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* Carl Baker, who crashed his Summit Racing Pro Stock Cougar at Rockingham,
was back behind the wheel in Shreveport, driving Charlie Taylor's 2000
Mustang, recently vacated by Tom Lee. Baker put Taylor's car into the
number-three qualifying spot with a 6.57 at 211.20 mph, then beat Terry
Leggett with a 6.59 in round one, but fell to a slower Elijah Morton
when he had a lethargic .521 reaction time in the quarter-finals.
* Gene Wilson reset both ends of the track record at Red River Raceway,
going 6.548 secs in his first-round win over Jerry Yeoman and 212.39
mph in qualifying. The top four Pro Stock qualifiers at Shreveport all
ran 6.57s. The entire 16-car field qualified within .139 secs of each
other, with no one going slower than 207 mph.
* The Morton Brothers, from Jacksonville, NC, had a brand-new 2002
Mustang Pro Stock rolling chassis on hand at Shreveport that was attracting
a lot of attention from racers and fans alike. Driver Elijah Morton
-- who qualified the team's current '99 Ford Probe entry 11th and made
it to the semi-finals against eventual race runner-up Ron Miller --
proudly explained the new car is the first Pro Stocker in the world
with a 100-percent carbon fiber body and features all-digital electronics.
The car has already passed IHRA's technical inspection and track testing
for the 2002 season will begin later this month.
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| Elijah Morton said his team picked up its
new Mustang just before the race from Jerry Haas Race Cars in Fenton,
MO, after Jim Hooker painted it Bright Island Blue, an official
2002 Ford color. |
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