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MOHNTON, Pa. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 30th annual Auto-Plus 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: Dan Mercier Runs 5.432/269.51, Now #7; Best prior run: 14.313/69.45, Was #21 Weather conditions: air temperature 76 degrees, relative humidity 53 percent, barometer 29.34 inches, adjusted altitude 2,477 feet, track temperature 100 degrees. Mercier launched with
the front end in the air and when it came back down the car made a move toward the centerline, but
he reeled it in and stayed with it to get into the top half of the show. Dan Mercier's incremental
times: 60ft-0.922 sec., 330ft-2.455, 660ft-3.633/216.38 mph, 1,000ft-4.604. Left Lane: Dan Page Runs 5.413/261.07, Now #7; Best prior run: 11.398/93.91, Was #20 Right Lane: John Finke Runs 5.664/252.95, Now #15; Best prior run: 5.678/256.55, Was #14 Page with a great pass, straight down the groove to get into the top half of the show. Dan Page's incremental times: 60ft-0.968 sec., 330ft-2.464, 660ft-3.604/219.90 mph, 1,000ft-4.570. Finke was dropping cylinders right at the hit, and improve is numbers from earlier today. Left Lane: Mike Kosky Runs 5.468/256.60, Now #9; Best prior run: 8.413/98.70, Was #20 Right Lane: Earl Nichols Jr. Runs 5.553/256.94, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.639/212.56, Was #14 Kosky was straight down the groove with a good looking pass to get in the show. Mike Kosky's incremental times: 60ft-0.942 sec., 330ft-2.417, 660ft-3.591/209.75 mph, 1,000ft-4.600. Nichols Jr. is straight down the groove and moves up the ladder one spot. Left Lane: Ben Dier Runs 11.891/75.16, Now #18; Best prior run: 6.010/238.64, Was #18 Right Lane: Wayne Morris Runs 5.502/262.95, Now #12; Best prior run: 5.555/264.49, Was #14 Dier with problems right at the hit. Morris with a real nice pass to move up the ladder two spots. Left Lane: Karen Stalba Runs 5.496/261.32, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.601/259.26, Was #15 Right Lane: Richard St. Pierre Runs 5.478/257.97, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.546/256.55, Was #13 Stalba with a real nice pass, straight down the groove to move up the ladder a couple spots. Karen Stalba's incremental times: 60ft-0.967 sec., 330ft-2.495, 660ft-3.660/215.34 mph, 1,000ft-4.645. St. Pierre keep it hitting on all eight to move up to the number ten spot. Richard St. Pierre's incremental times: 60ft-0.928 sec., 330ft-2.404, 660ft-3.586/207.69 mph, 1,000ft-4.608. Left Lane: Brandon Greco Runs 5.559/253.04, Now #12; Best prior run: 5.494/255.63, Was #12 Right Lane: Frank Schuster Runs 5.522/252.57, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.494/257.53, Was #11 No help here for Greco, a clean pass. Schuster with a clean pass, but he will not improve. Left Lane: Mike Lewis Runs 5.388/261.93, Now #6; Best prior run: 5.347/260.86, Was #6 Right Lane: Mia Tedesco Runs 5.322/267.32, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.320/267.85, Was #4 Lewis with another good looking pass, but he will not improve, he runs the second quickest pass of the session. Mike Lewis' incremental times: 60ft-0.965 sec., 330ft-2.481, 660ft-3.601/224.14 mph, 1,000ft-4.550. Tedesco with another great pass, just a couple ticks off her earlier pass and the quickest pass of the session. Mia Tedesco's incremental times: 60ft-0.946 sec., 330ft-2.426, 660ft-3.545/224.28 mph, 1,000ft-4.495. Left Lane: Randy Meyer Runs 5.339/265.90, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.251/270.16, Was #1 Right Lane: Jeff Veale Runs 5.420/263.26, Now #8; Best prior run: 12.729/82.01, Was #21 Meyer with another great pass, but will not improve. Randy Meyer's incremental times: 60ft-0.982 sec., 330ft-2.469, 660ft-3.576/226.09 mph, 1,000ft-4.517. Veale was straight down the groove with a great pass to get into the top half of the show. After the finish line Veale got close to the wall. Jeff Veale's incremental times: 60ft-1.004 sec., 330ft-2.517, 660ft-3.648/222.99 mph, 1,000ft-4.595. Left Lane: Jackie Fricke Runs 5.758/252.38, Now #19; Best prior run: 5.690/247.02, Was #18 Right Lane: Bill Reichert Runs 5.365/266.21, Now #7; Best prior run: 22.520/30.92, Was #22 Fricke with no help here and she will be down to one shot. Reichert with a great looking pass to get into the top half of the show. Bill Reichert's incremental times: 60ft-0.961 sec., 330ft-2.447, 660ft-3.576/222.77 mph, 1,000ft-4.534. Left Lane: Chris Demke Runs 5.281/273.39, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.294/272.94, Was #2 Right Lane: Richard Bourke Runs 5.412/268.12, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.134/225.71, Was #21 Demke with a great pass, his quickest pass of the day and the quickest pass of the session. He will stay in the number two spot. Chris Demke's incremental times: 60ft-0.933 sec., 330ft-2.369, 660ft-3.497/219.72 mph, 1,000ft-4.461. Bourke launched hard and keep it hitting on all eight to get in the show. Richard Bourke's incremental times: 60ft-0.965 sec., 330ft-2.476, 660ft-3.614/220.33 mph, 1,000ft-4.581. Left Lane: Rich McPhillips Runs 5.412/272.34, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.336/271.24, Was #5 Right Lane: Duane Shields Runs 5.307/270.97, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.319/270.10, Was #3 McPhillips with a clean pass, but he not improve. Shields with his quickest pass of the day, but will stay in the number three spot.
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