Sun, 26 Sep 2010, 03:58 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator 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
 4121 Darin West                            469 Clark Smiley                 
E3                  -0.062  8.044 166.97     ****WINNER****  0.023  7.541 156.12
       F/AA Index: 8.49 (+/-): -0.446             C/A Index: 7.95 (+/-): -0.409
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M Johnson   ) 0.075  8.093 -0.397      (K Self      ) 0.035  7.480 -0.470
E1    (T Patterson ) 0.088  8.068 -0.422      (C Johnson   ) 0.035  7.540 -0.410
 Qualified:            #19  8.087 -0.403                       #10  7.472 -0.478

2:54 p.m.West leaves too soon; Smiley backs off the throttle early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  550 Will Hatcher                           41 Chase Williams               
E3                   0.038  6.549 197.25     ****WINNER****  0.022  7.768 161.92
       A/DA Index: 7.11 (+/-): -0.561             E/A Index: 8.36 (+/-): -0.592
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M Trumble   ) 0.011  6.617 -0.493      (P Carbery   ) 0.052  8.346 -0.014
E1    (C McGaha    ) 0.062  6.603 -0.527                           No Time      
 Qualified:             #5  6.603 -0.527                        #1  7.768 -0.592

Williams takes the win but takes a bite out of his index for the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    8 David Rampy                           533 Bill Morse                   
E3   ****WINNER****  0.055  7.299 169.30                     0.004  8.192 165.21
       A/EA Index: 7.84 (+/-): -0.541           B/SMA Index: 8.66 (+/-): -0.468
 Prior rounds:
E2                   0.039  7.606 -0.234      (D Smiley    ) 0.016  9.340  0.680
E1    (R Brown     ) 0.062  7.447 -0.393      (A White     ) 0.014  8.257 -0.403
 Qualified:             #2  7.261 -0.579                       #18  8.256 -0.404

Rampy gives up a lot off the line and has to use some of his index to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
        Bye                                   1 Bruno Massel                 
E3                                            ****WINNER****  1.705 16.059  93.19
                                                DD/AT Index: 7.74 (+/-):  8.319
 Prior rounds:
E2                                           (K Hall      ) 0.006  7.683 -0.057
E1                                           (J Holland   ) 0.030  7.422 -0.318
 Qualified:                                                       #3  7.203 -0.537

Massel gets the bye and makes an easy pass down the track.

in the next round it will be Massel vs. Williams and Rampy vs. Smiley.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink