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52nd Annual Goodyear Knoxville Nationals
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Current Champion
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Donny Schatz
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The Grandaddy of them all is set for August 8-11, 2012! Be there, as history will be made again, as only it can be, at Knoxville.
This historic event will see a major change in the Friday night program. The 4 top drivers from the A-Featrue on Friday night will advance to Saturday night A-Feature!
The Knoxville Nationals is ultimately a cultural festival that combines fans and spectators with an unmatched experience of food, fun, racing and other entertainment over four days in mid-August. This four-day cultural festival that ends in each night with some of the most exciting motorsports racing in the world. Parades, exposition, fan fairs, live music, camping and fun are just some of the action you will see. Over 100 drivers from around the world will compete for a $1,000,000 purse and the prestigous title of Knoxville Nationals champion.
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Pre Entries
B5 Brandon Sheppard, New Berlin, IL
6R Ryan Bunton, Morton, IL
22x TBA
24H Bryan Sebetto, Fremont, OH
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Happenings
DAILY EVENTS
7:00-Noon All You Can Eat Pancakes at Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience and Armory
10 AM-7 PM National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum Open
10 AM – 4 PM Films of the Past Knoxville Nationals (NSCHOF)
10 AM Slideways Karting Center Open
2 PM-8 PM Shuttles (9 AM-7 PM Aug. 11)
10 AM-7 PM KNIA/KRLS Big Red Radio Welcome Center, Fairgrounds
1 PM-7 PM Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience
MONDAY, AUGUST 6TH
7:00 PM Outlaw Dirt Kart Racing, English Creek Speedway
TUESDAY, AUGUST 7TH
12 PM-2 PM Knoxville World Challenge Picnic
Knoxville Raceway (Marion County Fair Barn)
2 PM – 6 PM Knoxville Farmers Market – Downtown Square
7:00 PM Outlaw Dirt Kart Racing, English Creek Speedway
7:30 PM Knoxville Nationals Queen Contest
Dyer-Hudson Building
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8TH
11 AM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
12:00-3:30 PM Red, Wheat and Bleu – Wine, beer and cheese tasting (NSCHOF)
12:00 – 7:00 PM Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Show Pavilion
Knoxville Nationals Exposition
1:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:00 PM Fan Fest – Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Drivers Stories and
Autographs
4:00 PM T-Bone Band Sprint Legends Lounge
7:15 PM Goodyear Knoxville Nationals Racing Junk.Com Qualifying Night
8:00 PM National Anthem, Color Guard
After the races Cross Roads - Pit Gate Party
THURSDAY, AUGUST 9TH
8 AM Slideways Karting Center Mini-Nationals
11:00 AM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
NOON Media/Promoters’ Luncheon, Dyer-Hudson Hall, Fairgrounds
12:00-2:00 PM NSCHOF Members Only VIP Reception – 2nd Floor
12:00 – 7:00 PM Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Show Pavilion
Knoxville Nationals Exposition
1:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:00 PM Fan Fest – Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Drivers Stories and
Autographs
3:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
4:00 PM Steve McLain and the Jefferson County Green Band in Sprint Legends
Lounge
7:15 PM Goodyear Knoxville Nationals Lucas Oil Qualifying Night
8:00 PM National Anthem, Color Guard
After the races Free Dance – More Than This
FRIDAY, AUGUST 10TH
8 AM Slideways Karting Center Mini-Nationals
8:30 AM National Sprint Car Museum Golf Classic – Bos Landen
10:30 AM KRCO Benefit Softball Game Drivers vs. City Celebrities At Young’s Park
10 AM Helicopter Rides at Slideways Carting Center
11:00 AM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
12:00 – 7:00 PM Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Show Pavilion
Knoxville Nationals Exposition
1:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:00 PM Fan Fest – Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Drivers Stories and
Autographs
3:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
4:00 PM Cross Roads Band – Sprint Legends Lounge
7:15 PM Goodyear Knoxville Nationals
Knoxville World Challenge
8:00 PM National Anthem, Color Guard
After the races Free Dance – Steve McLain and the JCGB
SATURDAY, AUGUST 13TH
8 AM Slideways Karting Center Mini-Nationals
8 AM-4 PM Bizarre Bazaare Downtown
10 AM Helicopter Rides at Slideways Carting Center
10 AM Knoxville Nationals Race Parade – Downtown Knoxville
11 AM 3M Club Car Show and Cruise – 3M Park
11:00 AM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
12:00 – 7:00 PM Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Show Pavilion
Knoxville Nationals Exposition
12:30 PM Annual Hall of Fame & Museum Racing Auction, National Sprint Car Hall of
Fame & Museum, 2nd floor
1:00 PM Quarter Scale Knoxville Nationals – Knoxville Event Center
1:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:00 PM Fan Fest – Knoxville Nationals Lifestyle Experience – Drivers Stories and
Autographs
3:00 PM Fan Fair Forums - National Sprint Car Hall Museum
3:30 PM NSCHOF Pie Eating Contest – Rotary Tent
4:00 PM T-Bone Band Sprint Legends Lounge
7:15 PM Goodyear Knoxville Nationals Finals
8:00 PM National Anthem, Color Guard
Tentative January 3, 2011 – Subject to Change
Format
The Knoxville Nationals encompasses a four-day format unmatched
in all of dirt track racing. The prestige of winning the event far
outweighs the generous purse that exceeds $1,000,000. With points meaning everything, and every wheel turned on the track meaning
points, there is no time for a break at the "Granddaddy of them all".
Steve Kinser has stood atop the podium an unprecedented twelve
times, and owner Karl Kinser has graced victory lane an amazing
fourteen times with three different drivers.
Wednesday and Thursday
Order of Events: Hot laps, Qualifications, Last Chance Heats,
5 Heats, C feature, B feature, A feature.
Qualifications - 200 points are awarded for quick timer, 198 for
second quick, 196 for third, etc.
Only the top 50 qualifiers make the heats, the rest are put in the
last chance heats in which the first eight finishers will fill the back
of that night's C feature (starting in the sixth row).
Last Chance Heats (for drivers out of the top 50 in Qual.) – 50 points
awarded to the winner, 47 for 2nd, etc.
Heats - 100 points are awarded for the heat winner, points go down
by three: 97, 94, 91, 88, etc.
Heats are inverted (8-10). This sets up the best racing of the
week. Top four finishers go to A, next four to B, last two to C.
C feature – Top two finishers go to back of the B. Third place is
worth 96 pts., 2nd is 94, etc.
B feature – The top four finishers transfer to the tail of the A. The
B awards 142 points for fifth, 140 for sixth and so on by twos.
A feature - The A feature points are the same as time trials: 200,
198, 196 etc. This explains how a driver can not make the A, but
if he timed well may have more points than someone who did make
the A.
Ties in points go to the quicker timer.
A perfect score (quick time, heat win, feature win) is 500.
The top 50 in points from Wed. and Thurs. are locked in to
Saturday's program, however there is more racing to do on Friday.
Friday:
Friday Events: Semi-Feature #1, Semi-Feature #2, Non Qualifier A Feature, Race of Champions, Premier Chevy Dealers World Challenge.
Race of Champions
2010 410 track and series champions and 2011 (late 2010) "Big Race" winners (Skagit Dirt Cup, King's Royal, Don Martin Memorial, Chico Gold Cup, Williams Grove Open) are invited. "Reverse" Draw determines the lineup.
Premier Chevy Dealers World Challenge.
Premier Chevy Dealers World Challenge - This is an international invitational event.
The lineup is inverted according to points accrued on Wednesday and
Thursday. It has no bearing on Saturday's lineups.
Two semi-features will be run with the top twelve in each advancing to the Non-qualifiers main event. The winner starts 11th in Saturday's C, with the rest of the drivers filling Saturday's C, D, and E.
Saturday:
Saturday Events: E feature, D feature, C feature, B feature, Knoxville
Nationals Championship feature.
With the exception of the B feature which takes the top four finishers
to the tail of the Knoxville Nationals Championship, all other features
transfer the top two finishers to the tail of the next event (if there are
scratches, there may be more taken for a particular event)
Purse
Purse Breakdown for the 2012 52nd Goodyear Knoxville Nationals
Wednesday and Thursday:
Quick time overall: $1,000
Top Point Getter: $3,000 x 2 nights = $6,000
Last Chance Heats: 1. $50.00 2. $50.00 3. $50.00 4. $50.00
5. $100.00 6. $100.00 7. $100.00 8. $100.00 9. $100.00 10. $100.00
11. $100.00 12. $100.00
Total LC Heat Purse: $1,000 x 2 heats = $2,000 x 2 nights = $4,000
Heats: 1. $150.00 2. $125.00 3. $100.00 4. $90.00 5. $80.00
6. $70.00 7. $60.00 8. $50.00 9. $50.00 10. $50.00
Total Heat Purse: $825 x 5 heats = $4,125 x 2 nights = $8,250
C Feature: 1. $150.00 2. $150.00 3. $250.00 4. $200.00 5. $175.00
6. $150.00 7. $140.00 8. $130.00 9. $120.00 10. $110.00
11. $110.00 12. $100.00 13. $100.00 14. $90.00 15. $80.00
16. $70.00 17. $60.00 18. $50.00 19. $45.00 20. $40.00
Total C Feature Purse: $2,320 x 2 nights = $4,640
B Feature: 1. $200.00 2. $200.00 3. $200.00 4. $200.00 5. $600.00
6. $550.00 7. $500.00 8. $475.00 9. $450.00 10. $425.00
11. $400.00 12. $375.00 13. $350.00 14. $325.00 15. $300.00
16. $275.00 17. $260.00 18. $250.00 19. $240.00 20. $225.00
21. $200.00 22. $200.00
Total B Feature Purse: $7,200 x 2 nights = $14,400
A Feature: 1. $12,000.00 2. $10,000.00 3. $7,000.00 4. $6,000.00
5. $5,000.00 6. $4,000.00 7. $3,500.00 8. $2,500.00 9. $2,000.00
10. $1,750.00 11. $1,500.00 12. $1,400.00 13. $1,300.00
14. $1,250.00 15. $1,200.00 16. $1,150.00 17. $1,100.00 18. $1,050.00 19. $1,000.00 20. $1,000.00 21. $1,000.00 22. $1,000.00 23. $1,000.00 24. 1,000.00
Total A Feature Purse: $69,700 x 2 nights = $139,400
Total Wednesday and Thursday Purse: $177,690
Friday: TBD
Knoxville World Challenge: 1. $10,000.00 2. $5,000.00 3. $3,000.00
4. $2,500.00 5. $2,000.00 6. $1,800.00 7. $1,700.00 8. $1,600.00
9. $1,500.00 10. $1,400.00 11. $1,300.00 12. $1,200.00
13. $1,100.00 14. $1,000.00 15. $1,000.00 16. $1,000.00
17. $625.00 18. $600.00 19. $600.00 20. $600.00
Total International World Challenge Purse: $39,525
Total Friday Purse: $152,315
Saturday:
Best Appearing Crew: 1. $1,000 2. $500 3. $300
Total Purse for Best Appearing Crew: $1,800
E Feature: 1. $600.00 2. $600.00 3. $800.00 4. $775.00 5. $750.00
6. $725.00 7. $700.00 8. $675.00 9. $650.00 10. $625.00
11. $600.00 12. $575.00 13. $550.00 14. $475.00 15. $450.00
16. $425.00 17. $400.00 18. $375.00 19. $350.00 20. $325.00
21. $300.00 22. $300.00
E Feature Total Purse: $12,025
D Feature: 1. $800.00 2. $800.00 3. $1,200.00 4. $1,100.00
5. $1,000.00 6. $950.00 7. $900.00 8. $850.00 9. $825.00
10. $800.00 11. $775.00 12. $750.00 13. $725.00 14. $700.00
15. $675.00 16. $650.00 17. $625.00 18. $600.00 19. $575.00
20. $550.00 21. $525.00 22. $500.00
D Feature Total Purse: $16,875
C Feature: 1. $1,000.00 2. $1,000.00 3. $2,000.00 4. $1,750.00
5. $1,500.00 6. $1,400.00 7. $1,300.00 8. $1,250.00 9. $1,225.00
10. $1,200.00 11. $1,175.00 12. $1,150.00 13. $1,125.00 14. $1,100.00 15. $1,050.00 16. $1,000.00 17. $950.00 18. $900.00 19. $850.00 20. $825.00 21. $800.00 22. $800.00
C Feature Total Purse: $25,350
B Feature: 1. $1,000.00 2. $1,000.00 3. $1,000.00 4. $1,000.00
5. $8,000.00 6. $7,000.00 7. $6,000.00 8. $5,000.00 9. $4,000.00
10. $3,500.00 11. $3,000.00 12. $2,500.00 13. $2,250.00
14. $2,000.00 15. $1,750.00 16. $1,500.00 17. $1,450.00
18. $1,400.00 19. $1,350.00 20. $1,300.00 21. $1,250.00
22. $1,200.00 23. $1,150.00 24. $1,100.00
B Feature Total Purse: $60,700
A Feature: 1. $150,000.00 2. $75,000.00 3. $37,500.00
4. $26,000.00 5. $21,000.00 6. $20,000.00 7. $19,000.00
8. $18,000.00 9. $17,000.00 10. $16,000.00 11. $15,000.00
12. $14,000.00 13. $13,000.00 14. $12,000.00 15. $11,000.00
16. $10,000.00 17. $10,000.00 18. $10,000.00 19. $10,000.00
20. $10,000.00 21. $10,000.00 22. $10,000.00 23. $9,500.00
24. $9,500.00
Total A Feature Purse: $553,500
Total Saturday Purse: $670,250
Total 4-day Purse: $1,000,435
History
Past Knoxville Nationals Winners
Year - Driver, Number, Owner
1961 - Roy Robbins, 37, O. J. Huffman
1962 - Jerry Richert Sr., 69, Ted Ready
1963 - Greg Weld, 92, Taylor “Pappy” Weld
1964 - Kenny Weld, 94, Taylor “Pappy” Weld
1965 - Kenny Weld, 94, Taylor “Pappy” Weld
1966 - Jay Woodside, 9, Ted Hall
1967 - Thad Dosher, 74, Jack Cunningham
1968 - Ray Lee Goodwin, 24, Swenson/Williams
1969 - Ken Gritz, 12, Larry Snyder
1970 - Joe Saldana, 2, C&L Racing
1971 - Jan Opperman, 6, Cahill Racing
1972 - Kenny Weld, 29, Bob Weikert
1973 - Kenny Weld, 29, Bob Weikert
1974 - Dick Gaines, 71, Karl Kinser
1975 - Eddie Leavitt, 40, Ricke/Hill
1976 - Eddie Leavitt, 4J, Galden Inc.
1977 - Doug Wolfgang, 20, Bob Trostle
1978 - Doug Wolfgang, 4x, Speedway Motors
1979 - Ron Shuman, 75A, Gary Stanton
1980 - Steve Kinser, 20, Bob Trostle/Karl Kinser
1981 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1982 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1983 - Sammy Swindell, 1, Raymond Beadle
1984 - Doug Wolfgang, 29, Bob Weikert
1985 - Doug Wolfgang, 29, Bob Weikert
1986 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1987 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1988 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1989 - Doug Wolfgang, 8D, D.P. Motorsports
1990 - Bobby Allen, 1a, Allen Enterprises
1991 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1992 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1993 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1994 - Steve Kinser, 11, Karl Kinser
1995 - Steve Kinser, 11, Steve Kinser
1996 - Mark Kinser, 5m, Karl Kinser
1997 - Dave Blaney, 10, Blaney/Hylton
1998 - Danny Lasoski, 83, Dennis Roth
1999 - Mark Kinser, 5m, Karl Kinser
2000 - Mark Kinser, 5m, Karl Kinser
2001 - Danny Lasoski, 20L, Tony Stewart
2002 - Steve Kinser, 11, Steve Kinser
2003 - Danny Lasoski, 20, Tony Stewart
2004 - Danny Lasoski, 20, Tony Stewart
2005 - Kraig Kinser, 11K, Steve Kinser
2006 - Donny Schatz, 15, Schatz Motorsports
2007 - Donny Schatz, 15, Schatz Motorsports
2008 - Donny Schatz, 15, Tony Stewart
2009 - Donny Schatz, 15, Tony Stewart
2010 - Tim Shaffer, 83, Call/Holbrook Motorsports
2011 - Donny Schatz, 15, Tony Stewart
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