Fri, 10 Oct 2008, 07:52 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #2 |
By Larry Sullivan |
DINWIDDIE, Va. - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Third annual Virginia NHRA Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed this round, amount over/under index this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time, speed & over/under Index, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Don Nase Jr. Runs 6.725/193.71/-0.575, Now #24; I/D Index: 7.30, Prior Best: 6.995/157.54/-0.305, Was #34
Right Lane: Peter Biondo Runs 16.858/80.35/7.118, Now #39; I/SMA Index: 9.74, Prior Best: 16.715/73.50/6.975, Was #39
7:09 p.m. These two had bad runs last session. Biondo's car again had problems immediately, but Nase got it spooled up and made a good run. Unfortunately, it takes a great run to get it into the top half today.
Left Lane: Bill Scott Runs 6.852/193.71/-0.538, Now #29; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 6.889/193.29/-0.501, Was #30
Right Lane: Bob Book Runs 6.315/212.59/-0.725, Now #1; A/D Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 6.343/211.56/-0.697, Was #1
Book makes the quickest and fastest carbureted dragster run ever and improves his grip on the top spot. Bob Book's incremental times: 60ft-0.967 sec., 330ft-2.640, 660ft-4.041/174.71mph, 1,000ft-5.264.
Left Lane: Ray Vierheller III Runs 7.417/176.26/-0.573, Now #15; D/DA Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.368/177.00/-0.622, Was #15
Right Lane: Sal Biondo Runs 11.038/86.43/3.048, Now #38; D/DA Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 8.573/174.14/0.583, Was #38
And the other Biondo car is also having problems. Vierheller could not match his earlier pace.
Left Lane: Charlie Greco Runs 7.626/175.98/-0.654, Now #7; E/AA Index: 8.28, Prior Best: 7.635/175.98/-0.645, Was #10
Right Lane: Pete Hanratty Runs 12.183/60.53/5.043, Now #39; A/DA Index: 7.14, No Prior Run
Hanratty slowed before half track. Greco improved over his forst run to move up several spots.
Left Lane: Stephen Szupka Runs 8.255/160.35/-0.575, Now #16; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.209/160.84/-0.621, Was #16
Right Lane: Stewart Edwards Runs 9.040/149.07/0.130, Now #37; G/A Index: 8.91, Prior Best: 9.166/146.97/0.256, Was #37
Edwards improved, still could not get under his index. Szupka failed to improve.
Left Lane: Erich Bollman Runs 7.813/172.96/-0.547, Now #29; E/A Index: 8.36, Prior Best: 7.840/172.54/-0.520, Was #30
Right Lane: Russell Joly Runs 8.066/165.19/-0.574, Now #25; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 8.091/164.69/-0.549, Was #28
Both drivers improved nicely to move up a few spots. Now Ray Bamond is on the bump spot at -0.456.
Left Lane: Ray Bamond Runs 8.344/161.23/-0.506, Now #31; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.394/162.25/-0.456, Was #32
Right Lane: Mark Linebarrier Runs 9.761/97.22/1.781, Now #33; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.598/178.90/-0.382, Was #33
Nice improvement by Bamond, but it only got him one spot off the bump. Linebarrier slowed before half track.
Left Lane: Pam Miskovsky Runs 7.029/188.10/-0.601, Now #20; C/DA Index: 7.63, Prior Best: 7.029/188.10/-0.601, Was #20
Right Lane: Anthony Bertozzi Runs 7.799/168.53/-0.631, Now #12; B/SR Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.802/172.89/-0.628, Was #13
Left Lane: Gerry Russo Runs 8.457/159.46/-0.393, Now #20; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.241/163.28/-0.609, Was #19
Right Lane: Joe Carnasciale Runs 9.024/149.10/-0.646, Now #11; I/SM Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.552/114.50/-0.118, Was #35
Nice recovery by Carnasciale to bump into the field in the top half. Now Ray Bamond is back on the bump spot, this time at -0.506.
Left Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 10.350/90.04/2.710, Now #29; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.087/193.79/-0.553, Was #29
Right Lane: Terry Smith Runs 9.294/94.42/1.304, Now #23; D/ED Index: 7.99, Prior Best: 7.409/175.91/-0.581, Was #23
Both Smith and Cervelli had problems early in their run.
Left Lane: Doug Doll Jr. Runs 8.255/157.39/-0.575, Now #19; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.217/158.32/-0.613, Was #19
Right Lane: Lonnie Johnson Runs 7.058/193.99/-0.582, Now #23; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.080/191.76/-0.560, Was #28
Johnson improved a couple hundredths, moved up five spots.
Left Lane: Tony Terry Runs 26.258/62.85/17.618, Now #10; F/AA Index: 8.64, Prior Best: 7.993/169.55/-0.647, Was #10
Right Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.048/163.57/-0.602, Now #21; F/D Index: 8.65, Prior Best: 8.059/163.97/-0.591, Was #22
Terry's car made a hard move toward the wall on the launch, may have hit it (can't see out of the media center windows here at night). He rolled slowly down the track. Meanwhile, Ackerman improved slightly and now we have 23 cars at -.601 or better.
Left Lane: Michael Hardee Runs 18.552/42.96/9.412, Now #4; E/SM Index: 9.14, Prior Best: 8.461/158.65/-0.679, Was #4
Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.726/169.76/-0.704, Now #2; B/SR Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.741/170.04/-0.689, Was #2
Hardee slowed almost immediately. Martel moved into the -.70 range on a nice run, but stayed could not catch Book.
Left Lane: Morris Johnson Jr. No Time, Now #41; B/AA Index: 7.11, No Prior Run
Right Lane: Pat Ross Runs 8.058/167.91/-0.622, Now #15; F/A Index: 8.68, Prior Best: 8.056/167.18/-0.624, Was #15
MoJo broke on his first pass, stopping short of the finish line. This time the car was pushed back after the burnout and he is down to one more chance to qualify in this very quick field. Ross almost matched his first run, coming up a couple thousandths shy. Then the starting line crew went to work in Johnson's lane, clkeaning up whatever it was he left on the launch pad.
Left Lane: Tony Mangrum Runs 6.839/203.37/-0.271, Now #36; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 7.114/175.89/0.004, Was #36
Right Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 13.034/65.64/4.414, Now #9; F/EA Index: 8.62, Prior Best: 7.969/152.62/-0.651, Was #9
Treadwell slowed very early in the run. Mangrum managed to beat his index by more than a quarter of a second, but that left him in 36th place.
Left Lane: Gary Wisecarver Runs 9.019/148.15/-0.541, Now #28; H/SM Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 8.997/148.99/-0.563, Was #28
Right Lane: Allen Stanfield Runs 8.711/158.02/-0.669, Now #7; H/SM Index: 9.38, Prior Best: 8.728/154.12/-0.652, Was #8
Two clean runs, Wisecarver losing a couple hundredths, Stanfield picking up a couple, enouigh to move up one spot.
Left Lane: Richard Schonberger Runs 8.196/162.06/-0.624, Now #14; I/A Index: 8.82, Prior Best: 8.191/163.00/-0.629, Was #14
Right Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 7.682/176.77/-0.628, Now #15; E/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.735/175.73/-0.575, Was #25
Affronti moved way up the ladder with a five hundredths improvement, Schonberger failed to improve, but only ran five thousandths off his earlier pace.
Left Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 6.825/199.61/-0.465, Now #34; A/AP Index: 7.29, Prior Best: 6.936/197.71/-0.354, Was #35
Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 8.718/106.37/0.848, Now #12; A/EA Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.230/181.03/-0.640, Was #12
Alexander picked up over a tenth of a second over his first pass, but that only m oved him up one spot and left him two positions out of the field. Rampy slowed before half track.
Left Lane: Rodger Brogdon Runs 8.309/166.97/-0.671, Now #3; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.292/166.93/-0.688, Was #3
Right Lane: Michele Costa Runs 8.977/141.06/-0.663, Now #8; G/D Index: 9.64, Prior Best: 9.025/142.87/-0.615, Was #19
Nice runs in both lanes. Brogdon lost almost two hundredths from his earlier run, but Costa improved five hundredths and moved up 11 spots in the standings.
Left Lane: Kevin Houghtaling Runs 9.903/107.34/0.343, Now #33; F/SM Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 9.086/149.10/-0.474, Was #33
Houghtaling's car was not getting the job done and he shut it down way before the stripe to close out the session.
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