Sun, 15 Nov 2009, 07:42 PM Pro Stock Motorcycle Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Pro Stock Motorcycle at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 45th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Eddie Krawiec                          36 Douglas Horne                
E4   ****WINNER****  0.033  6.905 194.32                    -0.001  6.955 191.40
 Prior rounds:
E3    (A Hines     ) 0.027  6.953 192.80      (J Pippin    ) 0.012  6.940 192.55
E2    (J Underdahl ) 0.037  6.959 192.60      (D Hope      ) 0.017  6.993 191.35
E1    (S Johnson   ) 0.010  6.950 194.91      (F Camarena  ) 0.022  6.995 191.70
 Qualified:             #4  6.959 193.68                        #3  6.956 191.57

4:35 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 74 degrees, relative humidity 25 percent, barometer 28.99 inches, adjusted altitude 2,457 feet, track temperature 83 degrees.

Krawiec has been in sixteen finals in his career and ten finals this year, winning four of them, all this year. Horne has been in two finals this year, is still looking for his first national event win. Krawiec is 6 - 1 against Horne in prior events and this is the first time they have met in a final round.

Horne went red by "a stinkin' thou'" and Krawiec made the run he was looking for last round. He gave Hector Arana a good race for the championship, came up two points short. Eddie Krawiec's incremental times: 60ft-1.082 sec., 330ft-2.889, 660ft-4.418/160.19 mph, 1,000ft-5.755. Ironically, after winning the national championship last year with no wins, he wins more events than anyone else in the category this year and comes up two points short. It's all in the timing...

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink