DILLARD PREVAILS IN SWEET 16 3.0 PRO 275 QUALIFYING

by Ian Tocher; Photo by Roger Richards    Mon, 2020-10-12 11:00


Eric Dillard returned at Sweet 16 after a long layoff from the driver's seat and proved he hadn't missed a beat by steering team owner Manny Buginga's Procharger-boosted 2002 Mustang to the top position over the quickest Pro 275 qualifying field ever at Duck X Productions' Sweet 16 Ver. 3.0 at South Georgia Motorsports Park..

Dillard took over the lead position from Jeff Miller and his supercharged "Bumblebee" Camaro with a 3.777-seconds run at 194.80 mph in the seventh-and-final qualifying session.

"I knew we had a little more in it because we've done a lot of testing with this car. It's new out here, only the second race we've been to, but this car has got a lot of laps on it," said Dillard, co-owner of Proline Racing in Ball Ground, GA.

"We went for four days, the one test session, and we just did two or three days at Darlington this week. So even though it's pretty new, we've put a lot of time in. So we're confident. We've got a lot of tune-ups ready."

Following Miller on the qualifying list was Marty Stinnett, Ron Green and Ziff Hudson, with Tim Slavens, Scotty Guadagno and Mark Micke rounding out the top half of the quickest 16-car field in class history, with Frank Miron on the bump with a stout 3.912 at 192.66 mph in a nitrous-injected '68 Camaro.  

"I don't get to race that much anymore and that's kind of something I choose to do. I don't really want to race our customers," said Dillard. "But you know, it feels great, it feels like magic. It was great to be out there again like that and I'm really looking forward to racing tomorrow.

"But it's going to be tough. We'll do our best for sure, but I know it's going to be tough. I'm looking forward to it, though."

 

 

 

 

 
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