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Super Sprint National Championship (1975–1976) National Sprint Car Championships (1977) Knoxville Nationals (1978–1982, 1984, 1986–1990, 1994) Coors Knoxville Nationals (1983) Silver Anniversary Knoxville Nationals (1985) NAPA Knoxville Nationals (1991–1993) Amoco Knoxville Nationals (1995–2000) Amoco Ultimate Knoxville Nationals (2001)
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 ...
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 ...
The Aug. 7-10 Knoxville Nationals are the nation's premier sprint car event and have a purse of $1.15 million. “There’s more dirt tracks in the state of Iowa than any other state,” Baker said.
The 63rd running of the Knoxville Nationals will conclude tonight with NASCAR's Kyle Larson on the pole as he defends his 2023 championship and attempts to win the Sprint Car Crown Jewel event for ...
Knoxville is a city in and the county seat of Marion County, Iowa, United States. The population was 7,595 at the time of the 2020 census , an increase from 7,313 in the 2010 census . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Knoxville is home of the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum , located next to the famous Knoxville Raceway dirt track.
Previous storylines about whether Larson would ever win sprint-car racing's crown jewel now seem silly. The NASCAR phenom has added Knoxville Raceway to his list of conquered venues.
This is a list of inductees in the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. 1990 ... (Official at Knoxville Raceway) Gene Crucean; Roy "Bud" Grimm Jr. Shirley Kear Valentine;