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"Gold Crown Midget Nationals" Payout/Format - Oct. 6-8, 2016

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016
**All cars draw for heat races. Hot Lap with Heat Race group.

**8-lap Heat Races accumulating finish and passing points (per the USAC system listed in rule book). Points based on lineup at original “one-to-go.”

**10-lap Qualifying Races (lined up from heat race points with top-six in each race inverted…high point man starts 6th in 1st Qualifier, etc.

**Top 16 in overall points transfer to feature, starting straight up.

**12-lap Semi-Feature lined up straight-up by overall points (17-all). Top 6 transfer to back of Feature.

**30-lap Feature. Provisionals added to the back.

**EVENT POINTS ACCUMULATED DURING THURSDAY’S PROGRAM AT THE “GOLD CROWN” ARE SELF-CONTAINED WITHIN THE NIGHT AND HAVE NO BEARING ON LINEUPS FOR FRIDAY OR SATURDAY NIGHT'S PROGRAMS.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2016

**Format is the same as Thursday.

**35-lap Feature. Provisionals added to the back.

**EVENT POINTS ACCUMULATED DURING FRIDAY’S PROGRAM AT THE “GOLD CROWN” ARE SELF-CONTAINED WITHIN THE NIGHT AND HAVE NO BEARING ON LINEUPS FOR SATURDAY NIGHT'S PROGRAM.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2016

**All cars draw for heat races.

**8-lap Heat Races accumulating finish and passing points (per the USAC system listed in rule book). Points based on lineup at original “one-to-go.”

**10-lap Qualifying Races (lined up from heat race points with top-six in each race inverted…high point man starts 6th in 1st Qualifier, etc.

**Top 16 in overall points transfer to feature, starting straight up.

**12-lap Semi-Feature lined up straight-up by overall points (17-all). Top 6 transfer to back of Feature.

**40-lap Feature. Provisionals added to the back.

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UPCOMING USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS:

DATE: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 6-7-8, 2016

SERIES: USAC Midget National Championship

TRACK: Tri-City Speedway (Granite City, Illinois) – 3/8-mile, dirt oval

EVENT: “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” featuring the USAC Midget National Championship (Thurs.-Fri.-Sat.) and MOWA Sprint Cars (Fri.-Sat.)

STARTING TIMES: All three nights at Granite City, the pit area opens at 3pm with spectator gates opening at 5:30 and racing getting underway at 7.

TICKETS: General admission tickets are $20 on Thursday, $25 on Friday and $28 for the finale on Saturday. Kids 12 and under are FREE all three nights while pit passes are $35.

TRACK ADDRESS: 5100 Nameoki Rd, Granite City, IL 62040

TRACK PHONE: (618) 931-7836

TRACK WEBSITE:http://www.tricityspeedway.net/

MEDIA COVERAGE: Live updates onhttps://www.facebook.com/usacracing/ andhttps://twitter.com/USACNation and available on the Race Monitor app on your phone.

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2016 - MIDGET FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS PTS PURSE

1 70 $3000

2 67 $1500

3 64 $1000

4 61 $750

5 58 $600

6 55 $500

7 52 $450

8 49 $400

9 46 $375

10 43 $355

11 41 $325

12 39 $315

13 37 $305

14 35 $295

15 33 $290

16 31 $285

17 29 $280

18 27 $275

19 25 $275

20 23 $275

21 23 $275

22 23 $275

TOTAL: $12,400

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2016 - MIDGET FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS PTS PURSE

1 70 $4000

2 67 $2000

3 64 $1125

4 61 $850

5 58 $750

6 55 $650

7 52 $600

8 49 $575

9 46 $550

10 43 $525

11 41 $500

12 39 $475

13 37 $450

14 35 $425

15 33 $400

16 31 $375

17 29 $350

18 27 $325

19 25 $300

20 23 $300

21 23 $300

22 23 $300

TOTAL: $16,125

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2016 - MIDGET FEATURE POINTS/PURSE STRUCTURE:

POS PTS PURSE

1 70 $5000

2 67 $2500

3 64 $1250

4 61 $1000

5 58 $900

6 55 $850

7 52 $800

8 49 $775

9 46 $750

10 43 $725

11 41 $700

12 39 $675

13 37 $650

14 35 $625

15 33 $600

16 31 $575

17 29 $550

18 27 $525

19 25 $500

20 23 $500

21 23 $500

22 23 $500

TOTAL: $21,450

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