Sun, 5 Sep 2010, 07:14 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Dan Bennett

CLERMONT, Ind. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 56th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  211 Glen Treadwell                        255 Buddy Perkinson              
E3                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.084  8.334 113.99
       F/EA Index: 8.48 (+/-): 91.519             B/A Index: 7.55 (+/-):  0.784
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Smiley    ) 0.020  7.973 -0.517      (M Harris    ) 0.039  7.639  0.089
E1    (F Allen     ) 0.012  7.988 -0.542      (J Greenheck ) 0.106  7.041 -0.519
 Qualified:            #13  7.924 -0.606                       #21  6.967 -0.593

6:57 p.m. Treadwell is a no show.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 3000 Jerry Arnold                          359 Jay Billingsley              
E3                   0.061  7.856 168.51     ****WINNER****  0.052  8.220 160.14
       G/ED Index: 8.42 (+/-): -0.564            F/ED Index: 8.79 (+/-): -0.570
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Bailey    ) 0.069  7.914 -0.546      (T Gusso     ) 0.053  8.412 -0.378
E1    (B Klein     ) 0.036  8.235 -0.225      (D Yediny    ) 0.065  8.422 -0.368
 Qualified:            #30  7.888 -0.572                       #38  8.243 -0.547

Jay Billingsley's MOV: 0.0156 seconds (approximately 4 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  452 Steven Kent                            15 Al Ackerman                  
E3                   0.053  7.769 176.28     ****WINNER****  0.048  8.040 165.58
        E/A Index: 8.33 (+/-): -0.561             F/D Index: 8.60 (+/-): -0.560
 Prior rounds:
E2    (F Aragona Jr) 0.024  7.822 -0.538      (M Trumble   ) 0.015  8.370 -0.230
E1    (C Ray       ) 0.161  7.948 -0.412      (B Morse     ) 0.023  9.548  0.948
 Qualified:            #25  7.775 -0.585                       #17  8.000 -0.600

Kent is very slow to fire but finally gets the engine running and pulls into the water.

As expected, this was a really good race. Very close performances on the starting line and on the track. Al Ackerman's MOV: 0.0043 seconds (approximately 13 inches).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  144 John Caliendo Jr                     4440 Kevin Self                   
E3                   0.376  7.696 175.94     ****WINNER****  0.135  7.889 160.67
       D/AA Index: 8.18 (+/-): -0.484            F/EA Index: 8.44 (+/-): -0.551
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Hoerner   ) 0.034  7.713 -0.467      (D Billingsle) -0.013  7.998 -0.442
E1    (C Greco     ) 0.384  7.752 -0.428      (J Holland   ) 0.033  7.933 -0.597
 Qualified:            #51  7.700 -0.480                       #11  7.918 -0.612

John Caliendo Jr has no CIC penalty; Kevin Self has a 0.09 CIC penalty.

I don't even want to talk about the reaction times. Self gets to return for the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4254 Scott Benham                           48 Joey Tanksley                
E3                   0.022  9.046 148.84     ****WINNER****  0.087  6.796 191.78
       I/SM Index: 9.56 (+/-): -0.514             C/D Index: 7.41 (+/-): -0.614
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Jones     ) 0.020  9.058 -0.612      (R Brown     ) 0.052  6.925  0.465
E1    (T Schmidt   ) 0.019 10.196  0.526      (R Hord      )       No Time      
 Qualified:             #8  9.052 -0.618                       #32  6.842 -0.568

This one was pretty much a classic Comp race. Benham hit the tree and did everything he could but Tanksely came shooting by at the stripe though he's going to have memento with his CIC.

Joey Tanksley's MOV: 0.0357 seconds (approximately 8 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5248 Shaun Vincent                         356 Doug Warren                  
E3   ****WINNER****  0.057  9.745 101.41                    -0.065  6.831 148.56
       C/TA Index: 9.05 (+/-):  0.695            A/DA Index: 7.11 (+/-): -0.279
 Prior rounds:
E2    (A Martel    ) 0.002  8.541 -0.539      (J Treadwell ) 0.099  6.727 -0.383
E1    (S Chamness  ) 0.061  8.571 -0.559      (B Dawson    ) 0.125  6.602 -0.528
 Qualified:            #31  8.559 -0.571                       #23  6.540 -0.590

Vincent comes back to race Self next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  610 John Edwards                           77 Alan Ellis                   
E3                  -0.098  8.412 118.32     ****WINNER****  0.052  7.222 134.89
       C/AA Index: 7.96 (+/-):  0.452            A/AA Index: 7.11 (+/-):  0.112
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Smith     ) 0.096  7.464 -0.496      (T Patterson ) 0.029  7.231  0.121
E1    (D Hughes    ) 0.310 11.284  3.324      (G Agan      ) 0.014  6.601 -0.549
 Qualified:            #20  7.361 -0.599                       #28  6.572 -0.578

Ellis goes another round with his high powered, hard to run, car. He'll have his hands full with Tanksely next time up.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    1 Bruno Massel                            4 Sal Biondo                   
E3   ****WINNER****  0.031  7.228 163.14                     0.050  8.222 152.66
      DD/AT Index: 7.71 (+/-): -0.482            I/AA Index: 8.67 (+/-): -0.448
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Coan      ) 0.024  7.203 -0.587      (S Parks     ) 0.022  8.486 -0.184
E1    (F Cervelli  ) 0.024  7.344 -0.446      (L Zane      ) 0.114  8.167 -0.593
 Qualified:            #26  7.206 -0.584                       #34  8.194 -0.566

The reaction times were not too far apart, and two very good racers show us how it's supposed to be done. I really expected Massel would have to dip into his CIC a bit more, but doesn't even touch it.

Bruno Massel's MOV: 0.0538 seconds (approximately 12 feet).

Massel will face Billingsley in Round 4.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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