NHRA Kurt Johnson Qualifying Wrap Up: KJ Steps Up, Starts Second in Indy

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 KJ Steps Up, Starts Second in Indy

 

Event:  52nd Annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals

Day/Date: Sunday, September 3, 2006

Location:  O'Reilly Raceway Park at Indianapolis, Clermont, IN

 

Kurt Johnson and the ACDelco Cobalt Racing Team completed a solid
qualifying effort on Sunday at the Mac Tools U.S. Nationals, with his
best pass of 6.672-seconds at 206.83 mph capturing the second starting
position at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis.  

 

Despite his limited experience with this new race car, throughout the
three days of qualifying, Johnson was consistently among the best of the
31 Pro Stock cars attempting to make the field.   In each of his first
four runs, he bettered his time from the previous session, and ended the
qualifying procedure with a solid, 6.697-second clocking, putting
himself in a good position to take home his third U.S. Nationals win. 

 

"We're pretty pleased with this new ACDelco Cobalt.  Even though we have
less than 20 runs on it, we made five good ones here in the
6.67-6.71-second range, which was good enough for the No. 2 spot.  That
gives us lane choice for the first round, which is what we came here to
do in qualifying.  The hard part is done, the fun part is coming up
tomorrow.  It's not easy, but fun.  

 

"The good news is that there's more left in it.  For example, if we can
get it to go straight, we'll be a lot better off.  I'm not really all
that concerned, because we've figured out how to make it go straight in
the left lane, so as long as we keep lane choice, we should be in good
shape.  That will be the key - keeping lane choice.  We'll just have to
do what we did in Memphis two weeks ago, going four rounds, keeping lane
choice and collecting our reward at the end."

 

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