8/1/09
Knoxville Raceway
35 410s
38 360s
410s
Brian Brown (12th car out to time) set quick time at 15.508 seconds. Randy Hannagan (5th) was second quick, followed by Dusty Zomer (22nd), Billy Alley (8th), Johnny Herrera (2nd), Terry McCarl (27th), Garry Brazier (29th), Kerry Madsen (21st), Bronson Maeschen (10th) and Calvin Landis (30th). Robert Bell failed to get a time in.
Heat one (started): 1. Matthew Reed v92 (1) 2. Shane Stewart 57 (3) 3. Toni Lutar 4x (2) 4. Herrera 2w (5) 5. Brown 21 (6) / 6. Jesse Hockett 13J (8) 7. Jack Dover 53 (7) 8. Maeschen 1 (4) 9. Brant O'Banion 30 (9)
Reed led the duration of the 8-lapper on the bottom. The best race was for fourth between Herrera and Brown, with Herrera gaining the spot in the last corner.
Heat two (started): 1. McCarl 24 (3) 2. Wayne Johnson 14AJ (1) 3. Skip Jackson 2 (2) 4. Hannagan 1x (6) 5. Landis 70 (4) / 6. Austin McCarl 17A (8) 7. Mike Moore 69 (5) 8. Pete Crall 1PC (7) DNS - Rager Phillips 10
W. Johnson assumed the pole when Phillips didn't start and led early. T. McCarl was in pursuit until lap five when he passed Johnson on the high side for the win.
Heat three (started): 1. Don Droud Jr. 47 (4) 2. Davey Heskin 56 (1) 3. Zomer 17G (6) 4. Lee Sowell 51s (3) 5. Brazier 1AU (5) / 6. Bob Weuve 19 (2) 7. Kaley Gharst 7K (7) 8. Josh Higday 81 (8) DNS - Robert Bell 71
The race saw four lead changes between Droud and Heskin, with Droud making the final jab on lap seven. A similar battle between Sowell and Weuve for fourth allowed Brazier to catch the pair and pass Weuve for the final transfer late.
Heat four (started): 1. Josh Schneiderman 49 (1) 2. Lynton Jeffrey 12 (2) 3. Alley 22 (6) 4. Jesse Giannetto D1 (4) 5. Madsen 55 (5) / 6. Ty Bartz 46 (7) 7. Derek Ingalls 91 (8) 8. Chris Morgan 7c (3)
Schneiderman led flag to flag. An ugly slider for third that looked bad live and worse on tape by Madsen on Morgan saw the latter get upside down, and Madsen suffer a flat right rear tire on lap six. Schneiderman led Jeffrey, Alley, Giannetto and Bartz back to green. Madsen replaced the tire while security was called to the work area and came back to nail the final transfer.
B main (started): 1. Gharst (4) 2. Hockett (6) 3. Dover (2) 4. Moore (5) / 5. Higday (8) 6. A. McCarl (9) 7. Bartz (7) 8. Ingalls (11) 9. Maeschen (1) 10. Crall (12) 11. Weuve (3) 12. O'Banion (10) DNS - Morgan, Phillips, Bell
Maeschen shot out to the early lead in the 12-lapper. O'Banion came to a stop and retired on lap five. The restart saw Maeschen ahead of Gharst, Dover, Hockett and Moore. The top five was the same three laps later, when Crall broke something in the rear of his machine. On the restart, Gharst slid by Maeschen for the lead, and the leader began to slow, losing power on lap 11. The green white, checker finish saw Gharst ahead of Dover, Hockett, Moore and A. McCarl. Hockett slid under Dover for second, while a late bid by A. McCarl for the final transfer faltered.
A main (started): 1. T. McCarl (1) 2. Brown (6) 3. Alley (3) 4. Zomer (4) 5. Madsen (8) 6. Droud Jr. (10) 7. W. Johnson (13) 8. Stewart (12) 9. Hannagan (6) 10. Brazier (7) 11. Jeffrey (17) 12. Giannetto (11) 13. Heskin (19) 14. Dover (23) 15. Gharst (21) 16. Schneiderman (20) 17. Landis (9) 18. Hockett (22) 19. Lutar (15) 20. Reed (18) 21. Moore (24) 22. Sowell (14) 23. Herrera (2) 24. Jackson (16)
T. McCarl stormed out to a lead in teh 20-lapper with Herrera, Brown, Zomer and Alley in tow. The leaders got into heavy traffic, with Alley using the bottom side to take fourth from Zomer. Jackson had worked forward six spots to tenth on lap 13, when he came to a stop on the backstretch and went pitside. The restart saw McCarl ahead of Herrera, Brown, Alley and Zomer. Before a lap could be completed, Herrera suffered nosewing problems and went to the work area. With no guaranteed time, he was left and the race went back green, with Madsen moving into the top five. The order would stay the same on lap 15, when Sowell lost a right rear tire and got into the turn two wall. T. McCarl led them again for the final five laps. Brown looked to be gaining after the lap 13 restart, but not on the last one. Alley tried the low side to duck under Brown, but with clean air, the lead five remained the same. The victory was McCarl's second of the year and 45th overall at Knoxville. Dover was the hard-charger.
360s
Gregg Bakker (5th car out to time) set the standard in two-lap time trials at 16.107 seconds. Dustin Selvage (14th car out) was second quick, followed by Randy Martin (18th), Jonathan Cornell (19th), Russ Hall (6th), Clint Garner (27th), Chad Humston (24th), Jon Agan (11th), Tyler Thompson (7th) and Tom Lenz (8th). Matt Moro failed to get a time in after shelling a driveline.
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brett Mather 17G (1*) 2. Bakker 11x (6*) 3. Rod Richards 12 (2*) 4. Tasker Phillips 7TAZ (3*) 5. Thompson 48 (4) 6. Nate Van Haaften 3 (7) 7. Chad Heimbaugh 04 (10) 8. Tim Newman 18v (9) 9. R. Hall Y2 (5) 10. Jeff Heffner 14J (8)
Thompson headed for the low side of turn one from outside row two and clipped the right front tire of R. Hall's car, sending him upside down. Heffner got into the wall trying to avoid and ended up in the wall. Both were done for the night. Mather led the distance, while Bakker was the man on the move, using the low side.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Ryan Roberts 18 (2*) 2. Garner 40 (5*) 3. Selvage 7 (6*) 4. Josh Padellford 34 (1*) 5. Bryan Dobesh 10 (3) 6. Lenz 8L (4*) 7. Matt Moro 2m (10) 8. Danny Heskin 6 (7) 9. Dave Glennon 5x (9) 10. Alan Zoutte 33 (8)
Roberts led flag to flag. Selvage was treading water in sixth before coming on late.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. RJ Johnson 71 (2*) 2. Don Young 75 (1*) 3. Johnny Anderson 2a (4*) 4. Ricky Logan 10a (3*) 5. Martin 14 (6) 6. Humston 1m (5) 7. Ricky Montgomery 9m (8) 8. Brad Foster 00 (7) 9. Joe Miller 78 (9)
Johnson and Young battled early, with Johnson ahead by .009 of a second on the first circuit. They raced side by side for three laps. The other battle was for fourth. Logan cut to the low side on Martin, who reportedly took exception after the checkers with a run on the front axle entering the pit gate.
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Dennis Moore Jr. 20 (4*) 2. Cornell 28 (6*) 3. Jon Corbin 4 (1*) 4. Jon Agan 54 (5*) 5. Nate Mosher 22N (7) 6. Ryan Anderson 71R (3) 7. Jay Russell 76 (8) 8. Joe Beaver 53 (2) DNS - Chris Walker 18w
Corbin lead before lap two slowdown for a stopped Beaver. Moore Jr. took the lead on lap four, and Cornell followed. Corbin and Agan exchanged third on the last lap.
B main (started): 1. Martin (2) 2. Mosher (1) 3. Moro (7) 4. Dobesh (4) / 5. Thompson (3) 6. Lenz (8) 7. Humston (9) 8. Ry. Anderson (11) 9. Montgomery (10) 10. Beaver (16) 11. Heimbaugh (6) 12. Van Haaften (5) 13. Glennon (18) 14. Heskin (14) 15. Foster (15) 16. Zoutte (19) 17. Russell (12) 18. Newman (13) 19. Miller (17) DNS - R. Hall, Heffner
Martin led green to checker in a rare non-stop B for the 360s this season. Moro picked his way forward nicely, grabbing third in the last corner of the 10-lapper.
A main (started): 1. Garner (2) 2. Cornell (4) 3. Roberts (3) 4. Moore Jr. (6) 5. Mather (7) 6. Selvage (8) 7. J. Anderson (10) 8. Agan (11) 9. Bakker (5) 10. Martin (15) 11. Young (9) 12. Phillips (14) 13. Padellford (13) 14. Moro (17) 15. Dobesh (20) 16. RJ Johnson (1) 17. Richards (19) 18. Logan (16) 19. Corbin (12) 20. Mosher (18)
RJ Johnson got anxious on the first try at green and was blacked to the tail. Before a lap could be completed, something looked to break in Corbin's car and he drifted into the wall, while Mosher smacked it on the frontstretch. Both were done. The rest of the event went non-stop. Roberts grabbed the lap one lead, but it was Garner in the point the next time around in the 15-lapper. Logan pulled off on lap two, and Richards and Dobesh were out soon after. Cornell found his way under Roberts into second and pursued the leader, taking over the point on lap eleven, shooting by on the low side of turn two. Garner saw Cornell's hand, and when Cornell slipped up a lap later, he pounced on the opportunity and was never headed. It was his fifth career 360 win, and second of the season.