Fri, 17 Sep 2010, 01:26 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Session #1

By Larry Sullivan

CONCORD, N.C. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Third annual O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:

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Right Lane: Bill Naves Runs 8.430/105.36, Now #1

12:58 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 47 percent, barometer 29.34 inches, adjusted altitude 3,315 feet, track temperature 118 degrees.

Naves' car went to the left on the launch. He brought the car back to the groove, but the engine sounded like it was losing power and he shut it off around half track, the chutes out early.

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Left Lane: Tony Bogolo Runs 18.304/27.27, Now #3
Right Lane: Mark Billington Runs 5.765/251.20, Now #1

Bogolo shook hard and coasted through. Billington used up both sides of his lane - not too much of the middle, however.

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Left Lane: Cassie Simonton Runs 9.327/100.70, Now #4
Right Lane: Melinda Green-King Runs 5.855/250.18, Now #2

Simonton is driving Spiro Kontos' "Kon Rodz" entry in a "ladies-only" pairing. Her car shook and she lifted. Green-King used up a lot of her lane, but her run was straighter than Billington's.

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Left Lane: Ken Webster Runs 5.789/251.77, Now #2
Right Lane: Thomas Carter Runs 7.286/101.53, Now #4

Carter shook and had the chutes out early. Good first pass by Webster.

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Left Lane: John Bojec Runs 15.093/27.39, Now #8
Right Lane: John Anderika Runs 5.740/250.04, Now #1

Bojec shook hard and lifted immediately. Nice, clean pass by Anderika.

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Left Lane: Brent Henry Runs 5.686/257.63, Now #1
Right Lane: Clint Thompson Runs 7.201/132.58, Now #6

Henry showed how it's done to take over the top spot, but Thompson shook before half track.

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Left Lane: Todd Veney Runs 5.721/254.81, Now #3
Right Lane: Frank Manzo Runs 5.639/257.14, Now #1

Manzo used up a lot of the right lane (lots of thast going around) while Veney went straight down the groove. Even so, Manzo ended up atop the list, though with just a small advantage over the #2 qualifier, while Veney slipped into a tight bunch in the high seventies.

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