Knoxville Raceway

"Sprint Car Capital of the World" hosts weekly sprint car racing and Nationals each August; as well as special events throughout the year. 24;000 grandstand seats and 52 luxury skyboxes. Today the seating surrounding Knoxville Raceway is slightly above the 24,000 mark, which is thought to be the fourth largest outdoor facility in Iowa (behind the football stadiums of Iowa and Iowa State Universities and Iowa Speedway). Seating in 1954 was listed as 2,000.  This year will see the 52nd Annual Knoxville Nationals in early August and for the third year in a row it will pay an astounding one million dollar purse. Who could have guessed the tremendous growth and corporate involvement of title sponsor Goodyear for an event that once paid out $5,000 total.  With this storied fairgrounds celebrating fifty-nine years of continuous weekly racing in 2012, it has developed a reputation that is known world-wide and has become an icon for what others strive to be. We hope you can come celebrate with us each and every week and that you will find yourself saying sometime down the road, “I saw it at Knoxville!” (Featured 2014 Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series Track)