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Sammy Swindell Race Team Members Reunion Set for Wednesday!

The Sammy Swindell Team Members Reunion is set for Wednesday, August 9 at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum! […]

National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Auction This Saturday at Skagit Dirt Cup!

National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Special Events Coordinator Mike Noftsger is headed to the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup this weekend at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Washington. […]

Dedication of Staging Building to Follow Hall of Fame Induction Banquet Saturday!

Years of hard work and funding from generous donors have made it possible for the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum to “Expand the Dream” and complete their staging building behind the museum. […]

Schatz Named North American 410 Poll Driver of the Year

For the ninth time in his career, Donny Schatz of Fargo, North Dakota, was voted the “Driver of the Year” by the North American 410 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers. The 2016 World of Outlaws (WoO) champion earned seventeen (17) of the twenty (20) first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll. The other first-place vote-getters were Daryn Pittman, Jason Johnson and the late Bryan Clauson. […]

Hafertepe Named North American 360 Sprint Car Poll “Driver Of The Year”

Sam Hafertepe, Jr., of Sunnyvale, Texas, was voted the 2016 “Driver of the Year” by the North American 360 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers for the first time. Hafffertepe, the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) national tour champion, earned ten (10) of the first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll. Sam Hafertepe, Jr., and Keith Dobbs earned the “Team of the Year” award, too […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

Knoxville Raceway

USAC National Sprint Car Series Returns to Knoxville Raceway June 3rd

The USAC Amsoil National Sprint Car Series will return to Knoxville Raceway as part of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum induction weekend Saturday June 3rd. […]

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.” […]

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. […]

Dedication of Bob Trostle Statue Today at the Hall of Fame

National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductee and two-time Knoxville Nationals-winning sprint car owner/mechanic Bob Trostle competed in the inaugural National Super-Modified Championship in 1961. […]

Schatz named North American 410 poll driver of the year

For the eighth time in his career, Donny Schatz of Fargo, North Dakota, was voted the “Driver of the Year” by the North American 410 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers. The 2015 Knoxville Nationals winner, Chico Gold Cup Race of Champions winner and World of Outlaws (WoO) champion, earned all twenty-five (25) first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll. […]

Reutzel named 360 Driver of the Year by Sprint Car Poll

Aaron Reutzel of Clute, Texas, was voted the 2015 “Driver of the Year” by the North American 360 Sprint Car Poll voting panel of media members, promoters, sanctioning officials and manufacturers for the first time. Ruetzel, the American Sprint Car Series (ASCS) national tour champion, earned seventeen (17) of the twenty-one (21) first-place ballots cast in the year-end poll. Aaron Reutzel earned the “Team of the Year” award, too. Finally, Aaron Reutzel will share the “Wild Card Award” for exciting sprint car performances with Morgan Turpen. […]