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DINWIDDIE, Va. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Third annual Virginia 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: Mark Linebarrier Runs 7.607/178.78/-0.373, Now #35; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.598/178.90/-0.382, Was #35 Right Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 6.917/196.50/-0.373, Now #34; A/AP Index: 7.29, Prior Best: 6.825/199.61/-0.465, Was #34 11:14 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 54 percent, barometer 30.15 inches, adjusted altitude 1,057 feet, track temperature 82 degrees. These are the best conditions these cars have seen this weekend and the performance has already been astounding, with 23 cars at -.601 or better. Ray Bamond is on the bump spot at -0.506. Interesting - the first pair of cars fails to improve. Left Lane: Stewart Edwards Runs 8.930/149.30/0.020, Now #37; G/A Index: 8.91, Prior Best: 9.040/149.07/0.130, Was #37 Right Lane: Gary Wisecarver Runs 9.090/137.47/-0.470, Now #28; H/SM Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 8.997/148.99/-0.563, Was #28 No help here either. Left Lane: Michele Costa Runs 9.095/141.95/-0.545, Now #8; G/D Index: 9.64, Prior Best: 8.977/141.06/-0.663, Was #8 Right Lane: Kevin Houghtaling Runs 9.038/148.09/-0.522, Now #32; F/SM Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 9.086/149.10/-0.474, Was #33 Finally somebody improves and bumps into the field, but Houghtaling only made to the bump spot. Left Lane: Bob Book Runs 6.396/196.99/-0.644, Now #1; A/D Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 6.315/212.59/-0.725, Was #1 Right Lane: Erich Bollman Runs 7.778/173.38/-0.582, Now #25; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.813/172.96/-0.547, Was #30 Book was looking for a 6.29, came up a tenth short. Left Lane: Pete Hanratty Runs 6.795/205.04/-0.345, Now #36; A/DA Index: 7.14, Prior Best: 12.183/60.54/5.043, Was #39 Right Lane: Doug Doll Jr. Runs 8.189/158.37/-0.641, Now #13; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.217/158.32/-0.613, Was #20 Hanrartty shook hard, pedaled and misses the field. Left Lane: Lonnie Johnson Runs 7.252/191.10/-0.388, Now #24; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.058/193.99/-0.582, Was #24 Right Lane: Ray Vierheller III Runs 7.350/177.00/-0.640, Now #15; D/DA Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.368/177.00/-0.622, Was #19 Johnson fell off the pace, but Vierheller made his best run of the weekend tro move up a few spots, into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Pat Ross Runs 40.697/33.55/32.017, Now #19; F/A Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.056/167.18/-0.624, Was #19 Right Lane: Charlie Greco Runs 7.591/176.24/-0.689, Now #3; E/AA Index: 8.28, Prior Best: 7.626/175.98/-0.654, Was #9 Ross shook hard and coasted through. Very nice pass by Greco to move way up in the order. Left Lane: Russell Joly Runs 8.053/164.11/-0.587, Now #24; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.066/165.19/-0.574, Was #28 Right Lane: Tony Mangrum Runs 12.196/70.22/5.086, Now #37; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.839/203.37/-0.271, Was #37 Mangrum chattered the tires and slowed. Joly imprved slightly, moved up four spots as a result. Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 7.974/164.93/-0.676, Now #6; F/D Index: 8.65, Prior Best: 8.048/163.57/-0.602, Was #22 Right Lane: Bill Scott Runs 6.843/194.16/-0.547, Now #31; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 6.852/193.71/-0.538, Was #31 Grfeat pass by Ackerman to move up 16 spots. Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 7.520/175.55/-0.470, Now #28; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.409/175.91/-0.581, Was #27 Right Lane: Don Nase Jr. Runs 6.699/195.87/-0.601, Now #24; I/D Index: 7.30, Prior Best: 6.725/193.71/-0.575, Was #28 Nase gets closer to his car's potential... Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.353/178.10/-0.637, Now #17; D/DA Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 8.573/174.14/0.583, Was #39 Right Lane: Pam Miskovsky Runs 6.995/189.47/-0.635, Now #18; C/DA Index: 7.63, Prior Best: 7.029/188.10/-0.601, Was #23 These two raise the ante a bit - now there are 25 cars at -.601 or better. Left Lane: Allen Stanfield Runs 8.678/154.56/-0.702, Now #3; H/SM Index: 9.38, Prior Best: 8.711/158.02/-0.669, Was #9 Right Lane: Tony Terry Runs 7.958/170.11/-0.682, Now #6; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 7.993/169.55/-0.647, Was #12 Stanfield moves into the seventies and Terry moves up several spots in the tightly-packed top half. Left Lane: Joe Carnasciale Runs 8.958/153.07/-0.712, Now #2; I/SM Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.024/149.10/-0.646, Was #13 Right Lane: Gerry Russo Runs 8.186/163.35/-0.664, Now #12; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.241/163.28/-0.609, Was #24 More amazing stuff - not there are four cars in the seventies atop the list, and Russo valuted into the top half. Left Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 7.685/176.40/-0.625, Now #22; E/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.682/176.77/-0.628, Was #22 Right Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.306/170.54/-0.594, Now #10; DD/AT Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.229/188.57/-0.671, Was #10 No improvement in either lane. Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.175/182.38/-0.695, Now #5; A/EA Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.230/181.03/-0.640, Was #16 Right Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.096/193.63/-0.544, Now #31; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.087/193.79/-0.553, Was #31 "Rambo" stepped way up the ladder, just missed the seventies. Left Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 8.003/143.35/-0.617, Now #15; F/EA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 7.969/152.62/-0.651, Was #15 Right Lane: Michael Hardee Runs 8.436/159.31/-0.704, Now #4; E/SM Index: 9.14, Prior Best: 8.461/158.65/-0.679, Was #9 Make that five in the seventies... Left Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 7.727/174.23/-0.703, Now #21; B/SR Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.799/168.53/-0.631, Was #20 Right Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 8.258/167.03/-0.722, Now #2; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.258/167.03/-0.722, Was #2 Two m ore into the seventies - now there are seven. Left Lane: Frank Aragona Jr. Runs 8.228/157.03/-0.652, Now #13; G/EA Index: 8.88, Prior Best: 8.209/157.82/-0.671, Was #13 Right Lane: Richard Schonberger No Time, Now #22; I/A Index: 8.82, Prior Best: 8.191/163.00/-0.629, Was #22 Schonberger broke on the burnout. Left Lane: Peter Biondo Runs 9.019/147.81/-0.721, Now #3; I/SMA Index: 9.74, Prior Best: 16.715/73.50/6.975, Was #41 Right Lane: Stephen Szupka Runs 8.305/160.33/-0.525, Now #26; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.209/160.84/-0.621, Was #25 Biondo goes from outhouse to penthouse (well, at least the top couple of floors), moving a lot of drivers down a notch. Now Gary Wisecarver is on the bump spot at -0.563. Left Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.920/137.62/-0.510, Now #5; B/SR Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.726/169.76/-0.704, Was #5 Right Lane: Ray Bamond Runs 8.798/154.67/-0.052, Now #36; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.344/161.23/-0.506, Was #36 No help here and the round is over - There are 27 cars at -.601 or better and eight are -.702 or better. A -.650 doesn't even get lane choice in round one, it takes a -.663 or better to make the top half of the field.
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