Results of round 1 eliminations in Pro Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 21st
annual Checker Schuck's Kragen NHRA Nationals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
6 Jeg Coughlin 1 Greg Anderson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.009 6.773 203.06 0.031 6.761 204.91
Qualified: #8 6.756 204.63 #9 6.757 204.63
Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 46 percent, barometer
28.92 inches, adjusted altitude 2,118 feet, track temperature 96 degrees. Coughlin with a
great light and the power to hold off the hard charging Anderson for a hole shot win.
Jeg
Coughlin's incremental margins: 60ft(0.047), 330 ft(0.039), 660ft(0.033), 1,000ft(0.021). MOV:
0.0108 seconds (approximately 3 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
3 Dave Connolly 351 Ron Krisher
E1 0.047 6.781 203.25 ****WINNER**** 0.063 6.762 204.32
Qualified: #7 6.755 204.26 #10 6.764 204.76
Connolly with the starting line advantage, but Krisher is able to chase him down. They are
dead even at 1000 feet, and Krisher takes the win by about a foot. Ron Krisher's incremental
margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.012), 330 ft(-0.005), 660ft(-0.004), 1,000ft(0.000).
MOV: 0.0035 seconds (approximately 13 inches).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
55 V. Gaines 93 Allen Johnson
E1 0.082 6.748 203.95 ****WINNER**** 0.035 6.767 203.43
Qualified: #5 6.754 204.01 #12 6.769 202.88
Johnson with a big starting line advantage and the power to hold off Gaines for a hole shot
win. Allen Johnson's incremental margins: 60ft(0.044), 330 ft(0.041), 660ft(0.035),
1,000ft(0.031). MOV: 0.0281 seconds (approximately 8 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
5 Kurt Johnson 2 Jason Line
E1 0.051 6.769 204.11 ****WINNER**** 0.029 6.768 204.54
Qualified: #4 6.746 204.51 #13 6.774 204.54
Line with the starting line advantage and never looked back to take the win by about seven
feet.Jason Line's incremental margins: 60ft(0.007), 330 ft(0.014), 660ft(0.018),
1,000ft(0.021). MOV: 0.0237 seconds (approximately 7 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
19 Richie Stevens 430 Erica Enders
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.018 6.748 204.42 0.048 6.806 203.22
Qualified: #1 6.735 205.35 #16 6.789 203.40
Stevens with a great light and the power to take the win between the former Jr. Dragster
drivers.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
14 Jim Yates 44 Mike Edwards
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.070 6.733 204.45 0.049 6.761 203.98
Qualified: #14 6.779 203.43 #3 6.743 204.39
Edwards was out of the gate first, but didn't have the power to hold off Yates. Jim
Yates' incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.011), 330 ft(-0.006), 660ft(-0.002),
1,000ft(0.002). MOV: 0.0072 seconds (approximately 2 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
208 Warren Johnson 701 Ben Watson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.017 6.736 204.57 -0.270 7.268 150.06
Qualified: #2 6.743 204.94 #15 6.780 202.61
Watson is way early giving WJ the freebie. Warren with another good looking pass.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
4 Larry Morgan 445 Greg Stanfield
E1 0.018 6.786 203.40 ****WINNER**** 0.019 6.767 204.45
Qualified: #6 6.754 203.98 #11 6.768 204.66
Both drivers with great lights and then Stanfield takes the lead and does not give it up for
the win.Greg Stanfield's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.001), 330
ft(0.010), 660ft(0.011), 1,000ft(0.013). MOV: 0.0184 seconds (approximately 5
feet).
Stanfield will give up lane choice to Yates, WJ will have lane choice over Krisher, A.
Johnson will have lane choice over Line, and stevens will have lane choice over his teammate
coughlin in the next round.
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