Sun, 5 Oct 2003, 02:41 PM Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations

By Jim Samuel

MOHNTON, Pa. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  130 Bob Rossi                             102 Greg Horrocks
E1                   0.022 10.020  2.790     ****WINNER****  0.140  8.034  0.074
        A/A Index: 7.23                          C/ED Index: 7.96
 Qualified:             #7  6.644 -0.586                       #23  7.514 -0.446

3:39 PM - Rossi drifted left out of the groove.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1262 Kevin Houghtaling                    1112 Erich Bollman
E1   ****WINNER****  0.139  9.042 -0.458                     0.079  8.456 -0.384
       F/SM Index: 9.50                           F/A Index: 8.84
 Qualified:            #11  8.969 -0.531                       #27  8.405 -0.435

Kevin Houghtaling's incremental margins MOV: 0.0145 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   12 Frank Aragona Jr.                    3002 Pat Ross
E1                   0.068  8.364 -0.386     ****WINNER****  0.007  8.374 -0.466
       G/ED Index: 8.75                           F/A Index: 8.84
 Qualified:            #25  8.305 -0.445                        #9  8.292 -0.548

Pat Ross' incremental margins MOV: 0.1418 seconds (approximately 33 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1268 Chip Banney Jr.                      1985 Don Eckel III
E1                   0.010 10.922  1.142     ****WINNER****  0.087  7.431 -0.179
       H/SM Index: 9.78                           C/D Index: 7.61
 Qualified:            #28  9.360 -0.420                       #12  7.082 -0.528

1:56 PM - About 22 hours after it started, we're finally seeing the completion of the first round of Comp Eliminator round one. Three pairs ran last night, then the rains came.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  223 John Mischuch                        1609 Jeff Liuzzo
E1                   0.057  8.041 -0.489     ****WINNER****  0.081  7.376 -0.584
       B/EA Index: 8.53                          C/ED Index: 7.96
 Qualified:            #29  8.117 -0.413                       #13  7.437 -0.523

Jeff Liuzzo's incremental margins MOV: 0.0713 seconds (approximately 18 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  186 Tim Northrop                         1210 Jonathan Aloisio
E1   ****WINNER****  0.019  9.094 -0.646                     0.005  8.231 -0.599
       I/SM Index: 9.74                          B/SM Index: 8.83
 Qualified:             #3  9.105 -0.635                       #19  8.358 -0.472

Tim Northrop's incremental margins MOV: 0.0335 seconds (approximately 8 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1426 Paul Ricci                           1144 Billy Griffin
E1                   0.050  9.225  0.505     ****WINNER****  0.113  8.559  0.059
      A/SMA Index: 8.72                          E/AA Index: 8.50
 Qualified:            #32  8.355 -0.365                       #16  7.990 -0.510

Billy Griffin's incremental margins MOV: 0.3838 seconds (approximately 61 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1465 Val Smeland                          1867 Richard Schonberger
E1   ****WINNER****  0.140  7.355 -0.445                    -0.005 10.386  0.646
       B/AA Index: 7.80                          I/SM Index: 9.74
 Qualified:            #30  7.406 -0.394                       #14  9.224 -0.516

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1160 Al Ackerman                          1484 Allen Stanfield
E1   ****WINNER****  0.015  8.307 -0.463                     0.057  9.040 -0.460
        F/D Index: 8.77                          F/SM Index: 9.50
 Qualified:             #6  8.155 -0.615                       #22  9.045 -0.455

Al Ackerman's incremental margins MOV: 0.0454 seconds (approximately 10 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2126 Michael Hardee                       1981 Stephen Szupka
E1   ****WINNER****  0.009  8.631 -0.669                     0.088  7.417 -0.543
      D/SMA Index: 9.30                          C/ED Index: 7.96
 Qualified:             #5  8.675 -0.625                       #21  7.498 -0.462

Michael Hardee's incremental margins MOV: 0.2058 seconds (approximately 53 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1913 Charlie Yannetti                     1780 Gerry Russo
E1                   0.100  9.378 -0.502     ****WINNER****  0.187  8.736 -0.604
       L/AA Index: 9.88                         E/SMA Index: 9.34
 Qualified:            #31  9.491 -0.389                       #15  8.827 -0.513

Gerry Russo's incremental margins MOV: 0.0154 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1422 Allyn Armstrong                      1055 Carl Miller
E1   ****WINNER****  0.020  9.219 -0.601                     0.042  8.340 -0.500
        L/A Index: 9.82                           F/A Index: 8.84
 Qualified:            #18  9.327 -0.493                       #33  8.478 -0.362

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1718 Tommy Ciccarone Jr.                  1086 Mark Hopkins
E1   ****WINNER****  0.072  8.667 -0.633                     0.005  7.563 -0.437
      D/SMA Index: 9.30                           C/A Index: 8.00
 Qualified:            #10  8.758 -0.542                       #35  7.653 -0.347

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1686 Dennis Bartucci                      1890 Michael Hanratty
E1   ****WINNER****  0.678  7.263 -0.537                    -0.061 16.298  8.888
       B/AA Index: 7.80                          A/AA Index: 7.41
 Qualified:            #38  7.529 -0.271                        #1  6.726 -0.684

Hanratty left too soon and he lit the red light. When he launched, his car shook the tires and it bounced up and down for the first 100 feet before he shut it down.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1058 Frank Affronti                       1162 Sal Biondo
E1                   0.004  7.442 -0.558     ****WINNER****  0.035  8.405 -0.615
        C/A Index: 8.00                          D/EA Index: 9.02
 Qualified:            #36  7.666 -0.334                        #8  8.466 -0.554

Sal Biondo's incremental margins MOV: 0.0265 seconds (approximately 7 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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