Skylar Prochaska of Lakefield will start 10th in the 25-lap A main Saturday night at the 31st annual 360 Knoxville Nationals. He was 13th out of the 47 cars in Friday's qualifying and was second in his heat race.
Prochaska started on the pole for Friday night's A main.
Carson McCarl led early in the 20-lap feature event, ahead of Scott Bogucki, Prochaska, Gio Scelzi and Terry McCarl.
The leaders entered lapped traffic at the halfway point of the non-stop event, and things got interesting.
Prochaska shot under Bogucki into the runner-up position on lap 12. Scelzi also took off about that time, and on lap 13, in heavy lapped traffic, he shot from fourth to second, surviving a close call with Prochaska.
Scelzi suddenly pulled up to the rear bumper of the leader. As McCarl cruised on the low side of one and two, Scelzi chose a line through the middle and shot around to lead lap 19 and would pull away for the win.
McCarl was second, with Prochaska, Scott Bogucki and Daryn Pittman rounding out the top five.
“We were a little off at the beginning,” Prochaska in Victory Lane. “I can’t complain about the car. I made a couple of mistakes. Carson got out there, and I made another mistake and Gio got by me. I can’t complain about much. We’ll do it again tomorrow.”
Skylar appeared on the RacinBoys Broadcasting Network after last night’s races.
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Shane Golobic will start on the pole for the A main Saturday, with Pittman on the outside of the front row.
Brandon Halverson of Jackson will start his Saturday night in the eighth spot in the D main. He was 31st in qualifying Friday, eighth in his heat race and 18th in the B main.