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NOBLE, Okla. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, South Central Division, event at Thunder Valley Raceway Park 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: Chase Williams Runs 7.784/174.82/-0.526, Now #4; E/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.836/171.00/-0.474, Was #9 Right Lane: Cody Johnson Runs 9.117/144.43/-0.063, Now #17; H/AA Index: 9.18, Prior Best: 8.897/151.33/-0.283, Was #17 12:25 p.m. Williams picks up "a nickle" and moves up four spots. Left Lane: Shaun Vincent Runs 8.517/156.95/-0.553, Now #2; C/TA Index: 9.07, No Prior Run Right Lane: Michael Johnson Runs 7.360/180.68/-0.480, Now #11; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.404/179.85/-0.436, Was #10 Vincent made the most of his first pass of the event. Johnson improves, but loses one spot on the ladder. Left Lane: Leslie Carson Runs 7.212/193.50/-0.298, Now #19; B/A Index: 7.51, Prior Best: 10.288/90.56/2.778, Was #25 Right Lane: Dick Maris Runs 7.083/190.07/-0.477, Now #12; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 8.167/118.81/0.607, Was #24 Carson and Maris both made short runs yesterday, got a full pass (or nearly full pass) today. Left Lane: Chuck Haubiel Runs 8.198/163.96/-0.562, Now #1; C/SM Index: 8.76, Prior Best: 8.211/163.69/-0.549, Was #3 Right Lane: Matt Harris Runs 7.813/174.28/-0.497, Now #9; E/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.818/174.24/-0.492, Was #10 Haubiel improved a little over a hundredth, moved all the way up to #1. Left Lane: Greg Porter Runs 8.893/152.23/-0.357, Now #17; G/SMA Index: 9.25, Prior Best: 8.920/151.64/-0.330, Was #18 Right Lane: Keith Hall Runs 8.662/156.19/-0.318, Now #14; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.565/155.95/-0.415, Was #14 Porter improves, Hall does not. Left Lane: Jody Holland Runs 9.109/147.34/-0.231, Now #22; L/AA Index: 9.34, Prior Best: 9.124/146.69/-0.216, Was #22 Right Lane: Kevin Self Runs 8.041/139.86/-0.419, Now #8; F/EA Index: 8.46, Prior Best: 7.962/166.38/-0.498, Was #8 Holland improved slightly, Self did not, both stayed put on the ladder. Left Lane: Charlie Stewart Runs 8.648/107.60/0.398, Now #26; J/D Index: 8.25, No Prior Run Right Lane: Adam White No Time, Now #27; A/ND Index: 7.42, No Prior Run Neither driver made a run yesterday. White's Nostalgia Dragster lost fire at the end of his burnout, he may be out of luck because the car refused to fire and he doesn't have a qualifying run. White's luck just improved - since qualifying was
shortened from four round to three, he will be added to the bottom of the ladder. Stewart could not run the index, but he will be
just ahead of White on the ladder. Left Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 8.163/112.26/0.233, Now #24; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 8.054/131.15/0.124, Was #24 Right Lane: Rick Brown Runs 8.809/124.01/0.009, Now #7; B/TA Index: 8.80, Prior Best: 8.297/162.48/-0.503, Was #7 No improvement for either driver, Brown well off the pace. Left Lane: Keith Mawhee Runs 7.873/172.18/-0.297, Now #20; D/AA Index: 8.17, Prior Best: 7.908/171.78/-0.262, Was #21 Right Lane: Dennis Smiley Runs 8.344/128.88/0.174, Now #23; D/AA Index: 8.17, Prior Best: 7.994/149.42/-0.176, Was #23 Mawhee improves, Smiley does not, once again off the throttle very early. Left Lane: Chris McGaha No Time, Now #15; F/A Index: 8.58, Prior Best: 8.176/167.97/-0.404, Was #15 Right Lane: Duane Robison Runs 7.536/182.03/-0.394, Now #13; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.511/181.70/-0.419, Was #13 Something blew through the beams in McGaha's lane. Left Lane: Darin West Runs 7.769/174.52/-0.401, Now #16; D/AA Index: 8.17, Prior Best: 7.816/174.14/-0.354, Was #18 Right Lane: Lou Ficco Jr. Runs 7.235/189.43/-0.555, Now #2; B/AP Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.252/189.03/-0.538, Was #4 Both drivers improved and both moved up a coupls spots, Ficco taking over the second spot. Left Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 8.642/156.82/-0.338, Now #17; E/SMA Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.615/157.50/-0.365, Was #17 Right Lane: Donald Thomas Runs 15.756/73.45/7.896, Now #25; C/ED Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 8.054/126.65/0.194, Was #25 Tanksley stood the Cobalt on its bumper, drove through it like he'd beenm driving short cars all along. Thomas slowed almost immediately. Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 9.671/99.23/1.361, Now #7; E/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.790/174.82/-0.520, Was #6 Right Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.146/180.39/-0.564, Now #1; DD/AT Index: 7.71, Prior Best: 7.217/170.61/-0.493, Was #10 Patterson lifted eraly in the run. Massel made a full pass and took over the top spot.Bruno Massel's incremental times: 60ft-1.054 sec., 330ft-2.979, 660ft-4.565/152.93 mph, 1,000ft-5.947. All with 135 cubic inches. Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.312/180.94/-0.528, Now #4; A/EA Index: 7.84, Prior Best: 7.287/181.85/-0.553, Was #4 Left Lane: Chris McGaha Runs 8.228/166.26/-0.352, Now #15; F/A Index: 8.58, Prior Best: 8.176/167.97/-0.404, Was #15 1:46 p.m. McGaha got a rerun because of the timing glitch on his earlier run. His car bogged slightly on the launch and he failed to improve.
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