NHRA Carquest Nationals Route 66 Raceway Park, Joliet, IL
Screamin' Eagle Nitro Harley Exhibition

Final Qualifying Pit Notes

1 Steve Stordeur 6.379 220.84
"We got too greedy and put too much fuel and clutch and spun the tire right off of the starting line. I didn't try to make a pass out of it so we wouldn't have to change motors. I was disappointed I didn't make a good lap for NHRA. It would have been nice. We just got a little too greedy."

2 Doug Vancil 6.44 227.80
"It was a good run. WE had good short numbers. Ran like a 4.19 at 184 in the eighth. Then it put a cylinder out just under five seconds. We have something to go with now. Tomorrow I just hope it doesn't rain. We can make it not go fat on the top end. We found out what it wants at the bottom end."

3 Mark Cox 6.462 215.66
"We had a little too much fuel in it. It smoked the tire coming out of the hole. It loaded up with fuel and put the fire out. We'll probably stick with what we had in the first round and play with the fuel a little bit from eliminations Sunday. But everything was working good. The clutch was just a little too aggressive and we spun the tire."

4 Mark Conner 6.595 208.68
"It was pretty entertaining. I didn't get to keep the throttle open the whole time. The bike was going toward the center. I rolled off a little bit to get it steered. I rolled off of the throttle three times according to the computer. Hopefully tomorrow I can have a nice straight run instead of a figure S run and we can go to the semi-finals."

5 Johnny Mancuso 6.598 219.94
"It didn't sound good in the burnout. I think what happened was that we went way the wrong way with the tune up. The motor could have been hurt on the first round and we just didn't know it. Consequently it showed up in the second round. We know we have some damage on our rear cylinder right now. We're trying to see how bad it is and repair it. We'll know a little more in a little while."

6 Jack Romine 6.598 217.67
"Our performance picked up a little bit in the early numbers, not quite as much as we thought they were gonna. It ran real good from halftrack on. The belt stayed on this time, so we were able to run the 6.59 with the belt on. We're gonna have to go after the early numbers. We'll go against Mark Cox and he ran real well in the first run today. We'll have to make some more changes and hopefully I'll be able to pick up a little bit."

7 Drums Brancaccio 6.683 219.72
"I had a killer light. When the bike left the starting line, it started spinning immediately, sashaying down the track. It tried to high-side me. I like to get my feet up onto the foot pegs around the eighth mile mark, but I couldn't do that until 1000 feet. At that point, it picked up the wheel so hard. When I got to the end of the track, I told Jack that was the fastest this thing has ever been in the quarter. Sure enough, it went 219.72. I'm just so excited to be out here. 'I want to run 220,' is what I kept saying. Second round, I ran as close to it as you can."

8 Jake Silcox 6.938 182.62
With a tune-up from Chicago Joe, he fiddled with it and went a 6.92 in the final round.

9 Chicago Joe Scatella 6.986 213.70
"I wish we had one more round. That's the fifth pass on that bike for me. We took a little too much fuel pressure out at the bottom. To run 213 miles per hour like that with no bottom end fuel is something. We shook the tire the first time run. So we went with less percentage and took clutch weight off but should have left fuel pressure in it. We didn't qualify. That's the way it is."

10 Bill Furr 7.437 137.34
"In round one, for some unknown reason, the air pressure was only holding the transmission half way between high and low. It burned the transmission clutches up. It went fat and dropped a hole. Second round we changed transmissions. At 2.5 seconds the rpm's went up and it dropped both of the holes."

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Qualifying Round 1

1 Steve Stordeur 6.379 220.84
"It actually went to the right for the first time." Stordeur's been battling a handling problem all summer. "So I think we made the right corrections. It makes me feel a whole lot more confident riding it now. It was a good, smooth pass. 60 foots weren't real good. The clutch slipped some. I think we can go quicker."

2 Mark Cox 6.462 215.66
"Really that's about the tune up we had in it. We figured it would run around a 6.45 and we'd have great conditions and we had a 46. It's always important to get that first run in to get that data. Our goal for this next round is to have the first high gear in the thirties. We're hoping the conditions will let us have that. It's the tune up we have in it anyway.

3 Doug Vancil 6.578 227.80
"It was a mutt but it liked it. We just drove through the clutch. We had terrible short numbers. Went right, but for the first one, we're happy."

4 Johnny Mancuso 6.598 219.94
"My bike really was lazy leaving the starting line and through half track. Bill was way out on me and it took to the 1000 foot before my bike felt like it was pulling. Steve's bike almost duplicated the run exactly from the Indy final run. It matched the performance almost to the 1000th. We feel like we can step his up a little bit and work with mine to get it a little more competitive.":

5 Larry "Drums" Brancaccio 6.744 217.67
The track is so good, the bike just didn't' leave real hard. I got out a ways and it spun a little. I t settled in real nice and ran hard out the eback. The track is o good, the air is so good, we just didn't anticipate that the bike would want that much more fuel. As far as to be out there, it was one of the most exciting passes of my life. Just to be out there was awesome.

6 Chicago Joe Scatella 6.986 183.17
"I can smoke the tire at the best track in the world. But it worked out for us after the tire spun twice. I was on the brake to slow the tire down. Once it hooked up and took off it was all good. It clicked off at the first cone when I was catching Jack. I thought the track would take more than that. We'll try to calm it down since it will be colder for second round."

7 Jake Silcox 7.124 196.59
Silcox was busy making changes after the round, declining to comment about the run.

8 Bill Furr 7.437 133
Broke a transmission during the first pass and was unavailable for comment during repair for the second round.

9 Jack Romine 7.514 195.65
Broke a belt around 1000 feet. It didn't leave the starting line real good. The 60 foot times and 1/8th mile are off. We're gonna let Mike fix it.

10 Mark Conner 8.989 102.05
"The track was stronger than the belt. It broke a belt. 60 foot times were kind of soft. It didn't snap off. It just puttered down there. Kind of like Doug (Vancil) and Jack's (Romine). My chest is sore from smacking the frame. It's a good think I had my protective equipment on."