Fri, 10 Oct 2025, 16:53 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Notes from final, round 3 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:

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Left Lane: Matthew Cummings Runs 6.767/194.02, Now #10; Best prior run: 5.284/275.58, Was #10
Right Lane: Julie Nataas Runs 14.728/54.90, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.343/269.32, Was #13

Weather conditions: air temperature 84 degrees, relative humidity 41 percent, barometer 30.12 inches, adjusted altitude 2,495 feet.

Cummings lost traction an clicked it off.

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

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Left Lane: Joey Severance Runs 5.279/273.77, Now #6; Best prior run: 5.244/275.68, Was #6
Right Lane: John Ausherman Runs 5.433/274.83, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.459/265.78, Was #16

Severance is straight down the groove with another good pass, but will not improve. Joey Severance's incremental times: 60ft-0.916 sec., 330ft-2.374, 660ft-3.495/221.65 mph, 1,000ft-4.458.

Ausherman with a clean pass with his quickest pass of the weekend. He stays on the bump spot.

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Left Lane: Jackie Fricke Runs 5.864/249.68, Now #1; Best prior run: 5.166/283.14, Was #1
Right Lane: Jared Dreher Runs 5.442/270.30, Now #17; Best prior run: 13.283/86.64, Was #20

Fricke labored off the line and she will not improve.

Dreher is straight down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend, but will not get in the show.

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Left Lane: Shawn Cowie Runs 5.271/276.33, Now #9; Best prior run: 5.268/274.36, Was #9
Right Lane: McKenna Bold Runs 5.320/275.11, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.408/243.47, Was #14

Cowie with another good pass, but will not improve.

Bold kept it hooked up and makes her quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder one spot.

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Left Lane: Shaunda Blinzler Runs 5.301/276.75, Now #12; Best prior run: 10.288/68.56, Was #19
Right Lane: Chase Copeland Runs 8.081/104.48, Now #20; Best prior run: 12.918/58.26, Was #20

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Left Lane: Shaunda Blinzler Runs 5.301/276.75, Now #12; Best prior run: 10.288/68.56, Was #19
Right Lane: Chase Copeland Runs 8.081/104.48, Now #20; Best prior run: 12.918/58.26, Was #20

Blinzler launched hard and kept it hooked up to make her quickest pass of the weekend. She gets in the show to the number 12 spot.

Copeland lost traction early and clicked it off.

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Left Lane: Karl Brounkowski Runs 5.370/264.47, Now #16; Best prior run: 5.704/186.04, Was #19
Right Lane: James Stevens Runs 5.452/262.38, Now #17; Best prior run: 5.409/227.39, Was #16

Brounkowski is straight down the groove with a clean pass to get back in the show.

Stevens with a clean pass, but gets bumped out.

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Left Lane: Chris Demke Runs 10.134/104.91, Now #13; Best prior run: 5.301/273.62, Was #13
Right Lane: Madison Payne Runs 5.281/278.59, Now #8; Best prior run: 5.267/277.86, Was #8

Demke lost traction early and clicked it off.

Payne is straight down the groove with another good pass, but will not improve. Madison Payne's incremental times: 60ft-0.970 sec., 330ft-2.450, 660ft-3.542/228.94 mph, 1,000ft-4.478.

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Left Lane: Angelle Sampey Runs 5.595/260.33, Now #11; Best prior run: 5.296/271.08, Was #11
Right Lane: Melanie Johnson Runs 10.626/81.53, Now #7; Best prior run: 5.265/275.89, Was #7

Sampey with a clean pass, but will not improve.

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

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Left Lane: Jon Bradford Runs 5.218/276.84, Now #4; Best prior run: 5.214/278.36, Was #4
Right Lane: Jamie Noonan Runs 5.241/276.80, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.232/278.43, Was #5

Bradford launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the session. Jon Bradford's incremental times: 60ft-0.898 sec., 330ft-2.329, 660ft-3.449/218.96 mph, 1,000ft-4.405.

Noonan with another good looking pass, but will not improve. He make the second quickest pass of the session Jamie Noonan's incremental times: 60ft-0.947 sec., 330ft-2.404, 660ft-3.496/228.55 mph, 1,000ft-4.432.

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Left Lane: Kirk Wolf Runs 9.360/83.04, Now #2; Best prior run: 5.169/278.43, Was #2
Right Lane: Alan Bradshaw Runs 5.337/273.66, Now #3; Best prior run: 5.207/276.60, Was #3

Wolf lost traction early and clicked it off.

Bradshaw with a clean pass, but will not improve.