Lights Out 13 Radial vs. The World No. 1 qualifier Jason Lee understands he's going to be able to deliver his finest reverse engineering effort when the first round of eliminations takes place at South Georgia on Saturday afternoon. 

Lee thundered to the top spot in Friday's final qualifying session by running a 3.574 elapsed time at 207.18 miles per hour to complete his clean sweep of qualifying. He improved in three of the four sessions. 

His biggest challenge is not in running quicker but backing down the combination enough to get down the track in much warmer conditions than he's produced his best runs.

"We ain't got a damn clue [how to back it down]," Lee admitted. "We've been trying to go fast the whole time we've been here. We got some data testing to slow it down, so we'll refer back to that. So tomorrow, probably going to A to B is going to be the bigger challenge than it was going even better number one.

"When you spend all weekend trying to go fast, it's very hard to tame it down. So luckily, we do have a lot of test data that was with a different motor, so there's some variables that could change, but we do have some information that hopefully is enough to put us in a secure position where we can go down and run a high .50 or something like that first round no matter who we have and just keep plugging away as time goes on."

Lee will get a first-round bye run to sort it out since there are 26 entries for the 32-car field. 

Mo Hall had no intention of stepping up in the final session of the Pro 275 qualifying. But, in all fairness, it is Hall, and the race is at Valdosta. 

Hall thundered to a 3.738, 198.23 in his Gene Fulton-powered Corvette.

"It just worked out that way,' Hall said.

Duck X races don't follow the traditional better qualifying position runs at the back of the session procedure. It is first-come, first-served. 

"Top Fuel cars have traction built in their tire," Hall said. "We build our traction based on the racetrack. So we're kind of limited by conditions and what we're giving in so much horsepower, on such a little tire. It makes a bigger, difference in this class, with these conditions."

Saturday's eliminations will likely be run in mid-70 degree weather, much warmer than Thursday and Friday's sessions. 

"I don't think you back it down," Hall said. "I think it's just like every round you go off of what the racetrack will give you. Brandon [Switzer, tuner] does a really good job of making sure it's what we can run. If the track's going to give us a .80, we'll run a 80. If it'll give us a 70, we'll run a 70. We go off the conditions and not back it down so much as just, play with what you got."

Other low qualifiers include Rob Goss (X275), Wes Ervin (Ultra Street), Jason Riley (Limited Drag Radial), Jason Riley (Limited 235), Bill Kubiac (DXP Street).