A loaded field of 24 USAC Silver Crown racers and teams will file into Ohio's Toledo Speedway this Saturday night, as the champ cars pound the pavement in the Glass City.

The field includes a pair of past Rollie Beale Classic winners and two of the best pavement racers in the entire country, who will vie or another victory in the 100-lapper on the half-mile paved oval.

The last time the champ cars competed at Toledo was last fall (October 2021), with USAC's most prolific driver, six-time champion Kody Swanson of Kingsburg, California, celebrating in victory lane. 

Swanson enters the event as defending champion, and he has won each of the last three. He has five USAC Silver Crown race victories at Toledo (2011, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021). He's also the Silver Crown Series' most recent winner at Winchester (Indiana) Speedway, taking the top spot in mid-July.

Bobby Santos (Franklin, Massachusetts) will be among the contenders to capture the 100-lap victory, having previously scored the Rollie Beale Classic win at Toledo in 2017. He also already collected a Silver Crown victory this season with a dazzling performance at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in May.

Series point leader C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Indiana) has emerged as a frontrunner to reckon with on the pavement. The highly decorated dirt racer and past USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Champion won in his last appearance on the asphalt with the series in June at Wisconsin's Madison International Speedway. He'll be making his first Toledo appearance since 2019.

Logan Seavey (Sutter, California) will be aiming to make gains toward a Silver Crown championship run with a solid Toledo finish. He's already been in victory lane on the dirt with the series this season at Port Royal (Pennsylvania) Speedway. Seavey is a past USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Champion (2018). At Toledo, he earned a 10th-place result in 2021.

A mere three points separate the top 3 in the USAC Silver Crown championship fight, with Swanson leading over Seavey and Leary, who are tied. Both Seavey and Leary are pursuing a first Silver Crown driving title.

Past champion Justin Grant (Ione, California) will attempt to earn his first victory at Toledo on Saturday. The 2020 Silver Crown titlist's car is owned by Toledo-area native and 1996 Indianapolis 500 winning car owner Ron Hemelgarn.

Local racer Austin Nemire (Sylvania, Ohio) will make the short trek to Toledo, where he has made four previous Toledo Silver Crown starts, all of which have resulted in top-8 finishes.

Brian Tyler (Parma, Michigan) is among the plethora of champions in the lineup for Toledo. The 1996 and 1997 USAC National Sprint Car champ was a third-place finisher in his most recent Toledo outing with the Silver Crown series in 2021.

National Sprint Car Hall of Famer Eric Gordon (Greenfield, Indiana) is a veteran racer who possesses past Toledo success as a USAC Sprint Car feature winner.

Taylor Ferns (Shelby Township, Michigan) will look to best her history-making record in USAC Silver Crown competition. She finished third in May at IRP, which stands as the best finish by a woman in Silver Crown history. 

The Hemelgarn Racing/Super Fitness Rollie Beale Classic Fueled by Marco's Pizza will feature the USAC Silver Crown National Championship, plus Late Model Sportsman and Factory Stocks. Vintage Race Cars also will be on display.

The USAC pit gate will open/rig parking will begin at 2 p.m. Eastern on Saturday. The track ticket office and spectator gates will open at 4:30 p.m. 

USAC Silver Crown practice will run from 4:30-5:15 p.m. USAC Silver Crown Fatheadz Eyewear Qualifying will begin at 5:45 p.m. Parade laps for the vintage cars is slated for 6:35 p.m. USAC Silver Crown cars and drivers will be called to front stretch at 6:50 p.m.

Getting closer to showtime, there will be a Beale family introduction and a brief racer reunion, The national anthems will start at 6:50 p.m. and be followed by driver introductions and the Rollie Beale Classic main event at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $25, children 6-12 are $5, while ages 5 and under are free. Add $1 per ticket for online ticket purchases at toledospeedway.com.