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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 79390" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Won't ever happen! </p><p> </p><p>Vandergriff and crew missed the field by 2/1000th of a second. The good news it on each run the times improved so that in the 3rd qualifying round they nailed a 4.659 at 296 mph but in the 4th round they fell off just a tick with a 4.66 run but the mph jumped to a 319. Looking at the 3rd round mph number, looks like it either mixed up some cylinders or something and it click off early. Had he made the full pass I think he'd have at least bumped Bruce Litton from the field and made the show.</p><p> </p><p>Unless Bob was testing under cover at Atlanta Dragway or made the pull to south Florida, I saw him listed nowhere for any pre-season testing so I'm going to assume those 4 runs over the last 2 days were the first runs for the car and not bad considering they may have started behind the 8-ball. The last 2 runs of both mid 4.6's were good in that this gave them a good baseline and I'd imagine they'll make more runs at Pomona on Monday. </p><p> </p><p>The concern? NHRA and Goodyear are mandating a new tire for the nitro classes beginning at the GatorNationals. Like Team Kalitta, if I were Team UPS I'd go ahead and run the tire now as this option is open. I'd bet Bob and Jim will have the UPS car better dialed in at Firebird in 2 weeks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 79390, member: 2189"] Won't ever happen! Vandergriff and crew missed the field by 2/1000th of a second. The good news it on each run the times improved so that in the 3rd qualifying round they nailed a 4.659 at 296 mph but in the 4th round they fell off just a tick with a 4.66 run but the mph jumped to a 319. Looking at the 3rd round mph number, looks like it either mixed up some cylinders or something and it click off early. Had he made the full pass I think he'd have at least bumped Bruce Litton from the field and made the show. Unless Bob was testing under cover at Atlanta Dragway or made the pull to south Florida, I saw him listed nowhere for any pre-season testing so I'm going to assume those 4 runs over the last 2 days were the first runs for the car and not bad considering they may have started behind the 8-ball. The last 2 runs of both mid 4.6's were good in that this gave them a good baseline and I'd imagine they'll make more runs at Pomona on Monday. The concern? NHRA and Goodyear are mandating a new tire for the nitro classes beginning at the GatorNationals. Like Team Kalitta, if I were Team UPS I'd go ahead and run the tire now as this option is open. I'd bet Bob and Jim will have the UPS car better dialed in at Firebird in 2 weeks. [/QUOTE]
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