Thu, 27 Jul 2006, 07:37 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #1

By Larry Sullivan

HEBRON, Ohio - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA, Second annual Jeg's Northern SPORTSnationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, amount over/under index, and position in order following run, class and class index:

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Left Lane: Vinny Barone Runs 7.930/169.83/-0.550, Now #1 A/SR Index: 8.48
Right Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 7.670/176.42/-0.330, Now #2 C/A Index: 8.00

6:54 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 79 percent, barometer 29.24 inches, adjusted altitude 2,385 feet, track temperature 95 degrees. After a wet start to the day, the weather played with us the rest of the afternoon, but there was no serious rain and everybody got one shot today.

Affronti's car did a dance on the launch and still went way under his apparent index. However, Affronti's class came up as E/Altered, but he was really in C/Altered - a difference of 0.4 seconds in the index.

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Left Lane: Dominic Surace Runs 7.881/172.19/-0.189, Now #3 PST Index: 8.07
Right Lane: John Peto Runs 8.396/153.18/-0.044, Now #4 J/AA Index: 8.44

Peto's altered left a trail of death smoke in the lights.

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Left Lane: Chris Bozic Runs 7.317/184.62/-0.283, Now #3 C/D Index: 7.60
Right Lane: Mauri Rose Runs 13.137/61.84/5.537, Now #6 C/D Index: 7.60

Rose slowed early in the run.

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Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 8.531/155.44/-0.449, Now #2 D/EA Index: 8.98
Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 7.410/178.12/-0.410, Now #3 D/D Index: 7.82

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Left Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.637/175.09/-0.663, Now #1 DD/AT Index: 8.30
Right Lane: Steve Eckard Runs 7.430/176.93/-0.300, Now #6 B/AA Index: 7.73

Massel got the turbo car wound up and hauling right from the start.

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Left Lane: Dale Spencer Runs 8.551/154.67/-0.409, Now #5 F/ED Index: 8.96
Right Lane: Bo Butner Runs 8.861/138.61/0.961, Now #11 AA/SM Index: 7.90

Butner had problems early.

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Left Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 8.024/162.82/-0.416, Now #5 J/AA Index: 8.44
Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 7.464/177.02/-0.466, Now #3 C/ED Index: 7.93

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Left Lane: Skip Gladstone Runs 10.655/90.06/1.695, Now #15 F/ED Index: 8.96
Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.428/178.26/-0.482, Now #3 A/EA Index: 7.91

Gladstone also with problems early in the run.

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Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 9.308/128.19/-0.402, Now #10 L/AA Index: 9.71
Right Lane: John Frech Runs 8.310/154.23/-0.410, Now #8 F/D Index: 8.72

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Left Lane: Glenn Bourke Runs 8.716/154.32/-0.244, Now #14 F/ED Index: 8.96

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Left Lane: Jeff Wright Runs 7.669/176.14/-0.061, Now #16 B/AA Index: 7.73

Last car.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink