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Memphis TN (8/19/06) -- Qualifying for the 19th annual NHRA O’Reilly Mid-South Nationals is complete and Jason Line, driver of the KB Racing LLC-owned, Summit Racing Equipment-backed Pro Stock Pontiac GTO, qualified No. 3.
On Friday, a late-afternoon thunderstorm swept through Memphis Motorsports Park and pushed back the first round of qualifying until the 9 o’clock hour and cancelled the second. Of the three sessions that were run, including two today, Line’s best elapsed time was a pass of 7.760 seconds, run in the oppressive heat and humidity of the last qualifying session today.
“While we are happy with where we qualified, we need to figure out how to make these Summit Pontiacs a little bit faster, they're not running as well as we would like them to,” said Line, as he turned his thoughts to eliminations tomorrow following today’s qualifying. “But as I said, No. 1 for (teammate) Greg (Anderson) and No. 3 for me is where we want to be – on the opposite sides of the (qualifying) ladder.
“All-in-all, we have as good of chance to win this thing as anybody and that’s our plan. Our goal is four win lights tomorrow.”
Line goes head-to-head with Tommy Lee, who drives of a Chevy Cobalt, when eliminations get underway tomorrow. Lee qualified No. 14 with a run of 6.788 seconds at 203.40 seconds.
Line jumps to No. 3 as qualifying ends
Memphis TN (8/19/06) -- Qualifying for the 19th annual NHRA O’Reilly Mid-South Nationals is complete and Jason Line, driver of the KB Racing LLC-owned, Summit Racing Equipment-backed Pro Stock Pontiac GTO, qualified No. 3.
On Friday, a late-afternoon thunderstorm swept through Memphis Motorsports Park and pushed back the first round of qualifying until the 9 o’clock hour and cancelled the second. Of the three sessions that were run, including two today, Line’s best elapsed time was a pass of 7.760 seconds, run in the oppressive heat and humidity of the last qualifying session today.
“While we are happy with where we qualified, we need to figure out how to make these Summit Pontiacs a little bit faster, they're not running as well as we would like them to,” said Line, as he turned his thoughts to eliminations tomorrow following today’s qualifying. “But as I said, No. 1 for (teammate) Greg (Anderson) and No. 3 for me is where we want to be – on the opposite sides of the (qualifying) ladder.
“All-in-all, we have as good of chance to win this thing as anybody and that’s our plan. Our goal is four win lights tomorrow.”
Line goes head-to-head with Tommy Lee, who drives of a Chevy Cobalt, when eliminations get underway tomorrow. Lee qualified No. 14 with a run of 6.788 seconds at 203.40 seconds.
