Joyner. Jones recorded a top-five at Jefferson County Speedway in 2025, finished as a POWRi runner-up at I-44 Speedway the weekend before the announcement, and competed in the Chili Bowl in January, finishing ninth on prelim night and 12th in the B-Main.

He said the combination of team, personnel and equipment gives him a realistic shot at his first USAC National Midget feature win in 2026.

Justin Grant will return to CB Industries’ No. 87 midget in his bid for the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship. He opens his second season with CB Industries at the Kokomo Grand Prix at Kokomo Speedway on April 24-25. The team announced its 2026 midget slate as a schedule confirmation and a step in Grant’s chase for the remaining USAC title.

Grant already holds two USAC Silver Crown championships, won in 2020 and 2025, and consecutive AMSOIL National Sprint Car titles in 2022 and 2023. In his 2025 USAC National Midget debut with CB Industries he recorded three wins, at Kokomo, Belleville and the Dirt Track at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and compiled 12 top-five and 17 top-ten finishes in 23 starts. He finished as the USAC National Midget runner-up in 2025, his third runner-up result in four seasons.

A native of Ione, California, Grant suffered a left-foot fracture in July 2025 but reported a clean bill of health as of mid-April and had already picked up two USAC National Sprint Car wins that month. He came close to winning the Chili Bowl Nationals before late trouble ended that bid. Grant and team owner Chad Boat said they aim to build on improved communication in their second year together, and Grant said he feels optimistic about working with Boat to push for race wins and mount a championship challenge.