Fri, 29 Mar 2013, 15:47 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #1 |
By David Gerard |
LAS VEGAS - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Pacific Division, event at The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, amount over/under index, and position in order following run, class and class index:
Left Lane: Joe Mozeris Runs 7.213/183.42/-0.397, Now #1 B/ED Index: 7.61
Right Lane: Brian Fitzpatrick Runs 6.833/209.88/-0.127, Now #2 H/D Index: 6.96
12:04 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 75 degrees, relative humidity 24 percent, barometer 28.01 inches, adjusted altitude 3,448 feet, track temperature 108 degrees.
Fitzpatrick's tires chatter and push the car way out of the groove.
He pedals and finishes the pass.
Clean pass for Mozeris.
Left Lane: Tyler Hogan Runs 7.122/186.38/-0.568, Now #1 C/DA Index: 7.69
Right Lane: Mike DePalma Runs 9.089/148.49/0.619, Now #4 F/EA Index: 8.47
No altitude index came up for DePalma, but he slowed down track.
A good tune up pass for Hogan.
Left Lane: Ed Sigmon Runs 9.375/104.62/0.425, Now #5 C/SR Index: 8.95
Right Lane: Ralph Van Paepeghem Runs 7.510/176.44/-0.430, Now #2 A/EA Index: 7.94
Sigmon slows after a bad start.
Left Lane: Alan Ellis Runs 6.654/202.06/-0.566, Now #2 A/AA Index: 7.22
Right Lane: Howie Stevens Runs 17.721/45.34/10.071, Now #8 C/A Index: 7.65
Stevens car may not have been in low gear, as the car bogs off the line. The car stops on the track and the Safety Crew has to go down and pull him off the track.
Ellis has a strong leave and has the altered drive out of the groove. He powers it back to the center of the lane and runs into the current #2 spot.
Left Lane: John Edwards Runs 7.435/183.17/-0.575, Now #1 C/AA Index: 8.01
Right Lane: Scott McClay Runs 22.002/46.60/14.032, Now #10 C/ED Index: 7.97
12:12 p.m. Back to racing.
McClays motor isn't happy and the car rolls off the line and motors on down the track.
Good pass for Edwards into the new top spot, but there was a lot of smoke from the car in the lights.
Left Lane: Mark Lelchook Runs 7.495/176.72/-0.525, Now #4 D/DA Index: 8.02
Right Lane: Joshua Lee Runs 9.281/142.96/-0.499, Now #5 H/EA Index: 9.78
Only ten cylinders between them!
They make good passes into the new #4 and #5 spots.
Left Lane: Scott Hedlund Runs 7.880/172.21/-0.590, Now #1 A/SM Index: 8.47
Right Lane: Dean Carter Runs 7.369/184.77/-0.281, Now #9 B/ND Index: 7.65
Hedlund makes a strong pass near the sixty under mark to take the #1 position for now.
Carter makes a good pass, but is not up to his normal pace.
Left Lane: Randy Goff Runs 8.297/165.40/-0.323, Now #10 B/SMA Index: 8.62
Right Lane: Dale Giroux Runs 7.122/194.35/-0.538, Now #5 B/AA Index: 7.66
Goff is in what looks to be Randy Jones old car, not sure if it's an A or B SM. The computer still shows B/T
Lots of Tech. cards are still not in the computer and the qualifying list may be wrong too.
Giroux into the top eight.
Left Lane: Randy Jones No Time, Now #18 C/TA Index: 9.17
Right Lane: Adam Bowdish Runs 8.216/164.03/-0.524, Now #7 B/SMA Index: 8.74
Jones has problems before the burnout and won't make the pass.
Right Lane: Steve Graham Runs 7.535/180.60/-0.495, Now #9 C/A Index: 8.03
Graham gets a single and can't quite run fifty under.
Right Lane: Aaron Strong Runs 8.549/160.10/-0.481, Now #10 G/A Index: 9.03
Strong car is a little lazy off the line and is off the pace.
12:22 p.m. Field not filled, no bump spot.
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