Anyone going to updates tonite?
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Why are they doing heat races and qualifying races instead of the normal USAC setup?
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We will have updates as best we can on the Robert Ballou Motorsports facebook page - I will try to copy and paste here

31 cars signed in - heat race line ups posted

Format will follow the ASCS TNT format with heat races then qualifying races

7:06 PM CST - they are just getting ready to hot lap

7:35 PM CST - Wow, race track is very dry, wind blowing into stands. Crowd is restless and hollering after first set of hot laps for the water truck. (courtesy of Knoxville raceway twitter which is commenting on Osky)

7:49 PM Hot laps complete. Water truck is coming thankfully. - knoxville raceway twitter

8:07 PM - still track prepping......

8:10 PM CST - first heat pushing

9:02 PM CST - 2nd set of heats pushing now

Heat 1

40 Justin Grant 1 Mitch Wismiller

21 Hud Cone 71p Mike Spencer

4 Tracy Hines 7 Bryan Clauson

1x Don Droud Jr 14 Coleman Gulick

Finish: dust coming up on pace laps.....oh boy.....Clauson wins heat 1 with last lap pass of spencer - rest of finish coming shortly

Clauson wins Heat 1 over Spencer Cone Gulick Hines Grant Droud. Wissmiller DNF

Heat 2

37 Casey Riggs 7k Gary Taylor

35 Hunter Schuerenberg 81 Robert Ballou

11 Shane Cottle 10t Bill Rose

2b Jerry Coons Jr 3* Joey Moughan

Finish: BALLOU wins - over Riggs - Schuerenberg - Coons - Cottle - Taylor - Moughan - Rose

Heat 3

53 Jon Stanbrough 99 Brady Bacon

20 Levi Jones 23s Stu Snyder

2x Dustin Morgan 2 Darron Clayton

71 Damion Gardner 83 Wes McIntyre

Finish Heat 3 - Bacon - Stanbrough - Jones - Morgan - Gardner - Snyder - Clayton - McIntyre

Heat 4

10 Blake Fitzpatrick 69 Kyle Larson

27 Keith Bloom Jr 5x Chris Windom

21x Dave Darland 55 Tony Everhart

29 Bud Kaeding

Finish: Heat 4 - Larson wins over Bloom - Kaeding - Darland - Fitzpatrick - Windom - Everhart

Qualifying races up next (basically another set of heats)

All heat race winners receive a new Hoosier tire - after next set of heat races all 8 will compete in a foot race for a new rear end!

1st Qualifier

3* Joey Moughan 71 Damion Gardner

35 Hunter Schuerenberg 2b Jerry Coons Jr

69 Kyle Larson 7 Bryan Clauson

1x Don Droud Jr 83 Wes McIntyre

Finish: Larson wins over Schuerenberg - Coons - Clauson - Gardner - Moughan - Droud - McIntyre DNF



Qualifier 2

23s Stu Snyder 4 Tracy Hines

20 Levi Jones 37 Casey Riggs

71p Mike Spencer 81 Robert Ballou

40 Justin Grant 10t Bill Rose

Finish: Jones wins over Ballou - Hines - Grant - Riggs - Rose - Snyder - Spencer *it is a rubber down race track for those of you that like that sort of thing

Qualifier 3

5x Chris Windom 11 Shane Cottle

2x Dustin Morgan 53 Jon Stanbrough

14 Coleman Gulick 29 Bud Kaeding

2 Daron Clayton 1 Mitch Wismiller

Finish: Windom - Morgan - Cottle - Kaeding - Stanbrough - Gulick - Wissmiller & Clayton DNF

Qualifier 4

7k Gary Taylor 10 Blake Fitzpatrick

21x Dave Darland 21 Hud Cone

27 Keith Bloom Jr 99 Brady Bacon

55 Tony Everhart

Finish: Darland - Fitzpatrick - Bacon - Bloom - Taylor - Cone - Everhart

Intermission time for a bit......talked to Robert during Q4 - he said track is super slick, rubber down - going to come down to tires....they've gone through 2 sets already.....

Brady Bacon takes the foot race win & Clauson will go to the tail for a $5,000 bonus to win, $1,000 for a top 3 and $100 for every car he passes!

B Main Line Up:

B Main

4 Hines 11 Cottle

40 Grant 71Gardner

71p Spencer 21 Cone

7k Taylor 10t Rose

3* Moughan 1x Droud

55 Everhart 23s Snyder

2 Clayton 1 Wissmiller

83 McIntyre

Finish: Cottle - Grant - Hines - Cone - Spencer - Gardner - Rose & Taylor transfer followed by Droud - Snyder - Moughan - McIntyre - Everhart - Wissmiller DNF

FEATURE LINE UP:

81 Robert Ballou 69 Kyle Larson

99 Brady Bacon 20 Levi Jones

29 Bud Kaeding 21x Dave Darland

2b Jerry Coons Jr 35 Hunter Schuerenberg

2x Dustin Morgan 27 Keith Bloom Jr

14 Coleman Gulick 37 Casey Riggs

5x Chris Windom 53 Jon Stanbrough

10 Blake Fitzpatrick 11 Shane Cottle

40 Justin Grant 4 Tracy Hines

21 Hud Cone 71p Mike Spencer

71 Damion Gardner 10t Bill Rose

7k Gary Taylor 7 Bryan Clauson

Clauson went to the rear and gets $22,300 if he wins

An extra $5000 plus $100 a car.

Feature comments: Red Flag lap 2 for Justin Grant in turn 2 -Larson leads Ballou, Bacon, Darland, Jones, Coons, Kaeding, Schuerenberg, Morgan, Bloom, Windom, Gulick

Red flag - lap 16 - Dustin Morgan - upside down but ok - Bacon - Larson - Ballou - Darland - Coons - Jones - Windom - Cottle - Gulick - Cone - Gardner - Stanbrough - Hines Riggs

Tire Managment coming into play.....Knoxivlle Raceway twitter comment on Osky

2 to go - Larson leads - Bacon - Darland - Cottle - Schuerenberg - Coons - Guilick - Hines - Cone - Gardner - Ballou - Windom - Riggs - Jones - Stanbrough - Rose Taylor

FINISH:LARSON WINS - over Bacon - Darland - Cottle - Coons - Schuerneberg - Gulick - Hines - Cone - Gardner - Ballou


10:28 PM CST - Parade lap underway

They do every year with this race. I've seen a lot of races using this format. IMO, this is the best of all formats. Every position in both sets of qualifying races is worth contending for.

Jerry

Can someone give a quick explanation of this system. Are they giving passing points or taking the top transfer spots or what? Thanks in advance

There are no time trials. They draw and run two sets of what look like heat races. Both award finishing and passing points. At the end of the second set, he who has the most points starts from the pole in the feature and on back from there, according to points.

Jerry

Bear with me everyone - cell service is next to impossible so it is slow going getting and receiving updates......but i have multiple friends helping...

Also, the format is almost identical to MSCS this year, except they run a set of heat races set up by pill draw number (staggered) and passing and finishing points are awarded - then a set of qualifying races are ran which are set up by the previous heat races points total. After those the combined points are tabulated with the top 16 in points going to the Feature and 17th on back going to a b-mail, top 6 from b-main will transfer to feature....I believe they also redraw for their top 8 - but don't hold me to it......

Sacha

is the 81 and 14 going to kick some butt tonight

Report from the track: Dusty and Dangerous. Delayed Heats due to drivers not being able to see. Watering Track now. Coleman's group had to nearly stop in 3 since they could not see. Crowd was booing already in Hot Laps. I wonder why no problems with the Wing Cars last night?

Last night was super tacky. No dust. There is a youtube video.

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Are they giving usac points for both heats?