Congrats to Nick Knepper and crew on their 3rd place finish in last nights (Thursday) A-Main! Good luck on Saturday!

Mike Cray

He drove a great race. Nice to see a neighborhood team get some attention there as opposed to the zillion dollar operations.

Congratulations to the Kneppers!

Don Moore

Congrats Nick, Hope Saturday goes even better!

Great job by one of Midget racing's first families.
Congrats Nick, and continued success the rest of the weekend.

Congrats to Nick. Here's some history I found on the Knepper family.
I scanned the web for these tid bits below, so I'm not sure how accurate they are but I'm assuming close...

His Dad Steve is/was obviously awesome as a midget shoe. 9-time Mara Champion. 2-time Belleville Midget Champion. 1996 Wolverine Midget Nationals. Winner of the Hut Hundred, Eldora 4-Crown and points champion of the 16th street speedway. He has a total of 13 Usac National wins. I was working on the TV deal as a pit reporter and got to interview him in victory lane when he won Belleville, which was a great achievement considering who he beat that day in 1998. I also got to race with Steve and early in my career I knew if I had a question, he would always answer me honestly and was always a great help.

"Arnie Knepper came from a racing family out of Belleville, Illinois. Father Ollie was a car owner, brother Ray a driver. Walter a car owner who I believe owned the Elder Cadillac sprinters/dirt champ cars through the 70's."

Arnie won two St Louis Area midget titles in the 50's, graduated to IMCA and won the 1962 Little 500 at Anderson. He won two USAC Sprint races, 6 USAC midget races, and finished third in the 1972 Dirt Car chase behind Foyt and Al Unser. He even dabbled in USAC Stock cars and at the end of his career ran with the now defunct MARA midget series.

Arnie drove in the USAC Championship Car series, (Indy Cars) racing in the 1963-1972 seasons, with 75 career starts, including the 1965-1969 Indianapolis 500 races where he finished; 1965, 18th. 1966, 29th, 1967, 22nd, 1968, 25th, 1969, 22nd. I know he raced for many years and out survived many of his competitors during some of the most dangerous days of driving midgets, sprints and champ cars. He died in 1992 of Cancer.

BTW, I tried to go to Kevin Eckert's site and I could not locate his driver history database. Do any of you have the link?

George