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Top Fuel Qualifying Notes, Session #3
Sat, 26 Feb 2005, 03:27 PM
Notes from round 3 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 21st annual
Checker Schuck's Kragen NHRA 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: Mitch King Runs 6.204/144.75, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.874/165.76, Was
#16
Right Lane: David Baca Runs 4.576/323.12, Now #6; Best prior run: 4.553/326.32, Was
#6
Weather conditions: air temperature 74 degrees, relative humidity 44 percent,
barometer 28.82 inches, adjusted altitude 2,527 feet, track temperature 100 degrees. King is
dropping cylinders right from the start and then pitches the blower belt off around 330 feet.
Baca with another nice looking pass, but will stay sixth.
Left Lane: Morgan Lucas Runs 4.529/324.59, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.510/321.96,
Was #5
Right Lane: Scott Weis Runs 4.676/303.91, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.344/182.18, Was
#15
Weis with a nice looking pass to move up the ladder. Lucas with good clean pass,
but will stay fifth.
Left Lane: John Smith Runs 4.699/282.30, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.957/121.62, Was
#17
Right Lane: David Grubnic Runs 4.571/323.12, Now #8; Best prior run: 8.223/84.55,
Was #18
Grubnic finally is able to get it to hook up and get into the top half of the show.
Smith started to drop cylinders and then it looked like he pushed out a head gasket and lifted
the front end around half track, but keep his foot in it to get into the show.
Left Lane: Brandon Bernstein Runs 6.853/117.44, Now #9; Best prior run:
4.595/326.16, Was #9
Right Lane: Rit Pustari Runs 4.613/312.57, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.601/308.43,
Was #10
Bernstein loses traction around 300 feet and clicks it off. Pustari with a good
pass until just before the finish line when he dropped a cylinder or two.
Left Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 4.533/326.24, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.490/327.19,
Was #1
Right Lane: Bruce Litton Runs 9.148/96.14, Now #17; Best prior run: 5.308/187.65,
Was #17
Litton was up in smoke right off the starting line and clicked it off. Kalitta with
a nice looking pass here, except it looks like he was leaking oil as the Safety Safari rolls to
clean it up. That was Kalitta's freebie.
Left Lane: Mike Strasburg Runs 4.971/270.32, Now #16; Best prior run: 4.868/241.50,
Was #16
Right Lane: Andrew Cowin Runs 11.977/75.37, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.717/296.57,
Was #15
cowin loses traction early and clicks it off. Strasburg is mixing up the cylinders
early, but stays with it.
Left Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 8.763/100.05, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.678/295.27,
Was #12
Right Lane: Larry Dixon Runs 8.211/101.26, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.695/311.70,
Was #13
Palmer loses traction first around 150 feet and then Dixon does around 200
feet.
Left Lane: Cory McClenathan Runs 6.700/118.53, Now #7; Best prior run:
4.570/315.86, Was #7
Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 4.474/317.12, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.493/326.24,
Was #2
Cory Mac was up in smoke just before the 330-foot mark. Schumacher with a great
looking pass for the track E.T. record and the number one spot. and he was slowing on the top
end. Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.825 sec., 330ft-2.110, 660ft-3.023/276.13mph,
1,000ft-3.792
Left Lane: Doug Herbert Runs 7.843/91.96, Now #3; Best prior run: 4.499/330.63, Was
#3
Right Lane: Scott Kalitta Runs 9.256/85.57, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.500/327.82,
Was #4
Both of them smoke the tires around 250 feet. That will wrap up round three of
qualifying.
Timing data courtesy of
CompuLink
By Rick Green
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