By Bob Baker
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 8, 2015) – With his runner-up finish to winner Terry McCarl in the Arnold Motor Supply 360-cubic-inch Knoxville Nationals finale presented by Great Southern Bank on Saturday at Knoxville Raceway, Dusty Zomer of South Dakota has assumed the lead in the 2015 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week point standings. Night number four is Sunday, August 9, with the Kustom Concrete Pumping (Ralph) Capitani Classic for winged 410-cubic-inch sprint cars.
The unofficial top fifteen in the 2015 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after three nights is as follows: 1., Dusty Zomer, 99 points; 2., Terry McCarl, 98 points; 3., Aaron Reutzel, 97 points; 4., Sammy Swindell, 95 points; 5., Danny Lasoski, 93 points; 6., Wayne Johnson, 92 points; 7., Brian Brown, Clint Garner, 91 points (tied); 9., Kevin Swindell, 88 points; 10., Calvin Landis, 87 points; 11., Bronson Maeschen, 86 points; 12., Tony Bruce, Jr., 82 points; 13., Casey Fredrichsen, 81 points; 14., Tony Shilling, 80 points; 15., Billy Alley, 77 points.
This year, the Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week includes nine points-paying sprint car feature races in ten days, August 6-15, between the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville and the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa. 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, Sammy Swindell (2010, ‘11) of Tennessee, Kyle Larson (2012) of California, Kevin Swindell (2013) of Tennessee, and Brian Brown (2014) of Missouri.