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7 degrees. Race lap record. 14.351 ( Brian Brown, Brian Brown Racing, May 22, 2021) Knoxville Raceway is a semi-banked half-mile dirt oval raceway (zook clay) located at the Marion County Fairgrounds in Knoxville, Iowa. Races at the "Sprint Car Capital of the World" are held on Saturday nights from April through September each year.
IMCA Sport Compact. The International Motor Contest Association (IMCA) was organized in 1915 by J. Alex Sloan, and is the oldest active auto racing sanctioning body in the United States. IMCA is headquartered in Vinton, Iowa, and features several classes and divisions of weekly racing in six geographical regions of the United States.
Jeff Stoops. Official website. www .usacracing .com. The United States Auto Club ( USAC) is one of the sanctioning bodies of auto racing in the United States. From 1956 to 1979, USAC sanctioned the United States National Championship, and from 1956 to 1997 the organization sanctioned the Indianapolis 500.
The National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Foundation, Inc., is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization incorporated in the state of Iowa on April 25, 1986, for the sole purpose of preserving the history of the sport of sprint car racing and honoring its greatest achievers. The $1.7-million facility, located on the Marion County Fairgrounds in ...
Turns. 4. Race lap record. 31.805 ( Sheldon Creed, Toyota Camry, 2018, Stock car) DuQuoin State Fairgrounds Racetrack is a one-mile (1.6-km) clay oval motor racetrack in Du Quoin, Illinois, about 90 miles (140 km) southeast of St Louis, Missouri. It is a stop on the ARCA Menards Series, USAC Silver Crown Series and American Flat Track .
A mini sprint is an American type of open-wheel racing vehicle. Mini sprint cars resemble the shape of a full-size sprint car and the size of a midget car. Although often used liberally to describe several different types of motorcycle-powered open-wheel racing cars, the term mini sprint actually applies to cars that have an upright-style ...
Dirt track racing is the single most common form of auto racing in the United States. According to the National Speedway Directory, there are over 700 dirt oval tracks in operation in the US. [1] The composition of the dirt on tracks has an effect on the amount of grip available. Many tracks use clay with a specific mixture of dirt.
Miranda was born into a racing family in Avon, Indiana, a western suburb of Indianapolis. She began her racing career in 1996 at age four. Her parents are Bill and Norma Throckmorton, and she has no siblings. [4] She graduated from Harris Academy High School in 2010, and is a graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI ...