Sun, 25 May 2003, 04:51 PM Super Street Final, Round 6 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

TOPEKA, Kan. - Results of final, round 6 eliminations in Super Street at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 15th annual O'Reilly NHRA Summer Nationals presented by Castrol GTX:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 3680 Bob Schmidt                          6680 Chet Vandewater
E6   ****WINNER****  0.023 10.910  0.010                     0.024 10.898 -0.002
       S/ST Index: 10.90                         S/ST Index: 10.90
 Prior rounds:
E5    (R Hull      ) 0.033 10.903  0.003      (G Abbott    ) 0.022 11.793  0.893
E4                   0.029 10.858 -0.042      (H Sliwinski ) 0.004 10.890 -0.010
E3    (T Grant     ) 0.038 10.903  0.003      (D Padilla   ) 0.005 10.906  0.006
E2    (T Fuller    ) 0.053 10.919  0.019      (R Irvin     ) 0.023 10.854 -0.046
E1    (C Harshfield) 0.037 10.870 -0.030      (B Fuller    ) 0.026 10.928  0.028
 Qualified:            #22 10.870 -0.030                       #10 10.928  0.028

3:45 PM Vandewater got his first national event win earlier this year, at Phoenix. Schmidt was in search of his first. They left right together, a thousandth apart. They were side-by-side and Vandewater broke out by two thousandths to give Schmidt his first-ever "Wally."

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink