17th Lucas Oil Late Model Knoxville Nationals - Saturday

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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.