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The first weekly races were held at the Knoxville Raceway in 1954. After internal issues with the sanctioning body—the Southern Iowa Stock Car Racing Association—in 1956, Marion Robinson of Des Moines, Iowa was appointed as race promoter. During Robinson's tenure, the cars progressed from stock cars to modifieds to supermodifieds to sprint ...
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The museum is located in Knoxville, Iowa, the home of the Knoxville Nationals at Knoxville Raceway. The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation, Inc., is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Iowa on April 25, 1986, for the sole purpose of preserving the history of the sport of sprint car racing and ...
In doing so, Larson became just the second driver in Knoxville Nationals history to lead wire-to-wire in consecutive years. His racing legacy continues growing with every visit to this hallowed track.
Sprint cars are open-wheel race cars, designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval, circular dirt or paved tracks. Historically known simply as "big cars," distinguishing them from "midget cars," sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States and Canada, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
McKenna Hasse was able to walk away from her flip in the Knoxville Nationals but is currently still hospitalized with a pneumothorax in her lungs.
34 2024. 35 References. ... This is a list of inductees in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. 1990 ... (Official at Knoxville Raceway) Gene Crucean;
Rich Bickle, who has stepped away from racing several times, plans one more run in the Nationals that coincides with his most familiar car number, 45. Bickle, 63, won the Nationals in 1992, ’ 96 ...