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MORRISON, Colo. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 34th 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: Left Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 4.130/291.57, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.219/290.32, Was #14 Weather conditions: air temperature 84 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 24.16 inches, adjusted altitude 9,522 feet, track temperature 95 degrees. Palmer with a real
nice looking pass, straight down the groove and then dropped a cylinder right in the lights, but he
move up the ladder one spot. Scott Palmer's incremental times: 60ft-0.891 sec., 330ft-2.303,
660ft-3.301/255.82 mph. Left Lane: Mike Strasburg Runs 4.174/283.97, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.189/275.90, Was #14 Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 4.007/306.74, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.514/206.04, Was #17 Schumacher launched hard and was straight down the groove and into the top half of the show. Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.884 sec., 330ft-2.246, 660ft-3.211/264.70 mph. Strasburg with his quickest pass of the weekend, but still got bumped back one spot. Mike Strasburg's incremental times: 60ft-0.918 sec., 330ft-2.343, 660ft-3.330/256.26 mph. Left Lane: Antron Brown Runs 4.043/306.26, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.131/288.70, Was #14 Right Lane: Morgan Lucas Runs 4.152/266.64, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.410/244.87, Was #17 Brown with his quickest pass of the weekend to move up to the number nine spot. Antron Brown's incremental times: 60ft-0.896 sec., 330ft-2.278, 660ft-3.244/263.46 mph. Lucas was mixing up cylinders early and stayed with it to get in the show. Left Lane: Brandon Bernstein Runs 4.367/207.08, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.108/251.49, Was #12 Right Lane: Steven Chrisman No Time, Now #17; Best prior run: 4.342/229.24, Was #17 Chrisman can't get his car to fire and he will not get a chance to get back into the show. Bernstein started to drop cylinders and haze the tires before the car popped and banged and he clicked it off. Left Lane: Terry McMillen Runs 4.019/295.01, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.077/245.81, Was #11 Right Lane: Steve Torrence Runs 3.880/319.60, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.111/262.59, Was #13 McMillen started to get out of the groove and over by the centerline before it started smoking the tires. The engine then started to eat itself up and had a quick fireball. The word from the top end is there is oil in McMillen's lane. Torrence launched hard and keep it hooked up to run the fastest pass here at the Mountain. Torrence goes to the number one spot. Steve Torrence's incremental times: 60ft-0.872 sec., 330ft-2.204, 660ft-3.122/279.44 mph. torrence's engine let go right in the lights and the word is there is oil in his lane also. Left Lane: Spencer Massey Runs 4.018/299.93, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.002/307.51, Was #8 Right Lane: David Grubnic Runs 3.971/307.65, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.052/288.89, Was #12 This was a good side-by-side drag race...Grubnic with his quickest pass of the weekend to move into the top half of the show. David Grubnic's incremental times: 60ft-0.875 sec., 330ft-2.218, 660ft-3.177/264.60 mph. Massey with a good looking pass, but doesn't improve. Spencer Massey's incremental times: 60ft-0.870 sec., 330ft-2.242, 660ft-3.211/262.59 mph. Left Lane: Clay Millican Runs 3.981/305.84, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.975/308.57, Was #8 Right Lane: Brittany Force Runs 3.918/309.63, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.926/309.56, Was #4 Millican with another good looking pass, but will not improve. Clay Millican's incremental times: 60ft-0.873 sec., 330ft-2.243, 660ft-3.192/268.71 mph. Force launched hard and keep it hooked up to make her quickest pass of the weekend to move up to the number three spot. Brittany Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.862 sec., 330ft-2.210, 660ft-3.139/275.34 mph. Left Lane: Bob Vandergriff Runs 4.874/152.81, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.949/302.14, Was #6 Right Lane: Khalid alBalooshi Runs 3.933/311.63, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.924/313.95, Was #4 Vandergriff is up in smoke just past the 330-foot mark. alBalooshi was straight down the groove with another good looking pass. Khalid alBalooshi's incremental times: 60ft-0.864 sec., 330ft-2.217, 660ft-3.155/272.39 mph. Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.939/309.84, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.935/315.12, Was #5 Right Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 4.532/177.53, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.889/310.13, Was #2 Kalitta is up in smoke right around half track and clicks it off. Langdon launched hard and keep it hooked up for another good looking pass. He will not improve and will stay in the number five spot. Shawn Langdon's incremental times: 60ft-0.857 sec., 330ft-2.217, 660ft-3.161/272.23 mph.
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