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Fri, 14 Nov 2008, 02:48 PM

Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By David Gerard

POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 44th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals 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: Ron Weems Runs 6.703/210.83/-0.407, Now #33; A/A Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 8.403/144.49/1.293, Was #38
Right Lane: Brian Moscini Runs 7.573/179.52/-0.447, Now #32; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.588/178.54/-0.432, Was #32

11:13 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 74 degrees, relative humidity 36 percent, barometer 28.89 inches, adjusted altitude 2,693 feet, track temperature 91 degrees.

Brian Moscini is on the bump spot at -0.432 and stays there after a little better ET. Weems moves up to the first alternate spot.

Left Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 7.855/171.75/-0.575, Now #14; A/SM Index: 8.43, Prior Best: 7.848/172.34/-0.582, Was #14
Right Lane: Thomas Shambaugh Runs 7.904/170.49/0.004, Now #37; DD/AT Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.648/167.91/-0.252, Was #37

No improvements for either driver.

Left Lane: Scott McClay Runs 7.495/176.07/-0.375, Now #34; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.478/175.07/-0.392, Was #34
Right Lane: Tom Brown Runs 8.390/158.04/-0.440, Now #29; F/ED Index: 8.83, Prior Best: 8.353/159.02/-0.477, Was #29

...and again.

Left Lane: Jay Payne Runs 14.748/87.86/7.898, Now #13; AA/PM Index: 6.85, Prior Best: 6.267/218.34/-0.583, Was #13
Right Lane: Jirka Kaplan Runs 6.642/157.06/-0.428, Now #2; AA/AM Index: 7.07, Prior Best: 6.422/216.65/-0.648, Was #2

Big Power on the line, but two broken passes. Payne dusts the slicks at the green and Kaplan shuts off early after mid-track.

Left Lane: Pete Adams Runs 7.472/183.15/-0.508, Now #21; C/A Index: 7.98, Prior Best: 7.452/183.49/-0.528, Was #21
Right Lane: Ross Wilson Runs 8.287/163.49/-0.563, Now #17; C/SMA Index: 8.85, Prior Best: 8.319/163.24/-0.531, Was #20

Wilson has a nice wheels up leave and gets three spots on the ladder. Adams has a full pull, but slows a little.

Left Lane: Scott Benham Runs 8.521/158.87/-0.459, Now #24; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.466/159.74/-0.514, Was #23
Right Lane: John Mihovetz Runs 6.509/217.74/-0.531, Now #21; AA/AT Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 6.633/216.13/-0.407, Was #30

Mihovetz makes a strong pass up the ladder to the new #21 spot. It may have been expensive, as it looks like stuff out of the engine between the 1000-ft. and the finish line.

Left Lane: Steve Holloway Runs 6.619/209.49/-0.551, Now #16; A/AA Index: 7.17, Prior Best: 6.601/210.87/-0.569, Was #16
Right Lane: Scott Kelley Runs 10.015/134.90/0.525, Now #38; L/A Index: 9.49, Prior Best: 10.040/136.14/0.550, Was #38

No joy here.

Left Lane: Bob Marshall Runs 15.563/31.73/7.923, Now #29; B/AA Index: 7.64, Prior Best: 7.160/190.24/-0.480, Was #29
Right Lane: Pat Byron Runs 6.996/191.21/-0.504, Now #25; C/D Index: 7.50, Prior Best: 6.997/192.60/-0.503, Was #25

Marshall moves around on the hit and slows a bunch and stops just after the finish line.. Byron gets a thousand better ET and stays #25.

Left Lane: Mark Wolfe Runs 6.715/221.96/-0.325, Now #14; AA/AT Index: 7.04, Prior Best: 6.461/219.15/-0.579, Was #14
Right Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 8.504/160.21/-0.496, Now #10; D/SMA Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.401/161.05/-0.599, Was #10

Brian Moscini is on the bump spot at -0.447. Wolfe's car moves around at the hit and he is only able to improve on his MPH. Sharp loses a dime.

Left Lane: Brian Darcy No Time, Now #7; A/ND Index: 7.46, Prior Best: 6.846/190.14/-0.614, Was #7
Right Lane: Maureen Jondahl Runs 8.398/161.65/-0.262, Now #36; C/EA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.312/163.33/-0.348, Was #36

Darcy just sits in the beams and then motors on down the track. Jondahl will not make the field.

Left Lane: Randy Jones Runs 8.841/158.86/-0.139, Now #35; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.590/158.35/-0.390, Was #35
Right Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.398/181.74/-0.622, Now #5; C/AA Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.397/183.94/-0.623, Was #5

That was weird! Jones loses almost two tenths in ET and runs a better MPH. Edwards runs within 0.001 of his best pass.

Left Lane: Frank Cervelli Runs 7.215/154.69/-0.355, Now #23; C/DA Index: 7.57, Prior Best: 7.044/187.00/-0.526, Was #23
Right Lane: Shane Gray Runs 7.020/196.39/-0.600, Now #10; B/A Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.064/196.13/-0.556, Was #18

Cervelli slows, but Gray finds some power to move eight spots up the ladder.

Left Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 6.608/205.57/-0.532, Now #16; A/DA Index: 7.14, Prior Best: 6.568/205.66/-0.572, Was #16
Right Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.718/167.16/-0.592, Now #4; D/A Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 7.685/176.97/-0.625, Was #4

No improvements on two good passes.

Left Lane: Bob Hass Runs 7.472/188.89/-0.408, Now #26; B/AP Index: 7.88, Prior Best: 7.378/189.36/-0.502, Was #26
Right Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.719/200.44/-0.541, Now #20; A/AP Index: 7.26, Prior Best: 6.719/202.55/-0.541, Was #20

Ellis repeats to the thousandth on this pass and slows a couple on MPH. Hass is a dime slower.

Left Lane: Steve Matusek Runs 6.664/193.10/-0.656, Now #1; BB/AT Index: 7.32, Prior Best: 6.520/219.83/-0.800, Was #1
Right Lane: Grant Lewis Runs 9.024/149.10/-0.536, Now #19; H/SMA Index: 9.56, Prior Best: 9.011/162.86/-0.549, Was #19

Matusek slows on the top end and Lewis joins the "A Little Slower" club.

Left Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 8.675/150.03/-0.445, Now #31; C/SR Index: 9.12, Prior Best: 8.666/149.51/-0.454, Was #31
Right Lane: Mike DePalma Runs 8.182/165.58/-0.588, Now #3; I/A Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 8.130/165.27/-0.640, Was #3

Both cars slow from their earlier bests.

Left Lane: Jim Cowan Runs 8.200/160.84/-0.590, Now #8; I/AA Index: 8.79, Prior Best: 8.176/155.27/-0.614, Was #8
Right Lane: David Connolly Runs 8.026/168.70/-0.574, Now #6; F/AA Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 7.985/169.47/-0.615, Was #6

The weather is impacting almost all of the field today. Both cars slow a little.

Left Lane: Kyle Rizzoli Runs 8.035/107.04/0.645, Now #27; B/DA Index: 7.39, Prior Best: 6.891/195.68/-0.499, Was #27
Right Lane: Doug Lambeck Runs 8.505/139.08/-0.495, Now #12; D/SMA Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.409/158.37/-0.591, Was #12

Rizzoli has a nice 1.032 sixty-foot time and then slows a bunch down track. Lambeck is slower too.

Right Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 9.221/130.68/-0.449, Now #28; I/SMA Index: 9.67, Prior Best: 9.174/145.38/-0.496, Was #28

Big time wheels stand for Martel off the line and he about a nickle off his best time.

Right Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 8.694/118.08/0.034, Now #9; F/AA Index: 8.66, Prior Best: 8.055/167.72/-0.605, Was #9

Fletcher had a great leave and then clicks it way early.

11:42 a.m. Steve Matusek stays #1 at -0.800 and Brian Moscini stays on the bump spot at -0.447.

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