Fri, 11 Oct 2013, 20:27 PM Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car Round 1 Competition

By Dave Rowe

MILLINGTON, Tenn. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Amsoil Prostalgia Nitro Funny Car at the 2013 Nitro Jam Series, IHRA Memphis Nitro Jam Day One:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Greg Jacobsmeyer                      301 Mike Minick                  
E1                   0.120  6.376 230.88     ****WINNER****  0.138  6.182 237.30

7:17 p.m. Jacobsmeyer gets out of the gate first, stays in front past the sixty foot mark, but drifts out of the groove and moves to the right toward the centerline. Minick drives around Jacobsmeyer at the 330 foot mark and pulls away for the win.

Mike Minick's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.042), 330 ft(0.003), 660ft(0.091), 1,000ft(0.145). MOV: 0.1763 seconds (approximately 60 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  400 Mike Halstead                         114 Peter Gallen                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.342  6.170 225.86                           No Time      

Gallen stages but can't hold the car and rolls through the beams. Halstead goes right down the groove with a good pass to take the win.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink