By MIKE MALLETT
As I like to say before any main-event I announce, “Ladies and Gentlemen it is feature time!”
Sam Hafertepe Jr., and Brian Brown captured wins in preliminary night action at the 32nd Annual 360 Knoxville Nationals while Lynton Jeffrey earned enough points to put him on the pole of Saturday night’s $10,000 to win A-Main event.
It’s a star-studded field of 360 and 410 regulars with some of the biggest names in Sprint Car racing looking to conquer a field that started with 107 entries.
The first 20 spots in the feature have been decided with another four to be decided on Saturday night from the B-Main. Drivers like Tyler Courtney, Parker Price-Miller, Shane Golobic, Brady Bacon, Ian Madsen and more have work to do in order to make the main-event.
Here is a look at Saturday night’s tentative line-ups for the finale of the 360 Knoxville Nationals.
*Note – Due to extreme heat (100 degrees) the start time for tonight’s program has been pushed back until 8:45pm Eastern.
A-Main Line-Up (30-laps)
1 2K Lynton Jeffrey 490
2 8 Aaron Reutzel 487
3 40 Clint Garner 485
4 24 Terry McCarl 483
5 21 Brian Brown 481
6 3 Ayrton Gennetten 479
7 15H Sam Hafertepe Jr. 478
8 18 Gio Scelzi 478
9 24T Christopher Thram 471
10 2C Wayne Johnson 471
11 21K Thomas Kennedy 465
12 71 Cory Eliason 464
13 24W Garet Williamson 463
14 83H Justin Henderson 463
15 7TAZ Tasker Phillips 462
16 57 Kyle Larson 460
17 52 Blake Hahn 458
18 9 Chase Randall 456
19 09 Matt Juhl 450
20 6 Kelby Watt 450
Predictions: Brian Brown hasn’t won the 360 Knoxville Nationals since 2014. This is the year he is going to do it again. Brown looked impressive on Friday night dominating the 20-lap feature while driving away Terry McCarl for the victory. He looked as strong as ever. He’ll have work to do as Aaron Reutzel looked just as good on Thursday night and starts a few positions ahead of him. Reutzel is the fall back option after he’s spent much of 2022 running Knoxville on a regular basis. The two lead sit atop the 410 weekly points standings and will be on top of the 360 Knoxville Nationals.
B-Main Line-Up (18-laps)
1 7BC Tyler Courtney 449
2 5 Brady Forbrook 446
3 18R Ryan Roberts 444
4 27 Carson McCarl 443
5 49X Cale Thomas 441
6 88 Austin McCarl 440
7 95 Matt Covington 440
8 11M Parker Price-Miller 438
9 39 Justin Sanders 437
10 14 Corey Day 436
11 36 Jason Martin 436
12 22X Riley Goodno 435
13 20 Anthony Macri 433
14 26 Zeb Wise 429
15 21H Brady Bacon 426
16 64 Ian Madsen 420
17 11N Harli White 418
18 75AU Tyler Blank 415
19 2M Davey Heskin 414
20 44 Chris Martin 413
C-Main Line-Up (12-laps)
1 22K Kaleb Johnson 412
2 4 Cam Martin 412
3 55T McKenna Haase 409
4 53D Jack Dover 407
5 91 Kyle Reinhardt 404
6 83 Austin Miller 404
7 7C Devin Kline 402
8 94 Jeff Swindell 400
9 5A Alex Vande Voort 399
10 27B Jake Bubak 387
11 45X Kyler Johnson 372
12 14T Brooke Tatnell 365
13 8M Kade Morton 365
14 4W Jamie Ball 364
15 23 Devon Dobie 364
16 17W Shane Golobic 361
17 7M Chance Morton 360
18 10P Dylan Postier 357
19 3P Sawyer Phillips 357
20 35 Skylar Prochaska 356
D-Main Line-Up (10-laps)
1 1X Tim Crawley 356
2 16A Colby Copeland 350
3 21G Gunner Ramey 339
4 45 Rusty Hickman 338
5 5M Collin Moyle 336
6 2JR Kelly Miller 335
7 99 Tony Rost 331
8 13V Seth Brahmer 330
9 26H Scott Bogucki 330
10 7B Ben Brown 326
11 9G Ryan Giles 326
12 70 Calvin Landis 326
13 27H Daryn Pittman 325
14 9MB JJ Beaver 322
15 55B Brandon Anderson 321
16 22 Ryan Leavitt 320
17 50Z Zach Chappell 319
18 28 Luke Verardi 317
19 53 Joe Beaver 317
20 22W Aaron Werner 314
E-Main Line-Up (8-laps)
1 17B Ryan Bickett 313
2 24N Nathan Mills 313
3 1CC Clayton Christensen 312
4 6J Jett Carney 312
5 6C Logan Calderwood 307
6 15 Bobby Mincer 307
7 2 Alex Pettas 306
8 42 Sye Lynch 305
9 19 Wes Wofford 305
10 5T Ryan Timms 303
11 1A John Anderson 301
12 199 Ryan Bowers 300
13 4D Charles Davis Jr. 297
14 17 Matt Allen 293
15 8H Jacob Hughes 287
16 4H Cody Hansen 277
17 9M Ricky Montgomery 272
18 83JR Sam Henderson 268
19 10 Landon Britt 259
20 41 Chase Moran 259
Alternates
1 33 Alan Zoutte 242
2 2P Chase Porter 230
3 3M Michael Pinnel 228
4 4S Adam Speckman 221
5 2D Dylan Opdahl 219
6 7 Tyler Lee 202
7 47X Dylan Westbrook 195
