Jeg Coughlin, driving a Harry Houlton car made a burnout but was shut down and didn’t make a qualifying pass. The low qualifier for the Hemi Shootout was 2005 winner Charlie Wescott Jr. in his Warfish ‘Cuda. He recorded a stout 8.784.
With temps hovering in the high 70’s, railbirds at the track were looking for .50’s from the cars but none were forthcoming. The number two qualifier, Californian Jerry Jenkins, was nearly a tenth behind Wescott, recording a respectable 8.68.
Interestingly, in 2005 some of the Hemi-powered cars qualified near the top of the Super Stock field. That isn’t happening this year though as a driver needs a time slip that shows he ran way south of a second under the index to make the Top Ten.
Westcott’s Hemi-Cuda ran a respectable 1.016 on the soft 9.80 index for the SS/AH class, but the next Cuda to show on the qualifying list was Jerry Jenkins, whose .923 under the index run was only good for the 62nd spot in the field.
TOP TEN MOPAR HEMI CHALLENGE QUALIFIERS
1) C. Wescott Jr. 8.784 ’68 Cuda
2) J Jenkins 8.868 ’68 Dart
3) R. Hopkins 8.877 ’68 Dart
4) J. Pancake 8.905 ’68 Cuda
5) J. Wilkes 8.924 ’68 ‘Cuda
6) R. Warford 8.925 ’68 Cuda
7) D. Marvel 8.932 ’68 ‘Cuda
8) J. Faherty 8.961 ’68 Dart
9) J. Teuton Jr. 8.961 ’68 Cuda
10) S. Wann 8.971 ’69 Cuda |
