NHRA Warren Johnson Qualifying Wrap Up: WJ Goes Back to Basics, Powers to the Third Starting Spot in Pomona

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WJ Goes Back to Basics, Powers to the Third Starting Spot in Pomona

 

Event:  43rd Annual Auto Club Finals

Day/Date: Saturday, November 3, 2007

Location:  Auto Club Raceway, Pomona, California

 

Qualifying for the final race of the 2007 POWERade Drag Racing season
came to a close on Saturday at the Auto Club Raceway at Pomona, and GM
Performance Parts GTO racer Warren Johnson took full advantage of the
opportunity.  In his third attempt on Saturday morning, The Professor
rocketed down the quarter-mile in 6.655-seconds with a top speed of
208.49 mph to claim the third starting spot for Sunday's final
eliminations of the Auto Club Finals in Pomona, California.  As the
six-time Pro Stock champion explained, it was simply a matter of his
race team going back to what they knew.  

 

"Although we're never completely satisfied unless we're No. 1, we'll
certainly take that run.  This is the same engine and same GM
Performance Parts GTO that we've run all season, but up until the last
two races, we had been fighting two battles, trying to tune the engine
to a chassis configuration that I really didn't know that much about.
Unfortunately, it wasn't producing consistent results, making it
extremely difficult to effectively tune the engine.  

 

"However, we've now gone back to square one, using our chassis set-up
from 2003-2006.  In fact, this is the same engine we used in 2005,
albeit with different manifolds, camshafts and so forth.  Now that the
car is going down the racetrack on every run, I can be more precise with
the engine tune-up, and the results are starting to show on the
racetrack.  Armed with the information from today's runs, we're going to
do what we can to go for the throat tomorrow."  

 

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