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KENT, Wash. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual NHRA Northwest 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: Justin Lamb Runs 8.688/154.00/-0.642, Now #2; G/SMA Index: 9.33, Prior Best: 8.726/154.35/-0.604, Was #3 Right Lane: Aaron Strong Runs 8.136/168.26/-0.484, Now #9; F/A Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 8.089/168.22/-0.531, Was #9 11:00 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 48 percent, barometer 29.68 inches, adjusted altitude 2,139 feet, track temperature 103 degrees. No
Bump Spot this weekend. Rob Harrison is number one, so far, with a -0.659 under his
index. Left Lane: Casey Plaizier Runs 8.167/166.52/-0.503, Now #14; C/SMA Index: 8.67, Prior Best: 8.258/165.72/-0.412, Was #17 Right Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 9.014/147.57/-0.526, Now #10; H/SM Index: 9.54, Prior Best: 9.068/148.09/-0.472, Was #13 Two more moves up the ladder. Both cars get into the fifty under range and both move three spots up the ladder. Left Lane: Dean Carter Runs 6.970/186.98/-0.560, Now #7; B/ND Index: 7.53, Prior Best: 7.009/186.51/-0.521, Was #11 Right Lane: Brandon Huhtala Runs 7.447/160.02/-0.523, Now #3; C/A Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.354/183.47/-0.616, Was #3 Great 1.025 sixty foot time for Carter and he gets the dragster to the finish line under power this time with a four position move and a six second ET. Huhtala slows from his best earlier pass. Left Lane: Dennis Myers Runs 7.714/176.12/-0.246, Now #19; F/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.778/175.34/-0.182, Was #19 Right Lane: Craig Schuck Runs 7.396/178.90/-0.474, Now #15; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.422/178.87/-0.448, Was #15 Both cars pick up a little ET, but stay in their current #15 and #19 positions. Left Lane: Rob Harrison Runs 7.645/175.43/-0.685, Now #1; J/A Index: 8.33, Prior Best: 7.671/174.66/-0.659, Was #1 Right Lane: Dale Giroux Runs 7.010/195.17/-0.610, Now #4; B/AA Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.052/194.02/-0.568, Was #6 ...and the hits keep coming. Two clean passes and both cars improve their ET's and MPH's. Harrison was already #1 and Giroux moves into the #6 spot. Left Lane: Jim Warter Runs 8.775/153.42/-0.475, Now #16; H/A Index: 9.25, Prior Best: 8.877/151.94/-0.373, Was #18 Right Lane: Ray Hadford Runs 6.945/190.06/-0.475, Now #15; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.974/187.23/-0.446, Was #16 Two more improving passes and small moves up the ladder, but both cars stay in the bottom half of the field. Left Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 7.102/191.40/-0.518, Now #13; B/AA Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.109/190.92/-0.511, Was #13 Right Lane: Pat Byron Runs 7.924/126.02/0.514, Now #12; C/D Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 6.890/193.18/-0.520, Was #12 Byron rattles the tires and clicks it early. Marshall pick up just 0.007 to stay #13. Left Lane: Mark Wolfe Runs 6.521/219.36/-0.519, Now #13; AA/AT Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 7.347/174.91/0.307, Was #20 Right Lane: Frank Nelson Runs 7.290/188.62/0.180, Now #21; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.837/185.46/0.727, Was #23 A good leave and a strong finish for Wolfe and he picks up a bunch of ET and MPH to just miss the top half of the field. Big move for Nelson too and a two spot improvement. Left Lane: Bernie Plourd Runs 8.934/82.07/1.864, Now #24; AA/AM Index: 7.07, Prior Best: 8.730/93.71/1.660, Was #24 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 12.507/67.65/5.357, Now #6; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 6.571/206.13/-0.579, Was #6 Two high horse runners to the line. Plourd gets to the blower near mid-track and slows. Ellis rattles the slicks and lifts. Left Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 14.589/58.08/5.919, Now #19; B/SMA Index: 8.67, Prior Best: 8.230/164.45/-0.440, Was #19 Right Lane: Maureen Jondahl No Time, Now #22; F/A Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 9.100/119.96/0.480, Was #22 11:20 a.m. ...and we are back from a little cleanup. Both cars can run much better than these times. Both cars have problems before sixty feet and will stay in their current spots. Lane has the back end step out and Jondahl just lifts. Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 7.864/172.14/-0.656, Now #2; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 7.926/171.10/-0.594, Was #5 Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.374/160.81/-0.596, Now #6; D/SMA Index: 8.97, Prior Best: 8.423/160.04/-0.547, Was #8 Jones finds some good power and jumps up into the new #2 spot with a nice sixty plus under the A/SMA index. Lambeck just misses the sixties, but still moves two spots up the ladder. Left Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 7.891/162.55/-0.639, Now #4; F/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 7.989/155.47/-0.541, Was #9 Last car of the final session and Treadwell gets all of the power down to move into the sixty plus under group and takes the final #4 qualifying position. 11:25 a.m.
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