AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show for April 23rd

The AutoSportRadio.com 2024 Show was recorded in front of a live audience at Green Street Pub and Eatery in Brownsburg, Indiana on April 23rd. Stay tuned for the next live recording and join us if you can. If you can’t, that’s okay you can stay tuned for information on the next broadcast release of the AutoSportRadio.com Show. Enjoy this installment of the Fastest Hour in Motorsports.

It was United States Auto Club aka USAC night on AutoSportadio.com
Guests... Levi Jones, and John Mahoney
USAC announces 2024 Hall of Fame class ...
LEVI JONES – USAC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2024
From the time he set off rolling down the road with his dad and their family-run racing operation, Levi Jones was determined to become a champion.
Originating from humble beginnings, Jones, born on June 10, 1982, wasn’t afraid to test his abilities against USAC’s best from the outset. From the time he turned 16, the Olney, Illinois native learned the ropes, the trials and the tribulations. After nearly seven seasons of USAC competition, he broke through for his first USAC Sprint Car win in 2004 on the dirt in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Veteran USAC driver and executive Levi Jones has been named director for NXT by Firestone (formally Indy Lights). He will oversee all operations and competition in the development series. The move comes following Penske Entertainment Corp. taking back its role as promoter.
Jones steps into his new role after spending six years working in USAC. Since 2019, he's served as executive vice president, where he focused on expanding the series' efforts to increase its reach into youth, off-road, rally and sportscar racing. Notably, he served as the race director for the inaugural six-race SRX series this past summer. He began working in the racing governing body in 2015 as the national series competition director, where he helped plan more than 75 USAC events around the country each year in the Silver Crown, Sprint and Midget national championships.
From that point forward, no driver was as consistently successful as Levi. He earned his first USAC Sprint crown in 2005 for 2B Racing before joining Tony Stewart Racing’s stable where he reeled off successive championships in 2007-09-10-11. To boot, he added back-to-back USAC Silver Crown titles in 2010-11 for TSR for a total of seven USAC national points championship in his masterful career.
In 2015, he hung up his helmet and joined USAC as its national series director and was ultimately named Vice President of Competition for the club’s Circle Track Division through 2021. Jones was also instrumental in establishing many new foundational events for USAC, most notably the BC39 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

USAC Names 2024 Hall of Fame Inductees ...
JOHN MAHONEY – USAC HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2024
Few, if any, individuals have witnessed more USAC events through a camera’s viewfinder, and perhaps nobody has been more adept at snapping an action or candid shot and transforming it into an art form more exquisitely than John Mahoney.
Born in Indianapolis, Mahoney was raised in the center of the racing universe, and it wasn’t long before he was hooked. Mahoney’s earliest racing memories recount visits to the Indianapolis 500 and the Hoosier Hundred during the mid-1950s. However, it was a USAC Sprint Car race at Terre Haute which laid the foundation for a lifelong addiction to the sport.
Early on, Mahoney took his store-bought box camera into the pits after the races. With the assistance of his brother, Steve, Mahoney developed the photos for posterity. At Indiana University, Mahoney met fellow student Gene Crucean, and the instant bond between them forged a lifelong friendship.
The Crucean/Mahoney partnership led to the creation of Sprint Car Pictorial, race promotion and even the ownership of a USAC Midget team. From 1984-85, Mahoney served as USAC’s Assistant Director of the USAC News Bureau as well as the Silver Crown Series Coordinator. In 2019, Mahoney was the inaugural recipient of the Dick Jordan Award of Excellence.