Sun, 18 May 2003, 05:39 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Jim Samuel

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 34th annual K&N Filters SuperNationals presented by Pep Boys:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 1301 Douglas Foley                         149 Mark Albert
E3   ****WINNER****  3.937 32.776   NS                              0.000   NS
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Leverich  ) 0.064  6.701 141.36      (S Lamplough ) 0.111  5.530 256.70
E1    (B Horner    ) 0.161  6.357 159.44      (S Tafur     ) 0.331  5.612 247.29
 Qualified:             #3  5.608 242.41                       #10  6.462 193.07

5:33 PM - Albert was a no-show at the tree so Foley staged, took the tree, shut it down and pushed back. He gave up any chance of getting lane choice in the final round but was sure he wouldn't break anything on this run.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   77 Steven Cantrell                       200 Tony Bartone
E3                  -0.001  5.592 243.63     ****WINNER****  0.029  5.288 274.72
 Prior rounds:
E2    (A Gallant   ) 0.066  5.438 246.39      (R Mc Phillip) 0.054  5.295 274.33
E1    (R Bourke    ) 0.082  5.473 236.67      (F Monaghan  ) 0.038  5.321 273.50
 Qualified:            #16 28.000   NS                         #13  9.163 100.52

The cloud cover has begun to lift here and for the first time, we had sun shining on the race track. The temperature was 60 degrees, track temperature was 78 degrees, humidity was 39 percent and the barometric pressure was 29.73.

Cantrell left one thousandth of a second too soon and Bartone got the win. He'll have lane choice over Doug Foley in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink