Even though Brian Lohnes announced that we were "Down to all Gebharts, all the time" in the waning moments of track time, we weren't alone in making multiple passes in the final session.

Andre Miller has brought his baby blue 92 CK1500 Chevy short bed to Drag Week four years in a row. Running in the 11.60-11.80 range, he had no problem making the quick 32 in SME the first two years, but like most of us with no-bar cars it wasn't an option in 2016 as the number to make the field dropped into the 11.30 range. Andre didn't allow that to deter him from setting out to have the lowest possible average he could. He ran about nine passes in forty minutes until he recorded a perfect 11.500-119.2.

Dustin Gardner was absolutely abusing the transmission and converter in his 3rd gen back halved Camaro. It was driving through the converter so bad that it prompted David Freiburger to sarcastically ask after a poor launch, "Does that thing have a CVT trans in it?"
Dustin's answer was to make five runs in an hour, all mid 10.40 range at a tick over 130 mph, and somehow the trans fluid stayed in it!

Danny Roberts' rescue green 80 Malibu was the 2015 Street Race Small Block Champ. It averaged 9.52-141.8 to hold off Jason Tabscott's 75 Camaro which had a close 9.54-141.6 average. For 2016 Tabscott had returned with a new 70 Camaro, and the battle was on again. The Malibu left Columbus with 19 hundredths in the bank, but struggled mightily at Summit Motorsports Park, making quite a few half track runs before finally settling with a 9.55-137 that gave 9 hundredths back to the Camaro. Danny would leave Norwalk with his lead intact, but we were left to wonder if the effort to do so might come back to haunt him later in the week.

Finally we have Randy Franklin and his teal 64 4 speed Buick Skylark. My speculation is that he was in the stands with his buddies and one of them mentioned how many passes Andre had ran in a short time. Randy must've said something like, "Hold my beer and watch this", then proceeded to pound on the Buick for the last twenty minutes of available track time. He turned in a best of 11.68-116.8