Ed Wester leads the 6.50 Index field after the first session today with a 6.501 at 105.53 MPH out of twenty seven cars.

Rick Griffen sits in fourth spot in 5.50 Index with his 2003 Full size Chevy truck.

Bill Lee Jr. has the teams small tire 79 Fairmont working well if a little of the 5.50 Index pace. They have been working onthe car gettign the ET down and are creeping up on the tune.

Ben Wolverton is running TRZ Motorsports Pro Drag Radial this weekend in his Punta Gorda. Florida based 78 Malibu. He got a little carried away in round one qualifying standing it up on the run. It set down pretty easy considering and suffered no damage.

Troy Pirez Jr took the number one spot back from Shawn Pevlor later in the session of Fast Forward Race Engines Ultra Street with a personal best 4.918 at 146.96 MPH in the Fast Forward, PKRE, ATF, Innovative Racecraft General Lee Mustang.

Troy Pirez Sr. led off Outlaw 632 today running a 4.55 at 163 MPH earning top MPH for the round and number three qualifier when the round was finished.. OL 632 has also picked up some new sponsors adding to the Induction Solutions title sponsor with PTC, Voss Racing Engines, Atlantic Collision and Carson Innovation Inc.

Jason Juday earned top qualifier in OL 632 running a 4.48 at 160 in his Scotty’s Racing Technology, Induction Solutions 68 Firebird.

Charlie Johnson also runs a 68 Pontiac but sports small tires on the car occasionally doing double duty in X275 at select events.

Randy Hix has stepped up his game with a fresh 598 cubic inch big Chevy engine out of Fast Forward Race Enginesto motivate his 38 Chevy Coupe just installed this week. They are starting off easy getting the car and tune sorted out. He put up a 4.99 at 139 this session.

Jay Cox ripped off a very nice 3.81 at 197 to earn top qualifier in Aerospace Components/Buck Racing Engines Outlaw Pro Mod.

Rick Fleck put his 41 Willy’s in second spot running a 3.84 at 191 for the Lexington South Carolina based racer.

Kevin Fiscus sits third but took top MPH for the session with a 207.27 MPH blast.

Ken Cruz is sporting new paint this weekend applying the base and clear coat at his shop in Largo, Florida. He had Mark Anderson from Liquid Lenny’s Custom’s apply the custom flames. The car is looking good but will sit out the rest of the event of a broken fuel line leaned out the engine resulting in losing two connecting rods. Cruz told us there was a lot of fuel spraying and he was just glad it didn’t catch fire in the traps.

Dan Stevenson ran into some serious tire shake in his qualifying attempt shutting it down early on the run.

Jerico Balduf is all fixed up after running off the end of Orlando at the OWSN a few weeks back. Their painter picked up the nose in Orlando at the track and had it ready asap so they didn’t miss this event. He is currently not qualified.

Phil Esz put his Procharged 2006 Spitzer dragster on top of Performance 2Way Communications Open Outlaw with a 3.73 at 188.

Cynthiana, Kentucky based Ashley Tidrick sits second in class with a 3.76 at 192. She also runs a Spitxer chassis though it’s a newer 2013 model car running a Procharged 521 cubic inch Hemi.

Brian Bednar wowed the crowd and likely himself on this wheel stand which isn’t very common with dragsters.

In the final session of Pro Drag Radial Josh Klugger lowered the bar to a 4.083 at 193 MPH, a personal best for Josh and team FKR.

Chad Opaleski also tuned a new best today not once but twice running a 4.13 at 181 in the final session to hold on to second qualifier.

Brian Keep organized a special event this weekend as a memorial to his friend John “Skip” Bennett who crewed with Keep and was like part of the family. Certainly a part of the local racing family here and away at various events. Skip’s family came out to celebrate and Brian gave him one last ride down the track to kick off the final session of Fast Forward Race Engines Ultra Street. Keep is qualified twelfth with a 5.11 at 139.

Shawn Pevlor took top qualifier in Ultra Street from Troy Pirez Jr in round two with a 4.85 at 144. When it was time for the final session Pirez put some power to it running a new best 4.880 at 147.83 keeping best MPH for the day and staying in second.

Dillon Voss took over top qualifier in round two of OL 632 with a 4.64 at 164 MPH from Jason Juday. In the final session he dropped it to a 4.41 at 166 staying out front of the class.

Ken Quartuccio moved up to fifth in the second session running a 4.54 and improved that to a 4.517 at 161 in the final session.

Ryan Thorpe was qualified with a 4.65 at 152 in eleventh place. That was just not good enough though and the team set out on a mission scoring a new best ET 4.53 at 157 in the final session moving up to sixth spot in the field for the Fast Forward powered 2002 Chevy Cobalt.

Jay Cox led all day in Outlaw Pro Mod lowering his time to a 3.799 at 196 in the last round.

Jerico Balduf improved his lot in class improving with a new best ET to a 3.84 at 193 to land third spot after Travis Harvey, who also improved with every pass today running a 3.800 at 197 in the final session.

Dan Stevenson shoots mad header flames on this pass this evening. He landed seventh with a 3.89 at 195.

Fast Frank Cersosimo is chipping away at the teams new Mustang. The 5 day Plantation Shutter and Blinds entry sits fifteenth with a 3.96 at 191. There will be a second chance Pro Mod race on Sunday for the other cars. This looks to be the fastest Pro Mid field here at the Snowbirds, no use sending these guys home as many are here to take advantage of the track and weather for their last session of the year. There are plenty of fast cars sitting out with the 3.972 bump.

Jason Scruggs is not entered in the race as his Pro Boost combo is not legal. Never the less he is running well scoring a 3.529 at 218.71 MPH showing the track surface and weather are good here this weekend.

Ashley Tidrick knocked one out of the park in Open Outlaw running a stellar 3.633 at 199 in the final session taking the top spot from Phil Esz.

Stanley Albritton Jr. put a pass together in the final session landing eighth with a 4.04 at 175.