KNOXVILLE RACEWAY NEWS: CORY KRUSEMAN & RICKY LOGAN ENTER KNOXVILLE'S MIDGET CAR RACE

       CORY KRUSEMAN AND RICKY LOGAN ENTER KNOXVILLE'S MIDGET CAR RACE
 
     KNOXVILLE, IOWA  (MAY 24, 2002)  -  Defending National Non-Winged
Sprint Car Poll "Driver of the Year" Cory Kruseman of Ventura, Calif.,
has just joined forces with former "Owner of the Year" Keith
Kunz for next Saturday's $4,000-to-win Pepsi/Mt.  Dew Midget Championship
at the Knoxville Raceway.  The 'superteam' entry of Kruseman and Kunz,
each being a former winner of the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals race, came
one day after the famed track received the entry of winged sprint car driver
Ricky Logan of Little Rock, Ark.  The versatile Logan, who started his
career running NDRA dirt late models, ran the Troy Parsons' Iowa-based
midget in this year's Chili Bowl midget championship in Tulsa, Okla.

     The Keith Kunz Motorsports entry, a Stanton Mopar-powered Kunz
chassis, is sponsored by Stanton Race Engines, Mopar, Kunz Race Cars and
ASE.  It has entered the tri-sanctioned event as affiliated with the
North American Auto Racing Series (NAMARS) from Indianapolis, Indiana.
Kunz received the 2000 "Owner of the Year" award for his non-winged
sprint car efforts with Jay Drake that season, while Kruseman earned the
"Driver of the Year" award in 2001 for his championship with Harlan
Willis.  Kruseman is also a veteran of U.S. and Australian midget wars.

     The Ricky Logan/Troy Parsons Snyder-powered Twister midget car
is sponsored by Parsons Concrete, Lucas Oil Products, and Advanced
Building Contractors.  It is the first entry for the 'Road to Belleville'
event that is non-affiliated, as it does not regularly compete with
either NAMARS, Badger Midget Auto Racing Association (BMARA), nor the
Midwest Auto Racing Association (MARA).  Logan is a regular in the winged
410-cubic-inch sprint car division at Knoxville, and has already competed
this year at the Western Springs Speedway in Auckland, New Zealand, in
which he qualified for this year's Kele World Sprint Car Challenge.

     The track has had indications recently that more non-affiliated
midget car entries will be received in the next seven days from other
veterans of the popular O'Reilly Auto Parts Chili Bowl Midget Nationals
event, which is held every January in the Tulsa Expo Center.  Any midget
car which meets the common set of BMARA/NAMARS/MARA rules is eligible to
compete in the $23,225 event.  Knoxville Raceway officials are very
pleased that many midget teams are using this event as a 'tune-up' for
the early August Belleville Midget Nationals at the legendary Belleville
High Banks in Kansas.  Entries are posted at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.

     In addition to the Pepsi/Mt. Dew Knoxville Midget Championship on
Saturday, June 1, Knoxville's regular 410-c.i. sprint car racers will be
in competition.  That includes Ricky Logan, Terry McCarl, "Skip" Jackson,
Kerry Madsen, Don Droud (Jr.), Brooke Tatnell, Larry Ball (Jr.), David
Murcott, Travis Cram and over 25 other talented drivers.  The Friday
night, May 31, program will consist of the tenth annual Goodyear Masters
Classic winged 360-c.i.  sprint car races for drivers age fifty-plus, and
midget car hot-laps.  Among the competitors will be Masters champions
Jerry Crabb of Iowa, Roger Rager of Minnesota, and Terry Pletch of
Indiana, and Masters challengers Ken Lange, Johnny Parson (Jr.), Bill
Utz, Larry "Smokey" Snellbaker, Shelby Steenson, Carl "Midge" Miller and
Tommy Scott.  The Friday and Saturday night race tickets are all general
admission, although the track ticket office can be reached at 641-842-
5431.