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Sat, 11 Oct 2003, 06:45 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations
By Rick Green





ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 18th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 450D Dean Howerton                        3002 Pat Ross
E1                   0.002 10.743  3.133     ****WINNER****  0.018  8.477 -0.363
        C/D Index: 7.61                           F/A Index: 8.84
 Qualified:            #12  7.104 -0.506                       #28  8.437 -0.403
Howerton with a great light, but Ross was able to chase him down for the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5731 Tom Schmidt                          4097 Pete Carbery
E1   ****WINNER****  0.031  8.754 -0.516                     0.037  7.267 -0.513
       C/SR Index: 9.27                           B/A Index: 7.78
 Qualified:            #10  8.758 -0.512                       #26  7.353 -0.427
This was a good drag race. Tom Schmidt's MOV: 0.0096 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  497 Troy Buff                            4025 Joey Tanksley
E1                   0.124  7.184 -0.516     ****WINNER****  0.105  6.969 -0.541
       A/ND Index: 7.70                          B/ED Index: 7.51
 Qualified:            #23  7.265 -0.435                        #7  6.979 -0.531
Joey Tanksley's MOV: 0.0441 seconds (approximately 11 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5413 Cordis Johnson                       4006 Mike Trumble
E1                  -0.027  9.536 -0.364     ****WINNER**** -0.018  8.713  0.013
      H/SMA Index: 9.90                         A/SMA Index: 8.70
 Qualified:             #2  9.320 -0.580                       #18  8.242 -0.458


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  527 Brad Klein                           4446 Gary Wise
E1   ****WINNER****  0.134  7.450 -0.330                    -0.028  8.606 -0.404
        B/A Index: 7.78                          D/EA Index: 9.01
 Qualified:            #11  7.272 -0.508                       #27  8.605 -0.405


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2711 Dennis Mitchell                      5210 Duane Robison
E1   ****WINNER****  0.091  8.392 -0.448                    -0.087  7.580 -0.420
        F/A Index: 8.84                           C/A Index: 8.00
 Qualified:            #15  8.364 -0.476                       #31  7.625 -0.375


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   43 Edward Shalkowski                    4937 Buddy Nickens
E1                   0.004  8.577 -0.413     ****WINNER****  0.018  8.525 -0.495
       F/ED Index: 8.99                          B/TA Index: 9.02
 Qualified:            #25  8.560 -0.430                        #9  8.507 -0.513


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  424 Michael Park                         4064 Greg Williams
E1   ****WINNER****  0.028  8.757 -0.443                     0.134  8.579 -0.421
      D/SMA Index: 9.20                         C/SMA Index: 9.00
 Qualified:             #5  8.665 -0.535                       #21  8.561 -0.439


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
    3 Larry Pritchett                       423 Greg Porter
E1   ****WINNER****  0.042  8.708 -0.112                    -0.040  7.854 -0.246
       B/SM Index: 8.82                           PST Index: 8.10
 Qualified:             #4  8.272 -0.548                       #20  7.660 -0.440


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 400E Kent Hite                              42 Rodger Brogdon
E1                   0.076  7.789 -0.501     ****WINNER****  0.081  8.192 -0.508
       PSTA Index: 8.29                         A/SMA Index: 8.70
 Qualified:            #17  7.824 -0.466                        #1  8.112 -0.588
Rodger Brogdon's MOV: 0.0028 seconds (approximately 8 inches).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   47 Sean Dodd                            3098 Douglas Stewart
E1   ****WINNER****  0.154  7.936 -0.424                    -0.033  8.592 -0.408
       D/AA Index: 8.36                         C/SMA Index: 9.00
 Qualified:             #8  7.833 -0.527                       #24  8.567 -0.433


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 4289 Danny Leibham                         751 Tom Huggins
E1                   0.044  7.401 -0.399     ****WINNER****  0.063  7.279 -0.501
       B/AA Index: 7.80                           B/A Index: 7.78
 Qualified:            #29  7.421 -0.379                       #13  7.279 -0.501


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   41 Robert Freeman                        437 Bill Gibbs
E1   ****WINNER****  0.150  8.052 -0.548                     0.024  9.335 -0.415
       B/SR Index: 8.60                           L/A Index: 9.75
 Qualified:            #14  8.107 -0.493                       #30  9.375 -0.375
Robert Freeman's MOV: 0.0077 seconds (approximately 19 inches).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
    5 Scott Tidwell                         456 Jeff Miller
E1   ****WINNER****  0.026  7.772 -0.518                     0.024  8.560 -0.440
       PSTA Index: 8.29                         C/SMA Index: 9.00
 Qualified:             #3  7.727 -0.563                       #19  8.549 -0.451


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 4683 Brian Self                           4650 Dennis Smiley
E1   ****WINNER****  0.070  7.611 -0.489                     0.076  7.084 -0.426
        PST Index: 8.10                          B/ED Index: 7.51
 Qualified:             #6  7.568 -0.532                       #22  7.072 -0.438


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2885 David Rampy                           406 David Cook
E1   ****WINNER****  0.033  7.493 -0.497                     0.034  6.617 -0.493
       A/EA Index: 7.99                           A/D Index: 7.11
 Qualified:            #16  7.515 -0.475                       #32  6.738 -0.372
David Rampy's MOV: 0.0056 seconds (approximately 20 inches).

Round two pairings are Brogdon vs. Shalkowski, Park vs. Huggins, Tidwell vs Klein, Tanksley vs Mitchell, Trumble vs Schmidt, Self vs Freeman, Pritchett vs Ross and Dodd vs Rampy.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink




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