We think that Vic Williams' Mustang used a 596 c.i. Gene Fulton-built engine on the "bottle." It ran 7.23/194 in qualifying.

There were some other notable cars and engine combinations that made up the 16-car field. Canadian racer Joe DaSilva's 417 cubic inch, forced induction small block ran a very credible 222.44, which was good for Top Speed of the meet. Another unusual car was David Schorr's brand new, one-of-a kind, 815-ci EFI equipped Escort ZX2 from the Kansas City, Missouri area ran a best ever 6.73 lap in qualifying. There was also a Mustang powered by a Gene Fulton-built, 598-inch, nitrous-injected wedge motor.

Eliminations found professional drivers Samuel and Berner maintain their performance edge on the rest of the field and eventually meet in the final round. Samuel and his turboed small block spanked Berner and his mountain motored 'Stang in that final round. Samuel cut a light on Berner with a .079 to Burner's .170 and then drove away tripping the beams with a 6.457 to Burner's dead game 6.498.

PRO STREET (OUTLAW)

This is a true "Super Street" class where a max tire width of only 10.5 inches is allowed. The wider "10.5-W" tire isn't allowed at this race. So, at the WFC you have cars approaching or exceeding 3,000 lbs with gobs of power and relatively narrow tires. That means qualifying features big wheelstands and tire-spinning, guardrail-to-guardrail action. This is a real spectator entertaining class.

Billy Laskowsky's Cobra used a supercharged, fuel-injected 400-inch engine combination. He ran a 7.81 to qualify No. 10 in the "Ten-wide" class.

In past years at the WFC this class was dominated by Bill Glidden and his nitrous oxide-injected small block Mustang. This year different names appeared at the top of the qualifying list and on the winners check. The hot set-up apparently was either turbocharged or supercharged fuel-injected small blocks in 3100-lb cars.

Texan Travis Franklin had both the Low E.T. (7.45) and Top Speed (191.59) for the class with his supercharged engine combo, but broke during Saturday's qualifying and couldn't answer the call on Sunday. That left the second and third qualifiers, Dan Millen and Jim Blair, who had forced induction power plants and Bill Glidden's 2750-lb, nitrous oxide-injected, 414-inch small block-powered 'Stang to battle for the title and the money.