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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 44th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals 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: Brian Darcy Runs 6.846/190.14/-0.614, Now #6; A/ND Index: 7.46, Prior Best: 7.282/182.87/-0.178, Was #32 Right Lane: Jirka Kaplan Runs 6.422/216.65/-0.648, Now #2; AA/AM Index: 7.07, Prior Best: 6.494/209.30/-0.576, Was #10 Weather conditions: air temperature 83 degrees, relative humidity 32 percent, barometer 28.79 inches, adjusted altitude 3,389 feet, track temperature 89 degrees. Brian Darcy is on the
bump spot at -0.178. OK two two big moves up the ladder for these two. No five second pass for
Kaplan, as be has to pump it about 100 feet out. He gathers it back up and runs well enough to get
into the new #2 spot. Darcy finds his missing power and runs well into the top half of the
field. Left Lane: Kyle Rizzoli Runs 6.891/195.68/-0.499, Now #19; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 6.930/195.53/-0.460, Was #24 Right Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 9.523/84.89/2.433, Now #25; AA/AT Index: 7.09, Prior Best: 6.633/216.13/-0.457, Was #25 Identical 1.032 sixty foot times, but the Kat moves hard towards the centerline, nailing the 330 reflector and just missing Rizzoli. He picks up a bunch. Left Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.666/149.51/-0.454, Now #26; C/SR Index: 9.12, Prior Best: 8.760/149.70/-0.360, Was #28 Right Lane: Shane Gray Runs 16.041/53.49/8.421, Now #13; B/A Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.064/196.13/-0.556, Was #13 Gray leaves hard in the B/A and then clicks it for no apparent reason. Sigmon pick up almost a tenth, but only two spots on the ladder. Left Lane: Pete Adams Runs 7.460/183.05/-0.520, Now #15; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.452/183.49/-0.528, Was #15 Right Lane: Scott Kelley Runs 10.040/136.14/0.550, Now #33; L/A Index: 9.49, Prior Best: 10.392/134.16/0.902, Was #33 Two almost identical red lights, but it doesn't count today. Both cars run like bracket racers and stay in their current positions. Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.618/158.35/-0.362, Now #28; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.590/158.35/-0.390, Was #28 Right Lane: Tom Brown Runs 8.386/158.35/-0.444, Now #23; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.353/159.02/-0.477, Was #23 Both racer are just a little slower than earlier today. Left Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 7.874/171.69/-0.556, Now #11; A/SM Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.848/172.34/-0.582, Was #11 Right Lane: Thomas Shambaugh Runs 7.688/175.82/-0.212, Now #32; DD/AT Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.648/167.91/-0.252, Was #32 Both cars move around at the green and neither can improve. Left Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.568/205.66/-0.572, Now #12; A/DA Index: 7.14, Prior Best: 6.646/204.54/-0.494, Was #21 Right Lane: Grant Lewis Runs 9.011/162.86/-0.549, Now #15; H/SMA Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 9.021/143.40/-0.539, Was #14 Nice pass for the A/DA and Gebhardt moves up into the top half of the field, bumping Lewis down a spot. Left Lane: Bob Hass Runs 7.406/188.25/-0.474, Now #19; B/AP Index: 7.88, Prior Best: 7.378/189.36/-0.502, Was #19 Right Lane: Maureen Jondahl Runs 8.338/162.86/-0.322, Now #29; C/EA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.312/163.33/-0.348, Was #29 Left Lane: Mark Wolfe Runs 6.461/219.15/-0.629, Now #4; AA/AT Index: 7.09, Prior Best: 6.806/219.79/-0.284, Was #31 Right Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.402/183.69/-0.618, Now #5; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.397/183.94/-0.623, Was #4 Wolfe gets the full pull this time and marches from the bottom to near the top of the field. Edwards repeats. Left Lane: Steve Matusek Runs 6.656/195.73/-0.664, Now #1; BB/AT Index: 7.32, Prior Best: 6.520/219.83/-0.800, Was #1 Right Lane: David Connolly Runs 8.009/169.44/-0.591, Now #6; C/A Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 7.985/169.47/-0.615, Was #6 Connolly repeats and Matusek slows just over a dime, but stays #1 for now. Left Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 7.244/189.95/-0.396, Now #24; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.160/190.24/-0.480, Was #23 Right Lane: Pat Byron Runs 6.997/192.60/-0.503, Now #20; C/D Index: 7.50, Prior Best: 7.202/191.40/-0.298, Was #31 Byron gets the big move this time and moves eleven sots up the ladder, pushing a slowing Marshall down a spot. Left Lane: Ron Weems Runs 14.548/74.22/7.438, Now #34; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 8.403/144.49/1.293, Was #34 Right Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.319/163.24/-0.531, Now #17; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.374/162.98/-0.476, Was #26 Weems leaves straight and hard, then has a big wiggle at the shift. He wisely clicks it early. Wilson uses his power this time and misses the top half of the field by 0.017. Left Lane: Steve Holloway Runs 6.874/209.17/-0.296, Now #14; A/AA Index: 7.17, Prior Best: 6.601/210.87/-0.569, Was #14 Right Lane: Brian Moscini Runs 7.588/178.54/-0.432, Now #29; C/AA Index: 8.02, No Prior Run Moscini takes the green this time and bumps into the field. Holloway can't repeat. Left Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.499/175.11/-0.371, Now #30; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.478/175.07/-0.392, Was #30 Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 9.220/144.26/-0.450, Now #24; I/SMA Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.174/145.38/-0.496, Was #24 Maureen Jondahl is on the bump spot at -0.348. No change for these two. Left Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.044/187.00/-0.526, Now #19; C/DA Index: 7.57, Prior Best: 7.059/186.92/-0.511, Was #20 Right Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 8.090/167.14/-0.570, Now #8; F/AA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.055/167.72/-0.605, Was #8 Cervelli moves up a spot and Fletcher doesn't. Left Lane: Jim Cowan Runs 8.176/155.27/-0.614, Now #8; I/AA Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.269/146.32/-0.521, Was #20 Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.527/140.15/-0.473, Now #12; D/SMA Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.409/158.37/-0.591, Was #11 Cowan has the power this time and moves well up the ladder and into the top eight. Left Lane: Jay Payne Runs 6.267/218.34/-0.583, Now #13; AA/PM Index: 6.85, Prior Best: 14.975/70.77/8.125, Was #36 Right Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 8.426/160.08/-0.574, Now #11; D/SMA Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.401/161.05/-0.599, Was #11 Payne gets to the finish line under power with a full pull to get into the top half of the field. Sharp slows a little. Left Lane: Scott Benham Runs 8.466/159.74/-0.514, Now #22; D/SM Index: 8.98, No Prior Run Right Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.685/176.97/-0.625, Now #5; F/AA Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.710/176.58/-0.600, Was #10 Randy Jones is on the bump spot at -0.390. No broken run for Benham this time! He runs a little more than a nickle under his index and into the field. Nice five position improvement for Patterson's 0.015 ET change. Right Lane: Mike DePalma Runs 8.134/165.25/-0.636, Now #3; A/SM Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 8.130/165.27/-0.640, Was #3 No joy for DePalma on his single. Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.719/202.55/-0.541, Now #19; A/AP Index: 7.26, No Prior Run Ellis wraps up the session by cutting his qualify position in half with a straight and true full pull.Looks like a new scoop and a little tune up remedy his earlier problems. 4:23 p.m.
Matusek stays #1 and Scott McClay is on the bump spot at -0.392.
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