Drag

Carpenter President's Cup Nationals Saturday summary

President's Cup Nationals Maryland International Raceway Budds Creek, Md. Charles Carpenter, owner/driver 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air (Pro Modified class, nitrous) Hometown: Harrisburg, N.C. Fastest Qualifying Run: 6.346 seconds (Qualifying Session 2, ...

Published: Oct 2, 2003, 4:07 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

President's Cup Nationals
Maryland International Raceway
Budds Creek, Md.

Charles Carpenter, owner/driver 1955 Chevrolet Bel Air (Pro Modified class, nitrous)
Hometown: Harrisburg, N.C.
Fastest Qualifying Run: 6.346 seconds (Qualifying Session 2, Friday)
Top Qualifying Speed: 222.47 mph (Qualifying Session 4, Saturday)
Qualifying Position: 15th

Notes:

-During Friday night's qualifying session, Carpenter laid down a career-best elapsed time of 6.346-seconds. His previous best was a 6.352-second run nearly a year ago at Rockingham (N.C.) Dragway.

-Carpenter qualified 15th in the field. He will face the second qualifier, Mike Castellana, in the first round.

-This event marks the first time that both Carpenter and his teammate Pat Doherty have both qualified for the elimination rounds at the same IHRA event. Doherty qualified 16th in the field and will pair up against the top qualifier, Mike Janis.

Charles Carpenter Quote:

"After trying all year we finally qualified both cars. I would have liked to be a little faster in the ET, but we went down the track every time with respectable runs. I was able to make four clean runs and that's the first time in a long while where I haven't had any tire shake. I think that we are finally working through the clutch adjustments and getting it to where I need it to be. The test session we had last week at Darlington (S.C.) has really paid off."

Ken Hively (Crew Chief) Quote:

"Everybody misread the conditions and the track. They all expected it to be better than it was. We made all four passes complete and smooth. That is a big psychological advantage."

--www.fastest55.com--

We want your opinion!

What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?

Take our 5 minute survey.

- The Motorsport.com Team

Read and post comments

Share Or Save This Story

Copy link

Share on Viber

Previous article Lehto, Herbert beat the fire for Miami win

Next article ANCRO announces 2004 schedule

Top Comments

There are no comments at the moment. Would you like to write one?

View More & Comment

Latest news

Brad Keselowski reflects on 2026 and expects "lots of soul searching" in off-season

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

4 min

Brad Keselowski reflects on 2026 and expects "lots of soul searching" in off-season

What's behind Oscar Piastri's split with Mark Webber – and what it means for his F1 career

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Sao Paulo GP

19 min

What's behind Oscar Piastri's split with Mark Webber – and what it means for his F1 career

Shane van Gisbergen gets new crew chief for 2027 NASCAR Cup season

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Homestead-Miami

27 min

Shane van Gisbergen gets new crew chief for 2027 NASCAR Cup season

Conquest Racing locks in 2027 IMSA GTD lineup with Manny Franco full-time return

IMSA

IMSA IMSA 46 min

Conquest Racing locks in 2027 IMSA GTD lineup with Manny Franco full-time return

Subscribe and access Motorsport.com with your ad-blocker.

From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.

You have 2 options:

Become a subscriber.
Disable your adblocker.

Subscribe now Already subscribed? Sign in here

Already disabled your adblocker?
Reload page

Manage Alerts