KNOXVILLE, IOWA — Ryan Timms and Carson Macedo will lead the sprint

car field to green tonight in the 64th running of the Knoxville

Nationals. The 50-lap Nationals A-main pays $195,000 to win.

Timms and Macedo earned the most points during their qualifying nights

and secured the front row of the Nationals A-main. Both drivers would

be looking for their first championship.

Timms, of Oklahoma City, is a five-time winner and regular competitor

at Knoxville, and won his qualifying race Wednesday. He’ll be the

youngest pole sitter in the storied history of the Nationals. He turns

19 on August 26.

Pennsylvania’s Logan Schuchart starts third and 2018 Nationals

Champion Brad Sweet starts fourth. Sheldon Haudenschild starts fifth

and Corey Day sixth. Rico Abreu and Emerson Axsom share the fourth

row. Abreu won the 360 Nationals last Saturday at Knoxville.

Three-time and defending Nationals Champion Kyle Larson starts ninth.

He won his Thursday night qualifier. Justin Peck starts 10th.

Rounding out the top 16 qualifiers are: Garet Williamson, Austin

McCarl, Bill Balog, Giovanni Scelzi, Cameron Martin, and Spencer

Bayston.

These drivers locked directly into the Nationals A-main after their

qualifying nights.

The next 10 drivers in points start in the front five rows of the

B-main. Chris Windom starts on the pole with Pennsylvania’s Brent

Marks starting second. Other Pennsylvania drivers locked into B-main

starting spots include Brock Zearfoss in eighth, and Danny Dietrich

ninth.

All other drivers raced again on Friday night, including World of

Outlaws point leader David Gravel, who flipped in turn one on the

opening lap of his heat race after contact from another car. King’s

Royal Champion Anthony Macri, of Dillsburg, was scheduled to race

Friday as well as Chase Dietz and Lucas Wolfe. A total of 100 sprint

cars attempted to qualify.

Four more drivers earned spots through Friday night’s Hard Knox

program, which featured all drivers who finished outside the top 26 in

points during the qualifying nights

The total purse for the four-day Knoxville Nationals is $1.182

million, including $734,000 in the Saturday night A-main alone. The

winner receives $195,000, second place $85,000 and third $45,000. The

10th place finisher earns $20,000. Just making the show is at least

$15,000.

While Port Royal and Williams Grove Speedways have the weekend off,

sprint cars are racing tonight at Clinton County Speedway in Lock

Haven for the Phil Walter Classic, and at Lincoln Speedway in Hanover.