Thursday is the get acquainted day for many racers here at The Strip in Las Vegas as they only come here once a year. Doug Sikora the Oultaw 10.5 2013 Champion started of this year Street Car Super Nationals putting his car on the pole with 6.31 at 223.80 in today’s lone qualifying session with twenty three cars in the field today.

Doug Harvey dives the Diablo Rojo VW Beetle for Harvey and Larsen Racing using a turbocharged old style air cooled block and heads running OL 10.5 this weekend. His best run in the car is a 7.80 @ at 175 MPH. The Tumecula, California based team sits 23’rd in class today after a DQ on his qualifying attempt..

Nick Agostino hauled down from Markham, Ontario to battle in OL 10.5 landing second in the field with a 6.71 at 163 shut off run. Look for them to improve Friday as 6.7’s is nowhere close to the teams potential.

Roy Monznik wheeled the Monznik Brothers Racing 1968 El Camino to a 7.18 at 199 landing seventh in the Magnafuel Outlaw 10.5 field. This is another team based out of Canada, hailing from Langley, BC. The car is a memorial build for his brother Dale and Roy has his son as well as his nephew here in Vegas.

Kelly Harvey drove out from Fort Collins, Colorado with his gorgeous 41 Willys powered by a BAE 521. The classic flamed ride sits fifth in OL 10.5 so far. He was paired with Monznik besting him with a  6.86 at 186.

Texas based Taylor Lastor brought two cars to compete this weekend, this Camaro fits the SCSN OL 10.5 class with a small weight adder for the fabricated body sitting on a full Pro Mod chassis. Out west of wind indeed with such cars allowed in competition.

Jermain Boddie leads Procharger Pro Radial after one session with a 6.53 at 230 in his PLR powered 63 box Nova.

Willard Kinzer sits second in Procharger Pro Radial behind Jermain Boddie taking one and two spots for Pro Line Racing with Kinzer’s 7.24 at 204.

Brandon McBride ran this Nissan Skyline last year and is back at it again ripping off a 7.66 at 193 this afternoon in Pro Charger Pro Radial.

Josh Klugger was off to a good start but lost traction running a 7.90 at 153 on his attempt landing eighth so far.

Roger Holder struggled in Pro Radial qualifying and bought into Pro Mod to get a hit later and scoring a knockout punch 6.16 at 240 on the 315 Mickey Thompson 315 drag radial making him the quickest and fastest man on the tire on the quarter mile. His eighth mile was a 4.16 at 189, also a personal best. The crew has been working on the short half of the track and lightened the car some so it’s not over weight. Holders Air Conditioning and Deeds Performance help out with power from a PLR 5 inch Billet 525 ci engine tuned by Josh Ledford.

AOS Hot Street has seven cars here today with Michael Demayo leading the field with an 8.03 at 168 MPH for Team Powerhead.

Peoria, AZ racer Vic Brum put his 1970 Chevelle second in Hot Street running a nice 8.13 at 164 using a 552 big Chevy power plant.

Ryan Bell, also from Peoria, AZ runs this 1976 Corvette in Hot Street as well. His 8.44 at 161 was good for fifth.

Casey Van Tol (far lane) and Scott Bieschke paired up in Vortech Outlaw 8.5 with Bieschke blowing the tires off at the hit. Van Tol landed fifteenth with a 5.59 at 126 MPH in the 32 car field.

Big cars are popular out west with this 71 Chevelle owned by Scott Lewis out of Rio Rancho, New Mexico. the small blocked powered Chevy tripped the beams at 5.58 at just 101 MPH. Clearly he has much more potential than his fourteenth spot.

Toby Jackson’s 65 box Nova leaves hard running a 5.58 at 126 to land just in front of Lewis.

Mickey Thompson Wild Street has some interesting entries including this 1946 Dodge Pick Up driven by Doug Driggers out of Chandler, Arizona. He sits sevents out of twenty one cars with a 5.15 at 137 MPH.

Eric Gustafson leads Wild Street with a stellar 4.57 at 162 with his LSX Powered 89 Mustang out of Vernon, California.

Dragzine.com’s own James Lawrence sits in sixth with a 5.11 at 140. They are struggling with the car going right about 200 feet out as the car can perform much better.

A crowd favorite is Armen Maghdessian’s flamed 57 Chevy. He got into a big wheelstand on his run landing hard for fifteenth spot in class.

Norman Chang ripped off a 4.37 at 173 to take number one spot in Magnafuel XDR/TT5.

Brant Campbell put his Turbobullet Camaro in ninth position of Magnafuel XDR/TT5 with a 5.93 at 100 after getting loose down track and shutting down.

Wearing number 3 David Singletary landed second spot with a 4.46 at 160 in his 1969 Fulton powered Camaro.

The Outlaw Pro Mid Shootout today had some fast number thrown around with Mike Maggio layign down a 5.69 early in the session.

Clint Hairston ran well but not enough to make a dent in Maggio’s ET. Hairston is a regular in the NMCA West and PSCA series with his twin turbocharged GTO.

Rick Snavely put up a personal best ET 5.90 at 254 for the Turbosdirect team.

Jeff Lutz paired off with Larry Larson earlier this afternoon for their match race getting the win though both cars ran off pace. We will let you know if they decide to try again in Friday.

Larry also made the ride out here to attempt a five second pass with his Drag Week participant truck. Thay willbe a feat for sure if he can accomplish that in a street driven vehicle.