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I am prejudiced but I am openly a fan of Garlits, "the
Greek," and Shirley. None of that unbiased Fourth Estate biz here.
I am corrupt. After developing a 5.14, 5.17 baseline by winning at the
World Series the previous weekend, Garlits is the fifth car out on the
pad at Indy on Friday night and rips an effortless, blower belt shedding
4.881/275.67. A few pairs later, "the Greek" hazes the tires,
pedals the car, gets close to the wall and still lugs it to a 5.02/295.79
to qualify. Good as those two are, Cory McClenathan's 4.55 comes up
that session and will remain up as low e.t.
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| Garlits was qualified for just two minutes
at the end of the last session, then was bumped by Yuichi Oyama
by three-thousandths. |
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| Shirley Muldowney easily qualified for the
Top Fuel field, but was knocked out in the second round by Australian
Andrew Cowin. |
One excellent development from Friday night, beer was
sold at an NHRA national event earlier that day -- in the grandstands.
Remember that fabulous Musco Lighting that's illuminated
the last half-dozen Nationals? The fabled Iowa-based night lighting
company was not at Indy 2002 and as eventual Pro Stock winner Jeg Coughlin
described it in comparative terms, "It was dark."
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