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Sun, 29 Jun 2008, 01:54 PM

Top Alcohol Dragster Round 2 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 2 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
    1 Bill Reichert                         185 Mike Kosky                   
E2                   0.097  5.458 271.30     ****WINNER****  0.130  5.416 265.48
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Meyer     ) 0.079  5.415 268.01      (D Weber     ) 0.044  5.453 263.62
 Qualified:             #1  5.412 267.06                        #8  5.580 243.19

12:47 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 80 degrees, relative humidity 45 percent, barometer 28.79 inches, adjusted altitude 3,379 feet, track temperature 109 degrees.
Reichert is 6-0 against Kosky in prior national events.

All streaks come to an end and this one did so when Reichert was forced to backpedal to get out of tire shake right off the starting line. He still almost ran Kosky down, but ran out of real estate. Mike Kosky's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.024), 330 ft(0.100), 660ft(0.078), 1,000ft(0.036). MOV: 0.0096 seconds (approximately 4 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   23 Bill Evans                              6 Marty Thacker                
E2                   0.076  5.592 254.23     ****WINNER****  0.046  5.419 265.12
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Bowgren   ) 0.090  5.739 246.35      (J Dreher    ) 0.078  5.584 257.53
 Qualified:             #6  5.552 261.22                        #3  5.449 263.26

Thacker was away first and pulled out to a big early lead, then held it for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  176 Jeff Veale                            482 Tom Conway                   
E2                   0.110  6.392 169.08     ****WINNER****  0.083  5.374 259.66
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Bohr      ) 0.092  6.067 227.34      (D Hirata    ) 0.065  5.498 246.84
 Qualified:            #15  5.919 238.64                        #7  5.564 255.92

Tom Conway has 18 national event wins, but the last was at Denver in 1995 and he has concentrated on the mechanical side for the past several years.

Wow! Those are career-best numbers for Conway and Veale was off the throttle before half track, so the gap at the finish line was huge. Conway ruins low ET of the weekend and will have lane choice against Thacker in the semifinals.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 3390 Paul Fishburn                         499 Brandon Lewis                
E2                   0.070  6.814 135.40     ****WINNER****  0.062  5.676 235.02
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Samsel    ) 0.158  5.741 249.44      (N Condo     ) 0.028  5.646 239.06
 Qualified:            #12  5.665 245.81                       #13  5.668 236.55

Fishburn was ahead and pulling away when his supercharger burst panel let go with an audible sneeze and he slowed. Lewis went by for an easy win, but he won't have lane choice against Kosky in the semifinals.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink