Sat, Oct 31, 12:15 AM BAYTOWN - Pro Stock Bike Qualifying Notes, Session # 2

By Michael L. Jex

BAYTOWN, Texas - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Pro Stock Bike at the 2nd Annual Matco Tools Supernationals, listing lane, rider name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, (best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run):

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Left Lane: David Schultz Runs 7.359/180.32 Now # 4, (Best prior run: 7.408/181.34 Was # 6)
Right Lane: Tony Mullen Runs 7.446/174.48 Now # 3, (Best prior run: 7.349/185.95 Was # 3)

5:48 PM The Matco Tools trucks have run (a new record 26 seconds or thereabouts) and it's time for the last night session of 1998.

Good run for Schultz.

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Left Lane: Greg Underdahl Runs 7.471/182.37 Now # 8, (No prior time)
Right Lane: Hector Arana Runs 7.525/178.25 Now #12, (Best prior run: 7.585/178.04 Was #12)

Underdahl danced with the centerline all the way downtrack, but still moved into the top half of the field.

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Left Lane: Brian Ayers Runs 7.622/157.67 Now #10, (Best prior run: 7.500/182.55 Was #10)
Right Lane: Ron Ayers Runs 7.417/177.51 Now # 7, (Best prior run: 7.432/178.39 Was # 7)

No improvement for the father or son on those runs.

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Left Lane: Gary Tonglet Runs 7.472/179.06 Now # 9, (Best prior run: 7.481/179.10 Was # 9)
Right Lane: Antron Brown Runs 7.409/180.00 Now # 5, (Best prior run: 7.402/181.23 Was # 5)

1.11 60-foot time for Brown.

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Left Lane: Craig Treble Runs 7.601/176.53 Now #13, (Best prior run: 7.577/175.23 Was #13)
Right Lane: Larry Cook Runs 7.627/174.48 Now #11, (Best prior run: 7.503/179.35 Was #11)

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Left Lane: Angelle Seeling Runs 7.355/180.18 Now # 4, (No prior time)
Right Lane: John Smith Runs 7.358/191.23 Now # 2, (Best prior run: 7.335/188.04 Was # 2)

A bit of a surprise, that run of Smith's looked better than that from here.

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Left Lane: Joe DeSantis Runs 8.331/146.81 Now #15, (Best prior run: 7.695/177.47 Was #15)
Right Lane: Matt Hines Runs 7.379/184.99 Now # 1, (Best prior run: 7.312/183.86 Was # 1)

Hines championship won't be official till qualifying has been completed. His 1.16 sixty foot time was not up to his usual numbers.

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Left Lane: Steve Johnson Runs 7.469/181.67 Now # 7, (Best prior run: 7.407/186.91 Was # 7)
Right Lane: Horace Wright Runs 7.912/162.07 Now #18, (No prior time)

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Left Lane: Fumiki Tanaka No Time Now #16, (Best prior run: 7.765/178.35 Was #16)
Right Lane: Blaine Hale Runs 8.338/161.43 Now #19, (No prior time)

Konban wa Tanaka San! Mr. Tanaka made a hard move towards the wall, then sat up and aborted the run by the 200-foot mark. The clocks cleared before he crossed the finish line, resulting in no times for this run.

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Right Lane: Chris Reuter No Time Now #17, (Best prior run: 7.831/177.76 Was #17)

The top end took quite awhile to clear, so Chris finally shut off, and pushes back behind the starting line.

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Right Lane: Jorge Mendoza Runs 9.260/101.05 Now #20, (No prior time)

Jorge hit the rev-limiter hard at the 1-2 shift, and again further downtrack. He sat up just past half track after getting close to the centerline.

With two more rounds of qualifying tomorrow, Matt Hines remains in the number one spot, the bump is Fumiki Tanaka from Japan with a 7.765 178.35.

6:07 PM




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