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Bill W's Notes for 8/7

Welcome to BRANDT Professional Agriculture Qualifying Night #1 of the 63rd NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals Presented by Casey's! 52 cars are qualifying tonight, and everyone is positioning themselves for Saturday night's finale paying $190,000 to the winner, and a total purse of over $!,000,000! You can find my live notes here, and lineups, and results on either the website under "Events" or on the MyRacePass app. If you can't make it out tonight, and want to watch the PPV broadcast, visit www.DirtVision.com.

6:50 p.m. and cars are on the track to pack and begin hot laps...

The format will include time trials, 5 heats, a C, B and A. The name of the game is points earned every time the car hits the track. The top 16 in points from Wednesday and Thursday combined lock themselves into Saturday's A main. and the next ten will comprise rows one through five of the B.

Time trials

2 laps on the clock, 200 pts for quick time, 198 pts for 2nd quick, 196 pts for 3rd quick and so on...Top 50 make the heats...

Sammy Swindell is out of power on lap one and pulls in...Jedrzejek has issues on his second lap...

Matt Juhl sets quick time at 15.431 seconds.

Heats

Heats are inverted by eight according to time. Top 4 finishers to the A, next 4 to the B and last two to the C.

Heat one

10 laps, top 4 to A, next 4 to B, last 2 to C...

Hafertepe leads Zearfoss, Peck, Scelzi and Kinser...Gio now challenging Peck for 3rd...Kofoid slides by Kinser into 5th...Hafertepe, Zearfoss, Peck and Scelzi move on...

Heat two

Jeffrey smacks the wall and comes to a stop on the backstretch...complete restart...Ball leads Hahn, Allen, Haudenschild, Thram...Allen looks to the inside of Hahn and takes over 2nd...Ball, Allen, Hahn and Haud will move on...

Heat three

Schatz leasd PPM, Bogucki, Dietrich and Haase...Madsen slides by now for 5th...Gravel is up to 6th...Schatz, PPM, Bogucki and Dierich move on...

Heat four

Jedrzejek will not start...Carney leads Reutzel, Kahne, Shaffer and Day from seventh...Day is up over the cushion and loses ground, but gathers it back in and is still fifth...K Henry is upsdie down in turn one...he is ok...6 to go, Gravel leads Reutzel, Kahne, Shaffer, Day, Droud, Williamson, Selvage...Day surges by Shaffer into a transfer spot...Reutzel is into the lead, getting by Carney...Reutzel, Carney, Kahne and Day will move on to the feature....

Heat five

Wimer leads...Moss up in smoke ina transfer on lap 2...Randall to the lead over Wimmer, Marks, C McCarl and Holmes...Randall is pulling away now, Marks Challenging for second...Randall, Wimmer, Marks and C McCarl move on...

C main

10 laps, top four to the B...Thoams leads Gee, Pulkrabek, Martin and Myers...Sammy stops in turn 4...8 to go, Thomas leasd Gee, C Martin, Mincer, Myers, Pulkrabek, Paulus and Ingle...Sammy in the work area...Sammy will rejoin the field after some work on the left inboard brake...Thomas Gee, Martin and Myers will go to the B...

B main

12 laps, top four to the A...Juhl leads early over Macri, Williamson, Madsen and Gravel...Macri takes the lead from Juhl on lap two...now Kofoid slides by Gravel to take over fifth...Kofid and Gravel trying to reel in Madsen for the final transfer...Kofiod now squeaks by Madsen as they almost make contact...Gravel now to 5th...leaders in lapped traffic...Kofoid now slides by Williamson for 3rd...Williamson battles back by and Gravel is right there! Gravael now slides by Kofoid in the last corner and takes 4th! Macri, Juhl, Williamson and Gravel move on...

A main

25 laps, $12,000 and 200 pts to win, 198 pts for 2nd, 196 pts for 3rd and so on...

Allen leads Peck, Randall, Bogucki and Scelzi...Marks shoots from sixth to fourth on lap two...Scelzi by Bogucki for 5th in turn 3...Allen in lapped traffic on lap 10...Scelzi by Marks for 4th, but it is negated, caution for Ball...16 to go, Allen leads Peck, Randall, Marks, Scelzi, Bogucki, Day, Kahne Reutzel, Haud...Scelzi has the low side working, and passes Marks for 4th...lap 13, Scelzi by Randall for 2nd...Allen in lapped traffic...Scelzi gaining...Scelzi squeezes by for the point on lap 21 in heavy lapped traffic...Scelzi wins it!

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