Nine Pro Mods pre-entered for the eight-car field, so qualifying was the real deal. The track was a little green on Friday for the first round of qualifying due to month-long rains in Iowa. There was some slipping and sliding and some carnage during the Friday qualifying session. The quickest car on the premises, Berryville, Arkansas-based Eddie Rogers’ roots-supercharged C-5 ‘Vette, snapped a driveshaft and that crew with the help of Chris Duncan worked until afternoon on Saturday to repair the car.

Saturday morning the Eddyville track crew had the track prepped from the starting line to the finish line and, despite a few delays throughout the day for rain, the track remained very good and the crowd that stayed through all of the delays got what they wanted: classic wheels-up guardrail-to-guardrail Pro Mod qualifying.

Judd Coffman and his dad are longtime Ford racers and the FE-based big block is stout!

The first qualifying round Saturday afternoon gave the crowd and the racers a taste of what the track would hold and what was in store for the weekend when Rogers ripped off a 4.053 at 171.36 mph. In the same session Adler went right down the track to a 4.106/180.00.

Coffman’s twin-turbocharged big block Ford-powered Mustang ran a 4.280 at just 169.88 mph for the number three spot. The rest of the qualifiers either shook or had other problems with the eight-car bump held down by the Tom Harger’s nitrous-injected ’95 Olds at 7.035.