"After the failed Olympic qualifying effort, I was afraid he was going to be forgotten.
Mr. Horton, one of the top dirt-track drivers in New Jersey, had a miserable qualifying effort for this special Wednesday night race last month.
Indeed, his race on Sunday at the Hockenheimring was somewhat emblematic of his whole Masters experience, with a poor qualifying effort followed by a lackluster drive in the race.
Jourdain, whose best previous qualifying effort was third on the short oval in Nazareth, Pa., in 2001, covered the 1.968-mile 1.968-mileowntown street circuit in 1 minute 8.177 secondowntown streetof 103.918 miles an hour.
Adu, who scored two goals Wednesday in a 2-1 exhibition victory over the Chicago Fire in Bradenton, is expected to start for the United States in its World Youth Cup qualifying effort in Guatemala on March 5 against Jamaica.
With just enough daylight left for drivers to navigate their way around the track, Rusty Wallace had the fastest qualifying effort yesterday to take the pole for The Winston in Concord, N.C.
Her qualifying effort was a repeat of Jason Kenny's performance in the men's competition on Sunday.
So we certainly hope we can take this qualifying effort and create those types of results as well".
The penultimate race of the season, the saw Webber produce another good qualifying effort as he set the third fastest time.
But when air-quality board members tried to vote to impose a more stringent provision, one that would have required automakers to surpass federal mileage standards substantially to qualify, their efforts were blocked by Mary Nichols, the board's chairwoman.
