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Lock, Stockon, Barrel: Chase & Moose Race to Ocala Victory

Driver Chase Stockon and car owner Tom Sertich (lower left) celebrate their USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship victory on Friday night at Florida's Ocala Speedway. (Dave Olson Photo)
Richie Murray - USAC Media
February 14, 2026

Ocala, Florida (February 13, 2026)………For Chase Stockon and Moose Racing, it seemed as if it was just a matter of time when they’re breakthrough at Florida’s Ocala Speedway would come to fruition.

All they needed was a little bit of good fortune to come their direction, and they got exactly that on Friday the 13th, no less.

They were fast throughout the week the previous winter, and thus far, had been near the forefront of the field during each of the first two nights of USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship racing at the 3/8-mile D-shaped dirt track.

A runner-up result for Stockon on Wednesday in which he and eventual winner Trey Osborne banged wheels on the front straightaway was followed by another solid top-five run on Thursday.

Friday was a new chapter, however, and despite a brief heart-in-the-throat moment and an emphatic stroke of Byzantine whimsy, Stockon led the entire 35-lap distance from start to finish in his Tom & Laurie Sertich/Lucas Oil Center – Dewig Meats – Brown Excavating/DRC/Kistler Chevy.

The Fort Branch, Indiana native’s 16th career USAC National Sprint Car victory tied him with Damion Gardner and Jud Larson for 39th place on the all-time list. It was also Stockon’s second career triumph at Ocala and his first there since 2018.

After providing the Sertich team its first USAC national win last summer at the Terre Haute Action Track, they were back again, this time in the Sunshine State during the penultimate round of Winter Dirt Games XVII Presented by Yokohama Tire.

“I can’t thank Tom and Laurie enough and Mister with Steve Williby on the wrenches. I wish I would’ve found him a long time ago in my career,” Stockon praised. “This whole bunch on the Moose 92 has been a godsend for me. It’s pretty special giving them another USAC national win.”

Starting his race from the catbird seat on pole, Stockon stepped out to the early lead and maintained total control for the first three laps of the feature with Kevin Thomas Jr. slotted into second ahead of Kyle Cummins. However, an incident collecting a pair of feature winners from earlier this week halted the proceedings on lap four.

Thursday’s Ocala winner Logan Seavey (10th) drifted out of the groove at the exit of turn four and walloped the outside wall with his right rear tire, then spun 540 degrees down the front straightaway before coming to a stop with a flat right rear tire. In the aftermath, Tuesday’s Volusia victor Jake Swanson (12th) attempted to avoid the incident, but knocked wheels with Robert Ballou (11th), ramped into the air and landed on all fours with a knocked out front end.

Miraculously, both Seavey and Swanson returned to the field after their respective crews made repairs in the Indy Metal Finishing Work Area. Starting at the tail end of the 23-car field, Swanson advanced all the way back to a ninth place result. Seavey, meanwhile, raced all the way back to eighth before a mechanical issue stifled him during the final laps and dropped him to 11th in the running order.

On the ensuing lap five restart, Ballou (10th) found trouble in exactly the same manner as Seavey but took a much more detrimental result. Ballou skated over the edge in turn four, collided with the outside wall and flipped several times nose-to-tail down the front straightaway. However, he was able to climb out and walk away. Ricky Lewis (10th) was also caught up in the incident and was unable to restart with front end damage to his ride.

Shortly after the resumption, Cummins began his surge as he swung to the inside of Thomas on the backstretch dogleg to make his way into second on lap six, then set sail for Stockon’s lead.

On the seventh lap, the complexion of the race nearly changed in a heartbeat. In turns three and four, Stockon got all four of his wheels over the cushion where the track flattens out. Cummins drove on by, but Stockon straightened himself out, pointed his car back under Cummins off turn four and managed to beat Cummins back to the stripe by a wheel.

As he balanced the exhilarating tension between being and becoming, Stockon narrowly avoided heartbreak on two fronts simultaneously.

“We finished out the year strong and we had a strong Ocala last year. We just couldn’t seem to find any luck,” recalled. “I think we had a little bit of luck on our side tonight. I killed the engine down in three and Kyle slid me. I thought I gave it away right there.”

Back up front, Stockon’s new nemesis soon became lapped traffic, which he encountered a plethora of with 10 laps remaining. With traffic running high, running low and operating to and fro, Stockon successfully split right between the duo of Gunnar Setser and Greg Mitchell on the front straight, but Cummins remained within striking distance and delivered the message that he was here to stay and maintain constant pressure.

“You’ve just got to use your ears,” Stockon explained regarding the proximity of Cummins’ engine noise surrounding him. “He’s bad fast, and this kind of slick, technical stuff is right up his alley. I knew he’d be tough. I heard him a couple times and saw his nose a couple times. I just stuck to my guns until somebody proved me otherwise.”

C.J. Leary (8th) was stopped backwards between turns one and two on lap 29 with heavy damage to his machine. He was able to climb out and walk away. That diverted traffic with seven laps remaining, allowing the duel to continue with a clear track and clean air out in front. Still, Stockon knew he just couldn’t allow Cummins to get a word, or a wheel, in edgewise.

“With all the cautions and the low tire pressure, I didn’t really know what the plan was,” Stockon remembered. “I just knew that if I could hold them off from throwing a slider on me, we’d probably be in good shape.”

Stockon was in perfectly good shape as it turned out, and he was able to jump away from Cummins down the stretch to finish off the victory by a 0.691 second margin over Cummins with Kevin Thomas Jr. third, Brady Bacon fourth and Mitchel Moles fifth.

Not only did Stockon win Friday’s main event. He also led each and every one of the 35 laps along the way. That earned him the K & N Filters Clean Air Award.

Briggs Danner went plus-six in advancing from 13th to seventh in the feature, a nice bounce back for the night’s Rod End Supply Hard Charger following a DNF the night before that resulted in a 22nd place finish.

Jadon Rogers was originally slated to start 12th in the feature, but the main pill selector on his car popped apart and sprayed fuel all over him as he was lining up before the green flag. Restarting 23rd, he raced to a 10th place finish, earning him the Sober Joe Coffee Co. Recovery of the Night.

Justin Grant collected fast time honors during LearnLab Qualifying. His time of 13.910 seconds put him at the top of the chart for the first time during the 2026 season. His 41st career USAC National Sprint Car fast qualifying time ranks as the seventh most all-time.

After the first three nights of competition at Ocala, five drivers locked themselves into Saturday's, February 14, Winter Dirt Games dash and $10,000-to-win, 40-lap feature. Those drivers are Kyle Cummins, Chase Stockon, Logan Seavey, Brady Bacon and Mitchel Moles. All other drivers will have to race their way into the field.

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: February 13, 2026 – Ocala Speedway – Ocala, Florida – Winter Dirt Games XVII Presented by Yokohama Tire – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

LEARNLAB QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 4, TOPP-13.910; 2. Mitchel Moles, 19AZ, Reinbold/Underwood-13.937; 3. Trey Osborne, 6T, Osborne-14.052; 4. Kyle Cummins, 3p, Petty-14.058; 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3R, Rock Steady-14.098; 6. Chase Stockon, 92, Sertich-14.138; 7. Jake Swanson, 5T, Daming Swanson-14.161; 8. Logan Seavey, 57, Abacus-14.162; 9. Jadon Rogers, 14, Rogers-14.213; 10. Briggs Danner, 39, Hogue-14.220; 11. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-14.273; 12. Harley Burns, 16, Britt Aero-14.334; 13. Tom Harris, 84, Harris-14.443; 14. Gunnar Setser, 5G, KO-14.467; 15. Chelby Hinton, 2B, 2B Racing-14.495; 16. Ricky Lewis, 41, Lewis-14.552; 17. Brady Bacon, 20, Dyson-14.573; 18. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.626; 19. Logan Calderwood, 6, Calderwood-14.715; 20. Cale Coons, 63, Dooling/Curb-Agajanian-14.794; 21. Ryan Harrison, 97UK, Harrison-14.900; 22. Greg Mitchell, 001, Mitchell-15.790; 23. Chase Howard, 13, Howard-NT; 24. Kobe Simpson, 13TH, Howard-NT.

K1 RACEGEAR FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Ricky Lewis (1), 2. Briggs Danner (3), 3. Jake Swanson (4), 4. Kyle Cummins (5), 5. Tom Harris (2), 6. Justin Grant (6), 7. Logan Calderwood (7), 8. Greg Mitchell (8). 2:01.671

TJ FORGED SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Brady Bacon (1), 2. Robert Ballou (3), 3. Gunnar Setser (2), 4. Logan Seavey (4), 5. Mitchel Moles (6), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr (5), 7. Cale Coons (7). 1:58.539

K & N FILTERS THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, all transfer to the feature, starting positions in parentheses) 1. C.J. Leary (1), 2. Jadon Rogers (4), 3. Chase Stockon (5), 4. Chelby Hinton (2), 5. Trey Osborne (6), 6. Harley Burns (3), 7. Ryan Harrison (7). 2:01.558

FEATURE: (35 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chase Stockon (1), 2. Kyle Cummins (3), 3. Kevin Thomas Jr. (2), 4. Brady Bacon (8), 5. Mitchel Moles (5), 6. Justin Grant (6), 7. Briggs Danner (13), 8. Trey Osborne (4), 9. Jake Swanson (10), 10. Jadon Rogers (12), 11. Logan Seavey (11), 12. Chelby Hinton (18), 13. Tom Harris (16), 14. Logan Calderwood (19), 15. Gunnar Setser (17), 16. Ryan Harrison (21), 17. Cale Coons (20), 18. C.J. Leary (9), 19. Greg Mitchell (22), 20. Harley Burns (15), 21. Ricky Lewis (7), 22. Robert Ballou (14), 23. Chase Howard (23). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-35 Chase Stockon.

**Robert Ballou flipped on lap 5 of the feature.

USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Logan Seavey-347, 2-Brady Bacon-335, 3-Chase Stockon-323, 4-Jake Swanson-323, 5-Kyle Cummins-322, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-310, 7-Justin Grant-287, 8-Mitchel Moles-286, 9-Trey Osborne-283, 10-Briggs Danner-280.

USAC PARALLAX GROUP NATIONAL PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-18, 2-Cale Coons-18, 3-Chelby Hinton-17, 4-Logan Calderwood-16, 5-Chase Stockon-15, 6-Kevin Thomas Jr.-15, 7-Tom Harris-15, 8-Robert Ballou-10, 9-Logan Seavey-9, 10-Briggs Danner-9.

WINTER DIRT GAMES XVII PARALLAX GROUP PASSING MASTER POINTS: 1-Brady Bacon-29, 2-Chelby Hinton-28, 3-Chase Stockon-23, 4-Cale Coons-21, 5-Kevin Thomas Jr.-20, 6-Kyle Cummins-19, 7-Briggs Danner-19, 8-Tom Harris-17, 9-Logan Calderwood-17, 10-Robert Ballou-16.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: February 14, 2026 – Ocala Speedway – Ocala, Florida – Winter Dirt Games XVII Presented by Yokohama Tire – 3/8-Mile Dirt Track

CONTINGENCY AWARD WINNERS:

Dirt Draft Hot Laps Fastest Driver: Kevin Thomas Jr. (14.621)

LearnLab Fast Qualifier: Justin Grant (13.910)

K1 RaceGear First Heat Winner: Ricky Lewis

TJ Forged Second Heat Winner: Brady Bacon

K & N Filters Third Heat Winner: C.J. Leary

K & N Filters Clean Air Award: Chase Stockon (35 laps led)

Rod End Supply Hard Charger: Briggs Danner (13th to 7th)

Sober Joe’s Coffee Recovery of the Night: Jadon Rogers

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