POMONA, Calif. - POMONA 1 - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Pro Stock at the NHRA
POWERade Drag Racing Series, 43rd annual K&N Filters Winternationals listing lane, driver
name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:
Left Lane: Nick Fratt Runs 6.924/200.23, Now #1
Right Lane: Steve Johns Runs 16.114/50.88, Now #2
Good run by Fratt, shake for Johns.
Left Lane: Taylor Lastor Runs 11.056/95.65, Now #4
Right Lane: Bo Nickens Runs 6.868/199.73, Now #1
Left Lane: Barry Grant Runs 16.651/50.65, Now #5
Right Lane: Randy Daniels Runs 6.886/200.41, Now #2
Hard right turn for Grant on the launch.
Left Lane: Gordie Rivera Runs 7.010/199.08, Now #3
Right Lane: Terry Adams Runs 16.600/50.45, Now #5
Adams shook and slowed immediately.
Left Lane: Vinny Barone Runs 13.843/63.02, Now #7
Right Lane: Mike Thomas Runs 6.890/200.89, Now #3
Shake for Barone. Clean pass for Thomas.
Left Lane: Mike Corvo Jr Runs 6.889/201.34, Now #4
Right Lane: Scott Geoffrion Runs 6.861/201.01, Now #1
The Mustang sports NitroFish livery this year - and it goes to the top spot on a
nice run.
Left Lane: Arturo Delgado Runs 6.865/199.23, Now #2
Right Lane: Brad Jeter Runs 6.872/202.15, Now #4
Jeter with top speed so far.
Left Lane: Ben Watson Runs 19.945/73.68, Now #16
Right Lane: Kenny Koretsky Runs 6.917/199.70, Now #8
Current weather conditions: 69 degrees, 27 percent relative humidity, the barometer
29.97 inches.Hard right turn by Watson on the launch.
Left Lane: Greg Stanfield Runs 6.859/202.30, Now #1
Right Lane: Mark Osborne Runs 20.076/40.73, Now #18
Shake for Ozzie. Stanfield goes tot he top of the heap.
Left Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 6.956/198.88, Now #12
Right Lane: JR Carr Runs 6.940/198.96, Now #11
New Dodge Stratus in the left lane...has more of a "bustle" than the Neons.
Left Lane: Mark Pawuk Runs 6.818/201.82, Now #1
Right Lane: Tom Martino Runs 6.845/201.46, Now #2
Nice run Mark!!! Nice run Tom!!! Nice side-by-side show for the crowd.
Left Lane: Troy Coughlin Runs 6.809/202.42, Now #1
Right Lane: V. Gaines Runs 12.075/73.22, Now #18
Bog run for Troy, clean and hard. Something started coming out of the left side of
Gaines' engine just off the starting line and he had a hand full of very squirrely race
car. He stayed in his lane and didn't hit anything. The Safety Safari went to work with
the "zamboni" (the industrial cleanup machine that puts down solvent and vacuums it back
up) to remove the trail of fluid from Gaines' car.
Left Lane: Tom Hammonds Runs 6.868/201.37, Now #7
Right Lane: Bruce Allen Runs 6.877/200.68, Now #10
Hammonds smoked the engine at half track - it didn't appear to hurt his run any, but
the Safety Safari sure gave the track surface a hard look. Then they rolled the trucks
and the tractor to make a couple laps just past the finish line.
Left Lane: Darrell Alderman Runs 14.689/58.74, Now #23
Right Lane: George Marnell Runs 7.976/124.04, Now #19
Shake for Alderman, Marnell getting loose before half track.
Left Lane: Mark Whisnant Runs 6.839/201.34, Now #3
Right Lane: Gene Wilson Runs 9.365/105.58, Now #21
Nice pass by Whisnant, who ran well in preseason testing. Wilson shook and
slowed.
Left Lane: Allen Johnson Runs 12.620/69.14, Now #25
Right Lane: Mike Edwards Runs 6.885/200.65, Now #12
Shake fo9r AJ, nice pass by Edwards.
Left Lane: Kurt Johnson Runs 6.868/192.03, Now #10
Right Lane: Ron Krisher Runs 6.881/201.64, Now #13
Okay runs in both lanes, but neither driver will be happy with those numbers.
Left Lane: Warren Johnson Runs 7.056/186.30, Now #24
Right Lane: Greg Anderson Runs 6.871/201.76, Now #11
WJ lost a bunch of ground in the first half of the track.
Left Lane: Jim Yates Runs 6.869/201.28, Now #11
Right Lane: Jeg Coughlin Runs 7.574/140.27, Now #26
Both cars were all over the place, Coughlin making a hard move toward the wall at
half track.
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