Sun, 30 Sep 2012, 15:24 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

MADISON, Ill. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Inaugural AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    4 David Rampy                                Bye
E3   ****WINNER****  0.003  7.691 130.90     
        A/EA Index: 7.83 (+/-): -0.139    
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Patterson ) 0.063  8.056  0.226   
E1    (P Ross Sr   ) 0.000  7.648 -0.182   
 Qualified:             #9  7.191 -0.639                     Bye

2:08 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 40 percent, barometer 29.43 inches, adjusted altitude 2,325 feet, track temperature 96 degrees.

Rampy gets the bye here and will move on to the semi-finals with no damage to his index.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5464 Mike Compton                            5 Clint Neff                   
E3                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.034  8.494 107.72
        E/SM Index: 9.01 (+/-): 90.989             K/A Index: 8.36 (+/-):  0.134
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M Kirkman   ) 0.020  8.504 -0.566      (B Butner    ) -0.337 10.122  1.762
E1    (T Gusso     ) 0.041  8.598 -0.472                     0.028  8.496  0.136
 Qualified:            #17  8.474 -0.596                        #1  7.619 -0.741

Compton does his burnout and develops a leak ending his weekend. Neff gets the freebie and clicks it off about 1000 feet out.

neff will take on Rampy in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  358 David Billingsley                     394 Greg Kamplain                
E3   ****WINNER****  0.020  8.757 145.94                     0.007  6.833 193.32
        L/AA Index: 9.34 (+/-): -0.583            B/ED Index: 7.38 (+/-): -0.547
 Prior rounds:
E2    (Bye         ) 0.003  8.845 -0.495      (M Harris    ) 0.076  6.874 -0.506
E1    (C Haubiel   ) 0.001  8.951 -0.389      (M Graves    ) 0.039  6.878 -0.602
 Qualified:            #14  8.713 -0.627                        #6  6.836 -0.644

Kamplain gets the hole shot but had lost too much of his index the first round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  277 Larry Pritchett                      5814 Doug Hill                    
E3   ****WINNER****  0.006  8.474 122.68                     0.005 10.599  84.24
        B/SM Index: 8.60 (+/-): -0.126           I/SMA Index: 9.67 (+/-):  0.929
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Greenheck ) 0.069  8.752  0.152      (S Chamness  ) 0.025 10.737  1.067
E1    (M Farrell   ) 0.024  8.104 -0.496      (C Voges     ) 0.093  9.811  0.141
 Qualified:             #4  7.952 -0.648                       #13  9.042 -0.628

No advantage for either off the line but pritchett runs down Hill and takes the win.

In the next round it will be Neff vs. Rampy and Billingsley vs. Pritchett.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink