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Sun, 26 Sep 2010, 03:52 PM

Top Sportsman Round 2 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 2 eliminations in Top Sportsman at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 25th annual O'Reilly Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  518 Monte Green                          5830 Joshua Vettel                
E2                   0.086  7.031 194.27     ****WINNER****  0.004  6.883 190.67
         TS  Dial: 7.08 (+/-): -0.049              TS  Dial: 6.86 (+/-):  0.023
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Firestone ) 0.026  7.089  0.009      (M Goates    ) 0.035  6.903  0.023
 Qualified:            #21  7.055 194.46                       #13  6.925 195.45

2:40 p.m. Vettel gets a big advantage off the line and quickly runs down Green.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4608 Mike Kile                            4289 Danny Leibham                
E2                   0.047  7.537 183.52     ****WINNER****  0.221  7.200 191.97
         TS  Dial: 7.60 (+/-): -0.063              TS  Dial: 7.09 (+/-):  0.110
 Prior rounds:
E1    (G Tucker    ) 0.057  7.614  0.014      (K Haney     ) 0.004  7.097 -0.003
 Qualified:            #31  7.614 182.35                       #23  7.106 193.46

Leibham gets a break here. He gives up a big hole-shot, but Kile stays on the throttle too long and breaks out.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  456 Donald Boyd                           400 Scott Randall                
E2                   0.055  7.114 184.17     ****WINNER****  0.010  6.841 200.05
         TS  Dial: 7.21 (+/-): -0.096              TS  Dial: 6.85 (+/-): -0.009
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Turner    ) 0.025  7.678  0.438      (K Sasich    ) -0.006  6.876  0.026
 Qualified:            #24  7.267 190.14                       #16  6.962 198.93


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4940 Lonnie Sumner                        4066 Glen Barrilleaux             
E2   ****WINNER****  0.072  7.297 178.92                     0.166  6.486 215.10
         TS  Dial: 7.31 (+/-): -0.013              TS  Dial: 6.56 (+/-): -0.074
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Heber     ) 0.051  7.330 -0.050      (J Cummins   ) -0.044  6.725  0.155
 Qualified:            #27  7.381 183.87                        #3  6.571 215.00

Barrilleaux is really late off the line and breaks out trying to run down Sumner.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  429 Jimmie Dickey                        4856 Kirk Piepke                  
E2                  -0.002  7.058 194.21     ****WINNER****  0.043  7.222 189.31
         TS  Dial: 6.99 (+/-):  0.068              TS  Dial: 7.26 (+/-): -0.038
 Prior rounds:
E1    (K Raftery   ) -0.016  7.009  0.019      (K Daniels   ) 0.019  7.290  0.020
 Qualified:            #17  7.012 196.36                       #25  7.285 187.26

Dickey leaves too soon and turns on the red light.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4011 Royce Freeman                        4754 Billy Torrence               
E2   ****WINNER****  0.020  6.797 188.12                     0.015  7.725 155.01
         TS  Dial: 6.73 (+/-):  0.067              TS  Dial: 6.47 (+/-):  1.255
 Prior rounds:
E1    (H Robison   ) 0.058  6.758 -0.022      (K Firestone ) 0.045  6.545  0.045
 Qualified:            #10  6.821 202.88                        #2  6.519 213.10

Torrence rattles the tires at the hit, makes a hard move to the right and has to back off the throttle. He gets back on it but Freeman was way out in front at that point and drove away for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4147 Greg Lair                            7513 Todd Stewart                 
E2                   0.041 12.921  64.96     ****WINNER****  0.000  7.305 174.14
         TS  Dial: 6.72 (+/-):  6.201              TS  Dial: 7.28 (+/-):  0.025
 Prior rounds:
E1    (M Weaver    ) 0.018  6.746  0.066      (M Withers   ) 0.010  7.372  0.222
 Qualified:             #4  6.696 207.18                       #28  7.426 186.79

Lair makes a move to the left at the hit and has to back off the throttle. Stewart has a perfect reaction time then backs off the throttle early.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4191 Steve Benoit                         4935 Joseph Mohana                
E2   ****WINNER****  0.011  7.547 147.71                    -0.021  6.742 202.94
         TS  Dial: 6.70 (+/-):  0.847              TS  Dial: 6.77 (+/-): -0.028
 Prior rounds:
E1    (M Pickens   ) 0.031  8.640  1.930      (R Vettel Jr ) 0.008  6.818  0.038
 Qualified:             #6  6.715 205.69                       #14  6.929 200.86

Benoit makes a hard move to the left at the hit and has to pedal to get the car under control. Mohana misses the tree and gives the win to Benoit.

In the next round it will be Piepke vs. Vettel, Sumner vs. leibham, Freeman vs. Benoit and Stewart vs. Randall.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink