You can’t win all day if you don’t start in the morning.

Logan Seavey made that his mantra on Saturday as he kicked off his day by winning the 60th running of the Bettenhausen 100 Presented By Hunt Brothers Pizza at the Illinois State Fairgrounds dirt mile.

Later that same night, the Sutter, Calif. native capped the evening with a USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory 44 miles down the road at Macon Speedway to become just the third driver to win multiple USAC National feature events in a single day at two different tracks: Billy Vukovich (1967) and J.J. Yeley (2004).

However, throughout much of the Bettenhausen 100, Seavey stared directly at the tail tank of the No. 9 driven by Shane Cottle. Nonetheless, a late caution and subsequent restart with 13 laps to go, completely changed the ballgame for Seavey.

That’s when Seavey took advantage of the late caution, using a reverse slide job entering turn one that saw Seavey race around the outside of Cottle before diving to the inside guardrail with pinpoint precision at the forefront of the field.

The maneuver was painfully costly for Cottle, but perfectly cromulent for Seavey who finished off the afternoon with his first career victory on the Springfield Mile in his Rice Motorsports-Abacus Racing/STIDA.com – CG CPAs – Indy Custom Stone/DRC/Felker Chevy.

Seavey now becomes the 27th driver to win champ car races on both Illinois dirt miles in his career after previously notching the round at the Du Quoin State Fairgrounds just less than a year ago in September of 2022.

All in all, Seavey’s performances on the dirt tracks in USAC Silver Crown competition have been superb. He’s now won five of the past seven dating back to June of 2022, and has captured each of the last two events on dirt tracks this season after also winning in June at Pennsylvania’s Port Royal Speedway.

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Highlights: Springfield Bettenhausen 100 USAC Silver Crown Series 8-19-23

Winning Quote From Logan Seavey

“I knew I could get into one faster than he could, I could see on the restarts that he was being a little extra cautious. You lose a lot of grip when your tires cool off and it takes a few laps to get it back. I knew I could fire it in there and I didn’t know if it was going to stick or not, but I knew I could at least get next to him.  I got it backed in right across his nose and I was able to stay in front of him.”

USAC Silver Crown Series At Springfield Mile Results

1. Logan Seavey (1)

2. Shane Cottle (4)

3. Justin Grant (8)

4. Kody Swanson (10)

5. Emerson Axsom (2)

6. Jacob Wilson (5)

7. Davey Ray (9)

8. Mario Clouser (3)

9. Chase Dietz (6)

10. Jerry Coons Jr. (18)

11. Matt Westfall (15)

12. Taylor Ferns (26)

13. Chase Stockon (19)

14. Russ Gamester (28)

15. Casey Buckman (24)

16. Steven Russell (22)

17. Chris Urish (11)

18. Kaylee Bryson (25)

19. Patrick Bruns (23)

20. Dave Berkheimer (31-P)

21. Mitchel Moles (13)

22. Chris Fetter (30)

23. Travis Welpott (29)

24. C.J. Leary (12)

25. Kyle Steffens (16)

26. Carmen Perigo (21)

27. Wayne Johnson (7)

28. Jake Swanson (17)

29. Korey Weyant (27)

30. Trey Burke (14)

31. Shane Cockrum (20)

USAC Silver Crown Series Points Standings

Kodsy Swanson holds on to the points lead by 16 points over race winner Logan Seavey. Mario Clouser, Justin Grant and Kaylee Bryson complete the rest of the top five. 

Full USAC Silver Crown Points Standings

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