Sun, 25 May 2003, 04:27 PM Super Street Round 5 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

TOPEKA, Kan. - Results of round 5 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                          5385 Rusty Hull
E5   ****WINNER****  0.033 10.903  0.003                     0.022 10.927  0.027
       S/ST Index: 10.90                         S/ST Index: 10.90
 Prior rounds:
E4                   0.029 10.858 -0.042      (F Higgins   ) 0.021 10.903  0.003
E3    (T Grant     ) 0.038 10.903  0.003      (C Lowry Jr  ) 0.659 10.924  0.024
E2    (T Fuller    ) 0.053 10.919  0.019      (F Nichols Jr) -0.003 10.796 -0.104
E1    (C Harshfield) 0.037 10.870 -0.030      (J Kliese    ) 0.017 10.852 -0.048
 Qualified:            #22 10.870 -0.030                       #24 10.852 -0.048

3:20 PM Neither driver has a national event win...and Schmidt will have a chance to get his first.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   43 GS Abbott                            6680 Chet Vandewater
E5                   1.984 11.372  0.472     ****WINNER****  0.022 11.793  0.893
       S/ST Index: 10.90                         S/ST Index: 10.90
 Prior rounds:
E4    (M Harris    ) 0.027 10.913  0.013      (H Sliwinski ) 0.004 10.890 -0.010
E3    (G Cooper    ) 0.026 11.228  0.328      (D Padilla   ) 0.005 10.906  0.006
E2    (L Loontjer  ) 0.036 10.939  0.039      (R Irvin     ) 0.023 10.854 -0.046
E1    (J Dodds     ) 0.020 10.941  0.041      (B Fuller    ) 0.026 10.928  0.028
 Qualified:            #12 10.941  0.041                       #10 10.928  0.028

Vanderwater beat Abbott to get his only national event win and Abbott broke here, giving Vanderwater a shot at his second, but he will have to beat Schmidt to get it.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink