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COMMERCE, Ga. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 29th annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern 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: Lonnie Johnson Runs 7.148/192.96/-0.492, Now #26; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.158/194.55/-0.482, Was #26 Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 7.006/188.10/-0.564, Now #22; C/ED Index: 7.57, Prior Best: 7.019/187.11/-0.551, Was #22 4:12 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 27 percent, barometer 29.48 inches, adjusted altitude 1,794 feet, track temperature 104 degrees. With just 31 cars, everybody gets to race tomorrow. Left Lane: Art Hodges Runs 6.674/209.52/-0.396, Now #27; A/PM Index: 7.07, Prior Best: 6.619/215.07/-0.451, Was #27 Right Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.597/178.57/-0.763, Now #1; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.605/178.71/-0.755, Was #1 Patterson made a stunning run earlier today and will probably get the bye run tomorrow. Even so, he did not back off a bit and improved his hold on the top spot. Todd Patterson's incremental times: 60ft-1.063 sec., 330ft-3.112, 660ft-4.844/142.61 mph, 1,000ft-6.337. Left Lane: Frank Aragona Jr. Runs 8.270/158.09/-0.610, Now #3; G/EA Index: 8.88, Prior Best: 8.202/157.89/-0.678, Was #3 Right Lane: Ray Vierheller III Runs 7.419/177.00/-0.571, Now #11; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.348/178.83/-0.642, Was #11 Left Lane: Don Eberly Runs 7.632/143.44/-0.358, Now #29; C/AA Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.562/154.72/-0.428, Was #29 Right Lane: Mike Saye Runs 8.874/130.18/-0.356, Now #28; H/AA Index: 9.23, Prior Best: 8.784/137.46/-0.446, Was #28 No improvement for either driver... Left Lane: Van Puckett Runs 8.532/134.95/-0.378, Now #24; G/AA Index: 8.91, Prior Best: 8.396/160.29/-0.514, Was #24 Right Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 8.144/165.29/-0.646, Now #10; I/AA Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.145/165.13/-0.645, Was #10 Biondo almost matched his run earlier today, Puckett lifted around 1,000 feet. Left Lane: Allen Stanfield Runs 9.018/133.28/-0.542, Now #5; H/SM Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 8.890/151.53/-0.670, Was #5 Right Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 8.345/161.90/-0.625, Now #14; D/SMA Index: 8.97, Prior Best: 8.365/161.75/-0.605, Was #19 Left Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 6.914/198.64/-0.346, Now #31; A/AP Index: 7.26, Prior Best: 7.553/139.88/0.293, Was #31 Right Lane: Jason Coan No Time, Now #23; G/EA Index: 8.88, Prior Best: 8.332/155.02/-0.548, Was #23 Coan's problems persist, the car not leaving the line at the green. Alexander made his best run of the weekend, he's still last on the list. Left Lane: Stephen Szupka Runs 8.144/162.39/-0.686, Now #3; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.216/146.40/-0.614, Was #18 Right Lane: Pat Ross Runs 8.054/168.39/-0.566, Now #16; F/A Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 7.998/168.60/-0.622, Was #15 Nice run by Szupka to move past his teammate Frank Aragona on the ladder. Left Lane: Jenny Treadwell No Time, Now #20; E/ED Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.252/159.08/-0.598, Was #20 Right Lane: Jim Kimbrough Runs 7.453/151.51/-0.417, Now #25; C/DA Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.365/176.21/-0.505, Was #25 Treadwell left before the tree was activated. Left Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 7.851/147.89/-0.549, Now #9; J/AA Index: 8.40, Prior Best: 7.750/167.61/-0.650, Was #9 Right Lane: Dennis Mitchell Runs 8.457/114.26/0.097, Now #30; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.966/139.69/-0.394, Was #30 Ambrose appeared to lose the engine on the top end, trailing lots of blue smoke. Mitchell slowed well before the line. Left Lane: Grant Lewis Runs 8.912/149.55/-0.648, Now #11; H/SMA Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 8.942/148.56/-0.618, Was #17 Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.117/185.82/-0.703, Now #2; D/D Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.214/182.80/-0.606, Was #19 Browell made a monster run, under the national record, but only moves to the #2 spot. Lewis also gets the job done, getting lane choice for tomorrow's eliminations. Left Lane: Rick Brown Runs 8.171/163.73/-0.689, Now #4; B/TA Index: 8.86, Prior Best: 8.208/163.53/-0.652, Was #9 Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.559/207.27/-0.641, Now #15; A/ED Index: 7.20, Prior Best: 6.571/206.35/-0.629, Was #16 Brown's truck got the wheels way up and wandered around a bit on the launch, still was quick enough to move up five spots, into the top four. Meanwhile, Bailey made a very nice run, under the national record, but it's only good enough to move him up one spot against the stout field here. Left Lane: Bo Butner Runs 7.569/178.14/-0.711, Now #2; D/AA Index: 8.28, Prior Best: 7.587/177.67/-0.693, Was #3 Right Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 7.888/167.20/-0.672, Now #8; G/ED Index: 8.56, Prior Best: 7.980/154.09/-0.580, Was #21 Two more very nice runs, Butner into the elit seven-tenths-under group and the second spot, Treadwell picking up a tenth and moving all the way up to eighth. How quick is this field? Arnie Martel's -.616 run is only good enough for 20th now. Left Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 7.485/148.54/-0.505, Now #17; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.354/178.12/-0.636, Was #17 Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.239/181.72/-0.631, Now #10; A/EA Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.207/182.38/-0.663, Was #10 No help for these two - the first pair in awhile that did not make a big move. Left Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 8.691/104.24/1.201, Now #7; C/D Index: 7.49, Prior Best: 6.813/196.16/-0.677, Was #7 Right Lane: Dave Connolly Runs 7.880/145.94/-0.520, Now #13; B/SR Index: 8.40, Prior Best: 7.753/170.23/-0.647, Was #13 We are down to the final three cars. Tanksley lifted around half track, Connolly about the 1,000-foot mark. Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.918/170.97/-0.642, Now #16; F/AA Index: 8.56, Prior Best: 7.944/170.19/-0.616, Was #20 Last car, Martel not even in the top half despite a -.616 run earlier today (and a nice -.611 run yesterday). He ran it all the way through, moved into the final lane choice spot on the ladder, with the "easiest" pairing for the first round tomorrow because he will run the #31 qualifier.
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