Ticking away the moments that make up a raceday, these are the most amazing single performances that don’t really fit into any other category. These are the individual moments that were either significant in some form or fashion in a historical sense, or were moments in time that immediately established themselves as ones we wouldn’t soon forget from the 2020 USAC National season.
2. Stockon Finishes ISW Title Chase On Top
Oct 28, 2020
Chase Stockon, the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car ironman who had amassed 321 consecutive feature starts by season’s end, had switched rides from his familiar own No. 32 to the KO Motorsports No. 5s in early July. One month later, Stockon and team were basking in the light of a first career Indiana Sprint Week championship, coming from behind to take over the lead of the points in the final race at Tri-State Speedway.
It was an Indiana Sprint Week that Chase Stockon classified as “trying” and dotted by missed opportunities, both on-track and due to mother nature, despite being the only driver in the series to finish within the top-five in all five Indiana Sprint Week feature races in 2020, a consistent run which made him the third-straight driver to win ISW without the aid of a feature win, and the 12th overall in the 33-year history of the series along with Randy Kinser (1988), Gary Trammell (1990). Bob Kinser (1991), Tony Elliott (1999), Levi Jones (2004-08-12), Robert Ballou (2015), Brady Bacon (2016), Chris Windom (2018) and C.J. Leary (2019).
“It’s been a trying week for us,” Stockon said at the time. “This is a lot of redemption for us. We were really good here tonight, just trying to be careful and trying to win a race at the same time. It’s all big picture for us. I got to thank my guys and everybody on the side of this car that made it all possible. I think it just shows how strong we are as a team. Nobody got down and everybody kept their chin up. We just powered forward.”
