Highlights | 2026 USAC Sprintacular Friday at Lincoln Park Speedway
Lincoln Park Speedway sets the stage as the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Cars begin the Sprintacular weekend in Putnamville, Indiana.
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This is what you saved your lunch money for.
To the green on night number one of the Sprintacular.
They find the gas, they tap tires, and here we go.
It'll be the 24 taking off to the race lead, Temes onto the back straightaway.
KTJ car got out from him just a little bit there on the start.
He's going to slip back to third.
Justin Grant going to take advantage, three wide in the third spot.
Kevin Thomas to the middle.
He's going to go ahead and report down to the bottom over in turns one and two.
Justin Grant dead ahead of him.
Molls up to the outside with the three P chasing right now as they work into turns three and four.
Thomas Meserole leading as they work onto the back straightaway.
Kevin Thomas working around the inside, brings it wide at the exit of turn number four.
So far, fends off the charge of your current point sitter and defending champ, Cummins.
Slams her off of the cushion there for a moment.
Kevin Thomas, as he tried the high side, no, sticks it back down to the bottom.
Justin Grant, in the meantime, he has vacated the bottom, and he's gone to the top, trying to reel in and run down your leader.
Thomas Meserole trails by just shy of a half a second.
Now only car lengths as Meserole careened her off of the cushion.
Now here comes Grant.
He's going to look for the lead, but the red light's going to come on.
We've got one flipped at the exit of turn number four.
99J of Kyle Johnson, the driver, going upside down up off the top of the racetrack exit turn number four.
And a flat right rear on your leader, Temes.
Molls also making it back out of the intermediate finishing work area.
Single file past the Nos Energy Star can, and we're back underway.
Six laps completed.
Kevin Thomas trying for the top spot here.
Justin Grant able to keep him at bay onto the back straightaway.
The four going to work up to the high side, the 15 down to the bottom, the three P looking for room to run by both of them.
They work off of turn number four.
Grant's going to lead the way.
Dogfight underway at the front of the field.
Grant keeps it wound up on the cushion.
Here comes the three P on the outside.
It'll be Cummins taking over the second spot now.
Goes side by side for the race lead.
Justin Grant's going to hold him off for the time being.
Grant off of the cushion, the three P likewise.
Kevin Thomas Jr. running in third, and keep your eye on the 14 of Jayden Rogers.
Two wins on the local scene here at Lincoln Park.
Careens her off of the cushion off of turn number four, and Robert Blue going to take advantage.
Slides off for the race lead.
It's going to be Cummins taking over in three.
Kyle Cummins takes over the top spot, now going to protect the slide through turns three and four.
Grant back to second.
Kevin Thomas Jr., Robert Ballew, and Jayden Rogers again off of the cushion, exit turn number four, as Jayden Rogers and Robert Ballew has swapped that position around.
Now Rogers going to get up and try to battle with Kevin Thomas for the third spot.
Smoothing his line around the cushion, goes right to the outside, and goes right by the 15 as they work into turns three and four.
Kevin Thomas not done with him though, tries the inside, can't get the bite.
The 14 with a better run to the front straightaway.
In the meantime, Justin Grant, boy, he really slammed the cushion hard.
He's got the inboard rotor aglow on that thing.
Coming up on the 83 as well as the 53 as they work into turns one and two.
Grant, man, hammering the cushion so hard over in turns one and two, scrubbing off a lot of speed as that has also allowed the 14 of Jayden Rogers to come up.
Potentially a three-car fight for the lead coming.
Grant again just backs it up into the cushion, and every time he does just really upsets the car here, but right now has nowhere else to run.
The inside line is occupied by slower traffic.
Cummins now, he's going to dive to the bottom and go to work on the slower cars.
Leaves the high line open.
Grant has a run to the back straightaway.
Can't get there fast enough.
Playing high-speed Chester traffic here.
Cummins going to go in and slide up across the racetrack.
Gets a lap car between himself and Justin Grant, and time is not on his side.
The sand in the hourglass is starting to wane as they work into turns three and four, but slower cars to the inside of your leader has kept him at bay for the time being within a car length here in the middle of turns three and four.
All three still up on the cushion.
Grant, that time the car got really tight on him.
He's going to lose car lengths onto the back straightaway.
Does this allow Robert Ballew to close in?
Not quite here.
As they make their way into turns three and four, he is gotten by Kevin Thomas Jr. KTJ running in the fifth spot right now as the white flag's set to come out.
When they work off of turn number four, Grant misses the line at the exit of the second turn, loses a ton of ground here as they'll come around this time.
One to go here at Lincoln Park Speedway.
On a roll as he works onto the back straightaway one final time.
He's going to drop to the inside with lap traffic.
Grant's going to go to the cushion to try to make something happen.
Checker flag is out.
Kyle Cummins wins night number one of the Sprintacular.
