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Sun, 25 Oct 2020, 14:27 PM

Top Fuel Round 2 Eliminations

By Rick Green

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of round 2 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 33rd annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals presented by Pennzoil:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Billy Torrence                        777 Leah Pruett                  
E2   ****WINNER****  0.063  3.708 331.61                     0.079  3.708 322.58
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Morrison  ) 0.093  3.756 324.98      (L Callaway  ) 0.069  3.745 321.65
 Qualified:             #3  3.701 327.74                        #6  3.767 324.20

Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 69 percent, barometer 29.89 inches, adjusted altitude 2,047 feet, track temperature 88 degrees.
Torrence is 3 - 2 against Pruett in prior events.

Torrence with the starting line advantage, Pruett has the lead at 330 feet, but Torrence gets it back at the 1/8mile mark and takes the win. They both run identical E.T.s. Billy Torrence's MOV: 0.0162 seconds (approximately 8 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  123 Antron Brown                            2 Doug Kalitta                 
E2   ****WINNER****  0.034  3.719 329.42                     0.131  3.747 325.92
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Palmer    ) 0.059  3.731 324.12      (K Kinsley   ) 0.070  3.716 327.27
 Qualified:             #4  3.741 326.87                        #5  3.764 269.78

Brown is 34 - 26 against Kalitta in prior events.

Brown with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. Brown with his quickest and fastest pass of the weekend for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 1301 Doug Foley                            356 Tony Schumacher              
E2                   0.052  3.852 269.24     ****WINNER****  0.071  3.735 327.43
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C Millican  ) 0.110  3.803 323.04      (C Ferre     ) 0.220  3.712 319.37
 Qualified:            #10  3.913 301.87                        #2  3.685 330.07

Schumacher is 3 - 2 against Foley in prior events.

Foley with the starting line advantage, but Schumacher had the lead by the time they went by the Christmas tree and never trailed from there on for the win. He will give up lane choice Billy Torrence in the semifinal.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  333 Shawn Langdon                           1 Steve Torrence               
E2                   0.054  4.063 216.00     ****WINNER****  0.043  3.686 328.46
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Ashley    ) 0.031  3.720 327.59                     0.087  3.674 329.34
 Qualified:             #8  3.812 269.67                        #1  3.672 327.98

Torrence is 15 - 13 against Langdon in prior events.

Torrence with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. Torrence runs low E.T. of the round for the win. He will have lane choice over Brown in the semifinal.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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