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Sun, 06 Oct 2013, 12:29 PM

Pro Stock Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

MOHNTON, Pa. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Pro Stock at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 29th annual Auto-Plus NHRA Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  300 Mark Martino                            3 Vincent Nobile               
E1                   0.047  6.615 208.81     ****WINNER****  0.014  6.612 208.59
 Qualified:             #9  6.590 209.69                        #8  6.589 209.95

Weather conditions: air temperature 79 degrees, relative humidity 65 percent, barometer 29.45 inches, adjusted altitude 2,697 feet, track temperature 99 degrees.

This is Mark Martino's fifth start of the season..Vincent Nobile has 96 round wins coming into the race. Nobile is 2 - 0 against Martino in prior events. Nobile with a great light and never trailed for the win. Vincent Nobile's MOV: 0.0361 seconds (approximately 11 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    4 Erica Enders-Stevens                  256 Buddy Perkinson              
E1   ****WINNER****  0.008  6.605 208.62                     0.012  6.603 210.18
 Qualified:             #7  6.587 209.98                       #10  6.591 210.21

This is Buddy Perkinson's ninth start in his career and third of this year and he has one round win..Erica Enders-Stevens is coming off her win in St. Louis and starts the day in fourth place. Enders-Stevens with the slight starting line advantage and the power to hold on for the hole shot win. Erica Enders-Stevens' MOV: 0.0023 seconds (approximately 9 inches).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   11 Shane Gray                              7 V. Gaines                    
E1   ****WINNER****  0.049  6.617 208.26                     0.076  6.592 210.54
 Qualified:            #12  6.616 209.56                        #5  6.586 210.60

V. Gaines vs. Shane Gray is the only match between Countdown drivers in round one of Pro Stock..Neither driver has a win this year..V. Gaines is the defending event champion. Gray is 6 - 2 against Gaines in prior events. Gray with the starting line advantage and the power to hold on for the hole shot win. Shane Gray's MOV: 0.0025 seconds (approximately 9 inches).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   10 Larry Morgan                           25 Jeg Coughlin                 
E1                   0.019  6.616 208.42     ****WINNER****  0.022  6.597 208.88
 Qualified:            #13  6.620 208.78                        #4  6.581 209.95

Coughlin is 16 - 5 against Morgan in prior events. Morgan with a slight starting line advantage, but Coughlin has the difference made up by the time they went by the Christmas tree. Jeg Coughlin's MOV: 0.0161 seconds (approximately 5 feet). Coughlin will have lane choice over Gray in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  452 Steve Kent                              6 Mike Edwards                 
E1                   0.072  6.655 206.92     ****WINNER****  0.069  6.591 209.98
 Qualified:            #14  6.639 208.52                        #3  6.580 210.64

Edwards is 4 - 1 against Kent in prior events. Edwards with a slight starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. Edwards with the quickest pass of round one.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  150 Kenny Delco                             2 Jason Line                   
E1                   0.079  6.693 206.13     ****WINNER****  0.052  6.584 210.14
 Qualified:            #16  6.676 207.43                        #1  6.573 210.70

Jason Line has won this race twice and starts the day from the top spot in the field. This is his 35th number one spot and second of the year. He is 30-4 in the first round when starting from the number one spot..Kenny Delco participated in the first national event at Maple Grove in 1985. This is the first time Delco and Line have faced each other in eliminations. Line with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win and he run low E.T. of round one. He will have lane choice over Nobile in next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  445 Greg Stanfield                          1 Allen Johnson                
E1                   0.026  6.642 207.21     ****WINNER****  0.013  6.573 209.46
 Qualified:            #15  6.648 207.02                        #2  6.579 210.34

Johnson is 20 - 10 against Stanfield in prior events. Johnson is out of the gate first and he now runs low E.T. of the round for the win. That ties low E.T. of the event. He will have lane choice over Enders-Stevens in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Greg Anderson                          19 Richie Stevens               
E1   ****WINNER****  0.013  6.607 208.07                     0.072  6.605 209.26
 Qualified:            #11  6.598 209.85                        #6  6.587 210.50

Richie Stevens is making his first NHRA Pro Stock start since the Dallas race in 2010. He has lost his last ten meetings against Greg Anderson and is 2-16 overall against him..Greg has won this race three times and is looking for his first win of the 2013 season. Anderson is 16 - 2 against Stevens in prior events. They both take their time per-staging and then anderson goes in and Stevens waits a little before going in. Anderson with the starting line advantage and the power to hold on for the hole shot win. Greg Anderson's MOV: 0.0574 seconds (approximately 18 feet). Anderson will give up lane choice to Edwards in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink