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Mon, 31 Jul 2006, 01:41 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

SONOMA, Calif. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  720 J.D. Zink                            6996 Rob Harrison                 
E3                  -0.359  9.586 118.33     ****WINNER****  0.081  8.850 113.78
       A/ND Index: 7.52 (+/-):  2.066             J/A Index: 8.49 (+/-):  0.360
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Kaplan    ) 0.030  7.012 -0.528      (B Fitzgerald) 0.057 13.292  4.802
E1    (A Freese    ) 0.041  7.366 -0.174      (J Lion      ) 0.161 11.093  2.603
 Qualified:             #9  6.954 -0.586                        #5  7.850 -0.640

1:55 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 76 degrees, relative humidity 55 percent, barometer 30.11 inches, adjusted altitude 1,143 feet, track temperature 121 degrees.

Zink was almost a whole light early. Trans brake?


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   72 Vinnie Deceglie                         7 Glen Treadwell               
E3                   0.023 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.028  8.167 135.52
        A/A Index: 7.19 (+/-): 92.809            F/EA Index: 8.78 (+/-): -0.613
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Gracia    ) 0.048  7.652  0.462                     0.062  8.608 -0.172
E1    (K Hugger    ) 0.027  6.856 -0.334      (A Ellis     ) 0.027  8.835  0.055
 Qualified:             #6  6.558 -0.632                        #2  8.042 -0.738

Deceglie was all over the left lane and finally took out the mph stop block at half track. Automatic win to Treadwell. Uh oh. I look up and they are cleaning a wide swath of lane behind treadwell. I wonder if some of that oil blew into Deceglie's lane?


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6018 Jim Warter                             71 Dean Carter                  
E3                   0.055  8.819 153.07     ****WINNER****  0.000  6.922 186.43
       F/SM Index: 9.40 (+/-): -0.581            A/ND Index: 7.47 (+/-): -0.548
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Huggins   ) 0.052  8.953 -0.447      (D Barcelon  ) 0.046  6.970 -0.570
E1    (B Marshall  ) 0.052  8.896 -0.554      (B Moscini   ) 0.078  7.280 -0.260
 Qualified:            #10  8.875 -0.575                       #14  6.988 -0.552

That was a fairly long cleanup after Harrison. The oil went from just after half track to about the finish. Carter with the perfect light and the date with Harrison in the semi.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  600 Jeff Lane                             710 Doug Lambeck                 
E3                  -0.008  8.377 125.79     ****WINNER****  0.024  8.769 124.48
       B/SR Index: 8.54 (+/-): -0.163           D/SMA Index: 9.01 (+/-): -0.241
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Beckley   ) 0.043  8.031 -0.559      (J Cowan     ) 0.024  8.510 -0.580
E1    (R Jones     ) -0.005  8.616  0.026      (A Bresch    ) 0.045  8.746 -0.344
 Qualified:             #8  7.985 -0.605                       #11  8.531 -0.559

Lane goes red and Lambeck will get Treadwell in the other semi.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink