NHRA Kurt Johnson Friday Qualifying Update: Midway through Pomona Qualifying, KJ Sits Seventh

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Midway through Pomona Qualifying, KJ Sits Seventh

 

Event:  42nd Annual Auto Club NHRA Finals

Day/Date: Friday, November 10, 2006

Location:  Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, Pomona, CA

 

Kurt Johnson entered the second day of qualifying at the Auto Club NHRA
Finals looking to fine-tune the set-up on his ACDelco Cobalt and improve
his performance.   Making calculated changes based on the analysis of
his opening attempt from Thursday, Johnson made another solid, straight
run down the track at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, tripping the
finish line timers in 6.709 seconds with a top speed of 206.16 mph,
placing him in the seventh position midway through the qualifying
procedure.

 

"Our ACDelco Cobalt made a nice, clean, straight-as-an-arrow run, which
is certainly good.  In fact, I got out at the top end thinking it had
made a perfect run, and even though it picked up a bit,  the numbers
just didn't match up.  For some reason, it ran decent to the eighth
mile, but just didn't want to run the back half.   I know we took some
gas away from it, which looked like it slowed it down a bit, but we have
to get the whole picture.  We'll take some time to decipher the data,
and see what we need to do to fix it.

 

"It's important that we make the right call for tomorrow morning's
session, because the conditions will be the best that they will be
throughout qualifying.  It's going to be fast, and I figure we'll have
to run a 6.68 just to stay in the top half of the field.  We need to
make sure to do that so we can keep lane choice for Sunday.  We've been
able to run down both lanes, so it's not that big of an issue, but it's
still something you'd like to have going into eliminations.  The bottom
line is that we have to run as fast as we can, and we'll be all right."

 

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