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BAYTOWN, Texas - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run: Right Lane: Kristen Wootton Runs 13.502/65.07, Now #1 12:25 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 30.14 inches, adjusted altitude 880 feet, track temperature 104 degrees. Wootton's first NHRA TAD run was memorable, the tires hidden in a cloud
of smoke for about 330 feet (more or less) before she lifted. With the tires spinning, about half of the cylinders were not firing,
adding a cloud of raw fuel to the smoke cloud. Left Lane: Chase Copeland Runs 5.803/212.39, Now #2 Right Lane: Buddy Domingue Runs 5.497/232.75, Now #1 Since Division 4's opener is still a couple weeks off, these are the first runs of the season for many of the teams. Copeland's car dropped cylinders early in the run, Domingue made a relatively clean pass. Left Lane: Chris Holley No Time, Now #5 Right Lane: David Brounkowski Runs 5.659/251.11, Now #2 Holley's car did not fire and his first pass of the season will have to wait a bit. Left Lane: Carl Magee Runs 7.842/137.04, Now #5 Right Lane: Mark Taliaferro III Runs 5.304/274.22, Now #1 Mage had at least two dead cylinders on the right side right from the start and the engine got progressively weaker as he went down the track. Taliaferro made the first clean, strong pass of the day, with no visible problems. Mark Taliaferro III's incremental times: 60ft-0.968 sec., 330ft-2.440, 660ft-3.546/228.34 mph, 1,000ft-4.488. Left Lane: Marty Thacker Runs 5.416/268.38, Now #3 Right Lane: Bill Reichert Runs 5.331/267.80, Now #2 Thacker's is the first blown car of the day. He left with his usual wheelstand, the wheels going right over the top of the 60-foot timing beam, but Reichert ran him down on the top end. Marty Thacker's incremental times: 60ft-1.075 sec.,
330ft-2.425, 660ft-3.587/215.75 mph, 1,000ft-4.578. Left Lane: Randy Meyer Runs 5.332/263.05, Now #4 Right Lane: Michael Manners Runs 5.293/271.30, Now #1 Two more nice runs, Manners going to the head of the list. Randy Meyer's incremental times: 60ft-0.975 sec.,
330ft-2.445, 660ft-3.543/228.50 mph, 1,000ft-4.494. Left Lane: John Finke Runs 5.710/253.85, Now #9 Right Lane: Chris Demke Runs 5.277/268.87, Now #1 Demke is the second blown car - about par for this event. And he goes to the head of the list with a great run. Finke shook and pedaled. Chris Demke's incremental times: 60ft-0.904 sec., 330ft-2.328, 660ft-3.461/219.12 mph, 1,000ft-4.442. Left Lane: Monroe Guest Runs 12.070/80.43, Now #13 Right Lane: Duane Shields Runs 5.305/271.95, Now #4 This is Shields' tenth national event at HRP...and he opens with a good run, but it only put him fourth on the list. Guest was upm in smoke immediately. Duane Shields' incremental times: 60ft-0.934 sec., 330ft-2.424, 660ft-3.545/224.96 mph,
1,000ft-4.489.
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