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Sat, 07 Sep 2013, 19:51 PM

Competition Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations

By Jim Samuel

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series, Northeast Division, event at Old Bridge Township Raceway Park:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  112 Erich Bollman                         189 Pete Hanratty                
E2   ****WINNER****  0.030  7.707 160.59                     0.045  6.674 208.30
         D/A Index: 8.20 (+/-): -0.493            A/DA Index: 7.11 (+/-): -0.436
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C Wentzel   ) 0.035  7.700 -0.580      (M Costa     ) 0.023  7.539  0.429
 Qualified:             #7  7.595 -0.685                       #15  6.488 -0.622

7:33 p.m. -- Not sure how much longer we are going to be racing here this evening. Race officials have just announced that the planned second round of eliminations for Stock Eliminator has been postponed until tomorrow. Hanratty's car made a move toward the center line. He tried to drive through it but could not catch up to Bollman.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1985 Don Eckel III                        1270 Rich LoCicero                
E2   ****WINNER****  0.049  7.152 169.06                     0.159  8.489 160.02
        C/DA Index: 7.58 (+/-): -0.428            D/SM Index: 8.94 (+/-): -0.451
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Fitzsimmon) 0.132  7.293  0.183      (A Niemczyk  ) 0.027  8.519 -0.421
 Qualified:            #16  6.960 -0.620                       #24  8.391 -0.549


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1867 Richard Schonberger                  1090 Gary Guarriello              
E2   ****WINNER****  0.116 10.226  92.79                    -0.017  7.420 152.11
        I/SM Index: 9.51 (+/-):  0.716            C/ED Index: 7.79 (+/-): -0.370
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Griffin   ) 0.119  9.006 -0.504      (F Affronti  ) 0.131  7.282 -0.548
 Qualified:            #30  9.027 -0.483                       #22  7.259 -0.571


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   15 Calvin Hill                          1034 Chip Ippolito                
E2                  -0.027 10.402  89.93     ****WINNER****  0.116  8.005 134.00
        D/EA Index: 8.70 (+/-):  1.702            PSTA Index: 8.22 (+/-): -0.215
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Bauder    ) 0.047  8.193 -0.607      (G Mannix    ) 0.085  7.809 -0.411
 Qualified:             #2  8.066 -0.734                       #10  7.568 -0.652

Ippolito will race Schonberger in round three tomorrow.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 A179 Donny Algieri                         113 Ken Voight                   
E2   ****WINNER****  0.062  8.733 159.02                     0.037 14.790  61.74
        F/ED Index: 8.63 (+/-):  0.103            G/SM Index: 9.23 (+/-):  5.560
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Benham    ) 0.143  8.245 -0.385      (D Hughes    )       No Time      
 Qualified:            #34  8.236 -0.394                       #29  8.726 -0.504

Algieri got into eliminations as an alternate for Tom Stalba and will be moving on to the third round. Voight launched and the brake lights came on as soon as he launched and stayed on the entire way down the track.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1086 Mark Hopkins                         1890 Michael Hanratty             
E2   ****WINNER****  0.146  8.220 126.33                    -0.065 58.664   NS  
         D/A Index: 8.27 (+/-): -0.050             K/A Index: 8.28 (+/-): 50.384
 Prior rounds:
E1    (V Barone    ) 0.025  7.770 -0.510      (A Ackerman  ) 0.120  7.929 -0.351
 Qualified:            #19  7.698 -0.582                       #11  7.629 -0.651

Hanratty had trouble doing his burnout and was not able to get any smoke from the tires. He went red and had problems on the track so Hopkins got an easy win and will race Bollman in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 3002 Pat Ross                             199K Kyle Cultrera                
E2                  -0.058  8.323 124.66     ****WINNER****  0.040  9.564 106.14
         E/A Index: 8.26 (+/-):  0.063            H/EA Index: 9.61 (+/-): -0.046
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Armstrong ) 0.126  7.757 -0.523      (J Carnascial) 0.038 10.777  1.167
 Qualified:             #9  7.616 -0.664                        #1  8.870 -0.740

Cultrera will race Algieri tomorrow in round three. I wonder if Algieri's luck will hold out for another round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1414 Kevin Robb                              3 Frank Aragona                
E2                  -0.001 17.825  45.95     ****WINNER****  0.060  8.670 114.96
        B/SR Index: 8.38 (+/-):  9.445            F/ED Index: 8.63 (+/-):  0.040
 Prior rounds:
E1    (S Szupka    ) 0.020  8.558  0.178      (C Miller    ) 0.024  8.298 -0.332
 Qualified:             #4  7.673 -0.707                       #12  7.993 -0.637

Robb went red so Aragona will move on to the next round, when he will race Eckel.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink