Clark and Bill Lamb coaxed yet another consistent pass out of the Barracuda with a stout 11.13-120.6, to keep him safely in the Quick 32, and ready to make the final drive to Columbus. Randy J's Coronet ran an 11.80-113 that would put him almost even in average with Rod's GTS. Craig Douglas' HellCat Charger ran a 10.45-130.8, which left him in a tight battle with the 1980 Corvette of Brian Peterson from Denmark for fourth qualifying position in SME.

Lonnie Grimm's message that the SME session would end at 12:45, had just been relayed by Brian Lohnes over the PA system as Jesse Msdaffari's 83 John Deer themed C-10 squared off against Ernest Brown's 86 C-10 long bed named Heavy Metal Thunder. A titanic battle between a high 12 second truck and a high 13 second truck, what could possibly go wrong? Ernest got the tree, and just as Jesse pulled alongside at the 330 mark, the long bed started spewing something from the pan area. It wasn't until the eighth mile when Ernest started sliding around in his own stuff, that he lifted. He coasted through, and drove it all the way to the turn-off. Once again, we were in for a very long clean-up!