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John Hale’s “Nitro Boss” Mustang is from Addison, Texas. (Jeff Burk photo)
Paul Romine’s “Man O’ War” Mustang is from Indianapolis. (Jeff Burk photo) The point leaders qualified in the top three with Halladay clocking in with a 6.194/233.54 while Hale ran a 5.91/242.45 that was good for Top Speed of the meet, and Romine took the pole with a 5.900 at 223.60. KCIR’s track surface was surprisingly good all weekend considering the heat and humidity. The track surface was regularly above 140 degrees and the corrected altitude for the first qualifying round was above 4200 feet. Despite the adverse weather the Midwest racers and tuners are showing that they are rapidly catching up with their West Coast counterparts when it comes to performance. Romine, who switched to an SSI supercharger for this event, ran an off-the-trailer Low ET of the meet 5.900. More evidence of the fact that the racers involved in the series are getting dialed in is the fact that four of the six cars that raced at the Summernationals not only had 60-foot times in the sub-one-second range, but three of them had 60-foot times in the .970 range and 330-foot ET’s in the 2.60-2.80 range. |
Brian Stewart in Tom Hoover’s “Showtime” (Dennis Mothershed photo) Jerry Newman-tuned former Pro Stock racer Brian Stewart recorded the best 330-foot time of the event with a 2.59 on his first pass. Halladay’s tuner Newman told me that the new rear tires Goodyear awarded Halladay as contingency after he won the first DRO race of the season were the first new tires they had put on a AA/FC since the 1991 season. During both days of the AA/FC race the track temp seldom dropped below 130 degrees and the weather station measured water grains as high as 152 ppm. |
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