Medford,OR- Its that time of year where for two weeks in early august the sprint car world decend's upon the town of Knoxville,IA the mecca of sprint car racing.This year marks the 50th running of most coveted race in all of dirt track racing and will attract the best sprint car drivers in the world all gunning for saturday nights A-main event that pays a staggering $150,000 to win and $9500 just to start saturday nights A feature !This week starts off with the $10,000 to win Arnold Motor Supply 360 nationals presented by Vermeer(TBJ finished 10th in last years 360 nationals).TBJ has seen success around this famed half mile monument of dirt motor sports but still looks forward to his first feature victory at this particular venue.TBJ was rookie of the year @ the 2006 410 nationals and made the saturday night A feature event in his first ever attempt.He then made the feature event again in 2007 dispensing any notions that 2006 was a fluke !With solid finishes in previous nationals and WoO events at Knoxville TBJ heads into this years golden anniversary edition of the nationals with much confidence and will again attempt to qualify for saturday night's feature event and place the Bruce racing tbj promotions kistler powered maxim on the podium! When asked what the Knoxville nationals means to him TBJ had this to say "The nationals is the biggest event of them all! U can have the worst year of your career but if you have a good nationals it all goes away. The trophy that everyone wants to put in their house is the one from the Knoxville nationals. This is it and it dosen't get any bigger".