Sat, 20 Jul 2013, 11:31 AM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Jim Samuel

EPPING, N.H. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Northeast Division, event at New England Dragway 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:

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Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.155/166.05/-0.435, Now #8; F/D Index: 8.59, Prior Best: 8.122/165.44/-0.468, Was #8

11:05 a.m. - Ackerman was not as quick as yesterday.

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Left Lane: Calvin Hill Runs 8.230/163.06/-0.570, Now #4; D/EA Index: 8.80, Prior Best: 8.231/163.22/-0.569, Was #4
Right Lane: Tom Stalba Runs 8.885/149.58/-0.425, Now #9; L/AA Index: 9.31, Prior Best: 8.852/151.00/-0.458, Was #9

Hill was a thousandth of a second quicker than his best ET yesterday.

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Right Lane: Kyle Cultrera Runs 9.031/144.78/-0.579, Now #2; H/EA Index: 9.61, Prior Best: 9.038/145.20/-0.572, Was #2

Cultrera had his quickest run of qualifying but it was not quick enough to move him up in the order.

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Left Lane: Michael Wentzel Runs 7.480/177.11/-0.360, Now #14; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.440/178.95/-0.400, Was #14
Right Lane: Joe Carnasciale Runs 9.036/148.76/-0.634, Now #1; I/SMA Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.133/149.96/-0.537, Was #5

Carnasciale moved to the top spot for now with this run.

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Left Lane: Don Eckel III Runs 7.216/187.70/-0.364, Now #15; C/DA Index: 7.58, Prior Best: 7.191/189.15/-0.389, Was #15
Right Lane: Mike Miscovsky Runs 7.177/185.41/-0.403, Now #13; C/DA Index: 7.58, Prior Best: 7.178/187.47/-0.402, Was #13

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Left Lane: Ed Alessi Jr. Runs 9.857/96.82/2.747, Now #18; A/DA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.946/195.79/-0.164, Was #18
Right Lane: Gary Guarriello Runs 10.231/70.83/2.401, Now #11; C/ED Index: 7.83, Prior Best: 7.415/180.38/-0.415, Was #11

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Left Lane: Kevin Gotie Runs 7.488/177.95/-0.352, Now #17; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.523/178.50/-0.317, Was #16
Right Lane: Allyn Armstrong Runs 8.928/149.41/-0.362, Now #16; L/A Index: 9.29, Prior Best: 8.990/148.71/-0.300, Was #17

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Left Lane: Chip Ippolito Runs 7.787/174.59/-0.433, Now #10; PSTA Index: 8.22, Prior Best: 7.786/175.30/-0.434, Was #10
Right Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 7.823/172.25/-0.477, Now #7; B/EA Index: 8.30, Prior Best: 7.828/172.52/-0.472, Was #7

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Left Lane: A. Lincoln Morehead Runs 10.047/96.29/1.247, Now #2; D/EA Index: 8.80, Prior Best: 8.204/163.77/-0.596, Was #2
Right Lane: Anthony Niemczyk Runs 6.687/202.39/-0.553, Now #6; I/D Index: 7.24, Prior Best: 6.739/202.88/-0.501, Was #6

That's it for Comp qualifying here today. The first round of eliminations is scheduled to start in about an hour.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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