After a day filled with delay, Craig Treble found the sweet spot as he led the only round of qualifying for the Pro Stock Motorcycle class Friday evening.

Treble drove his '03 Suzuki TL-1000 to the top spot over David Hope and Hector Arana with a 6.960 second pass at 190.27 mph.

Hope and Arana were the only other drivers, out of 17, to break the 7-second barrier, at 6.971 and 6.989 seconds respectively.

For the record, despite the five hour plus delay, Treble never felt any pressure to get in a good lap.

After a day filled with delay, Craig Treble found the sweet spot as he led the only round of qualifying for the Pro Stock Motorcycle class Friday evening.

Treble drove his '03 Suzuki TL-1000 to the top spot over David Hope and Hector Arana with a 6.960 second pass at 190.27 mph.

Hope and Arana were the only other drivers, out of 17, to break the 7-second barrier, at 6.971 and 6.989 seconds respectively.

For the record, despite the five hour plus delay, Treble never felt any pressure to get in a good lap.

“You mingle with the fans, you goof around,” said Treble when asked how he spent his day. “All the work's been done on the bike since we left the shop, basically. Steve (Tartaglia, crew chief), Evan (Ray, crew member) and the whole team have been working on that bike pretty hard ever since Atlanta.

“Steve has pretty much worn a motor out on the dyno. It seemed like after we had that big engine blow up in St. Louis we just kind of lost our combination. Steve spent a lot of hours on the dyno, and, hey, it proves it right there.

“I haven't had a chance to sit down and talk with Steve and look at the [computer], but just from feeling the bike going down the track it 60-footed it real hard, kind of pinned me in the seat pretty good, and it was ripping pretty good up the track.

“It's really wet (in the air) out there and conditions aren't exactly stellar for world record elapsed times. It's low, we'll take it, we'll see what happens tomorrow. I'm praying for that 90 percent chance of rain.”

Hope and Arana would rather have another shot at the top spot.