With heavy rain putting an early stop to all on-track action for the second-straight night, only the premier Radial vs. the World class managed to complete two rounds of eliminations for promoter Donald "Duck" Long's No Mercy 9 at South Georgia Motorsports Park.

Though six of the eight entries remaining on the ladder qualified in the top half of the 32-car RvW field, several pre-race favorites are already loaded up and heading home.

Among those exiting early from the opening round of racing were DeWayne Mills with his "Golden Gorilla" '68 Camaro, Mark Woodruff and his C6 Corvette, and Ken Quartuccio, the highest starting qualifier in sixth with his 2017 Vette.

In round two, second-place starter Mark Micke, $100K winner of Long's Sweet 16 event in March, fell in a huge upset to Australia's Jeremy "Jet" Martin driving his one-of-a-kind, four-door, twin-turboed '79 Holden Commodore. Micke was late off the tree, but it didn't matter after he lost traction off the hit, while Martin posted a 3.93 pass at 196.76 mph, representing the slowest E.T. of all eight entries advancing to the quarter-finals.

The quickest of those advancing was seventh-place qualifier Alex Laughlin, who posted the only 3.70s time of the round at 3.79 and 197.45 mph in a supercharged C7 Corvette, taking down number-10 qualifier Daniel Pharris in the process. Fourth-place qualifier Marty Stinnett also lost in round two.

The second RvW eliminations session also was marred by the top-end crash of Texan Leroy Nabors, whose chutes appeared not to open at the end of a 4.01-seconds pass at 187.89 mph in his blown 2017 Corvette. Running in the right lane against number-three starter Jamie Hancock, Nabors hit the right wall past the eighth-mile finish line, then crossed the track well behind the blossomed chutes of Hancock's nitrous-boosted '68 Firebird before coming to rest beyond the quarter-mile marker. Fortunately, Nabors was uninjured in the wreck.

Also in Outlaw 632 eliminations, Eric Tillman of Moutrie, GA, survived a scary incident when the driveline in his '65 Nova shattered off the launch, sending the rear pinion through the left rear window. Again, fortunately, Tillman was unscathed.

In order of qualifying position, the eight racers advancing to the RvW quarter-finals on Sunday at SGMP are number-one Jeff Naiser, Hancock (3rd), Canadian Paolo Giust (5th), Laughlin (7th), Taylor Lastor (8th), Grant Tuttle (11th), Martin (18th), and Bryan Markiewicz (20th).