I Keep promising myself to keep this blog more current, and I really will. It’s been another exciting season at the Knoxville Raceway this year, the “A” mains especially have been close and exciting, showing us how skillful these drivers are. The points races are close in both divisions with Brian Brown leading Don Droud Jr. by 81, and Clint Garner ahead of Dustin Selvage by 35.5 points heading into the last sprintcar race of the season next Saturday night. There have been several new drivers on the podium through out the season, which also adds excitment and demonstrates that the skill level is very high of not only the drivers but the crews as well. Every race the Knoxville Fire and Rescue Crew works hard and skillfully, and deserves a great deal of praise and appreciation for the difficult job they do, and the track officials and staff do as well.
I will continue posting photos of the weekly races as well as the Nationals, the wingless and 305 races in Knoxville, and some wingless photos from Oskaloosa also. As always I take many more pictures than I can post so if you don’t see the car or driver you root for or want to see more, please email me.
June 19th was Mid-Season Championship Night (already) with Don Droud Jr. winng the 410 feature, with Chad Humston and Tasker Phillips taking the 360 and 305 features respectively.
June 26th saw good racing in all three classes again, Brian Brown, Dustin Selvage and Tasker Phillips (for the second week in a row) won the features.
July 3rd was twin feature night for the 360’s followed by the ”Fireworks Extravaganza” which was a great show. The 410 feature was won by Mark Dobmeier, and the two 360 features were won by Chad Humston and Jon Agan.
Congradulations to all the drivers and crews, Mark Dobmeier in his post race interview said how many times a week they race, how they work nights getting the cars ready, and that they all have day jobs too. It takes alot of dedicated people and families to give us these great shows every week.
Last photos added 7/6/10
The vintage racers were on the track June 25th for nostalgia night, they are all beautiful machines that bring back alot of great memories, I’m always happy to see that so many have survived and been restored, and wonder about the fate of so many others I remember. I took many pictures that night and had fun Saturday meeting alot of the owners/drivers and printing photos for them. I took many more photos than I can post on this site, but will be happy to post photos of any car you are interested in if you will email me.
I have started giving away a couple of complementary 8 1/2 x 11 photos each night through the race tracks prize drawings. If you won one of the pre-stamped postcards for a free photo, browse the catagories and choose the photo you want, fill in the file number of that photo, clearly print your name and return address and drop in the mail box. I will send your selection by priority mail–please allow 3 weeks for delivery.
It has been a busy last few weeks, I spent May 16th through May 23rd in Indianapolis to watch practice and qualifying for the Indy 500, then went back out the next weekend for the race on May 30th. Dario Franchitti won his second Indy 500, and Dan Wheldan also a former winner finished in the runner-up spot for the second year in a row. It was an exciting race with crashes and fuel mileage playing a large role. I have posted quite afew photos from the activities there, including a couple of a very large helicopter there for Armed Forces Day at the track, he gave the folks in the Pagoda a good close view when he took off. Jack Nicholson was the honorary starter and stayed on the flagstand for about 21 laps.
I then spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday, June 3rd, 4th and 5th in Knoxville for the Outlaws, 305s , Masters Classic, and the 360s. Thursday and Friday saw great racing with Saturday being rained out and also a rainout the next Saturday June 12th. I have posted photos from these races also, and as always I take many more photos than I post so if you would like to see more of a particular driver, email or call and I will post more. Lets hope the rains on weekends will stop, this coming weekend are races at Knoxville and the Indy cars at Iowa Speedway.
