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Fri, 10 Oct 2025, 13:27 PM

Top Alcohol Dragster Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, 40th annual Texas NHRA FallNationals 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: Jackie Fricke Runs 5.166/283.14, Now #1; Best prior run: 12.079/82.66, Was #18
Right Lane: Chase Copeland Runs 12.918/58.26, Now #19; No Prior Run

Weather conditions: air temperature 76 degrees, relative humidity 52 percent, barometer 30.19 inches, adjusted altitude 1,927 feet.

Fricke launched hard and kept it hooked and hitting on all eight to go to the number one spot. Jackie Fricke's incremental times: 60ft-0.940 sec., 330ft-2.390, 660ft-3.462/233.96 mph, 1,000ft-4.376.

Copeland lost traction right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Shaunda Blinzler Runs 12.111/60.73, Now #18; Best prior run: 10.288/68.56, Was #18
Right Lane: Jared Dreher Runs 13.283/86.64, Now #20; Best prior run: 14.144/81.59, Was #20

Blinzler lost traction right at the hit and clicked it off.

Dreher was up in smoke right off the starting line and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Chris Demke Runs 5.301/273.62, Now #9; Best prior run: 6.129/140.88, Was #16
Right Lane: James Stevens Runs 5.409/227.39, Now #12; Best prior run: 6.861/169.79, Was #17

Demke is straight down the groove with a good clean pass to get off the bump spot.

Stevens started to drift out of the groove, he reels it back into the groove. On the top end there is a bang. He still gets in the show.

Karl Brounkowski is on the bump spot at 5.704.

Left Lane: Karl Brounkowski Runs 13.394/89.25, Now #17; Best prior run: 5.704/186.04, Was #16
Right Lane: Alan Bradshaw Runs 5.207/276.60, Now #2; Best prior run: 6.012/225.38, Was #17

Brounkowski with problems right at the hit and clicked it off. He gets bumped out of the show.

Bradshaw kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to get in the show. He goes to the number two spot. This is quickest and fastest pass this season. Alan Bradshaw's incremental times: 60ft-0.937 sec., 330ft-2.374, 660ft-3.467/229.08 mph, 1,000ft-4.399.

Left Lane: Angelle Sampey Runs 5.296/271.08, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.456/270.40, Was #15
Right Lane: John Ausherman Runs 5.485/273.72, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.459/265.78, Was #16

Sampey is straight down the groove, hitting on all eight to go to the number 10 spot.

Ausherman with a clean pass, but will not improve and stays on the bump.

Left Lane: Julie Nataas Runs 5.343/269.32, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.424/271.99, Was #15
Right Lane: Melanie Johnson Runs 5.265/275.89, Now #6; Best prior run: 5.312/273.76, Was #12

Nataas kept it hooked up and is straight down the groove to move up the ladder a couple spots. Julie Nataas' incremental times: 60ft-0.942 sec., 330ft-2.434, 660ft-3.559/223.27 mph, 1,000ft-4.516.

Johnson with a good clean pass to move into the top half of the show. Melanie Johnson's incremental times: 60ft-0.943 sec., 330ft-2.414, 660ft-3.514/227.61 mph, 1,000ft-4.455.

Left Lane: McKenna Bold Runs 5.261/276.67, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.408/243.47, Was #14
Right Lane: Matthew Cummings Runs 16.571/53.40, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.284/275.58, Was #10

Bold with a good clean pass to move into the top half of the show. she goes to the number five spot. McKenna Bold's incremental times: 60ft-0.950 sec., 330ft-2.421, 660ft-3.520/228.43 mph, 1,000ft-4.453.

Cummings is up in smoke right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Shawn Cowie Runs 9.368/85.44, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.268/274.36, Was #10
Right Lane: Joey Severance Runs 5.244/275.68, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.267/274.93, Was #9

Cowie with problems right at the hit and clicked it off.

Severance kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to go to the number four spot. Joey Severance's incremental times: 60ft-0.905 sec., 330ft-2.352, 660ft-3.464/225.20 mph, 1,000ft-4.427.

Left Lane: Jon Bradford Runs 5.214/278.36, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.260/278.67, Was #5
Right Lane: Madison Payne Runs 9.806/79.22, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.267/277.86, Was #9

Bradford launched hard and kept it hooked up to move up the ladder two spots. He goes to the number three spot. Jon Bradford's incremental times: 60ft-0.906 sec., 330ft-2.338, 660ft-3.453/219.62 mph, 1,000ft-4.404.

Payne rattled the tires and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Kirk Wolf Runs 5.169/278.43, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.223/276.01, Was #4
Right Lane: Jamie Noonan Runs 5.232/278.43, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.262/275.94, Was #7

Wolf launched hard and kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to go to the number two spot. Kirk Wolf's incremental times: 60ft-0.947 sec., 330ft-2.375, 660ft-3.445/232.70 mph, 1,000ft-4.367.

Noonan is straight down the groove to move up the ladder a couple spots. Jamie Noonan's incremental times: 60ft-0.954 sec., 330ft-2.408, 660ft-3.498/229.51 mph, 1,000ft-4.429.