Overholser also stepped up with a 5.98 for third in Don Nelson’s beautiful Trans Am.

Horan also picked up from Q1, but the right lane bit him as well and he nearly collected the right side guard wall, shut the car off very early still going two quicker to 6.04, for fourth. 

“It was close to the wall -- I could see the top of it outside the window,” Horan explained.

Dan Horan’s crew at work

Dennis LaCharite did his best Sammy Swindell impression in a great display of car control. Again in the right lane, as he too was dead sideways at about a thousand feet, he collected the car, then stabbed the throttle wide open, driving the car on an angle to the finish line, saving the run and clocking a 6.060 for fifth.

Canadian Tim Boychuk in the Troy Lee Designs Firebird picked up 18 hundredths from Q1 to make the show in sixth at 6.066.