Fri, 9 Apr 2010, 07:34 PM Pro Stock Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By Larry Sullivan

BAYTOWN, Texas - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Pro Stock 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 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: Erica Enders Runs 14.877/56.59, Now #26; Best prior run: 13.980/60.25, Was #25
Right Lane: Mark Buehring Runs 6.721/205.13, Now #24; No Prior Run

6:01 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 71 degrees, relative humidity 45 percent, barometer 30.07 inches, adjusted altitude 1,174 feet, track temperature 94 degrees.

Warren Johnson is on the bump spot at 6.603.

Buehring bypassed the scales after his first run, so it was wiped off the books.

Enders's car once again "went wonky" at the launch and she once again had to lift, oh-for-two today.

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Right Lane: John Gaydosh Jr Runs 10.866/82.37, Now #25; Best prior run: 6.797/202.27, Was #25

Gaydosh got into second gear, then shut it off.

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Left Lane: Jim Cunningham Runs 12.851/66.58, Now #22; Best prior run: 6.653/209.23, Was #22
Right Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.599/209.79, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.647/207.72, Was #21

Cunningham shook hard and lifted. Morgan improved over his first run and is in - for now, anyway. Those are season-best numbers for Morgan.

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Left Lane: Steve Spiess Runs 6.594/209.92, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.628/210.24, Was #18
Right Lane: Mike Trumble Jr Runs 6.642/208.68, Now #21; Best prior run: 6.635/209.26, Was #21

Good runs both lanes, Spiess bumps into the field, putting Justin Humphreys out and Morgan on the bump.

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Left Lane: John Nobile Runs 6.591/209.79, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.617/209.04, Was #17
Right Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 6.584/209.79, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.634/209.82, Was #20

Two nice runs and the field shuffles again. That bumps Morgan and Greg Anderson. Spiess is now on the bump spot at 6.594.

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Left Lane: Rickie Jones Runs 6.602/209.49, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.616/209.65, Was #18
Right Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.591/209.43, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.632/209.62, Was #20

KJ improves and bumps Spiess, but Jones comes up short and will start over tomorrow. Now Jason Line is on the bump spot at 6.593.

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Left Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.566/210.83, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.614/210.57, Was #19
Right Lane: Bob Yonke Runs 7.515/192.60, Now #20; Best prior run: 6.620/210.44, Was #20

Yonke's car may have been in the wrong gear, it bogged badly on the launch. Stanfield made a very nice run to bump Line. Now Kurt Johnson is on the bump spot at 6.591.

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Left Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 9.052/104.96, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.603/209.98, Was #19
Right Lane: Justin Humphreys Runs 6.584/210.08, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.599/209.62, Was #17

WJ shook early and lifted. Humphreys made a nice run to get back in, bumping KJ. Now John Nobile is on the bump spot at 6.591.

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Left Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 9.780/94.01, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.585/210.83, Was #10
Right Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.662/210.24, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.598/210.90, Was #16

Brogdon's car chattered the tires and started dancing around, so he lifted. Anderson's problems were not as obvious, but he was off the pace before the 330-foot marker.

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Left Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.899/162.04, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.580/211.73, Was #7
Right Lane: Jason Line Runs 6.567/211.20, Now #5; Best prior run: 6.593/211.16, Was #14

Both cars had good short numbers, but AJ got out of the groove and shut it off, Line went right down the groove and back into the field. Now Ronnie Humphrey is on the bump spot at 6.588.

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Left Lane: Shane Gray Runs 6.582/210.24, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.575/210.14, Was #7
Right Lane: Ronnie Humphrey Runs 6.573/211.26, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.588/211.06, Was #12

The bumping is over - the remaining cars are already in the field.

Humphrey made a good run and moved well up the list, Gray failed to improve and lost one spot. Now Rodger Brogdon is on the bump spot at 6.585.

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Left Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.557/211.03, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.565/206.83, Was #3
Right Lane: V. Gaines Runs 8.080/121.94, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.574/211.20, Was #7

Gaines shook early and lifted. Krisher made a very nice run and stayed third, with low ET of the round so far.

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Left Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.550/211.86, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.539/211.93, Was #1
Right Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 6.574/211.86, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.557/212.23, Was #2

Last pair...and Edwards runs low ET of the round once again. Coughlin lost a lot of time early in the run and that took him out of the running for the qualifying bonus points in this session - Krisher was second and Stanfield third for the session.

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