Dale staged at 1:46pm, with Larry Armstrong's yellow 39 Ford Coupe beside him. He left with the wheels up, in a cloud of black smoke as the nitrous did it's best liquid drano impression and flushed all the carbon that had collected during the drive, right out of the engine and exhaust! 9.30-141 lit up on the scoreboard, and the coupe's engine expired as he cleared the traps some two and a half seconds later.

He parked the Gremlin, and jumped out, then looked around, as if to gain his bearings, "Why is it so quiet?
"Your partner in the other lane broke, and is still on the track." I informed him.
"Well crap, that's not good!"
"Might be good, if it's a long clean-up, maybe they will extend the cutoff time", I speculated.