The crew chiefs can throw away all the hot-track data they got yesterday, go back to what little coll track data they got Friday, and compensate for cloudy skies and swirling, gusty winds.

This is Will's 50th Top Fuel race. Teammate Kalitta is making his best start this year and one of his 30 wins came here in '03. As rumored, Richard Hogan is now in the Kalitta camp, by the way. Kalitta is 6 - 0 against Will in prior events.

Good opening race, full passes in both lanes, but Kalitta was away first and slowly stretched his lead to move to the second round. Doug Kalitta's MOV: 0.0468 seconds (approximately 21 feet).