1st
Qualifying Session
Pair two of the first session
Friday featured Jim Young in the Mill Road Boys BBC car and Jim
Murphy in his WW2 Racing entry.
Murphy was on a good
pass until he got out of the groove and was forced to lift.
In the lights it was Young carding
a 6.00 at 220.90 while Jim Murphy was also sub-par with a 6.07
at 231.10.
2nd
Qualifying Session
Bakersfield is one of the finest
drag strips in the country but after the sun goes down, it gets
cold! Jim Murphy and Denver Schutz were out next to challenge
the track.
Neither car could hook
up and were done really early.
3rd
Qualifying Session
The third
and last session on Saturday paired up Murphy Ron August.
August went up in tire
smoke almost instantly.
Murphy carded
a disappointing full pull of 5.960 at 255.24 which left Murphy
in the #9 spot for eliminations.
Eliminations
- Round One
Round one went off Saturday
afternoon. Murphy was paired with Rick McGee.
Murphy served notice going low
with a nice 5.745 at 245.36, while Sorokin's 6.294 at 207.66
at least gave the team some data.
Murphy got there first with a
5.977 at 257.97. Another big mph run with a disappointing ET.
McGee shut off to a 6.042 at 213.67.
Eliminations
- Round One
Leading off in Top Fuel
on Sunday it was Murphy and Denver Schutz.
Murphy got a slight jump
at the start.
Just past half track Murphy was
experiencing tire chunking and had to shut off. He can clearly
be seen checking out the left slick and you can see the rubber
coming up on the top of the tire.
Aside from the tire issues Murphy
also concluded that the poor ET's were due to a batch of clutch
discs that were far to hard, an issue that was corrected before
their next race.
Check out where Murphy
and the Team are racing next....
2016
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