17th Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals - Saturday

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SLMR Qualifying Order:

Jason Hahne
Bill Leighton
Curt Schroeder
Kirby Shultz
Jake Neal
Darrell DeFrance
Andy Eckrich
Jay Burdic
Josh Leonard
Zach Zeitner
Kyle Berck
Dave Eckrich
Jeff Aikey
Jason Rauen
Todd Cooney
Jim Johnson
Charlie McKenna
Brian Kosiski
Jeff Tharp
Tad Pospisil
Troy Daly
Luke Pestka
Jeff Segebart
Chad Holladay

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SLMR hotlaps underway.

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SLMR hotlaps complete.
B-Main hotlaps underway.

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B-Main hotlaps complete.
SLMR Qualifying underway.

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SLMR Qualifying complete.
Fast Time: Kyle Berck 18.126

[MUD MAESTRO]

Was Justin Kay uninvited to the SLMR invitational or what?

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SLMR heat 1 on track.

Row 1. Burdic Leonard
Row 2. Aikey Hahne
Row 3. A Eckrich Berck
Row 4. McKenna Johnson


All cars transfer
8 laps

Green

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SLMR Heat 1 finish:

Leonard
A Eckrich
Hahne
Berck
Burdic
McKenna
Aikey
Johnson


Heat 2

Row 1. Rauen Cooney
Row 2. Schroeder Holladay
Row 3. Pospisil DeFrance
Row 4. Segebart Pestka

Green

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Heat 2 finish

Cooney
Rauen
Holladay
Pospisil
Schroeder
Pestka
DeFrance
Segebart

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Heat 3

Row 1. Zeitner Neal
Row 2. Tharp Leighton
Row 3. D Eckrich Kosiski
Row 4. Shultz Daly

Green

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Heat 3 finish:

Neal
Leighton
D Eckrich
Tharp
Zeitner
Kosiski
Shultz
Daly

SLMR heats complete.

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A-Main hotlaps staging.

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From Lucas Oil:

Tonight’s A-Main will include a fuel stop. The fuel stop will occur at the first caution between laps 30 & 50. However, if there is not a caution during that time there will be a yellow flag thrown to conduct that fuel stop! #LucasDirt #knoxvillenationals

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A-Main hotlaps complete.

B-Main 1 about to roll.

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15 laps
Top 3 transfer

Green

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Caution with 14 to go as Matt Furman loops it in turn 2.

56
25
45

30
33

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Back to green.

56
25 45
30 33
29 93
10 51

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10 to go

56
45
25

29
30

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5 to go

56
45
25

29
30

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B-Main 1 transfers:

Jackson
Hammer
Feger

Feger showing blue smoke at the line.

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B-Main 2 rolling.

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B-Main 2 green.

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10 to go

59
19r
98

21b
1x

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Caution with 10 to as Rich Bell POUNDS the turn 1 wall.

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Bell clipped the berm with the nose. Straight in, enormous impact. He's out of the car.

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Red flag with 10 to go.

59
19r
98

1x
22m

[slmcrewchief99]

That had to hurt. Dang what an impact.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Haven't been following much but how many people have gotten into the wall so far all three nights. Is it the cushion causing it?

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Back to yellow.

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Back to green.

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5 to go

19r
59
22m

98
22h

5 cars remaining.

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B-Main 2 transfers:

Gustin
Alberson
McKenna

Preliminary action complete.

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22 lap SLMR A-Main Lineup:

Row 1. Leighton Pospisil
Row 2. A Eckrich D Eckrich
Row 3. Holladay Berck
Row 4. Cooney Hahne
Row 5. Leonard Neal
Row 6. Kosiski Rauen
Row 7. Tharp Schroeder
Row 8. Aikey Burdic
Row 9. Zeitner Pestka
Row 10. McKenna Shultz
Row 11. DeFrance Johnson
Row 12. Daly Segebart

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SLMR A-Main is staging.

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Rolling....

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Green flag.

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Pospisil takes lap 1.
Andy Eckrich in hot pursuit.

20 to go

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18 to go

Pospisil by 6 over Eckrich.

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15 to go

Pospisil
A Eckrich
Leighton
D Eckrich
Holladay

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13 to go

Pospisil in traffic, but getting through cleanly.

[JimBo]

Pospisil will be busy, having qualified for both features.

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11 to go

Pospisil by a near straightaway.

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8 to go

Pospisil is gone.

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6 to go

Eckrich slowly clawing his way back. He has a long way to go though.

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Kyle Berck up in smoke. He was 4th.
Still green.
3 to go

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2 to go.

Rauen blows up.
Still green

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Checker

Pospisil
A Eckrich
Leighton
Neal
Hahne
D Eckrich
Holladay
Leonard
Cooney
McKenna

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100 lap A-Main is staging.

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Driver intros underway.

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Jason Feger is driving Tim Lance's car.

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Driver ingress underway.

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Engines have fired!

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The field begins to roll.

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4 wide.....

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Green flag!!!

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T-Mac takes lap 1.
Erb settled in second.

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97 to go

McCreadie by a half straightaway over Erb.

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1t
157
8
1

96 to go

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94 to go

Top 3 break away.

McCreadie
Erb
Marlar

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92 to go

McCreadie has caught the tail of the field.
Erb closes in a bit.

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90 to go

Err side by side with McCreadie!

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New leader

Tyler Erb.

88 to go.

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Hurst out.


86 to go

1t
39
157
1
46

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84 to go

Erb pulling away from McCreadie.

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81 to go

Gustin smoking.

Erb by 10 over McCreadie.

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Caution with 79 to go as Jonathan Davenport slows.

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Going under the hood on 49.

1t
39
157
46
1
8
71
7w
20rt
20

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Davenport OUT

Back to green with 79 to go.

1t
39 157
46 1
8 71
7w 20rt
20 18c
16 66

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78 to go

Terbo takes off.
Marlar by McCreadie for second.

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76 to go

1t
157
39
46
1

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74 to go

Top 5 settling in.

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Caution with 72 to go as Spencer Hughes and Tad Pospisil tangle on the backstretch.

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Scoring showing 27 complete, 73 to go.

Erb
Marlar
McCreadie
Pearson
Sheppard

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Back to green.

1t
39 157
1 46
8 71
18c 7w
20rt 1c
14 66
32 20
99jr 16
18 25
45 59
11h

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71 to go

McCreadie and Marlar side by side for second.

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Owens over the cushion and falls to last.

70 to go

1t
39
157
46
1

69 to go

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67 to go

Erb over McCreadie by 6.

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65 to go

Ricky Weiss cracks the top 5.

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63 to go

Erb cannot shake McCreadie.
They both pull away from Marlar.

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61 to go

Erb has caught traffic, laps past Owens.
McCreadie in his tire tracks!

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ERB BROKE!!!!!!

Caution!

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60 to go.

39
157
46
1
7w

[NeedforLM$peed]

Maybe that black diamond car was bad...

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This will be the fuel stop.

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Potential break for Erb. They are working feverishly.

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5 minutes.

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Rear gear change for Erb.

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Back rolling.

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Erb is Back!
Can he come to the front in 60 laps?

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Back to green.

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46 157
1 7w
1c 71
18c 20rt
66 14
8 32
18 25c
59 11h
20 16
45 1t

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Marlar RIPS THE LIP and flies by McCreadie!!!

59 to go

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56 to go

157
39
46
7w
1

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54 to go

Terbo 16th

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52 to go

Marlar by 12 over McCreadie.

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Halfway

Marlar
McCreadie
Pearson
Weiss
Sheppard

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48 to go

McCreadie has caught Marlar!

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46 to go

Marlar and McCreadie side by side!!!

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45 to go

Marlar prevails for now.
McCreadie not going away!

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43 to go

Marlar stretching out his lead once again.

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41 to go

McCreadie slowly closing in again.

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40 to go

Marlar to the high side.
McCreadie is there!!!

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38 to go

Marlar back to the bottom as McCreadie drops back again.

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37 to go

Marlar really stretching it out now.

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35 to go

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39
7w
46
71

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33 to go

McCreadie closing the gap again.

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31 to go

Terbo 8th

Marlar over McCreadie by 5.

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29 to go

Marlar back upstairs.
McCreadie reeling him in on the bottom.

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27 to go

McCreadie gets held up by lappers.
Marlar pulls away again.

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26 to go

Marlar by a half straightaway.

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Caution with 26 to go as 6th place Ricky Thornton Jr has a flat. Terbo 6th! Oh my.

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26 to go, under yellow.

157
39
46
7w
71
1t

[AllenK]

Folks,I'm pulling for EPJ.

Thanks for the updates Shiny!!

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Back to green

157
46 39
71 7w
1 1t
66 14
32 18c
18 1c
8 99jr
16 25
20 20rt

Can Terbo do it?!

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25 to go

Marlar by 5 over McCreadie.

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23 to go

157
39
46
7
1t

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21 to go

Marlar and McCreadie pulling away.
Weiss and Pearson battle for 3rd.

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19 to go

Top 5 unchanged.

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17 to go

McCreadie mounting another charge!

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16 to go

McCreadie closing!
4 car lengths!

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14 to go
McCreadie on his fuel cell!
Now side by side!!!

McCreadie falls back in line, right on Marlar.

13 to go

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11 to go

Marlar slips!!!
McCreadie to the lead;
Trading sliders!
Marlar back on top!
10 to go

Side by side again!!!

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Marlar prevails!
Leads McCreadie by 6.
7 to go

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6 to go

Marlar by 5.
Can McCreadie mount one last charge?!

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4 to go

McCreadie is there!
Here we go!

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3 to go

McCreadie can taste it!
He's just a few lengths behind

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White flag

Marlar by 3!

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Checker

Mike Marlar holds off a barrage of attacks from Tim McCreadie!
Wow!!! What a race!!!

[Dusty Lewis]

He don’t win a bunch but he knows how to win the big ones.

[AllenK]

Congrats to Marlar!

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Unofficial results:

Marlar
McCreadie
Weiss
Pearson
Sheppard
Erb
O'Neal
Richards
Simpson32
Simpson25
Heckenast
Bronson
Babb
Thornton
Junghans
Clanton -1
Owens -2
Bruening -2
Sticker DNF
Alberson DNF
Hammer DNF
Hughes DNF
Pospisil DNF
Jackson DNF
McKenna DNF
Davenport DNF
Martin DNF
Gustin DNF
Hurst DNF
Feger DNF

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Time to head back home and back to real life. If all goes well, my head will hit the pillow before 4 AM. Later.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Came up short last week. But made up for it this week.

[T-MAC 39 FAN]

Good points night for tmac

[TUTY]

Great job. Just read this and felt like I was at the race. Thank you.

[NeedforLM$peed]

Good points night for tmac

Hudson O'Neal took second from Davenport in the standings.

[Mod Runner]

I just read this thread @ 1.55 AM central time. Wow , what a race report. I was on the edge of my chair as I read this thread. Marlar is good at Knoxville. I think he has won this race three times now. Congrats to Mighty Mike Marlar. I was thinking Hackenast was going to be the won to win , but 11th is not all bad.

[Mod Runner]

I just read that Marlar now has won for the fifth time at Knoxville. Mighty Mike must like those big fast half mile tracks.

[intel8]

3 A.M. just got home from Knoxville, awesome race, congrats to Marler, looked like he was very determined to get the win. Great run Earl Pearson! Track has changed since I was there last, straights are banked more and track just not as wide as it once was. Huge crowd! SLMR late models provided a good show too.

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Just got back to my place at 3:20. I'm more awake than I should be. 300mg of caffeine may have been too much.

[dirtcrazy4u]

2 story lines.

ERB COMING BACK. I don't know if he would have been there at the end but he made 1 heck of a run thru the field.

EPJ, do you think he was happy to be out of that black junk and be competitive again ? I would say so.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

Just got back to my place at 3:20. I'm more awake than I should be. 300mg of caffeine may have been too much.If you had one of them Monsters with 300mg in em I said f that:). One awake, and two, sometimes that crap messes with me. Not like coffee lol.

[cjsracing]

Was Justin Kay uninvited to the SLMR invitational or what?

He turned down the invite. He went and raced an IMCA Late Model race in Nebraska trying to win IMCA National Points

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thanks for the reply.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dql8cCaT6Q0

[RacerZ]

Dam right he did ☝