KNOXVILLE, IA (SEPT. 3) – Blake Feese has always enjoyed racing at the sprint car capital of the world, Knoxville Raceway, and he concluded the Knoxville Raceway season in fine fashion charging from 22nd to finish third.

"After we left the nationals, we knew what we had to do to make the Beaver Drill car fast again. Unfortunately, it took a couple of weeks to figure out,” said Feese, who took time away from his NASCAR career to return to the sprint car ranks for a handful of dirt track races. “That final race at Knoxville was the most fun I have had in a long time, probably all year. Now it’s time to get refocused on the Dover Busch race.”

Feese now returns to Hendrick Motorsports in North Carolina and will attempt to qualify for his third Busch series event of the season the Stacker 200 at Dover International Speedway on September 25th.

The race at Knoxville Raceway on August 28th continued the belief to a lot of fans in the sprint car world that Feese has tons of talent. He qualified the Beaver Tool #12x sixth and was involved in a heat race accident with Clint Garner on the first lap. The contact got Feese upside down, but the team made repairs and Feese finished second to Terry McCarl in the B main.

In the Feature, the Saybrook, IL driver was on a charge as he started next McCarl, who won the Knoxville Track championship, in the 11th row and charged to finish third in the 20-lap feature event.

"At the halfway mark, I thought we were going to be able to get to the leader, but I used up my tires getting to third,” said Feese. “Third was as far as we could go. Knoxville has one of the toughest weekly programs in the country, as Terry McCarl showed everyone at the Knoxville Nationals. It was a lot of fun for me to come back and race competitively against those guys."

“I would like to thank everyone on the Beaver Drill & Tool team for giving me the opportunity to race their car in the month of August,” continued Feese. “They are a first class bunch and have a great team. It was fun driving their car again.”

Feese will have a busy schedule of testing prior to the Dover race as he will test at the Talladega Superspeedway for the ARCA race and also at Dover for the Busch race.