Sun, 21 Sep 2008, 02:26 PM
Stock Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations
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By Larry Sullivan
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HEBRON, Ohio - Results of round 2 eliminations in Stock Eliminator at the NHRA, Fourth annual Jeg's Northern SPORTSnationals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
1880 Steve Sweitzer 1634 Briane Philbrick
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.033 12.135 109.19 -0.017 13.183 103.21
H/SA Dial: 12.12 (+/-): 0.015 Q/SA Dial: 13.06 (+/-): 0.123
Prior rounds:
E1 (B Michael ) 0.027 12.061 -0.009 (P Downing ) 0.059 13.044 0.004
Qualified: #79 12.053 -0.397 #18 13.042 -1.058
2:09 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 81 degrees, relative humidity 40 percent, barometer 29.31 inches, adjusted
altitude 2,771 feet, track temperature 115 degrees.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
1150 Russell Linke 3664 Bryan Merkle
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.016 11.576 109.75 0.056 11.269 119.24
H/SA Dial: 11.51 (+/-): 0.066 C/SA Dial: 11.23 (+/-): 0.039
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Mc Cormack) 0.028 11.477 0.087 (L Hill ) 0.025 11.245 0.095
Qualified: #14 11.373 -1.077 #75 11.176 -0.524
Russell Linke's MOV: 0.0137 seconds (approximately 2 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3222 Chris Stephenson 368 Ed Bennett III
E2 -0.030 12.828 101.48 ****WINNER**** -0.050 10.846 126.71
L/SA Dial: 12.85 (+/-): -0.022 B/SA Dial: 10.79 (+/-): 0.056
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Martens ) 0.022 12.969 0.199 (S Welker ) 0.170 10.689 -0.861
Qualified: #80 12.799 -0.201 #60 10.692 -0.858
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3393 Darrell Steiger 3277 Rick Winchester
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.028 11.520 113.65 0.065 11.400 114.97
G/SA Dial: 11.50 (+/-): 0.020 H/SA Dial: 11.42 (+/-): -0.020
Prior rounds:
E1 (M Truman ) 0.025 11.600 0.130 (L Conkey ) 0.041 11.352 0.032
Qualified: #30 11.287 -1.013 #10 11.328 -1.122
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3241 Tom Reese 3023 Chuck Belanger
E2 0.051 13.142 99.74 ****WINNER**** 0.100 11.382 112.05
P/SA Dial: 13.04 (+/-): 0.102 G/SA Dial: 11.38 (+/-): 0.002
Prior rounds:
E1 (C Beach ) 0.000 13.024 0.034 (J Keihn ) 0.090 11.336 0.046
Qualified: #58 12.887 -0.863 #37 11.314 -0.986
Chuck Belanger's MOV: 0.0517 seconds (approximately 8 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3120 Lyn Smith 308 Greg Fulk
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.097 11.193 117.56 -0.044 12.633 103.03
F/SA Dial: 11.18 (+/-): 0.013 O/SA Dial: 12.60 (+/-): 0.033
Prior rounds:
E1 (D Walcott ) 0.035 11.183 0.053 (D Barton ) 0.118 12.584 0.044
Qualified: #23 11.106 -1.044 #44 12.516 -0.934
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3377 Joe Marcinowski 3205 Larry McFarland
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.073 12.321 105.04 0.039 10.610 120.38
H/SA Dial: 12.31 (+/-): 0.011 B/S Dial: 10.70 (+/-): -0.090
Prior rounds:
E1 (D Baker ) 0.032 12.231 0.031 (B Darroch ) 0.044 10.656 0.046
Qualified: #81 12.258 -0.192 #61 10.650 -0.850
McFarland had a huge wheelie and wandered out of the groove before landing the front end. That excursion may have done him in,
he took way too much stripe.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
11 Lee Zane 3651 Bob Gere
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.025 10.972 121.17 -0.039 11.992 109.38
D/SA Dial: 10.96 (+/-): 0.012 L/SA Dial: 11.99 (+/-): 0.002
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Dinkel ) 0.056 11.125 0.265 (B Harris ) 0.037 11.917 0.027
Qualified: #33 10.845 -1.005 #13 11.905 -1.095
Lee Zane's package: 0.037.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
5204 Fred Suiter 3057 Bret Velde
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.187 10.488 121.33 0.197 10.978 110.46
B/SA Dial: 10.50 (+/-): -0.012 A/S Dial: 11.08 (+/-): -0.102
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Bennett ) 0.057 10.473 0.003 (D Edwards ) 0.014 11.079 0.279
Qualified: #15 10.474 -1.076 #76 10.757 -0.493
Almost identical, slow lights and a double-breakout win for Suiter.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
198 Steve Szupka 1044 John Shaul
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.029 11.935 111.03 -0.020 10.563 97.33
J/SA Dial: 11.95 (+/-): -0.015 AA/SA Dial: 9.97 (+/-): 0.593
Prior rounds:
E1 (K Lynch ) 0.026 11.822 0.032 (J Mc Cormack) 0.083 9.942 -0.018
Qualified: #65 11.913 -0.837 #45 9.969 -0.931
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3385 Jim Nichols 1351 Tex Miller
E2 0.173 10.698 120.66 ****WINNER**** 0.024 11.282 110.71
B/SA Dial: 10.67 (+/-): 0.028 F/SA Dial: 11.21 (+/-): 0.072
Prior rounds:
E1 (B Mc Farland) 0.001 10.641 0.031 (D Ford ) 0.035 11.178 0.088
Qualified: #49 10.646 -0.904 #28 11.128 -1.022
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3492 Donnie Beeler 3602 Jason McCormack
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.041 11.305 112.35 0.156 10.312 129.02
G/S Dial: 11.24 (+/-): 0.065 A/S Dial: 10.32 (+/-): -0.008
Prior rounds:
E1 (S Mc Farland) 0.033 11.208 0.028 (M Antrobius ) 0.043 10.241 -0.049
Qualified: #6 11.028 -1.172 #26 10.220 -1.030
Stick shifts, a pair. McCormack was late and Beeler made no mistakes.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
19 Katie Sepanek 3526 Chris Schafer
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.023 11.770 105.23 0.069 12.495 106.00
I/SA Dial: 11.77 (+/-): 0.000 N/SA Dial: 12.52 (+/-): -0.025
Prior rounds:
E1 (B Sempsrott ) 0.023 11.693 0.033 (R Wilkes ) 0.099 12.472 0.012
Qualified: #43 11.648 -0.952 #63 12.456 -0.844
Katie Sepanek's package: 0.023, all at the starting line.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3218 Paul Boster 3746 Jack Larsen
E2 0.055 10.600 125.17 ****WINNER**** 0.049 15.545 77.85
B/SA Dial: 10.54 (+/-): 0.060 V/S Dial: 15.49 (+/-): 0.055
Prior rounds:
E1 (R Baehr ) 0.036 10.499 -0.001 (W Mc Cracken) 0.046 15.457 0.007
Qualified: #21 10.500 -1.050 #82 15.459 -0.091
"Underdog" marches on, almost to half track before Boster got the green. Jack Larsen's MOV: 0.0111 seconds (approximately 2
feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3137 Brian Seibenick 3421 Dick Kincaid
E2 0.034 14.125 91.96 ****WINNER**** 0.108 10.900 123.46
T/SA Dial: 14.15 (+/-): -0.025 C/SA Dial: 10.88 (+/-): 0.020
Prior rounds:
E1 (G Richard ) 0.033 14.096 0.006 (T Dye ) 0.071 10.861 0.021
Qualified: #72 14.023 -0.677 #52 10.807 -0.893
Seibenick had a tenth in hand and took too much stripe.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3488 Donald Long 3139 Ron Seibenick
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.037 11.515 105.65 0.036 17.480 76.45
G/SA Dial: 11.40 (+/-): 0.115 EF/S Dial: 17.25 (+/-): 0.230
Prior rounds:
E1 (T Kreeber ) 0.014 11.407 0.007 (T Gillespie ) 0.061 17.137 -0.013
Qualified: #53 11.410 -0.890 #73 17.176 -0.574
This was fun to watch, almost identical lights. Seibenick "dumped him" and lost.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
3428 Tom Rambo 751 Ben Wenzel
E2 0.075 11.397 114.83 ****WINNER**** 0.049 10.857 116.32
G/SA Dial: 11.37 (+/-): 0.027 D/S Dial: 10.82 (+/-): 0.037
Prior rounds:
E1 (M Robinson ) 0.157 11.323 0.003 (T Nagel ) 0.121 10.720 -0.040
Qualified: #36 11.313 -0.987 #16 10.729 -1.071
Ben Wenzel's MOV: 0.0164 seconds (approximately 3 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
31 Greg Hill 100E Merle Eschman
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.047 10.947 119.34 -0.102 11.268 115.84
E/SA Dial: 12.00 (+/-): -1.053 E/SA Dial: 12.00 (+/-): -0.732
Prior rounds:
E1 (T Lowe ) 0.046 10.860 0.030 (M Mc Ginley ) 0.108 11.244 -0.756
Qualified: #5 10.826 -1.174 #66 11.165 -0.835
Heads-Up!
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7 Dan Fletcher 396 Mike Fuller
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.038 10.600 105.05 0.078 10.714 115.83
B/SA Dial: 11.55 (+/-): -0.950 B/SA Dial: 11.55 (+/-): -0.836
Prior rounds:
E1 (J Bureski ) 0.037 10.662 0.092 (J Marshall ) 0.003 10.622 -0.008
Qualified: #29 10.534 -1.016 #50 10.647 -0.903
Heads-Up!
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
428 Kevin Helms 3548 Charley Downing
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.013 11.219 103.80 0.049 12.440 101.88
D/SA Dial: 11.15 (+/-): 0.069 M/SA Dial: 12.37 (+/-): 0.070
Prior rounds:
E1 (B Owen ) 0.011 11.153 -0.037 (B Witherspoo) 0.027 12.348 -0.122
Qualified: #68 11.046 -0.804 #48 12.243 -0.907
Helms is chasing the Jeg's Crown award, having won Stock at Belle Rose in April. He's still in the running. Kevin Helms'
MOV: 0.0374 seconds (approximately 6 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
Bye 3187 Billy Baker
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.055 11.419 114.65
G/SA Dial: 11.36 (+/-): 0.059
Prior rounds:
E1 (B Morgan ) -0.025 11.298 -0.042
Qualified: #42 11.343 -0.957
Baker gets the bye this round.
Timing data courtesy of CompuLink
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