The
#30 won the first race in the Motorola Cup at Daytona and was quickly moving
to the front until an engine problem sidelined this very quick Corvette.
mph. A Dodge Viper was second fastest and Daytona winner Conway and Tonelli
was third fastest in the Powell Motorsports Corvette #30. The Phoenix American
Motorsports #37 Corvette driven by Hayner/Heinricy was fourth fastest and the
#43 Planet Earth Motorsports Corvette driven by Joe Nonnamaker and Bill Pate
was fifth fastest. Reese Cox and Marty Miller drove their #98 MTI Corvette to
sixth fastest position on the grid.
Right after qualifying, the inspectors took exception to the fuel in the KAC
Corvette and made them flush out their system and sent them to the back of the
field as a penalty. Danny Kellermeyer explained to CorvetteMagazine.com "we
had a small amount of fuel in the system left over from Daytona. We thought
we got it all out, but there was some left in the bottom of the tank." John
Powell met a similar fate when the inspectors took exception to the throttle
body on his #30 Corvette and the officials moved his car to the back of the
field. This now put the Viper on the pole, Heinricy second, Nonnamaker third
and Reese Cox fifth.
The green flag fell under very cloudy skies and Stu Hayner
jumped out into the lead with the #37 black Phoenix American Corvette with the
Viper and #44 Mustang and
