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Sat, 4 Nov 2006, 07:27 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations

By Dan Bennett

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Pacific Division, Shortline Express Markets Gambler Shootout at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4025 Joey Tanksley                        7916 Bryan Morrison               
E1   ****WINNER****  0.036  7.218 174.37                     0.231  8.328 160.18
        C/D Index: 7.70 (+/-): -0.482            F/AA Index: 8.86 (+/-): -0.532
 Qualified:            #16  7.077 -0.623                       #32  8.325 -0.535


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   74 Alan Ellis                           5017 Kevin Smith                  
E1                   0.048  7.025 163.99     ****WINNER****  0.061  7.332 181.50
       A/AA Index: 7.49 (+/-): -0.465            B/AA Index: 7.86 (+/-): -0.528
 Qualified:             #9  6.820 -0.670                       #25  7.283 -0.577


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  600 Jeff Lane                             732 Dave Raybourn                
E1   ****WINNER****  0.046  8.313 150.35                     0.033  8.930 149.02
       B/SR Index: 8.74 (+/-): -0.427           E/SMA Index: 9.29 (+/-): -0.360
 Qualified:            #10  8.079 -0.661                       #36  8.902 -0.388

Raybourn is racing from an alternate spot


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  610 John Edwards                         6104 Brad Plourd                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.050  7.718 164.07                     0.080  8.226 128.57
       C/AA Index: 8.19 (+/-): -0.472            C/ED Index: 8.07 (+/-):  0.156
 Qualified:            #22  7.600 -0.590                       #35  7.619 -0.451

Plourd is another alternate getting to race first round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6660 Adam Bowdish                           72 Vinnie Deceglie              
E1                   0.030  9.035 146.46     ****WINNER****  0.015  6.633 209.01
       F/SM Index: 9.58 (+/-): -0.545             A/A Index: 7.28 (+/-): -0.647
 Qualified:            #27  9.019 -0.561                       #11  6.630 -0.650

Big hit for Deceglie


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7109 Ross Wilson                          5250 Todd Patterson               
E1                  -0.005  8.427 158.73     ****WINNER****  0.191  8.026 144.24
      B/SMA Index: 8.92 (+/-): -0.493             E/A Index: 8.50 (+/-): -0.474
 Qualified:            #28  8.359 -0.561                       #12  7.854 -0.646


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   43 Craig Bourgeois                      7771 Ed Sigmon                    
E1   ****WINNER****  0.032  7.117 155.10                     0.066  8.885 145.91
       A/ND Index: 7.65 (+/-): -0.533            C/SR Index: 9.38 (+/-): -0.495
 Qualified:            #15  7.015 -0.635                       #31  8.842 -0.538


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    1 Jeff Taylor                           446 J. Allen Sherman             
E1   ****WINNER****  0.035  8.847 137.46                     0.111  8.528 158.24
       E/SM Index: 9.37 (+/-): -0.523            B/TA Index: 9.08 (+/-): -0.552
 Qualified:             #5  8.686 -0.684                       #21  8.481 -0.599

Taylor is the only one still left who has a chance of taking the championship away from Butner. The bad news is that he has to win every round from here on out to do so. If he loses before the final at Pomona, Butner will be the 2006 Comp Champion.

Taylor takes the first step on that tough journey.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   78 Scott Hedlund                        7238 David Beckley                
E1                   0.088  8.300 162.78     ****WINNER****  0.048  6.910 190.67
       B/SM Index: 8.89 (+/-): -0.590            A/AA Index: 7.49 (+/-): -0.580
 Qualified:            #18  8.273 -0.617                        #2  6.787 -0.703

David Beckley's MOV: 0.0306 seconds (approximately 7 feet).

Amazing. I could hear Beckley whomping the throttle, working the finish line on a 190 mph pass. Ain't Comp great?


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2000 Lee Sharp                            7244 Fred Gross                   
E1   ****WINNER****  0.042  8.755 153.84                     0.092  8.676 156.79
      D/SMA Index: 9.25 (+/-): -0.495             G/A Index: 9.21 (+/-): -0.534
 Qualified:             #7  8.573 -0.677                       #23  8.624 -0.586

Lee Sharp's MOV: 0.0118 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

Gross can't (or won't) make up the reaction time disadvantage.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  730 Bryan Fitzgerald                     6944 Bob Marshall                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.052  8.063 166.87                     0.334  7.618 180.38
       E/AA Index: 8.50 (+/-): -0.437            B/AA Index: 7.86 (+/-): -0.242
 Qualified:            #34  8.004 -0.496                       #33  7.331 -0.529


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  717 Mike DePalma                           71 Dean Carter                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.042  8.262 157.36                     0.038  7.111 185.59
        F/A Index: 8.84 (+/-): -0.578            A/ND Index: 7.65 (+/-): -0.539
 Qualified:            #14  8.200 -0.640                       #30  7.094 -0.556

A great race among two of the best.

Mike DePalma's MOV: 0.0358 seconds (approximately 10 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  750 Jim Cowan                             710 Doug Lambeck                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.054  8.409 154.81                     0.016  8.655 153.79
       D/EA Index: 9.08 (+/-): -0.671           D/SMA Index: 9.25 (+/-): -0.595
 Qualified:             #1  8.350 -0.730                       #17  8.627 -0.623

That's a heartbreaker for Lambeck. It's great light but it's tough to outrun a -.671 run.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    9 Colt Mikel                           7098 Tom Mettler                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.005  9.124 107.93                    -0.005  8.152 123.32
       B/TA Index: 9.08 (+/-):  0.044             PST Index: 8.21 (+/-): -0.058
 Qualified:            #24  8.495 -0.585                        #8  7.540 -0.670


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 3737 Jacklyn Gebhardt                       62 Dave Barcelon                
E1   ****WINNER**** -0.011  8.049 105.56                    -0.041 13.215  66.43
       A/ED Index: 7.36 (+/-):  0.689             G/A Index: 9.21 (+/-):  4.005
 Qualified:             #4  6.661 -0.699                       #20  8.595 -0.615


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   76 Tom Huggins                          6222 Mark Stewart                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.072  7.232 169.38                     0.057  9.110 147.29
        B/A Index: 7.82 (+/-): -0.588           G/SMA Index: 9.57 (+/-): -0.460
 Qualified:            #13  7.177 -0.643                       #29  9.010 -0.560

Stewart makes a trip over to the wall on the leave, and that extra distance hurt him.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink