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| 28 SANCTIONING AFFILIATES COMMIT TO
KNOXVILLE’S 2008 BRODIX TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS KNOXVILLE, IOWA (Dec 17) - A record twenty-eight (28) winged 360-cubic-inch sprint car sanctioning affiliates, including two from Canada and two from Australia, have committed to the $5,000-to-win Brodix Tournament of Champions at the Knoxville Raceway on Sunday, August 3, 2008. The one-day international invitational for the ‘best of the best’ in 360 sprint car racing utilizes one common set of technical rules, including use of the ASCS Brodix spec head, and will be celebrating it’s tenth edition in 2008. According to Knoxville’s director of racing Ralph Capitani, “We truly appreciate the support from Emmett Hahn, Tommie Estes and their American Sprint Car Series national and regional tours. We also have to commend the Empire Super Sprints organization, which has been with us since the very first McCroskey Chevrolet Tournament of Champions in 1997. That year, they sent Mike Woodring, Tim Kelly, Craig Lane, Lance Yonge, R.C. Faigle, Dick Spadaro, Mike Lauterborn, Richard ‘Crash’ Nash, and Bobby Parrow out to Knoxville to compete in the ‘all star’ event. And since then they’ve sent such talented racers as Bill Coffey, Ray Preston, Scott Holcomb, Rob Dietrick, Tim Kelly, Mike Stelter, Ryan Coniam, Erin Crocker, Clair “Bubby” Kerrick, Jr., Jeff Van Dusen, Jeff Cook, Jessica Zemken and Justin Barger to represent them at the Tournament.” The twenty-eight sanctioning affiliates that have confirmed participation in the tenth Brodix Tournament of Champions are as follows: American Sprint Cars On Tour (ASCoT), ASCS Coastal Region (ASCS-C), ASCS Gulf South Region (ASCS-GS), ASCS Midwest Region (ASCS-M), ASCS Mid-Atlantic Region (ASCS-MA), ASCS Northern Plains Region (ASCS-NP), ASCS Northwest Region (ASCS-NW), ASCS Patriot Region (ASCS-P), ASCS Rebel Region (ASCS-R), ASCS Rocky Mountain Region (ASCS-RM), ASCS Sprints On Dirt (ASCS-SOD), ASCS Sooner Region (ASCS-S), ASCS Southern Tour (ASCS-ST), ASCS Southwest Region (ASCS-SW), Alberta Sprint Tour (AST), Big Sky Sprint Tour (BSST), Empire Super Sprints (ESS), Knoxville Championship Cup Series (KNOX), National Championship Racing Association (NCRA), Northern Lights Dirt Series (NLDS), National Racing Alliance (NRA), SRA Brodix Sprintcar Series (SRA), Sprint Invaders Association (SIA), Southern Ontario Sprints (SOS), Sprintcar Thunder Series/Sprintcar All Stars (STS-SAS), USCS Mid-South Thunder (USCS-MST), USCS Southern Thunder (USCS-ST), Winged Outlaw Warriors (WOW). The previous nine Brodix ToC winners are as follows (year, driver, affiliate, number, hometown; all races at Knoxville unless otherwise noted): 2007 – Kaley Gharst, SIA, 3*, Decatur, Illinois 2006 – Gary Wright, ASCoT, 9, Hooks, Texas 2005 - Garry Lee Maier, NCRA, 11x, Cimarron, Kansas 2004 - Loren Langerud, WISSOTA, 56, Harwood, North Dakota 2003 - Terry McCarl, SIA, 86, Altoona, Iowa 2002 - Josh Higday, KNOX, 24, Des Moines, Iowa 2001 - Not Held 2000 - Not Held 1999 - (Limaland) - Kyle Sauder, NRA, 2s, Archbold, Ohio 1998 - (Eldora) - Phil Gressman, ASCS-Challengers, 8h, Clyde, Ohio 1997 - Greg Coverdale, URC, 63, Milford, Delaware The technical rules for the Brodix Tournament of Champions will be dictated by the Knoxville Raceway, and they will be the same for the Thursday-Friday-Saturday, July 31-August 1-2 $10,000-to-win Knoxville 360 Nationals. Those seeking more information are urged to visit the track’s web site at www.knoxvilleraceway.com . |