POMONA, Calif. - POMONA 1 - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Top Fuel at
the NHRA POWERade Drag
Racing Series, 44th annual K&N Filters Winternationals 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: Cory McClenathan Runs 4.605/318.09, Now #5
No Prior Run
Current weather conditions: 67 degrees, 49 percent relative
humidity, the barometer 28.83
inches, 2079 feet adjusted altitude, with a track temperature of 75
degrees.
McClenathan with a nice pass until just before the finish line when he
started to drop cylinders
on the right side and got real close to the centerline.
Left Lane: John Smith Runs 4.851/280.19, Now #14
Best prior run: 12.697/84.83, Was #18
Right Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 6.220/137.93, Now #16
No Prior Run
Palmer with his first pass of the event and Rob Flynn is making
the tuning decisions now.
Palmer launches and then the front end starts climbing and he had to
lift to keep it from being
a blow over. Smith with a nice looking pass here to get in the show
for now.
Left Lane: Steven Chrisman Runs 5.300/210.77, Now #17
Best prior run: 11.335/77.52, Was #18
Right Lane: Brady Kalivoda Runs 4.691/311.77, Now #9
Best prior run: 12.691/62.66, Was #19
Kalivoda launched hard and keep the Goodyears stuck and hitting on
all eight to get in the
show. Chrisman started dropping cylinders from half track on.
Left Lane: Bob Hallock Runs 6.277/135.12, Now #19
Best prior run: 10.334/84.03, Was #19
Right Lane: Scott Weis Runs 8.638/91.89, Now #14
Best prior run: 4.806/291.32, Was #14
Weis started to strike the tires and then threw the blower belt of
by 300 feet. Hallock's
engine went silent around 600 feet.
Left Lane: Mike Strasburg Runs 12.327/84.07, Now #16
Best prior run: 5.157/198.90, Was #16
Right Lane: Scott Kalitta Runs 4.577/324.36, Now #5
Best prior run: 4.771/292.96, Was #13
Strasburg was up in smoke right off the starting line. Kalitta
with a great looking pass
to get into the top half of the show.
Left Lane: Rhonda Hartman-Smith
Runs 7.203/109.17, Now #13
Best prior run: 4.703/288.70, Was #12
Right Lane: David Baca Runs 4.603/314.39, Now #6
Best prior run: 4.723/307.58, Was #13
Hartman-Smith had tire shake and then threw the blower belt off
and coasted on through the
1320. Baca made a move in the right direction here.
Left Lane: Larry Dixon Runs 4.619/314.90, Now #9
Best prior run: 4.662/316.82, Was #10
Right Lane: Brandon BernsteinRuns 4.604/321.27, Now #7
Best prior run: 4.696/311.56, Was #12
Both of the beer cars improve here. Dixon was able to drive
through some tire shake.
Bernstein gets into the top half of the show.
Left Lane: Clay Millican Runs 4.658/304.32, Now #11
Best prior run: 4.636/308.07, Was #11
Right Lane: Doug Herbert Runs 4.654/313.88, Now #10
Best prior run: 4.620/291.13, Was #10
These two are glued together all the way down the 1320, but do not
improve on last week's
times.
Left Lane: David Grubnic Runs 11.564/75.94, Now #4
Best prior run: 4.572/296.31, Was #4
Right Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 11.408/78.47, Now #3
Best prior run: 4.530/323.35, Was #3
Both cars lose traction as soon as the hit the throttle.
Left Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 4.574/315.64, Now #1
Best prior run: 4.514/326.32, Was #1
Right Lane: Darrell Russell Runs 4.522/306.05, Now #2
Best prior run: 4.520/321.73, Was #2
No help for either of these two. Russell with almost identical
E.T. of last weekend.
They will stay number one and two.
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