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Round one kicked off with the lone supercharged entry
of Tommy Howes facing chassis builder Ed Burnley's Sorcerer Corvette.
Howes stayed side by side with Burnley until half-track, then slowed
at the top end. Burnley went 6.673, 212.59 to defeat Tommy's 7.519 at
137. Up next, 2002 points leader Allan Juhasz blatantly redlighted away
a good 6.695 at 208.17. Larry Plummer shut off to a 7.079 at only 148
mph for the win.
Up next, Marc Hemling wheelstood his Corvette, headed
for the right retaining wall, and shut off. Three time series champ
Billy Farmer (as first alternate filling in for a broken Mark McHugh),
took the win with an exact duplicate of his qualifying run, 6.735 at
209.69 mph. Kent Ferrell only needed to break the beams under power
on his first round bye and that's exactly what he did. Barney Squires
then came out for a 6.890, 201.55 time run, a huge improvement for the
Shooting Star Corvette.
The semifinals began with Kent Ferrell meeting Ed Burnley.
The two left the line like Super Comp racers, with Burnley barely leading
Ferrell with awesome reaction times of .418 to .421! Ferrell's patriotically
painted Corvette again found the low 6.50s and won with a 6.528, 214.42
over Burnley's 6.681. Larry Plummer kept pace with Ferrell by defeating
Billy Farmer, 6.575, 212.69 to a loose 6.878, 186.87. Farmer has sold
his dominating '63 Corvette and was shoeing John Coles' IKES Racing
1992 Trans Am. Marc Hemling then came out for a time run and hit an
amazing 6.464 at 215.31.
The final had Larry Plummer and Kent Ferrell meeting with
Ferrell going for his third straight win. Ferrell redlighted away his
chances, however, handing an automatic win to Plummer. Pity, as the
numbers were superb and close: 6.562 at 214.01 for Ferrell and a winning
6.583 at 211.89 for Plummer.
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