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Sun, 04 Mar 2012, 18:41 PM

Top Dragster Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

CECIL, Ga. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Hickory Enclosed Trailer Sales Top Dragster at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Southeast Division, event at South Georgia Motorsports Park:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2855 Ken Wells                            2400 Pete Wheeler                 
E1                  -0.005  4.555 150.48     ****WINNER**** -0.043  4.457 154.32
         T/D  Dial: 4.52 (+/-):  0.035             T/D  Dial: 4.46 (+/-): -0.003
 Qualified:            #24  4.800 121.07                       #10  4.462 155.24

Weather conditions: air temperature 61 degrees, relative humidity 21 percent, barometer 29.70 inches, adjusted altitude 483 feet.

Wells goes red and Wheeler gets the easy win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2271 Casey Spradlin                       2501 Kevin Brannon                
E1   ****WINNER**** -0.017  4.244 164.25                    -0.002  4.565 148.85
         T/D  Dial: 4.27 (+/-): -0.026             T/D  Dial: 4.59 (+/-): -0.025
 Qualified:             #3  4.271 165.42                       #17  4.572 149.38

Spradlin goes red and Brannon gets the easy win. Brannon will face Wheeler in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2246 Melissa Hutson                       2601 Ronald Raymond               
E1                   0.084  4.967  97.33     ****WINNER****  0.032  4.621 134.87
         T/D  Dial: 4.02 (+/-):  0.947             T/D  Dial: 4.59 (+/-):  0.031
 Qualified:             #2  4.039 181.01                       #16  4.565 150.43

Finally a clean start and Raymond gets the win. Raymond will get the bye in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   29 Vaughn Cauffield                     194D Mia Tedesco                  
E1                  -0.001  4.792 144.81     ****WINNER****  0.006  4.430 154.65
         T/D  Dial: 4.75 (+/-):  0.042             T/D  Dial: 4.43 (+/-):  0.000
 Qualified:            #22  4.754 145.96                        #8  4.428 154.71

Cauffield goes red and Tedesco gets the easy win...he runs dead on with a 0.006 reaction time. Mia Tedesco's package: 0.006.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2550 Angela Travis                        258A Mike Lago                    
E1                   0.019  4.524 153.47     ****WINNER****  0.024  4.537 150.23
         T/D  Dial: 4.44 (+/-):  0.084             T/D  Dial: 4.52 (+/-):  0.017
 Qualified:            #28  5.820 122.92                       #14  4.539 151.73

Travis is out of the gate first, but Lago runs closer to the dial-in for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2059 Mark Brown                           2749 Scott King                   
E1                  -0.037  4.393 157.65     ****WINNER****  0.009  4.723 145.41
         T/D  Dial: 4.41 (+/-): -0.017             T/D  Dial: 4.71 (+/-):  0.013
 Qualified:             #7  4.411 157.34                       #21  4.727 145.23

Brown goes red and King gets the easy win. King will face Lago in the next round


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2095 Jeff Burns                             53 Les Feist                    
E1                   0.009  4.514 141.65     ****WINNER****  0.077  4.437 159.17
         T/D  Dial: 4.60 (+/-): -0.086             T/D  Dial: 4.40 (+/-):  0.037
 Qualified:            #11  4.472 132.69                       #25  4.844 157.47

Burns with the starting line advantage, but runs too quick to give the win to Feist.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2686 Mike Laws                            213A Anthony Bertozzi             
E1                   0.018  4.414 154.12     ****WINNER****  0.011  4.682 132.00
         T/D  Dial: 4.42 (+/-): -0.006             T/D  Dial: 4.66 (+/-):  0.022
 Qualified:             #6  4.409 161.65                       #20  4.663 147.23

Bertozzi with the better reaction time and runs closer to the dial-in. Anthony Bertozzi's package: 0.033.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2912 Scott Duggins                        2721 Jim Shaw                     
E1                   0.016  4.616 149.48     ****WINNER****  0.007  4.378 156.28
         T/D  Dial: 4.63 (+/-): -0.014             T/D  Dial: 4.37 (+/-):  0.008
 Qualified:            #19  4.632 149.08                        #5  4.378 155.22

Shaw with a 0.015 package for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2158 Kelly Cooke                          2151 Lindsey Barker               
E1                   0.010  4.589 150.90     ****WINNER****  0.019  4.467 152.35
         T/D  Dial: 4.53 (+/-):  0.059             T/D  Dial: 4.44 (+/-):  0.027
 Qualified:            #15  4.544 151.85                       #29  5.983  83.54

Lindsey Barker's MOV: 0.0231 seconds (approximately 5 feet). Barker will face Tedesco in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2412 Steven Furr                           202 Steve Cohen                  
E1                  -0.005  4.480 154.44     ****WINNER****  0.018  4.467 155.06
         T/D  Dial: 4.49 (+/-): -0.010             T/D  Dial: 4.53 (+/-): -0.063
 Qualified:            #12  4.489 154.02                       #26  4.866 148.38

Furr went red and Cohen gets the easy win. Cohen will face Shaw in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   22 Raymond Miller                       2524 Larry Strickland             
E1                  -0.015  4.350 162.55     ****WINNER****  0.034  4.616 148.36
         T/D  Dial: 4.38 (+/-): -0.030             T/D  Dial: 4.61 (+/-):  0.006
 Qualified:             #4  4.371 162.33                       #18  4.622 148.80

Miller is red and Strickland gets the easy win. Strickland will face Feist in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   27 Lauren Freer                           21 Dylan Stott                  
E1                  -0.018  4.415 155.52     ****WINNER****  0.016  4.664 154.69
         T/D  Dial: 4.49 (+/-): -0.075             T/D  Dial: 4.42 (+/-):  0.244
 Qualified:            #13  4.522 155.65                       #27  5.208 133.47

Freer goes red and Stott gets the easy win. He will face Bertozzi in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2090 Eddie Careccia                             Bye
E1   ****WINNER****  0.023  3.985 185.00     
         T/D  Dial: 3.97 (+/-):  0.015    
 Qualified:             #1  3.974 184.85                     Bye


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7246 Charles Boyd                         296C Larry Roberts                
E1                  -0.011  4.688 146.26     ****WINNER****  0.023  4.454 154.63
         T/D  Dial: 4.64 (+/-):  0.048             T/D  Dial: 4.44 (+/-):  0.014
 Qualified:            #23  4.760 145.39                        #9  4.456 154.47

This was a rerun...Same results as the first time Boyd was too quick on the tree and turned on the red light. Roberts will face Careccia in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink