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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 42nd annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, amount over/under index, and position in order following run, class and class index: Left Lane: Bryan Morrison Runs 8.188/163.75/-0.522, Now #1 F/AA Index: 8.71 Right Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.732/145.03/-0.338, Now #2 C/SR Index: 9.07 10:46 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 71 degrees, relative humidity 56 percent, barometer 29.06 inches, adjusted altitude 2031 feet, track temperature 80 degrees. It's almost 11:00am and we still have a low overcast and some fog keeping the track temperature down for the start of Comp. Eliminator qualifying. Morrison gets a good pass to tune to, but Sigmon's
time is not likely to keep him in the field before the end of qualifying tomorrow. Left Lane: Tom Brown Runs 20.657/26.38/11.747, Now #4 F/ED Index: 8.91 Right Lane: Fred Gross Runs 8.650/157.61/-0.400, Now #2 G/A Index: 9.05 Brown's little four banger has problems and motors on down the track. Gross is slow off the line, but cards a reasonable time. Left Lane: David Beckley Runs 6.855/186.23/-0.505, Now #2 A/AA Index: 7.36 Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 17.889/51.15/9.959, Now #5 C/ED Index: 7.93 Beckley goes right down Broadway and makes a clean and smooth pass. McClay has nothing at the hit and slowly drives down the track. Left Lane: David Sumek Runs 6.535/206.32/-0.635, Now #1 AA/AM Index: 7.17 Right Lane: Pete Adams Runs 7.755/176.93/-0.225, Now #6 C/A Index: 7.98 Sumek runs our first sixty under the index pass with a less than straight pass to take over the current top spot. Left Lane: Mark Stewart Runs 8.938/150.78/-0.472, Now #4 G/SMA Index: 9.41 Right Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.306/163.20/-0.464, Now #5 B/SMA Index: 8.77 Two clean passes two similar results. Left Lane: Dave Raybourn Runs 8.873/151.34/-0.257, Now #9 E/SMA Index: 9.13 Right Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.479/182.08/-0.591, Now #2 PST Index: 8.07 Mettler takes his ProStock Truck into the new #2 spot with a clean and straight pass. Left Lane: Pete Carbery Runs 7.268/185.03/-0.422, Now #8 B/A Index: 7.69 Right Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 8.159/165.82/-0.581, Now #3 B/SM Index: 8.74 Hedlund is next to take over the #2 spot with a good run. Left Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.539/180.57/-0.511, Now #5 C/AA Index: 8.05 Right Lane: Tom Snyder Runs 12.073/84.71/4.913, Now #14 A/A Index: 7.16 Snyder leaves hard and then has to lift. Edwards makes the full pull. Left Lane: Bob Marshall No Time, Now #5 B/AA Index: 7.73 Right Lane: Sam Blaylock Sr. Runs 7.968/179.88/0.238, Now #14 B/AA Index: 7.73 Double trouble, as Marshall gets no time and Blaylock's altered is into the kitty litter at the end of the track. Left Lane: Vinnie Deceglie Runs 6.566/211.66/-0.594, Now #2 A/A Index: 7.16 Right Lane: Kevin Smith Runs 7.266/190.22/-0.464, Now #10 B/AA Index: 7.73 Deceglie makes it look easy with a 1.016 sixty foot time with a great looking pass into the current #2 position. Left Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 8.000/164.09/-0.590, Now #4 B/SR Index: 8.59 Right Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.776/175.52/-0.584, Now #5 E/A Index: 8.36 Two more clean passes and they both move into the top of the ladder. Left Lane: Dave Barcelon Runs 8.485/159.55/-0.565, Now #7 G/A Index: 9.05 Right Lane: Jim Cowan Runs 8.372/143.05/-0.558, Now #8 D/EA Index: 8.93 Looks like mid-five-fifty under the index passes are now cheap. Left Lane: Lucky Snyder Runs 8.231/164.49/-0.459, Now #16 F/A Index: 8.69 Right Lane: Al Bresch Runs 9.015/150.58/-0.475, Now #12 G/SM Index: 9.49 Left Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 8.584/158.04/-0.506, Now #11 D/SMA Index: 9.09 Right Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 8.965/135.04/-0.455, Now #18 F/SM Index: 9.42 11:19 a.m. We had a little delay as the starting line crew had to do a little dusting and cleaning in Bresch's lane. Left Lane: Tom Huggins Runs 7.100/193.07/-0.590, Now #5 B/A Index: 7.69 Right Lane: Brad Plourd No Time, Now #30 C/ED Index: 0.00 Plourd's C/ED is pushed back behind the line after breaking on the burn out. Huggins gets a single and runs well under his index. Left Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.500/157.32/-0.590, Now #6 D/SMA Index: 9.09 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 10.790/110.51/3.430, Now #27 A/AA Index: 7.36 Left Lane: Jim Warter Runs 8.847/153.21/-0.573, Now #9 F/SM Index: 9.42 Right Lane: Bo Butner No Time, Now #33 AA/SM Index: 7.71 Butner's Caviler is pushed back after trying a burnout. Left Lane: Mike DePalma Runs 8.194/166.17/-0.496, Now #17 F/A Index: 8.69 Right Lane: Jeff Taylor Runs 8.613/144.47/-0.597, Now #2 E/SM Index: 9.21 Nice pass for Taylor to take over the current #2 spot. Scott McClay is on the bump spot at 9.959. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.893/170.75/-0.467, Now #20 I/AA Index: 8.36 Right Lane: Bryan Fitzgerald Runs 7.941/169.47/-0.419, Now #26 E/AA Index: 8.36 Left Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 9.073/110.28/1.683, Now #33 BB/AT Index: 7.39 Right Lane: Joe Mozeris Runs 7.679/174.96/-0.051, Now #31 B/AA Index: 7.73 Mihovetz gets a lot of steering wheel practice off the line when the Thunder Kitty makes a hard move towards the centerline at 60 feet. He stays with it a while and finally gives it up as a bad idea. Left Lane: Max Tafoya Jr Runs 7.664/172.81/-0.266, Now #30 C/ED Index: 7.93 Right Lane: Michael Stone Runs 7.428/179.61/-0.502, Now #17 C/ED Index: 7.93 Sam Blaylock Sr. is on the bump spot at 0.238. Two C/ED's and both bump into the filed. Left Lane: Randy Jones No Time, Now #41 F/SM Index: 9.21 Right Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.615/203.00/-0.615, Now #2 A/ED Index: 7.23 Jones can't get the car started and is pulled away. Gebhardt leaves with a strong 1.003 sixty foot time and parlays it into a strong pass into the #2 spot. 11:35 a.m. David Sumek stays
on top with a .635 under his index and Dave Raybourn is on the bump spot at -0.257.
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