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Pomona - Defending POWERade Pro Stock champion Jason Line made a run toward the front of the pack during the second day of qualifying for the 47th annual CarQuest Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Line's Summit Racing Pontiac moved to the No. 2 position in the field with a run of 6.641 seconds, just .001 of a second off the pole pace, and he tied Jeg Coughlin for top speed of the meet at 208.46 mph.
"It wasn't a great run, but it was a good run," said Line. "There's no question that we can improve on that, and obviously we were happy to move up in the field as well as we did. Greg's Pontiac didn't fair quite as well but there's a lot we can learn from what his car did in that lane."
Line has never won an event at Auto Club Raceway but he was runner-up at the NHRA Finals in 2004 and 2006, and he was No. 1 qualifier at the 2005 and 2006 NHRA Finals.
"Considering Greg and I are running two brand-new engines, all-in-all we're both off to a pretty good start," said Line. "We have a lot more confidence in the potential of the GM DRCE3 now that we've had them on the track. We need to make better runs, although we still have a ways to go tune-up wise - we left a little out there."
Line Slotted No. 2
Pomona - Defending POWERade Pro Stock champion Jason Line made a run toward the front of the pack during the second day of qualifying for the 47th annual CarQuest Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Line's Summit Racing Pontiac moved to the No. 2 position in the field with a run of 6.641 seconds, just .001 of a second off the pole pace, and he tied Jeg Coughlin for top speed of the meet at 208.46 mph.
"It wasn't a great run, but it was a good run," said Line. "There's no question that we can improve on that, and obviously we were happy to move up in the field as well as we did. Greg's Pontiac didn't fair quite as well but there's a lot we can learn from what his car did in that lane."
Line has never won an event at Auto Club Raceway but he was runner-up at the NHRA Finals in 2004 and 2006, and he was No. 1 qualifier at the 2005 and 2006 NHRA Finals.
"Considering Greg and I are running two brand-new engines, all-in-all we're both off to a pretty good start," said Line. "We have a lot more confidence in the potential of the GM DRCE3 now that we've had them on the track. We need to make better runs, although we still have a ways to go tune-up wise - we left a little out there."
