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big block, but Mike Moran's quad turbo didn't qualify. |
One racer who figured to advance to the round of 16 and didn't was former
NHRA Pro Stock star Joe LePone Jr who was driving a mountain-motored,
no power adder Ford. Unfortunately, he met up with former Orlando event
winner Tony Christian in the first round and lost.
The marquee match-up of the event came in the second round
and featured the ex-Bob Rieger, turbo-charged S-10 with Brian Weaver
between the pipes versus Todd Shepherd's one-of-a kind, blown '62 Plymouth
Hemi wagon. Weaver had qualified second with a stout 6.718 while Shepherd's
wagon made the number 16 spot with a 6.935. Shepherd made the pass of
his life, booting the supercharged Hemi wagon to an otherworldly 6.704/216.24
to drop Weaver's 6.780/207.03. Weaver strapped a .018 holeshot on Shepherd
but Shepherd got to the stripe 50 thousandths of a second before Weaver.
Shepherd's winning lap gave him and his huge wagon the second quickest
lap of the event and top speed of the meet.
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