Kurt Johnson NHRA Saturday Update: KJ Will Start Fifth in Houston

 

Event:  19th Annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals

Day/Date: Saturday, April 1, 2006

Location:  Houston Raceway Park, Baytown, TX

 

Kurt Johnson completed his best qualifying effort of the young NHRA
season on Saturday, slotting his ACDelco Cobalt fifth for Sunday's final
eliminations of the O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals.  Johnson's run of
record at Houston Raceway Park came on Friday night, when he tripped the
quarter-mile clocks in 6.706-seconds with a top speed of 205.54 mph.   

 

"After a strong start on Friday, our ACDelco Cobalt made decent runs
today, but just didn't seem to go anywhere.  We should be able to run a
6.69 without a problem, but we're about five hundredths off.  Looking at
the information we have at our disposal, I think we can make some
adjustments for tomorrow and get back at least three of them, but we
won't be happy until we get all five.  

 

"We'll go over our notes, go back to what works and get after it.  We
know what the track needs, as well as what the car and the motor needs.
The key is putting it all together.  We'll be on it tomorrow."