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Sun, 28 Sep 2014, 15:43 PM

Super Stock Round 5 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

MADISON, Ill. - Results of round 5 eliminations in Super Stock at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, Third annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 5149 Phil Unruh                           1778 Joe Santangelo               
E5                   0.048  8.489 158.24     ****WINNER****  0.015  8.685 151.65
       SS/CM  Dial: 8.50 (+/-): -0.011           SS/AS  Dial: 8.67 (+/-):  0.015
 Prior rounds:
E4    (M Farrell   ) 0.019  8.499  0.039      (A Bertozzi  ) 0.024  8.736  0.076
E3    (B Splingaire) 0.031  8.561  0.131      (C Chaney    ) 0.010  8.661  0.021
E2    (B Mandery   ) 0.022  8.576  0.116      (T Caheely   ) 0.000  8.655  0.005
E1    (M Lund      ) 0.017  8.477  0.017      (D Nelson    ) 0.028  8.637 -0.003
 Qualified:             #2  8.445 -1.055                        #7  8.630 -0.970

2:39 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 36 percent, barometer 29.62 inches, adjusted altitude 2,831 feet, track temperature 114 degrees.

Unruh is late off the line and breaks out trying to run down Santangelo.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   57 Brett Speer                          3921 Ryan Richardson              
E5   ****WINNER****  0.035  9.954 123.38                     0.047 10.209 128.26
       GT/EA  Dial: 10.65 (+/-): -0.696          GT/EA  Dial: 10.65 (+/-): -0.441
 Prior rounds:
E4                   -0.004 10.212 -0.438      (F Bartoli   ) 0.034 10.323  0.003
E3    (M Town      ) 0.037 10.076  0.106      (M Compton   ) 0.007 10.309  0.049
E2    (A Disinger  ) 0.047  9.964 -0.006      (J Jenkins   ) 0.008 10.252 -0.088
E1    (M Hoover    ) 0.013  9.975  0.005      (M Alvey     ) 0.021 10.341  0.001
 Qualified:            #43 10.183 -0.467                       #52 10.503 -0.147

Speer gets the holeshot and takes the heads-up win.

Santangelo will take on Speer in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink