Sun, 27 Jun 2010, 01:22 PM Top Fuel Round 2 Eliminations

By Rick Green

NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 2 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Fourth annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Brandon Bernstein                       4 Cory McClenathan             
E2                   0.097  4.445 189.98     ****WINNER****  0.099  3.953 302.48
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T McMillen  ) 0.097  3.909 306.60      (D Kalitta   ) 0.084  4.019 296.96
 Qualified:             #3  3.848 312.42                        #6  3.887 313.73

Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 62 percent, barometer 28.79 inches, adjusted altitude 4,217 feet, track temperature 117 degrees.

Bernstein is 21 - 6 against McClenathan in prior events. They leave together, but Bernstein has a hole or two out right at the hit and then starts to lose traction around half track and clicks it off. McClenathan with a nice clean pass, straight down the groove.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  333 Shawn Langdon                           1 Tony Schumacher              
E2                   0.073  3.992 293.60     ****WINNER****  0.079  3.951 308.57
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Torrence  ) 0.081  3.964 301.54      (B Vandergrif) 0.076  3.907 310.41
 Qualified:            #13  3.929 307.16                       #12  3.920 308.92

Schumacher is 3 - 2 against Langdon in prior events. Langdon with a slight starting line advantage, but Schumacher has the difference made up by the time they go by the Christmas tree. Langdon was with him all the way down the track this was a good drag race. Tony Schumacher's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(0.002), 330 ft(0.003), 660ft(0.009). MOV: 0.0353 seconds (approximately 15 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Antron Brown                          303 Pat Dakin                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.085  3.934 299.73                     0.093  6.848  91.93
 Prior rounds:
E1    (L Novelli   ) 0.082  3.885 314.24      (M Lucas     ) 0.097  3.970 297.16
 Qualified:             #2  3.795 318.99                       #10  3.908 309.20

Dakin is 1 - 0 against Brown in prior events. Brown with the starting line advantage and never trails as Dakin starts to smoke the tires around 150 feet. Brown runs low E.T. of the round and will have lane choice over McClenathan in the semifinal.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    2 Larry Dixon                          1301 Doug Foley                   
E2   ****WINNER****  0.050  3.910 310.34                    -0.201  9.225  78.53
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Buff      ) 0.108  3.865 313.51      (D Grubnic   ) 0.143  3.963 302.55
 Qualified:             #1  3.780 320.43                        #8  3.896 314.24

Dixon is 5 - 0 against Foley in prior events. Foley turns on the red light. dixon runs low E.T. of the round for the easy win. Larry Dixon's incremental times: 60ft-0.857 sec., 330ft-2.199, 660ft-3.131/273.11 mph. He will have lane choice over Schumacher in the semifinal.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink