Sun, 12 Oct 2003, 04:05 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 18th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  391 Bill Reichert                         303 Todd Datweiler
E3   ****WINNER****  0.107  5.416 270.10                     0.045 10.156  89.02
 Prior rounds:
E2    (S Federlin  ) 0.062  5.382 271.73      (T Bartone   ) 0.025  5.819 231.95
E1    (K Brounkowsk) 0.077  5.387 268.17      (J Thompson  ) 0.033  5.414 258.62
 Qualified:             #1  5.288 274.05                        #5  5.344 259.06

Datweiler with the starting line advantage, but is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. He tries to drive through it, but can't and clicks it off.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 7438 Morgan Lucas                           43 James Copeland II
E3   ****WINNER****  0.029  5.354 263.77                    -0.011  5.469 260.34
 Prior rounds:
E2    (G Snow      ) 0.083  5.317 260.49      (M Thacker   ) 0.031  5.477 259.44
E1    (C Ricketts  ) 0.022  5.445 260.11      (A Bradshaw  ) 0.078  5.496 258.76
 Qualified:             #3  5.335 260.04                       #15  5.569 256.33

Copeland having his best ever outing at a National event and he is just a little too quick on the tree and Lucas with the freebie. Lucas with a nice pass and he will have lane choice in the final

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