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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 41st annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, amount over/under index, and position in order following run, class and class index: Left Lane: Ken Justice Sr. Runs 7.776/179.49/-0.024, Now #2 B/AA Index: 7.80 Right Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.656/150.13/-0.574, Now #1 C/SR Index: 9.23 2:25 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 66 degrees, relative humidity 45 percent, barometer 29.44 inches, adjusted altitude 1,229 feet, track temperature 96 degrees. There should be approximately 40 cars in this session of Competition Eliminator, so there will be a bump spot before this round is over. Sigmon sets the bar pretty high right out
of the box. Left Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 8.184/165.82/-0.576, Now #1 B/SM Index: 8.76 Right Lane: Daniel Oliver Runs 7.286/186.02/0.176, Now #4 A/D Index: 7.11 Left Lane: Lucky Snyder Runs 8.229/164.35/-0.501, Now #4 F/A Index: 8.73 Right Lane: Steve Wilmoth Runs 8.721/149.68/-0.509, Now #3 C/SR Index: 9.23 Left Lane: Tom Brown Runs 8.745/146.30/-0.235, Now #6 F/ED Index: 8.98 Right Lane: Jake Crimmins Runs 6.777/207.82/-0.413, Now #5 AA/AM Index: 7.19 Crimmins' blown methanol altered bounced itself down the track...with a big speed. Left Lane: Chuck Smithfield Runs 7.882/169.36/-0.288, Now #7 BB/A Index: 8.17 Right Lane: Jeff Taylor Runs 8.643/142.58/-0.557, Now #3 D/SM Index: 9.20 The new Lucas Oil champion appears to be ready for the season finale... Left Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.358/160.48/-0.572, Now #3 C/SMA Index: 8.93 Right Lane: David Sumek Runs 6.685/203.09/-0.505, Now #6 AA/AM Index: 7.19 Sumek's blown methanol altered made a smooth pass, right down the groove. Wilson's car hiked the front wheels way up on the launch, then made a very quick pass. Left Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.448/157.95/-0.642, Now #1 D/SMA Index: 9.09 Right Lane: Bo Butner III Runs 8.642/136.34/-0.558, Now #5 D/SM Index: 9.20 Lambeck laid down his claim to the #1 spot with a very smooth, straight pass. Left Lane: Jim Cowan Runs 9.019/150.33/0.609, Now #16 B/EA Index: 8.41 Right Lane: Jirka Kaplan Runs 7.298/165.21/-0.452, Now #10 BB/AM Index: 7.75 Kaplan's blown methanol altered looked like it was on a very quick run well beyond half track, then it nosed over, only 165 mph at the line after running 153 at half track. Left Lane: Tony Stephenson Runs 8.222/163.45/-0.528, Now #7 B/EA Index: 8.75 Right Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 8.089/153.11/-0.511, Now #8 B/SR Index: 8.60 Left Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 9.272/112.21/1.862, Now #20 A/AA Index: 7.41 Right Lane: Alan Freese Runs 7.871/172.54/-0.479, Now #12 D/AA Index: 8.35 Ellis slowed early in the run. Left Lane: Dave Barcelon Runs 8.133/165.46/-0.597, Now #2 G/A Index: 8.73 Right Lane: Tom Huggins Runs 7.201/192.30/-0.539, Now #8 B/A Index: 7.74 Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.999/163.31/-0.601, Now #2 B/SR Index: 8.60 Right Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.696/200.71/-0.564, Now #7 A/ED Index: 7.26 Patterson's roadster made a hard left-right move on the launch. Doesn't appear to have hurt the run much, however. Left Lane: Jeff Gillette Runs 7.040/187.86/-0.440, Now #19 B/ED Index: 7.48 Right Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.129/161.73/-0.591, Now #4 F/D Index: 8.72 Left Lane: Vinnie Deceglie Runs 6.577/211.13/-0.613, Now #2 A/A Index: 7.19 Right Lane: David Ebbert Runs 18.713/39.81/11.603, Now #28 A/D Index: 7.11 Ebbert's car shook hard and slowed immediately, coasting through. Deceglie made a nice run after some pretty heavy tires shake of his own. Left Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 6.911/213.30/-0.479, Now #19 AA/AT Index: 7.39 Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.514/175.73/-0.426, Now #22 C/ED Index: 7.94 Mihovetz' car shook and spit out a few small pieces of debris on the launch, so the starting line crew shut things down to some housekeeping before firing the next pair. Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 9.152/143.83/-0.618, Now #2 L/AA Index: 9.77 Right Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.690/156.84/-0.510, Now #16 D/SM Index: 9.20 Zane's car is not at its best when viewed from the rear, the small rear tires tucked in close to each other, under the bodywork, but it gets the job done very nicely. Left Lane: Mike Smith Runs 8.510/144.09/-0.500, Now #21 G/AA Index: 9.01 Right Lane: Dean Carter Runs 6.986/188.78/-0.554, Now #13 A/ND Index: 7.54 There is a bump spot, it's way over the index... after these two ran, Jim Cowan was on the bump spot at 0.609 over. Left Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.523/179.21/-0.547, Now #14 PST Index: 8.07 Right Lane: Eddie Smith Runs 8.281/160.10/-0.429, Now #27 F/AA Index: 8.71 Now Ken Justice Sr. is on the bump spot at -0.024. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.822/171.90/-0.588, Now #7 E/AA Index: 8.41 Right Lane: Michael Stone Runs 7.359/179.23/-0.581, Now #8 C/ED Index: 7.94 Now Chuck Smithfield is on the bump spot at -0.288. Right Lane: Jeff Lion Runs 8.233/165.54/-0.497, Now #25 F/A Index: 8.73 Last car. 39 cars went down the track, Jake Crimmins is on the bump spot at -0.413.
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