Knoxville, IA — (August 10, 2012) — What everyone suspected on Wednesday night is now official… Kyle Larson of Elk Grove, California, has clinched the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week point championship and has earned himself $2,500 and the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title. Kyle did so despite finishing twenty-third in the Speed Sport Knoxville World Challenge on Friday night, which was won by five-time Knoxville Nationals champion Donny Schatz.
Night number ten of ten straight nights of sprint car racing between the Oskaloosa and Knoxville dirt tracks is Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway with the 52nd annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals.
The unofficial top fifteen in the 2012 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after eleven mains in eight nights is as follows: 1., Kyle Larson, 315 points; 2., Tim Shaffer, 236 points; 3., Brian Brown, 227 points; 4., Tim Kaeding, 226 points; 5., Jason Johnson, 212 points; 6., Brady Bacon, 211 points; 7., Shane Stewart, 208 points; 8., Brooke Tatnell, 205 points; 9., Jason Meyers, 196 points; 10., Daryn Pittman, 191 points; 11., Paul McMahan, 188 points; 12., Danny Lasoski, 165 points; 13., Brad Sweet, 162 points; 14., James McFadden, 158 points; 15., Wayne Johnson, 146 points.
The Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speedweek includes ten straight nights of sprint car racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa Speedway. The top three places pay $2,500, $1,000, and $500, respectively, with the winner declared the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” titlist. Past “Mr. Sprint Car” titlists include Ricky Logan (2002) of Arkansas, Shane Stewart (2003, ’04) of Oklahoma, Billy Alley (2005) of Nebraska, Jason Johnson (2006) of Louisiana, Wayne Johnson (2007, ‘08) of Oklahoma, Terry McCarl (2009) of Iowa, and Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee.