Thursday night’s qualifying will be run as a double event beginning at 7 p.m.
KNOXVILLE, Iowa - Aug. 6, 2014 - Heavy rain has forced Knoxville Raceway officials to postpone the first night of qualifying for the FVP Knoxville Nationals presented by Casey's General Stores to Thursday.
Both qualifying events will now be run back-to-back on Thursday evening. The events from Wednesday night's postponed show will occur first at 7 p.m. followed by Thursday's scheduled qualifying night beginning approximately at 11 p.m.
The pits will open on Thursday at 2 p.m. All competitors will unload their equipment at that time.
7:25 p.m. Wednesday - The rain has continued, forcing Wednesday's qualifying night to be postponed to Thursday at 7 p.m., which will be followed by Thursday's regularly qualifying race at about 11 p.m.
6:40 p.m. Wednesday - The push trucks have returned to the pits as the rain picked up. About half of the teams are already pitted in the infield waiting out the weather to go racing tonight.
6:15 p.m. Wednesday - Rain has stopped here in the infield, the push trucks are running in the track to prepare it for tonight's action.
6 p.m. Wednesday - Teams have rolled into the infield for the opening night of action, which has been delayed a bit by intermittent rain this evening. Teams will not be asked to move their transporters out of the infield due to the wet weather we're experiencing.
4:30 p.m. Wednesday - Tony Stewart joined Mark Miller of Bad Boy Buggies to help unveil Steve Kinser's special Knoxville car for this week. Here's a look at the unveiling:
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- administrator on Aug 07, 2014
- Article Date: 8/7/2014