Sun, 13 Nov 2011, 18:21 PM
Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations
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By David Gerard
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POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 47th annual Automobile Club
of Southern California NHRA Finals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7098 Tom Mettler 7009 Ross Wilson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.059 8.065 129.68 -0.078 8.428 136.26
PSTA Index: 8.22 (+/-): -0.155 B/SM Index: 8.64 (+/-): -0.212
Qualified: #9 7.588 -0.632 #25 8.061 -0.579
2:24 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 42 percent, barometer 28.76 inches, adjusted
altitude 2,752 feet, track temperature 84 degrees.Tom Mettler wins on Ross Wilson's red light.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7474 Justin Lamb 7280 Chuck Moore
E1 -0.014 8.779 126.80 ****WINNER**** -0.393 7.100 193.02
F/SMA Index: 9.17 (+/-): -0.391 AA/AM Index: 7.01 (+/-): 0.090
Qualified: #10 8.542 -0.628 #26 6.510 -0.500
Chuck Moore wins on Justin Lamb's -0.014 red light. He's slow, but straight, this time.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
710 Doug Lambeck 7 Alan Ellis
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.056 8.732 124.36 -0.002 6.914 148.64
D/SMA Index: 8.97 (+/-): -0.238 A/AA Index: 7.11 (+/-): -0.196
Qualified: #6 8.325 -0.645 #22 6.514 -0.596
...and again. Doug Lambeck wins on Alan Ellis' -0.002 red light.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
32 Ray Vierheller 7023 Tyler Hogan
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.030 7.383 161.85 0.012 7.114 186.00
D/DA Index: 7.92 (+/-): -0.537 C/DA Index: 7.56 (+/-): -0.446
Qualified: #13 7.298 -0.622 #29 7.081 -0.479
Two good Comp. lights and Vierheller just dips into the CIC to take the twenty foot win.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7273 Gary Ross 340 Terry A. Smith
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.123 7.703 132.53 -0.017 7.354 176.01
A/AA Index: 7.11 (+/-): 0.593 D/DA Index: 7.92 (+/-): -0.566
Qualified: #31 6.645 -0.465 #15 7.309 -0.611
Gary Ross wins on Terry A. Smith's -0.017 red light.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
72 Randy Jones 519 Scott Parks
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.030 8.507 150.00 0.120 11.039 75.36
C/TA Index: 9.07 (+/-): -0.563 A/ND Index: 7.42 (+/-): 3.619
Qualified: #23 8.478 -0.592 #7 6.776 -0.644
Parks is a ton late and gives it up early and Jones will take some CIC for the easy win.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
6660 Adam Bowdish 765A Ron Weems
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.034 8.884 115.20 -0.072 6.731 205.79
B/SMA Index: 8.62 (+/-): 0.264 A/A Index: 7.06 (+/-): -0.329
Qualified: #16 8.010 -0.610 #32 6.671 -0.389
Adam Bowdish wins on Ron Weems' red light.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
62 Brandon Huhtala 769Y Joshua Lee
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.084 7.675 137.93 -0.008 9.210 117.82
C/A Index: 7.93 (+/-): -0.255 H/EA Index: 9.62 (+/-): -0.410
Qualified: #4 7.271 -0.659 #20 9.021 -0.599
Lee goes red by -0.008 and gives the easy win to Huhtala.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7298 Scott Hedlund 75 Steve Graham
E1 -0.018 8.354 126.90 ****WINNER**** 0.071 7.717 135.52
A/SM Index: 8.36 (+/-): -0.006 C/A Index: 7.93 (+/-): -0.213
Qualified: #3 7.698 -0.662 #19 7.331 -0.599
It's Hedlund's turn to go red. Graham gets a free pass to round two.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
500 Lou Ficco Jr. 7634 Kurt Hugger
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.057 7.546 142.94 -0.031 8.713 112.51
B/AP Index: 7.74 (+/-): -0.194 PST Index: 7.95 (+/-): 0.763
Qualified: #11 7.115 -0.625 #27 7.454 -0.496
Hugger keeps Ficco's Championship alive, as he joins the big crowd of red lighting drivers.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
5 Brian Browell 590 Clint Neff
E1 -0.004 8.273 104.44 ****WINNER**** 0.003 8.462 115.50
D/D Index: 7.79 (+/-): 0.483 K/A Index: 8.36 (+/-): 0.102
Qualified: #2 7.119 -0.671 #18 7.760 -0.600
Browell goes red by just -0.004 and Neff gets a free one.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7771 Ed Sigmon 775 Peter Adams
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.072 8.492 153.60 0.004 7.461 184.09
C/SR Index: 9.04 (+/-): -0.548 C/A Index: 7.93 (+/-): -0.469
Qualified: #12 8.417 -0.623 #28 7.445 -0.485
Adams nails the tree with a great 0.004 light, but the car isn't up to the task. Sigmon goes on to round two.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
7522 Brian Fitzpatrick 6 Sal Biondo
E1 No Time ****WINNER**** -0.006 7.809 137.99
H/D Index: 6.97 (+/-): 93.029 C/AA Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.151
Qualified: #24 6.383 -0.587 #8 7.317 -0.643
Fitzpatrick's crew pushes the car back before staging and Biondo gets an easy win. He clicks it early.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
707M John Mihovetz 1781 Dan Fletcher
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.099 6.330 187.89 0.020 7.893 147.65
BB/AT Index: 7.27 (+/-): -0.940 B/EA Index: 8.32 (+/-): -0.427
Qualified: #1 6.083 -1.187 #17 7.720 -0.600
Mihovetz ran almost 1.2 seconds under the BB/AT index in qualifying. He is late off the line and has stuff from the exhaust near
the lights to slow to ONLY -0.940 under the index. Big permanent CIC on Monday!
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
361 Bo Butner 7235 Scott McClay
E1 0.027 8.481 149.83 ****WINNER**** 0.025 7.341 172.96
E/SMA Index: 8.98 (+/-): -0.499 C/ED Index: 7.86 (+/-): -0.519
Qualified: #5 8.332 -0.648 #21 7.263 -0.597
Almost identical RT's and Scott McClay gets the win. MOV: 0.0228 seconds (approximately 5 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
6944 Bob Marshall 600 Jeff Lane
E1 No Time ****WINNER**** 0.007 8.155 144.18
B/AA Index: 7.57 (+/-): 92.429 B/SMA Index: 8.62 (+/-): -0.465
Qualified: #30 7.101 -0.469 #14 7.999 -0.621
Marshall is a no show and Lane goes to the next round. He will face Ellis.2:47 p.m. In other pairings: Mihovetz vs. Mettler;
McClay vs. Vierheller; Graham vs. Ficco; Jones vs. Ross; Neff vs. Moore; Huhtala vs. Sigmon; and Biondo vs. Bowdish.
Timing data courtesy of CompuLink
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