410 Knoxville Nationals 2009 night 2.

Hi all,

We got up at 10 am today after not getting in until 3 am this morning.

After much time spent showering and getting the sleep out of our eyes we headed back to Knoxville to survey the damage to the Hall motor sports car and talk transport of our goodies home with Brian.

The car was a right off (I have to tell you it is hard to talk Australian on this site as everyone around us at the track talks differently) Glen the language policeman tunes me in constantly, words I like to use are "the car is junked", instead of written off, "torn up" instead of crashed and a few other phrases.

Torn up though is the best description for the Hall chassis, it would have been broken in 5 to 6 spots, the cage amazingly was totally intact, when you hit the Knoxville fence the forces are huge due to the 118 mph average speeds these guys are doing and Hally's engine is no slouch let me tell you, not to many people get by it in a drag race down the straight, it is a credit to Mawill in South Australia, Reedy runs a Maxwill as well but I would think it is a lesser spec motor.

We ran into Kerry Madsen's team today and suggested they go borrow one of the Hall motors.

They had the car stripped but for the diff, the diff was also bent.

We then went down to see the new cars in town for night 2.

The Steve Kinser car was the nicest in the pits, his team is only second to the Tony Stewart operation.

After the pit walk around we headed to Dingus, it is the bar across from the track, we watched the first heats of the bikini contest and thought it was to hot in the sun to stay, so we headed off to Wackos a bar on the other side of town, they were running another bikini type show and we won the "Travelled furtherest for the nationals" competition.

After much sunburn we headed back to the track for the nights racing.

Time trials were slow compared to yesterday, about .6 sec off.

Aussies on night 2 were Madsen and Lynton Jeffery, Lynton won his heat but Kerry only made it through to the B main, running 6 th in that and failing to transfer to the A main.

We witnessed the first pass for first place on the track since we have been here, normally the track is that fast that the front car has just pulled away and no one has been able to challenge, tonight the lead changed in a few heats and the mains.

The A main was won by Tim Kaiding at great pace, Craig Kinser was catching him fast with Joey Saldana right behind.

It is looking good for a big final on Saturday night.

Tomorrow we see the world challenge so hopefully the Aussies will pull it off.

Bye for now.