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Funny
Car E1
SATURDAY EVENING
Photos all over
the board
Under the lights
16 cars paired up to see who would race in the daylight Sunday.
First pair out was Bill Windham and Tony Jurado.
Both
RTs were not stellar but Windam did get a slight jump.
The slight jump was all Windham
got. Jurado scored a solid 5.841
at 255.15 win. Windham coasted through at a Prius time.
Pair two pitted #14 and
#3, Brad Thompson and Billy Morris.
Morris got a slight jump
and never looked back.
Morris pulled away to a stout
5.664 at 257.63 win. Thompson carded a shut off 6.293 at 194.52.
#1 Bobby Cottrell chose to go
third in the right lane. Jeff Utterback was in the left lane.
Cottrell drilled Utterback
to the tree and went on to a
5.623 at 260.16 win.
Next pair matched #15
Chris Davis and #2 Tim Boychuk.
Davis got a jump but
that was it.
Boychuk motored away to a 5.808
at 245.05 win while Davis coasted to a 6.149 at 196.93 trip home.
Ironically the two drivers who
met in all three qualifying rounds also met in round one of eliminations.
Must have been a blue thing. Dan Horan Jr. right lane, Cory Lee
left lane.
Lee not only left first but also
outran Horan with 5.794 at 258.02. Horan slowed a tenth from
qualifying carding a losing 5.800 at 259.81.
Up next was a pair from
up north. Nathan Sitko and Drew Austin.
Austin left first by a bunch
but it wasn't enough. Sitko's 5.717 at 251.16 drove around Austin's
5.831 at 242.54 for the win.
Next to last pair was
the #8 and #9 cars, James Day and Mike Peck Sr.
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Day left first, Day got there
first. His 5.706 at 247.93 murdered Pecks 6.037 at 227.54.
Rounding out E1 were
closely matched Matt Bynum and Kamaka Pocock.
Pocock got the jump (0.085
to 0.116) and it was Bynum who had to play catch up.
At the other end it was Bynum
in a close one. His 5.882 at 241.32 ran down Pocock's 5.914 at
230.84. On to Sunday.
TOP
FUEL ROUND ONE
SUNNY SUNDAY
Following the National Anthem
the first pair of top fuel fired up. It was Pete Kaiser and Bret
Williamson, who was in on the
break rule when Shayne Stewart could not make the call.
Kaiser got a huge jump
(0.098 to a 0.209) and was gone for good.
Kaiser took the win with a 5.684
at 258.17. Williamson's 7.386 125.44 officially ended his heart
breaking 2022 season.
Pair two pitted #1 and #8. Tyler
Hilton in his new love and hard core drag racer Brian Hall in
a borrowed firesuit following last nights inferno. If you remember
back to Bowling Green, Hilton had his baptism by fire there.
If Hall had another fire on his
mind his RT sure didn't show it as he got a huge jump ( 0.077
to a 0.205).
Hall started hazing the tires
just past the tree spelling the end to a game effort by team
NOMAD.
With the nipping of pistons
Hilton moved on with a sterling 5.592 at 248.75.
Pete Wittenberg and Jim Murphy
were paired up to see who would go to the semis.
Murphy left first, and then he
didn't. Before the tires could wrinkle the input shaft broke.
Call it good luck. Had it happened at the 330' mark, ala Mendy
Fry in 2019, the damage would have been catastrophic. Nonetheless,
it put an exclamation mark on a forgettable season.
With Murpy dead in the water,
Wittenberg powered on to a 5.668 at 249.76 to move on.
Wittenberg stopped the
clocks with a 5.668 at 249.76.
The final pair were #6
and #3. Tyler Hester and Adam Sorokin.
No surprise at all, Sorokin
got the jump (0.088 to a 0.179) and he would need it.
Approaching the traps
the Champion car burst into flames....
Sorokin held on to beat Hester's
5.763 at 235.23 with a slower 5.814 at 234.25, but at a price.
The damage couldn't be repaired to make the call for the semis.
NEXT:
FUNNY
CAR E3 & TF E2
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