Drag Race Central - NHRA
Sun, 1 Jun 2003, 04:13 PM

Pro Rear Wheel Drive Round 1 Eliminations
By Rick Green



JOLIET, Ill. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Pro Rear Wheel Drive at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Sixth annual Lucas Oil NHRA Route 66 Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 7715 Abel Ibarra                          2006 Matt Scranton
E1                   0.100  7.555 175.98     ****WINNER****  0.021  6.972 198.85
 Qualified:             #7  7.275   NS                          #2  2.407   NS
Scranton strapped a light on Ibarra and drove away to any easy victory with a stout lap as the Mazda at least made it from end to end.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 2587 Jorge Lazcano                        1078 Ara Arslanian
E1   ****WINNER****  1.380  7.105 186.20                    -0.198  6.778 204.57
 Qualified:             #6  6.304   NS                          #3  3.368   NS
Arslanian made one of the quickest and fastest runs of the c category but wasted it with a very early bulb to advance the Puerto Rico based Nissan.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Manny Cruz                           1079 George Ioannou
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.442 10.254  88.39
 Qualified:             #8  7.713 191.24                        #1  1.472   NS
Cruz rolled the beams and gave the automatic victory to the Street Glow Solara as Ioannou got out of shape and shut off to coast through.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  700 Stephan Papadakis                       1 Grant Downing
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.726  9.335  95.49
 Qualified:             #5  5.323   NS                          #4  4.341   NS
Downing knew this would be a freebie after Papadakis broke during yesterday's time trials and as he intended, shut off before half track to save the machinery.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink


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