1.   Another highlight is a display featuring the sprint car that NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon raced as a teen-ager at Eldora Speedway and other Midwest tracks.

2.   Awarded an academic scholarship to Arizona State University, he proceeded to attend college and race midgets and sprint cars on the weekends.

3.   After the rest is spent, fans will be able to watch sprint cars at a separate dirt oval and dragsters at a quarter-mile drag strip.

4.   Dave Blaney left sprint cars to race in NASCAR while Mike Dillon once substituted for Dale Earnhardt Sr.

5.   Donnie Beechler came to the series from the dirt tracks of the Midwest, racing sprint cars and midgets.

6.   Gobrecht was operating a sprint car owned by Busch driver Dave Blaney, who requested no interviews Saturday.

7.   He has driven the flat, mile-long track in practice sessions in a Cup car and he has raced there in midgets and Silver Crown sprint cars.

8.   He says his mower looks more like a sprint car.

9.   Last season, he was the rookie of the year in sprint cars at Whip City Racetrack in Westfield, Mass.

10.   Schrader, who like Gordon started in sprint cars and midgets before making the shift to NASCAR, sees a boundless future for his young teammate. . .