Bob Godfrey was consistent all weekend long, clocking a 6.36 for seventh.

Local racer Scott Stanger was right on track with his beautiful “Bad Manners” ’Cuda making his second shows in a row, with a nice smooth clean 6.37 second run.

On the outside looking in were Nathan Sitko, who just missed the show in this ACE Arrow, and “Mr. Explosive” Mark Sanders who had a magneto literally melt on the starting line in Q2.

ELIMINATIONS

Round one played out at nearly 9:15 p.m. as all the top qualified cars took the wins, however, in the first pairing between Rupert and Godfrey, Rupert was well ahead of Godfrey and at the stripe smoke erupted from the “Black Plague” Camaro.

There was oil on the track, and when Rupert’s team got back and inspected the car, the engine diaper was dry, but oil was all over the rear of the car and the puke tank was full, as were the frame rails.  
Inspection of the engine showed no anomalies, and it was speculated by one of the team members that maybe all the warm-up oil might not have been drained out. So, when the run oil was put in, it over filled the system and when it pressurized it pushed out of the breathers and the rear intake seal, thus coating the rear of the car.

The Rupert team works under the lights.

“I haven’t oiled the track for almost three years. That was weird,” said Rupert.

However, the oil-down did take almost forty minutes to clean up, and pushed the time back even further.

Round two of Funny Cars came to the starting line at about 11:30. It was nearly a full moon and there were many brave fans hanging in there to see nitro racing.

Rupert had his mess cleaned up and faced off against Overholser. At the green it was Overholser out first, but the tuneup phoned in by Frank Rupert covered Overholser and the black ‘69 Camaro streaked to the win.

In the second pair of the semifinals, between Dan Horan and Kris Krabill the weirdness meter was pegged. After the burnouts, Horan backed up, the crew did their normal final checks and Horan pulled in and turned on both pre-stage and stage bulbs at the same time. Krabill seemed not be effected and took his time and pulled in, lit the top bulb, waited a few seconds, and then lit the bottom bulb.

Almost instantaneously the yellow flashed and Krabill’s ‘78 Firebird was gone, and Horan with a huge delayed reaction then took off. Krabill’s 6.23 took out Horan’s 6.02.