Despite three or four minor lapses for track clean-up, the Gateway staff managed to get 154 passes logged in the first hour and forty-five minutes. The information was passed down from Lonnie Grimm that the first session would close in exactly forty more minutes, and as soon as the announcement was made, you could feel a perceptible push towards the lanes by some of the guys who had yet to make a run.

The crazy young Swedes with their short wheelbase Opel Ascona backed up their first seven on Monday with an impressive on the edge, skating around 7.91-171 mph blast to whet our appetite for some Matt Blasco and the Dirty Drag Week Dart action. When the power from Matt's boosted wedge hit the rear tires however, the little Dodge decided to live up to the "Swinger" moniker, dancing from the center stripe to the wall as Matt struggled to keep the front tires heading down track! The 10.73-82 on the scoreboard did little to explain what a crossed up mess and great save that run actually was.