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The story line in Junior Fuel was evident right from Friday's
opening qualifying session as two-time defending Hot Rod Nationals Jr.
Fuel champion Scott Parks of Burlingame, Kansas grabbed the #1 position
running a 7.308 followed by his main competition Brian Olson of nearby
Peru, Indiana who checked in second with a 7.393. The next closest qualifier
was Jamestown, Indiana's Troy Wilson who grabbed the 3rd position with
a 7.81 - some five tenth's of a second behind the top two.
As eliminations got underway, the ladder showed Parks
and Olson meeting in the semis if both advanced. Indeed they both did
advance with Park's easily defeating Olson 7.333 to the loser's 7.419.
The other semi-finalist, Tom Frye, of Clayton, Ohio had a bye run to
advance to the finals when the unthinkable happened. Following his burnout,
Frye's car stalled resulting in a failure to take a staging light, which
disqualified him and put Olson back into the program via that familiar
Goodguys/VRA break rule! In their final round rematch, Olson spun the
tires early in the run, giving Park's his 3rd Goodguys Hot Rod Nationals
win in as many years.
Skokie, Illinois' Ken Kleiner showed everyone in A/GAS
(7.60 index) that they had to pick up three 10th's if they wanted to
defeat his blown alcohol '63 Corvette. Kleiner grabbed the #1 qualifying
position with a near perfect 7.618, then put the beautiful split window
'Vette on cruise control for Sunday's race. In all three elimination
rounds, Kleiner logged Low ET, before defeating David Morris' '29 Ford
in the final 7.885 to the loser's 8.112. As a side note, Kokomo, Indiana's
Tex Cooper got the "Best Burnout" award in A/GAS by doing not one, but
two 700-foot smoky burnouts behind the wheel of his blown 327 small
block powered '55 Chevy.
Nostalgia Eliminator was run for the first time as a complete
7.60 index class at the Hot Rod Nationals attracting 15 entries from
around the country including Rich "Rio" Raymond who towed from Northern
California because, as he said "I've never been to drag racing's holy
land and I better do it now as I'm not getting any younger!" The Nostalgia
racers put on the best show of the weekend with a qualifying sheet that
had all eight cars within two tenth's of each other. Prior Lake, Minnesota's
Greg Benson and his 540 Mopar powered '32 Bantam roadster prevailed
Sunday afternoon, defeating Pat Ellerholz in a very close final with
Benson's 7.639 covering Ellerholz' 7.670.
Other winner's at the 14th K & N Filters/Goodguys Hot
Rod Nationals presented by advance Auto Parts included Fred Bach (Top
Fuel B), Darrell Wathen (B/GAS), Paul Hembree (C/GAS), Buddy Whay (Nostalgia
2), Ron Finney (Nostalgia 3), Max Lang (Hot Rod Eliminator), Norman
Coupil (Street Machine Eliminator), Michael Kaiser (Flathead Inline),
Brent Elmore (Nostalgia Super Stock), Randy Sacksteder (Nostalgia Gas),
Duane Booden (Street Rod Shootout) and Keith Palcisko (Hot Rod Shootout).
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