#10 Jason Trotter 87 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z
Day 1: 10.92-136.5
Day 2: 10.82-126.4
Day 3: 10.66-141.0
Day 4: 10.87-138.3
Day 5: 10.69-136.2
Final Average 10.797-135.72

Am I the only one who openly wonders what Jason's little Shelby must feel like when it streaks through the beams at a buck forty plus? So much wrong adds up to so much "Heck yeah!!!" For the second year in a row the Daytona qualified for the Street Machine Eliminator quick 32, but if you think making a turbo front drive car fast is hard...you should try bracket racing one!!


#9 Craig Douglas Grey 15 Dodge Charger HellCat
Day 1: 10.46-131.3
Day 2: 10.46-132.0
Day 3: 10.37-132.3
Day 4: 10.45-130.8
Day 5: 10.38-133.7
Final Average: 10.417-132.07

The 67-72 Mopar muscle cars have long held a reverence that lifted them high above the offerings from the late 70's, 80's, 90's, and on into the new century, but the current crop of factory hot rods aren't required to take a back seat to anything. I'm not sure what all Craig has done to bring his SRT into mid ten second at 130 plus territory, but the Charger is a very impressive car in that same vein of "We can take a cop car and make it a brutal hot rod" that Dodge pulled off when they introduced the 69 1/2 440 six pack SuperBee. Craig's 10.41 average placed him 4th in SME qualifying, and brings the HellCat in at 14th all time among Mopars, and 249th overall, or just inside the top 1/4 of all the cars that have completed the event.