Welcome to StangTV's coverage of day two here at the NMRA World Finals at Beech Bend Raceway Park. We saw plenty of near-record elapsed times in several categories yesterday in the great conditions that we've been met with this weekend, and with slightly cooler temperatures today, we expect more of the same bumper-dragging action. We're underway with bracket time trials this morning, with round two of qualifying set to get underway at 10:30 AM.

Chip Havemann and crew are still busy making repairs to their transmission following troubles yesterday and hope to have everything buttoned back up later in the day to improve upon their qualifying effort.

John McDonald and crew experienced more breakage than previously thought, as it was determined that the engine leaned out last night, pushing a head gasket out. John has made the 8-hour trek back to Michigan to retrieve parts so they can get the car turned around for eliminations tomorrow. The team hoped to back up the 7.28 last night and earn the extra points for a national record toward their championship hopes.

Jim Monson was all smiles following his first foray into the six-second zone during yesterdays qualifying. Jim mentioned that he went a personal best 4.57 at the YellowBullet.com Nationals at Cecil County, but kept his newfound increase in performance under the radar as best he could until he came to Bowling Green.

Conrad Scarry blasted to a 6.683 at a booming 220.22 MPH to put a leg up on a national record that would certainly help his championship hopes this weekend.

Jim Brown's left rear tire began going down just off the starting line, and by the time he made the turn at the top end, the car was dragging the pavement.

Sam Vincent improved upon his slowing effort from yesterday to grab the second spot from John Urist with a 7.345 at 186.33.

Phil Hines stepped up a little with a 7.501 to better his 7.53 from yesterday, but remains solidly in the fourth spot in the order.

Travis Franklin made his first qualifying hit this morning, running an 8.041 at 180.79, good for the sixth spot.

Chad Allmandinger got the race track nice and clean after his exciting flight yesterday afternoon, running an 8.699 at 157.41, good for the fifth spot in the order.

Bob Cook unseated Brian Mitchell from atop the Renegade field, with an 8.423 at 160.44. New class champion Chris VanGilder, meanwhile, was unable to improve upon his 8.67 effort from Friday.

Sean Lyon brought a collective gasp across the Drag Radial pit area, running the quickest lap in the history of the class at 7.830 at 178.64 to solidly place himself atop the field.

Jason Lee stepped up from his shutoff pass from yesterday, but not near as much as he may have liked, going 8.32 at 173 for the third spot on the order.

Rick Riccardi was unable to improve upon his 8.66 effort from yesterday, sliding down one spot to seventh after Robbie Blankenship stepped up with an 8.57 for the sixth position.

Bruce Hemminger remained atop the field with his Friday pass of 9.34 seconds at 143.51.

Brandon Alsept improved slightly from his class-leading 10.02 from yesterday to a personal best of 10.01 to remain atop the field.

Shawn Johnson made a great wheels-up launch but was unable to better his 10.09 lap from Friday, remaining second in the field with one round left.

Matt Amrine took over the top spot in the class, improving upon his earlier 11.25 to an 11.041 at 120.74. Tommy Godfrey remains second with his earlier 11.07 and Jay Dold stayed in third with his 11.13.

With absolutely perfect weather conditions, quite possibly the largest crowd in the history of the NMRA World Finals is on hand here at Beech Bend Raceway Park. During this afternoons second qualifying session, spectators were still pouring into the track and reportedly backed up for more than a mile to get in the gate.

We have the largest field of True Street cars in NMRA history here this weekend, with a convoy of 109 cars making the 30-mile cruise.

The weather conditions changed considerably from the first session this morning, with rainy overcast skies, strong winds and jacket-like col temperatures. The type of weather that makes horsepower. Conrad Scarry came to the line loaded for bear, ready to back up his earlier 6.68 for a new national record. However, his car began to step out just beyond the 60-foot mark and he chose to lift and try again tomorrow.

Jim Brown experienced trouble right off the starting line and pulled over to the side to check out the car before motoring on through the quarter mile.

John Urist improved slightly upon his earlier 7.39 effort with a 7.387 at 188.91 that kept him in the third spot behind Johnny Mac and Sam Vincent.

Sam Vincent will try to play spoiler in the championship race tomorrow between John McDonald and John Urist, as he goes into eliminations second with his 7.34 from earlier in the day.

Charlie Booze Jr. lowered his number one qualifying effort from yesterday with a stellar 8.443 at 154.63. Meanwhile, Rick Riccardi powered into a long wheelstand and threw a shower of sparks as he came back to earth, lifting and coasting through to remain in seventh with his 8.66.

Robbie Blankenship leapfrogged a couple positions with an 8.550 that improved on his 8.57 to move from the third to sixth qualifying position.

Bart Tobner improved on his earlier 8.544 with an 8.522 at 159.99, but remained in the third spot going into tomorrows eliminations.

Chris VanGilder recovered from this sideways, wheels-up launch to step up more than a tenth with an 8.555 at 158.52, but still heads into eliminations in the fourth spot.

Sean Lyon bettered his earlier all-time best run of 7.830 with an even quicker 7.825 at 179.61 to back up and improve upon his national record.

Jason Lee blew the tires off just off the starting line and goes into eliminations without a representative run in these great conditions, with a best of 8.326 thus far this weekend.

Bruce Hemminger took full advantage of the cool conditions and the teeth in this racetrack, making the best run in Real Street history at 9.230 and 144.72 MPH.

Craig Baldwin improved a little in the late session, going 9.527 at 140.09 to better his earlier 9.60, but stayed in third in the order.

Dave Ginter received nothing short of a standing ovation for this bumper dragging wheelstand that carried out more than 100 feet before Dave actually improved upon his 10.31 best with a 9.895 to stay seventh.

Brandon Alsept was unable to improve on his 10.01 from earlier to lead Pure Street, but will go into eliminations atop the leaderboard after no one was able to unseat him in the last session.

Despite staying in the third spot in the order, Steve Gifford made his best run of the weekend with a 10.143 at 132.82.

Carlos Sobrino was one of the few Factory Stock drivers to improve in the cool evening conditions of the final session, remaining in fifth but stepping up from his earlier 11.31 to an 11.229 at 118.18. Matt Amrine remained atop the field with his 11.041 ahead of Tommy Godfrey's 11.053 and Jay Dold's 11.137.