{"id":7190,"date":"2019-08-08T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/?p=7190"},"modified":"2019-08-08T12:44:49","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T16:44:49","slug":"thursday-notables-for-the-59th-knoxville-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/08\/08\/thursday-notables-for-the-59th-knoxville-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Notables for the 59th Knoxville Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Night 1 of the 2019 NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals provided a plethora of unpredictable racing, and one that saw a Knoxville Raceway regular take home the A-Main victory.<\/p>\n<p>If Thursday is anything like <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/2019\/08\/08\/trey-starks-upsets-night-1\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>Wednesday\u2019s action<\/strong><\/a>, we\u2019re in for a treat, too.<\/p>\n<h2>Thursday Notables for the 59th Knoxville Nationals<\/h2>\n<p>Another group of over 50 cars will take to the track and there are even more notable names and storylines in the field for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>Less than 24 hours removed from a night where both<strong> Donny Schatz <\/strong>and <strong>Kyle Larson <\/strong>\u2013 both podium finishers in last year\u2019s Knoxville Nationals \u2013 didn\u2019t transfer straight to the A-Main following their respective heats, we could see some funky results.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite storyline coming into this entire week involves a team out of Pennsylvania in the No. 69K of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancedewease.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Lance Dewease.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dewease grabbed two wins during the World of Outlaws three races in his state earlier in the season, prompting his team to make the trip to the season\u2019s biggest show.<\/p>\n<p>After a twitter campaign helped push his crew to committing to it, him and his squad made the trek to Iowa once earlier this year for the Brownells Big Guns Bash and again this week for Nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Another driver with a bit of experience running at Knoxville earlier this season is <strong>Parker Price-Miller.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The up-and-coming racer ran a weekly show at Knoxville and earned a win during the weekend of the USAC Corn Belt Nationals at the track.<\/p>\n<p>A pair of the heavy hitters in the USAC National wingless sprint car series raced on Wednesday in Brady Bacon and Kevin Thomas Jr., and another joins them on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tyler Courtney <\/strong>will be lacing up the boots to try and beat the Knoxville veterans.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s where <strong>Brian Brown <\/strong>and <strong>Terry McCarl <\/strong>step in. The two sit atop the Knoxville Championship Cup Series standings and have had years of success at the half-mile raceway.<\/p>\n<p>If either of them get into a rhythm, they could find themselves starting pretty high on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>On top of it fans will get to see defending Knoxville Nationals champion and World of Outlaws points leader <strong>Brad Sweet <\/strong>as well as some other Outlaws regulars.\u00a0Hot laps begin at 7:15 p.m. CT.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday Night Entry List<br \/>\n<\/strong>09 \u2013 Matt Juhl<br \/>\n1A \u2013 Jacob Allen<br \/>\n2 \u2013 Carson Macedo<br \/>\n2AU \u2013 Andrew Schuerle<br \/>\n2K \u2013 Kevin Ingle<br \/>\n3 \u2013 Ayrton Gennetten<br \/>\n3C \u2013 Cale Conley<br \/>\n3P \u2013 Sawyer Phillips<br \/>\n4 \u2013 Terry McCarl<br \/>\nK4 \u2013 Chad Kemenah<br \/>\n5 \u2013 Shane Stewart<br \/>\n7 \u2013 Craig Dollansky<br \/>\n7JS \u2013 Jason Sides<br \/>\n9JR \u2013 Derek Hagar<br \/>\n10 \u2013 RJ Johnson<br \/>\n11K \u2013 Kraig Kinser<br \/>\n12N \u2013 Joey Saldana<br \/>\n14 \u2013 Marcus Dumensy<br \/>\n15H \u2013 Sam Hafertepe Jr.<br \/>\n15M \u2013 Bobby Mincer<br \/>\n17B \u2013 Josh Baughman<br \/>\n17BX \u2013 Bill Balog<br \/>\n17W \u2013 Shane Golobic<br \/>\n17WX \u2013 Harli White<br \/>\n17XL \u2013 Caleb Helms<br \/>\n18M \u2013 Lance Moss<br \/>\n18S \u2013 Jason Solwold<br \/>\nW20 \u2013 Greg Wilson<br \/>\n21 \u2013 Brian Brown<br \/>\n21K \u2013 Thomas Kennedy<br \/>\n21P \u2013 Robby Price<br \/>\n22 \u2013 TBA<br \/>\n24 \u2013 Rico Abreau<br \/>\n26 \u2013 Cory Eliason<br \/>\n28 \u2013 Scott Bogucki<br \/>\n28P \u2013 Brian Paulus<br \/>\n29 \u2013 Willie Croft<br \/>\n33M \u2013 Mason Daniel<br \/>\n39M \u2013 Anthony Macri<br \/>\n41 \u2013 David Gravel<br \/>\n44 \u2013 Chris Martin<br \/>\n49 \u2013 Brad Sweet<br \/>\n49J \u2013 Josh Schneiderman<br \/>\n49X \u2013 Tim Shaffer<br \/>\n55 \u2013 Brooke Tatnell<br \/>\n69K \u2013 Lance Dewease<br \/>\n70 \u2013 Brock Zearfross<br \/>\n71BC \u2013 Tyler Courtney<br \/>\n71P \u2013 Parker Price-Miller<br \/>\n83 \u2013 Daryn Pittman<br \/>\n83C \u2013 Adam Cruea<br \/>\n84 \u2013 Tom Harris<br \/>\n91 \u2013 Cale Thomas<br \/>\n92 \u2013 Sye Lynch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Night 1 of the 2019 NOS Energy Drink Knoxville Nationals provided a plethora of unpredictable racing, and one that saw a Knoxville Raceway regular take home the A-Main victory. If Thursday is anything like Wednesday\u2019s action, we\u2019re in for a treat, too. Thursday Notables for the 59th Knoxville Nationals Another group of over 50 cars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":315,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7],"tags":[603,958,1008,957,1204,1181,1201,1203,1202],"class_list":["post-7190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dirt","category-more-racing","tag-brad-sweet","tag-brian-brown","tag-knoxville-nationals","tag-knoxville-raceway","tag-lance-dewease","tag-nos-energy-drink-knoxville-nationals","tag-parker-price-miller","tag-terry-mccarl","tag-tyler-courtney"],"modified_by":"Connor Ferguson","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/motorsports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}