Regular attendee Gary Anderson from Anaheim also isn't here, but with the way he's been running lately, that's not surprising. Mitch Myers, who was planning to be here last week for licensing passes, still hasn't made an appearance. Maybe next time. The Funny Car pits are especially thin, with only eight cars, which includes two local runners. Big hitter John Hyland, from Springfield, Oregon, didn't show and the word is that his operation is parked.
Nobody seems to have any definitive answers.
This is quite a reversal from the past few seasons, where the dragster ranks have been thin and the flopper fields overflowing. So we've got a total of 13 dragsters, which would have been 14 if Mission's Dudley Clease hadn't defected to Top Comp. Only three of the cars are injected on nitro, but those three are some of the heaviest hitters in the class. In the funny car pits, there's a few teams with problems to sort out after the first session. The fuel inlet line came loose, started sucking air and leaned out the engine for the second half of the run.