Sun, 25 May 2003, 02:01 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

TOPEKA, Kan. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator 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-- (+/-)
 2885 David Rampy                          4446 Gary Wise
E3   ****WINNER****  0.034  7.898 -0.132                    -0.110  8.551 -0.469
       A/EA Index: 8.03                          D/EA Index: 9.02
 Prior rounds:
E2                   0.035  7.943 -0.087      (P Carbery   ) 0.167  8.525 -0.495
E1    (L Snyder    ) 0.035  7.609 -0.421      (C Sallee    ) 0.025  8.745 -0.275
 Qualified:             #2  7.421 -0.609                       #20  8.570 -0.450

Wise turned on the red light and Rampy will move on to the semifinals.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  567 Scott Brown                          4006 Mike Trumble
E3                   0.014  7.993 -0.587     ****WINNER****  0.039  8.122 -0.628
       B/SR Index: 8.58                         A/SMA Index: 8.75
 Prior rounds:
E2    (L Pritchett ) 0.066  8.073 -0.537      (B Klein     ) 0.030  8.584 -0.166
E1    (T Schmidt   ) 0.000  8.156 -0.454                     0.019  8.548 -0.202
 Qualified:             #5  8.038 -0.572                        #1  8.135 -0.615

Brown with a better light, but Trumble chased him down for the four foot win. That win will cost him permanent CIC.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   58 Jeff Perrella                           9 Doug Engels
E3   ****WINNER****  0.125  8.434  0.404                    -0.012  8.841  0.891
       A/EA Index: 8.03                          D/ED Index: 7.95
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Butner    ) 0.010  8.546  0.516      (M Johnson   ) 0.072  7.441 -0.569
E1    (L Larson    ) 0.119  7.539 -0.491      (D Robison   ) 0.107  7.533 -0.477
 Qualified:             #4  7.427 -0.603                        #8  7.470 -0.540

Engels turned on the red light.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
  462 Al Weiss                             5158 Steve Kalkowski
E3   ****WINNER****  0.050  8.667 -0.413                    -0.002  7.305 -0.485
       E/EA Index: 9.08                           B/A Index: 7.79
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Nickens   ) 0.033  8.707 -0.373      (B Self      ) 0.039  7.285 -0.515
E1    (B Yonke     ) 0.038  8.654 -0.426      (B Dennis    ) 0.051  7.339 -0.461
 Qualified:             #3  8.477 -0.603                       #14  7.289 -0.511

Weiss with the win when Kalkowski turned on the red light. Trumble vs Weiss and Rampy vs Perrella in the semifinals.

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