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Fri, 28 Oct 2022, 21:59 PM

Top Alcohol Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By Dave Gerard

LAS VEGAS - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 22nd annual NHRA Nevada 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: Robert Turner No Time, Now #17; No Prior Run
Right Lane: Doug Schneider Runs 6.680/249.49, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.650/255.82, Was #11

6:12 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 68 degrees, relative humidity 9 percent, barometer 30.15 inches, adjusted altitude 2,804 feet.

Ulf Leanders is on the bump spot at 8.623.

Two broken passes!

Schneider' Monte Carlo kicks the tires off the line. He tries to pump the throttle to no avail and he is done.

Turner leaves hard and has his Mont Carlo drive hard to and across the center line about the 660 lights. He pulls it back into his lane and coasts to the finish line.

Left Lane: Mike Doushgounian Runs 5.632/257.83, Now #11; Best prior run: 7.633/123.83, Was #15

Doushgounian gets the power to the track this time and takes his Camaro right up the ladder to the #11 spot on a great looking pass.

Mike Doushgounian's incremental times: 60ft-0.946 sec., 330ft-2.516, 660ft-3.728/204.01 mph, 1,000ft-4.759.

Left Lane: Kris Hool Runs 5.606/263.31, Now #11; Best prior run: 7.194/164.45, Was #15
Right Lane: Ulf Leanders Runs 5.750/256.02, Now #14; Best prior run: 8.623/115.63, Was #16

Both of these cars should be way further up the ladder.

Much better than earlier, but not stellar passes.

Hool gets a big advantage off the line and runs strong up four spots to #11.

Leanders's Camaro slowed some on the top end and he will only improve by just two spots.

Kris Hool's incremental times: 60ft-0.983 sec., 330ft-2.538, 660ft-3.733/208.49 mph, 1,000ft-4.749.
Ulf Leanders' incremental times: 60ft-0.940 sec., 330ft-2.515, 660ft-3.809/195.85 mph, 1,000ft-4.868.

Left Lane: Ray Martin Runs 5.741/250.46, Now #14; Best prior run: 5.849/254.52, Was #16
Right Lane: Randy Parker Runs 5.776/253.80, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.755/227.23, Was #15

Martin leaves first and runs better to the finish line and moves off the bump up into the #11 spot.

Parker picked up a bunch of speed. but gets pushed back onto the bump spot.

Ray Martin's incremental times: 60ft-0.947 sec., 330ft-2.555, 660ft-3.785/203.34 mph, 1,000ft-4.840.
Randy Parker's incremental times: 60ft-0.995 sec., 330ft-2.589, 660ft-3.834/199.73 mph, 1,000ft-4.888.

Left Lane: Shane Westerfield Runs 5.595/264.29, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.585/264.39, Was #9
Right Lane: Nick Januik Runs 5.571/261.12, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.600/255.29, Was #10

Two strong passes and they swap places on the ladder.

Westerfield gets away first by a bunch, but slows a little to end up in the tenth spot.

Januik finds some power and moves up to number nine.

Shane Westerfield's incremental times: 60ft-0.940 sec., 330ft-2.536, 660ft-3.733/208.33 mph, 1,000ft-4.743.
Nick Januik's incremental times: 60ft-0.944 sec., 330ft-2.486, 660ft-3.688/206.42 mph, 1,000ft-4.708.

Left Lane: Jim Whiteley Runs 8.785/100.38, Now #8; Best prior run: 5.569/261.07, Was #8
Right Lane: Brian Hough Runs 5.509/265.06, Now #6; Best prior run: 5.505/265.90, Was #6

Whiteley's Camaro leave hard and then goes silent before the 660 lights.

Hough runs close to his session one times to stay #6.

Brian Hough's incremental times: 60ft-0.965 sec., 330ft-2.483, 660ft-3.662/209.72 mph, 1,000ft-4.662.

Left Lane: Matt Gill Runs 8.417/154.10, Now #7; Best prior run: 5.509/266.21, Was #7
Right Lane: Doug Gordon Runs 5.455/268.81, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.498/264.86, Was #4

Gill's Camaro starts tail wagging right off the line and he had to lift.

Nice clean and straight pass for Gordon to move up to spots on the ladder to the current number to spot.

Doug Gordon's incremental times: 60ft-0.947 sec., 330ft-2.453, 660ft-3.624/211.56 mph, 1,000ft-4.617.

Left Lane: DJ Cox Jr. Runs 5.513/262.64, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.501/264.80, Was #5
Right Lane: Annie Whiteley Runs 9.005/103.73, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.494/268.44, Was #4

No joy for Whiteley as the car gets loose right off the line and is coasting.

Cox is just a little off of his session one pace to stay number five.

DJ Cox Jr.'s incremental times: 60ft-0.939 sec., 330ft-2.446, 660ft-3.635/208.01 mph, 1,000ft-4.654.

Left Lane: Chris Marshall Runs 5.419/269.13, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.448/267.53, Was #1
Right Lane: Sean Bellemeur Runs 5.455/268.17, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.484/266.64, Was #3

Last pair!

Great side by side run and both cars improve on their ET's.

Marshall was already number one and powers right on down the track to push the top spot ever further.

Bellemeur was away first and paces him to the finish line with a better ET and speed, but stays #3 for tonight.

Chris Marshall's incremental times: 60ft-0.928 sec., 330ft-2.422, 660ft-3.588/213.50 mph, 1,000ft-4.581.
Sean Bellemeur's incremental times: 60ft-0.948 sec., 330ft-2.453, 660ft-3.621/212.16 mph, 1,000ft-4.615.

6:39 p.m. Randy Parker is on the bump spot at 5.755.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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