Thursday is an interesting day strategically for Drag Weekers, and even more so when it comes around on such a fabled and well prepped track as Indy. Some guys are nursing cars that are clearly going away, and all they want is a clean pass, and enough duct tape or baling wire to hold the thing together during the last drive. Others are just figuring their stuff out, and are looking for good numbers on a track that will hold it. Then you have the Aussies, Danes, Swedes, and New Yorkers who are looking around saying "We're at Indy baby! Can you believe this? Lets make some memories."

Glenn Hunter's 56 Chevy laid down a beautiful 7.56-184.7 that took the drama out of the battle for Pro Street PA. The other three guys could all run 180, but they couldn't get in the fifties, so Glenn only needed to worry about the drive back to Columbus. Devin Yankey's grey 67 Nova left on a great pass, but fell off on the big end, running 8.16 at only 148 after carding 172 earlier in the week, but this was his first drag week, and he had second place in Ultimate Iron all to himself, so he called it good as well. Dennis Taylor and the Retro Nova were a perfect example of what makes most racers conservative on Thursday, he already had a nice 8.15-171, but he desperately wanted a seven second run, so he turned up the wick and came back for another shot. His 8.031-176.9 was clean, and looked great, but something broke on the pass and for the second year in a row, he would be a DNF! Immediately you were left to wonder, could he have made the drive and turned it up on Friday, where breaking after an 8.03 wouldn't have cost him a completed week.