This Saturday’s 63^rd appearance by the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Indiana’s Lawrenceburg Speedway brings to us the 10^th running of the Fall Nationals under USAC sanction.

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Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) enters as the reigning Fall Nationals winner. He lead the first lap and the final 18 laps in a spirited duel with Brady Bacon. Grant is riding a hot streak at The Burg as the winner of the two most recent series appearances. He also captured the win during July’s Indiana Sprint Week round. In fact, four of Grant’s 16 career USAC National Sprint wins have come at Lawrenceburg. He was also the fastest qualifier at Lawrenceburg during Indiana Midget Week in June.  Grant's resumé includes five top-five finishes at the Fall Nationals, with a 5^th in 2013, a 4^th in 2014, a 5^th in 2016 and a 3^rd in 2017.

The very first of Chase Stockon’s 12 career USAC National Sprint Car victories came at the Fall Nationals in 2012. He’s started all nine Fall Nationals under USAC sanction since 2009. The Fort Branch, Ind. native, who holds the ultimate ironman streak of 288 USAC National Sprint Car consecutive starts entering the weekend, also finished as the runner-up at the Fall Nationals in 2013.

Kevin Thomas, Jr. (Cullman, Ala.) has three career USAC National Sprint Car feature wins at Lawrenceburg. Two came in 2013 and the other during the 2017 Fall Nationals. He also scored a 4^th at Fall Nationals in 2013, a runner-up finish in 2015, and a 5^th place run in last year’s event. He also took a 4^th in July at Lawrenceburg during Indiana Sprint Week.

Josh Hodges (Tijeras, N.M.) picked up his first and only USAC National Sprint Car feature win of his career during the Fall Nationals in 2016. In fact, he’s finished in the top-10 in all three of his Fall Nationals starts. His results include: 1^st in 2016, 8^th in 2017, and 10^th in 2018. His 2016 run was the fastest 30-lap USAC Sprint Car race in the history of Lawrenceburg Speedway with a time of 7:21.09.

Dave Darland (Lincoln, Ind.) is the winningest USAC National Sprint Car driver of all-time with 62 wins. He also holds the record for most USAC Sprint Car wins at Lawrenceburg with seven dating back to 1998. In Fall Nationals’ past, he’s been 3^rd in both 2013 and 2016 along with finishing 6^th a year ago. Additionally, he set quick time during qualifying in both in 2014 and 2017. The USAC Triple Crown champ’s most recent victory at the track came on Sept. 14 in a Lawrenceburg Sprint program.

Brady Bacon’s lone USAC National Sprint Car win at Lawrenceburg came during the summer of 2015. The two-time USAC National Sprint Car champ from Broken Arrow, Okla. was the fastest qualifier at the 2011 Fall Nationals, and has finished in the top-three in the event over the years. Included in those results is a 2^nd place finish in 2014, a 4^th in 2015, and a runner-up finish in 2018 where he led 11 laps.

Tyler Courtney (Indianapolis, Ind.) was the most recent USAC National Sprint Car feature winner last Saturday at Eldora Speedway where he became the first driver in the series this season to record a complete sweep of the night. He had the fasteset qualifying time, a heat race win and a feature victory within a single night. The defending USAC Sprint champ has one career Lawrenceburg win with the series which came in 2018. He also finished 5^th at Fall Nationals in 2017, and was 3^rd in 2018.

USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car point leader and 2013 Lawrenceburg Speedway track champion C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) has finished in the top-three twice at Fall Nationals in his career. He was 3^rd in 2015 and 2^nd in 2017.  In both 2015 and 2018, he was the fastest qualifier at Fall Nationals and did the same again this past July at Lawrenceburg during Indiana Sprint Week. He raced to a 3^rd place finish in the main event and now carries a 58-point lead in the series standings entering the event.

Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.) is the only driver to finish in the top-10 of all nine previous Fall Nationals run under the sanctioning of USAC. He was 2^nd in July at Lawrenceburg and was victorious there during Indiana Midget Week this past June. But the Spring 2017 winner remains on the hunt for his first Fall Nationals triumph.

Windom's Past Top-10 Finishes                                

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Jason McDougal (Broken Arrow, Okla.) was 17^th during his first Fall Nationals run one year ago in 2018. The winner of the Eastern Storm (Bridgeport, N.J.) and Mid-America Midget week (Fairbury, Neb.) races was 7^th during his Lawrenceburg USAC Sprint Car return in July. His Daigh/Phillips Motorsports team has been the fastest qualifier twice at the Fall Nationals as well. Once in 2014 with Darland and then in 2016 with Stevie Sussex.

Isaac Chapple (Willow Branch, Ind.) enters Fall Nationals after reeling off a pair of top-10 finishes last weekend at Gas City and Eldora where he finished 9^th in both. The 2016 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year has made three past Fall Nationals starts,  with his best finish coming a year ago when he finished 9th.

Dustin Clark (Washington, Ind.) has taken command of the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year battle. He plans to make his first career Fall Nationals appearance this Saturday at Lawrenceburg where he’s made one previous series start and finished in 14^th place this past July.

Nick Bilbee (Indianapolis, Ind.) has won three times at Lawrenceburg this season in weekly Sprint Car competition and finished 4^th in the track’s standings for 2019. He was the fastest qualifier in USAC Sprint Car competition at Lawrenceburg during the summer of 2018. A 14^th place finisher last year at the Fall Nationals, his best result in the event was an 11^th in 2017.