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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 3 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 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: John Mihovetz Runs 6.843/209.69/-0.547, Now #1; AA/AT Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 6.711/213.37/-0.679, Was #1 Right Lane: David Sumek Runs 6.735/202.21/-0.455, Now #29; AA/AM Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.685/203.09/-0.505, Was #29 1:29 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 67 degrees, relative humidity 31 percent, barometer 29.42 inches, adjusted altitude 1,234 feet, track temperature 90 degrees. Mihovetz made a good run, just not as good as his last one. Sumek also made a good
pass, but conditions are not quite as good as they were earlier. Left Lane: Chuck Smithfield Runs 7.518/176.63/-0.652, Now #3; BB/A Index: 8.17, Prior Best: 7.599/170.54/-0.571, Was #20 Right Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.702/200.92/-0.558, Now #17; A/ED Index: 7.26, Prior Best: 6.675/201.52/-0.585, Was #16 Smithfield jumped way up the ladder on an outstanding ru, pushing Gebhardt down into the bottom half of the field. Left Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.974/163.53/-0.626, Now #6; B/SR Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 7.966/164.11/-0.634, Was #6 Right Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.711/150.13/-0.519, Now #20; C/SR Index: 9.23, Prior Best: 8.656/150.13/-0.574, Was #20 Left Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.988/145.93/0.058, Now #12; C/SMA Index: 8.93, Prior Best: 8.331/160.52/-0.599, Was #12 Right Lane: Jake Crimmins Runs 6.627/210.34/-0.563, Now #25; AA/AM Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.685/210.87/-0.505, Was #30 Crimmins picked the pace up a bit, moved a few spots further from the bump spot. Lucky Snyder is still on the bump spot at -0.501. Left Lane: Tom Brown Runs 8.449/153.91/-0.531, Now #29; F/ED Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.504/152.40/-0.476, Was #34 Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.492/175.30/-0.448, Now #35; C/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.514/175.73/-0.426, Was #37 Brown bumped into the field. Eddie Smith is on the bump spot at -0.502. Left Lane: Tony Stephenson Runs 8.180/163.67/-0.570, Now #20; B/EA Index: 8.75, Prior Best: 8.187/163.83/-0.563, Was #23 Right Lane: Dean Carter Runs 6.966/188.78/-0.574, Now #16; A/ND Index: 7.54, Prior Best: 6.954/188.83/-0.586, Was #15 Actually, Jim Cowan is on the bump spot at -0.497. After the second round, Michael Stone became ill and withdrew so that Peter Biondo could drive Stone's car. Left Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 8.172/165.92/-0.588, Now #16; B/SM Index: 8.76, Prior Best: 8.184/165.82/-0.576, Was #18 Right Lane: Randy Jones Runs 16.358/54.16/7.158, Now #30; D/SM Index: 9.20, Prior Best: 8.690/156.84/-0.510, Was #30 Hedlund shook and drove through it. Jones shook and lifted. Left Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.516/156.84/-0.574, Now #5; D/SMA Index: 9.09, Prior Best: 8.448/157.95/-0.642, Was #5 Right Lane: David Ebbert Runs 7.109/146.19/-0.001, Now #35; A/D Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.665/200.59/-0.445, Was #35 Ebbert was off the power around the 1,000-foot marker. Left Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 11.818/104.15/4.408, Now #21; A/AA Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 6.842/195.87/-0.568, Was #21 Right Lane: Steve Wilmoth Runs 8.687/150.83/-0.543, Now #25; C/SR Index: 9.23, Prior Best: 8.676/149.93/-0.554, Was #25 Ellis shook and slowed. Left Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 7.787/172.08/-0.623, Now #8; E/AA Index: 8.41, Prior Best: 7.804/172.47/-0.606, Was #11 Right Lane: Daniel Oliver Runs 16.776/55.28/9.666, Now #39; A/D Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.232/187.55/0.122, Was #39 Oliver shook and slowed. Biondo made a very nice run to move up the ladder. Left Lane: Dave Barcelon Runs 8.132/166.46/-0.598, Now #14; G/A Index: 8.73, Prior Best: 8.133/165.46/-0.597, Was #14 Right Lane: Jeff Lion Runs 8.212/166.50/-0.518, Now #23; F/A Index: 8.73, Prior Best: 8.166/166.15/-0.564, Was #23 Barcelon's three runs were 8.133, 8.136, and 8.132. You could win na lot of ET Bracket races with that mind of repeatability... Left Lane: Ken Justice Sr. Runs 7.213/190.40/-0.587, Now #17; B/AA Index: 7.80, Prior Best: 7.578/189.52/-0.222, Was #38 Right Lane: Jeff Lane Runs 8.113/140.47/-0.487, Now #9; B/SR Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 7.985/151.48/-0.615, Was #9 Justice got his problems sorted out, jumped into the field in the middle of the pack. Now David Sumek is on the bump spot at -0.505. Lane slowed on the top end, no sign of any problem. Left Lane: Tom Mettler Runs 7.482/180.60/-0.588, Now #17; PST Index: 8.07, Prior Best: 7.503/180.40/-0.567, Was #23 Right Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.154/146.19/-0.566, Now #15; F/D Index: 8.72, Prior Best: 8.129/161.73/-0.591, Was #15 Nice runs in both lanes. Left Lane: Vinnie Deceglie Runs 6.574/211.53/-0.616, Now #10; A/A Index: 7.19, Prior Best: 6.577/211.13/-0.613, Was #10 Right Lane: Tom Huggins Runs 7.094/193.10/-0.646, Now #5; B/A Index: 7.74, Prior Best: 7.201/192.30/-0.539, Was #28 Deceglie's car shook and danced on the launch, he drove through it for his best ET of the weekend. Huggins nailed this one, also making his best run of the weekend to move way up in the top part of the field. Left Lane: Jeff Gillette Runs 10.876/93.51/3.396, Now #37; B/ED Index: 7.48, Prior Best: 7.040/187.86/-0.440, Was #37 Right Lane: Bo Butner III No Time, Now #2; D/SM Index: 9.20, Prior Best: 8.522/153.81/-0.678, Was #2 Butner had problems staging and was timed out. Gillette had problems early in the run and idled through. Left Lane: Bryan Morrison Runs 8.288/161.59/-0.422, Now #38; G/SMA Index: 8.71, Prior Best: 8.316/158.39/-0.394, Was #38 Right Lane: Jeff Taylor Runs 8.550/153.30/-0.650, Now #4; D/SM Index: 9.20, Prior Best: 8.571/149.56/-0.629, Was #8 Zane shut off about 1,000 feet down the track. Taylor ran it out the back door to move into the top four. Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 9.123/144.72/-0.647, Now #5; L/AA Index: 9.77, Prior Best: 9.123/144.40/-0.647, Was #5 Right Lane: Eddie Smith Runs 8.207/163.49/-0.503, Now #33; F/AA Index: 8.71, Prior Best: 8.208/163.00/-0.502, Was #33 Two consistent runs, good news for Zane, bad news for Smith, he stays as the #1 alternate. Left Lane: Lucky Snyder Runs 8.341/162.88/-0.389, Now #34; F/A Index: 8.73, Prior Best: 8.229/164.35/-0.501, Was #34 Right Lane: Peter Biondo Runs 7.446/179.14/-0.494, Now #35; G/ED Index: 7.94, No Prior Run Biondo's first run started off badly, with tire shake, and he did not make the field. Snyder also shook a bit and could not bump back into the field. They are the second and third alternates. Left Lane: Mike Smith Runs 8.416/160.10/-0.594, Now #14; G/AA Index: 9.01, Prior Best: 8.411/160.18/-0.599, Was #14 Last car. Nice run. John Mihovetz is the #1 qualifier at -0.679 and David Sumek is on the bump spot at -0.505.
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