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Clauson Named 2016 Recipient of Outstanding Contribution To The Sport Award

The late sprint car driver Bryan Clauson of California and then Indiana has been named the recipient of the 2016 “Thomas J. Schmeh Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Sport” by all three voting panels of the North American Sprint Car Poll.

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Brady Bacon Named North American Non-Winged Sprint Car Poll “Driver Of The Year” For 2016

Brady Bacon of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, today was named the 2016 “Driver of the Year” by the North American Non-Winged Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers for the first time. The United States Auto Club (USAC) point champion earned three (3) first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll. Richard Hoffman, owner of Bacon’s famed number 69 sprint car earned the 2016 non-winged sprint car “Team of the Year” award.

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Eight Inductees Announced for National Sprint Car Hall of Fame “Class of 2017”

The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the names of its eight inductees for 2017.

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Floridian Tom Knowles Wins Museum’s GF1-Ti22/Shaver Sprint Car Raffle Prize

Tom Knowles of Gibsonton, Florida, is the lucky grand prize winner of the National Sprint Car Museum’s sprint car raffle. The winning raffle ticket-buyer will receive a state-of-the-art GF1-Ti22 chassis with a new Shaver Specialties-built 410-cubic-inch racing engine.

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GF1-Ti22/Shaver ‘410 Sprint Car Raffle Officially Sold Out

The eleventh National Sprint Car Museum-benefit sprint car raffle is officially ‘sold out.’ It is the first time in the history of the biennial large annual raffle that all tickets printed have been sold.

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Sprint Car 101: An Afternoon with Doug Clark, Tom Savage, and Keith Frantzen

The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation is pleased to announce that it is once again traveling north on Sunday, November 20, to present its next Sprint Car 101 forum, entitled “An Afternoon with Doug Clark, Tom Savage & Keith Frantzen.”

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World Finals Auction to Take Place on Saturday, October 29 at Noon

Once again, the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville, Iowa, will be teaming up with the National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame in Florence, Kentucky, and the DIRT Motorsports Hall of Fame in Weedsport, New York, to host a fundraising auction for all three museums during the World Finals in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s auction will be held on Saturday, October 29, at the Z-Max Dragway pavilion at the Charlotte Motor Speedway and it will begin at 12 Noon.

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Lakeside Speedway, SLS Promotions, and World of Outlaws Partner With National Sprint Car Museum Friday

The Lakeside Speedway, SLS Promotions, and the World of Outlaws (WoO) Craftsman Sprint Car Series will be joining forces to help the non-profit National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum this Friday night, October 21, at Lakeside dirt track in Kansas City, Kansas.

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JAMIE VEAL CLAIMS 2016 COX DESIGN SOUTHERN IOWA SPRINT WEEK POINT TITLE AND IS CROWNED JESSE HOCKETT “MR. SPRINT CAR”

Following nine nights of sprint car racing in ten days, Jamie Veal of Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, has been named the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point champion, which awards the Jesse Hockett “Mr. Sprint Car” title.

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AFTER NIGHT SEVEN, DANNY LASOSKI LEADS THE 2016 COX DESIGN SOUTHERN IOWA SPRINT WEEK POINTS

After the first two nights of the 5-Hour ENERGY Knoxville Nationals on Wednesday and Thursday, Missourian Danny Lasoski leads the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point standings by two points over his nephew Brian Brown

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Fan Forums at Knoxville on Wednesday

Wednesday, August 10: 10:30 a.m. – “From Where are Tomorrow’s Sprint Car Historians Coming?” with host Tom Schmeh (Curator, National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum) and Allan Brown (“History of America’s Speedways, Past […]

Lasoski and Brown open up lead in Southern Iowa Speedweek Standings

After the Price Chopper Front Row Challenge at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa on Monday night, Missourian Danny Lasoski leads his nephew Brian Brown, 174 to 172 points, in the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point standings.

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After Night Four Zomer Leads Southern Iowa Speedweek Points

With his eighth place finish in the Kustom Concrete Pumping (Ralph) Capitani Classic on Sunday at Knoxville Raceway, Badlands Motor Speedway regular Dusty Zomer of South Dakota has taken the lead in the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point standings. Shane Stewart won the Capitani Classic for the second year in a row. Night number five is Monday, August 8, with the National Sprint League (NSL) sanctioned Price Chopper Front Row Challenge at the Southern Iowa Speedway in nearby Oskaloosa.

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Veal Leads Southern Iowa Speedweek Points Following Second Night of the 360 Nationals

With his win in the preliminary main on the second night of the Arnold Motor Supply 360-cubic-inch Knoxville Nationals presented by Great Southern Bank on Thursday at Knoxville Raceway, Jamie Veal of Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, joins Knoxville’s own Jamie Ball as the early leaders in the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point standings.

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Ball Leads 2016 Cox Design Southern Iowa Speedweek Points

With his win in the preliminary main on the first night of the Arnold Motor Supply 360-cubic-inch Knoxville Nationals presented by Great Southern Bank on Thursday at Knoxville Raceway, Jamie Ball of Knoxville is the early leader in the 2016 Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa Sprint Week point standings. Night number two is Friday, August 5, with the second preliminary qualifying night. The ‘360’ Nationals are sanctioned by the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS).

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