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Fri, 13 Nov 2026, 14:45 PM

Top Alcohol Dragster Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Rick Green

POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, 61st annual In-N-Out Burger NHRA Finals 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: Randy Eakins Runs 5.257/268.17, Now #5; Best prior run: 14.597/65.87, Was #20
Right Lane: Jerry Kumre Runs 11.262/67.43, Now #19; Best prior run: 5.526/253.90, Was #18

Weather conditions: air temperature 61 degrees, relative humidity 78 percent, barometer 29.84 inches, adjusted altitude 1,927 feet.

Eakins kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to get in the show. He goes to number five spot.

Kumre lost traction right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Nick Januik No Time, Now #20; Best prior run: 5.805/215.72, Was #20
Right Lane: Mitch Myers Runs 5.406/260.76, Now #15; Best prior run: 5.490/261.42, Was #17

Januik's car went silent right off the starting line and the car came to a stop just before half track. He will not get in the show.

Myers is straight down the groove with his quickest pass this weekend to get in the show.

Left Lane: Garrett Bateman Runs 5.359/273.72, Now #14; Best prior run: 5.513/266.37, Was #18
Right Lane: Mitch Kalitta Runs 5.273/270.70, Now #7; Best prior run: 5.408/267.75, Was #16

Bateman is straight down the groove with a good clean pass to get in the show. He goes to the number 14 spot.

Kalitta kept it hooked up and makes his quickest pass this weekend to get off the bump spot. He moves into the top half of the show.

Left Lane: Casey Grisel Runs 13.955/75.27, Now #18; Best prior run: 5.425/263.36, Was #18
Right Lane: Cheyne Phillips Runs 5.361/271.19, Now #15; Best prior run: 5.377/270.00, Was #15

Grisel is up in smoke right at the hit and clicks it off. He will not get in the show.

Phillips with his quickest pass of the weekend, but will stay in the number 15 spot.

Left Lane: Angelle Sampey Runs 5.378/262.49, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.378/264.96, Was #16
Right Lane: Mark Whynaught No Time, Now #12; Best prior run: 5.330/271.08, Was #12

Sampey is straight down the groove and matches her quickest pass of the weekend and stays on the bump spot.

whynaught with problems after the burnout and is shut off.

Left Lane: Mikel McQueen Runs 10.062/78.32, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.338/268.12, Was #13
Right Lane: Richie Crampton Runs 5.235/272.72, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.301/262.95, Was #10

McQueen shook and clicked it off.

Crampton launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number two spot. Richie Crampton's incremental times: 60ft-0.933 sec., 330ft-2.395, 660ft-3.486/228.73 mph, 1,000ft-4.421.

Left Lane: Jamie Noonan Runs 5.366/273.50, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.321/270.75, Was #11
Right Lane: Chris Demke Runs 15.104/71.31, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.276/267.75, Was #9

Noonan lost traction right at the hit and did a quick pedal job and got it to hook up for a good pass.

Demke lost traction right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Joey Severance Runs 9.948/93.40, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.293/269.94, Was #10
Right Lane: Jackie Fricke Runs 5.281/275.67, Now #7; Best prior run: 5.264/271.79, Was #7

Severance shook and clicked it off right at the hit.

fricke launched hard and kept it hooked up to make another good looking pass. She will stay in the number seven spot.

Left Lane: Kirk Wolf Runs 11.682/64.87, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.252/271.62, Was #5
Right Lane: Braiden Chesleigh Runs 5.288/272.23, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.249/272.01, Was #4

Wolf started to rattle the tires and clicked it off.

Chesleigh is straight down the groove with a good clean pass. He will stay in the number four spot.

Left Lane: Melanie Johnson Runs 5.269/271.24, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.239/274.89, Was #3
Right Lane: Shawn Cowie Runs 5.170/277.66, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.225/275.51, Was #1

Johnson kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to make another good clean pass. She will start from number three spot.

Cowie launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the weekend. He will qualify in the number one spot for the sixth time this season and 33rd in his career.

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