Friday was qualifying day with only 2 runs today, the car had a full engine rebuild over the winter by Jeff Bull Racing Engines including a re bore and new pistons so we were expecting the car to run quick, Wayne decided to dial 7.68 but the car did run quick and ran a 7.65 breakout leaving Brad in a low 12th place.
Our second qualifier in the afternoon needed to be a much more concerted effort to get into the field because Brad had now slipped to 16th, Wayne decided on a really safe number that we wouldn’t breakout with and dialled 7.54, Brad ran a 7.63, 9 hundredths of a second improved Brad up to 8th.
Saturday brought another fantastic sunny day, we had 2 more qualifiers and the first round of eliminations in the evening, Wayne now had some data from the new engine and dialled 7.63 and Brad ran 7.65, 2 hundredths of a second off dial in moved Brad up to 4th.
Our 4th and last qualifying run Wayne tried to “get it on the nose” and dialled 7.63 and ran 7.6296 which is 4 ten thousandths of a second too quick so this foul only just breaking out, the time equates to 1.23 inches at 175 mph, Brad had now slipped to 5th.