Sun, 26 Sep 2010, 06:04 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Bob Orme

HEBRON, Ohio - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA, Sixth annual Jeg's Northern SPORTSnationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    9 Brian Browell                          17 Charlie Greco                
E3                   0.014  7.293 166.99     ****WINNER****  0.034  8.906 135.84
        D/D Index: 7.79 (+/-): -0.497            L/AA Index: 9.45 (+/-): -0.544
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Peto      ) 0.091  8.043  0.253      (J Billingsle) 0.034  8.941 -0.559
E1    (J Bailey    ) 0.063  7.859  0.069      (S Chamness  ) 0.037  9.378 -0.122
 Qualified:             #5  7.192 -0.598                        #2  8.813 -0.687

5:58 p.m. Browell's index is clean while Greco is down five hundredths. He'll take four more off for round four. Charlie Greco's MOV: 0.0273 seconds (approximately 7 feet).

Brian Browell's incremental times: 60ft-1.030 sec., 330ft-2.921, 660ft-4.545/150.26 mph, 1,000ft-5.969.
Charlie Greco's incremental times: 60ft-1.195 sec., 330ft-3.567, 660ft-5.587/121.07 mph, 1,000ft-7.335.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  373 Ray Vierheller                        358 David Billingsley            
E3                  -0.004  9.102  97.79     ****WINNER****  0.056  9.261 115.95
       D/ED Index: 7.90 (+/-):  1.202            L/AA Index: 9.50 (+/-): -0.239
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Yediny    ) 0.016  7.391 -0.549      (G Russo     ) 0.156  9.164 -0.336
E1    (B Book      ) 0.026  7.922 -0.018      (R Barga     ) 0.103  9.154 -0.346
 Qualified:             #7  7.393 -0.547                       #10  8.978 -0.522

For a bye run into the final round, Vierheller is too anxious at the tree to hand it to Billingsley.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   36 Robert Bailey                          11 Frank Aragona Jr.            
E3                   0.026  6.632 201.52     ****WINNER****  0.014  8.230 153.21
       A/ED Index: 7.10 (+/-): -0.468            F/ED Index: 8.70 (+/-): -0.470
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Coan      ) 0.030  6.599 -0.561      (J Coughlin  ) 0.016  8.200 -0.570
E1    (J Shalkowski) 0.128  7.314  0.154      (J Frech     ) 0.023  8.865  0.095
 Qualified:             #9  6.628 -0.532                       #12  8.275 -0.495

Frank Aragona Jr.'s MOV: 0.0143 seconds (approximately 4 feet).

Robert Bailey's incremental times: 60ft-1.005 sec., 330ft-2.766, 660ft-4.245/165.90 mph, 1,000ft-5.529.
Frank Aragona Jr.'s incremental times: 60ft-1.145 sec., 330ft-3.303, 660ft-5.172/130.12 mph, 1,000ft-6.813.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink