Guys I am pretty sure that Yeley made an F to A run a year or 2 after Wayne Johnson did it, but I'm not sure how he finished in the A....and I suspect maybe he was in a Wayne Simmons car that year....

And a huge alphabet run is impressive, don't get me wrong, but they transfer so many cars out of each race that you don't have to really go from the back to the front a buncha times...most places transfer 2 cars out of and lower main and 4 out of a B feature... at the Bowl they transfer between 6-8 cars out of the 1st main of the day, 4 or so out of the lower mains, and 6 out of the Bs, Cs and Ds...so the format in a way helps to "manufacture" some of these legendary runs. You can literally pass one car, let a couple break down, and transfer out of a race that has no yellows down there... nearly half of the cars in each race are cars that transferred out of the previous race..and before the track gets freshened up you can start 9th in a 14 car race and be in a transfer spot before the 1st lap is over by just hugging the bottom and following the guy in front of you while the outside row guys get freighttrained.

If they went to more typical numbers of transfer spots F or G features would be the absolute bottom instead of Is or Ks.

Please don't get me wrong, the format is awesome, I wouldn't change a thing....as a driver I would totally want to see so many transfer spots available each time I pulled onto the track...as a fan I love watching how far guys can climb the ladder on Saturday down there. The alphabet runs that have been made by Johnson, Yeley, Boyles, Stratton, Beechler and Swindell are very very impressive and deserve the legendary status they have tied to them. But to say they had to come from deep in each and every race to the front is a bit misleading...

And Sherrels run in the outboard motored car....holy crap that was stellar... that car had a hard time running right more than 2 consecutive laps on it's qualifying night...like the motor would load up and bog down for half a lap, then clean out a run right for a lap, and over and over...but when it did clean out my gosh it was bad fast.... and it looked like something a couple guys built in their basement 30 years ago. By looking at it you would think it was possibly the lightest car there...small tubing and not much of it, no extra anything... except all the brass pipe, house plumbing pipe, that they used to store and circulate water through the engine..hahaha... I just loved seeing a car that probably could have been purchased for less than $4500 complete blow through a field of hundreds of new Spike Esslingers that had all cost over 50 grand to build or had been rented for 5-9 grand... that should be considered the all time greatest alphabet run in the history of the Tulsa Expo Center hands down.