Sun, 08 Sep 2013, 12:46 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Jim Samuel

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Results of round 3 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
 1034 Chip Ippolito                        1867 Richard Schonberger          
E3   ****WINNER****  0.086  7.653 176.53                     0.004  9.067 147.54
        PSTA Index: 8.22 (+/-): -0.567            I/SM Index: 9.51 (+/-): -0.443
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Hill      ) 0.116  8.005 -0.215      (G Guarriello) 0.116 10.226  0.716
E1    (G Mannix    ) 0.085  7.809 -0.411      (B Griffin   ) 0.119  9.006 -0.504
 Qualified:            #10  7.568 -0.652                       #30  9.027 -0.483

12:40 p.m. - Schonberger had the quicker light but Ippolito was able to run him down on the track.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  112 Erich Bollman                        1086 Mark Hopkins                 
E3   ****WINNER****  0.072  7.900 147.37                    -0.012 10.812  83.64
         D/A Index: 8.28 (+/-): -0.380             D/A Index: 8.28 (+/-):  2.532
 Prior rounds:
E2    (P Hanratty  ) 0.030  7.707 -0.493      (M Hanratty  ) 0.146  8.220 -0.050
E1    (C Wentzel   ) 0.035  7.700 -0.580      (V Barone    ) 0.025  7.770 -0.510
 Qualified:             #7  7.595 -0.685                       #19  7.698 -0.582

Heads-up!

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 1985 Don Eckel III                           3 Frank Aragona                
E3                   0.019  7.158 186.72     ****WINNER****  0.025  8.097 159.83
        C/DA Index: 7.58 (+/-): -0.422            F/ED Index: 8.63 (+/-): -0.533
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R LoCicero  ) 0.049  7.152 -0.428      (K Robb      ) 0.060  8.670  0.040
E1    (R Fitzsimmon) 0.132  7.293  0.183      (C Miller    ) 0.024  8.298 -0.332
 Qualified:            #16  6.960 -0.620                       #12  7.993 -0.637

Aragona will race Ippolito in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 A179 Donny Algieri                        199K Kyle Cultrera                
E3                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.055  9.814 100.93
        F/ED Index: 8.63 (+/-): 91.369            H/EA Index: 9.61 (+/-):  0.204
 Prior rounds:
E2    (K Voight    ) 0.062  8.733  0.103      (P Ross      ) 0.040  9.564 -0.046
E1    (S Benham    ) 0.143  8.245 -0.385      (J Carnascial) 0.038 10.777  1.167
 Qualified:            #34  8.236 -0.394                        #1  8.870 -0.740

Algieri started to stage, then backed up and pulled away Cultrera will race Bollman in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink