Sat, 27 Oct 2007, 09:46 PM Competition Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 2 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Seventh annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    7 Dean Carter                           710 Doug Lambeck                 
E2                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.589 17.131  91.59
       A/ND Index: 7.63 (+/-): 92.369           D/SMA Index: 9.12 (+/-):  8.011
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Darcy     ) 0.013  7.420 -0.210      (M Johnson   ) 0.042  8.617 -0.563
 Qualified:             #7  6.996 -0.634                       #15  8.575 -0.605

6:31 p.m. Carter was a no show. Lambeck makes an easy pass.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 3737 Jacklyn Gebhardt                       75 Alan Ellis                   
E2   ****WINNER****  0.007  6.743 184.88                     0.164  7.023 158.07
       A/ED Index: 7.34 (+/-): -0.597            A/AP Index: 7.35 (+/-): -0.327
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Mettler   ) 0.042  7.050 -0.290      (W Hatcher   ) 0.010  6.845 -0.635
 Qualified:            #22  6.759 -0.581                       #30  6.941 -0.539

Gebhardt gets a big hole-shot then takes a CIC hit in the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    5 Lee Zane                             6660 Adam Bowdish                 
E2   ****WINNER****  0.094 10.048  93.48                    -0.012  9.736 111.51
       L/AA Index: 9.72 (+/-):  0.328            H/SM Index: 9.73 (+/-):  0.006
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Gruninger ) 0.042 10.084  0.364      (R Hudlow    ) 0.035  9.228 -0.612
 Qualified:            #25  9.143 -0.577                       #17  9.239 -0.601

Bowdish leaves too soon and gives Zane the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    3 Jeff Taylor                           500 Lou Ficco                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.037  9.336 108.76                    -0.022  8.529 112.60
       E/SM Index: 9.32 (+/-):  0.016            B/AP Index: 8.12 (+/-):  0.409
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Edwards   ) 0.048  9.401  0.081      (A Ackerman  ) -0.017  8.930  0.810
 Qualified:            #10  8.687 -0.633                        #2  7.423 -0.697

Ficco leaves too soon, Taylor backs off the throttle early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  751 Tom Huggins                            76 Vinnie Deceglie              
E2                  -0.029  7.453 146.30     ****WINNER****  0.205  6.857 157.30
        B/A Index: 7.68 (+/-): -0.227             A/A Index: 7.13 (+/-): -0.273
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Freese    ) 0.044  7.171 -0.629      (S Holloway  ) 0.071  6.627 -0.603
 Qualified:             #4  7.161 -0.639                       #28  6.666 -0.564

Three redlights in a row, Deceglie gets the easy win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    4 David Rampy                             1 Bo Butner                    
E2                  -0.021  8.190 119.13     ****WINNER****  0.073  8.424 109.00
       A/EA Index: 8.02 (+/-):  0.170            CC/A Index: 7.70 (+/-):  0.724
 Prior rounds:
E1    (L Sharp     ) 0.010  7.512 -0.528      (S Dodd      ) 0.069  8.278  0.578
 Qualified:            #13  7.432 -0.608                        #5  7.062 -0.638

Make that four redlights. Rampy leaves a little too early, Butner gets the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5250 Todd Patterson                          2 Sal Biondo                   
E2                   0.175  7.744 150.21     ****WINNER****  0.063  8.385 144.97
       C/AA Index: 8.08 (+/-): -0.336            C/EA Index: 8.87 (+/-): -0.485
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Kaplan    ) 0.031  7.572 -0.598      (G Lockman   ) 0.034  8.451 -0.419
 Qualified:            #19  7.575 -0.595                       #27  8.298 -0.572

No redlight in this pair, Patterson is real late and can't run down Biondo.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4025 Joey Tanksley                          72 Jim Cowan                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.097  7.072 183.97                     0.090  8.393 156.25
        C/D Index: 7.64 (+/-): -0.568            D/EA Index: 8.93 (+/-): -0.537
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Zink      ) 0.067  7.134 -0.536      (E Sigmon    ) -0.046  8.796 -0.134
 Qualified:            #32  7.141 -0.529                        #8  8.296 -0.634

Tanksley gets the win and another CIC hit. In the next round it will be Zane vs. Butner, Biondo vs. Lambeck, Taylor vs. Gebhardt, and Deceglie vs. Tanksley.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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