AC Delco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals Oct. 25-28, 2001

The only flopper with a number starting with 6 was the nasty one Dave Benjamin (34,607 bytes)Scotty Cannon qualified 6th with a 4.856/317.72 but lost to number 11 Gilbertson (4.912/310.34)in round one. (47,134 bytes)Dale Creasy Jr. was all decked out in Craftsman colors, but a best of 5.38 would not make this field. (61,571 bytes)Regardless, the likeable Lansing Illinois driver looked good. (47,102 bytes)
Th tricky backlighting during the day can make for some cool burnout shots. (27,457 bytes)Friday night qualifying with Gilbertson and Phil Burkart Jr. in the Geronimo/Nitro Fish car. (47,675 bytes)Few recall the 'other' long bunrdown between Force and Bazemore on Friday night. A stellar battle saw Force's 4.79/317.94 go down to a 4.74/323.04!! (46,339 bytes)
Amid the haze of the night action we saw this image of the greatest Funny Car crew chief of all time, Austin Coil. (34,385 bytes)Coming off a win at the last race Densham failed to qualify here. (38,181 bytes)Even HH won't caption this one... (58,318 bytes)I just love shooting black cars at night... (49,497 bytes)
Then again, when the flash works right... (53,327 bytes)Rumor is a Top Fuel car is coming...for his daughter. (41,216 bytes)Ya but... (51,019 bytes)Tony three at 4.836/315.19, duplicated it with a 4.830/315.78 win over Lawson in round one before falling to Glibertson in two. (51,481 bytes)
This was TP qualifying Friday. (44,985 bytes)Borther Frank was number nie with a 4.888/306.46 but met Capps in round one. (33,928 bytes)Hoffman made the show on his final run Saturday, then took out Wilkerson in round one, Skuza in two then lost to capps in semi. (37,613 bytes)Who??? WHAT??? (49,616 bytes)
Skuza looking awesome in the Mopar/Spiderman Dodge. Qualified 5th at 4.855/315.64, took out Worsham then fell off against Hofmann. (53,150 bytes)A stout outing for Capps saw him come from the 8th spot to win. (59,684 bytes)His victims were Frank pedregon, Bazemore (.447/4.88/314 to a .497/4.875/317!!) Hofmann and a fouling Gilbertson in the final. (71,344 bytes)Oh ya! (64,278 bytes)
I shot one of Snake at Seattle like this many moons ago, so just had to do TJ. (44,720 bytes)A lil Photoshop never hurts... (40,084 bytes)Toliver and Bode Friday night. (35,953 bytes)Maybe the baddest car in the world...today. Mr 'Burndown' Bazemore. (75,389 bytes)
Del Worsham had yet another paint job. (48,313 bytes)   

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