In Pro Mod, Oregonian Dennis Radford had the first door car to run a sub-6.20 pass on the high-desert track on his way to winning the title over his teammate Billy Harper. And in the bracket action, Phoenix area racer Michael Zimmerman’s win in Sunday’s Bracketeer earned him the four-day title as well.

AA/FC Report

(Brian Losness photos)

Nineteen AA/FC’s from as far away as Indianapolis came to Boise (rhymes with noise – who knew?) to compete for the championship 16-car field and a share of the nearly $40,000 purse posted for the class by the track.

The AA/FC competition delivered to the veteran race fans that attended this event all of the drama, controversy and great racing they have come to expect from drag racing’s most popular professional class.

The controversy was quick in coming when Garrett Bateman’s Plueger-tuned ‘ 71 Mustang quit running twice and restarted three times in the water box on his first qualifying attempt. Normally when a car is started in the water box and shuts itself off, it is pushed aside and not allowed to make a pass. (It was later found that the body was hitting the fuel shutoff lever when the body was lowered.) This reporter cannot ever remember seeing a nitro-burning car allowed to re-start three times in the water box. Nevertheless, it happened with NHRA’s Steve Gibbs at the race.

(Brian Losness photo)

The third time the motor was fired it stayed running and Bateman proceeded to rip off a 5.851/235.lap that held for Low ET for the class and a new track record. Krabill previously held the track speed and ET record at 5.96.

The last pair in the qualifying session saw Steve Macklyn, driving Jack “The Sheriff” Harris’s ’77 Firebird, blast to a 6.001/242.13, which put him into the fifth spot ahead of Paul Romine. The 242.13 broke Krabill’s 239-mph track speed record.

Four of the 16 qualified F/C’s made five-second passes led by Bateman, and the field was anchored by Dennis La Charite’s 7.177/164.71 in his GTO.