Knoxville night one over.

Well another great night at the "Hallowed Clay" of Sprintcar racing is over. As usual the start was late, with thirty trucks trying to roll in the racing surface, never understand why the sprintcars cant do it, but hey if that's all that there is to complain about then there is nothing to complain about. The racing was great, close running and a lot of passing for Knoxville, and most amazing was there was not a crash the entire night. Time trials were run and Lynton Jeffery had it in the bag, then out came Paul McMahon and got just under Lynton, Lynton had the car speed all night, a few mistakes from pushing hard to make the transfer to the A in his heat saw him finish about 6th, enough for front row of the B, which he ultimately finished 2nd in and transferred to the main show. Other Australians, Glen Saville tried hard but was outclassed all night. J Mac- J Mac ran 2nd or 3rd in his heat and transferred to near the rear of the A, he had his highs and lows, making some good ground in the A but some poor line choices mid race saw him drop back towards the rear of the A. Ian Madsen- Ian made it to the A, was in a top 4 position, but dropped a couple of spots, he then had front wing damage which cost him and he pulled in to change the wing on an orange light, this put him rear of field on the restart, after the restart he stopped on the track, proffesional foul we would call it, and was pushed into the pit area for his crew to complete the wing repairs. What to make of night one? Well the big boys looked a little off the pace, Sammy will most definately be running the Alphabet Soup route to make the A, Donny may be a little closer to making it high in the B or the back of the A? Danny Dietrich may as well pack up and go home, as should Chad Kemmenah, the Posse look outclassed this year. David Gravel in a black car with little sponsorship seems to have a heap of pace, but in my 4 years of coming here i have learnt one thing, Saturday night is a different ball game. So tonight is night 2, we keep the SJ Crushing facebook page up to date as the heats are run, so for near live news thats where to look. Crabby