Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum - Knoxville, Iowa and Late Model 101 forum
Randy Lewis, World's #1 Trackchaser, visited the Knoxville Raceway and the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. During the visit he saw the Late Model 101 forum in the museum. Randy has seen 1,715 lifetime racetracks in 55 different countries. Check out his website at randylewis.org where he has posted more than 70,000 photos, videos and Trackchaser Reports where he reviews each track he visits.
Knoxville Raceway - The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
Knoxville Raceway - The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
Jeff Gordon Tribute at National Sprint Car Hall of Fame
The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum in Knoxville, Iowa is paying tribute to Jeff Gordon with a special exhibit featuring six of his racecars.
Visit the NSCHoF&M!
Bob Baker from the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum tells us about their 2017 season and what to look forward to in 2018!
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Induction June 3, 2017
2017 National Sprint Car Hall of Fame Induction ceremony from Dyer-Hudson Hall on the Marion County Fairgrounds in Knoxville, Iowa.
Main Street, Knoxville Iowa
Pouring concrete on the square in Knoxville IA, May 19, 2015
Late Model 101: Iowa World 100 winners of the 1970s trailer
trailer for the newest Markos and Son Racing Productions feature, Late Model 101: Iowa World 100 winners of the 1970s. This event was filmed live at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame during the Knoxville Late Model Nationals weekend.
Late Model 101: An Afternoon with Seven Iowa Greats trailer
Knoxville, Iowa
This video is about Knoxville
Midwest Dirt Track Legends Reunion Pleasonville IA 4 14 15
Dirt Track Racing Reunion
ASCS Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial Night #2
Wheatland MO. - (September, 21) 8th Annual ASCS Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial Night #2
ASCS Sprint Cars, WAR Sprints
Ranger 22 in Iowa
Ranger 22 vintage sprintcar running warmup laps at Iowa State Fair 2014
2013 State Science and Technology Fair of Iowa
This is a look into the 2013 State Science and Technology Fair of Iowa, where the Iowa Energy Center evaluated about 15 different student booths for a Youth and Energy Scholarship opportunity.
For more information on the Youth and Energy Scholarship, visit our website: iowaenergycenter.org
Where in Iowa is Jeff?...The Sequel
Here is the 2008 version of Where in Iowa is Jeff? From February to November, I logged 9,850 miles and collected 300 dancing clips. Between the 2007 and 2008 videos, I visited all 99 Iowa counties and drove somewhere between 15,000 and 18,000 miles.
Since last year focused on the top-tier Iowa spots, this years video visits more obscure Iowa places and enabled me to interact more with Iowans along the way. If you think you've seen all of Iowa, you are wrong. Keep looking; you'll be amazed at what you find.
1. The 2008 Iowa Tractorcade (RAGBRAI for farmers)
2. Balsley family farm near Orchard
3. Straw Goat in Swedesburg
4. Bob Feller Museum in Van Meter
5. Lovers Leap Bridge in Columbus Junction
6. Danish Windmill in Elk Horn
7. Decorah Trout Hatchery
8. Loess Hills in Harrison County
9. Sundown Mountain in Asbury
10. Iowa Speedway in Newton
11. National Balloon Classic in Indianola
12. World's Largest I-80 Truck Stop in Walcott
13. National Advanced Driving Simulator in Oakdale
14. Gitchie Manitou State Preserve
15. World's Largest Bullhead in Crystal Lake
16. Connell Corner Lighthouse in Storm Lake
17. The Corn Parade mural in Mount Ayr
18. Anderson-Erickson Dairy in Des Moines
19. National Mississippi River Museum in Dubuque
20. Lake Rathbun Fish Hatchery
21. Paramount Theater in Cedar Rapids
22. Volkswagen Spider yard art in Avoca
23. Waukon Junction!!!
24. World's Largest Popcorn Ball in Sac City
25. Lansing's Black Hawk Bridge
26. ISU's Jack Trice Stadium in Ames
27. Maharishi University in Fairfield
28. Prairie Pedlar near Odebolt
29. Elkader Opera House
30. Iowa Stars (now Chops) Hockey in Des Moines
31. Hawkeye Buffalo Ranch near Fredericksburg
32. Cardiff Giant replica in Fort Dodge
33. Villa's Patio in Marion
34. Lidtke Mill in Lime Springs
35. Beebeetown!!! Population: not many
36. Oskaloosa town square
37. Osage HS wrestling
38. Channel Cat Water Taxi in Davenport
39. Music Man Square in Mason City
40. National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum in Knoxville
41. Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison
42. US's Widest Main Street in Onawa
43. Coffee Pot water tower in Stanton (home of Folgers icon Mrs. Olsen)
44. Gladbrook's Matchstick Marvels
45. Waubonsie State Park
46. Clark Tower in Winterset City Park
47. New Albin town hall
48. Queen II in Arnolds Park
49. What Cheer Opera House
50. Gravity!!! Population: slightly more than Beebeetown
51. Wadena: home of the 1970 rock festival Galena in Wadena
52. Iowa's only highway tunnel in Pammel State Park
53. Rabbit sculptures in Council Bluffs
54. Manning's Hausbarn
55. Shellsburg's Adventure Paintball Park
56. World's Biggest Strawberry in Strawberry Point
57. Trinity Heights in Sioux City
58. Galleria de Paco restaurant in Waterloo
59. Ida Grove, Iowas City of Castles
60. Sunken steamboat Bertrand at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge near Missouri Valley
61. Lock and Dam No. 10 in Guttenberg
62. Perry's Reconfiguration Arches
63. Basilica of St. Francis Xavier in Dyersville
64. Maquoketa Caves State Park
65. Duffy Lyon (the Butter Cow Lady) Cow/Calf statue in Toledo
66. Wapsipinicon Mill in Independence
67. Shimek State Forest
68. The Old Home Fill er Up and Keep on Truckin Café in Pisgah
69. The Big Treehouse near Marshalltown
70. Iowa's first planetarium at the Sanford Museum in Cherokee
71. Town square in Mount Pleasant
72. Lone Tree!!! Population: more than Beebeetown and Gravity combined
73. Red Haw State Park
74. Story City 1913 Carousel
75. Promise of America Monument in Lake Mills
76. Airpower Museum near Ottumwa
77. Lincoln Highway Bridge in Tama
78. Bonapartes Historic Main Street
79. World's Biggest Cheeto at Sister Sarah's in Algona
80. Lost Island Lake in Ruthven
81. Brooklyn: Community of Flags
82. Dubuques Fenelon Place Elevator
83. Hawkeye Point near Sibley, 1,670 feet above sea level
84. Hotel Manning in Keosauqua
85. Catfish Bend Casino in Burlington
86. Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City
87. Wildcat Den State Park
88. Louis Sullivan's Jewel Box Bank in Grinnell
89. Eagle City Winery near Iowa Falls
90. Lacey Keosauqua State Park
91. Little Turkey River valley in Dubuque County
92. THE Butter Cow at our Iowa State Fair
93. Green Valley State Park
94. Donna Reed Center for the Performing Arts in Denison
95. Upper Iowa River in Bluffton
96. Glenn Miller Birthplace Home in Clarinda
97. Chief Keokuk statue in Keokuk
98. Rathbun Country Music Theater
99. Patriotic Rock near Greenfield
100. Pella's Vermeer Windmill
101. Volga City!!! Population: somewhere between Gravity and Lone Tree
102. Union County Visitor Center in Creston
103. Loess Hills State Forest
104. Home near Anamosa
Knoxville Nationals 2019...anbd the national anthem play by a harmonica
Randy Lewis, the World's #1 Trackchaser, has toured the world seeing racing and the sights from 85 countries worldwide. This video comes the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa. It’s the 2019 Knoxville Nationals. Randy has now seen racing at 2,574 racetracks in 85 different countries. His lifetime track total includes wheel-to-wheel racing on oval, road course or figure 8 tracks.
Check out Randy’s website at randylewis.org where he has posted more than one million (Ya! One million!). On this site you will see detailed Trackchaser Reports where he reviews each track visited. Don't miss more than 1,200 Randy Lewis Racing Films on his YouTube channel. The channel name is RANLAY. Subscribe today. And now on Facebook, too!
Revell Joey Saldana #71 Winged Sprint Car 1/24 Scale Model Kit Build Review 85-4444
Hit the track with your own 1/24 #Scalemodel of Joey #Saldana Winged #Sprintcar from Modelroundup.com and Revell USA!
In the competitive world of sprint car racing the team of Indy Race Parts and Joey Saldana make a very successful team. Following in his father’s footsteps, Joey Saldana, known as the “Brownsburg Bullet”, started by winning Rookie of the Year honors in 1996. He has gone on to win well over 100 major sprint car races. Team owner Bernie Stuebgen founded Indy Race Parts in 2002, a speed shop that specializes in selling racing parts to big and small oval track racers across the country. The team competes coast to coast in the USA and Australia!
Sprint cars are high-powered race cars designed primarily for the purpose of running on short oval or circular dirt or paved tracks. Sprint car racing is popular primarily in the United States of America and Canada, as well as Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Sprint cars have very high power-to-weight ratios, with weights of approximately 1,400 pounds (640 kg) (including the driver)[1] for the 410 sprint car class. Power outputs of over 900 horsepower (670 kW) are commonplace for these machines, which, when combined with their light weight, gives them a power-to-weight ratio comparable to an F1 car. Typically, they are powered by a naturally aspirated, methanolinjected over-head valve V8 with an engine displacement of 410 cubic inches (6.7L) capable of engine speeds approaching 9000 rpm.[2][3]Depending on the mechanical setup (engine, gearing, shocks, etc.) and the track layout, these cars can achieve speeds in excess of 160 miles per hour (260 km/h).[4] A lower budget and very popular class of sprint cars uses 360 cubic inch (5.9L) engines that produce approximately 700 horsepower (520 kW). Sprint cars do not utilize a transmission, they have an in or out gear box and quick change rear differentials for occasional gearing changes. As a result, they do not have electric starters (or even electrical systems other than a magneto / ignition) and require a push to start them. The safety record of sprint car racing in recent years has been greatly improved by the use of roll cages, and especially on dirt tracks, wings, to protect the drivers.
Many IndyCar Series and NASCAR drivers used sprint car racing as an intermediate stepping stone on their way to more high-profile divisions, including Indianapolis 500 winners A. J. Foyt, Mario Andretti, Johnny Rutherford, Parnelli Jones, Johnnie Parsons, Al Unser, Sr., and Al Unser, Jr., as well as NASCAR Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart.
The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum located in Knoxville, Iowa, USA features exhibits highlighting the history of both winged and wingless sprint cars.
The world's first winged car, known today as a winged sprint car, was created and driven by Jim Cushman at the Columbus Motor Speedway (Ohio) in 1958.[6] In the early 1970s, many sprint car drivers began to put wings with sideboards on both the front and top of their cars. The added wings increased the downforce generated on the car, with the opposite direction of the sideboards helping to turn the car in the corners. The increased traction makes the car faster and easier to control.
The wing also affects safety. The added downforce lessens the likelihood of going airborne. When cars do go airborne, the wings frequently break off or crumple upon hitting the ground, lessening the impact on the driver. Due to the reasons mentioned above, winged cars are safer to drive and the wings are sometimes referred to as aluminum courage. In some cases, the wing protects the car as well. If a winged car rolls over, the massive roof mounted wing hits first, lessening the chance for mechanical damage. Often teams are able to replace the wing during the ensuing stoppage and are able to race once the race resumed.
In 1978, Ted Johnson formed the promotional body for winged sprint cars called the World of Outlaws. Racing throughout the United States from February to November, the World of Outlaws is the premier dirt sprint car racing series. Famous tracks featured in the series included the Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, the Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pennsylvania, the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa and Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Each August, the Knoxville Raceway holds the Knoxville Nationals.
The Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at Warrnambool is the largest sprint car meeting in the world; in the 2014-15 season, the 2015 Classic race outdrew the Knoxville Nationals in entries.
Source: Wikipedia
USAC's History in Florida
A look at the history of USAC Racing in the state of Florida from 1956-2015 in anticipation of the 2016 Winter Dirt Games USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car events Feb. 18-19-20 in Ocala, Florida.
Knoxville USAC Sprint Car History
These days, Knoxville and winged sprint car racing are synonymous. However, sprint car racing without the wing has a storied history all its own at the Iowa half-mile dirt oval.
The Knoxville Nationals were run sans the wing for several decades. Meanwhile, USAC’s history dates back to 1968 and Gary Bettenhausen’s triumph. Over the years at Knoxville, the cream has certainly risen to the top with Dick Tobias, Sammy Sessions, Tom Bigelow and Sheldon Kinser all taking the checkered during the 1970s and 80s.
Oddly enough, even USAC sprouted wings for their 1988 visit won by Sammy Swindell.
After a two decade hiatus, though, USAC was back in the 2010s with Bud Kaeding, Brady Bacon, Justin Grant and Tyler Courtney scoring wins of their own, forming a new era of tradition and a new generation of stars in this millennium that has grown into the Corn Belt Nationals, featuring a huge payout and a huge showcase for Sprint Car racing that will, perhaps, itself, become synonymous with Knoxville.
Knoxville Nationals shuttle 2
Shuttle ride from the north campground to the track, facing east on Saturday 8-13-11
Visiting McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee
The McClung Museum in Knoxville, Tennessee has no admission and more to offer than I thought. Free admission always fits in my budget travel plans! You can bet that I'll be back - after I get over this cold!
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