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NATIONAL SPRINT CAR MUSEUM DEBUTS

NATIONAL SPRINT CAR MUSEUM DEBUTS...

7/9/2014
The non-profit National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum will debut a new 2015 calendar this weekend at the World of Outlaws-sanctioned Kings Royal championship at the Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio. The January-December, 2015, calendar features sprint cars that are currently on display in the Knoxville-based museum, or have been on exhibit in the past. It also features driver birthdays, including National Sprint Car Hall of Fame inductees. It will sell for $9.99...more
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  • administrator on Jul 09, 2014
  • Article Date: 7/9/2014
Tags: Steve Kinser, Danny Lasoski, Erin Crocker
Blaney Inducted into National Spri

Blaney Inducted into National Spri...

1/13/2016
(Photo by DB3 Imaging) Inside Line Promotions – WINDOM, Minn. (Jan. 13, 2016) – Dale Blaney is nearly speechless about his latest honor, which places him among the greats of sprint car racing. It was announced Tuesday night that Blaney was inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Class of 2016. The ceremony is scheduled for June 4. “Words can’t describe how I feel,” he said. “For my dad to be inducted three years ago, then Dave two years ago and now myself,...more
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  • Shawn Miller on Jan 13, 2016
  • Article Date: 1/13/2016
Tags: Dale Blaney, Winged Sprints, Big Game Treestands
FLORIDIAN TOM KNOWLES WINS MUSEUM’

FLORIDIAN TOM KNOWLES WINS MUSEUM’...

12/16/2016
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. When first contacted by phone by museum executive director Bob Baker and told that his one raffle ticket was drawn in the non-profit foundation’s eleventh biennial sprint car raffle, Knowles exclaimed,...more
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  • administrator on Dec 19, 2016
  • Article Date: 12/16/2016
Tags: Winged Sprints, National Sprint Car Hall Of Fame
EIGHT INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED AS “CLAS

EIGHT INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED AS “CLAS...

1/10/2017
EIGHT INDUCTEES ANNOUNCED AS “CLASS OF 2017” FOR NATIONAL SPRINT CAR HALL OF FAME KNOXVILLE, IOWA (January 10, 2017) -The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame is pleased to announce the names of its eight inductees for 2017. Those that will be inducted into the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame on Saturday, June 3, during the twenty-eighth annual ceremonies in Knoxville, Iowa, are: Drivers: Dave Darland, Tony Elliott, Terry...more
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  • administrator on Jan 12, 2017
  • Article Date: 1/10/2017
Tags: Terry McCarl, Dave Darland, Tony Elliott
BRADY BACON NAMED NORTH AMERICAN N

BRADY BACON NAMED NORTH AMERICAN N...

1/11/2017
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”...more
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  • administrator on Jan 12, 2017
  • Article Date: 1/11/2017
Tags: Brady Bacon, 410 Sprints - Non-Winged, Non-Winged Sprints
BRYAN CLAUSON NAMED 2016 RECIPIENT

BRYAN CLAUSON NAMED 2016 RECIPIENT...

1/11/2017
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. According to poll founder and current National Sprint Car Museum curator Tom Schmeh, after whom the award was permanently named back in 2014, “The poll’s Outstanding Contribution Award is the museum foundation’s highest honor...more
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  • administrator on Jan 12, 2017
  • Article Date: 1/11/2017
Tags: Bryan Clauson, 410 Sprints - Non-Winged, Winged Sprints
MUSEUM IS PLEASED TO OFFER A NEW R

MUSEUM IS PLEASED TO OFFER A NEW R...

3/27/2017
The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville Iowa is pleased to announce the museum’s newest raffle, the “Australian Sprint Car Vacation”. The raffle winner will receive: two round trip airfares from the contiguous United States to Australia, seven nights lodging in a hotel, and two tickets to all three nights of the Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Warrnambool. The winner need not be present to win. Another feature of the “Australian Sprint Car...more
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  • administrator on Mar 28, 2017
  • Article Date: 3/27/2017
Tags: Knoxville Raceway, Winged Sprints, National Sprint Car Hall Of Fame
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