Sun, 9 Nov 2003, 05:17 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  706 Art Hodges                           7828 Wayne Ramay
E3   ****WINNER****  0.088  7.583 -0.357                    -0.047  8.788  1.148
        C/A Index: 7.94                          A/ND Index: 7.64
 Prior rounds:
E2    (A Bowdish   ) 0.118  7.432 -0.558      (P Pittman   ) 0.018  7.880  0.240
E1    (J Kaplan    ) 0.102  7.485 -0.515      (S Hedlund   ) 0.028  7.139 -0.561
 Qualified:            #26  7.478 -0.522                       #22  7.162 -0.538

2:06 PM Ramay goes red and Hodges gets the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 7189 Dean Carter                             5 Scott Tidwell
E3   ****WINNER****  0.047  7.123 -0.567                     0.028  7.670 -0.530
       A/ND Index: 7.69                          PSTA Index: 8.20
 Prior rounds:
E2    (G Anderson  ) 0.109  7.187 -0.513      (J Mihovetz  ) 0.116  7.787 -0.413
E1    (D Myers     ) 0.071  7.571 -0.129      (S Biondo    ) 0.040  7.695 -0.595
 Qualified:             #5  7.055 -0.645                        #9  7.675 -0.615

Carter uses some CIC but takes a close win. Dean Carter's MOV: 0.0189 seconds (approximately 5 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 4937 Buddy Nickens                          53 Clint Sallee
E3                   0.086  8.435 -0.525     ****WINNER****  0.080  6.804 -0.586
       B/TA Index: 8.96                           B/D Index: 7.39
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M De Palma J) 0.019  8.456 -0.524      (D Engels    ) 0.068  6.886 -0.514
E1    (J Gebhardt  ) 0.105  8.474 -0.546      (J Lane      ) 0.177  7.251 -0.149
 Qualified:            #11  8.412 -0.608                       #15  6.812 -0.588

Equal bad lights and the win goes to Sallee. He'll give up a big CIC when he faces Carter in the semi final.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 7406 Vinnie Deceglie                       710 Doug Lambeck
E3   ****WINNER****  0.036  6.590 -0.570                     0.058  8.646 -0.484
        A/A Index: 7.16                         D/SMA Index: 9.13
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Braun     ) 0.015  6.651 -0.579      (R Jones     ) 0.038  8.625 -0.575
E1    (B Self      ) 0.192  7.205 -0.025      (R Wilson    ) 0.046  8.732 -0.468
 Qualified:            #28  6.717 -0.513                       #16  8.619 -0.581

Lambeck gets almost a two second head start over Deceglie. Deceglie really dips into the CIC bucket to take the win. That's only .01 off the record for the class. It's Deceglie and Hodges in the other semi.

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