Sun, 21 Apr 2013, 15:36 PM Stock Eliminator Round 4 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

CONCORD, N.C. - Results of round 4 eliminations in Stock Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Fourth annual Dollar General NHRA Four-Wide Nationals fueled by Full Throttle:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 335X Dave Connolly                        1789 Thomas Fletcher              
E4   ****WINNER**** -0.029  9.540 122.26                    -0.009 12.273  85.55
       CC/SA  Dial: 9.48 (+/-):  0.060            K/SA  Dial: 11.97 (+/-):  0.303
 Prior rounds:
E3    (R Shaw      ) 0.055  9.537  0.007      (J Perrone   ) 0.008 12.091 -0.039
E2    (D Fletcher  ) 0.032  9.551  0.041      (J Boburka   ) 0.008 12.112  0.032
E1                   0.035  9.668 -0.932      (G Richard   ) 0.033 12.068  0.038
 Qualified:             #1  9.584 -1.016                       #46 12.123 -0.527

3:30 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 68 degrees, relative humidity 36 percent, barometer 29.70 inches, adjusted altitude 1,302 feet, track temperature 103 degrees.

Fletcher is a little too early and gives the win to Connolly.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 2824 Brian Rowe                            210 Ryan Hardison                
E4   ****WINNER****  0.009 11.406 112.00                     0.037 10.264 127.74
        I/SA  Dial: 11.42 (+/-): -0.014           B/SA  Dial: 10.30 (+/-): -0.036
 Prior rounds:
E3    (K Miele     ) 0.009 11.430  0.020      (C Marshall  ) 0.111 10.288 -0.032
E2    (D Rampy     ) 0.029 11.421  0.061      (M Meier     ) 0.061 10.321  0.031
E1    (A Bertozzi  ) 0.018 11.404  0.104      (F Maiolo    ) 0.048 10.457  0.167
 Qualified:            #10 11.394 -0.906                       #13 10.353 -0.897

Brian Rowe's MOV: Took the stripe by 0.0060 seconds (approximately 13 inches) in a double breakout.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1150 Russell Linke                        355X Mike Kubiak                  
E4                   0.041 10.506 119.38     ****WINNER****  0.078  8.912 149.10
        C/SA  Dial: 10.51 (+/-): -0.004          AA/SA  Dial: 8.91 (+/-):  0.002
 Prior rounds:
E3    (J Adkinson  ) 0.010 10.391 -1.009      (M Quartarone) 0.057  8.860 -0.070
E2    (R Johnson   ) 0.015 10.506 -0.014      (B Phillips  ) 0.031  8.951  0.031
E1    (M Moller    ) 0.028 10.671  0.201      (D Poole-Adam) 0.117  8.861 -0.179
 Qualified:            #31 10.610 -0.790                        #7  9.047 -0.953

Linke gets the holeshot but takes a little too much stripe.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1470 Adam Keir                                  Bye
E4   ****WINNER****  0.004 10.001 118.36     
        A/SA  Dial: 11.00 (+/-): -0.999   
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Kincaid   ) 0.018  9.959 -0.001   
E2    (J Gray      ) 0.097 10.147 -0.853   
E1    (R Dean      ) 0.089 10.794  0.904   
 Qualified:            #29 10.197 -0.803                     Bye

In the next round it will be Connolly vs. Rowe and Keir vs. Kubiak.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink