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T.J.’s Notebook: Five Reasons Every Sprint Car Fan Should Experience the World 100

In 2018 I had the opportunity to cover the World 100 thanks to weather pushing it back to October. I had the World 100 on my list of events I wanted to cover for a considerable amount of time.

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the Guest Spot: Memories Rekindled with Revival of the Sharon Nationals

In this edition of the guest spot Dan McFarland traded his camera for a keyboard to recall his memories from the Sharon Nationals while growing up in the area.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Morfier Leaves the Flag Stand to Guide Attica Raceway Park

Andrew Morfier is likely a name you don’t recognize. When you are the head flagman for a racetrack like Attica Raceway Park that is the desired result. Typically, if attention is on the person waving the flags something did not happen properly. Morfier will step into a higher profile role for 2023 taking over as Director of Operations at Attica Raceway Park.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Goodbye to the McMahan’s, Youth is Served, and Labor Day Has Been Shuffled

Sprint car racing says goodbye to Paul and Bobby McMahan at Placerville Speedway while on the other end of the spectrum Ryan Timms and Corey Day shined a spotlight on the sport’s future.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Sprint Car Majors Continue with the Smack Down this week at Kokomo

The focus of the sprint car world has revolved around winged sprint car racing most of August, but this week non-wing sprint car racing takes center stage for the Kokomo Sprint Car Smackdown Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at Kokomo Speedway.

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Great Lakes Edition: GLSS Point Race Still Tight, New Ventures, and Continued Butler Improvement

The Great Lakes Super Sprints get next weekend off after two successful nights of racing Friday at I-96 Speedway and Saturday at Butler Motor Speedway. Exiting the weekend, it appears we are down to a three-horse race for the 2022 GLSS championship.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from GLSS/GLTS at I-96 Speedway

After a busy night of racing Friday at I-96 Speedway featuring the Great Lakes Super Sprints and Great Lakes Traditional Sprints, here are my takeaways from this solid doubleheader of sprint car racing.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from the Final Night of the 61st Knoxville Nationals

After seeing one the greatest sprint car drivers of all time work his magic at the Knoxville Raceway here are three takeaways as I depart the Marion County Fairgrounds.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from Friday at the Knoxville Nationals: Redemption, Near Misses, and Another Showdown for the Title

The “Hard Knox” program has cemented itself as one of the most entertaining nights of racing during the four days of action at the NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals.

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Pole Position Caps Landmark Day for Austin McCarl

The McCarl name is synonymous with the Knoxville Nationals as part of the “home team”, even when family members were traveling to race elsewhere. Austin McCarl gave those local fans a night to remember on Thursday by earning the pole position for the 61st NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals.

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T.J.’s Takeaways: Sharks Devour Prelims, Defending Home Turf, and a Rookie Class for the Ages

I wrote coming into the 61st Knoxville Nationals I felt that this year’s edition was as wide open as any I have attended regarding who could win the event. Thursday strengthened that position, which will be reflected below in my takeaways following the preliminary programs are now in the books

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T.J.’s Notebook: Low Point Totals Concern Top Drivers after Wednesday’s Preliminary Program

One day removed from a crazy preliminary night to open the 60th Knoxville Nationals that saw 18 of the top 20 qualifiers fail to transfer through their heat race into the main event. This resulted in Donny Schatz and David Gravel tying in points with Schatz winning the tiebreaker of highest feature finish to be the highest point driver for the night, but only accumulating 469 points.

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T.J.’s Takeaways from a Wacky Wednesday at Knoxville

After one of the most unusual nights of racing I have witnessed in my 27 years of coming to the Knoxville Nationals here is my takeaways from the Wednesday night preliminary program.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Wide Open Nationals

The term wide open in motorsports is used to describe being able to hold down the throttle all the way around the race track. Coming into the 61st Knoxville Nationals I am using it to describe the pool of potential winners of the biggest event in sprint car racing.

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Great Lakes Edition: In the Blink of an Eye

It is amazing how many things can change in just a week’s time. Proof of this is evident when following the Great Lakes Super Sprints series coming off their most recent weekend of competition.

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