Fri, 24 Feb 2017, 15:55 PM Pro Stock Qualifying Notes, Session #1

By Rick Green

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 33rd annual NHRA Arizona Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:

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Left Lane: Val Smeland Runs 21.374/69.45, Now #2
Right Lane: Kenny Delco Runs 6.600/209.30, Now #1

Weather conditions: air temperature 65 degrees, relative humidity 24 percent, barometer 28.86 inches, adjusted altitude 1,946 feet, track temperature 108 degrees.

Smeland with severe tire shake and pushed the clutch back in and coasted down the track.

Delco with a nice pass, his quickest and fastest of the season. Kenny Delco's incremental times: 60ft-0.979 sec., 330ft-2.756, 660ft-4.241/166.07 mph, 1,000ft-5.520.

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Left Lane: Alan Prusiensky Runs 12.493/128.26, Now #3
Right Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.592/209.62, Now #1

Prusiensky blew the tires off right at the hit and clicked it of, but got back on the throttle to get the car off the track.

Johnson drifts out of the groove over by the center line, but stays with it to make his quickest and fastest pass of the season.

Allen Johnson's incremental times: 60ft-0.983 sec., 330ft-2.754, 660ft-4.235/166.39 mph, 1,000ft-5.512.

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Left Lane: Matt Hartford Runs 8.605/99.49, Now #4
Right Lane: Deric Kramer Runs 6.581/209.88, Now #1

Hartford gets off the starting line clean, but then pushes in the clutch before half track.

Kramer with a nice pass, straight down the groove to go to the number one spot. Kramer with his quickest and fastest pass of the season.

Deric Kramer's incremental times: 60ft-0.977 sec., 330ft-2.745, 660ft-4.226/166.25 mph, 1,000ft-5.504.

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Left Lane: Drew Skillman Runs 19.651/41.04, Now #7
Right Lane: Chris McGaha Runs 6.580/210.70, Now #1

Skillman rattles the tires right at the hit and clicked it off and coasted on through the 1320.

McGaha with a good looking pass to go to the number one spot. He runs his fastest pass of the season.

Chris McGaha's incremental times: 60ft-0.970 sec., 330ft-2.748, 660ft-4.231/166.52 mph, 1,000ft-5.505.

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Left Lane: Tanner Gray Runs 6.538/211.79, Now #1
Right Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 6.628/211.39, Now #6

Gray is driving the car his father drove in Pomona. He launched hard and kept it hooked up to make his career quickest and fastest pass to go to the number one spot.

Tanner Gray's incremental times: 60ft-0.976 sec., 330ft-2.739, 660ft-4.208/167.91 mph, 1,000ft-5.472.

Coughlin with his fastest pass of the season and goes to the number six spot.

Jeg Coughlin's incremental times: 60ft-1.015 sec., 330ft-2.805, 660ft-4.287/166.76 mph, 1,000ft-5.558.

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Left Lane: Shane Gray Runs 6.576/210.31, Now #3
Right Lane: Vincent Nobile Runs 6.542/210.93, Now #2

This was a good side-by-side drag race...Gray goes to the number three spot.

Shane Gray's incremental times: 60ft-0.976 sec., 330ft-2.751, 660ft-4.229/166.85 mph, 1,000ft-5.502.

Nobile with a great pass, his quickest pass of the season to go to the number two spot.

Vincent Nobile's incremental times: 60ft-0.970 sec., 330ft-2.730, 660ft-4.202/167.43 mph, 1,000ft-5.470.

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Left Lane: Erica Enders Runs 6.558/211.53, Now #4
Right Lane: Bo Butner Runs 6.556/211.23, Now #3

These two were glued together all the way down the 1320. Enders goes to the number four spot with his season fastest pass.

Erica Enders' incremental times: 60ft-0.981 sec., 330ft-2.748, 660ft-4.220/167.51 mph, 1,000ft-5.488.

Butner goes to the number three spot with a nice pass.

Bo Butner's incremental times: 60ft-0.972 sec., 330ft-2.737, 660ft-4.213/166.81 mph, 1,000ft-5.483.

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Left Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.529/211.73, Now #1
Right Lane: Jason Line Runs 6.531/211.39, Now #2

Both cars with great short times and Anderson Parlayed that into the number one spot with his quickest and fastest pass of the season. That is the fourth quickest pass, since the switch to the EFI combination and the second quickest of the season.

Greg Anderson's incremental times: 60ft-0.961 sec., 330ft-2.724, 660ft-4.195/167.68 mph, 1,000ft-5.460.

Line was right there with him and this pass ties for the eighth quickest pass in the EFI era and the the fifth quickest of the year.

Jason Line's incremental times: 60ft-0.961 sec., 330ft-2.722, 660ft-4.193/167.36 mph, 1,000ft-5.461.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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