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Sun, 23 May 2010, 04:06 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 4 Eliminations

By Dan Bennett

TOPEKA, Kan. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 22nd annual O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals presented by Castrol GTX:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    8 David Rampy                            53 Matt Harris                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.026  7.355 173.94                     0.010  7.865 171.51
       A/EA Index: 7.86 (+/-): -0.505             E/A Index: 8.35 (+/-): -0.485
 Prior rounds:
E3    (S Vincent   ) 0.021  7.513 -0.347      (P Carbery   ) 0.109  7.844 -0.516
E2    (C Smiley    ) 0.027  7.426 -0.434      (M Trumble   ) 0.095  7.954 -0.406
E1    (M Johnson   ) 0.025  7.468 -0.392      (D Thomas    ) 0.066  8.336 -0.024
 Qualified:             #4  7.268 -0.592                        #2  7.732 -0.628

2:59 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 85 degrees, relative humidity 65 percent, barometer 28.68 inches, adjusted altitude 4,188 feet, track temperature 104 degrees.

Rampy takes a nibble and stays in competition for one more round in one more class. Harris does a great job on the tree against a tough opponent.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  500 Lou Ficco Jr.                           6 Arnie Martel                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.072  7.336 185.41                     0.041  7.728 173.52
       B/AP Index: 7.85 (+/-): -0.514            D/AA Index: 8.20 (+/-): -0.472
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Massel    ) -0.028  8.666  0.816      (J Tanksley  ) 0.008  8.116 -0.084
E2    (C Sallee    ) 0.080  7.341 -0.529      (S Parks     ) 0.020  8.475  0.275
E1    (R Hass      ) 0.077  7.365 -0.515      (C Johnson   ) 0.083  7.878 -0.322
 Qualified:             #5  7.301 -0.579                       #15  7.686 -0.514

Martel is last going in and takes a fair amount of time. Ficco knows when it's time to burn some index and getting to the finals is probably one of those times. He takes the win by about 3 feet.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink