The World Series is traditionally a two-day event with one round of qualifying on Friday followed by a marathon session for the pro cars with a qualifying session followed by three rounds of Eliminations. The winner of this event needs to have skill, endurance and a little luck.

Because many of the teams and team owners in the DRO AA/FC series have regular jobs, not all of the teams can make the Friday test sessions simply because the owners, drivers or crew members have to work. At Cordova five teams ran the Friday qualifying session.

Points leader Paul Romine got a great car from  tuner Mike Cavalieri and car chief John Bullard and led the qualifying with an off-the-trailer 6.109/ 238.89.

 He was followed by Doc Halladay, who used his Jerry Newman tune-up to run a 6.203/227.42, which would have made him the number 2 qualifier except that he got a few cones with his headers and the track officials DQ’d his run. Mark Warden in the Stanke family car also had his run DQ’d for hitting the cones.