A long night of racing produced two winners at the Knoxville Raceway. In an event that started on Saturday and finished after the calendar flipped to Sunday heard live on KNIA Garet Williamson led all 18 laps to capture his second 360 feature of the season and Rico Abreu dominated the last 14 laps of the All-Star Circuit of Champions. The 360 show dragged on as three red flag periods in the first five laps caused the race to take nearly an hour to complete. The most serious crash was just after the 1st green flag when Jamie Ball and Sammy Swindell tangled in turn one and trying to avoid the crash was Davey Franek. Franek got the worst end of the deal as he had to be extracted from his car and taken to Knoxville Hospital and Clinics with an arm injury. Two more red flags, one for Kade Higday and the other for Tony Rost held up action, but when the race finally got going again, Williamson dominated and left no doubt who would win. In the 410 A-Main, it went smoother than the 360 as Buddy Kofoid jumped out to a sizable lead, but a yellow on lap 11 bunched the field and that was all Abreu needed and he swept past Kofoid to take the lead and was never challenged the rest of the way. Abreu told KNIA/KRLS Sports in victory lane, his race team is starting to get good at the right time of the season.

Abreu: “Team is doing an unbelievable job making decisions at the right time. Can’t thank my partners enough, we’re taking on the best drivers around and to be this successful means a lot especially coming into the biggest two weeks of the year.”

Abreu said he was going to run both the 360 and 410 Nationals this season. Speaking of the 33rd Annual 360 Nationals, that is the next event on the calendar for the Knoxville Raceway and it starts on Thursday.