“Sucks to be us.” That was Camp Stanley’s blunt assessment on being outside the 16-car field after three Pro Extreme qualifying sessions for the ADRL’s prestigious Dragstock VII on Friday at Rockingham Dragway.

“We don’t very often blow our stuff up and almost never, ever knock the blower off of it, but we did a good job of all of it yesterday in that second qualifier (session),” the legendary crew chief from Hagerstown, Maryland, said.

“Sucks to be us.” That was Camp Stanley’s blunt assessment on being outside the 16-car field after   three Pro Extreme qualifying sessions for the ADRL’s prestigious Dragstock VII on Friday at Rockingham Dragway.

“We don’t very often blow our stuff up and almost never, ever knock the blower off of it, but we did a good job of all of it yesterday in that second qualifier (session),” the legendary crew chief from Hagerstown, Maryland, said.

Stanley explained the unique Wedge-headed motor in the Stanley&Weiss ’68 Camaro lost two cylinders on the run, one of them 1.6 seconds in and the other two-tenths of a second later. Then the supercharger popped at three seconds, slowing his driver and son, John, to a 3.93-seconds lap at just 163.51 mph.

“We got back, fixed the blower, checked and found out the valve seat had fallen out, (which is) what started it. We fixed that, swapped the head, put it back together, went to adjust the valves on the other side and found that a head had fallen off a valve on the other side. So we changed that head,” Stanley said.

“Then we went out for the qualifier last night in the best air a little over-aggressive with the clutch combo and here we sit, 19th. Sucks to be us.”

In Saturday’s lone qualifying session, John Stanley managed to break into the field with a 3.85 shot at 196.67 mph that placed him 14th shortly before rain interrupted the session.

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