Driver of the NAPA AUTO PARTS Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat
Qualified: No. 4 (lane choice)
The Competition: No. 13 John Smith
The Results: Q1: 4.025 E.T. at 309.27 MPH Q2: 7.827 E.T. at 85.89 MPH
Quotable: “Man, what a difficult day. Hot weather, humidity, all the things that make you dig down deep. The NAPA guys did great in Q1 and put us No. 4. I actually shut the car off around 900-feet, so it was possible that we could have gotten a few more spots in that session. We had a couple of issues in Q2, and Tobler and the guys are looking at it right now. There was something with the air system, and it didn’t function properly and caused us to smoke the tires. We went up there to go low E.T. knowing there weren’t 16 cars here. That bye run is pretty important. Fortunately, we’re in the show. It’s going to be a tough day tomorrow, and we need to make some ground up and get back in the top four.”
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