Fri, 3 Oct 2003, 01:21 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By Jim Samuel

MOHNTON, Pa. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals 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:

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Left Lane: Bruce Mullins Runs 5.843/241.37, Now #5; No Prior Run

12:36 PM - Qualifying resumed at Maple Grove Raceway after a three-week layoff due to rain. When this round started, the air temperature was 56 degrees at 37 percent humidity and the barometric pressure was 30.16 and falling under a clear sky.

Mullins had his career best speed on a clean run. His previous best was 240.51, set here last year.

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Left Lane: Fred Tigges Runs 7.168/130.02, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.824/241.63, Was #4
Right Lane: Darrel Cox Runs 17.280/55.16, Now #6; Best prior run: 5.936/234.49, Was #6

Cox shook the tires hard as he came off the starting line and shut down by the time he reached 100 feet. Tigges made it to mid track then his car shut down.

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Left Lane: Dan Pomponio Runs 6.048/235.10, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.134/235.27, Was #9
Right Lane: Scott Woodington Runs 5.997/238.43, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.167/219.33, Was #10

Qualifying resumed after a 20-minute delay to clean up after Fred Tigges. Pomponio shook the tires hard but drove through it on his way to his career best ET. His previous best was 6.099 seconds at the Division One race at Cecil County in August. Woodington carried the front wheels in the air for the first 100 feet, then settled down for his best run of the event.

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Left Lane: Bob Newberry Runs 5.678/252.38, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.477/244.34, Was #12
Right Lane: Paul Lee Runs 5.752/251.44, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.112/246.89, Was #10

A pair of good runs. Lee had a little tire shake at 100 feet but he drove through it.

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Left Lane: Jim Sickles Runs 5.713/251.49, Now #3; Best prior run: 9.588/101.01, Was #14
Right Lane: Paul Gill Runs 10.229/71.69, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.049/247.16, Was #11

Gill started shaking the tires at about 100 feet, then the rear end started to bounce up and down, so he got off the throttle. Sickles had a good run, with just a little tire shake, and moved up 11 spots in the qualifying order.

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Left Lane: Todd Veney Runs 5.720/249.76, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.780/250.27, Was #5

Veney drifted toward the wall between the 100 and 330 foot markers but got back into the groove and finished up with a strong second half of this run.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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