Professional golf has its Seniors Tour, while winged sprint car racing has its Knoxville Masters Classic for drivers age fifty and over. And this year’s $3,000-to-win, $300-to-start Masters Classic for 360-cubic-inch sprint cars at the legendary Knoxville Raceway has thus far attracted eight entrants from eight different states: Carl “Midge” Miller of New Jersey, Oscar Smith of Michigan, Rev. Mark Amenda of Illinois, Bill Smith of Minnesota, Dale McCarty of Missouri, Bobby Becker, Jr., of Nebraska, Earnest Jennings of Oklahoma, and Joe McCarthy of Colorado.
Interestingly, none of the early entrants have ever won the event in its 14-year history, although Midge Miller of the United Racing Company (URC) finished fifth in 2001. Midge is also well known for having towed from the Friday night Masters Classic in Knoxville, Iowa, to a Saturday night URC show in Delmar, Delmar, in one of the years past. Midge will be campaigning his wife Pat’s Jereco-powered Shaw chassis number 8 sprinter.
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