As can be seen here not everything is going well for Darren Morgan’s second qualifying attempt. “It simply spun the tyres and blew out the burst panel”, Morgan told me the next day. The flash of flame was brief (brief enough that I didn’t even see it) but the run was aborted and Morgan qualified in fourth spot with a 4.67. A 4.811/301.20 in the first frame made it past a fire-balling Mark Mariani but in his semi final pairing with Andrew Cowin the AEG Power Tools car went up in smoke. The reigning Australian Top Fuel champion had no real answers why the car spun the tyres. “We really needed to do some testing in run up to this race but we simply didn’t have the money to do so”, he dejectedly went on to say.