Larry Schmidt and Brent Hajek currently rank No. 1 in Super Stock and Stock Eliminator qualifying for the 30th Annual Mopar Mile-High Nationals in Morrison, Co.

Schmidt, of Grand Island, Neb., drove his 1955 Chevrolet to a 12.533-second elapsed time, 1.407 seconds under his SS/PA index. James Caro, who made the trip from Houma, La., secured the second qualifying spot in his SS/BM 2005 Dodge Stratus. Ironically Schmidt’s classic Chevrolet recorded the slowest elapsed time of the 34 cars who attempted to qualify for this weekend’s race.

Larry Schmidt and Brent Hajek currently rank No. 1 in Super Stock and Stock Eliminator qualifying for the 30th Annual Mopar Mile-High Nationals in Morrison, Co.

Schmidt, of Grand Island, Neb., drove his 1955 Chevrolet to a 12.533-second elapsed time, 1.407 seconds under his SS/PA index. James Caro, who made the trip from Houma, La., secured the second qualifying spot in his SS/BM 2005 Dodge Stratus. Ironically Schmidt’s classic Chevrolet recorded the slowest elapsed time of the 34 cars who attempted to qualify for this weekend’s race.

Hajek, of Ames, Ok. captured the number one spot in Stock Eliminator, driving an A/SA 2008 Ford Cobra-Jet Mustang to a 10.699-second ET, 1.481 seconds under his index. Brad and Scott Burton, a father and son team from Golden, Colo., finished the day second and third out of 42 entries.

The Super Gas category completed three time-trial sessions in the heat earlier today. Super Comp was sitting in the staging-lanes for their third session when rain began to fall.

Super Comp will get one more attempt at the track tomorrow at noon.

Sportsman eliminations begin tomorrow afternoon.
 

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