LATE MODEL NATIONALS PREVIEW
Monday, September 23, 2013
View From the Stands (9/23/2013)
by Eric Arnold, Knoxville Raceway Blogger & Twitter Commentator
Late Model Knoxville Nationals Celebrates 10 Years
When I was a kid what I knew about racing revolved around sprint cars, NASCAR, and the Indy 500. That changed in 1982 when the movie Six Pack with Kenny Rogers came out in theatres and that introduced me to dirt late models. Not only was that a good family movie that taught us right from wrong and good values (minus a few swear words and kids stripping cars for parts), it was a movie about racing, ON DIRT! In 1985 my father brought me to see my first late model race at Knoxville and Billy Moyer won. I liked the cars because they were so big and beastly looking, and FAST! We didn’t see another late model race at Knoxville until 1994 when Steve Kosiski won a race in September that year. READ MORE AT http://blog.knoxvilleraceway.com/
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