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COMMERCE, Ga. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 36th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern 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: Smax Smith Runs 4.466/270.97, Now #13; No Prior Run Weather conditions: air temperature 84 degrees, relative humidity 39 percent, barometer 29.12 inches, adjusted altitude 3,169 feet, track temperature 128 degrees. Smith making his first
pass of the weekend, he dropped a cylinder early, but keep it hooked up to get a number on the
board and in the field. Right Lane: Chris Karamesines Runs 4.149/278.75, Now #13; No Prior Run Karamesines has a cylinder out right at the hit and then starts drifting out of the groove and gets close to the centerline. Right in the lights the engine lets go with a huge fireball, he still makes his quickest pass the weekend. Left Lane: Terry Haddock Runs 4.177/284.51, Now #15; No Prior Run Right Lane: Kyle Wurtzel Runs 4.015/278.92, Now #13; No Prior Run A couple good clean passes...Haddock making his first pass of the weekend and makes a nice pass. Terry Haddock's incremental times: 60ft-0.927 sec., 330ft-2.330, 660ft-3.331/251.44 mph. Wurtzel was straight down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend. Kyle Wurtzel's incremental times: 60ft-0.861 sec., 330ft-2.225, 660ft-3.192/262.13 mph. Left Lane: Pat Dakin Runs 5.586/120.72, Now #11; Best prior run: 3.878/295.34, Was #11 Right Lane: Clay Millican Runs 3.910/315.42, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.868/312.64, Was #10 Dakin is dropping cylinders right at the hit and starts to lose traction and clicks it off. Millican was straight down the groove with a clean pass, he will not improve. Clay Millican's incremental times: 60ft-0.858 sec., 330ft-2.183, 660ft-3.137/269.83 mph. Left Lane: Terry McMillen Runs 3.843/319.37, Now #10; No Prior Run Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 3.875/313.44, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.811/319.82, Was #8 This was a good side-by-side drag race...McMillen launched hard and keep it hooked up to make his quickest pass of the weekend to get into the show. Terry McMillen's incremental times: 60ft-0.864 sec., 330ft-2.183, 660ft-3.087/281.54 mph. Schumacher was right there with him and was dropping a cylinder or two right right in the lights. Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.854 sec., 330ft-2.179, 660ft-3.106/276.24 mph. Left Lane: Leah Pritchett Runs 3.897/308.07, Now #9; Best prior run: 3.822/303.50, Was #9 Right Lane: Antron Brown Runs 5.911/110.03, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.789/321.27, Was #7 Brown started to lose traction early and clicked it off. Pritchett launched hard and was straight down the groove with a real nice pass until right in the lights when the engine lets go with a fireball. The word from the top end is there is oil on the track. Leah Pritchett was charged with an oildown, #5 for the season. That will cost 15 points and $4K. Left Lane: Steve Torrence Runs 3.887/308.57, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.771/324.12, Was #4 Right Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.881/299.80, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.783/319.52, Was #6 Torrence was on a good looking pass until around half track when it dropped a cylinder, but he stayed with it...Steve Torrence's incremental times: 60ft-0.858 sec., 330ft-2.180, 660ft-3.107/272.50 mph. Langdon was on a real nice pass until right in the lights when the engine went silent. Shawn Langdon's incremental times: 60ft-0.854 sec., 330ft-2.190, 660ft-3.107/277.94 mph. Left Lane: J.R. Todd Runs 3.838/319.37, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.762/323.81, Was #3 Right Lane: Brittany Force Runs 3.856/317.94, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.777/320.51, Was #5 This was a great side-by-side drag race...Todd launched hard and keep it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the day. J.R. Todd's incremental times: 60ft-0.860 sec., 330ft-2.184, 660ft-3.086/283.43 mph. Force was right there with him for the third quickest pass of the day. Brittany Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.854 sec., 330ft-2.195, 660ft-3.103/282.36 mph. Left Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 3.846/321.81, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.731/328.70, Was #1 Right Lane: Richie Crampton Runs 3.849/316.90, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.761/321.50, Was #2 What a great side-by-side drag race to wrap up this round of qualifying. Kalitta launched hard and was straight down the groove with a nice pass for the third quickest pass of the day. Doug Kalitta's incremental times: 60ft-0.858 sec., 330ft-2.185, 660ft-3.097/281.95 mph. Crampton with a real nice pass, he keep it hitting on all eight and hooked up to make the fourth quickest pass of the round. Richie Crampton's incremental times: 60ft-0.857 sec., 330ft-2.177, 660ft-3.090/281.01 mph.
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