Fri, 21 Feb 2020, 17:57 PM Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations

By David Gerard

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 36th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  727 Alan Freese                          7879 Don Bevers                   
E1                   0.035  8.873 152.16     ****WINNER****  0.049  8.086 146.08
       F/SMA Index: 9.26 (+/-): -0.387           A/SMA Index: 8.53 (+/-): -0.444
 Qualified:            #13  8.867 -0.393                        #5  7.954 -0.576

3:40 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 81 degrees, relative humidity 29 percent, barometer 29.80 inches, adjusted altitude 3,232 feet, track temperature 97 degrees.

Due to the expected full day of rain tomorrow, round one and hopefully two, will be run today.

Don Bevers runs strong enough to get by Freese for the win. MOV: 0.0438 seconds (approximately 10 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   68 John Edwards                         7406 Eric Bell                    
E1   ****WINNER****  0.150  7.452 166.46                     0.017  8.629 152.47
        C/AA Index: 7.94 (+/-): -0.488           AH/SM Index: 8.95 (+/-): -0.321
 Qualified:             #6  7.382 -0.558                       #14  8.612 -0.338

Edwards is dead late and just runs down Bell for the win. Bell had a 17 light!

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7189 Dean Carter                                Bye
E1   ****WINNER****  0.041  7.286 134.19     
        B/ND Index: 7.55 (+/-): -0.264    
 Qualified:             #1  6.915 -0.635                     Bye

Carter gets the bye run to round two.

He leave hard and then clicks it early!

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    5 Ryan Warter                            10 Ralph Van Paepeghem          
E1                   0.103  8.770 152.90     ****WINNER****  0.022  7.337 171.03
        F/SM Index: 9.28 (+/-): -0.510            A/EA Index: 7.81 (+/-): -0.473
 Qualified:            #17 11.431  2.151                        #9  7.306 -0.504

Warter is still looking for his first full pass of the weekend.

Ralph Van Paepeghem gets a big starting line advantage and runs down and passes a quicker Warter before the lights.(Warter had a 0.152 light!) MOV: 0.0441 seconds (approximately 10 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   72 Joe Mozeris                          7230 Randy Jones                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.152  6.937 184.77                     0.129  8.376 160.04
        B/ED Index: 7.48 (+/-): -0.543             C/T Index: 8.81 (+/-): -0.434
 Qualified:            #16  7.628  0.148                        #8  8.302 -0.508

Two not so good lights and Mozeris final gets the dragster to the lights under power this time to take the easy win. Jones slows from his earlier times.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  550 Will Hatcher                         4799 Bill Kent                    
E1                   0.062  8.018 106.92     ****WINNER****  0.026  6.710 178.97
        A/DA Index: 7.09 (+/-):  0.928             B/D Index: 7.27 (+/-): -0.560
 Qualified:            #10  6.615 -0.475                        #2  6.674 -0.596

Rare site in Comp these days! Two fast dragsters on the line.

Kent gets the starting line advantage and easy win, as Hatcher slows early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  233 Art Hodges                              4 Tony Mandella                
E1   ****WINNER****  0.063  7.331 184.95                     0.047  7.961 153.60
         C/A Index: 7.85 (+/-): -0.519           A/SMA Index: 8.46 (+/-): -0.499
 Qualified:            #12  7.418 -0.432                        #4  7.873 -0.587

Hodges seems to have fixed whatever happened in the second session.He gives up a bunch at the green and just gets on by a slowing Mandella for the narrow win. MOV: 0.0048 seconds (approximately 13 inches).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5233 Taylor Chomiski                       710 Doug Lambeck                 
E1                   0.129 10.208  93.67     ****WINNER****  0.043  8.640 123.17
         D/A Index: 8.32 (+/-):  1.888           D/SMA Index: 8.93 (+/-): -0.290
 Qualified:            #11  7.851 -0.469                        #3  8.341 -0.589

Chomiski is late and Lambeck isn't.

Chomiski clicks it way early and Lambeck just a little early!

3:52 p.m.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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