Duell’s chassis builder, Matt Wright of BRC Racecraft, arrived with a new part but the repair was interrupted by dinner.
     
They came back and finished at about 10 p.m., testing their work at the far end of the race track, in the soft dark air of a mellow August summer night.
     
Defending champion Rosie Kossuth suffered the only other obvious breakage, smashing a rocker arm after entering the water box for the third qualifier Saturday morning.
     
More unfortunately for her, she ran into a 0.001 reaction from former champion Al Corda (2008) in the first round of Sunday eliminations.

Sunday’s Notes

All 53 qualifiers appeared for the first round of eliminations and soon it was clear that the adrenaline was flowing. Of the 26 first round contested races (one bye), 15 were decided by a red light foul start.
     
In addition, Holland reacted -0.003 on his true bye.

Included in that category was a double-foul contest between Mike Sanders Jr. and Kent Morris.
     
Shortly after the end of the round, Sanders’ crew chief, Mike Sanders Sr., came to the race control center and said there might be something amiss with the Christmas Tree. He suggested two reasons: one, because his red light did not appear and two, the high number of fouls.
     
However, the answer was: on a double-foul the first and/or worst rule applies and the timing system is designed not to show the second red but shows green instead to signify the round winner.
     
Therefore, Sanders Jr. was the green light winner by the least offense, -0.026 to -0.102 over Morris.
     
The second round opened with Corda clamping a 0.004 reaction time on another former event champion, Kevin Gass (2011), and advancing despite a breakout, Corda at 10.979 to 10.479 for Gass.
     
Then the red lights started flashing again - three consecutive - including Mike Moss surviving another double-foul deal, -0.065 to -0.066, over 2012 NHRA Hot Rod Reunion champion Clay Kossuth.
     
Unfortunately for Sanders Jr., he fouled again and this time his red bulb stayed on, -0.060 to +0.090 for Barry Camp.
     
The round finished with a total of eight fouls.
     
Corda couldn’t repeat another 00 reaction as he and Duell collided in the final pair of the third round with Duell surviving 0.052 and 9.492 to 0.069 and 10.960 on the double breakout.
     
The final count - the red light came on 28 times on Sunday. They all mattered, it was just the last one was really noticeable.