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HADDOCK MAKES THE SHOW
SCHUMACHER STILL KING O’ SPEED
Tony Schumacher’s Dan Olson-tuned dragster continues to be the fastest of the fuel dragsters, even under the new 90 percent rule. Schumacher’s was the only digger over 320 at E-Town with a 320.36 lap. CERNY KEEPS DIXON ON POLE
HESS’ HEMI HAULS
E-MAIL TUNE-UP FOR BOWEN’S AFD The Bowen family bought the AFD operation that Tom Beecham campaigned last year,and has been running it very successfully on the divisional and national level this year. The men who put the race car operation together for Beecham, Larry Wolyniec and Ed Litke, have been helping the Bowens run the car this season. Recently, although Wolyniec’s business has kept the pair from going to the races, it hasn’t kept them from tuning on the car—thanks to the internet. The Bowens had a baseline tune-up for the race. After a qualifying lap they would download the info off their data logger put it into a file in their computer and then email that info to Wolyniec and Litke at their shop near Chicago. The pair would then put the info up on their computer screen just as if they were looking at it on the computer in the trailer at the track, make decisions and then contact the Bowens by phone with their suggested tune-up instructions. The team has won a divisional race this season and at Englishtown was qualified in the number two spot after two rounds at E-town with a 5.54/263.82 lap. |
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Terry
Haddock’s ’98 Avenger was the lone Fuel Coupe based east of the Mississippi
river at the race but the privateer did manage to put the car into the
show with a 6.01/206 lap.
Larry
Dixon, who has won twice this year for the Don Prudhomme team, continued
to impress by shoeing his ’99 McKinney to the pole at E-town with an
impressive 4.644/311.70 lap. 
Bucky
Hess stunned the crowd and his fellow Super Stock competitors at this
event with an 8.76 lap in his hemi-powered ’Cuda. Hess was the only
SS/AA car at the event but still went two rounds before the race was
called.