11.   Gordon was the fourth driver to make a qualifying run and spent the rest of the afternoon expecting someone to beat it.

12.   He followed that with the fastest qualifying run in Dinwiddie, Va., last week, but lost in the opening round to Shelly Anderson.

13.   He said the roots of his recent poor performances were in bad qualifying runs.

14.   His qualifying run had been disallowed, his one-lap record nullified, and he had been bumped from the front row.

15.   In action today, the half-pipe riders will have two qualifying runs leading up to the finals tomorrow, the last competition.

16.   Kohut, who has narrowed his college choices to USC and UCLA, seems sharp for his PGA Tour qualifying run.

17.   Last July, working on a project at Daytona Beach, I searched for the points leaders as they readied for their qualifying runs.

18.   Maybe the crowds at practices and at qualifying runs have looked thin.

19.   Mears got a couple of laps in last weekend but not enough to make a qualifying run.

20.   Not true for Ward, whose qualifying run knocked Billy Boat of Glendale off the pole, but not off the front row.