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Sat, 17 Jul 2010, 08:52 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations

By David Gerard

SONOMA, Calif. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual FRAM-Autolite NHRA Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   77 Alan Ellis                           6054 Brandon Huhtala              
E1                   5.172 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.107  7.653 140.47
       A/AA Index: 7.15 (+/-): 92.849             C/A Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.307
 Qualified:            #22  7.065 -0.085                       #11  7.395 -0.565

5:28 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 79 degrees, relative humidity 50 percent, barometer 29.90 inches, adjusted altitude 2,047 feet, track temperature 118 degrees.

Hmmm... Ellis car never moves at the green and Huhtala gets a free pass to round two.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7265 Tom Brown                            7098 Tom Mettler                  
E1                   0.030  8.307 156.97     ****WINNER****  0.053  7.401 167.07
       F/ED Index: 8.79 (+/-): -0.483             PST Index: 7.97 (+/-): -0.569
 Qualified:            #19  8.336 -0.454                        #8  7.388 -0.582

Good light for Brown, but Mettler has to take a little CIC to get the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   78 Brian Moscini                           2 Dan Fletcher                 
E1                  -0.027  7.594 153.23     ****WINNER****  0.045  8.250 131.06
       C/AA Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.366            B/EA Index: 8.34 (+/-): -0.090
 Qualified:            #17  7.440 -0.520                        #6  7.756 -0.584

Moscini goes red and gives the win to Fletcher.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  600 Jeff Lane                              74 Steve Graham                 
E1                   0.032  8.169 164.99     ****WINNER****  0.051  7.400 175.57
      B/SMA Index: 8.67 (+/-): -0.501             C/A Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.560
 Qualified:            #23  9.120  0.450                       #12  7.397 -0.563

Super Stock type leave for Lane, but Graham takes the ten foot win and some CIC for his efforts.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  211 Glen Treadwell                       6241 Casey Plaizier               
E1   ****WINNER****  0.047  7.981 159.91                     0.065  8.137 166.17
       F/EA Index: 8.53 (+/-): -0.549           B/SMA Index: 8.67 (+/-): -0.533
 Qualified:             #2  7.918 -0.612                       #13  8.112 -0.558

Glen Treadwell gets a better RT and uses more CIC to get the win. MOV: 0.0347 seconds (approximately 8 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    7 Doug Lambeck                          750 Jim Cowan                    
E1   ****WINNER****  0.032  8.361 161.75                     0.046  8.177 162.84
      D/SMA Index: 8.97 (+/-): -0.609            I/AA Index: 8.76 (+/-): -0.583
 Qualified:            #10  8.402 -0.568                       #21  8.493 -0.267

Lambeck take a big CIC hit to get the ten foot over Cowan.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7023 Tyler Hogan                          7230 Randy Jones                  
E1                  -0.032  7.186 182.92     ****WINNER****  0.098  8.059 152.92
       C/DA Index: 7.56 (+/-): -0.374           A/SMA Index: 8.52 (+/-): -0.461
 Qualified:            #20  7.272 -0.288                        #9  7.951 -0.569

Randy Jones wins on a red light.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1214 Matt Hartford                          73 Justin Lamb                  
E1                   0.014  6.638 208.30     ****WINNER****  0.046  8.783 146.99
       A/DA Index: 7.13 (+/-): -0.492           G/SMA Index: 9.33 (+/-): -0.547
 Qualified:            #15  6.588 -0.542                        #4  8.735 -0.595

Hartford gets a great RT, but can't quite catch Lamb. Justin Lamb take some CIC in the win. MOV: 0.0235 seconds (approximately 7 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7771 Ed Sigmon                              76 Dean Carter                  
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.005  7.213 141.77
       C/SR Index: 9.09 (+/-): 90.909            B/ND Index: 7.53 (+/-): -0.317
 Qualified:            #16  8.570 -0.520                        #5  6.940 -0.590

Sigmon is a No Show and Carter gets a single to round two. Great 0.005 light.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  610 John Edwards                          720 J.D. Zink                    
E1   ****WINNER****  0.004  7.480 175.55                     0.013  6.945 190.06
       C/AA Index: 7.96 (+/-): -0.480            A/ND Index: 7.42 (+/-): -0.475
 Qualified:             #7  7.377 -0.583                       #18  6.909 -0.511

Edwards cards a terrific 0.004 RT and takes the four foot win. Zink has a nice 0.013 light though.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    3 Mike DePalma                               Bye
E1   ****WINNER****  0.040  8.903 112.48     
        C/T Index: 8.82 (+/-):  0.083     
 Qualified:             #1  8.152 -0.668                     Bye

Bye Run for the number one qualifier, DePalma.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   75 Ross Wilson                          7777 Phil Cocuzza                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.070 11.311 109.54                           No Time      
      B/SMA Index: 8.67 (+/-):  2.641           A/SMA Index: 8.52 (+/-): 91.479
 Qualified:             #3  8.074 -0.596                       #14  7.964 -0.556

Cocuzza is a No Show. Wilson gets the easy win.

5:44 p.m. In the next round: DePalma vs. Edwards; Lamb vs. Lambeck; Wilson vs. Jones; Fletcher vs. Graham; Treadwell vs. Mettler; Carter vs Huhtala.

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