Thu, 14 Nov 2019, 17:17 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 55th annual Auto Club NHRA Finals 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:

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Left Lane: Cody Lane Runs 10.903/85.80/2.303, Now #16; B/SMA Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 8.166/151.58/-0.434, Was #16
Right Lane: Jason Grima Runs 7.049/179.95/-0.611, Now #4; B/A Index: 7.66, Prior Best: 7.057/182.87/-0.603, Was #4

Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 54 percent, barometer 28.92 inches, adjusted altitude 2,737 feet, track temperature 106 degrees.

Grima is running their Australian Pro Stock Mustang in B/A today! Another clean pass with a better ET, but he will stay #4.

Lane's Cobalt went dead right at the green and he had his hands full getting it back into the center of the lane. He wisely gives it up early.

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Left Lane: Art Hodges Runs 10.493/85.54/2.253, Now #8; D/A Index: 8.24, Prior Best: 7.680/178.59/-0.560, Was #8

Hodges' Camaro starts a steady pull towards the wall and he finally gave it up before the 330 lights.

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Left Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.385/184.14/-0.585, Now #5; PST Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.794/173.92/-0.176, Was #20
Right Lane: Lucky Snyder Runs 8.180/165.15/-0.460, Now #16; F/A Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.728/163.93/0.088, Was #22

Much better passes a pair!

Mettler gets a full pass this time and moves fifteen positions up to the #5 spot.

A clean pass for Snyder too and he goes to #16.

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Left Lane: Ralph Van Paepeghem Runs 7.314/180.36/-0.496, Now #16; A/EA Index: 7.81, Prior Best: 7.448/178.87/-0.362, Was #19
Right Lane: Howie Stevens Runs 7.419/184.57/-0.531, Now #6; C/A Index: 7.95, Prior Best: 7.370/185.18/-0.580, Was #6

Straight pass for Van Paepeghem, but it looked like some tire spin at the green.

Steven runs without drama to stay #6.

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Left Lane: Josh Lee Runs 8.839/147.88/-0.651, Now #2; H/EA Index: 9.49, Prior Best: 8.914/148.44/-0.576, Was #7
Right Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.385/161.56/-0.425, Now #20; C/T Index: 8.81, Prior Best: 8.462/157.78/-0.348, Was #20

Lee tunes up the little Honda and makes a pass near his usual pace. Right up to the #2 spot.

Jones makes a clean pass with a little better times to stay #20.

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Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.189/183.27/-0.631, Now #3; A/EA Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.279/158.65/-0.541, Was #12
Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.500/132.13/-0.430, Now #4; D/SMA Index: 8.93, Prior Best: 8.306/161.38/-0.624, Was #3

Full pass for Rampy this time and it's a clean and straight pass into the #3 spot.

Lambeck slows down track and loses a spot on the ladder.

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Left Lane: Paul Mitsos Runs 6.721/205.04/-0.429, Now #20; A/AA Index: 7.15, Prior Best: 7.410/144.92/0.260, Was #23
Right Lane: Jim Greenheck Runs 7.521/180.04/-0.559, Now #9; D/AA Index: 8.08, Prior Best: 7.513/179.71/-0.567, Was #9

Mitsos ' car does a little tail wagging early, but makes a much better pass to move up three spots.

Greenheck finds a little speed, but loses a little ET to stary #9.

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Left Lane: Frank Aragona Runs 7.390/168.01/-0.650, Now #3; J/AA Index: 8.04, Prior Best: 7.417/165.27/-0.623, Was #5
Right Lane: Steve Graham Runs 8.236/166.50/-0.614, Now #6; C/SM Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.866/119.58/0.016, Was #23

Two strong passes!

Aragona moves up two spots to #3.

Graham gets a full pass this time and moves way up the ladder to #6.

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Left Lane: Tony Mandella Runs 7.906/162.55/-0.554, Now #13; A/SMA Index: 8.46, Prior Best: 8.004/144.46/-0.456, Was #19
Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.257/181.98/-0.563, Now #11; C/ED Index: 7.82, Prior Best: 7.270/181.25/-0.550, Was #12

McClay is just a tad better this time and moves up a spot to #11.

Mandella gets to the lights under power and is now #13.

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Left Lane: Joe Mozeris Runs 15.882/45.56/8.402, Now #14; B/ED Index: 7.48, Prior Best: 6.935/186.25/-0.545, Was #14
Right Lane: Ryan Warter Runs 15.503/56.92/6.223, Now #15; F/SM Index: 9.28, Prior Best: 8.754/154.72/-0.526, Was #15

Two broken runs.

Warter's engine sounded like a missed shift and Mozeris has his dragster make a big move towards the center line at the green.

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Right Lane: Ryan Priddy Runs 12.821/81.10/4.351, Now #17; FS/SM Index: 8.47, Prior Best: 7.961/172.14/-0.509, Was #17

Another aborted pass. Priddy is loose and coasting early.

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Right Lane: Kurt Hugger Runs 7.420/182.92/-0.610, Now #1; PST Index: 8.03, Prior Best: 7.358/183.77/-0.672, Was #1

Hugger can't improve ,as the pickup uses a lot of track getting to the finish line.

1:52 p.m. Kurt Hugger is still number one at -0.672. Field not filled, no bump spot.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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