Sun, 5 Oct 2003, 08:45 PM Competition Eliminator Final, Round 5 Eliminations

By Jim Samuel

MOHNTON, Pa. - Results of final, round 5 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 1422 Allyn Armstrong                      2126 Michael Hardee
E5                   0.133 10.115  0.515     ****WINNER****  0.033  8.634 -0.466
        L/A Index: 9.60                         D/SMA Index: 9.10
 Prior rounds:
E4    (D Eckel III ) 0.072  9.093 -0.627      (G Russo     ) 0.005  8.595 -0.505
E3    (A Ackerman  ) 0.062  9.875  0.155      (P Ross      ) 0.087  9.200  0.100
E2    (T Ciccarone ) 0.012  9.316 -0.404      (J Liuzzo    ) 0.039  8.596 -0.544
E1    (C Miller    ) 0.020  9.219 -0.601      (S Szupka    ) 0.009  8.631 -0.669
 Qualified:            #18  9.327 -0.493                        #5  8.675 -0.625

8:36 PM - Current weather conditions: 42 degrees, 87 percent relative humidity and the barometer was at 30.04 inches and rising.

Armstrong launched and his car got up on it's left rear wheel. He brought it down and headed toward the center line. He rode along the center line for 330 feet to about 1,000 feet and then got back into the groove. Hardee had a clean run down the middle of his lane to take the win.

This was the last race of what has been a very odd event. We started three weeks ago, had a rain delay, came back this weekend, lost most of Saturday to rain, then had a power failure late this afternoon and ran on generators for about two hours before power was restored.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink