The Wednesday track portion at Drag Week, going back to my Marathon analogy, is like hitting the half-marathon timers, and taking a second to look around and gauge how you are doing. Two of the four drives are behind you, and a solid pass that is close to the average you established on the first two days is what you are looking for. Most marathoners, unless they had something go terribly wrong in the first half, don't think, "I'm going to run the second half quicker". Likewise for Drag Weekers, usually they are pretty tentative on Wednesday and Thursday, just looking to maintain what they've already done. In a Marathon, the people you pass in the second half are usually slowing down or struggling, not because you sped up. The same is true on Drag Week, if you are moving up in your class on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday, it's typically because your opponent is struggling, not because you suddenly found a huge increase in performance.

The next pair featured what was likely the heaviest Wedge powered Mopar alongside the lightest Hemi powered entry. Radar had the best seat on the property behind the wheel of his Fury to watch Jarrad Scott crush the wheelie bars on the blown Hemi powered, G-force shifted 62 Ranchero Gasser. It was on the bars so hard that the little beast pivoted in the air and came down pointed toward the wall. He was able to correct it and stay with the pass, but only due to the near four wide tarmac that Byron Dragway is famous for.

After the disappointment of accepting a 10.02 at Gateway, Frank Perkins and his Valiant were back to their nine second ways with an excellent, well hooked 9.94-134.7.