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.