Salt Lake City, Utah - June 14, 2008: It was a warm clear day in Salt Lake City at Rocky Mountain Raceway this past Saturday for Funny Car Fever III. Eight Nitro Funny Cars rolled in the gates Saturday to ready their rides for the first round of Chicago Style competition later in the early evening. With temps in the mid 90s and the track temperature as high as 140 degrees in the early afternoon it looked like it was going to be tough for the Funny Cars to negotiate the track in the first round. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ron Craft and the Rocky Mountain Raceway staff provided a great racing surface for the Funny Cars and they did not disappoint the crowd of well over 8500 spectators that came to see them battle for the Funny Car Fever III Crown.

Early in the afternoon Harris went out for a test pass.

 

The official Nitro Thunder back-up girl, Lauren Tyrrell (daughter of crew member Don) backs Jack up from his burnout.

At the launched Harris immediately went up in smoke and motored down the track.

 

 

 

Basic maintenance after the aborted test run.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harris waiting for the first where his "Nitro Thunder" Firebird got the best of Chris Bennett in his "Pure Heaven" Camaro with a 6.447 @ 200.33 mph to Bennett's 6.865 @ 208.91 mph. This was first full pass for Harris as he is still working the bugs out of his new Funny Car. Harris is also testing a new M & H Tire, and this pass definitely gave him some much needed data to work with.

 

 

 

 

 

Sounds good to me!

Jack fell victim to tire shake in his second round match up with Mike Adams in the "Coors" Corvette and ran a 8.268 @ 105.90. Hope this helps.