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Inaugural Casey’s General Stores Non-Winged Knoxville
Nationals
to Feature ‘the Best of USAC’ versus ‘the Best of Knoxville’
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (July 21, 2009) - The first official United States Auto Club
(USAC) entries for the inaugural $5,000-to-win Casey’s General Stores
Non-Winged Knoxville Nationals, to be held on Sunday, August 9, at the
Knoxville Raceway, include USAC National Sprint Series point leader Levi
Jones of Olney, Illinois, and Knoxville Championship Cup Series point leader
Johnny Herrera of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Joining Jones and Herrera in the first batch of paid entries received in the
USAC office were Jones’ Tony Stewart Racing teammate Tracy Hines of Indiana,
young Chad Boat of Arizona, and Mike Moore of Iowa. Chad Boat is the son of
1982 Arizona Sprint Car Association “Rookie of the Year” and seven-time
Indianapolis 500 starter Billy Boat. The Casey’s Non-Winged Knoxville
Nationals feature race will start 26 cars and be contested over 26 laps on
the half-mile dirt oval in the “Sprint Car Capital of the World”.
The USAC National Sprint Car Series will compete in three events at three
different tracks during the upcoming Cox Design & Metal Fabrication Iowa
SpeedWeeks, with all three events sponsored by Casey’s General Stores. The
first event will take place on the pavement on Friday, July 31, at the Iowa
Speedway in Newton, with the Southern Iowa Speedway dirt track in Oskaloosa
hosting the third event on Tuesday, August 11. The middle event will be
Knoxville’s inaugural Non-Winged National Championship show on Sunday,
August 9, which also falls between its ‘360’ Nationals on August 6-7-8 and
its ‘410’ Nationals on August 12-13-14-15. Osky will also host a winged
‘410’ show on Monday, August 10, making the Cox Design Iowa SpeedWeeks the
biggest in history.
For more information on the Casey’s General Stores Non-Winged Knoxville
Nationals, fans are urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com. For more
information on Casey’s General Stores, individuals are urged to check out
www.caseys.com. Those seeking more info on the United States Auto Club, fans
can look at www.usacracing.com.
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