Sat, 29 Jul 2006, 06:29 PM Pro Stock Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Rick Green

SONOMA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual FRAM-Autolite 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:

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Left Lane: Shaun Carlson Runs 6.738/205.85, Now #22; Best prior run: 6.731/205.85, Was #22

Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 54 percent, barometer 30.14 inches,adjusted altitude 1,293 feet, track temperature 124 degrees.

No help here for Carlson.

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Left Lane: Ben Watson Runs 6.761/204.73, Now #20; Best prior run: 6.724/205.04, Was #20
Right Lane: Tony Rizzo Runs 6.764/204.23, Now #23; Best prior run: 6.831/203.16, Was #23

Rizzo with his best pass of the weekend, but will not get in the show. No help for Watson.

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Left Lane: Dave Connolly Runs 6.689/206.48, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.717/205.29, Was #19
Right Lane: Tom Lee Runs 6.699/207.21, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.728/205.98, Was #21

Lee with his quickest pass of the weekend, and he will not get into the show. Connolly with his quickest pass of the weekend to get into the show and that bumps out Pawuk. Erica Enders is on the bump spot at 6.696.

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Left Lane: Dave Northrop Runs 6.743/205.51, Now #20; Best prior run: 6.710/205.79, Was #19
Right Lane: Max Naylor Runs 6.703/206.29, Now #18; Best prior run: 6.715/205.29, Was #20

Naylor with his quickest pass of the weekend, but he doen't get into the show. No help for Northrop.

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Left Lane: Mark Pawuk Runs 6.693/206.73, Now #15; Best prior run: 6.708/205.41, Was #19
Right Lane: Erica Enders Runs 6.722/205.66, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.696/205.19, Was #16

Pawuk who just got bumped out gets back into the show in his 400th race. That bumps out Enders who doesn't improve.

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Left Lane: Tom Martino Runs 6.705/206.89, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.667/206.92, Was #10
Right Lane: Mike Thomas Runs 6.711/205.94, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.693/205.51, Was #16

No help for either of these drivers.

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Left Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.681/206.95, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.650/206.83, Was #8
Right Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.717/205.72, Now #13; Best prior run: 6.688/205.76, Was #13

Johnson with the quickest pass of the session. Allen Johnson's incremental times: 60ft-0.997 sec., 330ft-2.796, 660ft-4.298/163.71mph, 1,000ft-5.591

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Left Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.686/206.76, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.650/207.72, Was #7
Right Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.685/206.73, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.680/206.23, Was #12

Edwards broke a rocker arm in this mornings session.

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Left Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.694/206.10, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.649/206.92, Was #6
Right Lane: Jim Yates Runs 12.195/70.40, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.679/205.72, Was #11

Yates blew the transmission in this morning's session. He then has problems right off the starting line here.

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Left Lane: Richie Stevens Runs 6.689/206.67, Now #5; Best prior run: 6.649/207.08, Was #5
Right Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.696/207.37, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.653/207.27, Was #9

Krisher with big top end speed.

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Left Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 6.686/207.34, Now #3; Best prior run: 6.644/207.40, Was #3
Right Lane: V. Gaines Runs 6.668/207.37, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.644/207.08, Was #4

Gaines with the quickest pass of the session. V. Gaines' incremental times: 60ft-0.996 sec., 330ft-2.794, 660ft-4.292/164.21mph, 1,000ft-5.581

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Left Lane: Jason Line Runs 6.655/207.78, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.636/207.69, Was #2
Right Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.659/207.66, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.631/207.82, Was #1

These two with the two quickest passes of the session and they finish number one and two and they also had the two fastest passes of this session and the weekend.

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