Sun, 4 May 2003, 12:43 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Round 2 Eliminations

By Bob Orme

COMMERCE, Ga. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Southern Nationals presented by Pontiac:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  204 Jason Cannon                          391 Bill Reichert
E2                   0.030  5.524 261.22     ****WINNER****  0.052  5.450 272.72
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Mc Cornack) 0.032  5.448 259.96      (B Leverich  ) 0.148  5.360 271.24
 Qualified:             #8  5.542 258.86                        #1  5.279 274.27

Reichert had to pedal the car at about 300 feet, the front end rising about two feet into the air when he did.

Bill Reichert's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.030), 330 ft(-0.070), 660ft(-0.043), 1,000ft(0.011). MOV: 0.0521 seconds (approximately 20 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 1301 Douglas Foley                        1482 Richard Bourke
E2                  -0.053  5.598 241.24     ****WINNER****  0.086  5.397 266.42
 Prior rounds:
E1    (F Monaghan  ) 0.010  5.513 256.80      (D Fiorelli  ) 0.107  5.448 262.90
 Qualified:             #7  5.494 256.36                        #2  5.373 266.48

Hard to tell if Foley was running on all eight cylinders for the entire pass, but he lit the red bulb at the start so it didn't matter anyway.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    7 Marty Thacker                        2155 Guy Kelly
E2   ****WINNER****  0.039  5.396 262.95                           No Time
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Stripe    ) 0.063  5.511 258.91      (P Mass      ) 0.126  5.419 254.81
 Qualified:             #5  5.431 260.76                        #4  5.411 261.37

Kelly left on the staging light instead of waiting for the tree to activate. Thacker moves on to the semi's with his best pass of the weekend.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 7000 Darryl Hitchman                         1 Arthur Gallant
E2                   0.093  5.646 227.54     ****WINNER****  0.085  5.395 246.53
 Prior rounds:
E1    (K Stark     ) 0.102  5.506 233.64      (T Rudy      ) 0.162  5.454 229.12
 Qualified:             #6  5.486 236.09                        #3  5.405 252.38

Hitchman was slowing down at the finish, the reason not apparent from here.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink