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27 race cars. Some have already q'd in the low :14s, including Pierce and Wilson.

JoJo Helberg ran a :13.791 for fast time. Helberg is a very hot asphalt sprint driver; his last ten finishes have been 1st, 11th, 3rd, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 4th, 2nd, 2nd and 3rd last night in Madera. 

Correction: Aaron Pierce was fast time at :14.149. If I understand correctly, Helberg's xponder was not working right.

First heat =finally= forming up. 

Helberg, Humphries, Beck top three in first heat. 

Pierce, Barber & Hamilton Jr. in heat two. Can't say these guys run parades. =Lots= of passing. Both heats won from the third row.

Oswego supers, USAC midget and crown star Bobby Santos wins heat three. Larson second, then Wilson. 

Looks like Jackson, Brown and Skogland during a yellow in heat four. 

Yup. =Miss= Sierra Jackson takes it from a row four start with Brown second and Skogland third. Passing Masters. She was second last night at Madera.

52-year-old Indy vet Davey Hamilton Sr. will have to come through the consy. His car wouldn't fire up. 

Hamilton's Indy 500 record:

(=horrible= crash at Texas MS in 2001)

Update on qualifying and new track record from former Oswego D/R Dick O'Brien: Helberg =did= run a :13.791 which converts to -- get this -- 130.520 miles per hour (by far the fastest lap ever run at Irwindale). 

 Sierra Jackson 

(born August 1992) is a sprint car racer from Middleton, Idaho.

Jackson began dirt track kart racing at the age of six, graduating to asphalt sprint car racing in 2006 and briefly racing late model stock cars in 2007. She has had wins at racetracks throughout the Northwestern United States and in Canada.^[1][2][3]

Jackson holds sprint car qualifying speed records at Magic Valley Speedway in Twin Falls, Idaho^[4] and on the old track configuration at Meridian Speedway in Meridian, Idaho.^[5]

Jackson is the youngest driver and first female to win the Northwest Sprintcar Racing Association championship, doing so in 2011, also becoming the first Ford driver to do so.^[6] She was also the inaugural Canadian-American Western Winged Sprintcars champion in 2012.^[7][8]

She is also the only female driver to win the prestigious NSRA/WWS Diamond Cup at Meridian Speedway, winning it in 2011 and again in 2014, as well as being a two time winner of the Naylor Memorial Classic^[9] and the 2012 Daffodil Cup winner at Western Speedway in Canada^[10]

 Bobby Santos III

Before stock cars, Santos was a successful midget racer. He raced in the Northeastern Midget Association, USAC, PRA Big Car, and ISMA. He had the most wins of any driver in the USAC National Midget Tour in 2006, collecting five wins, including a win at O'Reilly Raceway Park on the Night Before the 500. He was signed to Bill Davis Racing. 

In 2006, Santos made his stock car debut at Iowa Speedway for Bill Davis Racing in the #02 Dodge. He started 10th and finished 6th. Bobby returned to ARCA in 2007 for Bill Davis, now in a Toyota Camry. He won Toyota's first stock car pole at USA International Speedway in Lakeland, Florida. While leading the race, he was involved in an incident with a lapped car and did not finish. He returned at Nashville Superspeedway, but had a mid-pack run. At Kansas Speedway, Bobby started second, but a blown engine relegated him to another DNF. Santos broke his dry spell at Kentucky Speedway when he started fourth and finished third, behind Erik Darnell and Erin Crocker. Santos placed third in the next race at Kentucky, as well. The third generation racer won a pole at Pocono Raceway in early August and qualified fifth at Talladega Superspeedway, but was unable to back up either with a strong finish. 

In 2007, Santos made his NASCAR Busch Series debut at Richmond International Raceway for the new Riley D'Hondt Motorsports team. He qualified seventh in his #91 Toyota, but faded back to a thirtieth-place finish after running in the top 10 for the beginning of the race. He also qualified fourth for the Camping World 200 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and was running in the top 10 before being hit by a lapped car. He ran two additional races for RDHM, but did not finish better than 30th.

Santos has also participated in the Whelen Modified Tour, collecting his first two wins at Thompson International Speedway in October 2007, and the Ice Breaker, also at Thompson International Speedway, in April 2010. He parlayed his season-opening Icebreaker win into the 2010 Whelen Modified Tour championship, collecting a total of four wins and four poles on the season.^[1]

Santos ran the 2011 Nationwide Series opener for Jimmy Means in what was actually a back-up JR Motorsports car after wrecking the 52 in practice; the Earnhardt family has a long friendship with the independent owner and former driver. Santos finished 17th after vowing to run the race in its entirety.

 Davey Hamilton Sr.

 JoJo Helberg, Rohnert Park / Santa Rosa, CA

Feature start order through row four: Skoglund / Santos front row, Bryne / Edwards row 2, Jackson / Wilson row 3, Pierce / J Helberg row 4... for a 40-lapper. 

At lap nine: Bryne, Wilson, Helberg, Santos, Pierce, Jackson

At lap 17: Helberg, Bryne, Pierce, Jackson

At lap 25: Helberg, Pierce, Jackson