Goldstone rattled the tires on the Javelin pretty good about eighty feet out, but managed to drive through it and pour on the power the rest of the way down. The resulting 6.87-210 was the pass of the day to that point, and more importantly, the wounded crank stayed in the engine. He tossed off a chrome trim piece or two, so the SME session was delayed for a few minutes.

When they resumed, Craig Douglas' HellCat Charger went a 10.37-132 that moved him up to 4th quickest in the SME field. Clark Lamb followed him in his Barracuda, and the W-2 stroker ran a Drag Week best 122.6 mph on it's way to an 11.14 that would keep him comfortably in the Q-32 hunt.

Jay Williams and his screaming yellow Nickey ZL-1 Camaro had to start feeling like he was being used as a Mopar pin cushion after Martin. The Valiant and I had outran him on Monday, then Douglas and the HellCat beat him on Tuesday, and Wednesday at US131 he watched as Jason Trotter and the turbo Daytona did the deed, 10.70-132.8 for the Camaro, 10.66-141 for the little red Dodge.