After digging through several articles, finally found out what went wrong with Kyle's midget. All the articles never wanted to focus on what the problem was. Too bad, he qualified well and was running off in his heat. Here was a clip of the article:

This was Rowdy’s debut run at the USAC Nationals, and it looked to be a promising night as he qualified 18th out of the 36 entries. He fired off strong in the heat race as well and took charge of the race, but after 2 laps his midget car lost power. As it turns out, the batteries on his race car had connection issues that forced him out of the race. He had a chance to bounce back in the 12-lap semi-final feature, but despite working his way up to fifth spot, he wasn’t able to make the transfer.