Chances are, at any automotive race track in Iowa, folks will recognize Bob Myers.
Myers is a huge car fanatic—particularly, open-wheel sprint car racing. It’s a passion that began decades ago while he was working at a local “late-model automobile salvage yard”—also known as a junk yard, in Myers’ parlance—as a teenager. It happened to be owned by a friend of Casey’s founder Don Lamberti. And today Myers share a passion for racing with Lamberti and friend Bill Douglass, chairman of Douglass Distributing.
“Oh yeah, it gets in your blood,” says Myers, smiling. At one point, he crewed a sprint car for Lamberti, although he was forbidden from driving it.
In fact, the need for speed is so strong that Casey’s General Stores sponsors the Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa, including its annual 5-hour Energy Knoxville Nationals race, and its No. 21 stock car, driven by fan favorite Brian Brown.
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