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Premier Chevy Dealers to
Sponsor Knoxville World Challenge;
New Zealander Colin Entwisle & American Lucas Wolfe the Latest Entrants
by: Brian Stickel
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (April
24, 2010) - The Knoxville Raceway is proud to announce that the Premier
Chevy Dealers will be the new title sponsor of the Knoxville World
Challenge, to be held on Friday, August 13, during the 50th annual Goodyear
Knoxville Nationals presented by Lucas Oil. The 17th annual Premier Chevy
Dealers Knoxville World Challenge is a $10,000-to-win, 20-lap invitational
featuring the best sprint car drivers from Australia, Canada, New Zealand
and the United States of America. Two of the latest event entries have been
filed by Colin Entwisle of Mount Maunganui, North Island, New Zealand, and
Lucas Wolfe of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania.
According to Knoxville
Raceway marketing director Brian Stickel, “We are thrilled to welcome the
Premier Chevy Dealers to the Knoxville Raceway family, especially in this
season of our 50th Knoxville Sprint Car National Championships. Premier
Chevy Dealers is a select group of Chevrolet dealers located in the central
Iowa area selling fuel efficient and high quality Chevrolet cars, trucks,
SUVs, crossovers, and
hybrids. Their long-term commitment to quality and service at a fair
price reflects our 50-year commitment of bringing the best-of-the-best in
international competition to the Sprint Car Capital of the World in
Knoxville, Iowa. From the kick-off Premier Chevy Dealers World Challenge
Picnic on Tuesday afternoon, August 10, to the fireworks following the
Premier Chevy Dealers Knoxville World Challenge finale on Friday night,
August 13, we will make sure that their presence is known on the Marion
County Fairgrounds at this year’s Goodyear Knoxville Nationals.”
New Zealander Colin
Entwisle becomes just the sixth Kiwi ever to compete in the international
invitational, joining past participants Corey Haigh, Jamie McDoanld, Bill
Clarkson (Jr.), Stevie Walsh, and Kerry Jones. 2010 marks the first year
that young Lucas Wolfe, son of veteran competitor Randy Wolfe, is eligible
to compete in the World Challenge. Two Canadians, Chris Schmelzle and Toni
Lutar, have both entered the event to date, as have Americans Danny Smith,
Jason Sides and Paul McMahan. Fourteen Yanks are eligible to compete this
year after having qualified at select races in Australia and New Zealand in
the past six months, including Jonathoan Allard, Jason Johnson, Ricky Logan,
Joey Saldana, Sammy Swindell, Craig Dollansky, Wayne Johnson, Terry McCarl,
Jerry Richert (Jr.), and Shane Stewart. Many Aussies are expected to enter
the Premier Chevy Dealers Knoxville World Challenge in the weeks to come.
International sprint car drivers from Australia, Canada
and New Zealand will continue to be eligible for the Premier Chevy Dealers
Knoxville World Challenge simply by competing in the 50th annual Goodyear
Knoxville Nationals at the world-famous Knoxville Raceway in Iowa. The
starting line-up for the 2010 World Challenge will remain a sixteen-car
inversion based upon a driver’s qualifying night points. For more
information on the Knoxville Raceway and its seventeenth annual Premier
Chevy Dealers Knoxville World Challenge, fans are urged to visit
www.knoxvilleraceway.com.
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