By Bob Baker
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 9, 2015) – Following the Kustom Concrete Pumping (Ralph) Capitani Classic on Sunday at the Knoxville Raceway, Danny Lasoski and Sammy Swindell are tied for the lead in the 2015 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa Speed Week point standings. Night number five is Monday, August 10, with the Casey’s General Stores/Musco Lighting Front Row Challenge, which is sanctioned by the ‘410’ National Sprint League (NSL) and presented by SeaFoam Motor Treatment, at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
The unofficial top fifteen in the 2015 Cox Design Iowa Speed Week points after four nights is as follows: 1., Danny Lasoski, Sammy Swindell, 142 points (tied); 3., Terry McCarl, 136 points; 4., Brian Brown, 128 points; 5., Wayne Johnson, 121 points; 6., Aaron Reutzel, 107 points; 7., Justin Henderson, 103 points; 8., Jon Agan, Tim Shaffer, 102 points (tied); 10., Dusty Zomer, 99 points; 11., Kevin Swindell, 98 points; 12., Bronson Maeschen, 96 points; 13., Clint Garner, 91 points; 14., Tony Shilling, 90 points; 15., Calvin Landis, 87 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.