Dave Northrop says Kenny Koretsky's Nitro Fish/ ISC Racers Tape/ISC Salesmaster Corp. Dodge saved
Saturday's best qualifying run for last, but his 6.811-second elapsed time at 203.40 mph wound up
15 thousandths of a second short of becoming the 16th qualifier for Sunday's Thunder Valley
Nationals at Bristol Dragway.
"Unfortunately for us, the run came in not the best of conditions," added the driver from Perkasie,
Pa. "The weather got worse and the track temperature was up. "(Crew chief) Eddie Guarnaccia and I
are frustrated. We are definitely missing something wrong that keeps us from running quicker.
"We had a transmission problem on our first run and that threw us a curve ball. We weren't able to
use a lot of the data. The car ran well after Eddie made a few more changes. We are missing
things by a small amount . . . thousandths of a second. But we will figure it out. We aren't
giving up."
