"One Of The Greatest Days Of My Life" - Knoxville Nationals Night 3 (2022)

Night three of the Knoxville Nationals is a tough one to

night

and like I said in our video format, I love this

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because it's basically a second chance for 27th and up in spots that aren't locked into the Saturday shows to have another chance. The points are erased. and you have to finish in the top four tonight to be able to start in saturday's main which would be 21 to 24. There are so many good casts now i have a list here it is corey day roger crockett anthony macri hunter schoenberg shane golovic sheldon horton kid cy lynch matt jorp uh brian brown justin henderson brady bacon rico abreu davey heskin corey lyson spencer bason craig kinzer who looks like we're going to have a gopro in his car tonight uh brock zephos kerry madison who ran the qualifier I talked to these guys, right before they ran qualifying, they didn't have a good time and the way the format works, they were going to start, they missed the investment and they were going to start at the end of the heat, so they decided to just call it a night. and we go again tonight and then you have guys like Brook Tackle who we were with last night.

Hello, for the Jr team, who are actually behind us with a special car design this week, so, a stacked field and only four of those cars are going to carry over. straight to the main a and then the fifth onwards will line up from the main b on Saturday night, from the 11th onwards, so tonight will be super, super difficult, if you win tonight, I know it's a night like the better than the rest, but it's still not easy, but I hope to have a good night. A little windy here like yesterday with the same kind of temperature.

I think the track is still quite wet, so we'll wait and see what it does, but the standings feel split. It's more of an even tonight let's see what happens, okay, so we have a gopro in Craig Kinza's car. Those guys were happy to have a camera in their car. One thing I wanted to show you before entering and which we haven't talked about. The above is how unique the Noxual Nationals are in terms of setting up hits, so generally, obviously, the Springer teams will work out of their room as their big 53 callers, but on the field here in Knoxville they try to keep out the carriers so fans can see.

I think they brought it in when TN was filming here for live shows for the Knoxville

nationals

, but now it's all broadcasts, but yeah, what's unique about the Knoxville

nationals

is that each team basically has to bring an open trailer with a truck to take it. set everything up and it's actually much more of a setup than any other event that they do all year, but as you can see here in the trailer, they have fuel jugs, a spare tissue, a box with boxes of spare parts that we have. I've got a spare rear end, some wheels and tires, a spare engine here oriented and they're going to use the um to swap out the engine because they normally didn't do that inside the trailer, but yeah, they have to get a truck to do it, a tow truck. so basically right behind that they're set up right now we're standing under their tent I'm not sure why they have a tent but yeah they're basically setting up here to relax in the shade and then they put their mule in your car so that's pretty much the setup for everyone here in the pits and tomorrow night it's going to be even busier as long as most of the cars are showing something that's very unique about the Knoxville Nationals talk to your shop of speed or go. to nsd performance near you and follow us on social media astronaut thank you racing fans, what were you guys doing there when you had the hood off?

I just sat there idling put in a new engine and had some things I had to do so I turned it on and this idol was still a little low How come you changed engines? I was testing another engine for tonight. We knew what we had for the second. We wanted to see if we could do better and what? Were we searching when he went out towards the tractors? I just saw what kind of condition it started in tonight, as opposed to the first two nights, so we kind of see what we would expect when we go out for hot laps and qualifying, but you know, with this day with so many cars that you uploaded , it's going to change, it might change faster, but just checking the humidity at least on the top, see how full it is things like that, little things, so um, oh, one on the bottom now oh, oh, away So how did you feel in qualifying?

Oh, not so good, I still have some work to do, still a little lazy, so yeah, a little three you just don't make up the time, so yeah, and would you tell Mikey to do it? He just decides what to change or you make the decisions or how that works. I mean, Mikey is the crew chief on that, so yeah, he works with that. We will talk. He lets me do it. I let him know what I am. feeling and are trying to make positive changes, so that's all we can do right now. I see he changed the shocks you guys got as a fancier setup, yeah everyone in the pit has things they do. when the time comes you know the track starts a little yeah a lot of us how far to go and what to do with it and I guess you just gotta try to take advantage of the heat yeah that's all we can do , I mean.

We're here tonight and then we put ourselves in a bad position in qualifying, so all we can do is try to keep going, so it's time for the heat race. Craig didn't rank that well, so he's buried. Think about the number six position in the fourth series, he needs to finish in the top three, like I said, if you watch the video of the format that we did earlier in the week, then you will know how the format works, but he came out, he is three on the track . Right now he's lining up like I said, he needs to move on this.

He hasn't had speed. They made some changes like we talked to Craig about before, so hopefully he can move forward this week, as it seems now. It would be hard to understand because I think what it does, I think the best point is it feels right in the middle of the corner, like you don't feel right, you know mine is like an entrance, but it gets worse as you go. . I feel like it's today, so please roll back, eh, okay, the B Mains about to be implemented have already been executed. Craig didn't have a great heat race, as you may have seen, they made a lot of changes to him, even changing bars. he's about to get kicked out right now and they're not feeling very comfortable right now so we still have a happy attitude, it may not be in the video but yeah they're still confident that you know they can move on.

They are definitely buried. Tonight there was a major c. Two bees, as I said, are buried. They have to finish in the top three, but he starts from the number eight position for this b main. So I have a lot of work to do again, they made a lot of changes. We saw Greg Wilson come over and start chatting with Mikey and Craig about what they needed to do with the race car, but yeah, let's see what happens, so Brad, so I did it. I didn't finish too well for Craig Kinser, unfortunately he just backed off in the heat.

I talked to his crew chief, Mikey Kemper, and he thinks something has to be wrong with his car because they just don't do any good, they didn't seem comfortable. all night but they've been racing enough to know that they know they can turn things around at some point but just the disappointing nationals for them, not sure if they'll be back tomorrow night, they always seem to hold their ground. so i wouldn't be surprised if they did it, but for the main race we got into terry mccall's car, i think he's starting on the inside row in the top three or five cars, so i'm excited to see if he makes it basically all of them.

What we want to see is if he finishes in the top four to automatically move on and start Saturday night's bj between positions 21 and 24. So he needs to finish in the top four to do that. We have the camera facing forward on Craig. The car and main b weren't covered in too much mud even though there are cars around it so hopefully we'll get some good footage for the on board and see who clinches it for Saturday's ama so without the end You wouldn't have wanted anything at all. No, yeah, I've only run it four times, four, ten, about four times this year, five times, so I'm a little bit off with the configurations.

You know we were good at times and then we became very bad at the end. He was so tight on the cushion and so loose, so we were a little disappointed because we had a great chance, I think, and a lot of the guys we were competing with were there around fourth place. fifth so uh uh not sure what happened I just felt like my right rear tire sealed up and stopped working so try to get better by tomorrow night you must be very proud of the sun oh absolutely that was one. one of the best

days

of my

life

yesterday, finding out they're having a baby and then he puts it on paul the national, so you hardly have to top that day, it's a great day, yeah, you know, that's why I ran 360 this year, so I didn't have to compete against him and Carson and we spent a little more time helping each other on different things and then, you know, getting shorter engines like ours, I was able to give them my 410s to use or give them a Carson anyway. but you know I go with Austin whenever I can if Carson isn't going and I'm not running.

I'm with Austin helping out a mechanic, so it's a big family affair. The three of us work in the same workshop, so there is quite a bit of work there. many, many things, that little store, but it's great, we spend a lot of time together, we go to dinner all the time together, so we are a very, very, very close family, so last night I wanted to say a lot, you know, like I said . Always tell the kids that if I do well, you do well and if you do well, that makes me do well, so it's good for our family when we all do well and it lifts us all up and keeps us focused on running so I'm probably proud that he's hanging on to the end of the deal and making us all look good, good nine, number three is done, rich Hebrew, I think he led every lap with kerry madsen, who ran second, Sheldon finished third and brian brown finally uh right at the end he finished fourth i thought mike stumsney could have done it he was ahead of brown running fifth for most of it and he broke spencer basin came into battle on a restart and I think the last restart with brown and Horton Child and he almost flipped it in one and two, so yeah, he missed it, but yeah, those top four guys will be showing up at the Saturday shows from the 21st to the 24th.

We had a camera in Terry McCall's car, he didn't actually it was. flash but since you were watching the interview there he's pretty excited because his son austin is starting from the pole tomorrow night so that's a wrap for us tonight for night three and can't wait for the championship final tomorrow .