In typical Drag Week fashion, if there are three hundred and eighty cars, and two of them are hoodless red Firebirds, at some point they MUST line them up!
Terry Miller's 3rd Gen 82 was holding the third spot in Modified NA, just ahead of Dale's Gremlin and features a 355 Pro 1 headed 565 BBC with a 2.75 low gear set turbo 350.
Stephen Chechak's 2nd Gen 80 is powered by a much more conventional twin turbo LSX. It was an odd race in that the turbo car walked around on the radials out of the hole, ran the NA car down, but then fell off at a thousand feet as the NA big block drove back around. 8.94-160.5 for the NA 3rd Gen, 9.154-155.7 for the LSX.

We were walking back to our pits and Rachael was already complaining about the route. "This is boring, it's nearly a straight run again, 150 miles up I-55, one checkpoint, then 180 up I-39 to the motel...terrible!"

Tom McGilton brought his '13 ZL-1 back to the line for his third hit of the day, and Lohnes confirmed on the PA that this was all about trying to get the big beast into the two hundred mile an hour club. The 7.51-199.17 was very impressive, but just short of his goal, and only an improvement of two hundredths over his previous run.