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not a  very  exciting   race  again  , same  winner !!  maybe  track  will  go back to  shorter  distance  , with  no tire  change , and  maybe  a  bigger  fuel  cell  . This  distance  once  again  is great  for  a  driver  who has  best  crew chief  in sprint  car racing . A nonstop  race  would be nice ?  but then this is  WoO   RACING  , WINNER OFF  FRONT  ROW . But  regardless  every  fan should  take in Knoxville  its  an  event  besides  racing .

Brown & Schatz have a great rivalry going at Nationals. If he ever decided to go on Outlaws tour, it could be the next Kinser/Swindell thing....

Stan, I mcertainly hope so, they have a pretty large archive of past events available for viewing. it states on their website that if you paid for the live PPV of that particular event, you can watch the archived version, but it isn't up yet.

not a  very  exciting   race  again  , same  winner !!  maybe  track  will  go back to  shorter  distance  , with  no tire  change , and  maybe  a  bigger  fuel  cell  . This  distance  once  again  is great  for  a  driver  who has  best  crew chief  in sprint  car racing . A nonstop  race  would be nice ?  but then this is  WoO   RACING  , WINNER OFF  FRONT  ROW . But  regardless  every  fan should  take in Knoxville  its  an  event  besides  racing .

Last year he started 21st and won, it was a Woo race, please explain how this is possible since every woo race is own from the front row? It sounds like your grasping for an excuse as to why your driver lost. Sprintcar racing is a team sport, from tire groover to driver and the 15 team is the best in the world right now, don't be a whiney lil girl about it, accept it and be glad you get to see one of the best ever in the prime of his career.

Race stats - 50 laps, 3 passes on the track.

I was hoping to watch it tonight but it's still not up.  I'm kind of PO'd at my son for not making an attempt to wake me up.  He sat there in the chair next to me and watched the whole thing.  Darned kids!!!

No one  is  whining , yes  Donny Schatz  is  a   great driver  and yes  I know all  about it being a  team sport or business . But   everyone is missing  the key point  I'm   trying  to make  is that  it  would be  a  better  race  for  all  fans if it were  a shorter  distance , no  tire  change  and maybe  no  fuel  stop if they  were  allowed  to carry  a  larger  fuel cell or tank in past years . As   I  said before  Donny  has the  best  crew  chief  right now  in Ricky  Warner , and that  is where  his success lies , not only  in his  driving ability . I would   like to see  WRG or  Knoxville make  changes  to make it  a better race . I  know  people  won't agree  with  this  opinion as  well  but it could be  a  race  of  who lasts , not  saying  it wouldn't  be Donny  again . And  I make no  excuse  for any driver  , because  I like  and respect  all  drivers and  you  the loyal   fans . I  also  believe  one  driver  dominating  is not good  for  the  sport or Knoxville  or  any  race .

I wondered the same thing myself. You absolutely can not switch cars, right? Just the body? why switch the body?

I agree lasoskifan, the A main was really boring to watch except for 3 laps when Brown and Schatz swapped it around a bit. I knew when the track wasn't burning off and was staying heavy and tacky that the 50 lapper was going to be a snooze fest. Only thing that would have helped is if the track started to change during the race but it never did.

A few things on Schatz when you really watch him. He rarely makes mistakes and looses momentum and is very smooth. He did screw up on his qualifying night and missed the bottom and slid all the way to the cushion but that doesn't happen very often from him. Other thing is his crew chief has that car absolutely dailed in at Kville. That thing runs really straight in the turns and is smooth.

For comparison if anybody watched Jeff Swindell his car was fast but was all over the place. Twitching around like a moving chicane.

yeah if the outlaws race at knoxville every weekend...has brown ever won an outlaw show away from knoxville...and you comparing to swindell and kinser?

In a rivalry, doesn't each side have to win at least once in a while? That is like saying the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington Generals have this great rivalry. So in that analogy, is Brian Brown Kinser or Swindell?

yeah if the outlaws race at knoxville every weekend...has brown ever won an outlaw show away from knoxville...and you comparing to swindell and kinser?

It was one of the most boring, if not the most boring, Knoxville Nationals races that I have attended (I started attending them in the early 80's).  

Considering the late start, lack of racing action, and not getting done till after midnight, it was one of the most boring nights that I have spent at a racetrack this year (87 nights at single and multiple night events so far).  

He was on the pole.  Who expected anything else?

No one  is  whining , yes  Donny Schatz  is  a   great driver  and yes  I know all  about it being a  team sport or business . But   everyone is missing  the key point  I'm   trying  to make  is that  it  would be  a  better  race  for  all  fans if it were  a shorter  distance , no  tire  change  and maybe  no  fuel  stop if they  were  allowed  to carry  a  larger  fuel cell or tank in past years . As   I  said before  Donny  has the  best  crew  chief  right now  in Ricky  Warner , and that  is where  his success lies , not only  in his  driving ability . I would   like to see  WRG or  Knoxville make  changes  to make it  a better race . I  know  people  won't agree  with  this  opinion as  well  but it could be  a  race  of  who lasts , not  saying  it wouldn't  be Donny  again . And  I make no  excuse  for any driver  , because  I like  and respect  all  drivers and  you  the loyal   fans . I  also  believe  one  driver  dominating  is not good  for  the  sport or Knoxville  or  any  race .

I don't know if Brown has won an Outlaw race outside of Knoxville. I said "could be". Maybe I should have added "potentially". If Brown did the whole WoO tour, I think he would learn the tracks & be a contender

Really, it was the most boring???  Are you comparing it to the years when Wolfgang "checked out" and won (84,85 and 89), when Kinser Checked out and won (81,82,86,88).  Heck, Steve won by 9 SECONDS one year (that's over 1/2 lap) and this was the most "boring"???

The race I watched was very entertaining, but maybe I watch more than the top 2-3 cars race too. 

FOREVER the Saturday Night show has been the most anti-climactic (the top cars are virtually all starting up front unless they have a HUGE issue (Wolfgang crashing in 1990 on his qualifying night for example and racing his way through the Alphabet).

As far as the time of night, I guess I expected it going in (Kinser's last Nationals as a full-time Outlaw -- gonna do some kind of tribute, driver introductions, the afternoon show (starting after 8:00 is a HUGE IMPROVEMENT over the 1980's, I remember hotlaps at Midnight for the E Main and National Anthem @ 1:00 AM on Saturday Night/Sunday morning more than once when a day race was held on Saturday.  (and the Chemical Sprayers doing the track packing as they were the only vehicles that wouldn't sink into the mud).