RECENT SPRINTACULAR WINNER COTTLE ENTERS CORN BELT NATIONALS
Knoxville, Iowa (July 6, 2020)………Shane Cottle and Hodges Motorsports have filed their entry to compete in the 2nd annual Brandt Corn Belt Nationals this Friday and Saturday on July 10-11 at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway featuring the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the POWRi War Sprint Car League.
Kansas, Illinois driver Cottle and the New Mexico-based Hodges team scored a recent triumph in USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car competition last Friday night at Lincoln Park Speedway in Putnamville, Ind., driving from 6th to 1st in the first nine laps of the 30-lap feature to capture their first USAC victory together as a team, second overall.
Cottle, along with recent entrants Brandon Halverson (Jackson, Minnesota) and Glen Saville (Razorback, New South Wales, Australia), have pushed the entry list to 43 for this weekend’s event at the “Sprint Car Capital of the World,” which includes a grand prize of $20,000 for the winner of Saturday night’s feature.
Broken Arrow, Oklahoma’s Brady Bacon, a two-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car champion in 2014 and 2016 who followed Cottle as Saturday night’s winner in the Bill Gardner Sprintacular at Lincoln Park, is undefeated at the Corn Belt Nationals after sweeping both nights of the inaugural event in 2019. Bacon also won a USAC Sprint race at Knoxville in 2011.
A slew of USAC National champions, standouts, stars and race winners for the event includes six drivers who’ve won driving championships in USAC National competition, including 2018 USAC National Sprint Car and 2019 USAC NOS Energy Drink National Midget champion Tyler Courtney (Indianapolis, Ind.), a 2018 series winner at Knoxville.
Additional USAC National champions entered for the event so far are 2015 Sprint titlist Robert Ballou (Rocklin, Calif.), 2016 USAC National Midget champ Tanner Thorson (Minden, Nev.), 2019 Sprint Car master C.J. Leary (Greenfield, Ind.) and 1997 Silver Crown, 1999 Sprint and 2001-02 Midget king Dave Darland, the winningest driver in USAC National Sprint Car history with 62 victories.
USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car winners of the likes of 2017 Knoxville USAC Sprint winner Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.), Kevin Thomas Jr. (Cullman, Ala.), Chase Stockon (Fort Branch, Ind.), Carson Short (Marion, Ill.).
2013-14 USAC Western Classic Sprint Car champion Ryan Bernal (Hollister, Calif.) is entered as are 2020 USAC Midwest Wingless Racing Association Sprint Car winners Wyatt Burks (Topeka, Kans.) and Wesley Smith (Nixa, Mo.) as well as 2018 Gas City (Ind.) I-69 Speedway Sprint Car champ Clinton Boyles (Greenwood, Mo.) and 2018-19 POWRi WAR Sprint Car League champion, and current point leader, Riley Kreisel (Warsaw, Mo.).
Competitor entry for the 2nd annual Brandt Professional Agriculture Corn Belt Nationals July 10-11 at Iowa’s Knoxville Raceway is available. Competition applications can be found here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17iNwV8-F1iaTpNtnu9mWLHRj9Maj61Ik/view?usp=sharing
There, you can print out the form, fill it out and either mail, fax or drop off, along with the entry fee, at the Knoxville Raceway ticket office. You can mail your form and fee to Knoxville Raceway, Box 347, Knoxville, Iowa 50138 or by fax at 641-842-2899. Knoxville Raceway is located at 624 N. Lincoln, Knoxville, Iowa. Competitors are urged to enter the event quickly.
The event, co-sanctioned by the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and the POWRi Lucas Oil War Sprint Car League, features two complete nights of sprint car racing action with each night culminating with a feature race, the Friday, July 10 main event paying $5,000-to-win and the Saturday, July 11 finale paying $20,000-to-win.
Spectator tickets for the inaugural Brandt Professional Agriculture Corn Belt Nationals are available at https://mpv.tickets.com/schedule/?agency=KNXV_PL_MPV&orgid=54409#view=list&includePackages=true or by calling the Knoxville Raceway ticket office at 641-842-5431. Tickets start at $25 for adults on Thursday and $30 for Saturday.
Gates open each night at Knoxville at 5:30pm Central with hot laps set for 6:45pm.
Brady Bacon dominated both ends of the inaugural Brandt Professional Agriculture Corn Belt Nationals in 2019, walking away with a two-night total of $25,000 between his two victories.
All drivers and teams competing in the event that possess a USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car license will be awarded 50 appearance points each night of the Corn Belt Nationals, which will go toward the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car championship standings. No prelim or feature points.
CORN BELT NATIONALS ENTRY LIST:
(43 drivers as of July 6, 2020)
0 BRANDON STEVENSON/Holstein, IA
0s STEVE IRWIN/Fenton, MI
1m DON DROUD JR./Lincoln, NE
2 JASON BILLUPS/Holt, MO
2c ZACH CLARK/Olathe, KS
4 JUSTIN GRANT/Ione, CA
4T JOSH CASTRO/Peoria, AZ
4x BRAYDON CROMWELL/Lone Jack, MO
5 CHUCK ALEXANDER/Chariton, IA
5s CHASE STOCKON/Fort Branch, IN
6 MARIO CLOUSER/Auburn, IL
7 CLINTON BRUNS/Little Rock, IA
7BC TYLER COURTNEY/Indianapolis, IN
9K KEVIN THOMAS JR./Cullman, AL
9W JUSTIN ZIMMERMAN/Athens, TX
11w WYATT BURKS/Topeka, KS
12 ROBERT BALLOU/Rocklin, CA
12s WESLEY SMITH/Nixa, MO
13 DENNIS GILE/Phoenix, AZ
13MJ BRANDON HALVERSON/Jackson, MN
16 ANTHONY NICHOLSON/Millington, TN
17 NICK BILBEE/Indianapolis, IN
17GP RYAN BERNAL/Hollister, CA
18 TERRY RICHARDS/Denton, NE
19AZ TANNER THORSON/Minden, NV
19L GLEN SAVILLE/Razorback, NSW
24 BRIAN VANMEVEREN/Woodbury, MN
27 STEVE THOMAS/Ludlow, IL
30 C.J. LEARY/Greenfield, IN
33m MATT WESTFALL/Pleasant Hill, OH
36d DAVE DARLAND/Lincoln, IN
48 NEAL MATUSKA/Waukee, IA
67 JONATHAN HUGHES/Knoxville, IA
69 BRADY BACON/Winchester, IN
71p CARSON SHORT/Marion, IL
73 SAMUEL WAGNER/Lone Jack, MO
74x SHANE COTTLE/Kansas, IL
75 DUSTIN CLARK/Washington, IN
77 DUSTIN SMITH/Russiaville, IN
77J JACK WAGNER/Lone Jack, MO
90 CLINTON BOYLES/Greenwood, MO
91 RILEY KREISEL/Warsaw, MO
ST1 LANE STONE/Concordia, MO