Knoxville Raceway
Knoxville is the home of the Knoxville Raceway, which has earned a solid reputation as the fastest half-mile dirt racetrack in the nation. The Knoxville Raceway hosts the Sprint Car National Championships, held here each August. The Sprint Car Nationals attract over 150 of the best cars, teams, and drivers in the world, including racing fans from every state in the nation, and several foreign countries.
Aside from the Sprint Car National Championships in August, Knoxville hosts weekly sprint car racing events on Saturday nights, April through September, attracting some 6,000 race fans to Knoxville each week.
National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum
Included in the Knoxville Raceway complex is the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. The Hall of Fame and Museum showcases motor sports history, preserving the proud past and strong future of sprint car racing. The first floor of the 36,000 square foot structure features the Bill and Sarah Rinehart lobby, the Arizona Barn Gift Shop, the Veterans Memorial Conference Room, the Don Lamberti National Sprint Car Museum, and the Rolscreen National Sprint Car Hall of Fame. The spacious ultra-modern facility, constructed overlooking the second turn of the famous Knoxville Raceway, also features 20 VIP suites leased to corporations and dedicated sprint car fans for a special view of the track from the comfort of a suite. The fourth floor of the structure, known as the Marion County Fair Tower, provides a striking view of the track area, as well as the greater Knoxville area.