Thu, 10 Nov 2011, 19:32 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 47th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals 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:

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Left Lane: Joshua Lee Runs 12.826/68.92/3.206, Now #23; H/EA Index: 9.62, Prior Best: 9.096/144.13/-0.524, Was #23
Right Lane: Kurt Hugger Runs 7.454/181.45/-0.496, Now #25; PST Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.474/181.11/-0.476, Was #26

3:56 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 28 percent, barometer 28.94 inches, adjusted altitude 2,220 feet, track temperature 73 degrees.

Tom Rhoda is on the bump spot at 0.153.

Lee spins the little tires and immediately drives out of the groove towards the center line.

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Left Lane: Peter Adams Runs 7.445/184.90/-0.485, Now #26; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.496/185.18/-0.434, Was #28
Right Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 8.073/167.97/-0.547, Now #22; B/SMA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 8.062/167.70/-0.558, Was #22

Adams gets a small improvement.

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Left Lane: Chuck Moore No Time, Now #33; AA/AM Index: 7.01, Prior Best: 7.589/138.23/0.579, Was #33
Right Lane: Doug Lambeck No Time, Now #4; D/SMA Index: 8.97, Prior Best: 8.325/161.34/-0.645, Was #4

Moore runs A/GS with this car at the CHRR.

The car leaves hard and then drifts towards the wall. It abruptly moves over and bangs the wall, shooting across his lane towards the other wall. He gets it back under control, but DQ's both his and Lambeck's runs.

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Left Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.324/181.01/-0.536, Now #21; C/ED Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 7.283/180.96/-0.577, Was #20
Right Lane: Ray Vierheller Runs 7.323/178.71/-0.597, Now #14; D/DA Index: 7.92, Prior Best: 7.346/177.79/-0.574, Was #21

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Left Lane: Bo Butner Runs 8.332/160.37/-0.648, Now #5; E/SMA Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.360/161.34/-0.620, Was #9
Right Lane: Scott Parks Runs 6.839/195.96/-0.581, Now #6; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.776/197.59/-0.644, Was #5

Parks ran better than the record in session one and this should back it up.

Much better pass for Butner too.

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Left Lane: Brandon Huhtala Runs 7.271/188.54/-0.659, Now #4; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.279/187.91/-0.651, Was #4
Right Lane: Brian Fitzpatrick Runs 7.587/115.46/0.617, Now #18; H/D Index: 6.97, Prior Best: 6.383/218.27/-0.587, Was #18

Fitzpatrick leave hard and then slows right after that.

Huhtala picks up just a little to stay #4.

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Left Lane: Steve Graham Runs 7.341/185.61/-0.589, Now #13; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.331/185.03/-0.599, Was #13
Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.119/186.10/-0.671, Now #3; D/D Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.153/185.36/-0.637, Was #7

Great pass for Browell and he moves all the way up to the #3 spot.

Graham runs close to his last pass.

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Left Lane: Paul Gladden Runs 7.190/191.05/0.080, Now #31; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.145/193.74/0.035, Was #31
Right Lane: Tyler Hogan Runs 7.119/186.95/-0.441, Now #27; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.081/186.69/-0.479, Was #27

No joy here, as both cars slow from session one.

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Left Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.123/167.26/-0.517, Now #20; B/SM Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.061/169.15/-0.579, Was #20
Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.654/206.26/-0.456, Now #15; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.514/207.18/-0.596, Was #15

No improvements.

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Left Lane: Terry A. Smith Runs 7.332/179.73/-0.588, Now #10; D/DA Index: 7.92, Prior Best: 7.309/179.88/-0.611, Was #10
Right Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 8.030/168.11/-0.590, Now #17; B/SMA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 8.036/167.55/-0.584, Was #19

Lane runs 0.006 better to move two spots up the ladder. Smith doesn't!

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Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 10.077/117.58/1.007, Now #34; C/TA Index: 9.07, Prior Best: 18.168/67.61/9.098, Was #35
Right Lane: Lou Ficco Jr. Runs 7.162/191.84/-0.578, Now #8; B/AP Index: 7.74, Prior Best: 7.115/190.54/-0.625, Was #8

Jones is slow off the line and can only move one position up the ladder, still missing the field.

No improve ment for Ficco.

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Left Lane: Clint Neff Runs 7.786/167.99/-0.574, Now #22; K/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.856/166.87/-0.504, Was #24
Right Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 6.140/236.55/-1.130, Now #1; BB/AT Index: 7.27, Prior Best: 6.083/236.84/-1.187, Was #1

Two very different ways of going Ford racing!

Mihovetz's Mustang moves around a little off the line and he can only run -1.130 under the BB/AT index!

Neff picks up two spots on the ladder.

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Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.371/168.39/-0.589, Now #9; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.338/175.11/-0.622, Was #9
Right Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 7.705/176.84/-0.655, Now #4; A/SM Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.698/176.72/-0.662, Was #4

Good passes, but no improvements.

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Left Lane: Gary Ross Runs 6.924/199.79/-0.186, Now #31; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.142/207.24/0.032, Was #30
Right Lane: Chip Rumis Runs 6.872/202.03/-0.238, Now #30; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 14.720/109.90/7.610, Was #35

Rumis gets the Cobalt hooked up this time and gets into the filed. That pushes Ross down a spot.

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Left Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 7.720/174.80/-0.600, Now #13; B/EA Index: 8.32, Prior Best: 7.728/166.01/-0.592, Was #16
Right Lane: Joe Roubicek Runs 6.866/200.11/-0.244, Now #30; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 20.633/87.44/13.523, Was #36

Paul Gladden is on the bump spot at 0.035.

It's Roubicek's turn to make a full pass and bump into the field.

Nice improvement for Fletcher up three spots to #13.

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Left Lane: Justin Lamb Runs 8.542/158.02/-0.628, Now #9; H/AA Index: 9.17, Prior Best: 8.582/157.06/-0.588, Was #18
Right Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.588/177.70/-0.632, Now #8; PSTA Index: 8.22, Prior Best: 7.619/177.35/-0.601, Was #12

Gary Ross is on the bump spot at -0.186.

Two big improvement to get both drivers into the top half of the field.

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Right Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 13.251/78.41/5.681, Now #28; B/AA Index: 7.57, Prior Best: 7.101/194.77/-0.469, Was #28

Marshall's car is slow off the line and he coasts on down to wrap up the session.

4:24 p.m. John Mihovetz is number one at -1.187 under the index and Gary Ross is on the bump spot at -0.186.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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