JACKSONVILLE, Unwell. — Solely two weekends of racing stay because the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Sequence offered by Toyota inches nearer towards crowning a champion in November.
The sequence makes its fourth annual go to to Jacksonville Speedway for the Sincere Abe Roofing Open Wheel Showdown on Friday-Saturday, Oct. 3-4, in a weekend full of actions on and off the monitor.
Friday’s opening night time begins with the midgets chasing $4,000-to-win by way of 25 laps across the quarter-mile oval. After the checkered flag waves, drivers and crews can be handled to meals and drinks on the Sincere Abe Roofing Cookout.
Then, the sequence finishes out the doubleheader weekend in a battle for 30 laps and a $5,000 payday to cap off the time within the “Land of Lincoln” because the highway to the Xtreme Outlaw World Championship offered by Glenn Styres Racing turns into clear in sight.
The Xtreme Outlaw Midgets can be joined by native 410 Dash Vehicles and the WFO Winged Micro Sequence by way of the 2 nights.
Shattered Ceiling
Jacob Denney has loved an Xtreme Outlaw Midget season {that a} driver may solely dream of, incomes double-digit wins (10) for second all-time, 18 high fives in 20 races, and top-10 ends in each characteristic for a 326-point lead over his closest competitors with 4 races but to be determined.
The Galloway, Ohio, driver exemplified his prowess behind the wheel of the No. 67 JBL Audio Toyota at Doe Run Raceway and Highland Speedway, main each characteristic lap on the two tracks to earn the Xtreme-POWRi Problem Sequence championship. Suppose you solely take Denney’s 179 laps led this season, it might put him fifth on the all-time sequence laps led checklist.
Denney’s prior visits to Jacksonville play in his favor, incomes his first podium in 2022, then successful his first monitor characteristic with POWRi in 2024. The Sincere Abe Roofing Open Wheel Showdown will mark one 12 months since his debut for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports (KKM).
Fightin’ Illini
The weekend within the Illinois homestead has a number of natives searching for to defend dwelling turf towards the drivers of the Xtreme Outlaw Midgets.
Two of the Illinois devoted anticipated to guide the cost for his or her second sequence monitor win within the weekend embody Mason Metropolis’s Karter Sarff and Pocohontas native Zach Daum. Sarff gained the one sequence look in 2023, and Daum gained the doubleheader opener in 2024.
Springfield, Unwell., native Chase McDermand is searching for his first win at Jacksonville, and within the 2025 Xtreme Outlaw season, after leaving the Problem Sequence finale at Highland Speedway with a second-place efficiency.
Among the many “Prairie State” natives that can head to West Central Illinois to chase their first sequence win are Alex Midkiff, Devin Camfield and David Camfield, Jr., veteran Jake Neuman and Mitchell Davis.
Preserve It Sincere
Fittingly held within the “Land of Lincoln,” Sincere Abe Roofing is boosting the weekend at Jacksonville Speedway with their assist for the occasion and the actions occurring across the facility forward of the weekend.
Whereas the Indiana-based firm has offered drivers and groups with the Sincere Abe Cookout for each 2025 Xtreme Outlaw doubleheader, Saturday’s Sincere Abe Roofing Pinewood Derby returns for followers and race groups to participate in. Between the 2 lessons of Field Inventory and Tremendous Inventory, a $500 general purse is distributed to the highest three in every, with first place receiving $150, second place incomes $75, and third place receiving $25.
Sincere Abe Roofing CEO Kevin Newton made his Xtreme Outlaw Midget debut as a competitor within the 2024 finale weekend at Jacksonville. One 12 months later, his firm will play a key position within the occasions to occur on and off the monitor.
Closing 4
The remaining quartet of Xtreme Outlaw Midget races of the 2025 season will spotlight a blended bag of veterans and rookies that look to safe a first-time characteristic victory on the finish of the season’s marketing campaign.
Whereas the Illinois Midget veterans of Daum and McDermand are combating for his or her first win of the 2025 season, sequence rookies, together with Colton Robinson, Michael Faccinto, Alex Karpowicz, Hayden Sensible, and Brandon Carr, are all making their first go to to Jacksonville to chase a maiden triumph.
Robinson, the KKM pilot from Titusville, Fla., owns one of the best common end (8.85) on a quarter-mile oval of the rookies that haven’t gained. Faccinto, the Hanford, Calif., driver for Trifecta Motorsports, has constructed up his consolation on the bigger tracks with two high fives within the final three Options to enhance his common end to 9.14.