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CLERMONT, Ind. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 56th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil 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: Todd Hoerner Runs 6.633/209.65/-0.517, Now #16; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 6.703/208.84/-0.447, Was #35 Right Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.047/183.99/-0.343, Now #48; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 7.303/183.99/-0.087, Was #56 7:04 p.m. It's time for the Comp racers to get another shot at this exceptional track. The weather has cleared a bit and the track is a bit warmer but should not prove to be a problem. The strong wind from the previous session has died down considerably. I think I neglected to mention it, but it was a tailwind running roughly from 1 o clock to 7. Hoerner cracks off a much better pass. We're still without a bump as we didn't have 64 cars in the first session. Left Lane: Rick Hord Runs 7.744/170.21/-0.216, Now #56; BB/A Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 8.522/152.52/0.562, Was #58 Right Lane: Steven Kent Runs 7.913/170.45/-0.447, Now #22; G/SMA Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.870/171.69/-0.490, Was #22 I doubt if either team will be happy though there was no obvious problems I saw in either lane. Left Lane: Bert Dawson Runs 8.062/167.05/-0.278, Now #53; B/EA Index: 8.34, Prior Best: 8.120/166.31/-0.220, Was #55 Right Lane: Brian Stufflebeam Runs 7.474/179.30/-0.366, Now #40; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.424/179.56/-0.416, Was #40 Dawson picks up the front wheels and the car does a small waggle when they touch down. He still improves a bit while Stufflebeam is still looking. Left Lane: Chris Ray Runs 6.730/208.01/-0.280, Now #53; A/PM Index: 7.01, No Prior Run Right Lane: Buddy Perkinson Runs 38.631/77.11/31.071, Now #61; B/A Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 34.542/22.98/26.982, Was #60 Perkinson is in the Nitrofish sponsored Stratus, Ray carrying the Elite Motorsports banner. Ray gets from A to B. Perkinson's car falls on its face on the leave and is out of power before it clears the 60 foot clocks. Left Lane: Matt Harris Runs 7.786/173.99/-0.574, Now #6; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.806/173.05/-0.554, Was #8 Right Lane: Jody Holland Runs 9.178/142.78/-0.372, Now #44; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 9.291/135.82/-0.259, Was #55 Harris continues to improve while Holland moves up but is still deep in the program. Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.295/182.16/-0.545, Now #11; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.303/181.37/-0.537, Was #13 Right Lane: Chuck Haubiel Runs 9.029/160.12/0.509, Now #60; B/SMA Index: 8.52, No Prior Run More problems for Haubiel. The car stands up on a hard leave but almost sounded as if it ran out of gas and the nose slams back down. He coasts to the turn off. Rampy finds a few thou and moves two spots. Left Lane: Travis Gusso Runs 8.698/156.26/-0.372, Now #45; E/SM Index: 9.07, Prior Best: 8.734/155.94/-0.336, Was #50 Right Lane: Scott Benham Runs 9.207/141.52/-0.463, Now #30; I/SM Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.211/146.77/-0.459, Was #31 Left Lane: Jenny Treadwell Runs 8.370/157.30/-0.480, Now #25; E/ED Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.383/156.34/-0.467, Was #28 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.656/198.79/-0.494, Now #19; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 6.643/202.48/-0.507, Was #19 Ellis is still hitting the tires really hard through first with a bit of a wigwag action. The car settles down in second but doesn't improve. Left Lane: Bill Morse Runs 8.248/164.19/-0.412, Now #41; B/SMA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.517/160.90/-0.143, Was #58 Right Lane: Gary Agan Runs 7.044/193.79/-0.346, Now #48; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 7.037/193.60/-0.353, Was #47 Left Lane: Mike Trumble Runs 8.131/167.84/-0.389, Now #44; A/SMA Index: 8.52, No Prior Run Right Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 13.738/111.15/5.348, Now #1; J/AA Index: 8.39, Prior Best: 7.786/168.09/-0.604, Was #1 Ambrose has the same kind of problems off the line as the car noses over immediately. Trumble gets in the show. Left Lane: Jay Billingsley Runs 8.285/159.48/-0.505, Now #20; F/ED Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.333/158.30/-0.457, Was #32 Right Lane: Doug Warren Runs 6.553/208.75/-0.577, Now #2; A/DA Index: 7.13, Prior Best: 6.540/207.18/-0.590, Was #2 Nice move for Billingsley, Warren stays put. Weather conditions: air temperature 85 degrees, relative humidity 52 percent, barometer 28.95 inches, adjusted altitude 3,613 feet, track temperature 101 degrees. Left Lane: Jim Greenheck Runs 7.569/179.80/-0.391, Now #44; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.640/178.52/-0.320, Was #53 Right Lane: Dennis Smiley Runs 11.286/74.49/4.156, Now #62; A/DA Index: 7.13, No Prior Run Smiley's problems continue as he is coasting by 200 feet. The right lane must have some sort of voodoo going on. Greenheck improves. Left Lane: Scott Parks Runs 6.821/195.31/-0.599, Now #2; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.838/194.10/-0.582, Was #4 Right Lane: Mike Hazlett Runs 7.194/189.98/-0.366, Now #49; B/A Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.196/189.90/-0.364, Was #49 Parks blasts off the line on his way to a very good pass. He moves into the #2 slot. Hazlett follows what most of the other cars are doing in this session and basically repeats from the first session. Left Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.230/182.87/-0.560, Now #8; D/D Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.293/180.91/-0.497, Was #22 Right Lane: Charlie Greco Runs 8.951/145.16/-0.599, Now #3; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 8.976/141.55/-0.574, Was #5 Browell's car looks a lot stronger this time around and the numbers prove that out. Greco's not too shabby in the other lane, either, as he goes to third. Left Lane: Duane Robison Runs 7.484/180.96/-0.466, Now #30; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.491/182.01/-0.459, Was #32 Right Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.865/194.69/-0.545, Now #13; C/D Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 6.913/193.49/-0.497, Was #22 Left Lane: Kevin Self Runs 7.918/165.72/-0.612, Now #1; F/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 7.973/164.77/-0.557, Was #9 Right Lane: Larry Pritchett Runs 8.147/167.09/-0.533, Now #11; B/SM Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.132/167.07/-0.548, Was #11 Self shows the troops what it's supposed to happen as he vaults all the way up to the top spot. Strong pass! Left Lane: Tom Schmidt Runs 8.224/162.33/-0.546, Now #12; C/T Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 8.263/161.75/-0.507, Was #20 Right Lane: David Billingsley Runs 9.013/148.80/-0.537, Now #17; A/EA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 9.081/147.75/-0.469, Was #29 Left Lane: Mike Farrell Runs 7.373/179.61/-0.467, Now #30; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.902/123.33/0.062, Was #60 Right Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.115/159.53/-0.405, Now #45; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 8.171/168.70/-0.349, Was #52 Left Lane: Brian Darcy Runs 6.819/193.16/-0.601, Now #3; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 7.035/192.77/-0.385, Was #48 Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 9.831/88.54/2.271, Now #41; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.137/187.83/-0.423, Was #40 Kamplain was coasting by half track. Darcy gets the little gas dragster very close to the top. Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 7.457/176.58/-0.483, Now #27; D/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.458/176.26/-0.482, Was #27 Right Lane: Brad Klein No Time, Now #55; B/AP Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.537/183.12/-0.303, Was #55 Klein has problems and is pushed away. Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 8.008/169.85/-0.512, Now #23; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 8.036/169.44/-0.484, Was #26 Right Lane: Jerry Arnold Runs 7.893/167.09/-0.567, Now #10; G/ED Index: 8.46, Prior Best: 7.916/167.16/-0.544, Was #16 It's Indy and .500 under is getting pretty cheap. Left Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 7.482/181.69/-0.468, Now #31; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.496/181.18/-0.454, Was #36 Right Lane: Dave Yediny Runs 8.902/147.09/-0.538, Now #18; L/A Index: 9.44, Prior Best: 8.906/143.19/-0.534, Was #19 Two smooth runs, a bit of improvement. Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.075/165.62/-0.525, Now #20; F/D Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 8.083/165.64/-0.517, Was #20 Right Lane: Jason Coan Runs 8.321/155.83/-0.479, Now #29; G/EA Index: 8.80, Prior Best: 8.327/155.47/-0.473, Was #30 It's a battle of the mad bumblebees as we listen to these two going down the track. Left Lane: Frank Aragona Jr. Runs 8.295/159.38/-0.495, Now #17; F/ED Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.252/159.82/-0.538, Was #17 Right Lane: James Caro Runs 8.266/159.23/-0.394, Now #44; B/SMA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.250/162.24/-0.410, Was #44 Left Lane: Justin Jenkins Runs 9.516/142.78/-0.154, Now #61; I/SMA Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 32.383/323.50/22.713, Was #63 Right Lane: Shaun Vincent Runs 8.660/153.81/-0.470, Now #31; C/TA Index: 9.13, Prior Best: 8.666/153.98/-0.464, Was #34 Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 8.944/148.28/-0.606, Now #2; L/AA Index: 9.55, No Prior Run Right Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.438/176.56/-0.522, Now #22; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.526/181.40/-0.434, Was #40 Zane does the Professor Dave car proud as he knocks this one out of the park - yes, I know that's a baseball term but running that hard when everybody else is just treading water makes it hard to find the right words sometimes. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 8.420/148.10/-0.340, Now #24; I/AA Index: 8.76, Prior Best: 8.247/163.06/-0.513, Was #24 Right Lane: Rick Brown Runs 8.039/167.43/-0.451, Now #39; F/AA Index: 8.49, Prior Best: 8.084/167.30/-0.406, Was #46 Left Lane: Vinny Barone Runs 7.805/170.73/-0.575, Now #9; A/SR Index: 8.38, Prior Best: 7.810/170.86/-0.570, Was #10 Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.616/205.10/-0.574, Now #11; A/ED Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.636/204.76/-0.554, Was #13 Two very fast "A" class cars pair up for this one. Both improve, Barone gets into the top ten. Left Lane: Fred Allen Runs 8.710/149.00/-0.380, Now #42; C/SR Index: 9.09, Prior Best: 8.652/148.31/-0.438, Was #42 Right Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 7.426/177.72/-0.514, Now #24; D/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.462/177.67/-0.478, Was #32 Right Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 8.041/160.56/-0.489, Now #30; F/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 8.081/154.00/-0.449, Was #40 Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.690/175.50/-0.490, Now #30; D/AA Index: 8.18, Prior Best: 7.735/174.75/-0.445, Was #41 Martel gets a single to finish the session. Lots of movement. Kevin Self is King for right now.
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