Congrats to Steve Knepper on his 2015 induction into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame..
He joins other owners & racers Chuck Arnold, Nick Fornoro, Mike Gregg, Freddie Meeker, Norm Rapp, Jim Whitman and Ashley Wright going into the HoF this year.
The National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame is housed at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, WI. The induction festivities will be done at the Chili Bowl on Friday, January 16th.
Knepper, of Swansea, Ill., a member of a legendary motorsports family, is an eight-time champion of the Midwest Auto Racing Association (MARA), taking titles in 1986-87-89-90-92-96-2002-03. He began driving in 1981 and two years later won the 1983 St. Louis Auto Racing Association (SLARA) title. In 1988 and 1998 he scored wins in the prestigious “Belleville Midget Nationals” in Kansas and in 1992 he won the “Hut Hundred” at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track.
Again congrats to Steve Knepper on being one of the 2015 inductees. Steve Knepper is also a member of the High Banks Hall of Fame (home of the Belleville Midget Nationals in Belleville, KS) having been inducted in 2001 and was joined in that Hall of Fame three years later by his dad Walter "Junior" Knepper. Steve's great-uncle Ray (Walter Knepper Sr.'s brother) was posthumously inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2009.
Thanks to the St. Louis Auto Racing Fan Club for the info and specifically Eileen Waters and Tom vonHatten.
He joins other owners & racers Chuck Arnold, Nick Fornoro, Mike Gregg, Freddie Meeker, Norm Rapp, Jim Whitman and Ashley Wright going into the HoF this year.
The National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame is housed at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, WI. The induction festivities will be done at the Chili Bowl on Friday, January 16th.
Knepper, of Swansea, Ill., a member of a legendary motorsports family, is an eight-time champion of the Midwest Auto Racing Association (MARA), taking titles in 1986-87-89-90-92-96-2002-03. He began driving in 1981 and two years later won the 1983 St. Louis Auto Racing Association (SLARA) title. In 1988 and 1998 he scored wins in the prestigious “Belleville Midget Nationals” in Kansas and in 1992 he won the “Hut Hundred” at the Terre Haute (Ind.) Action Track.
Again congrats to Steve Knepper on being one of the 2015 inductees. Steve Knepper is also a member of the High Banks Hall of Fame (home of the Belleville Midget Nationals in Belleville, KS) having been inducted in 2001 and was joined in that Hall of Fame three years later by his dad Walter "Junior" Knepper. Steve's great-uncle Ray (Walter Knepper Sr.'s brother) was posthumously inducted into the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2009.
Thanks to the St. Louis Auto Racing Fan Club for the info and specifically Eileen Waters and Tom vonHatten.
