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January 23-24, 2010, Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic to be a
Qualifier for Americans
for the 2010 Knoxville World Challenge During 50th Nationals
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (August 21, 2009) - Just days after sprint car fans
witnessed possibly the most exciting World Challenge race in history, the
host Knoxville Raceway is pleased to announce that the Grand Annual
Sprintcar Classic at Premier Speedway’s Sungold Stadium in Warrnambool,
Victoria, Australia, will once again serve as a qualifying site for
Americans for the 2010 World Challenge race during the 50th annual Knoxville
Nationals. Said Knoxville director of racing Ralph Capitani, “If American
sprint car drivers want to be eligible for the Friday, August 14, 2010,
World Challenge at Knoxville, they need to compete in either the
$30,000-to-win January 23-24 Classic at Warrnambool, or in the
soon-to-be-announced qualifier in New Zealand.”
This year’s 20-lap $10,000-to-win Digital Delivery Networks World Challenge
featured a record 20 starters from Australia, Canada and the United States,
and it was won by Aussie Lynton Jeffrey over hard-charging American Shane
Stewart and defending champion and Aussie Kerry Madsen, respectively. Said
‘Cappy’ this week, “We are proud to be recognized as the ‘Sprint Car Capital
of the World’ and we look forward to the seventeenth edition of the World
Challenge during our fiftieth Knoxville Nationals. The top American racers
now realize that if they want to get some valuable laps in on the half-mile
on the eve of the $150,000-to-win Knoxville Nationals, they need to race in
the World Challenge… and to do that they need to compete in one of the
race’s qualifiers Down Under.”
International sprint car drivers from Australia, Canada and New Zealand will
continue to be eligible for the Knoxville World Challenge simply by
competing in the Knoxville Nationals. The starting line-up for the 2010
World Challenge will remain a sixteen-car inversion based upon a driver’s
qualifying night points. World of Outlaws (WoO) star Joey Saldana, who
qualified in New Zealand, started sixteenth in this year’s 20-car field. For
more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its World Challenge, fans are
urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com.
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