Sun, 4 May 2003, 03:01 PM Pro Stock Bike Round 3 Eliminations

By Bob Orme

COMMERCE, Ga. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Pro Stock Bike at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals presented by Pontiac:

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Shawn Gann                              6 Geno Scali
E3                  -0.006  7.174 187.16     ****WINNER****  0.066  7.172 187.83
 Prior rounds:
E2    (A Hines     ) 0.064  7.182 185.79      (G Tonglet   ) 0.030  7.180 187.13
E1    (K Stoffer   ) 0.042  7.168 186.00      (C Reuter    ) 0.027  7.167 186.95
 Qualified:             #4  7.213 185.15                        #1  7.181 186.92

Ouch! That would have been a great race had Gann not red lit.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  204 Matthew Smith                           4 Antron Brown
E3                   0.012  7.287 183.79     ****WINNER****  0.020  7.253 186.98
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M Berry     ) 0.023  7.346 181.15      (R Showers   ) 0.019  7.261 181.62
E1    (A Savoie    ) 0.038  7.377 173.76      (F Camarena  ) 0.021  7.176 186.87
 Qualified:            #15  7.320 181.18                        #3  7.200 186.18

These two were even at half track where Brown began to pull away.

Antron Brown's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.007), 330 ft(-0.009), 660ft(0.000), 1,000ft(0.021). MOV: 0.0264 seconds (approximately 7 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink