NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Friday and Saturday on the half-mile at the Kansas State Fairgrounds will be the crown jewel of the 2024 racing season there thus far, the USAC Silver Crown series.
"It's exciting," said Phil Nightingale with Salt City Racing. "It's been fun this week so far. USAC rolled into town Sunday morning and we have been at the track all week prepping the track getting things ready. We got an exciting race on Friday, but also the big 100 lapper the Murphy Tractor and Equipment 100 lap race is going to be fun."
Friday will have additional classes beyond the USAC cars practice.
"These cars have never been on this track," Nightingale said. "They need some practice to figure out how to set their cars up the right gearing and those sort of things, so basically Friday night we will run a complete show for the stock cars the super stocks and the A-mod modified and then the Silver Crown cars will go out and they will practice about three times. The other fun thing we're having with the URSS sprint cars they will run their heat races and for qualifying for their A-feature on Saturday night, we are going to pay them five hundred dollars just to win a heat race."
Saturday is the main event, with the URSS sprint cars and the Silver Crown cars.
"We're also going to have a full show for what we call the B-mods the B-sport mods," Nightingale said. "They'll have a complete show so it'll be three classes on Saturday."
The 100 lap feature will be a long stretch of action.
"Tommy Estes who's been running the USAC program, he says depending on how many yellows we have he said it'll take a minimum of 45 minutes but it could take up to an hour and 15," Nightingale said. "He says he hopes he gets it done in about an hour is what he's hoping for."
You can get tickets and more information on the weekend at saltcityracingllc.com.