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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 3 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: Left Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 7.737/174.71/-0.583, Now #14; B/EA Index: 8.32, Prior Best: 7.720/174.80/-0.600, Was #14 Right Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 7.757/176.17/-0.603, Now #3; A/SM Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.698/176.72/-0.662, Was #3 10:03 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 66 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 28.87 inches, adjusted altitude 2,098 feet, track temperature 73 degrees. Neither car can match yesterday's best. Left Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.263/181.64/-0.597, Now #17; C/ED Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 7.283/180.96/-0.577, Was #21 Right Lane: Scott Parks Runs 10.411/72.28/2.991, Now #7; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.776/197.59/-0.644, Was #7 Gary Ross is on the bump spot at -0.186. Two strong leaves and only McClay can improve. Parks clicks it early. Left Lane: Terry A. Smith Runs 7.351/179.23/-0.569, Now #12; D/DA Index: 7.92, Prior Best: 7.309/179.88/-0.611, Was #12 Right Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.639/176.74/-0.581, Now #8; PSTA Index: 8.22, Prior Best: 7.588/177.70/-0.632, Was #8 Smith's dragster moves around a little going down the track and he slows. Mettler can't improve either. Left Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.417/155.99/-0.623, Now #11; C/SR Index: 9.04, Prior Best: 8.434/157.32/-0.606, Was #13 Right Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 9.915/109.00/2.345, Now #28; B/AA Index: 7.57, Prior Best: 7.101/194.77/-0.469, Was #28 Marshall has another dart towards the wall leave and he has to give it up early. Sigmon finds some tune up and moves up two spots. Left Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.076/169.23/-0.564, Now #21; B/SM Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.061/169.15/-0.579, Was #21 Right Lane: Joe Roubicek Runs 6.870/200.23/-0.240, Now #30; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.866/200.11/-0.244, Was #30 Good leave for Roubicek, but no improvement. Wilson joins him. Left Lane: Clint Neff Runs 7.760/169.15/-0.600, Now #15; K/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.786/167.99/-0.574, Was #22 Right Lane: Brian Fitzpatrick Runs 7.052/144.47/0.082, Now #21; H/D Index: 6.97, Prior Best: 6.383/218.27/-0.587, Was #20 Snap, crackle, and pop winging up the turbo. Fitzpatrick shakes hard off the line and slows on the top end. Lots of smoke down there, but that's normal. Neff gets it all together and moves up into the top half of the field in the new #15 spot. Left Lane: Peter Adams Runs 8.141/125.49/0.211, Now #26; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.445/184.90/-0.485, Was #26 Right Lane: Chip Rumis Runs 6.855/202.91/-0.255, Now #30; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.872/202.03/-0.238, Was #31 Rumis moves around Roubicek with a slightly better pass. No joy for Adams, as he slows after the launch. Left Lane: Paul Gladden Runs 7.043/197.42/-0.067, Now #33; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.145/193.74/0.035, Was #33 Right Lane: Tyler Hogan Runs 7.124/188.12/-0.436, Now #27; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.081/186.69/-0.479, Was #27 Gladden needs to run better than -0.186 under his index to qualify. He finally runs under the tough index, but it's not enough. Hogan slows just a tad to stay #27. Left Lane: Brandon Huhtala Runs 7.282/188.44/-0.648, Now #4; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.271/188.54/-0.659, Was #4 Right Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 8.010/167.82/-0.610, Now #14; B/SMA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 8.062/167.70/-0.558, Was #23 Bowdish pick up 0.05 and moves nine spots up the ladder into the top half of the field. Huhtala makes another strong pass and doesn't improve. Left Lane: Chuck Moore Runs 6.510/214.25/-0.500, Now #25; AA/AM Index: 7.01, Prior Best: 7.589/138.23/0.579, Was #35 Right Lane: Kurt Hugger Runs 7.479/181.11/-0.471, Now #26; PST Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.454/181.45/-0.496, Was #25 Moore is back after an encounter with the wall yesterday and shows his power. That moves him all the way up to the number twenty fifth spot. That pushes Hugger down a spot. Left Lane: Steve Graham Runs 7.331/185.26/-0.599, Now #18; C/A Index: 7.93, Prior Best: 7.331/185.03/-0.599, Was #17 Right Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 7.999/168.89/-0.621, Now #13; B/SMA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 8.030/168.11/-0.590, Was #21 Joe Roubicek is on the bump spot at -0.244. Graham runs exactly what he did yesterday and gets bumped down a spot, as Lane finds his tune up and jumps up into the top half of the field in the number thirteen spot. Left Lane: Gary Ross Runs 6.645/209.46/-0.465, Now #30; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.924/199.79/-0.186, Was #33 Right Lane: Ron Weems Runs 6.744/205.79/-0.316, Now #31; A/A Index: 7.06, Prior Best: 6.671/205.41/-0.389, Was #30 Lots of inches on the line. Almost 1400 ci!. Weems slows down a little and gets bumped down by a flying Ross. He finds near three tenths and moves into the new #30 spot. Left Lane: Joshua Lee Runs 9.021/146.88/-0.599, Now #19; H/EA Index: 9.62, Prior Best: 9.096/144.13/-0.524, Was #24 Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.312/154.05/-0.478, Now #2; D/D Index: 7.79, Prior Best: 7.119/186.10/-0.671, Was #2 Chip Rumis is on the bump spot at -0.255. Browell leaves hard and clicks it early. Lee's little Bantam gets on down the track and moves five spots up the ladder to number nineteen. Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.478/157.87/-0.592, Now #23; C/TA Index: 9.07, Prior Best: 10.077/117.58/1.007, Was #36 Right Lane: Ray Vierheller Runs 7.298/179.78/-0.622, Now #13; D/DA Index: 7.92, Prior Best: 7.323/178.71/-0.597, Was #20 Jones finally gets to the finish line under power and bumps into the field with an almost sixty under pass. Vierheller has the power this time too and moves up to the top half of the field. Left Lane: Justin Lamb Runs 8.555/158.30/-0.615, Now #9; H/AA Index: 9.17, Prior Best: 8.542/158.02/-0.628, Was #9 Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 8.764/108.24/1.654, Now #22; A/AA Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.514/207.18/-0.596, Was #22 Ron Weems is on the bump spot at -0.389. Ellis shakes hard and slows. Lamb runs close to his prior best. Left Lane: Bo Butner Runs 8.493/134.02/-0.487, Now #5; E/SMA Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.332/160.37/-0.648, Was #5 Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.400/139.91/-0.570, Now #6; D/SMA Index: 8.97, Prior Best: 8.325/161.34/-0.645, Was #6 Wheels up leave for Butner. No joy on the top end, as both cars slow. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.317/187.13/-0.643, Now #8; C/AA Index: 7.96, Prior Best: 7.338/175.11/-0.622, Was #12 Right Lane: Lou Ficco Jr. Runs 7.253/162.76/-0.487, Now #11; B/AP Index: 7.74, Prior Best: 7.115/190.54/-0.625, Was #10 One of these two is going to be the Comp. Eliminator Championship. Ficco has to get to the semi-finals to win. Biondo makes a statement and pushes Ficco down a spot with a nice improvement into the top eight. Ficco slows. Right Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 6.426/225.07/-0.844, Now #1; BB/AT Index: 7.27, Prior Best: 6.083/236.84/-1.187, Was #1 Mihovetz gets the single and is a little lazy off the line with a 1.079 sixty foot time. He slows on the top end. 10:31 a.m. Ron Weems is the bump spot at -0.389.
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