Sat, 14 Nov 2009, 10:46 PM Competition Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 45th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4310 Marty Ladwig                           75 Alan Ellis                   
E2                  -0.046 11.087  72.67     ****WINNER****  0.043 13.606  49.16
      AA/AF Index: 7.78 (+/-):  3.307            A/AP Index: 7.22 (+/-):  6.386
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Huggins   ) 0.023  7.271 -0.649      (J Payne     ) 0.038  7.064 -0.156
 Qualified:             #1  7.241 -0.679                       #25  6.735 -0.485

7:26 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 47 percent, barometer 28.90 inches, adjusted altitude 1,949 feet, track temperature 64 degrees.

It's Saturday night. It's dark. It's late. It's cold. So, it's time to run Competition Eliminator.

Lots of CIC's in the first round earlier today and this may be another set of hits. Marty Ladwig has a 0.14 CIC penalty; Alan Ellis has no CIC penalty.

With two of the higher HP altereds in these conditions, this might get interesting. One a traditional Ford roadster and the other a late model Cobalt.

Ladwig's attempt to do a burnout doesn't bode well for his chances. Looks like he knew he was in trouble and red lights. Ellis is paying attention and takes it easy.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 141G Chris Rado                              1 Dan Fletcher                 
E2                  -0.134  7.464 191.84     ****WINNER****  0.047  9.365 104.13
      AA/AF Index: 7.92 (+/-): -0.456            B/EA Index: 8.33 (+/-):  1.035
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Weems     )       No Time            (T Brown     ) 0.019  7.830 -0.510
 Qualified:            #15  7.381 -0.539                        #7  7.761 -0.579

Second turbo car, second reg light. Dan Fletcher has a 0.01 CIC penalty and takes it easy to save any more.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7004 Art Hodges                             76 Steve Graham                 
E2                   0.228  6.706 213.77     ****WINNER****  0.122  7.631 154.39
       A/PM Index: 7.05 (+/-): -0.344             C/A Index: 7.97 (+/-): -0.339
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Hedlund   ) 0.197  8.199  1.149      (N Lyons     ) 0.065  7.492 -0.478
 Qualified:             #2  6.443 -0.607                       #26  7.513 -0.457

Two bad lights.

Hodges Stratus uses up a bunch of track and can't catch Graham.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7771 Ed Sigmon                            7474 Justin Lamb                  
E2                   0.080  8.535 152.93     ****WINNER****  0.048  8.780 151.31
       C/SR Index: 9.09 (+/-): -0.555           G/SMA Index: 9.33 (+/-): -0.550
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Edwards   ) 0.027  9.127  0.037      (G Tackett   ) 0.028  8.905 -0.425
 Qualified:            #24  8.588 -0.502                       #16  8.801 -0.529

Justin Lamb's MOV: 0.0272 seconds (approximately 6 feet). Lots of pedaling in the lights.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7009 Ross Wilson                           207 Lee Sharp                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.025  8.701 123.33                    -0.026 11.592  74.02
      C/SMA Index: 8.67 (+/-):  0.031            D/AA Index: 8.10 (+/-):  3.492
 Prior rounds:
E1    (P Pittman   ) 0.043  8.168 -0.592      (J Lane      ) 0.114  7.593 -0.637
 Qualified:            #28  8.311 -0.449                        #4  7.642 -0.588

Ross Wilson has a 0.09 CIC penalty; Lee Sharp has a 0.13 CIC penalty.

Sharp misses the tree and gives the win to Wilson. He is way loose down track and chases the front end of the Sunfire to get to the finish line.

He'll face Lamb tomorrow.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7235 Scott McClay                         768M Brian Moscini                
E2   ****WINNER****  0.160  7.380 176.47                     0.028  7.668 176.88
       C/ED Index: 7.84 (+/-): -0.460            C/AA Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.292
 Prior rounds:
E1    (M De Palma  ) 0.004  7.333 -0.537      (T Hogan     ) 0.058  7.480 -0.480
 Qualified:            #21  7.351 -0.519                       #13  7.418 -0.542

Scott McClay has a 0.03 CIC penalty.

Upset win,as Moscini can run the number after a terrible light by McClay.

McClay vs. Ellis in round three.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  677 Aaron Strong                          220 Jeff Taylor                  
E2                   0.116  8.093 155.72     ****WINNER****  0.068  8.967 131.54
        F/A Index: 8.54 (+/-): -0.447           H/SMA Index: 9.53 (+/-): -0.563
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Mettler   ) 0.018  8.040 -0.580      (D Beckley   ) 0.076  9.154 -0.376
 Qualified:            #19  8.096 -0.524                       #11  8.978 -0.552

Aaron Strong has a 0.08 CIC penalty.

Taylor has the better numbers and takes a bite of the CIC in the two car length win.

He will race Fletcher tomorrow.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 3737 Jacklyn Gebhardt-Still                  4 Doug Lambeck                 
E2                   0.176 10.515  92.06     ****WINNER****  0.027  8.975 106.19
       A/ED Index: 7.17 (+/-):  3.345           D/SMA Index: 8.97 (+/-):  0.005
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Holloway  ) 0.172  6.670 -0.530      (B Alexander ) 0.089  8.494 -0.476
 Qualified:            #22  6.697 -0.503                       #14  8.430 -0.540

Last pair.

Jacklyn Gebhardt-Still has a 0.03 CIC penalty and has a terrible light. She then gets way out of shape just pass the tree and slows.

Lambeck plays it safe and will race Graham in the morning.

7:41 p.m.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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