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CONCORD, N.C. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Pro Modified 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: Left Lane: Andrew Parise Runs 6.221/232.91, Now #1 Right Lane: Pete Farber Runs 6.268/228.85, Now #2 1:50 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 86 degrees, relative humidity 49 percent, barometer 29.33 inches, adjusted altitude 3,248 feet, track temperature 122 degrees. First-time appearances for both drivers in the Get Screened America
series.Good passes for both.Parise a Left Lane: Billy Harper No Time, Now #4 Right Lane: Dina Parise Runs 6.462/227.04, Now #3 Andrew's wife, Dina, has run with the Get Screened America series before today. Harper broke before staging, Parise made a career-best run for this series. Left Lane: Ike Maier Runs 7.386/132.39, Now #5 Right Lane: Tommy Gray Runs 6.083/240.17, Now #1 Maier's run looked okay early on, but he slowed artound half track. Gray made a solid first run, just a little off his best-ever ET in this series, with his best speed. Left Lane: Chuck Cheeseman Runs 6.176/234.29, Now #2 Right Lane: Pat Musi Runs 6.316/226.43, Now #5 Both drivers had to pedal at least once to get through early tire shake. Left Lane: Chip King No Time, Now #10 Right Lane: Mike Knowles Runs 6.093/238.01, Now #2 King's Daytona stopped at the end of the burnout and just sat there, dead on the track. Knowles made his run, then the safety crew swarmed around King's car to clear it from the track. Left Lane: Dennis Radford Runs 6.056/235.89, Now #1 Right Lane: Melanie Troxel Runs 6.070/244.25, Now #2 Troxel's car made a kove to the left, toward the centerline, and she drove through it nicely. Radford took a slightly straighter path and went to the #1 spot. Left Lane: Roger Burgess Runs 6.007/244.60, Now #1 Right Lane: Mike Janis Runs 6.083/240.04, Now #5 Both cars went down the track on relatively straight runs, Burgess moving to the head of the lift and Janis a few spots lower. Left Lane: Rickie Smith Runs 6.003/237.46, Now #1 Right Lane: Rick Stivers Runs 7.137/131.54, Now #13 Both cars moved around a lot, Stivers throwing in the towel before half track, Smith riding it out to replace Burgess atop the list. Left Lane: Scott Ray Runs 5.981/240.17, Now #1 Right Lane: Raymond Commisso Runs 6.045/241.20, Now #4 Ray clocked the first five of the weekend to take over the #1 spot and Commisso made a relatively straight pass to move into fourth place. Left Lane: Jay Payne Runs 6.008/242.45, Now #4 Right Lane: Joe Baker Runs 6.099/237.42, Now #11 Most of the cars in the right lane have made moves to the left early in the run, Baker among them. Payne went right down the groove, now he's fourth. Left Lane: Ed Hoover Runs 11.894/70.42, Now #20 Right Lane: Brad Personett Runs 6.143/234.13, Now #12 Personett's car left a lot of time back early in the run and didn't make his usual top end charge. Hoover had a good launch, but shook and slowed before the 330-foot marker. Left Lane: Troy Coughlin Runs 6.205/226.35, Now #15 Right Lane: Kenny Lang Runs 6.065/237.05, Now #7 Coughlin had the best 60-foot time of the round, a 0.998, then shook hard. Lang avoided severe shake on a relatively clean run. Left Lane: Danny Rowe Runs 6.475/173.78, Now #21 Right Lane: Von Smith Runs 5.982/243.15, Now #2 Last pair...Von Smith was the second in the fives today, came up a thousandth short of the #1 spot. Rowe slowed around half track.
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