That’s the playbook Emerson Axsom followed on the road to earning USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship Rookie of the Year honors this year. Axsom’s three wins in 2022 are the second most ever by a USAC National Sprint Car Rookie. Axsom got his feet wet the year before with seven series starts coming late in the 2021 season, setting up a rookie run. “Going out and winning those two early races lifted the expectations,” Axsom admitted. “But I knew stuff was coming because I did it two years before in a midget. It’s true for every team and every driver who’s ever strapped into a race car. “Everyone knew I was really a rookie last year, but I was a rookie this year too.

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