CJ Leary

C.J. HISTORY! LEARY LEADS THE WAY AT IMS USAC SPRINT INVITATIONAL

C.J. Leary has consistently run near the front of the field throughout the 2024 USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship season. Nonetheless, a fact that’s been stuck in his craw throughout much of the campaign is the absence of a victory, last winning with the series at Florida’s Ocala Speedway in February. […]

C.J. Fastest in Friday’s Salt City USAC Silver Crown Practice

C.J. Leary muscled his way to the top of the charts in the third and final session to become the fastest driver of Friday night’s USAC Silver Crown National Championship practice at Hutchinson, Kansas’ Salt City Speedway. […]

5 YEARS TO THE DAY: LEARY TRIUMPHS AGAIN WITH USAC SPRINTS AT OCALA

The last time C.J. Leary won at Florida’s Ocala Speedway, it wound up being a very good year. After parlaying a final night Winter Dirt Games victory in 2019 at Ocala into a USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship later that season, the Greenfield, Ind. racer hopes that 2024 will bear a much similar fruit. […]

LEARY LANDS 2023 BUBBY JONES MASTER OF GOIN’ FASTER TITLE

Leary earned $10,000 for his efforts in the 10-race miniseries and an extra $2,500 for his BGE Dougherty Motorsports team based out of Evansville, Ind. He finished off the championship with a sixth-place result on Saturday night at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) Speedway. […]

FROM DESPAIR TO WINNING WITH A SPARE: LEARY SCORES BIG AT KOKOMO

After enduring a vicious flip during the previous night’s feature that wiped out their primary ride, C.J. Leary and BGE Dougherty Motorsports turned to a car that had been sitting on jackstands for the past three years and had never seen a racetrack, let alone even touched the ground. […]

C.J. Leary Victorious at Eldora Saturday night

Rossburg,Ohio (05-06-23) C.J Leary won the 30 lap USAC AMSOIL feature at Eldora Speedway Saturday night after leading all 30 laps. Leary was followed by Jake Swanson,Chase Stockon,Mitchell Moles and Kyle cummins. USAC AMSOIL SPRINT […]

LEARY LANDS LARRY RICE CLASSIC VICTORY AT BLOOMINGTON

C.J. Leary knew exactly where he needed to be throughout Friday night’s Larry Rice Classic USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature at Indiana’s Bloomington Speedway. […]

CJ Leary is BOSS at Montpelier

The scene was the historic Montpelier Motor Speedway and the event was the second annual “Let’s Go 30” in memory of Russ Cook. The Cook family generously contributed an additional $3,500 to the $13,000 standard tour payout. At the end of the night, it was Indiana native C.J. Leary scoring the win in the Brandon Gray number 81. […]

Leary, McDougal, Kouba and Wade Take Final Checkers at Gas City

Due to rain on Friday night, seven features were run
in the second half of the third annual “Fall Festival of Speed and Non-Wing
Nationals” Saturday as Gas City I-69 Speedway concluded its 2021 season in
a mega day of action on the quarter-mile dirt oval. […]

LEARY’S “BACKUP” PLAN BECOMES A WINNING PLAN AT PLYMOUTH

On occasion, the backup plan ultimately becomes the master plan. A bad vibration and a broken U-Joint forced driver C.J. Leary and his Michael Motorsports team to pull down the spare car from the trailer for the most recent USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car event at Bloomsburg (Pa.) Fair Raceway 12 days earlier. […]