Stock eliminator received only one qualifying session during Friday’s competition at the NHRA Toyo Tires Nationals hosted by Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa.

First round eliminations will be held this afternoon following Super Stock, Super Street, Super Gas and Super Comp’s lone time trial run of the day.

Once again, the Mopar Drag Pak Challenger combination ascended to the top of the qualifying list claiming three of the first five positions.

Keith Lynch was the top runner with a -1.392 run under the B/Stock Automatic class index. Lynch’s 345-inch Challenger ran a 9.858 elapsed time.

On his heels was the C/SA 2009 Challenger of Eric Merryfield. His was -1.216 under his index with a 10.184. James Beattie Jr. was fourth.

Stock eliminator received only one qualifying session during Friday’s competition at the NHRA Toyo Tires Nationals hosted by Maple Grove Raceway in Reading, Pa.

First round eliminations will be held this afternoon following Super Stock, Super Street, Super Gas and Super Comp’s lone time trial run of the day.

Once again, the Mopar Drag Pak Challenger combination ascended to the top of the qualifying list claiming three of the first five positions.

Keith Lynch was the top runner with a -1.392 run under the B/Stock Automatic class index. Lynch’s 345-inch Challenger ran a 9.858 elapsed time.

On his heels was the C/SA 2009 Challenger of Eric Merryfield. His was -1.216 under his index with a 10.184. James Beattie Jr. was fourth.

The Drag Pak Challenger along with Ford’s new factory-to-strip Cobra Jet have been the source of controversy for the NHRA this season. Allegations of improper horsepower factoring has led to the NHRA revisiting the figures provided by the factories.

“We’re looking at the possibility of making changes to the (Stock/Super Stock) program,” Danny Gracia, NHRA’s National Technical Director told Attitude’s CompetitionPlus.com earlier this week. “When new cars are introduced manufacturers supply us with certain horsepower ratings and it will take us some time monitoring their performance to determine what  the actual horsepower might be. In a perfect world, we could take all of them to a dyno and come up with a better answer.

“Right now, we’re using what the Ford and the Mopar representatives gave us in good faith, and we used their horsepower numbers. This is not the first time this has happened. It happened in the 90s with the Pontiacs with the 350 motors they had. They rated them at 275 horsepower and actually they ended up at 325 horsepower. We go by what the manufacturer gives us. We (NHRA) have never, as long as I have been here, just automatically added horsepower to somebody without evaluating their on track performance first.”

 

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