Sun, 12 Nov 2006, 06:39 PM Competition Eliminator Round 4 Eliminations

By Dave Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 42nd annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   74 Alan Ellis                           6660 Adam Bowdish                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.033  6.723 200.50                     0.056  8.844 151.41
       A/AA Index: 7.25 (+/-): -0.527            F/SM Index: 9.38 (+/-): -0.536
 Prior rounds:
E3    (E Sigmon    ) 0.043  7.703  0.453      (K Smith     ) 0.030  8.882 -0.498
E2    (T Mettler   ) 0.018  6.747 -0.613      (T Huggins   ) 0.069  9.383  0.003
E1    (J Mihovetz  ) 0.062  6.857 -0.503      (D Sumek     ) 0.044  8.880 -0.540
 Qualified:            #17  6.776 -0.584                       #19  8.846 -0.574

3:31 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 29.16 inches, adjusted altitude 2,024 feet, track temperature 90 degrees.

No CIC's earlier for these two. Ellis has the better RT and powers on by Bowdish to take the close win in the lights. They were both close to the centerline at the lights too. Alan Ellis' MOV: 0.0149 seconds (approximately 3 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    1 Jeff Taylor                           710 Doug Lambeck                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.024  8.540 154.33                     0.047  8.517 157.43
       E/SM Index: 9.06 (+/-): -0.520           D/SMA Index: 9.03 (+/-): -0.513
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Barcelon  ) 0.017  8.557 -0.553      (S Hedlund   ) 0.012  8.569 -0.461
E2    (R Bryan Morr) 0.008  8.751 -0.359      (J Cowan     ) 0.037  8.526 -0.564
E1    (F Gross     ) 0.034  8.604 -0.606      (D Beckley   ) 0.037  8.828 -0.262
 Qualified:             #2  8.536 -0.674                       #12  8.495 -0.595

Jeff Taylor has a 0.15 CIC penalty; Doug Lambeck has a 0.06 CIC penalty. They have very close indexes and Taylor gets the RT advantage to stay ahead of Lambeck from start to finish.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink