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Knoxville, Iowa – Knoxville Raceway has signed an agreement with Hoosier Tires to be the official tire supplier for all Knoxville Raceway events including the Knoxville Nationals, 360 Knoxville Nationals and the Knoxville Championship Cup Series. All three sprint car classes, 410, 360, and 305 will run Hoosiers on all four corners. "After very careful consideration and testing, we selected Hoosier ." Stated John McCoy, Knoxville's Race Director. "We have tried to strike a balance between what is best for the racer, the track and the fans. We feel Hoosier's commitment to the sport and to good competitive racing is the best for everyone involved."

Knoxville Raceway joins the IRA, Attica Raceway Park (Ohio), Freemont Speedway (Ohio) and many other tracks across the country who will all be running the Hoosier brand in 2013. "Knoxville's Hoosier Tire agreement is a 5 year commitment that will help provide fast, competitive and exciting racing every night. We are very happy to be working with a premier company like Hoosier whose commitment to racers and the race tracks has been unsurpassed over the years." Said Knoxville's Marketing Director Brian Stickel.

Knoxville Raceway hosts 32 events annually from April to October and draws over 80,000 spectators from around the world to the Knoxville National events in August each year. More information about Knoxville Raceway events, history and drivers can be found at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

Hoosier is the largest race tire manufacturer in the world, and all Hoosier race tires are still proudly "Made in the USA." The company continues to be privately owned and operated by the Newton family. Hoosier has grown to be one of the largest employers in Plymouth, Indiana, and produces over 1000 different types of race tires. For more information on Hoosier Tire go to www.hoosiertire.com.

Eric Arnold
Social Media Manager & Track Historian
Knoxville Raceway

What compounds and are they 16 or 18 inches wide?

sorry it should read:

What compounds are they and 16 or 18 inches wide?

Remember the old days

when you run what you brung

Will WoO be the only one on American Racer? If so, that could really hurt the already low car counts.

I know for the IRA they just had to decide Hoosier or AR by Oct. 3 and then the club can decide what tire they want, 16", 18" or SC tires. Hopefully MOWA, Knoxville and IRA get on the same Hoosier tire.

IRA chose Hoosier. They announced it today on their Facebook page.

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If it's a WoO show, such as the April or June type shows, Knoxville teams will have to run on AR. But at the Nationals, it's Knoxville rules and the WoO teams will have to bolt on Hoosier tires. Going to be interesting.

Eric

Eric Arnold
Social Media Manager & Track Historian
Knoxville Raceway

My best guess is that we will see ZERO WoO races @ Knoxville in 2013 if the WoO go with American Racer tires.

IMO, I hope other tracks/sanctions follow suit. For YEARS, local tracks and organizations have let the WoO dictate the rules for local racers because they have 7-12 National Touring cars. Over 95% of the 410 Sprint Cars in this country are NOT WoO followers.

I'm sure the Gold Cup, King's Royal, Knoxville Nationals and the Williams Grove National Open can all attract big car counts and Huge crowds as long as the purse is still there (hard for me to believe that TSR, KKR, Roth, etc. would skip a chance for a $150,000 payday to race somewhere else for $10,000 (same goes for the $50,000 at the King's Royal and WG National Open), don't remember what Gold Cup pays, but add the sanction fee $$ to the purses and you make the race even MORE enticing to guys willing to travel.

It's time for local tracks as well as the IRA and All-Stars to make a statement that the rules need to be for EVERYONE, not just a benefit to the WoO teams and $$ in the pockets of the WRG.

I read (can't remember if it was a press release or not), that American Racer was offering more $$$ for 3 years than Hoosier was for 5 years, yet the decision was made to go with Hoosier (don't remember if it was the IRA or Knoxville or Attica/Fremont).

My guess is that because AR was offering more $$$ to the WoO, that is why they were the leading candidate (isn't that how Goodyear became the official tire, more $$$ than Hoosier or American Racer were offering).

Zero WOO races at Knoxville in 2013???How did you figure this out?? The WOO will race on Hoosiers at Knoxville. They would buy new tires no matter what brand. Knoxville is paying the purse, they require a muffler that everyone had to use. If you have some inside super dupper information from WOO let us know.

If you hold a WoO race, you run their rules - The Outlaws adhere to local noise ordinances no matter where they race (CA, IA, MO, PA, etc.), so the muffler rule is no big deal (the muffler Knoxville uses meets the standards for MOST other tracks as well).

IF the WoO goes with American Racer (which they told Knoxville they signed a "letter of intent" with in August), I see NO WAY that the Marion County Fair Association will hold ANY WoO races @ Knoxville (they'd be basically asking hte local teams to spend $1000 on tires to race for $800 to start $$$ and some of them won't make the feature.

It's BAD BUSINESS to make your local teams (that support you every week) spend a bunch of $$ because you FORCE THEM to attend if they want a chance for point fund $$ at the end of the year (it's part of the point structure that they get 100 points for showing up @ an Outlaw Race in Knoxville toward the KCCS). Don't show up and you're 100 points behind (minimum) the cars that do, your perfect attendance (which gets you cheaper pit passes the following year) goes away, and when it gets toward the end of the season they've already skipped a race, so not showing up is no big deal anymore (and you have to be @ 75% of the races to be elgible for the point fund, that means skip out on 3-4 nights and have a couple rainouts and you get ZERO point fund $$$ too.).

I look for a HUGE divide amongst the power players in Sprint Car racing next season if the WoO goes a different direction on tires than the rest of the country does (KWS, Knoxville, Attica, Fremont, IRA have all gone Hoosier already, what if Williams Grove annonces Hoosier and the WoO goes American Racer?). I see the power in Sprint Car Racing shifting BACK to the tracks and away from the sanctioning bodies like it was in the 1970's and early 80's (which coincidentally is when the WoO started and was at it's PEAK of popularity).

I hope you turn out to be wrong, but I'm so afraid that you could be right.

I hope I'm wrong too, but I know the relationship is extremely strained (at best) between the WRG and Knoxville Raceway.

If the WoO goes with Hoosier, I wouldn't be surprised that they have (2) stand alone dates in April and June, but I highly doubt that the Nationals will be sanctioned in 2013-2017 (the duration of the tire contact with Hoosier) unless the WoO goes with Hoosier. If they decide to go American Racer, the WoO will lose the biggest race of the year (wonder how STP feels about that??) on the sprint car calendar.

The one thing to remember is that WRG needs Knoxville more that Knoxville needs them...IF they have a typical hissie fit and stay away there will be more cars at Knoxville, a new winner and probably better racing...Don't forget what happened to Indy car and IRL...... Knoxville nor the fans will be the loser in that deal..

With Knoxville having the financial problems they have been having and still bowing down and forking out the cash to the WRG is beyound me.. Looks to me that the sanctioning fees would be better in the FB account than the outlaws.... guess that's why they had to barrow money this year... Instead of throwing money down the same ol rat hole with no better results than they have been getting maybe it's time to take the same dollars and try something different.. who knows they might actually stumble on something that will make the money they need to support the sprint car deal..It's a huge investment if space and money that is just setting empty most of the time...

does anyone know what the real story is..?..one competitor was told by a knoxville offical that it is not hoosiers on all 4 wheels.. only right rear required in the 360 and 305 divisions

This is the e-mail I recieved from the track.. It should answer any questions...

Hoosier Tire Selected at Knoxville Raceway

For Immediate Release Contact: Brian Stickel

October 3, 2012 John McCoy

Knoxville, Iowa – Knoxville Raceway has signed an agreement with Hoosier Tires to be the official tire supplier for all Knoxville Raceway events including the Knoxville Nationals, 360 Knoxville Nationals and the Knoxville Championship Cup Series. All three sprint car classes, 410, 360, and 305 will run Hoosiers on all four corners.

"After very careful consideration and testing, we selected Hoosier ." Stated John McCoy, Knoxville's Race Director. "We have tried to strike a balance between what is best for the racer, the track and the fans. We feel Hoosier's commitment to the sport and to good competitive racing is the best for everyone involved."

Knoxville Raceway joins the IRA, Attica Raceway Park (Ohio), Freemont Speedway (Ohio) and many other tracks across the country who will all be running the Hoosier brand in 2013.

"Knoxville's Hoosier Tire agreement is a 5 year commitment that will help provide fast, competitive and exciting racing every night. We are very happy to be working with a premier company like Hoosier whose commitment to racers and the race tracks has been unsurpassed over the years." Said Knoxville's Marketing Director Brian Stickel.

Knoxville Raceway hosts 32 events annually from April to October and draws over 80,000 spectators from around the world to the Knoxville National events in August each year. More information about Knoxville Raceway events, history and drivers can be found at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

Hoosier is the largest race tire manufacturer in the world, and all Hoosier race tires are still proudly "Made in the USA." The company continues to be privately owned and operated by the Newton family. Hoosier has grown to be one of the largest employers in Plymouth, Indiana, and produces over 1000 different types of race tires. For more information on Hoosier Tire go to www.hoosiertire.com.

Brian Stickel

Wy do people think that if WOO is Am. racer and Knoxville is Hoosier, that the nationals would get no support from WOO. This hole idea is crazy. Teams that race at nationals alway buy new tires, what difference if the have to buy Hoosier. Please do not tell me that WOO teams will not know how to set cars up with Hoosier. Do you really think WOO of outlaw TEAMS will pass up a $900,000 purse over some tires. This deal is not done till it is done anyway.