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Top Fuel Qualifying Notes, Final Session
Sat, 26 Feb 2005, 06:05 PM
Notes from final, round 4 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: Bruce Litton Runs 4.854/295.66, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.308/187.65,
Was #17
Right Lane: Mitch King Runs 5.048/293.92, Now #18; Best prior run: 5.874/165.76, Was
#18
Weather conditions: air temperature 76 degrees, relative humidity 37 percent,
barometer 28.75 inches, adjusted altitude 2,745 feet, track temperature 90 degrees.Litton
finally gets down the track and gets into the show and that will bump out Strasburg. King will
not make the show.
Left Lane: Andrew Cowin Runs 10.497/80.77, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.717/296.57,
Was #15
Right Lane: Mike Strasburg Runs 10.345/80.46, Now #17; Best prior run: 4.868/241.50,
Was #17
Strasburg goes up in smoke at about the same time Cowin did and he will not get in
the show.
Left Lane: Larry Dixon Runs 4.517/330.39, Now #6; Best prior run: 4.695/311.70, Was
#13
Right Lane: John Smith Runs 7.273/119.84, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.699/282.30, Was
#14
Dixon with a great looking pass to jump into the top half of the field with a big
top end speed. Smith started to lose traction and tried to drive through it, but then lost
traction again.
Right Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 8.062/117.30, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.678/295.27,
Was #13
Palmer lost traction around 150 feet and pedaled it one time before losing traction
again and clicking it off.
Left Lane: Rit Pustari Runs 5.461/177.07, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.601/308.43,
Was #11
Right Lane: Brandon Bernstein Runs 4.508/333.74, Now #5; Best prior run:
4.595/326.16, Was #10
Pustari with a great looking pass until just before half track when he started to
haze the tires. Bernstein launched hard and keep the Goodyears stuck all the way through the
1320 for the track mph record.
Left Lane: David Grubnic No Time, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.571/323.12, Was #10
Right Lane: Cory McClenathan Runs 4.569/325.53, Now #9; Best prior run:
4.570/315.86, Was #9
Grubnic had problems on the burnout and just drove it on through the quarter mile.
McClenathan with a great looking pass, but will stay in the number nine position.
Left Lane: David Baca Runs 4.619/314.53, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.553/326.32, Was
#8
Right Lane: Morgan Lucas Runs 8.455/84.10, Now #6; Best prior run: 4.510/321.96, Was
#6
Lucas lost traction around 200 feet and clicked it off. Baca with another nice
looking pass, and he will start from the top half of the field.
Left Lane: Scott Kalitta Runs 7.111/107.75, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.500/327.82,
Was #4
Right Lane: Doug Herbert Runs 10.504/87.82, Now #3; Best prior run: 4.499/330.63,
Was #3
Herbert was up in smoke right off the starting line and clicked it off. Kalitta
lost traction around 300 feet before he clicked it off.
Left Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 4.486/327.74, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.474/317.12,
Was #1
Right Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 9.651/81.17, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.490/327.19, Was
#2
Kalitta lost traction around 200 feet and clicked it off. Schumacher with another
great looking pass. This is his third consecutive pass in the 4.40 zone and his second number
one to start the year.
Timing data courtesy of
CompuLink
By Rick Green
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