NHRA

Pomona III: Martino final qualifying report

Martino Moments Final qualifying results from the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals Martino slots 13th for NHRA season finale in Pomona Date: Saturday, November 10, 2001 Location: Pomona Raceway, Pomona, CA With Saturday's ...

Edited: Apr 15, 2002, 11:45 PM

Copy link

Share on Viber

Add as a preferred source

Martino Moments
Final qualifying results from the Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals

Martino slots 13th for NHRA season finale in Pomona

Date: Saturday, November 10, 2001
Location: Pomona Raceway, Pomona, CA

With Saturday's temperatures proving to be much cooler than those encountered during the first two days of qualifying, CENTURY 21 Grand Am pilot Tom Martino knew that despite having recorded on one the quickest times in the Pro Stock ranks on Friday, improvement would be necessary to guarantee a position in final eliminations. Martino responded with two solid runs, each quicker than the last. On his final attempt, he recorded his best time of 6.878 seconds, which came with a top speed of 201.37 mph. This earned the Farmingdale, NJ native the 13th starting position, and set the stage for a first-round encounter with No. 4 qualifier George Marnell.

"Today was a major disappointment for the whole team. On that last run, we should have been able to run a low 6.86, but we missed the set-up on the starting line. We had tried a different gear ratio this morning and the car obviously didn't like it, so we changed it back to what we ran the last two days, and adjusted from there. To be honest, we should have left the original combination in and tuned off of that. Even so, we had the second fastest speed this morning and another 201-mph run this afternoon.

"The best part is that the lanes are pretty even. Although the left side has definite advantage, you can win from the right. We don't have lane choice for the first round, but hopefully I'll bust one off, get lane choice and keep it for the rest of the day.

"Tomorrow will be our last ride with CENTURY 21 and Winston, and we'd definitely like to give them a day to remember."

-MM-

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 Pomona III: National and Pomona performance records

Next article Awards ceremony report

Top Comments

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

View More & Comment

Latest news

WSJ Report: NASCAR is building 80+ race cars for Days of Thunder sequel

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup 1 h

WSJ Report: NASCAR is building 80+ race cars for Days of Thunder sequel

Brennan Poole to leave Alpha Prime Racing; team owners 'disappointed' to see him go

NASCAR O'Reilly

NOAP NASCAR O'Reilly

Charlotte II

11 h

Brennan Poole to leave Alpha Prime Racing; team owners 'disappointed' to see him go

Oscar Piastri on his Singapore puncture: “Ironically, it probably helped”

Formula 1

F1 Formula 1

Singapore GP

12 h

Oscar Piastri on his Singapore puncture: “Ironically, it probably helped”

Winners and losers from NASCAR Cup at Charlotte after dramatic finish

NASCAR Cup

NAS NASCAR Cup

Charlotte II

15 h

Winners and losers from NASCAR Cup at Charlotte after dramatic finish

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