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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 43nd annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed this round, amount over/under index this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time, speed & over/under Index, and position in order prior to run: Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.895/153.18/-0.445, Now #17; H/A Index: 9.34, Prior Best: 8.781/153.46/-0.559, Was #17 Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.504/175.25/-0.366, Now #41; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.560/174.62/-0.310, Was #40 11:35 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 80 percent, barometer 28.98 inches, adjusted altitude 1,299 feet, track temperature 94 degrees.
McClay improves and Jones slows. Left Lane: Michael Stone Runs 7.403/179.52/-0.467, Now #30; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.360/179.83/-0.510, Was #30 Right Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.282/163.29/-0.588, Now #11; C/SMA Index: 8.87, Prior Best: 8.359/162.84/-0.511, Was #29 Wilson finds some power this morning and moves into the current top half of the field. Left Lane: Gary Anderson Runs 8.819/150.65/-0.521, Now #28; G/SM Index: 9.34, Prior Best: 8.890/149.63/-0.450, Was #36 Right Lane: Pete Adams Runs 7.646/180.04/-0.334, Now #40; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.587/180.65/-0.393, Was #40 Anderson moves up the ladder eight positions. Left Lane: Mark Wolfe Runs 6.914/219.12/-0.216, Now #44; AA/AT Index: 7.13, Prior Best: 8.847/112.57/1.717, Was #47 Right Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.588/153.49/-0.532, Now #17; C/SR Index: 9.12, Prior Best: 8.559/151.90/-0.561, Was #17 Wolfe gets the turbo spooled up a little, but will not qualify. Left Lane: Bryan Morrison Runs 8.152/162.65/-0.488, Now #34; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.148/163.75/-0.492, Was #34 Right Lane: Steve Holloway Runs 14.224/53.03/7.034, Now #25; A/AA Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.659/211.86/-0.531, Was #25 Holloway is all over the lane at the hit. Left Lane: Lucky Snyder Runs 8.537/159.44/-0.493, Now #35; G/A Index: 9.03, Prior Best: 8.554/158.69/-0.476, Was #36 Right Lane: Jay Payne Runs 6.085/237.63/-0.765, Now #1; AA/PM Index: 6.85, Prior Best: 8.009/115.21/1.159, Was #47 POW! Payne sets the new #1 mark and destroys the prior best AA/PM 6.179 second ET. Snyder improves but not enough to qualify. Left Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 9.718/91.86/0.998, Now #16; C/EA Index: 8.72, Prior Best: 8.150/164.99/-0.570, Was #16 Right Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 7.138/192.91/-0.512, Now #25; B/AA Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.116/192.99/-0.534, Was #25 Fletcher gets way loose and has to lift. Left Lane: Dan Barton Runs 8.787/153.40/-0.573, Now #14; G/SMA Index: 9.36, Prior Best: 8.806/153.32/-0.554, Was #21 Right Lane: Lee Zane Runs 9.011/146.70/-0.539, Now #25; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 9.020/146.61/-0.530, Was #27 Nice run for Barton into the current top half of the field. Zane bumps two spots up the ladder Michael Stone is on the bump spot at -0.510. Left Lane: Alan Freese Runs 7.499/180.04/-0.521, Now #23; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.475/180.86/-0.545, Was #23 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 7.035/197.39/-0.285, Now #34; A/AP Index: 7.32, Prior Best: 6.816/199.43/-0.504, Was #34 Ellis is still struggling with traction off the line and doesn't improve. Freeze slows too. Left Lane: Robbie Hudlow No Time, Now #22; CC/AT Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.354/167.45/-0.546, Was #22 Right Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.110/164.23/-0.580, Now #14; F/D Index: 8.69, Prior Best: 8.125/163.61/-0.565, Was #18 Hudlow's Lexus bangs hard at the end of the burn out and the car is pushed back behind the line. Ackerman continues to improve and moves into the top half of the field for now. Left Lane: Tom Brown Runs 8.571/154.25/-0.279, Now #40; F/ED Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.432/157.83/-0.418, Was #40 Right Lane: Steve Graham Runs 7.686/176.17/-0.294, Now #43; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.676/177.07/-0.304, Was #43 Both cars are a little slower than yesterday. Left Lane: Vinnie Deceglie Runs 6.556/212.26/-0.554, Now #22; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 8.054/0.00/0.944, Was #47 Right Lane: Jirka Kaplan Runs 7.760/120.21/0.650, Now #9; AA/AM Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.512/203.92/-0.598, Was #9 Deceglie is in an uncharacteristic 47th position in this last chance to qualify. He pushes hard and has to herd the Vette hard, as it makes a hard move towards the guard rail before the 330 lights. He reels it back in and does get into the field in the #22 spot. Kaplan had a 0.987 sixty foot time and then lost the blower belt before the 660 lights. Left Lane: Skip Dunn Runs 7.196/190.22/-0.454, Now #38; B/AA Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.172/0.00/-0.478, Was #38 Right Lane: Paul Pittman Runs 7.248/191.57/-0.402, Now #42; B/AA Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.437/183.84/-0.213, Was #47 Pittman picks up two tenths and still doesn't qualify. Left Lane: Tom Huggins Runs 7.141/191.00/-0.509, Now #13; B/A Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.070/193.71/-0.580, Was #13 Right Lane: J.D. Zink Runs 6.961/190.51/-0.539, Now #27; A/ND Index: 7.50, Prior Best: 6.986/189.39/-0.514, Was #32 Zink picks up a little and moves off the bump. Justin Lamb is on the bump spot at -0.520. Left Lane: Dean Carter Runs 6.904/192.38/-0.596, Now #11; A/ND Index: 7.50, Prior Best: 6.928/191.73/-0.572, Was #16 Right Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.462/182.87/-0.558, Now #21; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.475/182.85/-0.545, Was #25 Two nice passes and both cars improve well up the ladder. Left Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.686/200.95/-0.534, Now #22; A/ED Index: 7.22, Prior Best: 6.663/201.46/-0.557, Was #22 Right Lane: Joe Mozeris Runs 7.124/186.64/-0.516, Now #33; C/DA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.135/185.95/-0.505, Was #34 Mozeris picks up the pace, but just misses the bump. Left Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 7.674/174.89/-0.626, Now #5; D/AA Index: 8.30, Prior Best: 7.701/175.23/-0.599, Was #8 Right Lane: Sean Dodd Runs 7.085/193.93/-0.565, Now #17; B/AA Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.080/193.07/-0.570, Was #17 Nice improvement for Sharp into the current #5 spot. No joy for Dodd. Left Lane: Jim Cowan Runs 8.237/156.90/-0.613, Now #6; I/AA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.255/152.49/-0.595, Was #12 Right Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 8.420/161.23/-0.610, Now #3; G/A Index: 9.03, Prior Best: 8.380/161.44/-0.650, Was #3 Cowan finds some ET and moves six spots up the ladder. Brogdon slows a little and will stay #3. Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.542/179.85/-0.478, Now #30; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.495/181.69/-0.525, Was #30 Right Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 11.426/78.80/3.416, Now #11; PST Index: 8.01, Prior Best: 7.414/182.43/-0.596, Was #11 Mettler fires and falls back after a 1.087 sixty foot time. Patterson slows a little. Left Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 9.008/146.64/-0.652, Now #3; H/SM Index: 9.66, Prior Best: 9.019/148.95/-0.641, Was #4 Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.312/179.97/-0.588, Now #8; A/EA Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.292/180.33/-0.608, Was #8 Bowdish's car moves out of the groove at the hit and he still picks up enough to take over the #3 spot. Clean pass for Rampy, but no improvement. Left Lane: Jeff Taylor Runs 8.627/143.06/-0.533, Now #7; E/SM Index: 9.16, Prior Best: 8.549/157.58/-0.611, Was #7 Right Lane: Justin Lamb Runs 8.534/158.07/-0.486, Now #32; D/SMA Index: 9.02, Prior Best: 8.500/158.54/-0.520, Was #32 Lamb stays on the bump. Left Lane: Bo Butner Runs 9.623/95.94/2.023, Now #2; CC/A Index: 7.60, Prior Best: 6.940/189.42/-0.660, Was #2 Butner was loaded for bear and the car made a hard move towards the centerline at 60 feet. He pulls it back and gives up, as there was no chance to improve from his #2 spot. Left Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.548/136.14/-0.472, Now #9; D/SMA Index: 9.02, Prior Best: 8.417/160.10/-0.603, Was #9 Lambeck will be the last to run and doesn't improve. 12:09 p.m. Jay Paine is #1 at
-0.765 and Justin Lamb is on the bump spot at -0.520.
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