Mike Chenoweth's 70 Hemi Road Runner was basically in the same camp with Abbott's 67 Belvedere. More than enough stroker elephant power to go nines, but battling a small tire, stock suspension b-body chassis and a 10.0 mandate, so both produced some odd time slips that might baffle the uninformed. Mike accepted a 10.49-130 at Union Grove but he was just cruising the last 300 feet, clearly scrubbing some ET and speed.

Rachael had called us, and asked for Dad to come help her carry food back to our pits, as her order was coming up from one of the vendors, but I hung around to watch the remaining class car first session.

I was surprised when The Dirty Drag Week Dart came back around, not thirty-five minutes after Matt's first attempt. You could tell in the first hundred feet that the A-body and the big Predator motor were both in their happy place on the second run. The only thing that surprised me when the 7.78-184 flashed on the board was that the ET wasn't a little better, the pass looked that good. That pretty much meant Smith wouldn't be catching him for third in PSPA, but he really couldn't make up the ground to those two battling in the 7.50's for the class win.