Sun, 27 Jun 2010, 03:26 PM Competition Eliminator Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 4 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Fourth annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    8 David Rampy                            15 Al Ackerman                  
E4                   0.045  7.295 181.76     ****WINNER****  0.011  8.053 165.97
       A/EA Index: 7.82 (+/-): -0.525             F/D Index: 8.60 (+/-): -0.547
 Prior rounds:
E3    (A Bertozzi  ) 0.041  7.318 -0.522      (N Panagiotar) 0.052  8.188 -0.412
E2    (S Biondo    ) 0.035  7.407 -0.433      (S Ambrose   ) 0.025  8.362 -0.238
E1    (N Morgan    ) 0.038  7.928  0.088      (J Greenheck ) 0.085  8.148 -0.452
 Qualified:             #4  7.226 -0.614                       #10  8.051 -0.549

3:20 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 88 degrees, relative humidity 56 percent, barometer 28.70 inches, adjusted altitude 4,269 feet, track temperature 127 degrees.

David Rampy has a 0.02 CIC penalty; Al Ackerman has no CIC penalty.

He gets a CIC this time. Great RT and better incremental give him the fifteen foot win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1498 Santo Volpe                             9 Brian Browell                
E4                   0.075  9.042 146.21     ****WINNER****  0.004  7.278 180.89
       L/AA Index: 9.50 (+/-): -0.458             D/D Index: 7.77 (+/-): -0.492
 Prior rounds:
E3    (F Aragona Jr) 0.018  9.039 -0.461      (R Bailey    ) 0.013  7.264 -0.516
E2    (J Coughlin  ) 0.010  9.190 -0.310      (G Butcher   ) 0.029  7.272 -0.518
E1    (F Allen     ) 0.074  8.995 -0.555      (L Pritchett ) 0.025  7.656 -0.134
 Qualified:             #3  8.935 -0.615                        #9  7.236 -0.554

Volpe gets to leave first, but Browell is deadly on the tree. He takes a 0.004 light and a better under the index to a place in the finals by a ton.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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