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MORRISON, Colo. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 31st annual Mopar Mile-High 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: Right Lane: Mike Strasburg Runs 4.162/288.64, Now #11; No Prior Run Weather conditions: air temperature 79 degrees, relative humidity 40 percent, barometer 24.33 inches, adjusted altitude 8,947 feet, track temperature 92 degrees. Strasburg launched hard
and keep it hooked it up to go to the number 11 spot. Mike Strasburg's incremental times:
60ft-0.922 sec., 330ft-2.342, 660ft-3.331/257.87 mph. That will bump out Passey. Left Lane: Steve Torrence Runs 3.983/299.13, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.169/285.95, Was #12 Right Lane: Terry McMillen Runs 4.217/283.67, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.327/230.49, Was #15 Torrence with a real nice pass until right in the lights when he starts to drop cylinders, but it still gets him into the top half of the show. Steve Torrence's incremental times: 60ft-0.869 sec., 330ft-2.213, 660ft-3.172/261.93 mph. McMillen with his quickest pass of the weekend, but only moves up the ladder one spot. Terry McMillen's incremental times: 60ft-0.908 sec., 330ft-2.338, 660ft-3.366/246.84 mph. Left Lane: Cory McClenathan Runs 4.018/308.64, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.103/272.17, Was #9 Right Lane: Steven Chrisman Runs 4.207/278.12, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.294/278.40, Was #15 McClenathan drove through some tire shake right off the starting line and runs his quickest pass of the weekend to move into the top half of the show. Cory McClenathan's incremental times: 60ft-0.883 sec., 330ft-2.270, 660ft-3.232/268.12 mph. McClenathan runs the fastest pass of the event. Chrisman with his quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder one spot. Steven Chrisman's incremental times: 60ft-0.916 sec., 330ft-2.316, 660ft-3.341/246.84 mph. Left Lane: Bob Vandergriff Runs 4.049/295.27, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.027/302.62, Was #9 Right Lane: Morgan Lucas Runs 4.158/270.75, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.177/288.58, Was #13 Lucas with his quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder one spot. Morgan Lucas' incremental times: 60ft-0.897 sec., 330ft-2.278, 660ft-3.297/248.16 mph. No help here for Vandergriff, but still a good pass. Left Lane: Larry Dixon Runs 3.974/295.66, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.985/297.61, Was #6 Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 3.974/312.42, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.115/287.90, Was #11 This was a great side-by-side drag race as they both run their quickest passes of the weekend. Schumacher with the fastest pass of the weekend, and he will get the edge over Dixon because of speed. Larry Dixon's incremental times: 60ft-0.867 sec., 330ft-2.214, 660ft-3.166/266.42 mph. Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.872 sec., 330ft-2.242, 660ft-3.195/270.21 mph. Apparently Dixon used up engine as the Safety Safari is rolling in his lane. Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 4.121/261.27, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.982/304.94, Was #6 Right Lane: Rod Fuller Runs 4.887/149.93, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.113/280.66, Was #11 Fuller starts to smoke the tires around half track and clicked it off. Langdon dropped a cylinder or two early and then had a lot of engine smoke right in the lights. Apparently he used up an engine as a lot of the trucks are scrambling. Left Lane: David Grubnic Runs 5.458/126.62, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.970/304.67, Was #3 Right Lane: Brandon Bernstein Runs 4.069/297.61, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.992/296.11, Was #8 Grubnic starts lose traction and clicks it off early. Bernstein was on a good pass until it started mixing up cylinders on the top end and it appeared to have pitched the blower belt. He will face Cory Mac in round one. Left Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 7.591/75.30, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.962/308.21, Was #2 Right Lane: Antron Brown Runs 4.518/185.43, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.961/286.19, Was #1 Kalitta started to smoke the tires early and clicked it off. Brown started to haze the tires and pedaled it but wasn't able to get it to hook up and clicked it off.
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