![]() “I’m excited to finally see the famous track I’ve been watching on television since I was 5 years old.” “It doesn’t matter to me if they make me race in a school bus,” the Colombian driver told National Speed Sport News. Kinser’s winning margin was 0.378 of a second. ![]() Lasoski finished second to Kinser in last year’s Knoxville Nationals after losing the lead on a restart. “We’ll have a different car for the Outlaws than the one Stewart owns, but it’s built by the same manufacturer and is very similar,” said Lasoski, a legend at his home track in Knoxville, Iowa, where he won the championship seven times and the Knoxville Nationals, sprint car racing’s Indianapolis 500, in 1998. In the last 39 races, Lasoski had 36 top-10 finishes. It was the second-closest points battle in series history, coming down to the final race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Lasoski, 41, finished only 71 points behind Kinser last year, winning 11 main events. Outlaw cars weigh only 1,200 pounds but their 410-cubic-inch engines put out 750-800 horsepower. The Outlaws are famous for the 25-square foot wings that tower over their cars, quite a contrast from the wingless cars of the Southern California-based Sprint Car Racing Assn.
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