HISTORY
IS MADE…
5
AUSSIES INVITED TO BRODIX TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS
KNOXVILLE,
IOWA (April 16, 2005) -
History was made today as five Australian
360-cubic-inch sprint car racers have officially been
invited to compete in the seventh Brodix Tournament of
Champions, August 7, at the legendary Knoxville
Raceway in Iowa. The five drivers,
led by Victorian hotshoes Brett Milburn and Stephen
Bell, received the invitations after completing the
seven-race Sprintcar Control Council of Australia (SCCA)
qualifying series at Jeff Drew’s Avalon Raceway in
Geelong, Victoria, and Premier Speedway’s Sungold
Stadium in Warrnambool, Victoria. The
seven events, including the two compulsory rounds of
the Knoxville-Avalon-Premier (KAP) mini-series, took
place under the coordination of Jeff Drew of
Avalon, Rob Harris of Premier, Ian Vale of
the Sprintcar Racing Association (SRA) of Victoria,
and Jon Evans of Oval Express.
Besides
Milburn (269 points) and Bell (260 points), the other
official invitees are Philip Down (230 points), Bill
Fraser (221 points), and Ian Smith (218 points).
Milburn, a former mini-sprint and dirt modified
driver, wheeled the TruePower Electrical/ Dromana
Mowers/Bayside Trenching & Boring J&J sprint
car to three high-point finishes in the seven races,
compared to four for Bell. Stephen
drove the Precision Race Components (PRC) Eagle
sprinter, which was additionally sponsored by Gillear
Lime, PM Race Engines, and PWR Radiators. In
order to compete at Knoxville in early August, all
five drivers must now secure American rides and
officially enter the tourney by July 26. Entry
forms are available on-line at www.knoxvilleraceway.com.
The 2005
Cox Design and Metal Fabrication Southern Iowa
SprintWeek will consist of ten straight nights of
racing between Knoxville Raceway and the Southern Iowa
Fairgrounds Speedway in nearby Oskaloosa. Knoxville
Raceway’s August 4-5 Speed-televised $10,000-to-win
Knoxville 360 Nationals, August 6 $2,500-to-win
Casey’s General Stores Night (including 410’s),
and the August 7 $5,000-to-win Brodix Tournament of
Champions will offer four straight nights of winged
360 racing before the action heads over to Oskaloosa
for the August 8-9 events. The week
concludes back at Knoxville for the 410 Nationals on
August 10-13. The Brodix Tournament
of Champions is an invitational and will feature the
best cars and stars of twenty-one (21) different
sanctions in the United States, Canada and Australia.
Brodix
Tournament of Champions entrants (as of 04/14):
#3,
A.G. Rains, West Memphis, Arkansas, Maxim/Acme,
ASCS.
#15,
Sam Hafertepe (Jr.), Sunnyvale, Texas,
Maxim-Eagle/Wells, ASCS.
#18,
Tony Bruce (Jr.), Liberal, Kansas,
Maxim/Salina, ASCS.
#R19,
Scott Winters, Butterfield, Minnesota, Schnee/Schwanke,
KNOX.
#40R,
Ricky Stenhouse (Jr.), Olive Branch,
Mississippi, ASCS.
#48,
Jake Martens, Fairview, Oklahoma,
J&J/White, ASCS.
#51X,
Jan Howard, Byhalia, Mississippi, Maxim/Howard,
ASCS.
#61A,
Toby Brown, Carthage, Missouri, J&J/Wesmar,
ASCS.
#61J,
Danny Jennings, Norman, Oklahoma, Maxim/Folks,
ASCS-S.
#91,
Darren Stewart, Bixby, Oklahoma, Eagle/Ostrich,
ASCS.
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