Sun, 27 Jun 2010, 01:22 PM
Top Fuel Round 2 Eliminations
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By Rick Green
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NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 2 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Fourth
annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
5 Brandon Bernstein 4 Cory McClenathan
E2 0.097 4.445 189.98 ****WINNER**** 0.099 3.953 302.48
Prior rounds:
E1 (T McMillen ) 0.097 3.909 306.60 (D Kalitta ) 0.084 4.019 296.96
Qualified: #3 3.848 312.42 #6 3.887 313.73
Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 62 percent, barometer 28.79
inches, adjusted altitude 4,217 feet, track temperature 117 degrees.Bernstein is 21 - 6 against
McClenathan in prior events. They leave together, but Bernstein has a hole or two out right at the
hit and then starts to lose traction around half track and clicks it off. McClenathan with a nice
clean pass, straight down the groove.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
333 Shawn Langdon 1 Tony Schumacher
E2 0.073 3.992 293.60 ****WINNER**** 0.079 3.951 308.57
Prior rounds:
E1 (S Torrence ) 0.081 3.964 301.54 (B Vandergrif) 0.076 3.907 310.41
Qualified: #13 3.929 307.16 #12 3.920 308.92
Schumacher is 3 - 2 against Langdon in prior events. Langdon with a slight starting line
advantage, but Schumacher has the difference made up by the time they go by the Christmas tree.
Langdon was with him all the way down the track this was a good drag race. Tony Schumacher's
incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(0.002), 330 ft(0.003), 660ft(0.009). MOV: 0.0353
seconds (approximately 15 feet).
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
3 Antron Brown 303 Pat Dakin
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.085 3.934 299.73 0.093 6.848 91.93
Prior rounds:
E1 (L Novelli ) 0.082 3.885 314.24 (M Lucas ) 0.097 3.970 297.16
Qualified: #2 3.795 318.99 #10 3.908 309.20
Dakin is 1 - 0 against Brown in prior events. Brown with the starting line advantage and never
trails as Dakin starts to smoke the tires around 150 feet. Brown runs low E.T. of the round and
will have lane choice over McClenathan in the semifinal.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
2 Larry Dixon 1301 Doug Foley
E2 ****WINNER**** 0.050 3.910 310.34 -0.201 9.225 78.53
Prior rounds:
E1 (T Buff ) 0.108 3.865 313.51 (D Grubnic ) 0.143 3.963 302.55
Qualified: #1 3.780 320.43 #8 3.896 314.24
Dixon is 5 - 0 against Foley in prior events. Foley turns on the red light. dixon runs low
E.T. of the round for the easy win. Larry Dixon's incremental times: 60ft-0.857 sec., 330ft-2.199,
660ft-3.131/273.11 mph. He will have lane choice over Schumacher in the semifinal.
Timing data courtesy of
CompuLink
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