Sun, 16 May 2021, 14:51 PM Top Fuel Harley Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

CONCORD, N.C. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Top Fuel Harley at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 11th annual NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals:

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Rickey House                           63 Jay Turner                   
E1                   0.089 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.012  6.377 223.76
 Qualified:             #5  6.653 214.14                        #4  6.408 208.30

Turner with a great light and runs his quickest pass of the weekend for the win.

House is drifting out of the groove and collects the top end block so his run is DQ'ed. This will cost him five points.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  711 Bill Jackson                          911 Tii Tharpe                   
E1                   0.102  6.567 222.22     ****WINNER****  0.109  6.388 219.79
 Qualified:             #6  6.752 187.42                        #3  6.361 224.96

Jackson with a slight starting line advantage, but Tharpe has the lead by 330 feet and never trails from there on for the win.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  212 Tyler Wilson                            1 Randal Andras                
E1                   0.120  6.951 156.12     ****WINNER****  0.130  6.348 221.05
 Qualified:             #7  6.967 158.19                        #2  6.318 220.98

Wilson with the starting line advantage, but Andras has the lead by 100 feet and never trails from there on for the win. Andras with the quickest pass of race day. he will have lane choice over Tharpe in the semifinal.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Ryan Peery                            702 Tim Kerrigan                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.108  6.512 203.28                     0.042  8.534 105.90
 Qualified:             #1  6.260 227.38                        #9  7.798 157.19

Kerrigan with the starting line advantage, but Peery has the lead by 400 feet and never trails from there on for the win. He will give up lane choice to Turner in the semifinal.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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