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Sat, 28 Sep 2013, 17:13 PM

Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By David Gerard

WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Pacific Division, Night of Fire at Rocky Mountain Raceway 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:

Right Lane: Matthew Leonard Runs 7.824/136.81/0.724, Now #10; AA/AM Index: 7.10, No Prior Run

2:46 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 68 degrees, relative humidity 32 percent, barometer 25.81 inches, adjusted altitude 6,007 feet, track temperature 94 degrees.

Leonard gets through the burnout without ugly noises this time. Field not filled, no bump spot.

Not all is well though. The altered bucks off the line and then has another blower bang right after half track. He gets a number on the board though.

Left Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 8.553/157.37/-0.577, Now #3; C/SMA Index: 9.13, Prior Best: 8.523/157.01/-0.607, Was #3
Right Lane: Tom Kirkman Runs 9.016/144.62/-0.294, Now #9; E/EA Index: 9.31, Prior Best: 9.177/142.04/-0.133, Was #9

Lane was mistakenly shown as a B/SMA in session one. He slows a little from his earlier best.

Kirkman takes his straight six down the track and picks both ET and speed to stay number nine.

Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 9.391/140.97/-0.699, Now #1; I/SMA Index: 10.09, Prior Best: 9.408/141.24/-0.682, Was #2
Right Lane: Randy Goff Runs 14.697/89.43/5.777, Now #11; A/SMA Index: 8.92, Prior Best: 16.996/74.48/8.076, Was #11

Goff continues to struggle off the line and slows again.

Jones powers off the line and misses seventy under by just 0.001 seconds.

Randy Jones' incremental times: 60ft-1.250 sec., 330ft-3.790, 660ft-5.938/114.09 mph, 1,000ft-7.803.

Left Lane: Ralph Van Paepeghem Runs 7.528/172.31/-0.652, Now #3; A/EA Index: 8.18, Prior Best: 7.726/170.51/-0.454, Was #8

Van Paepeghem's first session problems are obviously fixed, as he gets a full pass into the new number three position. Nice!

Left Lane: Lou Ficco Jr. Runs 11.871/73.71/3.981, Now #6; B/AA Index: 7.89, Prior Best: 7.316/186.45/-0.574, Was #6
Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.941/124.13/-0.419, Now #2; D/SMA Index: 9.36, Prior Best: 8.670/153.79/-0.690, Was #2

They leave together and Ficco starts to pull steadily ahead until right after the 330 lights and then has a bunch of smoke come out from underneath the GXP. No stuff on the track, but that might have been expensive!

Strong leave for Lambeck and he lifts on the top end to stay number two. Testing the CIC limits?

Left Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.757/192.55/-0.653, Now #3; A/AA Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 6.816/201.25/-0.594, Was #5
Right Lane: Scott Parks Runs 7.120/185.18/-0.610, Now #5; A/ND Index: 7.73, Prior Best: 7.190/183.97/-0.540, Was #7

Ellis just misses the green by -0.009, but powers off the line and down the track to move two spots up the ladder to the #3 spot.

A better pass for Parks too and he gets two spots. He has a little drama on the top end, as the chutes down fully deploy.

Left Lane: Mike DePalma Runs 9.264/145.27/-0.706, Now #1; I/SM Index: 9.97, Prior Best: 21.246/37.29/11.276, Was #12
Right Lane: Dale Giroux Runs 28.572/45.43/20.682, Now #9; B/AA Index: 7.89, Prior Best: 7.423/165.62/-0.467, Was #8

DePalma shows his dominance again and flies to the top of the ladder on his first full pass. How does -0.706 under suit you?

Giroux's Cavalier was on high C in the staging lights, but just motors on down the track at the green.

Mike DePalma's incremental times: 60ft-1.311 sec., 330ft-3.791, 660ft-5.892/116.77 mph, 1,000ft-7.719.

3:01 p.m.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink