Sun, 23 Oct 2005, 03:39 PM Pro Stock Motorcycle Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 1 eliminations in Pro Stock Motorcycle at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Fifth annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals:

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Craig Treble                            3 Antron Brown                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.025  7.261 187.34                    -0.016  7.310 182.87
 Qualified:             #8  7.261 185.43                        #9  7.262 182.58

Weather conditions: air temperature 71 degrees, relative humidity 37 percent, barometer 28.34 inches, adjusted altitude 2,847 feet, track temperature 99 degrees.

Antron was too quick on the tree and turned on the red light and Treble matched his qualifying time for the win.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 GT Tonglet                            204 Matt Smith                   
E1                   0.044  7.303 183.92     ****WINNER****  0.020  7.290 176.65
 Qualified:            #11  7.275 184.72                        #6  7.240 180.09

Smith is out of the gate first and never looked back for the win by about 10 feet.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   10 Karen Stoffer                         303 Tom Bradford                 
E1                   0.039  7.284 183.39     ****WINNER****  0.012  7.279 181.45
 Qualified:             #7  7.260 183.32                       #10  7.273 182.92

Bradford with the starting line advantage and the win light. Tom Bradford's MOV: 0.0324 seconds (approximately 9 feet). Bradford becomes the third first time winner on the NHRA circuit today.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  200 Chip Ellis                            731 Matt Guidera                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.080  7.217 185.03                    -0.010  7.243 182.80
 Qualified:             #3  7.224 183.89                       #14  7.280 179.23

Guidera turned on the red light and Ellis moves on to round two.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 7487 Chris Rivas                             8 Steve Johnson                
E1                  -0.003  7.271 182.72     ****WINNER****  0.042  7.290 183.42
 Qualified:             #4  7.235 185.38                       #13  7.280 183.00

Rivas just turned on the red light and Johnson moves on.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  308 Ryan Schnitz                          573 Mike Berry                   
E1   ****WINNER****  0.044  7.267 182.30                    -0.009  7.263 184.17
 Qualified:             #1  7.205 183.67                       #16  7.286 186.18

Berry wasted a great pass here with the red light.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    2 Angelle Sampey                        310 Joe DeSantis                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.071  7.271 183.57                     0.046  7.299 186.12
 Qualified:             #5  7.238 183.44                       #12  7.276 183.00

DeSantis with the big starting line advantage, but Sampey was able to chase him down just past 1000 feet to take the win. She has owned DeSantis as this is the 12 time she has beat him.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Andrew Hines                            7 Geno Scali                   
E1                   0.105  7.292 161.90     ****WINNER****  0.013  7.287 186.77
 Qualified:             #2  7.211 186.20                       #15  7.282 181.84

Scali with a huge starting line advantage and never looked back to take the win light.

Treble will have lane choice over Schnitz, Sampey will have lane choice over Johnson, Bradford will have lane choice over Scali, and Ellis will have lane choice over Smith in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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