Sun, 06 May 2012, 19:23 PM Quick Rod Round 2 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

BATON ROUGE, La. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Quick Rod at the Summit Racing Equipment Pro-Am Tour, Renegades Division 4, day two at State Capitol Raceway:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4618 David Nicoll                         4317 Robby Irby                   
E2                   0.011  8.893 147.78     ****WINNER****  0.018  8.998 165.31
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.007             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-):  0.098
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D DANIELS   ) 0.029  8.983  0.083      (V ROWLAND   ) 0.028  8.809 -0.091

6:15 p.m. Nicoll took too much stripe and Irby wins on the breakout.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4541 Donald Holder                        437Z Tommy Kelley                 
E2   ****WINNER**** -0.012  8.878 152.07                    -0.319 19.133  58.55
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.022             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): 10.233
 Prior rounds:
E1    (M PENNINGTON) 0.038  8.893 -0.007      (A SPENCER   ) 0.009  8.986  0.086

Kelley was way early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4X12 Nicole Tomastik                      4229 Tony Farmer                  
E2                   0.040  8.875 150.77     ****WINNER****  0.024  8.912 167.78
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.025             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-):  0.012
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D SCATES    ) 0.025  8.924  0.024      (M NUNEZ     ) 0.064  8.930  0.030

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4252 Tony Gray                            4622 Gordon Prejean               
E2   ****WINNER****  0.055  8.929 159.65                     0.039  8.865 166.08
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-):  0.029             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.035
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C PREJEAN   ) 0.010  8.907  0.007      (M PEVEY     ) 0.065  8.940  0.040

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 402X Rickey Brock                         4766 Shannon Brinkley             
E2                   0.009  8.894 170.51     ****WINNER****  0.005  8.896 167.28
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.006             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.004
 Prior rounds:
E1    (Bye         ) 0.139  8.864 -0.036      (M LEVATINO  ) 0.030  8.883 -0.017

Two great lights and they flew in formation all the way down the track. Shannon Brinkley's MOV: Took the stripe by 0.0020 seconds (approximately 6 inches) in a double breakout.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 489T Donnie Torres                        403V Bart Nelson                  
E2   ****WINNER****  0.044  8.907 171.07                     0.034  8.930 163.30
         Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-):  0.007             Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-):  0.030
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B SMITH JR  ) 0.078  8.850 -0.050      (L RUTLAND   ) 0.023  8.883 -0.017

Nelson had the better light, but was not close enough to the index to keep Torres from taking the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
        Bye                                482A Thomas Levatino              
E2                                            ****WINNER****  0.011  8.898 175.54
                                                   Q/R Index: 8.90 (+/-): -0.002
 Prior rounds:
E1                                           (R HIMEL SR  ) 0.006  8.856 -0.044

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