Taking the lead from the start and never looking back, Brian Brown propelled Casey’s General Store/FVP No. 21 down Victory Lane on Mid-Am qualifying night for the 32nd Annual Knoxville 360 National Championships presented by Great Southern Bank.
Brown’s 18th career victory in the 360 division at Knoxville Raceway, the win ties him for fifth all-time in the half mile. The triumph was No. 20 for the Missouri driver with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
“It’s good to be here. You know, the 360 Nationals wasn’t really, well, our last night was good for us, but our qualifying nights; I just don’t feel like I qualified very well, so it digs a hole for us, and we start deep, but everyone on that Casey’s/FVP car did a phenomenal job tonight,” said Brown, who now holds the distinction of being the only top-five driver in 360 and 410 all-time wins at Knoxville Raceway.
Finding traffic on Lap 8, Brown passed Christopher Thram, who was being chased by Terry McCarl, as the red lights came on for Davey Heskin, who went for a spin in the first and second turns. Recovering Kaleb Johnson and Kelby Watt in the process, all drivers involved were unharmed.
Back on the green, Brown put time on the field again as McCarl went to work on Thram for second place. Taking second place on lap 13, Terry rode about half a mile in search of an advantage, but here failed to catch the #21 Impact Signs/Rowdy Energy.
Going 4.022 seconds clear, second-placed McCarl was joined on the podium by Lynton Jeffrey, who took third with three to go. Christopher Thram finished fourth, with Clint Garner fifth.
Working third at the start of the A-Feature, Wayne Johnson moved back to sixth, with Cale Thomas taking seventh on the final lap from Kyle Larson, who moved up 13 positions for eighth. Tasker Phillips moved past ninth, with Blake Hahn rounding out the top ten.
With both preliminary nights in the books, Lynton Jeffrey amassed enough points to earn Saturday’s A-Feature pole for the first time in his third appearance at the event. Aaron Reutzel will start to his right, with Clint Garner, Terry McCarl and Brian Brown making up the first five starters.
Friday’s Mid-Am qualifying night featured 56 of the 58 drivers scheduled, bringing the total number of drivers to register to 107 for the 2022 event. The Driver’s Project fast qualifier of the night was Kelby Watt at 16.422 seconds . The SCE Gaskets heat races were won by Davey Heskin, Tasker Phillips, Austin Miller, Lynton Jeffrey and Ian Madsen. The C-Feature went to Clayton Christensen, with the B-Feature won by Kyle Larson.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Led by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation features regional circuits that encompass both winged and non-winged competition.
Race results:
Lucas Oil’s ASCS National Tour
Knoxville Circuit (Knoxville, Iowa)
32nd Annual Knoxville 360 National Championships
Friday, August 5, 2022
Number of cars: 56
Number of events: 107
The pilot project qualifications (2 cars, 2 laps)
Qualifying: 1. 6-Kelby Watt, 16.422[1]; 2. 18R-Ryan Roberts, 16.485[8]; 3. 40-Clint Garner, 16.502[4]; 4. 2K-Lynton Jeffrey, 16.560[33]; 5. 5-Brady Forbrook, 16.591[40]; 6. 2C-Wayne Johnson, 16,599[26]; 7. 24-Terry McCarl, 16,599[24]; 8. 57-Kyle Larson, 16,650[20]; 9. 21-Brian Brown, 16,650[37]; 10. 52-Blake Hahn, 16.687[16]; 11. 24T-Christopher Thram, 16.700[18]; 12. 7TAZ-Tasker Phillips, 16.717[29]; 13. 27-Carson McCarl, 16.721[10]; 14. 39-Justin Sanders, 16,759[38]; 15.7BC-Tyler Courtney, 16.784[30]; 16.94-Jeff Swindell, 16.842[5]; 17. 27H-Daryn Pittman, 16.871[49]; 18. 1X-Tim Crawley, 16.875[6]; 19. 21H-Brady Bacon, 16.877[22]; 20. 49X-Wedge Thomas, 16.897[23]; 21. 2M-Davey Heskin, 16.923[43]; 22. 4-Cameron Martin, 16,940[52]; 23. 22K-Kaleb Johnson, 16.959[14]; 24. 11N-Harli White, 16.962[27]; 25. 15-Bobby Chopper, 16.962[15]; 26. 5M-Collin Moyle, 16.983[12]; 27. 8M-Kade Morton, 17.012[54]; 28. 83-Austin Miller, 17.020[13]; 29. 199-Ryan Bowers, 17.047[7]; 30.64-Ian Madsen, 17.079[21]; 31. 14T-Brooke Tatnell, 17.079[32]; 32. 4V-Jamie Ball, 17.079[48]; 33. 8H-Jacob Hughes, 17.081[28]; 34. 9MB-JJ Beaver, 17.110[19]; 35. 16A-Colby Copeland, 17.112[31]; 36. 50Z-Zach Chappell, 17.116[9]; 37. 27B-Jake Bubak, 17.127[55]; 38. 99-Tony Rost, 17.131[56]; 39. 21G-Ramey Gunner, 17.164[42]; 40. 2JR-Kelly Miller, 17.193[50]; 41. 6J-Jett Carney, 17.211[3]; 42. 1CC-Clayton Christensen, 17.222[41]; 43. 7B-Ben Brown, 17.269[36]; 44. 28-Luc Verardi, 17.271[25]; 45. 17B-Ryan Bickett, 17.379[47]; 46. 41-Chase Moran, 17.383[53]; 47.1A-John Anderson, 17.475[17]; 48. 5T-Ryan Timms, 17.513[44]; 49. 4D-Charles Davis Jr, 17.528[11]; 50. 83JR-Sam Henderson, 17.578[46]; 51. 33-Alan Zoute, 17.772[51]; 52. 2D-Dylan Opdahl, 17.971[45]; 53. 3M-Mike Pennel, 18.098[39]; 54. 4S-Adam Speckman, 18.443[35]; 55. (DNS) 7-Tyler Lee, NT; 56. (DQ) 47X-Dylan Westbrook, DQ **Dylan Westbrook disqualified for failing to show up at the scales.
SCE Gaskets Heat Races (Top 4 at A, Next 4 at B, Next 2 at C)
Round 1 (8 laps): 1. 2M-Davey Heskin[2]; 2. 24T-Christopher Thram[4]; 3. 6-Kelby Watt[6]; 4. 2C-Wayne Johnson[5]; 5. 94-Jeff Swindell[3]; 6. 14T – Brooke Tatnell[7]; 7. 5M-Collin Moyle[1]; 8. 50Z-Zach Chappell[8]; 9. 6J-Jett Carney[9]; 10. (DNF) 41-Chase Moran[10]
Round 2 (8 laps): 1. 7TAZ-Tasker Phillips[4]; 2. 24-Terry McCarl[5]; 3. 4-Cameron Martin[2]; 4. 27B-Jake Bubak[8]; 5. 4W-Jamie Ball[7]; 6. 8M-Kade Morton[1]; 7. 18R-Ryan Roberts[6]; 8. 1A-John Anderson[10]; 9. 1CC-Clayton Christensen[9]; 10. (DNF) 27H-Daryn Pittman[3]
Round 3 (8 laps): 1. 83-Austin Miller[1]; 2. 40-Clint Garner[6]; 3. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[2]; 4. 27-Carson McCarl[4]; 5. 57-Kyle Larson[5]; 6. 5T-Ryan Timms[10]; 7. 1X-Tim Crawley[3]; 8. 99-Tony Rost[8]; 9. 7B-Ben Brown[9]; 10. 8H-Jacob Hughes[7]
Round 4 (8 laps): 1. 2K-Lynton Jeffrey[6]; 2. 21-Brian Brown[5]; 3. 11N-Harli White[2]; 4. 39-Justin Sanders[4]; 5. Bacon 21H-Brady[3]; 6. 21G-Ramey Gunner[8]; 7. Beaver 9MB-JJ[7]; 8. 28-Luc Verardi[9]; 9. 199-Ryan Bowers[1]; 10. 4D-Charles Davis Jr[10]
Round 5 (8 laps): 1. 64-Ian Madsen[1]; 2. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[4]; 3. 52-Blake Hahn[5]; 4. 49X-Wedge Thomas[3]; 5. 5-Brady Forbrook[6]; 6. 2JR-Kelly Miller[8]; 7. 16A-Colby Copeland[7]; 8. 17B-Ryan Bickett[9]; 9. 83JR-Sam Henderson[10]; 10. 15-Bobby Chopper[2]
Steering wheel top C function (Top 4 advances to B function)
Characteristic C (8 turns): 1. 1CC-Clayton Christensen[2]; 2. 6J-Jett Carney[1]; 3. 7B-Ben Brown[3]; 4. 4D-Charles Davis Jr[4]; 5. 33-Alan Zoute[6]; 6. 83JR-Sam Henderson[5]; 7. 3M-Mike Pennel[7]; 8. 4S-Adam Speckman[8]; 9. (DNS) 27H-Daryn Pittman; 10. (DNS) 15-Bobby Chopper; 11. (DNS) 199-Ryan Bowers; 12. (DNS) 8H-Jacob Hughes; 13. (DNS) 41-Chase Moran; 14. (DNS) 2D-Dylan Opdahl; 15. (DNS) 7-Tyler Lee; 16. (DNS) 47X – Dylan Westbrook
BMRS B-Feature (Top 4 advance to A-Feature)
Feature B (12 laps): 1. 57-Kyle Larson[3]; 2. Bacon 21H-Brady[6]; 3. 18R-Ryan Roberts[1]; 4. 5-Brady Forbrook[2]; 5. 94-Jeff Swindell[4]; 6. 14T – Brooke Tatnell[9]; 7. 4W-Jamie Ball[10]; 8. 16A-Colby Copeland[12]; 9. 7B-Ben Brown[23]; 10. 8M-Kade Morton[8]; 11. 21G-Ramey Gunner[15]; 12. 2JR-Kelly Miller[16]; 13. 99-Tony Rost[14]; 14. 28-Luc Verardi[17]; 15. 17B-Ryan Bickett[18]; 16. 4D-Charles Davis Jr[24]; 17. 1CC-Clayton Christensen[21]; 18. 6J-Jett Carney[22]; 19. 1A-John Anderson[19]; 20. 5T – Ryan Timms[20]; 21. 50Z-Zach Chappell[13]; 22. 1X – Tim Crawley[5]; 23. Beaver 9MB-JJ[11]; 24. (DNS) 5M-Collin Moyle
A characteristic
A feature (20 rounds): 1. 21-Brian Brown[3]; 2. 24-Terry McCarl[4]; 3. 2K-Lynton Jeffrey[6]; 4. 24T-Christopher Thram[1]; 5. 40-Clint Garner[7]; 6. 2C-Wayne Johnson[5]; 7. 49X-Wedge Thomas[13]; 8. 57-Kyle Larson[21]; 9. 7TAZ-Tasker Phillips[9]; 10. 52-Blake Hahn[2]; 11. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[12]; 12. 64-Ian Madsen[19]; 13. 27-Carson McCarl[10]; 14. 9PM-Brady Bacon[22]; 15. 39-Justin Sanders[11]; 16. 11N-Harli White[17]; 17. 27B-Jake Bubak[20]; 18. 5-Brady Forbrook[24]; 19. 18R-Ryan Roberts[23]; 20. 22K-Kaleb Johnson[16]; 21. 4-Cameron Martin[15]; 22. 83-Austin Miller[18]; 23. 6-Kelby Watt[8]; 24. 2M-Davey Heskin[14]
Round Leader(s): Brian Brown 1-20
Hard Loader: Kyle Larson +13
Fast time: Kelby Watt 16.422 seconds
High Point Driver: N/A
Provisional(s): N/A
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Live Score [Where Applicable]: Live MRP
Winners of the 2022 race: Wayne Johnson- 4 (3/18 – Devil’s Bowl Speedway; 6/18 – Boothill Speedway, 6/25 – I-70 Motorsports Park; 7/23 – I-30 Speedway); Tim Crawley – 2 (7/22 – Batesville Motor Speedway; 7/26 – Tulsa Speedway); Derek Hagar – 2 (3/25 – I-30 Speedway; 6/17 – Texarkana 67 Speedway); Dylan Westbrook – 2 (5/28 – Lake Ozark Speedway; 7/27 – Caney Valley Speedway); Matt Covington – 2 (7/1 – Boone County Raceway; 7/28 – 81-Speedway); Sam Hafertepe, Jr. – 1 (5/29 – Thunderbird Speedway; 8/4 – Knoxville Raceway); Seth Bergman – 1 (3/19 – Devil’s Bowl Circuit); Aaron Reutzel – 1 (3/26 – I-30 Freeway); Jake Bubak – 1 (7/2 – WaKeeney Speedway); Zach Blurton – 1 (7/3 – WaKeeney Speedway); Gunner Ramey – 1 (7/15 – US 36 Raceway); Blake Hahn – 1 (8/2 – Highway by the lake) Brian Brown – 1 (8/5 – Knoxville Racecourse);
2022 Driver Points (Top 15 – Points will be updated after Knoxville): 1. Blake Hahn 2311; 2. Wayne Johnson 2302; 3. Tim Crawley 2,263; 4. Matt Covington 2205; 5. Jason Martin 2188; 6.Brandon Anderson 2,117; 7. Landon Britt 1899; 8. Landon Crawley 1888; 9. Kyler Johnson 1872; 10. Ryan Bickett 1,811; 11. Garet Williamson 1,751; 12. Dylan Postman 1697; 13. Dylan Opdahl 1585; 14. Dylan Westbrook 1164; 15.Dale Howard 890;
ASCS PR
