Lucas, Capps, Stanfield and Hines are No. 1 qualifiers as GIR, National Records Fall on Day 2 of O’Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals
By Bram • May 2nd, 2009 • Category: NHRA, News, Notes, Results, Your Series. Your Driver.
NHRA Top Fuel driver Morgan Lucas makes a qualifying pass in O'Reilly NHRA Midwest Nationals presented by Castrol at Gateway International Raceway (NHRA photo)
Cool temps provided great racing as defending GIR PSM winner Andrew Hines broke the national ET record with a 6.860 and Greg Stanfield earned the top qualifier in Pro Stock for Sunday’s eliminations with a Gateway speed record of 210.37 mph. Morgan Lucas, two weeks removed from his first-ever Top Fuel win, took the pole for Sunday’s finals with a top speed of 307.02 and an ET of 3.881. Funny Car points leader
“It feels great to keep the momentum going. You never want to have something really big happen and then just fail the next week miserably, you always want to do the best you can,” said Lucas. “Its not making big changes, not doing anything radical and getting ourselves lost, staying down the path we’ve been going down.”
Ron Capps, who earned his first FC win at GIR in 1997, topped the qualifying charts in that class with a speed of 298.80 and an ET of 4.111



