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.

Briggs Danner, an Allentown, Pa., native, won the Justin Owen Memorial presented by Tempstar at Lawrenceburg Speedway, taking the 30-lap feature for the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series on the three-eighths-mile Lawrenceburg oval. Danner started fifth, seized the lead just before the midway point and rode the rim to the checkered flag, leading laps 13 through 30 and earning the Clean Air award. He held off multiple late restarts, including repeated challenges from Kyle Cummins, to secure the victory.

The win was Danner’s first in the USAC AMSOIL series this season and his second at Lawrenceburg; it was the eighth national sprint car victory of his career, tying him with Mike Bliss, Chet Fillip, Johnny Rutherford, Joe Saldana and Jake Swanson for 62nd on the series’ all-time wins list. Kyle Cummins led the opening 12 laps and finished second, retaining the national points lead at 527 points after the race. Justin Grant finished third.

Danner posted the second-fastest qualifying lap at 14.223 seconds, while C.J. Leary was the LearnLab fast qualifier at 14.210. The Lawrenceburg program also featured a flipped semifinal by Kyle Shipley and Hard Charger honors for David Gasper, who advanced from 23rd to 14th.

Justin Grant won the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car 30-lap feature at Red Hill, taking the lead on lap 17 and holding off Mitchel Moles for the victory. Jake Swanson led the early portion of the feature (laps 1–4) and Robert Ballou led from lap 5 through lap 16. Bryce Andrews flipped on lap 13; no injuries were reported.

Mitchel Moles set a new Red Hill qualifying record with a 14.327-second lap. Grant also topped the Dirt Draft Hot Laps with a 14.594-second time and earned the K&N Clean Air award for leading 14 laps.

After Red Hill the series standings showed Logan Seavey with 459 points, Kyle Cummins 454, Jake Swanson 439, Justin Grant 437 and Mitchel Moles 423. Moles had been listed eighth in an earlier weekend preview but moved to fifth in the standings after Red Hill. USAC resumed its national slate with a Midwest doubleheader — Red Hill and the Chuck Amati Classic at Paragon — with the Chuck Amati Classic run under USAC sanctioning for the first time. Logan Seavey entered the weekend as the points leader and remained the leader; he is the only multi-feature winner through six Florida rounds and was the most recent winner at Red Hill in June 2025, leading all 32 laps in the No. 57. Jake Swanson sits fourth in the standings after a Volusia win and six consecutive top-10 finishes and recently won the unsanctioned No Way Out 40 at Paragon.

Trey Osborne, who earned his first USAC victory in February at Ocala and sits ninth in points, recently left his full-time job to pursue the full national USAC schedule. C.J. Leary will run a 30-race program in the Fox Brothers–Brayden Fox No. 53, a car that carries 19 USAC feature wins in its history. Jadon Rogers recently returned from a broken fibula to finish third in a Midwest Thunder event. The series is next scheduled to race April 11 at Lawrenceburg Speedway.

The Fox No. 53 will contest a concentrated 30-race USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car slate in 2026 with C.J. Leary sharing the seat for events focused in Indiana, Ohio and Illinois. Leary’s Sprint Car debut in the No. 53 is scheduled for April 3 at Red Hill Raceway in Sumner, Illinois and April 4 at Paragon Speedway in Indiana for the Chuck Amati Classic; when he is not in the No. 53 he plans to run other USAC events in a different ride.

Leary will split his 2026 USAC program with a full-time Silver Crown ride for Team AZ-Petty-Rossi/Curb-Agajanian, piloting the No. 21 DRC/Stanton-powered car in an 11-race dirt-and-pavement Silver Crown schedule that opens May 8-9 at the Kansas State Fairgrounds in Hutchinson. Teammate Mario Clouser will drive the No. 20 DRC/Stanton-powered entry; Clouser, from Auburn, Illinois, drove for three teams in 2025, led 42 of 100 laps at the Kansas State Fairgrounds, earned his first IRP pole and compiled podiums en route to a career-best fifth in the 2025 Silver Crown standings. Team AZ confirmed primary technical support from DRC/Stanton and commercial backing from Avanti Windows & Doors, Curb Records, Pella and AMSOIL for the 2026 Silver Crown campaign.

Leary brings strong USAC credentials to both programs: he is the 2019 USAC National Sprint Car champion, has 24 career USAC series wins and entered the announcement with a streak of 321 consecutive USAC feature starts dating to 2017, six starts short of Justin Grant’s benchmark of 327. His Silver Crown résumé includes a runner-up finish in the 2025 championship with two late-season wins at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (pavement) and Du Quoin State Fairgrounds (dirt).

The Fox No. 53 program is tied to the Fox family and the Gohr Racing legacy, with longtime mechanic Galen Fox involved. The car carries 19 career USAC National Sprint Car feature wins—two by Brad Fox and 17 by Jon Stanbrough—which the No. 53 team will look to add to during the concentrated 2026 slate.

USAC announced the Silver Crown National Championship will headline the Rich Vogler Classic at Winchester Speedway in Winchester, Ind., on Sunday, July 19. The 100-lap feature will run on the track’s 1/2-mile paved oval.

Starting positions will be set straight up by two-lap qualifying; the fastest lap counts. Series Director Kody Swanson and official USAC rules will govern the event, and competitors must use USAC-specified Silver Crown tire allocations and a mandatory driver radio tuned to 464.5500 MHz.

USAC’s published points and purse structure awards 70 points and $8,000 to the winner, 67 points and $4,000 to second place, and non-transfer finishers will receive $200. Tickets will be sold at the gate with tiered General Admission and Reserved seating, weekend camping is available for $30, and fans can watch the live stream on FloRacing, listen to race audio via the USAC app, or follow live updates on USAC social channels.