Sammy Swindell, Ricky Logan, Jonathan Allard and Ian Easton all Entered for Friday's Knoxville World Challenge Qualifier at Palmerston North, New Zealand
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sammy Swindell, Ricky Logan, Jonathan Allard and Ian Easton all Entered for Friday's Knoxville World Challenge Qualifier at Palmerston North, New Zealand
KNOXVILLE, IOWA (December 28, 2009) - National Sprint Car
Hall of Fame inductee Sammy Swindell of Tennessee and native New Zealander
Ian Easton have joined previously entered drivers Ricky Logan of Arkansas
and Jonathan Allard of California as entrants in this Friday night's 2010
Knoxville World Challenge qualifier at the Robertson Holden International
Speedway in Palmerston North, New Zealand. They will be joined by current
New Zealand sprint car champion Dean Brindle, Greg Pickerill and twenty
other drivers in the $4,000-to-win, 30-lap contest on Friday, January 1,
2010. Allard has already qualified for the 2010 Knoxville World Challenge,
as have Americans Joey Saldana and Craig Dollansky, while kiwi Easton is
expected to make his Knoxville debut at the August 11-14, 2010, 50th
Goodyear Knoxville Nationals, presented by Lucas Oil.
Friday night's event at Palmerston North is the second of
three confirmed Knoxville World Challenge qualifying events for Americans,
fitted between the November 28 race at the Western Springs Speedway in
Auckland, New Zealand, and the January 23-24, 2010, Grand Annual Sprintcar
Classic at Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. 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 50th annual
Goodyear Knoxville Nationals at the world-famous Knoxville Raceway in Iowa.
The starting line-up for the 2010 World Challenge will remain a sixteen-car
inversion based upon a driver's qualifying night points.
For more information on the Knoxville Raceway and its World Challenge, fans
are urged to visit www.knoxvilleraceway.com.
(Pictured): Sammy Swindell (John's Racing Photos)
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