NHRA Warren Johnson Friday Update: WJ Opens Brainerd Qualifying in Eighth

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WJ Opens Brainerd Qualifying in Eighth

 

Event:  25th Annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals

Day/Date: Friday, August 11, 2006

Location:  Brainerd International Raceway, Brainerd, MN

 

Warren Johnson had an exciting start to his qualifying effort at the
Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals when his car rolled the starting line beams,
activating the timing clocks early and costing him valuable time on his
first attempt.  Even so, "The Professor" was able to derive a
substantial benefit from that run, taking the data from that attempt and
making several adjustments to better suit his car to the Brainerd
International Raceway track. 

 

As a result, he was able to bounce back with a solid 6.771-second,
203.61 mph run in the evening session, positioning his GM Performance
Parts GTO in the eighth position entering Saturday's final time trials. 

 

"Although we made a bad run in the first session, we certainly took a
step in the right direction tonight.  We had to wait a little while they
cleaned up Rizzo's oil down in front of us, and scrubbed a little bit
off in the early part of the run, but we'll take this GM Performance
Parts GTO from there and keep working on it.  

 

"If the track is at all like it was tonight, we should be in pretty good
shape tomorrow, because we were sixteenth quickest in the first sixty
feet on tonight's run, but second quickest in last half.  Given that
fact, if the weather and the track cooperate there's no reason we
shouldn't be able to pick up the pace and get in one of the top four
positions."

    

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