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NORWALK, Ohio - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Second annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed this round, amount over/under index this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time, speed & over/under Index, and position in order prior to run: Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 7.612/172.47/-0.378, Now #26; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.592/173.87/-0.398, Was #26 Right Lane: Scott Chamness Runs 8.772/101.19/1.732, Now #19; A/D Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 6.601/205.29/-0.439, Was #19 11:56 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 84 degrees, relative humidity 63 percent, barometer 28.95 inches, adjusted altitude 3,688 feet, track temperature 104 degrees. Jeff Wright is on the bump spot at -0.347. Left Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 7.164/185.72/-0.466, Now #15; C/DA Index: 7.63, Prior Best: 7.204/184.85/-0.426, Was #22 Right Lane: John Peto Runs 8.243/158.46/-0.157, Now #37; J/AA Index: 8.40, Prior Best: 8.256/159.44/-0.144, Was #37 Left Lane: Lonnie Johnson Runs 7.171/193.13/-0.469, Now #13; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.266/183.59/-0.374, Was #28 Right Lane: Bill Yates Runs 6.776/200.02/-0.444, Now #11; A/ED Index: 7.22, Prior Best: 6.743/201.31/-0.477, Was #11 Nice move up the ladder by Johnson. Left Lane: Doug Doll Jr. Runs 8.400/156.37/-0.430, Now #23; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.400/155.92/-0.430, Was #23 Right Lane: Larry Morgan Runs 7.252/193.68/-0.398, Now #26; B/A Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.249/194.35/-0.401, Was #26 Doll matches yesterday's run. Left Lane: Charlie Greco Runs 7.797/172.52/-0.483, Now #10; D/AA Index: 8.28, Prior Best: 9.279/99.00/0.999, Was #40 Right Lane: Craig Bourgeois Runs 7.179/158.24/-0.471, Now #1; B/ND Index: 7.65, Prior Best: 7.045/184.65/-0.605, Was #1 Bourgeois was lucky to get his run in yesterday, it was raining in the shutdown area by the time he got there. "Boom
Boom" bumps into the field. Now Rodger Brogdon is on the bump spot at -0.351. Left Lane: Bert Dawson Runs 8.343/160.54/-0.297, Now #35; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.340/161.09/-0.300, Was #35 Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.745/199.49/-0.475, Now #13; A/ED Index: 7.22, Prior Best: 6.744/201.37/-0.476, Was #13 Left Lane: Pat Ross Runs 8.232/162.27/-0.448, Now #21; F/A Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.237/163.67/-0.443, Was #21 Right Lane: Mauri Rose Runs 7.213/185.15/-0.297, Now #36; C/D Index: 7.51, Prior Best: 7.214/185.10/-0.296, Was #36 Rose fails to improve, has one more shot at qualifying later today. Left Lane: Mike Farrell Runs 7.490/175.41/-0.410, Now #25; A/EA Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.476/176.97/-0.424, Was #25 Right Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.164/182.92/-0.466, Now #8; C/DA Index: 7.63, Prior Best: 7.126/185.84/-0.504, Was #8 Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.219/160.23/-0.471, Now #7; F/D Index: 8.69, Prior Best: 8.184/163.18/-0.506, Was #7 Right Lane: Gary Merrick Runs 7.493/175.32/-0.377, Now #30; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.519/176.51/-0.351, Was #31 The air scoop on Ackerman's dragster vibrated loose on the burnout and his crewmember removed it before the run. Didn;'t hurt the performance much, about three hundredths off yesterday's run. Merrick moved up one spot, is still very close to the bump. Left Lane: Keith Roberts Runs 9.441/145.00/-0.299, Now #29; I/SMA Index: 9.74, Prior Best: 9.347/145.99/-0.393, Was #29 Right Lane: Jeff Wright Runs 7.277/190.08/-0.363, Now #31; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.293/190.08/-0.347, Was #33 Roberts' car struggled to get dopwn the lane. Wright squeaked into the field. Now John Frech is on the bump spot at -0.362. Left Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.313/181.13/-0.507, Now #5; D/D Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.279/182.75/-0.541, Was #5 Right Lane: Russ Kelly Runs 6.963/193.46/-0.357, Now #33; A/DA Index: 7.32, Prior Best: 6.992/193.40/-0.328, Was #34 Kelly comes up five thousandths short of the field, has one more shot later today. Left Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 7.849/165.70/-0.551, Now #4; J/AA Index: 8.40, Prior Best: 7.882/164.17/-0.518, Was #6 Right Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.437/183.84/-0.613, Now #1; DD/AT Index: 8.05, Prior Best: 7.591/180.07/-0.459, Was #19 Massel got it spooled up and scrteaming today, a very strong run to take over the #1 spotna d Ambrose also made a very noice run to move up a couple spots. Left Lane: Ray Vierheller III Runs 7.552/173.81/-0.438, Now #17; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.524/174.62/-0.466, Was #17 Right Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 7.016/195.22/-0.304, Now #35; A/AP Index: 7.32, Prior Best: 8.186/120.38/0.866, Was #40 Alexander came up short and will take his last shot later today. Left Lane: Tom Schmidt Runs 8.560/157.93/-0.410, Now #20; C/T Index: 8.97, Prior Best: 8.522/158.46/-0.448, Was #20 Right Lane: Glenn Butcher Runs 7.466/185.89/0.396, Now #41; A/PM Index: 7.07, Prior Best: 8.246/125.76/1.176, Was #41 Butcher improved half a second, still ran way over his index. Left Lane: Frank Aragona Runs 8.445/152.35/-0.445, Now #22; G/EA Index: 8.89, Prior Best: 8.466/154.78/-0.424, Was #26 Right Lane: Stephen Szupka Runs 8.401/156.46/-0.429, Now #16; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.363/158.24/-0.467, Was #16 The two Aragona cars paired up today. They ran side-by-side, good news for Aragona, bad news for Szupka. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 8.448/149.07/-0.342, Now #35; I/AA Index: 8.79, No Prior Run Right Lane: Larry Pritchett Runs 8.283/164.47/-0.397, Now #12; B/SM Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.198/166.74/-0.482, Was #12 Biondo came up short of the field and is down to one shot. Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.335/179.88/-0.565, Now #4; A/EA Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.355/180.48/-0.545, Was #6 Right Lane: Jason Coan Runs 8.414/152.59/-0.476, Now #3; G/EA Index: 8.89, Prior Best: 8.316/155.44/-0.574, Was #3 Nice improvement by Rampy, Coan failed to improve. Left Lane: John Frech Runs 32.893/62.09/24.203, Now #33; F/D Index: 8.69, Prior Best: 8.328/159.01/-0.362, Was #32 Right Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 7.657/175.18/-0.363, Now #32; C/AA Index: 8.02, No Prior Run Frech appeared to blow the engine at the start, lots of smoke from the exhaust and the top of the engine. He rolled to a stop near the wall, just apst the finish line. Meanwhile, Affronti ran just quick enough to replace Frech on the bump spot. Left Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 8.103/167.91/-0.327, Now #35; A/SM Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 8.079/168.68/-0.351, Was #35 Right Lane: Rick Brown Runs 8.485/157.23/-0.445, Now #19; B/TA Index: 8.93, Prior Best: 8.466/157.43/-0.464, Was #19 Brogdon failed to improve and he is also down to his last shot later today. Left Lane: Steven Kent Runs 7.935/170.39/-0.425, Now #24; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.926/171.18/-0.434, Was #24 Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.924/165.52/-0.556, Now #5; B/SR Index: 8.48, Prior Best: 7.935/166.29/-0.545, Was #6 Martel m oved up a spot, Kent lost a few thousandths. Right Lane: Peter Biondo Runs 7.948/168.81/-0.392, Now #30; B/SR Index: 8.34, Prior Best: 8.050/169.13/-0.290, Was #40 Biondo bumped in, but is only a couple spots off the bump. Now Jeff Wright is on the bump spot at -0.363. Right Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 8.012/168.60/-0.468, Now #10; B/SR Index: 8.48, Prior Best: 7.987/165.60/-0.493, Was #10 No improvement for Bertozzi and the round is over with Massel atop the field at -0.613 and Jeff Wright on the bump spot at -0.363.
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