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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 34th annual MAC Tools NHRA Gatornationals 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: Right Lane: Jim Cunningham Runs 7.112/193.84, Now #44; Best prior run: 7.080/194.84, Was #44 3:56 PM Current weather conditions: 68 degrees, 83 percent relative humidity, the barometer 29.94 inches, with a track temperature of 105 degrees, under sunny skies. Left Lane: Mike Weinle No Time, Now #45; Best prior run: 7.086/194.42, Was #45 Right Lane: Eric Shelton Runs 7.112/193.29, Now #43; Best prior run: 7.067/195.05, Was #43 Left Lane: Bob Benza Runs 10.975/81.58, Now #42; Best prior run: 6.974/198.80, Was #41 Right Lane: Nick Fratt Runs 6.935/199.77, Now #39; Best prior run: 7.043/198.06, Was #42 The bump time is Barry Grant's 6.827, by the way. Left Lane: Kevin Lawrence Runs 14.216/59.46, Now #41; Best prior run: 6.950/198.50, Was #41 Right Lane: Jose Maldonado Runs 7.004/198.58, Now #40; Best prior run: 6.941/198.71, Was #40 Lawrence's car shook and slowed immediately. Left Lane: Arturo Delgado Runs 6.921/198.76, Now #34; Best prior run: 6.879/199.64, Was #34 Right Lane: Jim Bernard Runs 6.931/200.13, Now #38; Best prior run: 6.892/200.08, Was #38 Left Lane: Jerry Haas Runs 6.915/200.17, Now #32; Best prior run: 6.872/200.71, Was #32 Right Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.907/200.04, Now #37; Best prior run: 6.885/199.82, Was #37 Apparently I stirred up a few hornets by making a comment during second round qualifying that Larry Morgan was unhappy with the Stratus' aerodynamics. That statement should not have been attributed to Morgan. While the team is obviously not happy with the progress of the Stratus package and Morgan is running a Neon this weekend to try to sort some of the problems out, they are satisfied that the Stratus aerodynamics package is comparable with the Neon's. No help on this final run for either car, conditions making in unlikely a team will
make a significant improvement unless they were way off to begin with. Left Lane: Kenny Koretsky Runs 6.869/201.07, Now #31; Best prior run: 6.866/199.91, Was #31 Right Lane: George Marnell Runs 6.930/199.11, Now #36; Best prior run: 6.884/200.31, Was #36 Koretsky almost matched his best run of the weekend, but that was not good enough. Left Lane: David Strouse Jr. Runs 16.113/47.81, Now #30; Best prior run: 6.862/200.04, Was #30 Right Lane: JR Carr Runs 6.903/199.91, Now #35; Best prior run: 6.882/200.31, Was #35 Strouse shook hard and shut off. Left Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.877/201.29, Now #26; Best prior run: 6.857/202.11, Was #26 Right Lane: Richie Stevens Runs 6.892/199.86, Now #33; Best prior run: 6.878/200.62, Was #33 Nope, two good cars, two good teams, but the conditions are against them. Left Lane: Ben Watson Runs 6.874/200.22, Now #25; Best prior run: 6.855/200.75, Was #25 Right Lane: Mark Osborne Runs 6.882/201.07, Now #29; Best prior run: 6.860/201.02, Was #29 Left Lane: Taylor Lastor Runs 6.850/201.47, Now #24; Best prior run: 6.850/201.29, Was #24 Right Lane: Mike Thomas Runs 6.888/199.73, Now #28; Best prior run: 6.859/200.13, Was #28 Left Lane: Brad Jeter Runs 6.863/201.20, Now #22; Best prior run: 6.844/201.34, Was #22 Right Lane: Tom Hammonds Runs 6.901/200.31, Now #27; Best prior run: 6.859/200.62, Was #27 Left Lane: Robert Patrick Runs 11.850/74.00, Now #18; Best prior run: 6.834/201.20, Was #18 Right Lane: John Nobile Runs 6.914/200.66, Now #23; Best prior run: 6.848/200.66, Was #23 patrick launched, shook, and shut off. Left Lane: Troy Coughlin Runs 6.885/201.29, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.827/201.16, Was #17 Right Lane: Randy Daniels Runs 6.909/200.17, Now #21; Best prior run: 6.840/200.57, Was #21 Left Lane: Barry Grant Runs 6.858/200.49, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.827/201.47, Was #16 Right Lane: Jim Yates Runs 6.826/201.92, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.838/201.29, Was #20 By a thousandth of a second, Yates bumps out the driver in the other lane, replacing him on the bubble. Left Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.880/200.57, Now #15; Best prior run: 6.820/201.34, Was #15 Right Lane: Gene Wilson Runs 6.853/201.70, Now #20; Best prior run: 6.836/201.83, Was #20 Yates survives his final challenge, the remaining cars already in the field. Left Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.891/200.53, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.817/201.20, Was #14 Right Lane: Mark Pawuk Runs 6.862/201.43, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.813/201.79, Was #12 These two got in during the frantic third round and are probably very glad they did so. Left Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 6.837/201.79, Now #13; Best prior run: 6.813/201.61, Was #13 Right Lane: Tom Martino Runs 6.850/201.38, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.809/201.92, Was #10 Jeg made a good run for the conditions, most drivers losing about five hundredths from the first session today. Left Lane: Mark Whisnant Runs 6.836/201.34, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.811/201.97, Was #11 Right Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.848/202.11, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.808/202.42, Was #9 Nice pass by Whisnant, only 0.025 off his best. Left Lane: Darrell Alderman Runs 6.853/201.61, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.806/202.20, Was #8 Right Lane: V. Gaines Runs 6.838/202.06, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.798/202.20, Was #6 Gaines made a nice run, but lost 0.04 from his earlier pass. Yates remains the quickest of the round. Left Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 6.825/202.65, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.802/203.02, Was #7 Right Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.817/203.71, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.794/203.57, Was #3 These two runs don't make any changes in the field, but they are the two quickest runs of the session so far and KJ reset the track speed record. Left Lane: Scott Geoffrion Runs 18.390/43.52, Now #5; Best prior run: 6.798/202.70, Was #5 Right Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.804/203.25, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.788/203.43, Was #2 Geoffrion shook and slowed immediately. Anderson made his worst run of the weekend - but it's quickest of the round so far. Left Lane: Terry Adams Runs 6.871/202.02, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.794/202.47, Was #4 Right Lane: Bruce Allen Runs 12.362/69.58, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.777/202.33, Was #1 Hard shake for Allen and Adams lost 0.08 seconds from earlier today. Allen stays #1 and will face the only driver to break into the field this session, Jim Yates, tomorrow.
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