Quain Stott is teaching lessons to the Bush Motorsports team from top to bottom. From the driver down to the guy adjusting the valves on the engine.

“Everybody’s got their own way of doing it so I have a system to where you can’t forget,” said Stott, prior to Friday’s qualifying at the ADRL U.S. Drags in Richmond, Va., of his valve adjusting methods.

Stott, the new tuner for the Mel Bush-owned car driven by Tommy D’Aprile, is busy putting his stamp on the team.

Billy Glidden learned barn finds can be pretty cool.

Billy, while poking around the back of his Whiteland, Ind.-based race shop, found a pair of old valve covers his dad used to run back in the day. Back in the day, in this instance, was 1982 when his father, Bob Glidden, the 10-time Pro Stock champion, converted his small-block engine program over to 500-cubic inches.

When Ron Capps and Matt Hagan made a side-by-side run in the first qualifying session Friday, both Don Schumacher Racing Funny Cars had the same problem. Capps’ NAPA Auto Parts Dodge had its parachute come out a few moments after he left the starting line. Then, basically a second later, Hagan’s parachute on his Diehard Charger also came out.

This season, Pro Stock driver Larry Morgan made the switch from Dodge to Ford, and it hasn’t been a smooth transition.

The veteran pilot has failed to qualify in five races this season, including four in a row.

This weekend at the 22nd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Summer Nationals in Topeka, Kan., Morgan is optimistic his countless engine woes in his Lucas Oil Mustang will vanish.

Antron Brown has struggled through the last three NHRA national events,.

The driver of the Matco Tools Racing driver Top Fuel machine lost in the second round at Las Vegas and St. Louis, and then was beat in the opening round by Pat Dakin this past Sunday in Commerce, Ga.

It’s safe to say, Robert Hight has found his groove.

The reigning Funny Car world champ won in St. Louis and again in Commerce, Ga. Now, he is on the provisional pole at Topeka with a 4.095-second effort at 308.21 mph. Both are track records.

All season, Mike Edwards has been a dominant force in the Pro Stock ranks.

That didn’t change Friday at Topeka.

The reigning world champ ran a 6.638-second time at 206.99 mph to take the top qualifying spot at the O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Summer Nationals. The time and the mph were both Heartland Park track records.

Mick Snyder has grown up around drag racing and learned at an early age; do-overs in drag racing are a rarity. Friday, the former Top Alcohol Funny Car racer from Demotte, Ind., was granted a second chance.

During Friday’s Pro Extreme qualifying at the ADRL U.S. Drags III in Richmond, Va., Snyder was given a second chance to make a first impression.

Robert Hight took the provisional No.  1 qualifier position on Friday and showed he is a contender to win his third race of the season during the first day of qualifying for the 22nd annual O’Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Summer Nationals at Heartland Park Topeka.

Antron Brown and Mike Edwards also take No. 1 qualifying positions in their respective categories during the ninth of 23 events in the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series season.