Book Your Knoxville Trip Now/Lincoln Set To Go Racing This Weekend

Are you thinking about going to the 50th annual Knoxville Nationals but don’t want the hassle of putting the trip together?

Let Bob Altman of Racing Fans Direct do the work for you.

RFD is offering a great trip to the Nationals, to be held August 9-13 in Knoxville, Iowa and he is making it easy for you. All you need to do is pay for the trip and he does the rest.
“We strive to pursue the utmost in fan convenience, discounts and tours and this year is no different as we bring to fans more ways to save money, just be enrolling in our eighth annual tour,” said Altman, who has been the director of the fan organization for many seasons. “I’m a fan just like the rest and I’m just looking for ways to help fans save money and still get to the races.”

Altman’s latest tour to Knoxville will close on March 15th so hurry and get your reservation in now.

This year’s tour includes hotel for four nights, shuttle transportation from the hotel to the track daily, tickets to the Iowa State Fair, tickets to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame, reserved seat tickets to all four nights at the Nationals, reception gifts and free giveaways. Altman is also offering discount airfares, rental cars and hotels for anyone else interested in attending the Nationals.

“This year we have only adjusted our pricing to reflect the increase of the four-day tickets by Knoxville Raceway,” Altman said of the tour that costs $700 per person (Single), $600 per person (double) and $575.00 per person (triple). A hotel rate at the Best Western in Des Moines will cost a fan $94.08 per night through Altman. “We will also have a shuttle at least twice a day to the track and to the town of Knoxville”

For more information, Altman can be contacted at racingfansdirect@bigplanet.com or at 443-974-7027.

WILL WE RACE?
According to Don Leiby, one of the three owners of Lincoln Speedway, we will be!

“It’s about 95 percent certain that we’ll be racing on Saturday,” Leiby said Tuesday night. “We’ve had a lot snow melt since the weekend the sun is supposed to be out later this week and near 50 degrees on Saturday. Fred (Putney) has been working on the track and I think we’ll be ready to go on Saturday as long as we don’t have any weather issues.”
The 410 Sprints will go in the Icebreaker 30 along with the Spring Thaw 20 for thundercars beginning at 2pm.

Hagerstown Speedway is also planning on opening its gates Saturday for a late model/modified doubleheader at 1pm.

Both tracks have Sunday weather dates and I suggest checking the websites or calling before heading out.

PIT STOPS
Hagerstown Speedway held its Race-A-Rama car show last week where the pure stock of Josh Williams won Best of Show. Awards in the late models went to Jerry Bard, Marvin Winters and Frankie Plessinger, late model sportsman awards to Richard Walls, Pete Weaver and Travis McClelland, pure stock awards to Darrin Younker, Danny Beavers and Randy Kline and the miscellaneous award to the micro sprint of Kameron Morral…

Lawrence Chevrolet, along the Carlisle Pike in Mechanicsburg will hold its annual race car show next weekend, March 12-13. All kinds of race car will be on display at the show. Make plans to stop by at some point during the weekend. Lawrence Chevrolet is a major sponsor for local racing, sponsoring both the sprint car point funds at Williams Grove and Lincoln Speedway…

Jason Meyers came from 18th starting spot to win Friday night’s World of Outlaws sprint car event at the Dirt Track at Las Vegas in a thrilling finish over Steve Kinser, Donny Schatz, Jason Sides and Tim Kaeding, Daryn Pittman’s Keen Motorsports sprinter was 11th and Fred Rahmer 16th. The Outlaws head to Tulare, California this weekend for two nights of action at Thunderbowl Raceway…

Wayne Johnson got a big gift in the way of $14,500 Saturday night when he took the win in the ASCS 360 Sprint Ronald Laney Memorial at East Bay Raceway Park. Johnson was in the right place at the right time after leaders Gary Wright (tire) and Tim Shaffer (motor) and runner-up Mark Smith (motor) all went by the way side. Shaffer had won the Thursday and Friday night events…

Justin Henderson and the Charlie and Dawn Sorokach owned team will be a fulltime team this year with weekly action at Williams Grove and Port Royal. The team plans an 85-race schedule, by far the most ever for the Minersville-based race team…