Friday night qualifying at the NHRA Southern Nationals outside of Atlanta took a ride on the wild side as Shane Molinari and Steve Whiteley both had their share of issues and crashed, although they largely crashed avoiding one another. Molinari's Pontiac first got loose and lost traction at half-track, but pedaled his ride and straightened up. However, Whiteley got out of the groove just past the finish line and had the chutes out when the car darted across the both lanes and hit the left wall. Whiteley's car passed in front of Molinari's car and in an evasive action got on the brakes causing his car makes a quick move toward the right wall and he hit it.