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Independence Day and the Invaders hit Knoxville!

Posted by  Robert Leonard  on  07/06/10
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Tall Tom pointed out several “invaders” on the print-out of who was racing Saturday night. Mathew Reed, out of Scoresby, Australia, Jamie Veal from Warmambool, Australia, Keith Bloom from Anderson, California, and sixteen year old Justyn Cox, from Clarksburg, California. Tall Tom wandered away, smile on his face, while I started studying the papers he had given me. I spent the rest of the night of fine racing watching how our invaders did, knowing that it wasn’t so much about how they did tonight that mattered, but what they could learn before Nationals.

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32nd Annual Knoxville Raceway Hall of Fame / Earl Wagner Mural Night Through The Race Doctor’s Eyes

Posted by  Robert Leonard  on  07/01/10
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The mud really flew at the Knoxville Raceway Saturday night in at the Knoxville Championship Cup Series in some of the best racing of the season. Brian Brown of Grain Valley, Missouri regained the lead in the 410 season standings, Justin Selvage from Indianola, Iowa won the 360’s, and for the second weekend in a row victory in the 305‘s went to local favorite 17 year old Tasker Phillips of nearby Pleasantville.

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Dr Bob Reviews The Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series Race #8

Posted by  Robert Leonard  on  06/21/10
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Early Friday evening I sat in my pickup at the side of a gravel road in the eastern part of the county while torrential rain, pea sized hail and over sixty mile per hour winds beat our good Iowa corn nearly to the ground. The last two Saturday nights at the Knoxville Raceway had been rained out, and I figured that we were looking at a third night in a row for the June 19, Lucas Oil Knoxville Championship Cup Series # 8 Mid Season Championships Farm Bureau Night The rainfall record for the first 18 days in June–set in 1917–had been obliterated by over an inch, and some of us living in the county were beginning to wish we had gills. The weather lady that I listen to told us that Saturday didn’t look any better, and to expect more of the same.

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