{"id":17382,"date":"2015-08-12T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=17382"},"modified":"2015-08-13T18:06:04","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T01:06:04","slug":"knoxville-nationals-happening-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/knoxville-nationals-happening-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Knoxville Nationals Happening This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17384\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/knoxville-nationals-happening-this-weekend\/attachment\/11082\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"200,156\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"11082\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg\" class=\" size-full wp-image-17384 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg\" alt=\"11082\" width=\"200\" height=\"156\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 55th Annual FVP Knoxville Nationals will take place this weekend &#8211; August 12-15. \u00a0It is presented by Casey&#8217;s General Store with other sponsors for different events. \u00a0The first night of qualifying, which will take place tonight, August 12, is the RacingJunk.com Qualifying night. \u00a0RacingJunk will also have a booth at the event all weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The event kicked off this morning with a Fan Fair Forum and will continue to host events all day, including the Weld Racing Gokart Spectacular, and will lead up to the RacingJunk.com Qualifying Night at 7:15 p.m. \u00a0The action will start back up on Thursday morning at 8 a.m. and the race weekend will go full speed until Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"17409\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/knoxville-nationals-happening-this-weekend\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17409\" src=\"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n.jpg\" alt=\"11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11831716_10155837604030417_752867335287002239_n-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the last nine years, Donny Schatz has won the Knoxville Nationals with Tony Stewart&#8217;s Number 15 car. \u00a0He, along with almost 100 other drivers, are registered to race this weekend at Knoxville Raceway.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Knoxville Nationals Championship 8-9-14\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m__Xl4LzeHg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Knoxville Nationals have proved to provide intense and competitive racing in the past, and they will live up to their reputation again this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The 55th Annual FVP Knoxville Nationals are this weekend.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[3196,448],"class_list":["post-17382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-55th-annual-fvp-knoxville-nationals","tag-knoxville-raceway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/11082.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-4wm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17410,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17382\/revisions\/17410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}