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ENNIS, Texas - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 18th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run: Left Lane: Scott Kalitta Runs 4.655/322.81, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.914/262.23, Was #12 Right Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 7.554/110.96, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.559/109.68, Was #19 Current weather conditions: 78 degrees, 58 percent relative humidity, the barometer 29.94 inches, with a track temperature of 111 degrees under sunny skies. Palmer loses
tract around half track and clicks it off. Kalitta with a nice pass here as he was able to get
it to hook up all the way down the 1320. Left Lane: Kenny Bernstein Runs 4.567/327.39, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.602/325.26, Was #3 Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 4.548/331.12, Now #1; Best prior run: 8.463/111.49, Was #20 These were a pair of picture perfect passes in the heat of the day for the number one and two spots. Kenny Bernstein's incremental times: 60ft-0.859 sec., 330ft-2.168, 660ft-3.096/273.55mph, 1,000ft-3.885 Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.859 sec., 330ft-2.161, 660ft-3.089/271.24mph, 1,000ft-3.874 Left Lane: Jim Head Runs 10.280/79.56, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.654/322.92, Was #8 Right Lane: Paul Romine Runs 11.864/79.12, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.398/128.25, Was #19 Romine is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. Head makes to about the 60 foot mark before he blisters the tires. Left Lane: Darrell Russell Runs 5.342/180.43, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.715/300.20, Was #11 Right Lane: Rhonda Hartman-Smith Runs 6.728/126.26, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.090/245.43, Was #16 Hartman-Smith starts to lose traction pedals once and goes back up in smoke and clicks it off. Russell's engine went silent just past half track. Left Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 4.800/301.00, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.754/184.42, Was #18 Right Lane: Cory McClenathan No Time, Now #18; Best prior run: 5.604/169.84, Was #17 McClenathan right front tire went flat and the crew couldn't get it to hold air. McClenathan is down to one more shot to get in the show. Kalitta with clean pass to get in the show and that bumped out Hartman-Smith. Left Lane: Bill Ancona Runs 9.466/90.06, Now #16; Best prior run: 4.983/230.94, Was #16 Right Lane: Joe Hartley Runs 8.582/91.85, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.915/304.15, Was #15 Ancona launched with the front end in the air and when they return to earth it unloaded the rear slicks and he pedaled it one time and was up in smoke again before he clicked it off. Hartley blistered the hides around half track. Left Lane: David Baca Runs 5.311/198.93, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.682/310.02, Was #10 Right Lane: Scott Weis Runs 14.620/68.45, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.799/280.81, Was #12 Weis is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. Baca started to haze the tires around 330 feet and attempts to drive through it and is back up in smoke. Right Lane: John Smith Runs 6.420/133.63, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.634/314.24, Was #7 Smith's car threw the blower belt off around 400 feet and he coast on through the 1320. Left Lane: Doug Herbert Runs 8.633/99.22, Now #6; Best prior run: 4.630/305.18, Was #6 Right Lane: David Grubnic Runs 9.317/79.54, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.629/319.71, Was #5 Grubnic is up in smoke first and then Herbert follows all before 250 feet. Left Lane: Clay Millican Runs 5.465/173.64, Now #3; Best prior run: 4.588/314.57, Was #3 Right Lane: Larry Dixon Runs 6.321/137.86, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.594/325.14, Was #4 Dixon made it to about 330-foot mark and started to haze the tires before he clicked it off. Millican started to lose traction around 400 feet and shut it off. That wraps up the third session with Schumacher in the number one spot and Anonca is on the bubble with a 4.983 seconds.
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