Sat, 25 Jun 2011, 09:52 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Round 1 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 1 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Fifth annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    7 Marty Thacker                          12 John Finke                   
E1   ****WINNER****  0.000  5.461 265.69                     0.115  5.354 261.83
 Qualified:             #9  5.462 262.59                        #8  5.445 258.07

9:29 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 60 percent, barometer 29.01 inches, adjusted altitude 2,675 feet, track temperature 86 degrees.

Thacker gets a perfect light and gets out in front. finke was way behind off the line, starts making up ground but runs out of race track. Thacker gets a big holeshot win.

Marty Thacker's incremental margins: 60ft(0.124), 330 ft(0.099), 660ft(0.055), 1,000ft(0.011). MOV: 0.0086 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  326 Robin Samsel                           34 Brandon Booher               
E1                   0.127  5.389 260.31     ****WINNER****  0.047  5.460 259.76
 Qualified:            #10  5.491 251.72                        #7  5.443 260.66

Booher is 1 - 0 against Samsel in prior events.

The second holeshot win in a row. Booher gets out in front off the line, Samsel starts to reel him in, but just like Finke before runs out of race track.

Brandon Booher's incremental margins: 60ft(0.087), 330 ft(0.104), 660ft(0.064), 1,000ft(0.025). MOV: 0.0095 seconds (approximately 4 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  110 Rich McPhillips                        18 Karen Stalba                 
E1                   0.027  5.529 257.83     ****WINNER****  0.095  5.426 258.02
 Qualified:            #11  5.496 255.87                        #6  5.440 244.16

McPhillips is 1 - 0 against Stalba in prior events.

Stalba is last off the line but avoids the upset by making her quickest pass of the weekend.

Karen Stalba's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.007), 330 ft(0.009), 660ft(0.027), 1,000ft(0.036). MOV: 0.0354 seconds (approximately 13 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   37 Jerry Powell                          596 Randy Meyer                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.006  5.541 255.19                     0.114  5.539 260.31
 Qualified:            #12  5.587 251.25                        #5  5.414 254.81

Here we go again, Powell gets a huge holeshot and hangs on to take the upset win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   35 Dave Hirata                           185 Mike Kosky                   
E1                   0.051 17.442  75.53     ****WINNER****  0.072  5.450 260.26
 Qualified:            #13  5.610 246.48                        #4  5.406 236.55

Hirata is 1 - 0 against Kosky in prior events.

Hirata hits the throttle and goes up in smoke. Kosky goes right down the groove to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 3413 Mike Comella                           54 Jared Dreher                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.012  5.402 263.51                     0.060  5.505 252.57
 Qualified:             #3  5.376 261.57                       #14  5.620 246.48

Comella gets out of the gate first, starts to pull away and extends his lead all the way through the run. Dreher makes his quickest pass of the year in the losing effort.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  301 Dave Hill                            1900 Dan Page                     
E1                   0.043  5.832 234.78     ****WINNER****  0.047  5.508 265.06
 Qualified:            #15  5.695 245.99                        #2  5.374 263.36

This is the first time Hill and Page have faced each other in eliminations.

Not much between the two off the line, Hill stays with Page for the first sixty feet, then Page pulls ahead and extends his lead all the way through the run.

Dan Page's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.001), 330 ft(0.043), 660ft(0.128), 1,000ft(0.221). MOV: 0.3207 seconds (more than 100 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Bill Reichert                              Bye
E1   ****WINNER****  0.091  5.272 263.51     
 Qualified:             #1  5.300 258.52                     Bye

Reichert qualified number one for the 30th time in his career and he gets the bye run.

Reichert doesn't let up, going right down the groove with the quickest pass of the weekend.

In the next round it will be Comella with lane choice over Stalba, Booher vs. Page, Kosky vs. Powell, and Reichert vs. Thacker.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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