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Georgetown Season Opener Belongs to Kenny Miller l...

4/8/2023

April 7th, 2023. Georgetown, DE, Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC. Morgantown, PA’s Kenny Miller lll returned to Rapid Tire Services, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, presented by Capitol Renegade victory lane for the first time since his rookie season in 2020. Miller utilized a restart on the events only caution flag of the feature, to cruise to a dominant win and kick off the 2023 season. Steven Snyder Jr and Delaware native Preston Lattomus lead the seventeen car field to green for the opening...more

Tags: Kenny Miller, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

2023 USAC East Coast Season Preview

3/24/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series With just over a week until cars hit the surface at the Bridgeport Speedway, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at the 2023 season, from the schedule, to the variety of different teams and plans that are set to play out during what will be a fantastic season. Heading into the 2023 Rapid Tire Services, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, presented by Capitol Renegade season, there may not ever have been a sense of “wide open” for...more

Tags: Steven Drevicki, Bobby Butler, Preston Lattomus

Breaking Down The Top Ten: The Champion, Briggs Da...

2/12/2023

Heat Wins: 9 Features: 21 Wins: 12 Top 5: 20 Top 10: 21 Average Fin: 1.8 Earnings: $33, 380 Dominance. What else can be said about Briggs Danner and the Heffner Enterprises South team lead by Curt Michael than Dominance. The team kicked off the season where they ended the 2021 season, by picking up the win at the Bridgeport Speedway. Followed by picking up one of the two double features at Bloomsburg, with two more wins coming at Williams Grove and Bridgeport to end the month of April. Wins...more

Tags: Briggs Danner, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 3rd, Steven Drevicki

2/12/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 6 Features: 20 Wins: 0 Top 5: 14 Top 10: 18 Average Fin: 5th Earnings: $13,465 Steve Drevicki and his family owned team came into the 2022 season with a lot of optimism that their upcoming season with the USAC East Coast series could not have been more up and down, or more challenging than the 2021 season. The season for the thee time series season started out with alternating second and fifth place Finnishes through the first five feature events of the 2022...more

Tags: Steven Drevicki, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top 10: 2nd, Alex Bright

2/11/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 8 Features: 21 Wins: 6 Top 5: 16 Top 10: 19 Average Fin: 4th Earnings: $25,835 Alex Bright and the Hummer Motorsports team came into the 2022 USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series season, eager to keep on rolling with the momentum and speed they showed in 2021, en route to their first career championship. The season did not start out great for Bright and team, as a spin, and subsequent mechanical issue left the team with their worst finish of the season in the...more

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 4th, Joey Amantea

2/11/2023

NIck Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 2 Features: 19 Wins: 1 Top 5: 9 Top 10: 14 Average Fin: 7th Earnings: $12,085 Expectations for Joey Amantea and the Amantea Racing team were already on a high level heading into the 2022 season with the addition of championship winning crew chief Brian Zyck, but a solid season, with ups and downs, including a first trip to victory lane, were all a part of the game for the team in 2022. A mixture of podium runs, and top five runs started the season for...more

Tags: Joey Amantea, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 5th, Ed Aikin

2/3/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 1 Features: 18 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2 Top 10: 14 Average Fin: 8th Earnings: $7,680 Veteran Ed Aikin came into the 2022 USAC East Coast Season with a new car, and a new attitude of competing for wins and top fives, while still learning a new discipline of racing. Aikin started the year strong at one of his favorite tracks, the Bridgeport Speedway with a fourth place effort, and a stretch of seven straight top ten runs starting at the Port Royal Speedway in April...more

Tags: Ed Aikin, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 6th, Kenny Miller lll

1/15/2023

Heat wins: 2 Features: 15 Wins: 0, *Won Non-Winners Race at Bridgeport Top 5: 7 Top 10: 14 Earnings: $10,105 Average Fin: 6th Again, despite not running a full time season with the series in 2022, Kenny Miller lll and team had an incredible season on tour with the Rapid Tire, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, Presented by Capitol Renegade, ending the year with fourteen top ten runs of their fifteen starts. What else can be said about Kenny Miller other than he is smooth and consistent. While...more

Tags: Kenny Miller, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 7th, Preston Lattomus

1/11/2023

Heat Wins: 1 Features: 15 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2 Top 10: 11 Average Fin: 10th Earnings: $7,840 Lewes, Delaware rookie Preston Lattomus came into the 2022 USAC East Coast season ready to learn and ready to take on the series best drivers on the 2022 trail. An up and down start, after flips at Bridgeport and Port Royal at the beginning of the season, resulted in the team debuting a brand new Triple X chassis at Selinsgrove in late May. Only two races later Lattomus would out deal veteran open wheel...more

Tags: Preston Lattomus, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 8th, Mike Thompson

1/7/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 3 Features: 13 Wins: 0 Top 5: 5 Top 10: 11 Average Fin: 7th Earnings: $6,100 Third generation driver Mike Thompson had what could only be described as a break out year in 2022, especially on the USAC East Coast Series trail. Thompson came out of the gate hot, with a top five run at Bridgeport, and two top ten runs at Bloomsburg to start the season. An unfortunate accident at Williams Grove that saw Thompson leave the speedway in turn three and four, left the...more

Tags: Mike Thompson, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

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