Pro Street stand out Chris Rini was all ready to go early this morning. The team ran some great numbers in testing yesterday but struggled in the first round of quaifying.

Crew Chief Bryan Metz had his hands full yesterday tuning both Troy Coughlin and Mikey Rees throughout the day. While Troy settled in the number 1 spot, Mikey had some issues and was popping and bangin' all the way down the track.

Super Street leader Frank Meshaw was up early working on his car for todays qualifying rounds. With the help from Hank Hill, Meshaw has been consistantly running in the mid 6 second range.

Another racer who struggled to get a grip on the track last night was Danny Shemwell, Shemwell hopes to make a clean pass today and join the upper half of what looks to be the quickest NPS field ever.

Micheal Fratena of Indialantic, Florida made quite the lap with an 8.66 going straight to the number 1 spot in Street Radial.

Gregg Delaney barely got by Skip Baskin with a smooth 8.50 in Pro Stock. Don Bowles also made a solid pass with an 8.52.

While Jason Lee ran yet another 8.01, Jamie Stanton of New York laid down a record run with a 7.91 almost crossing the centerline about 60 feet out.

Illinois based Chuck Demory drove his N/A 1968 Mustang to a 7.28 showing yesterdays 7.29 was no fluke. Other NPS noteables were Jim Jarretts 7.34 and Right beside him was Kevin Parent running a 7.36.

While most NPS cars had great runs, Skip Baskin had quite the Nitrous Explosion right at the hit letting out a large fireball.

A large fireball for Mikey Rees occured at nearly 40 feet out. The car slowly coasted down the race track to a stop.

Bill Lutz had a late night last night due to finding 7 push rods in the oil pan after round 1 of qualifying. Bill and engine builder replaced the parts and made a 1/8 mile hit today. Look for Lutz to roll the whole 1/4 mile in round 3. Bill also had a bye in last races semi final from ZMAX, the final will be ran in round 3.

Jim Robbins went low for the round in Super Street with a 6.81 and 207, In a delayed semi final from ZMAX Tony Nesbitt took out Frank Meshaw with a 6.93 to go to the number 4 spot as well.

Chris Rini went straight to the number 1 spot and setting the new et record on the way! Rini rolled throught the traps at a 6.16. Jeff Lutz also reset the mph record at 234 on a 6.34 pass.

Bob Vorderer made a hard move to the right hand wall but saved it and coasted through the traps.

Troy Coughlin missed the 3rd session due to an engine failure in round 2 of qualifying but will be back strong in sunday's eliminations.

With the help of Quain Stott Rick Blaisdell pedeled himself a career best of 6.62 at 195. In round 3 we saw Chris Rini back up his 6.16 with a 6.17 at 233 mph! Also in the running for the new mph record with Jeff Lutz who did not back his 234 mph run up.

In Super Street Frank Mewshaw ran yet another 6.7x run with a 6.76 at 218 to hold onto the number 1 spot. In th ZMAX final Bill Lutz Treed Tony Nesbitt winning with a 7.16 to Tony's 6.90.

In NPS Chuck Demory Continued to lead the field with his 7.28 effort, Jim Jarrett laid down another incredible 7.3x pass and Rob White ran yet another 7.48 for a career best.

Don Culbertson has been having backfire problems all weekend and round 3 was no different. On a better note, New York Based Bill Trovato ran a solid 7.98 placing him into the number 2 spot.

In Mean Street Wheels were hung in the air and the field seemed to remain the same as round 2. Final Order coming soon.

After some horrific tire shake about 330 feet out Bob Vorderer's team is changing some ratio's in the team Camaro.

Rob Golobo had a great pass during the friday night qualifier but struggled all day today to make it down the track. The team had the laptop and the car idleing to get the tuneup right for Sunday's elimination rounds.

Ed Mc Guinn out of New York was working on some front end components of his Extreme Street Firebird. With Ed choosing an interesting approach to solve the problem i had to take a closer look!

Don Culbertson managed to damage the head on his last qualifying attempt, with no other damage in sight the team plans to fix the problem and return for Sunday's Eliminations.