Articles by tjslideways

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T.J.’s Notebook: Low Point Totals Concern Top Drivers after Wednesday’s Preliminary Program

One day removed from a crazy preliminary night to open the 60th Knoxville Nationals that saw 18 of the top 20 qualifiers fail to transfer through their heat race into the main event. This resulted in Donny Schatz and David Gravel tying in points with Schatz winning the tiebreaker of highest feature finish to be the highest point driver for the night, but only accumulating 469 points.

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Knoxville Nationals Events: Thursday, August 11, 2022

The second day of the 61st NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey’s has another day full of great activities for everyone attending the event. Check out what is going on around Knoxville today with our daily schedule.

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T.J.’s Notebook: Wide Open Nationals

The term wide open in motorsports is used to describe being able to hold down the throttle all the way around the race track. Coming into the 61st Knoxville Nationals I am using it to describe the pool of potential winners of the biggest event in sprint car racing.

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Meseraull Wins at Circle City

Thomas Meseraull won the non-wing sprint car feature Sunday night at Circle City Raceway. Meseraull moved up from seventh starting positive for the victory over eighth starting Koby Barksdale.

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Schuchart Holds off Schatz to Win Capitani Classic

Logan Schuchart won a late duel with Donny Schatz and escaped disaster with a well-timed caution to conquer the 11th Annual Xtream Powered by Mediacom Capitani Classic Sunday night at Knoxville Raceway. The win was worth $9,000 for the driver of the Shark Racing #1s. Scotty Johnson made a mid-race pass to claim his fifth victory of the season in the Pro Sprints class.

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