24 cars signed in - rolling in track now, hot laps up shortly, heat race line ups in attached picture
Larson & Darland are locked in by finishing in top 2 last night so they won't run a heat race
Grant fastest overall in hot laps 18.819 over Thomas Clauson Clayton Hagen Cottle Gardner Hines Meseraull Stockon Schuerenberg Stanbrough
**side note** I know there is weather in the area (pouring in Knoxville) but it looks like it will miss Osky and Robert told me they WILL get the show in so hopefully that is the case.
per Robert - during hot laps track is still pretty wet and only one lane...plus one set of heats not two like normal
Heat 1:
RT@USAClive: Problems for Daron Clayton as he shreds the right-rear while leading Heat 1. Clayton turned a lap of 18.333 seconds while leading
RT@USAClive: Chris Windom wins Heat 1 over Coons Stanbrough Stockon Bacon Jones. Clayton DNF
RT@USAClive: Justin Grant wins Heat 3 over Thomas Clauson Shuman Ensign Bell. Clemons DNF. Cottle DNS, changing engines...
RT@USAClive: Larson Darland Thomas Windom Grant Gardner Coons & Meseraull will draw for Dash positions
No b main tonight - everyone is making the show
RT@USAClive: Dash Lineup: Grant Coons Meseraull Darland Gardner Windom Thomas Larson
RT@xiaxianna: Justin Grant wins the Dash over Coons Meseraull Darland Gardner Windom Larson Thomas...
Feature line up attached - but it will change Ballou is changing cars and will start on tail due to motor not running
305 feature just finished - USAC feature up next
Green Flag
Clayton has scratched for the feature
RT@USAClive: 25 to go - Thomas stops - Grant leads Meseraull Darland Coons Windom Larson Stanbrough Stockon Clauson Gardner Shuman Bacon Hines Jones... Thomas is done - Schuerenberg pull off
RT@USAClive: Here comes Larson! He's up to second as we complete 7 laps...
RT@USAClive: 23 to go - Bacon stops - Grant leads Larson Meseraull Darland Windom Stanbrough Coons Clauson Stockon Gardner Shuman Hines Jones Cottle...
RT@USAClive: Bacon changes a tire and will re-join the field...
Larson leading over Darland pulling away from 3rd & 4th
Larson & Darland in lap traffic - Darland may got him
Kyle Larson wins
RT@USAClive: Kyle Larson wins his second-straight "Ultimate Challenge" over Darland Grant Windom Coons Meseraull Clauson Hines Jones Stanbrough Gardner..
Originally Posted by STIDA.com:
I believe top 6 in points after the heats will join DD and Larson in the dash.
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Correct - I wasn't sure if it was a dash or redraw. This is basically the MSCS format except we redraw the top 6 in points only.
The top 14 in points plus the top two from last night should be locked into the feature with the top 8 running either a dash or re-drawing. B-main will add another 4 unless they plan to start all cars - which they very well could unless they want to send 4 cars home......not sure how they'll do it with this amount of cars.
It's all by passing points same as MSCS so a driver will gain points for passing cars but will also lose points if they fall behind in position from where they started. You can calculate the points if you have an MSCS rule book - they use the same formula. What I'm not 100% certain is if they're only doing one round of heat races tonight or two.....typically ASCS has ran a set of heat races - relined everyone up after calculating points then ran a set of qualifying races (basically another set of heats) then the top 14 from the two combined sets were used to figure the feature and b-main. I haven't heard if they're only doing one or two tonight.
The dash finished in the same lineup it started in besides thomas and larson swapped places. Doesnt sound like the track is very good right now. Hopefully it gets better
Originally Posted by Sprintfan1985:
The dash finished in the same lineup it started in besides thomas and larson swapped places. Doesnt sound like the track is very good right now. Hopefully it gets better
Wasn't that the complaint from last years race there as well? One lane on the bottom?
Susan St. Catherine