BAZEMORE LOOKS TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM IN SONOMA
DON SCHUMACHER RACING
Contact: Judy Stropus
SONOMA, Calif. (Jul 30, 2005) - Whit Bazemore and the Matco Tools Iron Eagle Dodge Stratus R/T Funny Car team are picking up steam. Coming off two round wins in Seattle last weekend, he looks for more at the Fram-Autolite NHRA Nationals this weekend. He enters Sunday final eliminations in the 11th qualifying position.
The 1999 Sonoma winner is happy with the team's qualifying effort: "It's good. You have to keep in mind that we're still a relatively new team with co-crew chiefs Dan (Olson) and Todd (Okuhara) coming on board a couple races ago. So, we're still jelling and they're still feeling their way with the race car and their combination.
"In qualifying, we're not yet in a position to go for the pole, but we're working on that. The object coming into this race was trying to calm the Matco Tools Dodge down a little bit and work on our consistency going down the race track in qualifying, and that's what we did, so we feel good about that."
Two-time season winner Bazemore's best qualifying run came Friday night in the second session when he ran a 4.898-second ET at 316.38 mph. Bazemore's other qualifying runs included a 9.041/78.40, a5.151/236.84 and a 4.942/312.28.
"We feel like we have a good race day combination," he added. "The car is plenty safe and there is a lot of room to tune it up if we have to. All in all, it's been a very positive weekend thus far, and everyone is doing a good job."
Bazemore faces Tim Wilkerson in the first round of Sunday's Final eliminations.
Contact: Judy Stropus
SONOMA, Calif. (Jul 30, 2005) - Whit Bazemore and the Matco Tools Iron Eagle Dodge Stratus R/T Funny Car team are picking up steam. Coming off two round wins in Seattle last weekend, he looks for more at the Fram-Autolite NHRA Nationals this weekend. He enters Sunday final eliminations in the 11th qualifying position.
The 1999 Sonoma winner is happy with the team's qualifying effort: "It's good. You have to keep in mind that we're still a relatively new team with co-crew chiefs Dan (Olson) and Todd (Okuhara) coming on board a couple races ago. So, we're still jelling and they're still feeling their way with the race car and their combination.
"In qualifying, we're not yet in a position to go for the pole, but we're working on that. The object coming into this race was trying to calm the Matco Tools Dodge down a little bit and work on our consistency going down the race track in qualifying, and that's what we did, so we feel good about that."
Two-time season winner Bazemore's best qualifying run came Friday night in the second session when he ran a 4.898-second ET at 316.38 mph. Bazemore's other qualifying runs included a 9.041/78.40, a5.151/236.84 and a 4.942/312.28.
"We feel like we have a good race day combination," he added. "The car is plenty safe and there is a lot of room to tune it up if we have to. All in all, it's been a very positive weekend thus far, and everyone is doing a good job."
Bazemore faces Tim Wilkerson in the first round of Sunday's Final eliminations.
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