MISSION, BC CANADA : Picture perfect weather saw Round 2 of the Division 6 Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series come north of the Border.  Although forecasts had promised dubious conditions, it turned out to be a weekend of consistency for the cars, the track, and the fans that came to visit the current Div.6 ‘track of the year’.

Joey Severance used a strong weekend long performance culminating in a hole-shot win over local favorite Shawn Cowie to take the Top Alcohol Dragster Wally back to Spanaway Wash.  Clint Thompson coming in as defending event champion and second in points, three-peated at this event as he put a solid run on Sean O'Bannon in the Alcohol Funny Car Final.

Qualifying kicked off on Friday with the first round of Alcohol in the late afternoon, with cloudy skies and cooler temps, Duane Shields made good use of the sea-level quality air and threw down a 6.231 / 272.80 on his first run of the weekend to take the No.1 position.  That time would stand for the weekend as Saturday conditions, although very good, were a little warmer and did not offer up the opportunity for that time to be beaten. Randy Eakins was next up with a 6.307 / 268.41 also from the Friday session.  With Severance (5.36), Cowie (5.391), and Bayer (5.397) right behind there was no relaxing for the guys at the top as Cowie, second in points coming in, showed some great consistency throwing clean straight 39’s out there on all three runs and Bayer laying down a couple of low 40’s to go with his 39.  Also, this weekend saw Steve and Patty Federlin's new second team car and driver Justin Davis qualifying #7 with a 5.57 on his rookie outing.

In Funny Car, again the Friday time for Thompson stood for the weekend; he ran a nice 5.62 / 257.51 off the trailer to take the #1 spot.  Sean O'Bannon with his first visit to Mission arrived as points leader, was second with a 5.653 / 255.97, running without his team mate De Joria who will be focusing on Div.7 races this season while O'Bannon goes after Div.6.  Next up was John Evanchuk (5.73) who seemed to be happy to run in the low 5.70’s all weekend long, his second pass being done without the aid of a shift light!.  Behind him was Brian Hough (5.741) and Hometown favorite Tim Nemeth (5.82).  Ken Krauss was on hand with a new chassis and spent the weekend trying to dial out some vibrations, but got his car in the #7 spot with some great driving with a couple of wild rides in qualifying.

In Comp Eliminator, Rob Harrison with his 'Igor' powered cavalier claimed the pole with a 7.735 (-0.745) run and ran strong all weekend.  Super Stock pole went to Jim Caughlin in his '96 Escort at 11.423 (-1.327), while Stock Eliminator's top spot was taken by Bill Edgeworth's '77 Firebird with a 11.563 (-1.387).Top Sportsman and Top Dragster #1 qualifying positions went to Terry Spargo (6.743) and Greg Carlile (6.519). Sportsman Motorcycle pole was Kelly Vos on his '78 Suzuki with a 0.002 RT.