NHRA O'REILLY Summer Nationals * RESULTS*

[a152004]

From Topeka Kansas

Aussie girl Diana Harker qualified  15th in Top Alcohol Dragster but lost in the first round
Her father Steve Harker qualified  number 1 in Top Alcohol Funny Car  and went onto win the  event, his second national event win

Pro Stock Car

 Ron Krisher     (Valvoline Cobalt)     0.059      6.758 - 204.70 mph
 Larry Morgan  (Lucas Oil Stratus)    0.020     12.144 - 62.96 mph

First win for Krisher in 111 races. second time he has won at  Topeka and it is his 6th national event win

Funny Car
 
 John Force      (Castrol GTX Mustang)          0.062      4.996 - 299.66 mph
 Tim Wilkerson  (Levi, Ray & Shoup Impala)    0.091      6.183 - 152.61 mph

126 Funny Car National event wins now  for John Force
John Force after winning “When you’ve won like me, you get to take it for granted, but then I got slapped, and I don’t take it for granted anymore.”

 

Top Fuel

 Hillary Will   (KB Racing Dragster)                    0.038      4.744 - 304.53mph
 Larry Dixon (U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Dragster  0.043      4.960 - 281.42mph

Dixon is 6 - 2 against Will in prior events and this is the first time they have faced each other in a final round. Will is out of the gate first and then Dixon had the lead at 60 feet and 330 feet, but then he started to haze the tires. Will drove around him and she never looked back to take her first National event. She is the 92nd driver to win in Top Fuel.

 

 Aussie Dave  Grubnic qualified 13th  but lost in the first round of Top Fuel

Close Race in Funny Car 1st round
 Tim Wilkerson (Levi, Ray & Shoup Impala)    0.072      4.889 -307.79mph
 Frank Hawley (Lend America Charger)         0.113      4.849 -306.95mph

A great looking side-by-side drag race! Tim Wilkerson's incremental margins: 60ft(0.037), 330 ft(0.024), 660ft(0.011), 1,000ft(0.019). MOV: 0.0015 seconds (approximately 8 inches).

* ALL TIMES  AND TEAM INFO FROM http://www.nhra.com/index.asp

[a152004]

Kenny Koretsky
 
A day after crashing Nitro Fish/Indicom Electric Pontiac GXP during qualifying at the O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka. Kenny Koretsky is sore but looking toward the future.

The beat and bent car is now on its way to builder Jerry Bickel's shop near St. Louis. Crew chief Eddie Guarnaccia went through the wreckage Saturday and said, “Bickel will evaluate the car to see what options we have.  The car didn't look too bad to me, but we didn't measure it to see if it's out of alignment or anything.  It really took a hard hit."

Koretsky's crash came in his third qualifying run Saturday.  The car moved to the center line before making a sudden left-hand turn into the wall.  It bounced off, turned on its side and flopped on its top, sliding across and smacking the right guard wall before stopping, still on its top, with Koretsky hanging upside down.

“I'm still sore in my lower back, left leg and elbow,” Koretsky said Sunday. “I'll know more after I get home (to Richboro, Pa.) and get checked out by my doctor.  I am thankful I as wearing the HANS device because that definitely prevented injuries to my neck and head.  I really got a jolt when I hit.

“I don't think I'll be ready to go again next weekend at Chicago (Route 66 Nationals, June 6-8), and neither will the car. We are sending the motor to (engine builder) Sonny (Leonard) so he can go through it and we can see what's up (for us) in the next couple of races.”

Koretsky would like to have the car ready for the Lucas Oil SuperNationals, June 20-22, in Englishtown, N.J., because it is one of two tracks the Richboro, Pa., resident calls home.  The other is Maple Grove Raceway near Reading, Pa.

http://www.nhra.com/content/news/29433.htm

[the chad]

good thread this one 

good meeting! petty bout the nitro fish boys  they r good blokes (they snuck me into the pits at the Mid West nats last year hehe)

see Top Alky funny car final?
(W) Steve Harker (OMS Graphics Monte Carlo)     0.031      5.644 256.65
(L) Sean O'Bannon (Tequila Patron Monte Carlo)   0.034      5.691 255.73

what's special about that? Harker is an Aussie of course! a QLDer in fact and his twin daughters are doing great in Top Alky Dragster

[Mothers Worry]

good thread this one 

[a152004]

Sorry for missing the Steve Harker times
Had the NHRA page  open  on his result  but totally forgot about putting it in.. 
Will try to  not  forget it  next time

TOP 10  IN POINTS

Top Fuel

1 Tony Schumacher 779 
2 Antron Brown       670 
3 Larry Dixon          659 
4 Hillary Will            567 
5 Cory McClenathan 527 
6 Rod Fuller            502
7 Brandon Bernstein 480
8 Doug Kalitta        418 
9 Dave Grubnic       391
10 Doug Herbert     377 

Funny Car

1 Tim Wilkerson   643   
2 Ashley Force    562   
3 John Force      520   
4 Cruz Pedregon  508   
5 Robert Hight     506   
6 Ron Capps        435 
6 Tony Pedregon  435   
8 Gary Densham   407   
9 Mike Neff          393   
10 Bob Tasca III   374

Pro Stock Car

 Kurt Johnson        621   
2 Jeg Coughlin       601   
3 Greg Anderson    592   
4 Jason Line          591   
5 V. Gaines           514 
6 Mike Edwards      497 
7 Allen Johnson      494   
8 Ron Krisher         444   
9 Greg Stanfield     436   
10 Warren Johnson 388

Pro Stock Motorcycle

 Andrew Hines      405   
2 Matt Smith       349   
3 Chip Ellis           325 
4 Matt Guidera     296   
5 Angelle Sampey  231   
6 Ed Krawiec        220   
7 Chris Rivas        191   
8 Karen Stoffer     154   
9 Hector Arana     150   
10 Shawn Gann    149