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ENNIS, Texas - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 34th annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals 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: Left Lane: Dick Maris Runs 6.924/191.46/-0.606, Now #12; C/DA Index: 7.53, Prior Best: 6.910/192.33/-0.620, Was #12 Right Lane: Duane Robison Runs 7.296/187.83/-0.654, Now #3; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.240/188.52/-0.710, Was #3 12:06 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 72 degrees, relative humidity 53 percent, barometer 29.30 inches, adjusted altitude 2,147 feet, track temperature 92 degrees. Maris drifts to the right early in the run but he is able to get it straightened out and make a decent pass. Robison goes down the groove with a decent run but he doesn't improve and will stand on his run from yesterday. Left Lane: Chase Williams Runs 6.723/198.09/-0.637, Now #11; B/DA Index: 7.36, Prior Best: 6.797/198.23/-0.563, Was #22 Right Lane: Jarrod Granier Runs 9.108/118.66/0.008, Now #26; E/SM Index: 9.10, Prior Best: 8.583/157.82/-0.517, Was #26 Williams goes down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend and he moves up to the 11th spot. Granier was putting out a lot of smoke at the hit of the throttle and he was out of power early. Left Lane: Justin Hutto Runs 6.996/187.52/-0.404, Now #17; B/DA Index: 7.40, Prior Best: 6.809/194.16/-0.591, Was #17 Right Lane: Ed Federkeil Jr Runs 13.146/59.84/5.526, Now #15; B/AA Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.015/197.42/-0.605, Was #15 Federkeil makes a move toward the centerline at the hit, gets about 200 feet out and has to click it off. Hutto makes a decent pass for the conditions but he doesn't improve. Left Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.873/194.58/-0.607, Now #15; C/D Index: 7.48, Prior Best: 6.948/193.10/-0.532, Was #23 Right Lane: Greg Schenck Runs 9.034/143.95/-0.526, Now #25; H/EA Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 9.086/143.67/-0.474, Was #28 Tanksley goes down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend and he moves up to the 15th spot. Schenck improves and moves up to the 25th spot. Left Lane: Keith Hall Runs 8.331/162.82/-0.669, Now #5; G/A Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.332/162.88/-0.668, Was #5 Right Lane: Scott Cashio Runs 7.790/173.92/-0.740, Now #1; A/SMA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 7.788/174.19/-0.742, Was #1 Hall almost equals his run from yesterday and he stays in the fifth spot. Cashio makes a decent pass but doesn't improve. Left Lane: Ashton Hudson Runs 8.456/159.40/-0.524, Now #22; E/SMA Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.417/159.64/-0.563, Was #21 Right Lane: Craig Bourgeois Runs 6.845/188.89/-0.575, Now #21; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.857/188.81/-0.563, Was #23 Hudson makes a clean pass but doesn't improve. Bourgeois makes his quickest pass of the weekend and moves up a couple of spots in the order. Left Lane: Raymond Martin No Time, Now #17; K/AA Index: 8.24, Prior Best: 7.647/170.95/-0.593, Was #17 Right Lane: Adam Hickey Runs 14.022/83.36/6.622, Now #19; B/DA Index: 7.40, Prior Best: 6.814/192.25/-0.586, Was #19 Martin rolled the beams and does not receive a time. Hickey loses traction at the hit and backs off the throttle. Left Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 6.604/201.19/-0.666, Now #7; I/D Index: 7.27, Prior Best: 8.932/97.60/1.662, Was #31 Right Lane: Bill Kent Runs 6.624/203.68/-0.616, Now #11; B/D Index: 7.24, Prior Best: 6.598/203.80/-0.642, Was #10 Massel makes his first full pass of the weekend and he moves up to the seventh spot. Kent slows and drops a spot as Massel goes around him in the order. Left Lane: Leslie Carson Runs 7.826/153.30/0.166, Now #30; B/A Index: 7.66, Prior Best: 7.321/191.97/-0.339, Was #30 Right Lane: Scott Benham Runs 8.134/165.94/-0.596, Now #18; B/T Index: 8.73, Prior Best: 8.209/164.95/-0.521, Was #27 Carson makes a quick move to the right at the hit, gets close to the centerline, but is able to get the car headed in the right direction. He gets about 1000 feet out and backs off the throttle. Benham goes down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend and he moves up to the 18th spot. Left Lane: Keith Mawhee Runs 12.848/107.55/4.578, Now #25; D/A Index: 8.27, Prior Best: 7.707/176.72/-0.563, Was #25 Right Lane: Don Thomas Runs 6.911/164.93/-0.539, Now #10; B/ED Index: 7.45, Prior Best: 6.807/193.35/-0.643, Was #10 Mawhee has problems and is off the throttle early. Thomas makes a clean pass but doesn't improve. Left Lane: Barry Forrester No Time, Now #22; C/ED Index: 7.89, Prior Best: 7.311/178.35/-0.579, Was #22 Right Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 7.190/190.97/-0.710, Now #2; BB/A Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.172/191.48/-0.728, Was #2 Not sure what happened with Forrester. he stages, the tree comes down but he never moves and is pushed off the line. Smiley was moving around a little early in the run but makes a decent pass. He doesn't improve but stays in the second spot. Left Lane: Dennis Smiley No Time, Now #29; A/ED Index: 7.28, Prior Best: 6.780/201.49/-0.500, Was #29 Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.273/183.62/-0.547, Now #15; D/D Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.207/158.73/-0.613, Was #15 Smiley rattles the tires at the hit and makes a violent move to the left. He contacts the wall about 150 feet out and continues down the track, dragging along the wall through the rest of the run. He comes to a stop in the shutdown area and we are told he is okay. Browell makes a clean pass but doesn't improve. Left Lane: Doug Engels Runs 7.524/140.53/-0.476, Now #9; D/DA Index: 8.00, Prior Best: 7.339/162.45/-0.661, Was #9 Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.296/152.68/-0.524, Now #6; A/EA Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.154/175.11/-0.666, Was #6 Engels gets about 1100 feet out and backs off the throttle. Rampy was on a decent pass but backed off the throttle early. Left Lane: Sean Dodd Runs 8.082/166.52/-0.618, Now #4; C/EA Index: 8.70, Prior Best: 8.018/166.89/-0.682, Was #4 Right Lane: Rick Brown Runs 8.001/168.22/-0.539, Now #26; F/AA Index: 8.54, Prior Best: 8.010/167.91/-0.530, Was #26 Dod makes a clean pass but doesn't improve. Brown improves a little but not enough to move in the order. Left Lane: Shaun Vincent Runs 8.340/153.74/-0.640, Now #8; C/TA Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.316/157.21/-0.664, Was #8 Vincent makes a decent pass but doesn't improve. Left Lane: Troy Galbraith Runs 6.775/170.62/-0.525, Now #13; B/DA Index: 7.30, Prior Best: 6.667/198.23/-0.633, Was #13 Galbraith makes a clean pass to end qualifying for Comp but he doesn't improve.
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