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December 04, 2006 at
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December 05, 2006 at
11:02:08 PM by Mike Doyle
There is an interesting story in the January 2007 issue of Car and Driver magazine about a writer and photographer who went to this year`s Knoxville Nationals. They drove a new 500hp Mercedes Benz ML63 AMG towing a new 20 foot Airstream trailer. It is about Knoxville as much as it is about the King Kong SUV and trailer. It is worth checking out for any sprint car fan. They explain in detail what it is like in Knoxville and the food for sale in Knoxville during the Nationals. The story starts on page 114 and is called, "The Other Knoxville." The writer points out that sprint car fans cannot be dumb because they understand the four day qualifying system that filters the 124 car field down to 24 cars for the Saturday night main event. The working title for the story was,"What`s The Most Fun You Can Have During One Week In August?" He said that Knoxville during race week turns into sort of a pork-and-soybean Mardi Gras. They seemed to be having fun. The bad ass Mercedes that they had puts out 503hp, does the quarter mile in 13.2 seconds at 107 mph and has a top speed of 155 mph. (governor limited) The Merc and the Airstream combined sell for something over $126,000. That is the kind of stuff you see in Car and Driver. But it is a good sprint car story too.
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