Pro Stock and More

The Captain of Chaos shocked Thunder Valley.

With a 0.018 reaction time, Kenny Koretsky upset Pro Stock's dynamo Greg Anderson in a great race down the Bristol quarter-mile during the first round of Pro Stock eliminations.

Anderson's teammate Jason Line red-lighted and also missed the final eight.

"We weren't loose enough behind the wheel," Anderson said. "Jason and I both screwed up. It's got to be a 100 percent team effort. I don't care how good your car is, you can't give up six hundredths of a second. It hurts either way. It hurts bad as a driver. The good news is we've got three or four days to work it out."

Greeneville's Allen Johnson won his first round race and will meet Dave Connolly.

"Now we've just got to keep this up. We're up against the only person we'd lose the lane choice to that moved on," Johnson said. "We've got to go up there and see what we've got."

Johnson has now reached the second round in eight of his last ten events.

"That's our goal to be consistent and get to the second round," he said.

Top Fuel Round Two

Bob Vandergraff Jr. continued his stellar day from the 16th qualifying spot with a win over J.R. Todd.

Rod Fuller topped Doug Kallitta, Larry Dixon beat Dave Grubnic.

In the wildest race of the day, Brandon Bernstein topped Cory McClenathan in a run were both drivers nearly lost control of their dragsters. Bernstein got loose first, followed by McClenathan. Bernstein had just enough to pull it out and advance to the semifinals.

"It kept picking the front end up everytime I put my foot on the throttle," Bernstein said. "They're hard to drive when they're not on the ground."

Funny Car Round two

Independent Tim Wilkerson topped Gary Scelzi, who struck his tires, to keep his solid weekend going.

Cruz Pedregon topped Ron Capps, who struck his tires as well.

Mike Ashley was seven hundredths better off the starting line against John Force, but Force continued his good weekend with a win by two hundreths of a second. Force will have an opportunity to reach his first final round of the year.

"It was just another run. It's big anytime I can get to the semis, it's like winning Indy. We're excited. We'll see what happens when we get back to form," Force said.

Jim Head and Jack Beckman both went wild, but Head settled down first and advanced to face Pedregon in the semis.

Pro Stock Round Two

Kenny Koretsky topped Larry Morgan to reach the semis on the first race of the round.

Jason Humphreys reached the semis thanks to two red lights by his opponents, this time from Kurt Johnson who suffered the same fate as his father Warren, who did it in the first round.

Jeg Coughlin, the top qualifier, reached the semis with a win over Jim Yates.

Allen Johnson had a good start but came up short against David Connolly, who pulled away down the stretch.