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CLERMONT, Ind. - Notes from final, round 4 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: Scott Parks Runs 6.886/193.52/-0.534, Now #8; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.821/195.31/-0.599, Was #7 Right Lane: Larry Pritchett Runs 8.025/168.30/-0.655, Now #1; B/SM Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.096/167.32/-0.584, Was #13 9:34 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 67 degrees, relative humidity 55 percent, barometer 29.06 inches, adjusted altitude 2,123 feet, track temperature 79 degrees. This has the
making of a quick and fast session with great weather and track conditions. Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.908/170.82/-0.612, Now #6; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 7.971/170.36/-0.549, Was #26 Right Lane: Mike Hazlett Runs 7.359/157.56/-0.201, Now #58; B/A Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.185/190.57/-0.375, Was #58 Bang! A twenty spot move up the ladder for Patterson into the new #6 spot. No joy for Hazlett. Left Lane: Bill Morse Runs 8.163/164.99/-0.497, Now #39; B/SMA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.204/164.39/-0.456, Was #45 Right Lane: Doug Warren Runs 6.685/207.34/-0.445, Now #12; A/DA Index: 7.13, Prior Best: 6.540/207.18/-0.590, Was #12 Warren slows, but Morse finds some HP to take over the current 339 spot. Left Lane: Duane Robison Runs 7.435/183.84/-0.515, Now #33; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.442/183.89/-0.508, Was #36 Right Lane: Shaun Vincent Runs 8.559/154.44/-0.571, Now #21; C/TA Index: 9.13, Prior Best: 8.620/149.66/-0.510, Was #34 Left Lane: Jay Billingsley Runs 8.243/158.58/-0.547, Now #28; F/ED Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.280/158.30/-0.510, Was #36 Right Lane: Jerry Arnold Runs 7.888/166.70/-0.572, Now #21; G/ED Index: 8.46, Prior Best: 7.893/167.09/-0.567, Was #23 Only ten cylinders total on the line! Two more moves up the ladder. Left Lane: Kevin Self Runs 7.937/164.31/-0.593, Now #5; F/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 7.918/165.72/-0.612, Was #5 Right Lane: Jody Holland Runs 9.014/146.00/-0.536, Now #31; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 9.112/145.22/-0.438, Was #47 Self makes another strong pass to stay #5, but Holland gets it all together and jumps all the way up into the top half of the field on a clean pass. Left Lane: Matt Harris Runs 7.716/174.93/-0.644, Now #2; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.786/173.99/-0.574, Was #17 Right Lane: Rick Brown Runs 7.987/168.47/-0.503, Now #40; F/AA Index: 8.49, Prior Best: 8.039/167.43/-0.451, Was #47 Harris takes a strong 1.083 sixty foot time and parlays it into the new #2 spot for now. Brown finds some tune up and moves seven spots up the ladder. Left Lane: Mike Trumble Runs 7.954/170.13/-0.566, Now #24; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 8.056/168.72/-0.464, Was #46 Right Lane: David Billingsley Runs 8.976/148.74/-0.574, Now #16; A/EA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 8.972/148.85/-0.578, Was #16 No joy for Billingsley, but Trumble takes his Cobalt up the ladder well into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Mike Farrell Runs 7.287/181.08/-0.553, Now #28; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.373/179.61/-0.467, Was #46 Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.577/177.21/-0.603, Now #9; D/AA Index: 8.18, Prior Best: 7.690/175.50/-0.490, Was #44 Strong pass for Martel this time and he moves to the new #9 spot with a sixty under pass. Farrell moves into the current top half of the field. Left Lane: John Frech Runs 8.279/132.86/-0.321, Now #56; F/D Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 8.219/158.59/-0.381, Was #56 Right Lane: Scott Chamness Runs 6.718/201.76/-0.312, Now #62; A/D Index: 7.03, Prior Best: 6.784/198.88/-0.246, Was #62 No improvements for these two. Left Lane: Tom Schmidt Runs 8.224/162.02/-0.546, Now #33; C/T Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 8.224/162.33/-0.546, Was #32 Right Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 7.382/177.11/-0.558, Now #27; D/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.426/177.72/-0.514, Was #39 Bertozzi move up into the top half of the field and pushes Schmidt out. Left Lane: Justin Jenkins Runs 9.153/146.46/-0.517, Now #39; I/SMA Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.516/142.78/-0.154, Was #64 Right Lane: Charlie Greco Runs 8.967/129.42/-0.583, Now #12; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 8.951/145.16/-0.599, Was #12 Hugh improvement for Jenkins, as he moves off the bump and almost into the top half of the field on a straight and clean pass. Left Lane: Fred Allen Runs 8.571/151.82/-0.519, Now #40; C/SR Index: 9.09, Prior Best: 8.596/151.92/-0.494, Was #46 Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 7.039/187.76/-0.521, Now #39; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.137/187.83/-0.423, Was #51 Rick Hoard is on the bump spot at -0.216 under his index. The latter continues to churn with both cars finding the conditions to their liking and move well up the ladder. Left Lane: Travis Gusso Runs 18.252/32.04/9.182, Now #52; E/SM Index: 9.07, Prior Best: 8.648/156.61/-0.422, Was #52 Right Lane: Gary Agan Runs 7.112/192.96/-0.278, Now #58; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 7.014/193.32/-0.376, Was #58 Strong leave for Gusso and then he slows and coasts on down. Left Lane: Bert Dawson Runs 7.921/169.83/-0.419, Now #53; B/EA Index: 8.34, Prior Best: 8.006/168.01/-0.334, Was #61 Right Lane: Randy Jones Runs 7.931/169.74/-0.589, Now #15; A/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 7.947/170.34/-0.573, Was #21 Dawson moves his Cavalier away from the bump spot and Jones finds the power to go into the top 16 in the 64 car field. Left Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 7.375/183.64/-0.575, Now #20; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.445/182.28/-0.505, Was #45 Right Lane: Brian Stufflebeam Runs 7.353/179.14/-0.487, Now #48; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.424/179.56/-0.416, Was #54 Another big move, as Smiley powers into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Jenny Treadwell Runs 8.303/157.69/-0.547, Now #34; E/ED Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.337/156.83/-0.513, Was #44 Right Lane: Jason Coan Runs 8.186/156.83/-0.614, Now #6; G/EA Index: 8.80, Prior Best: 8.251/156.43/-0.549, Was #32 Now eleven cars more than sixty under. Coan moves the little altered from the middle of the field all the way to the new #6 spot. Treadwell finds ten spots too. Left Lane: Jim Greenheck Runs 8.580/143.64/0.620, Now #51; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.522/180.48/-0.438, Was #51 Right Lane: Dave Yediny Runs 8.873/134.67/-0.567, Now #3; L/A Index: 9.44, Prior Best: 8.798/139.75/-0.642, Was #3 Both cars slow from their prior best. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 8.194/162.98/-0.566, Now #29; I/AA Index: 8.76, Prior Best: 8.225/162.25/-0.535, Was #38 Right Lane: Steven Kent Runs 7.775/173.87/-0.585, Now #18; G/SMA Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.827/173.76/-0.533, Was #39 ...and the hits keep coming. Left Lane: Brian Darcy Runs 6.882/190.92/-0.538, Now #11; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.819/193.16/-0.601, Was #11 Right Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.216/183.05/-0.174, Now #57; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 7.001/186.59/-0.389, Was #57 No improvements. Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 7.384/176.90/-0.556, Now #33; D/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.457/176.58/-0.483, Was #49 Right Lane: Chuck Haubiel Runs 8.104/166.15/-0.416, Now #55; B/SMA Index: 8.52, Prior Best: 8.185/167.57/-0.335, Was #61 Wheels up leave for Haubiel and a six spot move. Smith just misses the top half of the field running near a tenth better. Left Lane: Todd Hoerner Runs 6.499/212.83/-0.651, Now #2; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 6.593/211.46/-0.557, Was #32 Right Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.681/145.97/-0.279, Now #15; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.361/183.94/-0.599, Was #14 Ouch! Hoerner just misses the top spot by 0.004. NIce move off the #32 spot. Left Lane: Vinny Barone Runs 7.730/170.92/-0.650, Now #3; A/SR Index: 8.38, Prior Best: 7.760/171.03/-0.620, Was #6 Right Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.865/193.93/-0.545, Now #28; C/D Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 6.842/194.24/-0.568, Was #28 No improvement for Tanksley, but Barone makes another strong pass into the new #3 spot. Left Lane: John Caliendo Jr Runs 7.700/175.16/-0.480, Now #50; D/AA Index: 8.18, Prior Best: 7.742/174.30/-0.438, Was #52 Right Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 8.471/117.84/0.081, Now #6; J/AA Index: 8.39, Prior Best: 7.756/167.51/-0.634, Was #6 Ambrose has problems down track and slows. Caliendo move up two spots. Left Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.228/189.92/-0.562, Now #21; DD/AT Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.206/182.03/-0.584, Was #20 Right Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 7.924/162.98/-0.606, Now #11; F/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 8.005/161.61/-0.525, Was #41 Massel's turbo dosn't bang and pop in the staging light, but still runs a 1.046 sixty foot time to lose a spot. Treadwell finally gets it all together to move into the sixty under group and the new #11 spot. Left Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.198/181.59/-0.592, Now #17; D/D Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.215/181.25/-0.575, Was #23 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.572/199.40/-0.578, Now #24; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 6.592/204.20/-0.558, Was #32 Browell just misses the sixty under crew and moves to the #17 spot. Nice improvement for Ellis too with another clean pass. Left Lane: Chris Ray Runs 11.848/73.53/4.838, Now #57; A/PM Index: 7.01, Prior Best: 6.616/209.88/-0.394, Was #57 Right Lane: Buddy Perkinson Runs 6.967/197.22/-0.593, Now #17; B/A Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.053/195.39/-0.507, Was #46 Ray leave hard and has the car get way loose. We get to see both of the car before he finally gets it under control. Perkinson is long gone and Moves well into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 8.897/141.31/-0.653, Now #2; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 8.944/148.28/-0.606, Was #10 Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.586/204.32/-0.604, Now #12; A/ED Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.616/205.10/-0.574, Was #27 Bailey leaves hard with the front wheel hanging and keep it hooked at both ends of the track to join the sixty under group, running in the fifties. Zane finds a bunch of tune up too and takes over the new #2 spot and a strong pass. Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.000/161.44/-0.600, Now #16; F/D Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 8.048/164.73/-0.552, Was #37 Right Lane: Scott Benham Runs 9.052/147.63/-0.618, Now #8; I/SM Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.084/147.96/-0.586, Was #22 Two more cars into the top half of the field. Ackerman in the #16 spot and Benham into #8. Nice! Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.222/181.50/-0.618, Now #9; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.266/180.98/-0.574, Was #29 Right Lane: James Caro Runs 8.121/162.49/-0.539, Now #42; B/SMA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.250/162.24/-0.410, Was #56 Rampy shows why he has been so successful with a strong pass all the way to the number nine position. That's seventeen cars ar sixty under and three more at 0.599! Caro finds over a tenth to take the $42 spot. Left Lane: Frank Aragona Jr. Runs 8.288/135.97/-0.502, Now #41; F/ED Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.247/142.52/-0.543, Was #41 Last car to qualify. Aragona makes a clean pass, but can't improve. 10:24 a.m.
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