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Friday
Results for Qualifying 1
GRAND BEND, Ont. - GRAND BEND - Notes from round 1
qualifying in Exhibition at the
Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series, 3rd annual Mopar Performance
Parts Canadian
Nationals presented by Castrol listing lane, driver name, elapsed
time, top speed,
and position in order following run:
Right Lane: Jim "Jet" Neilson Runs 7.427/219.83, Now #1
8:21 PM Jim "Jet" Neilson closes
out the "Friday Nitro Jam" with a burner-popping,
high-speed Mercedes limousine ride.
Saturday
Results for Qualifying 2
GRAND BEND, Ont. - GRAND BEND - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Exhibition at the
Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series, Third annual Mopar Performance Parts Canadian
Nationals presented by Castrol listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed
this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and
position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Ken Nelson Runs 13.169/82.23, Now #3
Best prior run: 13.169/82.23, Was #2
Right Lane: Jon Oswell Runs 12.422/99.88, Now #2
No Prior Run
2:42 PM A '33 Willys Ladder Truck versus a Bluebird Schoolbus, both on the
rear wheels for the quarter mile - and the firetruck gets there first, just under a
hundred miles per hour.
Right Lane: Jim "Jet" NeilsonRuns 7.455/219.78, Now #1
Best prior run: 7.427/219.83, Was #1
Must be a hot date waiting at the prom...the jet limo would be a great way to
get there.
Right Lane: Bob Motz Runs 9.613/208.28, Now #2
No Prior Run
Motz closes the afternoon show with a relatively tame fire show, sending the
beer garden spectators alongside the staging area running, then cranks the big jet
Kenworth up for yet another awesome run.
Saturday
Results for Qualifying 3
GRAND BEND, Ont. - GRAND BEND - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Exhibition at the
Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series, Third annual Mopar Performance Parts Canadian
Nationals presented by Castrol listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed
this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and
position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Jon Oswell Runs 12.705/87.84, Now #3
Best prior run: 12.422/99.88, Was #3
Right Lane: Ken Nelson Runs 13.229/101.66, Now #4
Best prior run: 13.169/82.23, Was #4
9:51 PM We almost had side-by-side wheelstanders in the same lane, Oswell
losing his bearings, steadily drifting right, taking out the half-track timing
reflectors. He pulled the Willys back into the left lane and completed the run.
Nelson never saw the fire truck, well ahead from the start, though it looked close
from the starting line.
Right Lane: Jim "Jet" NeilsonRuns 7.387/219.99, Now #1
Best prior run: 7.427/219.83, Was #1
The big Mercedes limo runs even quicker and faster at night.
Right Lane: Bob Motz Runs 7.561/212.71, Now #2
Best prior run: 9.613/208.28, Was #2
Motz' show is impressive any time, but after dark, with the lights out, it's
doubly so. His elapsed time earlier today was slowed when he rolled the beams, but
this was a green-light start.
Sunday
Results for Qualifying 4
GRAND BEND, Ont. - GRAND BEND - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Exhibition
at the Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series, Third annual Mopar Performance Parts
Canadian Nationals presented by Castrol listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top
speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed,
and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Jon Oswell Runs 12.444/99.38, Now #3
Best prior run: 12.422/99.88, Was #3
Right Lane: Ken Nelson Runs 12.857/88.25, Now #4
Best prior run: 13.169/82.23, Was #4
3:22 PM Oswell's problem last night wasn't visibility, it was an overheated
brake that pulled him to the right. Two nice wheelstanding passes here, Ladder
Truck 33 a little quicker than the Cool Bus.
Right Lane: Jim "Jet" NeilsonRuns 7.383/221.67, Now #1
Best prior run: 7.387/219.99, Was #1
The jet Mercedes Limo closes its show at Grand Bend with its quickest and
fastest pass of the weekend.
Right Lane: Bob Motz Runs 7.513/214.28, Now #2
Best prior run: 7.561/212.71, Was #2
Motz cranks the big jet Kenworth up another notch for the finale, making his
quickest and fastest run of the weekend.
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