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MADISON, Ill. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Pro Stock Motorcycle at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, sixth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals: Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 370 Marc Ingwersen 1 Jerry Savoie E1 0.073 7.067 190.73 ****WINNER**** 0.077 6.817 196.39 Qualified: #12 6.982 189.31 #5 6.817 197.2812:29 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 32 percent, barometer 29.66 inches, adjusted altitude 2,142 feet, track temperature 100 degrees. Jerry Savoie won here in 2014 & 2016. This is the first race for Marc Ingwersen in the NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle class. Ingwersen gets the advantage off the line but it sounded like his engine bogged
a little. Savoie went around him quickly and pulled away to take the win and equal his quickest
pass of the weekend. Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 777 Karen Stoffer 8 Hector Arana Jr E1 ****WINNER**** 0.039 6.840 194.13 0.065 6.848 195.45 Qualified: #9 6.850 195.22 #8 6.833 195.87Hector Arana Jr. was the 2015 winner here. This is the 200th start for Karen Stoffer. Arana Jr is 8 - 0 against Stoffer in prior events. Stoffer gets out of the gate first and starts to pull away. Arana starts making up ground at half track but quickly ran out of race track. Karen
Stoffer's incremental margins: 60ft(0.024), 330 ft(0.035), 660ft(0.042), 1,000ft(0.039). MOV:
0.0345 seconds (approximately 10 feet). Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 77 Angie Smith 573 Mike Berry E1 ****WINNER**** 0.105 6.846 193.99 0.045 6.928 192.30 Qualified: #6 6.820 195.56 #11 6.921 191.32This number six qualifying position equals the best start for Angie Smith this year. This is the 231st race for Mike Berry. Smith is 2 - 0 against Berry in prior events. Berry gets a big holeshot, stays in front to half track, then Smith goes around him and pulls away for the win. Angie Smith's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.055), 330 ft(-0.027), 660ft(-0.005), 1,000ft(0.014). MOV: 0.0227 seconds (approximately 6 feet). Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 1550 Joey Gladstone 7 LE Tonglet E1 0.024 6.878 193.35 ****WINNER**** 0.029 6.829 196.19 Qualified: #10 6.880 194.18 #7 6.831 195.62Tonglet is 2 - 1 against Gladstone in prior events. Gladstone gets the advantage off the line but it wasn't enough. Tonglet reels him in at the sixty foot mark and pulls away for the win with his quickest pass of the weekend. LE Tonglet's incremental margins (negative if behind):
60ft(-0.003), 330 ft(-0.001), 660ft(0.011), 1,000ft(0.025). MOV: 0.0449 seconds (approximately 13
feet). Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 206 Andie Rawlings 3 Andrew Hines E1 0.125 8.261 125.83 ****WINNER**** 0.046 6.960 197.42 Qualified: #16 7.657 174.14 #1 6.781 196.19Andrew Hines has been runner-up at this race twice, in 2012 & 2014. Andrew hadn't qualified #1 in the first 18 races of the year and has now been the top qualifier at two of the last three events. This is his 40th career number one. In 5 years of this race the #1 qualifier has yet to win the race. Andie Rawlings is the 64th different rider to race Andrew Hines in eliminations. Hines gets a big holeshot and starts to pull away. Rawling has problems late in the
run and was out of power early.
Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
6 Matt Smith 751 Steve Johnson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.094 6.834 196.42 0.062 6.907 194.46
Qualified: #3 6.792 197.22 #14 7.026 191.51
Smith is 12 - 11 against Johnson in prior events.Smith won this race in 2013. Johnson gets
out of the gate first, stays in front to the 330 foot mark, then Smith goes around him and pulls
away for the win. Johnson makes his quickest pass of the weekend in the loss. Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 581 David Hope 2 Eddie Krawiec E1 0.034 7.082 188.38 ****WINNER**** 0.062 6.783 196.53 Qualified: #15 7.084 186.25 #2 6.783 195.59Eddie Krawiec won this race in 2012. Eddie starts the day with 354 round wins and that ties him with Dave Schultz for 3rd place on the all-time Pro Stock motorcycle list. Eddie won his rounds in 183 races while Dave won his in 157 races..This is the third time in his last 12 races that David Hope has qualified and at each of the previous two races he lost to Eddie in round one. Krawiec is 7 - 1 against Hope in prior events. Hope gets the advantage off the line but needed more than he got. Krawiec goes around him quickly and equals his quickest pass of the weekend to take the win. Eddie Krawiec's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.013), 330 ft(0.091),
660ft(0.165), 1,000ft(0.221). MOV: 0.2712 seconds (approximately 75 feet). Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 635 Scotty Pollacheck 3284 Ryan Oehler E1 ****WINNER**** 0.094 6.846 194.58 0.039 6.985 190.75 Qualified: #4 6.809 196.42 #13 6.998 191.05This is the third race and the first start for Ryan Oehler. Oehler gets a big holeshot, stays in front for about 300 feet, then Pollacheck powers around him and pulls away for the win. Scotty Pollacheck's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.026), 330 ft(0.012), 660ft(0.042), 1,000ft(0.064). MOV: 0.0847 seconds (approximately 24 feet). In the next round it will be
Stoffer with lane choice over Hines, Savoie vs. Pollacheck, Krawiec vs. Tonglet, and Matt Smith
with lane choice over Angie Smith.
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