Logan Seavey Hits No. 1: Records 2024 Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship
Story By: RICHIE MURRAY / USAC – SPEEDWAY, IN – After finishing second in each of the past two seasons, Logan Seavey finally popped to the top of the charts to earn the 2024 Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship.
The newest member of USAC’s Career Triple Crown club captured the $10,000 reward by amassing more total points than any other driver across the three USAC national divisions throughout the duration of the 2024 campaign.
Since his USAC Rookie season of 2018, Seavey has never strayed outside of the top-10 in the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship standings. However, he’s never taken a step backwards in his pursuit, steadily climbing from 10th in 2018 to 9th in 2019 to 6th in 2020 and to 5th in 2021 before finishing as the runner-up to Justin Grant in both 2022 and 2023.
Seavey (Sutter, Calif.) earned a total of 5130 points during the 2024 campaign, 602 better than runner-up Daison Pursley with Justin Grant finishing just behind in third after capturing the Mike Curb title in each of the past three years in 2021-2022-2023.
“I knew, coming into it, that I had to beat Justin (Grant) for the most part, and that’s a tough guy to beat,” Seavey stated. “Ever since I’ve started racing with USAC, the guys who’ve won it are the best of the best, and then you look further back in history, it’s the same. It’s all the best guys of their eras. I’ve been close the last few years, but I’m fortunate to be running three great racecars and be close in all of them.”
In fact, Seavey pulled off the ultra-rare feat by achieving the Mike Curb title with the same team across the board. Abacus Racing fields sprint cars and midgets for Seavey while the Silver Crown car is a conjoined effort between Abacus and Rice Motorsports.
After notching USAC’s National Midget and Silver Crown titles in 2023 with Abacus, Seavey felt that if he could pick up the pace in sprint cars, he would put himself right into contention across all three series. The addition of the sprint car was a rousing success, netting Seavey 14 USAC national victories in 2024 to tie Tom Bigelow’s all-time record mark set in 1977.
“I figured over the last few years that if I could pick up my sprint car program a little bit, I’d be a little closer and able to race Justin for this championship,” Seavey said. “I knew I’d be close, but it finally came together this year. It’s a cool award that I’ve always looked at and never really knew if I’d even be able to do all the classes or how it would work out in my career. But to be here now is pretty awesome.”
To go along with a pair of USAC National Midget wins and a Silver Crown victory to boot, Seavey’s 17 USAC national feature scores in 2024 rank among the all-time greatest seasons, and also ranked inside the top-three of the standings in sprints (1st), midgets (3rd) and Silver Crown (3rd).
In fact, Seavey was one of three drivers to win across all three USAC national divisions this past season alongside Daison Pursley and Justin Grant. Along with Grant, Seavey was also one of only two drivers to start all 81 possible feature events during the 2024 season.
“It would’ve been even cooler to win the single season USAC Triple Crown and back up what we did last year with the sprint car, but to do it with the same group of guys is incredible,” Seavey praised. “These guys work well together and have a lot of fun.”
Seavey and Abacus’ 2024 performance became the sixth occasion in which a driver and entrant have regularly competed across all three USAC national divisions en route to the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship: Josh Wise & Tony Stewart Racing (2005 & 2006), Tracy Hines & Tony Stewart Racing (2008), as well as Bryan Clauson & Curb-Agajanian (2011 & 2012).
This year marked the 26th year of the Mike Curb USAC National Drivers Championship. Curb has offered the reward annually since the 1999 USAC season to honor USAC’s top overall points champion. Once known as the USAC Super License, the title was rechristened as the National Drivers Championship in recent years to more properly represent the accomplishment of achieving the feat, which so few have done. Now Seavey will accept the honor during USAC’s Night of Champions at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in Indianapolis on Friday night, December 13, 2024.
MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONS:
- 1999: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana
- 2000: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana
- 2001: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona
- 2002: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona
- 2003: J.J. Yeley, Phoenix, Arizona
- 2004: Jay Drake, Val Verde, California
- 2005: Josh Wise, Riverside, California
- 2006: Josh Wise, Riverside, California
- 2007: Jerry Coons Jr., Tucson, Arizona
- 2008: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana
- 2009: Cole Whitt, Alpine, California
- 2010: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana
- 2011: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana
- 2012: Bryan Clauson, Noblesville, Indiana
- 2013: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana
- 2014: Tracy Hines, New Castle, Indiana
- 2015: Dave Darland, Lincoln, Indiana
- 2016: Brady Bacon, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
- 2017: Justin Grant, Ione, California
- 2018: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana
- 2019: Tyler Courtney, Indianapolis, Indiana
- 2020: Chris Windom, Canton, Illinois
- 2021: Justin Grant, Ione, California
- 2022: Justin Grant, Ione, California
- 2023: Justin Grant, Ione, California
- 2024: Logan Seavey, Sutter, California
2024 MIKE CURB USAC NATIONAL DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS:
- 5130-Logan Seavey
- 4528-Daison Pursley
- 4523-Justin Grant
- 3429-C.J. Leary
- 3365-Kevin Thomas Jr.
- 3142-Brady Bacon
- 2784-Mitchel Moles
- 2734-Kyle Cummins
- 2625-Robert Ballou
- 2105-Matt Westfall
- 2074-Chase Stockon
- 1801-Briggs Danner
- 1800-Carson Garrett
- 1616-Kale Drake
- 1559-Jake Swanson
- 1446-Cannon McIntosh
- 1432-Jadon Rogers
- 1401-Zach Daum
- 1322-Joey Amantea
- 1311-Ryan Timms
- 1285-Ricky Lewis
- 1283-Jacob Denney
- 1176-Gavin Miller
- 1085-Zach Wigal
- 1010-Shane Cottle
- 949-Hunter Maddox
- 904-Kody Swanson
- 796-Trey Osborne
- 718-Jade Avedisian
- 716-Jerry Coons Jr.
- 664-Kyle Jones
- 619-Alex Bright
- 594-Kaylee Bryson
- 593-Brandon Mattox
- 575-Jake Andreotti
- 528-Kyle Steffens
- 494-Chance Crum
- 476-Hayden Reinbold
- 475-Mario Clouser
- 452-Gregg Cory
- 433-Bobby Santos
- 429-Max Adams
- 420-Ethan Mitchell
- 402-Tom Harris
- 397-Thomas Meseraull
- 396-Nathan Moore
- 367-Kayla Roell
- 366-Dakoda Armstrong
- 360-Rylan Gray
- 353-Tye Mihocko
- 329-Dave Berkheimer
- 314-Wesley Smith
- 296-Saban Bibent & Taylor Ferns
- 275-Todd Hobson
- 243-Trey Burke & Nathan Byrd
- 231-Xavier Doney
- 227-Russ Gamester
- 200-Tyler Roahrig
- 192-Timmy Buckwalter
- 191-Curtis Spicer
- 184-Chris Fetter
- 180-Carmen Perigo
- 176-Daniel Whitley
- 168-Hank Davis
- 159-Adam Taylor
- 158-Ashton Torgerson
- 138-Matt Goodnight
- 132-Gunnar Setser
- 130-Davey Hamilton Jr.
- 127-Chase Howard & Jackson Macenko
- 126-Brian Ruhlman
- 123-Brent Beauchamp
- 108-Danny Jennings
- 105-Steven Snyder Jr.
- 98-Mark Smith
- 95-Kyle Robbins
- 93-Chase Dietz
- 88-Patrick Lawson
- 82-Bryan Gossel
- 78-Kip Hughes & Jimmy Light
- 76-Danny Long
- 68-Shane Butler & Nic Harris
- 63-Chris Urish
- 62-Mark Bitner
- 59-Blake Brannon
- 58-Travis Welpott
- 57-Korey Weyant
- 54-Broedy Graham
- 53-Shane Cockrum & Dave Peperak
- 51-Aric Gentry
- 46-Tom Savage
- 44-Adam Bolyard & Steve Gennetten
- 41-Derek Bischak & Mike Haggenbottom
- 39-Casey Buckman
- 35-Joe Trenca
- 33-Tanner Berryhill & Cody Gerhardt
- 24-Sterling Cling
- 23-Kenney Johnson & Brent Yarnal
- 20-Jason Cherry
- 19-Kevin Newton
- 16-Don Droud Jr.
- 10-Kenny Gentry, Will Hull, Joey Moughan, Ken Schrader & Jake Trainor
