Sat, 29 Jul 2006, 08:13 PM Competition Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

SONOMA, Calif. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6180 Jirka Kaplan                          720 J.D. Zink
E2                   0.052  7.235 162.00     ****WINNER****  0.030  7.012 169.25
      BB/AM Index: 7.65 (+/-): -0.415            A/ND Index: 7.54 (+/-): -0.528
 Prior rounds:
E1                   0.004  7.404 -0.246      (A Freese    ) 0.041  7.366 -0.174
 Qualified:             #1  6.861 -0.789                        #9  6.954 -0.586

4:54 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 53 percent, barometer 30.12 inches, adjusted altitude 1,342 feet, track temperature 115 degrees.

Zink uses a little CIC but takes out the #1 qualifier, Kaplan.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6996 Rob Harrison                          730 Bryan Fitzgerald
E2   ****WINNER****  0.057 13.292  64.10                    -0.015  9.246 106.09
        J/A Index: 8.49 (+/-):  4.802            E/AA Index: 8.38 (+/-):  0.866
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Lion      ) 0.161 11.093  2.603      (D Sumek     ) 0.017  7.878 -0.532
 Qualified:             #5  7.850 -0.640                       #12  7.854 -0.556

Fitzgerald pushes the tree to hard and the big red bulb is on. Harrison saves index and shuts off way early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   71 Dean Carter                            62 Dave Barcelon
E2   ****WINNER****  0.046  6.970 171.40                     0.052  8.475 160.27
       A/ND Index: 7.54 (+/-): -0.570             G/A Index: 8.97 (+/-): -0.495
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Moscini   ) 0.078  7.280 -0.260      (W Ramay     ) 0.072  8.467 -0.583
 Qualified:            #14  6.988 -0.552                        #7  8.433 -0.617

Carter parlays the slightly better light into a CIC bending -.570 under.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   72 Vinnie Deceglie                       735 Jeff Gracia
E2   ****WINNER****  0.048  7.652 126.84                    -0.029  8.813 150.06
        A/A Index: 7.19 (+/-):  0.462            E/SM Index: 9.20 (+/-): -0.387
 Prior rounds:
E1    (K Hugger    ) 0.027  6.856 -0.334      (D Lee       ) 0.082  8.699 -0.541
 Qualified:             #6  6.558 -0.632                       #13  8.688 -0.552

Gracia takes a shot at the tree but misses.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  600 Jeff Lane                            7238 David Beckley
E2   ****WINNER****  0.043  8.031 158.71                     0.033  6.762 184.45
       B/SR Index: 8.59 (+/-): -0.559            A/AA Index: 7.26 (+/-): -0.498
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Jones     ) -0.005  8.616  0.026      (T Mettler   ) 0.008  6.756 -0.624
 Qualified:             #8  7.985 -0.605                       #29  7.802  0.422

Good race. Pretty even lights but it appeared Beckley decided to save the index rather than try to catch Lane as he had the chute out way early. He ran a losing fifty under.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  710 Doug Lambeck                          750 Jim Cowan
E2   ****WINNER****  0.024  8.510 161.00                     0.014  8.394 148.67
      D/SMA Index: 9.09 (+/-): -0.580            D/EA Index: 8.93 (+/-): -0.536
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Bresch    ) 0.045  8.746 -0.344      (B Perkin    ) 0.064  8.427 -0.553
 Qualified:            #11  8.531 -0.559                        #4  8.338 -0.642

Lambeck had to dip into the CIC bag to take this win. Both had good lights but Lambeck was .58 under.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6018 Jim Warter                             76 Tom Huggins
E2   ****WINNER****  0.052  8.953 136.15                    -0.039  8.467 117.38
       F/SM Index: 9.40 (+/-): -0.447             B/A Index: 7.64 (+/-):  0.827
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Marshall  ) 0.052  8.896 -0.554      (K Justice   ) 0.039  7.138 -0.562
 Qualified:            #10  8.875 -0.575                        #3  7.056 -0.644

Huggins goes red and hands the win to Warter.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    7 Glen Treadwell                             Bye
E2   ****WINNER****  0.062  8.608 118.20
       F/EA Index: 8.78 (+/-): -0.172
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Ellis     ) 0.027  8.835  0.055
 Qualified:             #2  8.042 -0.738                     Bye

Treadwell gets the bye this time. Round three looks like this: Zink vs Harrison, Warter vs Carter, Treadwell vs Deceglie and Lambeck vs Lane. That comes up on Sunday.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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