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Romine
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Qualifying Round 1
1 Steve Stordeur 6.379 220.84
?It actually went to the right for the first time.? Stordeur?s been battling a handling problem all summer. ?So I think we made the right corrections. It makes me feel a whole lot more confident riding it now. It was a good, smooth pass. 60 foots weren?t real good. The clutch slipped some. I think we can go quicker.?
2 Mark Cox 6.462 215.66
?Really that?s about the tune up we had in it. We figured it would run around a 6.45 and we?d have great conditions and we had a 46. It?s always important to get that first run in to get that data. Our goal for this next round is to have the first high gear in the thirties. We?re hoping the conditions will let us have that. It?s the tune up we have in it anyway.
3 Doug Vancil 6.578 227.80
?It was a mutt but it liked it. We just drove through the clutch. We had terrible short numbers. Went right, but for the first one, we?re happy.?
4 Johnny Mancuso 6.598 219.94
?My bike really was lazy leaving the starting line and through half track. Bill was way out on me and it took to the 1000 foot before my bike felt like it was pulling. Steve?s bike almost duplicated the run exactly from the Indy final run. It matched the performance almost to the 1000th. We feel like we can step his up a little bit and work with mine to get it a little more competitive.?:
5 Larry ?Drums? Brancaccio 6.744 217.67
The track is so good, the bike just didn?t? leave real hard. I got out a ways and it spun a little. I t settled in real nice and ran hard out the eback. The track is o good, the air is so good, we just didn?t anticipate that the bike would want that much more fuel. As far as to be out there, it was one of the most exciting passes of my life. Just to be out there was awesome.
6 Chicago Joe Scatella 6.986 183.17
?I can smoke the tire at the best track in the world. But it worked out for us after the tire spun twice. I was on the brake to slow the tire down. Once it hooked up and took off it was all good. It clicked off at the first cone when I was catching Jack. I thought the track would take more than that. We?ll try to calm it down since it will be colder for second round.?
7 Jake Silcox 7.124 196.59
Silcox was busy making changes after the round, declining to comment about the run.
8 Bill Furr 7.437 133
Broke a transmission during the first pass and was unavailable for comment during repair for the second round.
9 Jack Romine 7.514 195.65
Broke a belt around 1000 feet. It didn?t leave the starting line real good. The 60 foot times and 1/8th mile are off. We?re gonna let Mike fix it.
10 Mark Conner 8.989 102.05
?The track was stronger than the belt. It broke a belt. 60 foot times were kind of soft. It didn?t snap off. It just puttered down there. Kind of like Doug (Vancil) and Jack?s (Romine). My chest is sore from smacking the frame. It?s a good think I had my protective equipment on.?
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