Drag Race Central - NHRA
Sun, 16 Aug 2009, 08:16 PM

Stock Eliminator Round 4 Eliminations
By Bob Orme



BRAINERD, Minn. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Stock Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 28th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5411 Chris Knudsen                         428 Kevin Helms                  
E4                  -0.007 10.883 121.15     ****WINNER****  0.042 10.492 126.22
       C/SA  Dial: 10.90 (+/-): -0.017           AA/S  Dial: 10.54 (+/-): -0.048
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Burton    ) 0.002 11.018  0.118      (B Feist     ) 0.037 10.567  0.007
E2    (R Shepard   ) 0.023 11.006  0.016      (B Dyer      ) 0.017 10.653  0.043
E1    (D Mc Gaugh  ) 0.002 10.985  0.025      (H Newstrom  ) 0.042 10.933  0.313
 Qualified:            #36 10.907 -0.793                       #74 10.520 -0.380
7:05 p.m. Kevin Helms wins on a red light.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    5 Mark Faul                            5525 Rod Neugebauer               
E4                   0.034 11.566 108.10     ****WINNER****  0.062 10.882 119.70
       C/SA  Dial: 11.57 (+/-): -0.004           D/SA  Dial: 10.88 (+/-):  0.002
 Prior rounds:
E3    (S Kopejtka  ) 0.045 11.601  0.051      (B Klomps    ) 0.064 10.892 -0.038
E2    (R Speer     ) 0.038 11.695  0.045      (D Olson     ) 0.033 10.959  0.019
E1    (T Lisson    ) 0.003 11.666 -0.034      (J Briner    ) 0.136 10.937 -0.913
 Qualified:            #87 11.600 -0.100                       #16 10.956 -0.894
Rod Neugebauer wins on a breakout.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5068 Jim Cook                             5429 Rick Ryan                    
E4                  -0.104 11.975 112.72     ****WINNER**** -0.035 11.342 118.51
        H/S  Dial: 11.96 (+/-):  0.015            D/S  Dial: 11.41 (+/-): -0.068
 Prior rounds:
E3    (R Glowa     ) 0.049 11.943 -0.107      (A Mesenbring) 0.029 11.461 -0.019
E2    (R Desmond   ) 0.033 12.624  0.524      (A Corda     ) 0.053 11.530  0.010
E1    (B Haugarrd  ) 0.015 12.102  0.052      (T Gaynor    ) 0.027 11.525 -0.005
 Qualified:            #83 12.107 -0.193                       #77 11.494 -0.306
Rick Ryan wins on a red light. He'll face Helms in round five.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5788 Steve Koppien                         540 Curtis Hieb                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.054 10.596 121.15                     0.154 11.511 115.99
       B/SA  Dial: 10.57 (+/-):  0.026           F/SA  Dial: 11.51 (+/-):  0.001
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Wenzel    ) 0.076 10.582  0.002      (K Petterson ) 0.022 11.547  0.017
E2    (W Prince    ) 0.030 10.636  0.036      (M Malenke   ) 0.095 11.621  0.021
E1    (B Koski     ) 0.087 10.619 -0.001      (B Line      ) 0.111 11.666  0.096
 Qualified:             #7 10.545 -1.005                       #57 11.528 -0.622
Steve Koppien's MOV: 0.0752 seconds (approximately 13 feet). He'll face Neugebauer in round five.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5698 Logan Wernet                         5015 Ron Mattson                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.062 11.125 113.71                     0.079 11.566 112.12
       E/SA  Dial: 11.08 (+/-):  0.045           H/SA  Dial: 11.51 (+/-):  0.056
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Jeska     ) 0.061 11.109  0.029      (R Remington ) 0.037 11.513 -0.027
E2    (J Stealy    ) 0.030 11.169 -0.021      (T Barrett   ) 0.064 11.611 -0.039
E1    (D Wiese     ) 0.100 11.203  0.073      (T Grosz     ) 0.020 11.650 -0.020
 Qualified:            #26 11.156 -0.844                       #20 11.581 -0.869
Logan Wernet's MOV: 0.0282 seconds (approximately 5 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  585 Brett Speer                                Bye
E4   ****WINNER**** -0.003 10.647 107.84     
       A/SA  Dial: 11.30 (+/-): -0.653    
 Prior rounds:
E3    (S Hagberg   ) 0.056 10.198 -1.102   
E2    (J Line      ) 0.013 10.576  0.006   
E1    (N Bredemus  ) 0.041 10.772 -0.528   
 Qualified:            #23 10.442 -0.858                     Bye
Speer will face Wernet in round five.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink


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