[Rory McNeil]

Anybody see that bizarre Rd. 1 match up in Stock at Phoenix, between Randy Mans and Ryan McClanahan? McClanahan redlit, then went into a high wheelstand, and drifted over to the centerline, and shut it down. Mans had a .026 RT, ran straight down the track, and ran a 10.005 on his 10.00 dial under, but the hood flew off a little before the finish line, and landed on the other side of the guardwall. Then later, NHRA "revised" the race, and gave Mans a DQ, gave him a "no time", and reinstated McClanahan. Anybody know the reason? Was it the hood coming off, that the loss of the hood made the car light on the scales, or something else, unrelated to the hood coming off? If the windshield got broken, or other damage occured from losing the hood, so he couldn`t make the next round, wouldn`t McClanahan still be out, and Mans 2nd round opponent would get a single, if Mans could not make Rd.2? Hard to tell from the video, if McClanahan actually crossed the centerline or not. Just curious NHRAs reasoning for the DQ of Mans.