Knoxville Late Model Nationals

[champion24]

What's the invert 76 was talking about?

[moyerfan1]

What's the invert 76 was talking about?

Top six for the heats

[champion24]

I should have changed my dirt draft, if I knew! I'm afraid the poor racing trend will carry on this weekend too!

[3 wide]

The armco is for the sprints to keep yhem from flipping out of the race track

[BTExpress]

The Grandstands are a ghost town tonight???? I am assuming they will get better as the week goes on?

[tiger]

The Grandstands are a ghost town tonight???? I am assuming they will get better as the week goes on?

Same comments come every year at knoxville, the front Grandstands seat something like 12-14,000 and are 40+ rows up, the crowd will get bigger but its really hard to judge the crowd there

[BTExpress]

I understand. I was at this year's Knoxville Nationals...and I understand you can't compare the sprint car vs The DLM crowds. But on over head shots on Flo make it look like there is not even a thousand people tonight.?

[Highside Hustler25]

Aero is sure reeking havoc tonight. As bad as I've ever seen.

[TowerView]

The Grandstands are a ghost town tonight???? I am assuming they will get better as the week goes on?

The frontstretch seats over 16,000 people. There are 1500-2000 in the suites tonight.

[kazual]

Aero is sure reeking havoc tonight. As bad as I've ever seen.

Absolutely! Anyone that doubts or questions the effect of aero and dirty air should watch that race, the impact has never been more evident. I love Knoxville and respect their commitment. Attended the 2004 and 2005 events, the crowds were alarmingly small in those early days but management said they were ready to stick it out long term and they have. But late model rules are providing a challenge to many tracks. Time to do something.

[84wedge]

When Clanton got in front of Pospisal on the opening lap, Pospisils car last all traction and went backwards.

[84wedge]

It seems like the guys who get their car sideways when another car is about to go in front of them don't suffer as much as the guys driving straight. Hudson did it last night and didn't lost any pace.

[TerryM]

My boy got screwed.

[Morgs153]

I kept hearing them report on how they narrowed the track in prep for the event. After watching Thursday night, I think that was big mistake. The track was wider the years I went to the show in person and I thought the racing was much better. Cars could make moves from the bottom when the track was wider. I don't think you'll have to worry much about seeing too many sliders (clean ones anyway).

The other thing many of the drivers were complaining about was just how moist and hammer down fast it was. Knoxville is always fast but they killed some cars last night with the track prep. When sprint car folks prep a track for the late models this is what you get I guess. This part of it, they can remedy. The track doesn't have to be dry dry dry like for NASCAR trucks, but a bit more toward dry slick would help the cars and the racing.

[TerryM]

Total joke.