SATURDAY
Q2
Leading off the
only time the cars would see the track in the heat of the day
were Brendan Murry and Tyler Hilton.
Both cars improved with Murry
carding a 6.188 at 200 and Hilton a 6.003 at 234.41.
After missing Q1 due to an engine
swap, Jim Murphy came out for his one shot. In the left lane
was Adam Sorokin for his second shot at the track.
Adam Sorokin at the hit.
Murphy laid down
a conservitive 5.95 at 231.24 landing #3. Sorokin improved with
a 5.926 at 225.74 which moved him into the #2 hole.
The final car trying
to improve was Tim Cullinan.
Tim clicked it early
and did not improve on his previous 6.115 which left him #5.
SOME
RANDOM Q2
Jon Brook bringing Garry Wheeler
into the beams in his Grand Prix Auto A/Fuel dragster.
My 1/8 mile weekend parking
spot.
A/Fuel qualifying David
Brown.
Rick Ewens made the trek from
California to give Bates a challenge but he broke and failed
to make the call for round one.
Sabrina Capps lost to
Wheeler in the siemis.
That thing again.
TOP
FUEL E1
Taking the Tim Wilkerson approach
to drag racing, Dan Horan Jr. had the first round bye and chose
to go first. Get it done, move on.
Confident in their tune-up and
a equal lane drag strip, Horan got the data and shut it off to
a 6.294 at just 156.26.
The first pair pitted
Tim Cullinan and Tyler Hilton.
Cullinan got a sligh jump on
the tree and with Hilton smoking the tires, he went on to take
a 6.03 at 213.40 win.
Pair two matched Jim Murphy and
Brendan Murry. On paper Murry was a major underdog. But we don't
run drag races on paper.
Murphy got a 3 hundreths
jump.
Murphy was extending his lead
until the 800' mark when the #5 hole died and he was forced to
shut off. Murry never gave up and drove around with a 6.212 at
194.10. Murphy slowed to a 6.392 at 164.01 and saw any hope of
a 5th championship go south.
The final pair to see who would
move on was local favorite Garry Wheeler and California hitter
Adam Sorokin.
Both cars left together. Kudos
to Wheeler for staying with one of the best leavers in the class.
Wheeler stepped up big time running
a 5.989 at 227.11 in a game attempt to better Sorokin's winning
5.902 at 231.75.
E1
FUNNY CAR
The only pair in funny
car were Kamaka Pocock and Jeff Gregory.
Pocock got a good jump and never
looked back. His 5.84 at 239 covered Gregory's early shut off
7.592 at 118.94.
Here's Bobby....
Odd number cars, low
qualifier Cottrell got the single.
Bucky sent Bobby on a
full pass for the fans that netted a 5.674 at 246.39.
TOP
FUEL E2
With four cars remaining,
first out was Dan Horan Jr. and Tim Cullinan.
Cullinan got a huge jump on the
tree (.036 to a .156) but Horan had that covered by the 330'
mark and drove on to a 5.605 at 262.13 (top speed) win. Tim clicked
it to a 6.234 at 188.91.
Brendan Murry could not complete
his engine swap in time to meet Adam Sorokin so it was a single
for the Champion Speed Shop car.
Sorokin gave it a hit
and carded a 5.948 at 225.48.
NITRO
FINALS
A/Fuel featured a full field
and boiled down to local Garry Wheeler and current champ Kin
Bates.
Wheeler left first by four hundredths
but his 6.277 at 216.24 couldn't hold off Bates 6.166 at 205.32.
There was no semis for funny
car only a final that matched current champ and favorite Bobby
Cottrell and Kamaka Pocock.
Pocock got the better
light and it was a good drag race to the 1/8th mile.
Cotterll went on to take the
win with a 5.636 at 248.80 making 2021 game, set, match. Pocock
ran a game 5.811 at a faster speed, 249.72.
It was the #1 and #2
qualifiers in the top fuel final. Sorokin vs Horan.
Sorokin, known for his starting
line reaction times, left first by a bunch (.066 to .111) leaving
Horan to play catch-up.
After catching and passing Sorokin
at the 1/8th mile, Horan claimed Top Fuel Eliminator while practically
clinching the 2021 Heritage Series Points Title. Horan posted
a 5.64 in his Fritz Kaiser-prepped 426 Hemi while Sorokin kept
Horan honest with a .066 reaction time and a game 5.83 in his
small-block Chevy-powered Champion Speed Shop machine. Horan
left Tulsa with 431 points in the NHRA Heritage Series Points.
That is 112 more than Sorokin who now holds 2nd place. By merely
entering and showing up at the season finale at Bakersfield,
Horan can not be caught in the points.
Top Fuel Test & Qualifying - Session
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Q2 and Eliminations - Page 2
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