A suite tower topping ceremony was held Friday for the new Dennis Albaugh Suite Tower at the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum. 

The ceremony was a way to celebrate the progress of the construction on the new suite tower. The new six-story tower will be a replica of the existing Bryan Clauson Suite Tower. The twelve new suites will go up on the east side of the museum, looking out at turn two of the Knoxville Raceway as a bookend to the facility. The new suite tower is set to open for the start of the 2025 season at Knoxville Raceway next April, and more than 20 guests have been on the waiting list for a suite. At the ceremony Friday, attendees signed the beam before it was hoisted to the top of the tower. Dennis Albaugh spoke and he and other dignitaries were on hand to witness the “Topping Off” of the tower. Albaugh tells KNIA/KRLS that he is honored to have the tower named after him.

“I couldn’t be happier. I’ve been borrowing a couple of other guy’s suites and I kept telling Bob Baker that I would like to have my own someday. I’ve been telling him that for several years and finally he came up with a solution on how I could do that. They agreed to name the tower after me and that is a nice honor. I’ve never had a tower in a nice facility like this named after me before so I couldn’t be happier. To bring my whole family down, and I have a lot of friends when it comes to racing, so to bring those guys down on the weekends and watch the races I couldn’t be happier.”

Dennis Albaugh is an Iowa businessman who is the founder and chairman of a pesticides and fertilizer company. He has had several horses compete in the Kentucky Derby and also has one of the largest collections of Chevrolet convertibles in the United States.