Austin Nigh Racing

We want to CONGRATULATE Austin on his new job he started this week at Dallara!

We had plans to run most of this week as sprint cars will be the support class, but due to the job change our schedule has changed a bit. Be back on the track this weekend!

𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝑾𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝑴𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒚! 💰

Here's a glance at the USAC Indiana Midget Week 2026 Point Fund. 💰

$15,000 to the champ & $30,000 across the top-6, plus a Passing Master Award starting this week!

▪️ Tuesday, June 9: Circle City Raceway
▪️ Wednesday, June 10: Paragon Speedway
▪️ Thursday, June 11: Lincoln Park Speedway
▪️ Friday, June 12: Bloomington Speedway
▪️ Saturday, June 13: Tri-State Speedway-
▪️ Sunday, June 14: Kokomo Speedway

Sprint car career best 2nd place finish last night at Bloomington! Led as late as lap 20, with a 3 car battle for the lead at the white flag. Was a great night, looking for 1 spot better tonight at Lincoln Park. Thank you to everyone that helps on this #97!

Went 5th to 1st slow rolling the bottom to win the heat. Starting 8th in the main.

Planned on racing at Lima last night but work schedule didn’t allow it (more on that in a later post). On our way to Montpelier tonight, hoping to continue the good run from last Saturday. Picture from KFmediaphotos

A stout field of 58 sprint cars at Lincoln Park last night. Had quick time in his group and 5th quick overall. Went 4th to 2nd in his heat race to make the redraw. Started 10th in the main and ended up with an 8th place run. Was passing for 6th when a yellow came out that negated the pass with a few laps to go. Still a really good night and fast from start to finish. With the extreme late night and rain chances, we’re going to skip Kokomo and begin prep for next weekend.

Special thanks to our crew, Isaac Chapple and Kenny Cross along with special guests Mike and Cody Nigh. They had the 97 Enterprises, Billy’s Tequila, Intellicents, Brigade Shooting Company, Impact Racing, Shawn Frazier Designs, DRC rolling good last night.

First the bad… Austin’s qualifying time was disqualified due to having the wrong compound LR tire on. I own it, it was my fault. It wasn’t intentional, and upon further inspection I didn’t even realize that half of our LR tire inventory is of the wrong compound for USAC. I wasn’t checking that when I ordered my tires for pickup because I trusted I was getting the right compound but again that’s on me. That eliminated what would have been the 22nd time out of the 29 cars in attendance and forced him to start last in the heat race and the B main.

The good….for his first time at Terre Haute and on a half mile, you could tell he got more and more comfortable throughout the night, turned some respectable laps speed wise that showed we were capable of making the A main if we hadn’t beaten ourselves by having to start on the tail all night. Ultimately in the B he finished 8th after battling with 7th for the last part of the race, 2 spots out of the transfer spot and our night was over.

The best… the weather looks good for tonight’s race at Circle City.

Thank you to Billy’s Tequila, Intellicents, The Brigade Shooting Company and our crew of Isaac Chapple, Kenny Cross, and Mike Nigh last night for all of their help.

Picture credit to Chuck Reed for a cool shot from last night.

After a couple rainouts earlier in the month and a planned weekend off, we have a full week ahead, weather pending of course….

Wednesday at Terre Haute (USAC)
Thursday at Circle City (USAC)
Friday at Bloomington (Burton Memorial)
Saturday at Lincoln Park
Sunday at Kokomo (BC Double)

Picture credit to KDSphotography

We were set to go to Bloomington last night but the race was rained out. No racing for us tonight either as Austin is attending a concert. Happy Mother’s Day weekend to all of the Moms’s out there!