Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 08:18 PM Super Stock Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Super Stock at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 47th annual CARQUEST Auto Parts Winternationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7568 Bryan Broaddus                        734 Richard Pinoski              
E4                   0.023  9.871 135.05     ****WINNER****  0.013 10.123 122.54
      SS/EA  Dial: 9.76 (+/-):  0.111           SS/HA  Dial: 10.05 (+/-):  0.073
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Rounds    ) -0.003 12.054  2.384      (D Dreher    ) 0.044 10.104  0.104
E2    (C Loge      ) 0.072  9.691  0.021      (L Dowty     ) 0.054 10.023 -0.007
E1    (J Freeman   ) 0.060  9.678  0.018      (K Martin    ) 0.029 10.054  0.044
 Qualified:            #20  9.588 -1.062                       #44  9.994 -0.906

5:04 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 62 degrees, relative humidity 49 percent, barometer 29.04 inches, adjusted altitude 1,429 feet, track temperature 74 degrees.

Two great lights and Pinoski takes the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    4 Jimmy DeFrank                        7629 Joe Faherty                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.033  9.062 140.02                     0.014  9.344 144.32
      SS/BS  Dial: 9.00 (+/-):  0.062           SS/AH  Dial: 8.95 (+/-):  0.394
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Broaddus  ) 0.045  9.019  0.009      (T Hall      ) 0.018  9.015  0.085
E2    (S Wann      ) 0.040  9.028  0.018      (J Winslow Jr) 0.056  8.999  0.079
E1    (B Bales     ) 0.020  9.032  0.052      (D Little    ) 0.067  8.928  0.018
 Qualified:             #7  8.925 -1.125                       #41  8.857 -0.943

Faherty has a great light too and then slows to give the easy win to DeFrank.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    5 Tony DeFrank                           68 Brad Plourd                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.028  9.606 119.17                     0.043 12.837  69.21
      GT/BA  Dial: 9.44 (+/-):  0.166           SS/BM  Dial: 9.19 (+/-):  3.647
 Prior rounds:
E3    (K Smith     ) 0.030  9.500  0.050      (M Graham    ) 0.077  9.270  0.080
E2    (J Larkin    ) 0.017  9.592  0.132      (A Falcone   ) 0.023  9.226  0.036
E1    (J Calvert   ) 0.005  9.460  0.000      (S Studley   ) 0.028  9.184 -0.006
 Qualified:             #9  9.428 -1.122                       #73  9.175 -0.525

Plourd makes a move towards the wall and has to lift. The other DeFrank, Tony, gets the easy win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1781 Dan Fletcher                            7 Jody Lang                    
E4                   0.012 21.978  37.83     ****WINNER****  0.026 11.167  93.71
      GT/AA  Dial: 9.76 (+/-): 12.218           GT/IA  Dial: 10.94 (+/-):  0.227
 Prior rounds:
E3    (A Emmer     ) 0.019  9.750  0.000      (B Chaffin   ) 0.051 10.965  0.015
E2    (G Stassi    ) 0.039  9.816  0.076      (M Hennessay ) 0.001 11.183  0.283
E1    (D Kennedy   ) 0.032  9.731  0.001      (J Kohorst   ) 0.022 10.939  0.029
 Qualified:            #72  9.805 -0.595                       #77 11.116 -0.384

Fletcher nails the tree and then has to lift when the car makes a hard move towards the wall. Lang goes on to take the easy win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  372 Jeg Coughlin                         7363 Jim Durham                   
E4                  -0.019  8.775 146.30     ****WINNER****  0.005 10.920 120.23
      SS/CM  Dial: 8.77 (+/-):  0.005           SS/JA  Dial: 10.93 (+/-): -0.010
 Prior rounds:
E3    (R Houser    ) 0.044  8.813  0.043      (A Corda     ) 0.072 10.931  0.021
E2    (T Kadar     ) 0.009  8.748 -0.032      (F Moreno    ) 0.037 10.880 -0.010
E1    (Bye         ) 0.024  8.762  0.032      (J Jenkins   ) 0.038 10.885  0.005
 Qualified:             #1  8.687 -1.263                       #75 10.863 -0.437

Last pair and a red light from Coughlin gives the win to Durham.

5:09 p.m. Jimmy DeFrank with the Bye; Lang Vs. Pinoski; and Tony DeFrank Vs Durham in Round 5.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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