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Sat, 10 Apr 2010, 07:20 PM

Pro Stock Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Larry Sullivan

BAYTOWN, Texas - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil 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: Jim Cunningham Runs 6.623/209.26, Now #22; Best prior run: 7.083/206.42, Was #24
Right Lane: John Gaydosh Jr Runs 6.811/202.21, Now #25; No Prior Run

5:46 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 69 degrees, relative humidity 58 percent, barometer 30.17 inches, adjusted altitude 1,028 feet, track temperature 91 degrees.
Rickie Jones is on the bump spot at 6.593.

Cunningham made a career-best run, both speed and ET and still came up short of this very quick field - we are just a couple of runs short of having the quickest field ever.

Left Lane: Steve Schmidt Runs 6.684/206.92, Now #24; Best prior run: 6.649/207.24, Was #24
Right Lane: Mark Buehring Runs 6.708/205.63, Now #25; Best prior run: 8.368/104.81, Was #26

Buehring's car wagged its tail a couple times on the launch. He still ran a career- best - both speed and ET - continuing to make steady improvement.

Left Lane: Erica Enders Runs 6.883/168.16, Now #23; Best prior run: 6.624/209.23, Was #23
Right Lane: Mike Trumble Jr Runs 6.621/208.01, Now #19; Best prior run: 6.601/208.62, Was #19

These two could make this the quickest field ever if they make clean runs...Enders' run looked good for about 1,000 feet, but both cars slowed on the top end and we are still looking for a change in the bump time.

Left Lane: John Nobile Runs 13.116/64.98, Now #21; Best prior run: 6.609/208.91, Was #21
Right Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.612/209.88, Now #18; Best prior run: 6.600/210.01, Was #18

Nobile's car "went wacky" on the launch, the car violently fishtailing. Morgan failed to improve. We are still looking for that quickest field...

Left Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 6.619/210.14, Now #20; Best prior run: 6.606/209.39, Was #20
Right Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.575/209.88, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.600/210.14, Was #17

These two are the last cars currently outside the field...WJ's car made a wiggle on the launch and for the first time in 23 years he won't be in the starting field here. KJ, however, made a great run and bumped Jones. Now we are one run away from the quickest field ever, and Steve Spiess is on the bump spot at 6.592.

Left Lane: Rickie Jones Runs 6.584/209.79, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.593/209.62, Was #17
Right Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 6.582/210.34, Now #14; Best prior run: 6.584/209.79, Was #15

Jones needed to be better than 6.593 to make the field and better than 6.590 to make this the quickest field ever.

He did it, in spades - and this is the quickest field ever, better than than the 6.590 bump at Richmond two years ago. Also a nice run by Gray to move up a spot.

Left Lane: Steve Spiess Runs 6.590/209.62, Now #17; Best prior run: 6.592/209.65, Was #17
Right Lane: Justin Humphreys Runs 6.610/209.62, Now #15; Best prior run: 6.584/210.08, Was #15

Spiess was just bumped. he matched the previously best bump time, but that's not quick enough today and the bumping is over.

Left Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 6.569/211.39, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.582/210.64, Was #13
Right Lane: Bob Yonke Runs 6.586/210.34, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.579/210.31, Was #11

Brogdon had a lot of tire spin, posted a 1.006 60-foot time, and still had an amazing ET and a career-best speed.

Left Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 6.549/211.53, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.580/211.73, Was #13
Right Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.560/211.53, Now #5; Best prior run: 6.578/210.37, Was #11

Two awesome runs, AJ matching his career-best ET and Anderson with his career-best ET. Both drivers vaulted way up into the top half of the field.

Left Lane: Shane Gray Runs 6.571/210.64, Now #10; Best prior run: 6.575/210.14, Was #11
Right Lane: V. Gaines Runs 6.563/210.97, Now #6; Best prior run: 6.574/211.20, Was #10

Career-best numbers for Gray to move up one spot and a nice improvement for Gaines to move back into the top half of the field.

Left Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.566/211.30, Now #8; Best prior run: 6.566/210.83, Was #8
Right Lane: Ronnie Humphrey Runs 6.624/211.06, Now #11; Best prior run: 6.573/211.26, Was #11

Stanfield matched his best of the weekend, but Humphrey spun the tires on the launch and failed to improve.

Left Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.548/211.33, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.557/211.03, Was #4
Right Lane: Jason Line Runs 6.612/210.83, Now #7; Best prior run: 6.566/211.43, Was #7

Great run by Krisher, the second-best run of the weekend. Line slowed a bit from his earlier run today.

Left Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.542/212.43, Now #1; Best prior run: 6.539/211.93, Was #1
Right Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 6.555/211.63, Now #4; Best prior run: 6.557/212.23, Was #4

Last pair. And Edwards makes it four-for-four, once again running low ET of the session. He also ran the second-fastest speed ever, a career- best fo him. Coughlin also made a good run, shaving a couple thousandths off his prior best of the weekend.

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