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Sat, 24 May 2003, 04:53 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations
By Rick Green





TOPEKA, Kan. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 15th annual O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals presented by Castrol GTX:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 4937 Buddy Nickens                         413 Mary Johnson
E1   ****WINNER****  0.009  8.672 -0.348                     0.203  9.432 -0.188
       B/TA Index: 9.02                         G/SMA Index: 9.62
 Qualified:            #10  8.487 -0.533                       #24  9.241 -0.379
Current weather conditions: 74 degrees, 73 percent relative humidity, the barometer 29.89 inches and the sun is making it's appearence.

Nickens with a great light and the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5578 Larry Larson                           58 Jeff Perrella
E1                   0.133  7.378 -0.422     ****WINNER****  0.119  7.539 -0.491
        B/A Index: 7.80                          A/EA Index: 8.03
 Qualified:            #18  7.319 -0.481                        #4  7.427 -0.603


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  433 Bill Morse                             49 Mike Johnson
E1                   0.071  8.570 -0.270     ****WINNER****  0.064  7.609 -0.351
       C/EA Index: 8.84                          C/ED Index: 7.96
 Qualified:            #29  8.896  0.056                       #15  7.461 -0.499


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  404 Bob Yonke                             462 Al Weiss
E1                  -0.009  7.391 -0.409     ****WINNER****  0.038  8.654 -0.426
        B/A Index: 7.80                          E/EA Index: 9.08
 Qualified:            #17  7.313 -0.487                        #3  8.477 -0.603


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   53 Clint Sallee                         4446 Gary Wise
E1                  -0.018  7.093 -0.307     ****WINNER****  0.025  8.745 -0.275
        B/D Index: 7.40                          D/EA Index: 9.02
 Qualified:             #6  6.832 -0.568                       #20  8.570 -0.450


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 4251 Greg Porter                           527 Brad Klein
E1                   0.174  9.074 -0.266     ****WINNER****  0.170  7.352 -0.448
       E/SM Index: 9.34                           B/A Index: 7.80
 Qualified:            #23  8.959 -0.381                        #9  7.266 -0.534


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2885 David Rampy                             7 Lucky Snyder
E1   ****WINNER****  0.035  7.609 -0.421                     0.039  8.442 -0.398
       A/EA Index: 8.03                           F/A Index: 8.84
 Qualified:             #2  7.421 -0.609                       #16  8.352 -0.488
With almost identical reaction times Rampy took the win by about seven feet.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5500 Bill Hatcher                         4097 Pete Carbery
E1                  -0.046  8.020  0.060     ****WINNER****  0.152  7.568 -0.232
       C/ED Index: 7.96                           B/A Index: 7.80
 Qualified:            #27  7.653 -0.307                       #13  7.288 -0.512


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5210 Duane Robison                           9 Doug Engels
E1                   0.099  7.630 -0.370     ****WINNER****  0.107  7.533 -0.477
        C/A Index: 8.00                          D/ED Index: 8.01
 Qualified:            #22  7.605 -0.395                        #8  7.470 -0.540


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  567 Scott Brown                          5731 Tom Schmidt
E1   ****WINNER****  0.000  8.156 -0.454                    -0.009  8.869 -0.401
       B/SR Index: 8.61                          C/SR Index: 9.27
 Qualified:             #5  8.038 -0.572                       #19  8.796 -0.474


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5709 Robert Baldwin                       4683 Brian Self
E1                   0.065  9.043 -0.297     ****WINNER****  0.083  8.284 -0.446
       E/SM Index: 9.34                           B/T Index: 8.73
 Qualified:            #21  8.940 -0.400                        #7  8.163 -0.567


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 5764 Brian Antony                         3361 Bo Butner
E1                   0.070  7.719 -0.301     ****WINNER****  0.031  7.931 -0.369
       B/AP Index: 8.02                          PSTA Index: 8.30
 Qualified:            #25  7.670 -0.350                       #11  7.773 -0.527


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2113 Bobby Dennis                         5158 Steve Kalkowski
E1                   0.121  9.511 -0.089     ****WINNER****  0.051  7.339 -0.461
      F/SMA Index: 9.60                           B/A Index: 7.80
 Qualified:            #28  9.613  0.013                       #14  7.289 -0.511


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
    3 Larry Pritchett                      5248 Shaun Vincent
E1   ****WINNER****  0.075  8.167 -0.373                     0.079  8.946 -0.224
       A/SM Index: 8.54                          C/TA Index: 9.17
 Qualified:            #12  8.021 -0.519                       #26  8.844 -0.326


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
        Bye                                4006 Mike Trumble
E1                                            ****WINNER****  0.019  8.548 -0.202
                                                A/SMA Index: 8.75
 Qualified:                                                       #1  8.135 -0.615
Trumble vs Klein, Brown vs Pritchett, Weiss vs Nickens, Self vs Kalkowski, Rampy vs bye, Wise vs Carberry, Perrella vs Butner, Engels vs Johnson in round two.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink




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