Small-tire racing star Daniel Pharris went to the provisional No. 1 spot in Penske/PRS Pro Boost presented by WS Construction during a proactive Thursday qualifying session to kick off the Professional Drag Racers Association (PDRA) DeCerbo Construction American Doorslammer Challenge presented by Callies. Driving the GALOT Motorsports ’69 Camaro, Pharris covered the Summit Motorsports Park eighth-mile in 3.649 seconds at 207.05 mph. 
 
With rain in the forecast for Friday and Saturday, PDRA and track officials decided to run the first qualifying session on Thursday evening. 
 
Racing in cool conditions, Jim Halsey (Switzer Dynamics Pro Nitrous), JR Carr (Liberty’s Gears Extreme Pro Stock presented by AED Competition), Jimmy Pelcarsky ($hameless Racing Pro Outlaw 632, Eric McKinney (Drag 965 Pro Nitrous Motorcycle) and Tim Essick (Drag 965 Pro Street) also topped the fields in their respective professional classes. 
 
The PDRA’s sportsman classes also completed one early qualifying session, with provisional low qualifier spots going to Buddy Perkinson (MagnaFuel Elite Top Sportsman presented by Tejas Borja), Michael White (Lucas Oil Elite Top Dragster), Donny Urban (MagnaFuel Top Sportsman 32) and Mike Knott (Lucas Oil Top Dragster 32). 
 
In the Jr. Dragster classes, Macy Underwood is the provisional low qualifier in Coolshirt Systems Pro Jr. Dragster with a 7.905 pass in her Quinton, Virginia-based ’21 Mike Bos-built dragster. McKenzie Hogan, in from Youngsville, North Carolina, tops the Classic Graphix Top Jr. Dragster field with a .015 reaction time. 
 
While the weather forecast shows rain for most of the day Friday and Saturday, PDRA officials will attempt to run a second qualifying session during any windows of opportunity that open. 
 
“We’re all keeping an eye on the weather and we’ll do our best to give everyone one more qualifying session,” said Tyler Crossnoe, race director, PDRA. “If that happens Friday or Saturday, great. If not, we’ll run a second session on Sunday and go racing from there. We’ll keep everyone updated on the PDRA Facebook pageand PDRA660.com.”