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Sat, 28 Jun 2008, 07:30 PM

Top Alcohol Dragster Round 1 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

NORWALK, Ohio - Revised results of round 1 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Second annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   35 Noah Condo                            499 Brandon Lewis                
E1                   0.065 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.028  5.646 239.06
 Qualified:             #4  5.465 260.97                       #13  5.668 236.55

5:36 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 83 degrees, relative humidity 65 percent, barometer 28.79 inches, adjusted altitude 3,886 feet, track temperature 104 degrees.
We have gone from cloudy, warm and humid to sunny, warm and humid.

Condo's car shook, got very sideways, and he chased it, taking out the first half-track timing reflector. That gave Lewis the win on a DQ, but he was first to the line anyway.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 Marty Thacker                          52 Jared Dreher                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.078  5.584 257.53                     0.097  6.238 234.29
 Qualified:             #3  5.449 263.26                       #14  5.745 237.55

Dreher shook violently and Thacker was able to drive away unmolested on a nice pass.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  358 Dave Weber                            185 Mike Kosky                   
E1                   0.033  5.668 252.95     ****WINNER****  0.044  5.453 263.62
 Qualified:             #9  5.599 248.16                        #8  5.580 243.19

Weber had another high-RPM burnout, but suffered no apparent damage. He left first, but Kosky appears to have his car sorted out and drove by before the 60-foot marker, running low ET of the round so far.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    9 Dave Hirata                           482 Tom Conway                   
E1                   0.085  5.523 258.32     ****WINNER****  0.065  5.498 246.84
 Qualified:            #10  5.611 255.68                        #7  5.564 255.92

Conway left first, but Hirata almost had him covered at 60 feet. The Conway steadily pulled away from the usually fleet Hirata for his first round win in about ten years (maybe more).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   39 Tim Bowgren                            23 Bill Evans                   
E1                   0.145  5.783 247.02     ****WINNER****  0.090  5.739 246.35
 Qualified:            #11  5.616 249.63                        #6  5.552 261.22

Evans had this one wire to wire, but he lost lane choice to Thacker in the second round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   24 Robin Samsel                         3390 Paul Fishburn                
E1                   0.101  6.144 223.25     ****WINNER****  0.158  5.741 249.44
 Qualified:             #5  5.493 245.67                       #12  5.665 245.81

Samsel had at least one dead cylinder from the start and Fishburn won easily, but he lost lane choice to Lewis in round two.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  311 Jeff Bohr                             176 Jeff Veale                   
E1                   0.090  7.274 125.55     ****WINNER****  0.092  6.067 227.34
 Qualified:             #2  5.427 261.72                       #15  5.919 238.64

Bohr had a three-tenths lead at 330 feet, then his engine went away. Veale shook hard on the launch, then recovered to finish the run while Bohr was coasting. Veale faces Conway in round two, Conway has lane choice.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Bill Reichert                         596 Randy Meyer                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.079  5.415 268.01                    -0.103  5.398 264.08
 Qualified:             #1  5.412 267.06                       #16  6.106 250.00

Meyer left very early to waste low ET of the event. Reichert ran second-low ET of the round to earn lane choice against Kosky in round two.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink