Knoxville

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Who is going to knoxville? I am leaving in the morning

[CIRF]

Wish we were going. Just isn't going to work this year.

The Nationals are at the very top of the heap in regards to the biggest and most important dirt track races of the year. It's been that way for a long time now.

Hope you have a great time Dante!! Have fun at Dingus, too!! LOL!!

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Thanks buddy, i will give some updates this week for ya

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Big suprise quick time on night one...... Donny Schatz only car under 15 seconds

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat one Veal, Ian Madsen, Schatz (from8th)

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 2 willie croft, greg Hodnet, Kr Kinser, David Gravel.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat3 tyler courtney, Henderson, shane stewart, Mcmahon

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 4 tony schilling ,heskin brazier, wayne Johnson

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 5 dakota hendrickson, pittman, jacobs, Sheldon Haudenchild

[Dante Toledo, OH]

C main jac Haudenchild, justin cox, logan wagner, Dollansky

[Dante Toledo, OH]

B main tasker phillips, cody darrah, rico Abreau, brian Clausen

[CIRF]

Thanks a ton for the updates!!

[Dante Toledo, OH]

A main shane Stewart, Schatz (from 9th) gravel, Mcmahan, henderson, wayne Johnson, Darin Pittman, Rico,

[CIRF]

Thanks again Dante!!

[Dante Toledo, OH]

CIRF i think you are the only one paying attention. But i will post some updates for you today also.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Night number 2: qualifying 1. Brad Sweet 2. Kerry Madsen 3. Dale Blaney 4. Saldana 5. Sammy Swindell

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 1: lap 1 really bad wreck on the start coming out of 4 going to the green. Kevin Swindell is apparently hurt pretty good. They are holding up tarps around the car. Over 5 mins still don't have him out of the car. I will post any updates they give at the track.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 1: rj johnson, ed lynch, Brad Sweet, tatnell. They said Kevin Swindell was talking when they loaded him up.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 2: chad kemenah blew it up big time with a huge lead. 5 to go

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 2 Kerry Madsen, billy ally, danny dietrich, stevie smith

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 3 zomer, jason Johnson, Blaney, Hannigan.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 4 Lasoski McFadden, Saldana, Dean Jacobs

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Heat 5 Sammy Swindell, terry McCarl, Steve Kinser, Lucas Wolfe

[CIRF]

WOW!! There's some wins and championships in the top 3 of 5th heat race!

[Dante Toledo, OH]

The word around here from atleast three people with police scanner apps are saying Kevin Swindell was taken by ambulance to Knoxville hospital and then life flight to Des Moine. Still nothing said by announces or track. So this info is just hear say.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

C main balog Jeff swindell ryan bernal. Bobby wincer

[Dante Toledo, OH]

B main. Clint gardner, greg wilson, Brian Brown, tim Schaffer.

[CIRF]

Dante, I got a call from a buddy that said he read on another message board that Kevin Swindell was complaining of lack of feeling in his legs.

Prayers go out for Kevin, Sammy & Amy.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

A-main Terry McCarl, Danny Lasoski, Jason Johnson, Kerry Madsen, Brian Brown (from 23).

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Dante, I got a call from a buddy that said he read on another message board that Kevin Swindell was complaining of lack of feeling in his legs.Prayers go out for Kevin, Sammy & Amy.I hope he is ok. On the start of heat one Ed Lynch drove up on the burm in 4 shot right and hit Kevin. Kevin drove over Lynch's tire and landed about 15 feet up the fence, and dropped straight down. It took them 15 minutes to get him out of the car.

[justadirtLMfan]

The word around here from atleast three people with police scanner apps are saying Kevin Swindell was taken by ambulance to Knoxville hospital and then life flight to Des Moine. Still nothing said by announces or track. So this info is just hear say.I left before the A Main and while walking out the front gate, the big radio with the live radio station was talking about he went to Knoxville hospital, and then he was air lifted to Des Moines.

[CIRF]

A post on Kevin Swindell's twitter feed: "@KevinSwindell: Thanks everyone for the love. Long road ahead. Enjoy every minute you got."

Not sure what to make of that. It's useless to speculate at this point.

On a lighter note, the ol' veterans are runnin' pretty good this time around.

Brian Brown must have put on a hell of a show coming from 23rd to 5th. I'd have to think passing that many cars would have Brian pretty high in the points.

Once again, thanks Dante!!

[wallbangerII]

Thanks for the updates

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Cirf you are right Brian Brown is locked in to Saturday's A-Main. Donny Schatz was high point man from the first 2 nights so he will start on the pole Saturday night.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Tonight night 3 of the Nationals has two groups of 40 taking qualifying laps 6 heat races. Only 4 guys can lock into Saturday's Amain. The rest will get shuffled into the alphabet soup. Their are already 14 guys locked into Saturdays A and 10 guys locked into the B

[Dante Toledo, OH]

B main 1 steve kinser, logan wagner, dean Jacobs. Sorry for slacking earlier but i am a late model guy, a lot of guys racing today are guys I don't know. Second B on track now

[CIRF]

No problem Dante, we know you're there to enjoy the racing and any feedback is a bonus to us.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

B main 2 Reitzel, hapertepe jr, heskin

[Dante Toledo, OH]

A main on the track top 4 will get positions 17,18,19,20 for tomorrows A main

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Night 3 A-main: 1. Brian Clausen 2 danny dietrich 3 brent Marks, 4. billy alley

[Dante Toledo, OH]

World challenge on the track

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Leyton Jeffries, Hannigan, Pittman. Winner gets 20k and locked into Saturdays A-Main

[CIRF]

Way to go Brian Clauson!! Brian's having a great month of August, so far. He won the Belleville Midget Nationals on Aug. 1st and now a prelim at Knoxville!! Not a bad month and it's only 1/2 over!!


One more time, thanks Dante!! Hope you're having a GREAT time out there in Iowa.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

CIRF i am having a great time. Like i said i am a huge late model fan. But this is the biggest best dirt race in the world. Every dirt race fan should come out here at least once. It's unbelievable. This is my forth time and won't be my last.

[PennDirt]

Live radio stream http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/KNIA They are broadcasting live from the 'E' Main to the 'A' Main.

Of course you'll need your WoO live timing: http://www.woosprint.com/live-scoring

Twitter live updates:

http://dirtracingreport.com/sprints-and-midgets-twitter-updates/

https://twitter.com/hashtag/knoxvillenationals?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

[PennDirt]

Locked in from last night.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfIVuVU8AAvEgu.jpg

[PennDirt]

Rico Abreu controversy. Rico locked into 16th spot, can't drive tonight due to a commitment in Pennsylvania, the plan is one of his crew members will strap in, take the green and park the car to collect the 9500.00 to start money.

Some fans aren't happy about this.


Edit: Rico is donating his driver pay to the Kevin Swindell fund-raising effort. It's worth noting.

[PennDirt]

http://woosprint.com/images/stories/2015%20News/2015_KX_JustinHenderson.jpg

Best appearing car: Justin Henderson.

[PennDirt]

E Main lineup:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfZSZSUsAABqwd.jpg

[PennDirt]

For the WoOLM fans:

Live Dirt Updates ‏@LiveDirtUpdates 1m1 minute ago

Eckert wins over Clanton Moreland Bagley Lanigan Pettyjohn Satterlee Covert Richards Junghans

[PennDirt]

She flipped. She's A-OK!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfiiEkUAAEJZ1g.jpg:large

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Jimmy light wins e main

[PennDirt]

Hunter Schuerenberg, Bob Weuve, Josh Schneiderman & Dylan Peterson transfer to the D-Main as well.

[PennDirt]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfncMbUcAATxWy.jpg

+ the five E-Main tranfers.

[PennDirt]

Top 4 move to the tail of the 'C'

[PennDirt]

Paul McMahan's Brad Doty tribute helmet is bada$$

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfnXcEUEAA5Nbb.jpg

[PennDirt]

Josh Baughman, Brady Bacon, Jon Agan and Tony Shilling move on to the C

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Penndirt you got this buddy. You are way better at it than i am. Lol

[PennDirt]

Penndirt you got this buddy. You are way better at it than i am. Lol

You got the better view!

Hey, it's your thread, man but I know if I was there, the last thing I'd be doing is thread updates :p I'm just killin' time.

[PennDirt]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMfsYQYU8AAn-F9.jpg

+ the D-main transfers.


Top 4 to the B.

[PennDirt]

Bill Balog, Kraig Kinser, Aaron Reutzel, Sam Hafertepe Jr, move on to the Mighty 'B' Main!

Sounded like a dynamic race!


Edit: Adding live radio broadcast URL since the page changed. http://radio.securenetsystems.net/v5/KNIA

These guys are doing a good job, I think.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

It was a great race Penndirt twice Steve was in a transfer but could not hold it. Thanks again. I was just doing it because nobody was. That tribute helmet is awesome.

[PennDirt]

Schatz can still find a 15.741 on that black jumbo. Bad news for the field.

[PennDirt]

It was a great race Penndirt twice Steve was in a transfer but could not hold it. Thanks again. I was just doing it because nobody was. That tribute helmet is awesome.

Those radio announcers had me leaning forward, believe me. I'm sure Kinser fans and haters didn't know which way to yell lol.

Hope you get to see an A-main for the ages. Can't say I hate Schatz but man, another win would kinda suck (unless you're a fan)

[PennDirt]

B-Main Lineup-
W. Johnson, Darrah,
S. Swindell, Henderson,
Phillips, Garner,
Smith, McFadden,
Hodnett, Wilson,
Dobmeier Kemenah,
I. Madsen, Veal,
Dollansky, Bell,
Shaffer, Zomer,
Selvage, Wagner,
Balog, K. Kinser,
Reutzel, Hafertephe Jr.

Top 4 to the Knoxville Nationals.

9500.00 minimum at stake

[PennDirt]

Wayne Johnson, Slammin' Sammy, Cody Darrah and Greg Hodnett get a shot at the $150,000

Two more Pa Posse boys representing.

[Dante Toledo, OH]

I don't mind Schatz at all but my heart is with Blaney or Brown. But Schatz has won every time i have been here

[PennDirt]

I don't mind Schatz at all but my heart is with Blaney or Brown. But Schatz has won every time i have been here


If I had to step outside the home state, I would have been rooting for Christopher Bell had he done the alphabet.

Brown is swapping motors?


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMf6s2SVEAAp6qS.jpg:large



#anyonebut15

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Brown just had a bad oil pressure gauge is all

[Dante Toledo, OH]

Schatz leads every lap wins for 9th time in 10 years Maddsen second Sweet 3rd

[PennDirt]

Glad you got to be part of the K-Nats, Dante. I can't be too bummed about another Schatz win. Kinser tortured us for decades the same way. How Schatz has that place wired is just unreal. At least big time sprint car racing is still alive and well.

The only shiny spot for us Keystoners is Hodnett passed the most cars. We'll take what we can get. The Posse still has work to do in Iowa.

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[CIRF]

A huge thanks to both of you guys!!

Here's a link to the 4 day Knoxville competitor earnings of this years Knoxville Nationals. This is what makes The Nationals the ENVY of the dirt track racing world. No other dirt track event can hold a candle to Knoxville. As much as we truly love The Chili Bowl it isn't in a class with Knoxville, but it's gaining a little every year.

http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/08/knoxville_nationals_a-main_fin.html#0

I really hope it works out that we can make it back to Knoxville next year. Settin' here at home when the biggest dirt track event in the world is going on is torture. LOL!!

Congrats to Schatz. We'll all look back someday on this run of success and marvel at the domination of this event by Donnie. In the mean time many folks are wishing for someone to put an end to it! I like Donnie and appreciate the way he has things figured out.

Once again, thanks a ton, guys!

Dante, have a safe trip home.

[kidrock]

Man that Schatz is one Bad Boy