Allard, Dollansky & Saldana all qualify for 2010 Knoxville World Challenge
Saturday, December 5, 2009
Allard, Dollansky & Saldana all qualify for 2010 Knoxville World Challenge
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (December 4, 2009) - Jonathan Allard,
Craig Dollansky and Joey Saldana have become the first three Americans
eligible to compete in the Friday, August 13, 2010 Knoxville World Challenge
invitational during the 50th Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, presented by
Lucas Oil. The trio of American sprint car racing veterans all qualified at
the Wynn's International Sprint Car Classic on Saturday, November 28, at the
Western Springs Speedway in Auckland, New Zealand. The race was won by
World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series star Joey Saldana, followed by
Craig Dollansky, Ryan O'Connor, Allan Wakeling and Greg Pickerill,
respectively.
Said Knoxville director of racing Ralph Capitani, "We are extremely proud
that Jonathan, Craig and Joey all made the effort to compete at Western
Springs in order to qualify for the Knoxville World Challenge during our
fiftieth annual National Championships. Attention will now turn towards the
NZ$4,000-to-win January 1, 2010 Thunder Down Under at Robertson Holden
International Speedway in Palmerston North, New Zealand, and the
$30,000-to-win January 23-24, 2010, Grand Annual Sprintcar Classic at
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia, as the next two official qualifying events
for Americans for the seventeenth edition of the World Challenge. Of
course, international sprint car drivers from Australia, Canada and New
Zealand will continue to be eligible for the Knoxville World Challenge
simply by competing in the Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, presented by Lucas
Oil, on August 11-14, 2010."
For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its World Challenge, fans
are urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com
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