The 2018 USAC Silver Crown Champ Car Series is the 47th season of Silver Crown racing under the USAC banner. The series will begin with the Phoenix Copper Cup at ISM Raceway on April 7, and will end with the 4 Crown Nationals at Eldora Speedway on September 22.

Kody Swanson Kody Swanson (born March 3, 1988) is an American professional sprint car racing driver. He is a seven-time USAC USAC Silver Crown Series champion in 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022, plus a three-time Little 500 winner. Swanson is curr ...

entered the 2018 season as the defending champion.

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won the 2018 season title, becoming a 4-time series champion.

also joined Al Unser as one of the only two drivers in history to win four consecutive

Hoosier Hundred The Hoosier Hundred is a USAC Silver Crown Series race scheduled for Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park as of 2023. It is a revival of the original race held from 1953-2020 at the Indiana State Fairgrounds Speedway, a one-mile dirt oval in In ...

races in a row in 2018. Swanson also became the all-time wins leader in Silver Crown at Salem with 24 wins.

Team & Driver Chart

Driver & Team Changes

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Chris Windom Christopher R. Windom (born December 24, 1990) is an American professional racing driver. Windom was the seventh driver to complete a United States Auto Club (USAC) Triple Crown by winning titles in sprint cars, midget cars, and Silver Crown. US ...

will run the full Silver Crown schedule in 2018 for Nolen Racing.

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, will also return to the team for the full season. * - Austin Nemire will run the full Silver Crown schedule in 2018 for Nemire/Lesko Racing.

Schedule

The 2018 schedule features 6 pavement races and 5 dirt races. The entire season will have on-demand video coverage b
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. Select races will be broadcast live online b
Speed Shift TV
. Eldora Speedway will broadcast the 4 Crown Nationals live on their streaming website. Live radio coverage for most USAC National races is available on the USAC Racing App. BCSN would broadcast the Toledo race on delay. MavTV (in association with Speed51) would broadcast the Rich Vogler Classic at Lucas Oil Raceway on delay. * - * will state if the race is a non points event, or a preliminary night. * - ≠ will state if the race was postponed or canceled

Schedule notes and changes

* - 1 new asphalt race was added at

Madison International Speedway The Madison International Speedway (MIS) is a half-mile paved oval racetrack in the Town of Rutland near Oregon, Wisconsin, United States. With 18-degree banked turns, the track is billed as "The Track of Champions" and "Wisconsin's Fastest H ...

on June 29. * -

Williams Grove Speedway Williams Grove Speedway is a half-mile automobile dirt racing track located in Mechanicsburg , Pennsylvania, USA. The speedway opened on May 21, 1939, it has been owned by the Hughes family for over 50 years and has hosted many of the most nota ...

would not return to the schedule in 2018. However, this would be only a 1-year hiatus as the track & USAC intends on the race returning to the schedule in 2019. * - Rich Vogler Classic (September 8) at

Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (formerly Indianapolis Raceway Park, O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, and Lucas Oil Raceway) is an auto racing facility in Brownsburg, Indiana, United States, about northwest of downtown Indianapolis. It ...

was canceled due to inclement weather.

Results and Standings

Races

Driver points

Source:2018 USAC Silver Crown season
USAC, 2 May 2020 #

, 641 # Justin Grant, 559 #

, 524 #

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, 459 #

, 433 # Kyle Robbins, 372 # Travis Welpott, 348 # Matt Goodnight, 344 #

Bobby Santos III Robert Santos III (born October 3, 1985) is an American professional racing driver from Franklin, Massachusetts. He graduated in 2004 from Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School. Santos, nicknamed "Bobby New England", is the grandso ...

, 329 #

Austin Nemire Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of Texas, as well as the seat and largest city of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties. Incorporated on December 27, 1839, it is the 11th-most-populous city ...

, 327

Owner points

# #63 DePalma Motorsports, 641 # #91 Hemelgarn Racing, 559 # #17 Nolen Racing, 524 # #40 Byrne Racing, 459 # #20 Nolen Racing, 433

References

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USAC Silver Crown Series The United States Auto Club (USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapol ...

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