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Fri, 9 Apr 2010, 02:28 PM

Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #2

By Larry Sullivan

BAYTOWN, Texas - Notes from round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil 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: William West Runs 7.895/170.64/-0.595, Now #11; F/AA Index: 8.49, Prior Best: 9.050/98.41/0.560, Was #25
Right Lane: Pete Carbery Runs 6.909/200.44/-0.651, Now #5; B/A Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 6.920/200.50/-0.640, Was #7

1:01 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 30.14 inches, adjusted altitude 880 feet, track temperature 104 degrees.
Only 32 cars got times in the first session.

West made a full pass this time out. And Carbery inproved slightly.

Left Lane: Keith Mawhee Runs 8.055/167.82/-0.435, Now #22; F/AA Index: 8.49, Prior Best: 8.057/167.72/-0.433, Was #22
Right Lane: Del Segura Runs 8.143/163.02/-0.457, Now #21; F/D Index: 8.60, Prior Best: 8.139/164.15/-0.461, Was #21

Two consistent runs.

Left Lane: Duane Robison Runs 7.594/182.58/-0.376, Now #24; C/A Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.709/181.84/-0.261, Was #24
Right Lane: Scott Cashio Runs 8.026/168.35/-0.664, Now #5; B/SMA Index: 8.69, Prior Best: 18.484/41.19/9.794, Was #32

Cashio went from last to way up in the field on a nice run.

Left Lane: Keith Hall Runs 8.360/163.49/-0.620, Now #1; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.279/164.53/-0.701, Was #1

Left Lane: Raymond Martin Runs 7.675/167.63/-0.635, Now #9; K/AA Index: 8.31, Prior Best: 10.297/125.83/1.987, Was #28
Right Lane: Cordis Johnson Runs 8.845/151.00/-0.485, Now #22; G/SMA Index: 9.33, Prior Best: 8.809/152.69/-0.521, Was #21

Nice pass by Martin to move way up in the field.

Left Lane: Michael Johnson Runs 7.206/184.80/-0.654, Now #6; A/EA Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 8.966/90.87/1.106, Was #28

Johnson also made a nice recovery from an off-pace first run.

Left Lane: Brad Klein Runs 7.275/188.25/-0.605, Now #14; B/AP Index: 7.88, Prior Best: 7.298/187.86/-0.582, Was #17
Right Lane: Adam White Runs 21.567/38.80/14.147, Now #17; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.832/194.49/-0.588, Was #16

White's dragster slowly came off the line and idled down the track.

Right Lane: Chris McGaha Runs 7.439/184.72/-0.531, Now #23; D/A Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 15.288/55.56/7.318, Was #32

McGaha got down the track this time, but needs to pick the pace up a bit for eliminations.

Left Lane: Doug Warren No Time, Now #30; A/DA Index: 7.13, Prior Best: 9.214/142.93/2.084, Was #30
Right Lane: Jody Holland Runs 8.916/148.51/-0.634, Now #4; L/AA Index: 9.55, Prior Best: 8.880/148.92/-0.670, Was #4

Warren's dragster was pushed over to the return road without making a run.

Left Lane: Don Thomas Runs 7.241/182.06/-0.629, Now #13; C/ED Index: 7.87, Prior Best: 7.306/181.96/-0.564, Was #19
Right Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 7.373/184.98/-0.597, Now #16; C/A Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.750/185.10/-0.220, Was #29

Two good runs...

Left Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.648/205.76/-0.522, Now #25; A/AP Index: 7.17, Prior Best: 10.415/92.33/3.245, Was #31
Right Lane: Stephen Rosen Runs 7.822/168.43/-0.638, Now #10; G/ED Index: 8.46, Prior Best: 7.868/166.93/-0.592, Was #18

Ellis also had a very bad first run...meanwhile, Rosen moved well into the top half of the field on a nice run.

Left Lane: Steve Holloway Runs 6.998/198.35/-0.622, Now #12; B/AA Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 6.987/198.38/-0.633, Was #12
Right Lane: Adam Hickey Runs 8.066/166.79/-0.644, Now #8; C/SMA Index: 8.71, Prior Best: 8.062/166.95/-0.648, Was #8

Two more nice runs - eliminations will be interesting.

Left Lane: Charles Watson Runs 8.423/158.45/-0.557, Now #9; D/SM Index: 8.98, Prior Best: 8.338/159.63/-0.642, Was #9
Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.230/180.81/-0.630, Now #13; A/EA Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 7.228/175.05/-0.632, Was #13

Left Lane: Ray Goodman Runs 7.502/173.99/-0.358, Now #30; A/EA Index: 7.86, Prior Best: 7.507/174.28/-0.353, Was #30
Right Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.704/198.23/-0.736, Now #1; C/D Index: 7.44, Prior Best: 6.749/197.80/-0.691, Was #2

Tanksley took over the top spot on a very strong run.

Left Lane: Mike Trumble Runs 7.860/172.39/-0.700, Now #3; A/SMA Index: 8.56, Prior Best: 7.888/171.66/-0.672, Was #3
Right Lane: Ernest Watson Runs 7.919/172.78/-0.641, Now #10; A/SMA Index: 8.56, Prior Best: 7.945/172.04/-0.615, Was #15

Left Lane: Chase Williams Runs 7.437/182.08/-0.533, Now #24; C/A Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.439/182.50/-0.531, Was #23
Right Lane: Grant Lewis Runs 8.571/150.56/-0.629, Now #16; H/AA Index: 9.20, No Prior Run

Lewis made his first run a good one...but barely made the middle of this tough field.

Left Lane: Dan Fletcher Runs 7.654/172.92/-0.686, Now #4; B/EA Index: 8.34, No Prior Run
Right Lane: Will Hatcher Runs 6.459/210.14/-0.671, Now #5; A/DA Index: 7.13, Prior Best: 12.044/97.41/4.914, Was #33

Doug Warren is on the bump spot at 2.084.

Not any more...Fletcher goes way up in the field and so does Hatcher. Now Duane Robison is on the bump spot at -0.376.

Right Lane: Craig Bourgeois Runs 24.346/36.68/16.956, Now #35; B/DA Index: 7.39, No Prior Run

Bourgeois broke before making a run last round, this time the car died on the launch and slowly rolled down the track.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink