Mon, 5 Sep 2011, 02:48 PM Pro Stock Round 2 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

CLERMONT, Ind. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Pro Stock at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 Allen Johnson                        2062 Ronnie Humphrey              
E2   ****WINNER****  0.018  6.582 209.79                     0.102  6.570 210.70
 Prior rounds:
E1    (G Stanfield ) 0.017  6.589 209.39      (R Krisher   ) 0.062  6.692 191.13
 Qualified:             #4  6.623 208.33                        #5  6.630 207.88

2:33 p.m. Johnson is 5 - 0 against Humphrey in prior events. Humphrey needs to win this round and one more in order to get past Ron Krisher in the points and into the Countdown.

Neither driver wanted to go in first and they sat there for at least a minute before AJ finally broke the deadlock. Then he nailed Humphrey to the tree and that was the end of that. Johnson wins on a big holeshot.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Jason Line                             48 Erica Enders                 
E2   ****WINNER****  0.023  6.583 209.59                    -0.006  6.585 209.39
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Perkinson ) 0.049  6.558 210.73      (K Johnson   ) 0.002  6.596 209.26
 Qualified:             #1  6.603 209.01                        #8  6.645 207.43

Line and Enders have each won 5 times against the other in prior events.

Enders went red and Line advances to the semifinals to race AJ - and Johnson has lane choice, by a thousandth.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Mike Edwards                          154 Vincent Nobile               
E2   ****WINNER****  0.021  6.568 210.57                    -0.004  6.594 209.85
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Gray      ) 0.088  6.555 210.37      (C McGaha    ) 0.048  6.583 209.85
 Qualified:             #3  6.613 208.04                        #6  6.633 208.42

Edwards and Nobile have each won 2 times against the other in prior events.

The red light magnet is on in the right lane...Edwards gets the win and runs low ET of the round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Greg Anderson                           9 Rodger Brogdon               
E2   ****WINNER****  0.051  6.544 210.93                     0.031  6.614 209.30
 Prior rounds:
E1    (M Martino   ) 0.038  6.547 211.03      (V Gaines    ) 0.014  6.572 208.23
 Qualified:             #2  6.610 208.26                        #7  6.637 206.67

Anderson is 11 - 0 against Brogdon in prior events.

Brogdon had a couple hundredths in hand at the green, but his car was loose early in the run and Anderson won easily, running low ET of the round. He will have lane choice against Edwards in the semifinals.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink