Welcome to Brandt Professional Agriculture Night #1 of the NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals Presented by Casey's! 51 cars pre-registered for tonight, and 51 have signed in! Bill Wright here, and it's going to be a beautiful summer night in central Iowa for sprint car racing!
Tonight, it's all about the points! Rico Abreu, who has been hotter than anyone this season, the WoO point leader, David Gravel, King's Royal winner Anthony Macri, Knoxville point leader Austin McCarl and many more heavy hitters will hope to qualify well, drive from the back of their heat to the front, and battle in the featuer to garner as many points as possible for Saturday night!
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Hot laps are scheduled for 7 p.m. CST.
Issues for Scotty Johnson and Jordan Goldesberry have issues...
Qualifying is next, 2 cars at a time, 2 laps on the clock, 200 points for quick time, 198 points for 2nd quick 196 points for 3rd quick and so on...
Goldesberry is popping under power, he'll take it back in for one lap at the end if he can make it...
The top 50 will make the heats, so Goldesberry will go straight to the C, having not got a time in...
Rico Abreu (7th car out to time) was quick time at 15.411 seconds, followed by Corey Day (3rd), Ryan Timms (16th), David Gravel (49th), Jack Anderson (1st), Sye Lynch (18th), Carson McCarl (5th), James McFadden (21st), Ashton Torgerson (23rd) and Austin McCarl (41st).
Heats are up next, the most crucial races of the week, as the invert by time is 8, meaning the quick cars start in row four and have to finish in the top four to make the A, 5th through 8th to the B and the rest to the C...
10 laps...100 pts to win, 97 pts for 2nd, 94 pts for 3rd and so on....
Heat one
Holmes leads Watt, Windom, Sanders and Wolfe....7 to go, caution for debris on the frontstretch...Holmes leads Watt, Windom, Sanders, Wolfe, Lynch, Schtz, Abreu, Tatnell, RJ Johnson...Wolfe now into the fourth and final transfer as he gets by Sanders....now Wolfe is past Windom for the 3rd spot...Schatz is 5th, Lynch 6th and Rico 7th...Holmes, Watt, Wolfe and Windom to the A...
Heat two
K Johnson leads Mincer, Axsom, Peck and Pursley....C McCarl is 6th...battle for the final transfer and give it to Peck after Pursley had passed him...Axsom by Mincer for 2nd...Peck slides by Mincer for 3rd, Pursley reeling Mincer in for 4th...Pursley now by Mincer for the fourth and final trnasfer...K Johnson, Axsom, Peck and Pursley to the A...
Heat three
Crawley leads early over Goodno, Haudenschild, J Martin and Juhl...Timms is up to 5th with 7 to go....he's got J Martin in his sights...Jedrzejek is upside down in turn two! he is out of the car...6 to go, Crawley leads Goodno, Haudenschild, J Martin, Timms, Macri, Juhl, McFadden, Randall...Timms is by J Martin for the final transfer spot...Haudenschild by Goodno for 2nd...Crawley, Haud, Goodno and Timms to the feature...
Heat four
Gravel is upside down in turn one and climbing out ot the car...contact from Schuerenberg caused the accident...complete restart...C Martin leads Sithaler, Dietrich, Sams and Gennetten....Torgerson is by Gennetten now for 5th...Torgerson reeling in Sams fo rthe final transfer....Sams maintaining the spot with 4 to go....Dietrich challenging Spithaler and gets by him coming for the white flag....C Martin, Dietrich, Spithaler and Sams move on...
Heat five
Ball will not start...Davis jumped the start and it will be brought back...Williamson did a 360, but will retain his spot...Davis is moved back a row...Ben Brown to the work area...Brown restarts at the tail...Hahn leads Hafertepe, Doney, Williamson and Shaffer....A McCarl is up to 6th as J Anderson avoided disaster...A McCarl to the top five....Williamson is by Doney for 3rd.... A McCarl trying to reel in Doney fo rthe final trnasfer.....he has the spot with three to go....Hahn, Hafertepe, Williamson and A McCarl to the a...
C main is next, 10 laps, top four to the B...
C main
Goldesberry is off...Gravel leads early over Hampton, Randall, Tatnell and RJ Johnson....Worthington pulls in...Gravel, Hampton, Randall and Tatnell move to the B...
B main is next, 12 llaps, top four to the feature...
B main
Davis will not start...Abreu leads Day, J Anderson, Lynch and C McCarl...C McCarl trying to reel in Lynch for the final transfer....Hampton stops in turn 4...caution, 5 laps to go, Abreu leads Day, J Anderson, Lynch, C McCarl, Macri, McFadden, Torgerson, Gennetten, Sanders, Gravel, J Martin, Schuerenberg, Juhl, Schatz, Kaeding, Tatnell, Shaffer, Whittall, Randall, Doney, Mincer...McFadden jumps from 7th to 5th on the restart....Gravel is up to 8th, but time is out...Abreu, Day, J Anderson and McFadden passes Lynch down the frontstretch for the transfer! Lynch comes down on McFadden and flips across the line...he climbs out of the car...
A main is up next....$12,000 to the winner...qualifying invert is 8...
25 laps, 200 points for the win, 198 pts for 2nd, 196 pts for 3rd and so on...
A main
Peck leadas Williamson, Timms from 8th, Wolfe and Windom...Timms by Williamson for 2nd on lap 2....Haudenschild to 4th onlap 3...Haudenschild by Williamson for third on lap six...Timms dogging Peck, adn slides in front of him in turn two to lead lap 10...Lapped traffic...11 down, K Johnson is upside down hard, he is walking away...14 to go, Timms leads Peck, Haudenschild, Williamson, Windom, Axsom, A McCarl, Day, Hafertepe, Holmes, Dietrich, Abreu, Pursley, Watt, Wolfe, McFadden, J Anderson, Sams, Hahn, Crawley, C Martin, Goodno, Spithaler....Axsom up to 5th...Day and Abreu from the tail into the top ten...Timms in lapped traffic with six to go...Timms wins it by over a second!
- administrator on Aug 06, 2025
- Article Date: 8/6/2025