Fri, 16 May 2003, 03:57 PM Pro Stock Bike Qualifying Notes, Session #1

By Jim Samuel

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Pro Stock Bike at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 34th annual K&N Filters SuperNationals presented by Pep Boys listing lane, rider name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:

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Left Lane: Thomas Miceli Runs 7.346/176.84, Now #1
Right Lane: Keith Dennis Runs 7.764/181.79, Now #2

Current weather conditions: 58 degrees, 71 percent relative humidity, the barometer is 29.87 inches, with a track temperature of 82 degrees.

Dennis and Miceli had a pair of smooth runs with Miceli being 42 hundredths of a second quicker.

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Left Lane: Tommy Grimes Jr Runs 7.209/185.82, Now #2
Right Lane: Blaine Hale Runs 7.202/187.68, Now #1

It looks like this is going to be a quick field this afternoon as both Grimes and Hale got into the seven-20s for the first time in their careers. If we see a bump time lower than 7.267 seconds, we'll have the quickest Pro Stock Bike field in NHRA history.

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Left Lane: Gary Tonglet Runs 7.344/184.02, Now #3
Right Lane: Lloyd Straus Runs 7.347/182.60, Now #5

Another pair of strong runs. For Strauss, it was the quickest of his career.

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Right Lane: Keith Freeman Runs 7.449/178.68, Now #6

Freeman was not able to make up for a slow start. Keith Freeman's incremental times: 60ft-1.181 sec., 330ft-3.119, 660ft-4.755/149.31mph, 1,000ft-6.198

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Left Lane: Wesley Wells Runs 7.352/181.18, Now #7
Right Lane: Sam Hurwitz Runs 7.220/186.43, Now #3

This was another pair of career best runs. Wells went into the sand pit at the end of the track and went down, but got up right away.

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Left Lane: Connie Cohen Runs 7.750/135.01, Now #9
Right Lane: Michael Phillips No Time, Now #12

Phillips broke and did not run. Cohen got through about three gears and then shut it down.

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Left Lane: Sean Conner Runs 7.131/185.46, Now #2
Right Lane: GT Tonglet Runs 7.113/187.55, Now #1

What a pair of runs. This was Tongelt's quickest run ever on a Harley as he beat his previous best by more than a tenth of a second. The best run of his career was 7.100 seconds but it was not on a Harley. Conner's previous best was 7.221 seconds.

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Left Lane: Joe DeSantis Runs 7.297/180.50, Now #7
Right Lane: Matthew Smith Runs 7.175/183.52, Now #3

After they passed the finish line, a gust of wind must have caught Smith and his bike because it suddenly veered hard to the right and hit the wall. He got up but was favoring his right foot.

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Left Lane: Chris Reuter Runs 7.278/183.07, Now #7
Right Lane: John Smith Runs 7.528/137.60, Now #14

The winds are very gusty here today for the second pair in a row, the rider in the right lane hit the wall. This time, both Smith and Reuter started moving hard to the right as they reached the end of the track. Smith, in the right lane, ran out of room and went into the wall. He got off the bike as quickly as he could, went into a tuck-and-roll and stood up as soon as he came to a stop.

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Left Lane: Steve Johnson Runs 7.256/184.09, Now #7
Right Lane: Fred Camarena Runs 7.269/185.74, Now #8

Johnson and Camarena had clean runs. Both started heading to the left at the end of their runs to counteract the gusting winds.

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Left Lane: Karen Stoffer Runs 7.138/190.00, Now #4
Right Lane: Fred Collis Runs 7.119/188.36, Now #2

Both Stoffer and Collis had career best ETs and career best Top Speed in this round.

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Left Lane: Reggie Showers Runs 7.839/125.16, Now #22
Right Lane: Andrew Hines Runs 7.703/132.24, Now #19

Showers and Hines got knocked around by the wind at the end of the track. Both were able to stay upright but their struggle against the wind showed up in their ETs.

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Left Lane: Mike Berry Runs 7.235/188.10, Now #10
Right Lane: Craig Treble Runs 7.177/187.29, Now #6

Berry and Treble had good runs but neither came close to their career bests.

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Left Lane: Shawn Gann Runs 7.069/186.67, Now #1
Right Lane: Antron Brown Runs 7.201/180.98, Now #8

Gann knocked 32 thousandths of a second off his career best with this run. Brown bounced a bit at about 100 feet.

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Left Lane: Angelle Savoie Runs 7.148/186.30, Now #7
Right Lane: Geno Scali Runs 7.080/191.10, Now #2

Scali had a really good run and beat his previous career best by 58 thousandths of a second. Savoie drifted a bit in the second half of the track.

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