Drag Race Central - NHRA
Sun, 05 Oct 2014, 22:03 PM

Super Gas Round 3 Eliminations
By Larry Sullivan



LAS VEGAS - Results of round 3 eliminations in Super Gas at the NHRA, Ninth annual Pacific SPORTSnationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7544 Brad Pierce                                Bye
E3   ****WINNER****  0.009 10.011 138.81     
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.039   
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Naber     ) 0.013 10.062  0.012   
E1    (R Cordeiro  ) 0.022 10.076  0.026   
 Qualified:            #14 10.076  0.026                     Bye
NOTE: Actual lanes not known. Winner listed first.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   63 Eddy Plaizier                        7685 Charlie Waggoner Jr.         
E3   ****WINNER****  0.010 10.058 159.63                     0.013 10.018 131.81
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.008            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.032
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Dryden    ) 0.008 10.071  0.021      (P Prange    ) 0.032 10.070  0.020
E1    (V Torres    ) 0.013 10.064  0.014      (C Langdon   ) 0.027 10.012 -0.038
 Qualified:             #7 10.064  0.014                       #25 10.012 -0.038
Eddy Plaizier's package: 0.018.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 769K Aaron Kinard                         7585 Marko Perivolaris            
E3   ****WINNER****  0.006 10.091 151.94                     0.014 10.092 154.09
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.041            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.042
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Anderson  ) 0.022 10.033 -0.017      (R Kato      ) 0.010 10.078  0.028
E1    (K Manogue   ) 0.019 10.038 -0.012      (T Barton    ) 0.009 10.062  0.012
 Qualified:            #23 10.038 -0.012                        #5 10.062  0.012
Aaron Kinard's MOV: 0.0090 seconds (approximately 2 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6563 Chris Cannon                         6607 Richard Clark                
E3   ****WINNER****  0.046 10.102 157.36                     0.133 10.009 142.72
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.052            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.041
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Balough   ) 0.004 10.086  0.036      (E Olpin     ) 0.001 10.061  0.011
E1    (A Galati    ) 0.056 10.066  0.016      (M Philbrick ) 0.025 10.083  0.033
 Qualified:             #9 10.066  0.016                       #15 10.083  0.033


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  767 Mike Wiblishouser                    7236 Mike Blodgett Sr.            
E3   ****WINNER****  0.010 10.058 159.27                     0.038 10.000 147.58
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.008            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.050
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Dolezal   ) 0.008 10.113  0.063                     -0.011 10.085  0.035
E1    (M Boner     ) 0.014 10.065  0.015      (L Rogers    ) 0.023 10.057  0.007
 Qualified:             #8 10.065  0.015                        #1 10.057  0.007
Mike Wiblishouser's package: 0.018.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 6832 Don Anderson                         767G Gerald Turczyn Jr.           
E3   ****WINNER****  0.027 10.057 153.46                     0.045 10.057 156.52
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.007            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-):  0.007
 Prior rounds:
E2    (P Wiechmann ) 0.007 10.063  0.013      (B Smith     ) 0.014 10.057  0.007
E1    (S Rollins   ) 0.047 10.022 -0.028      (R Herem     ) 0.006 10.064  0.014
 Qualified:            #24 10.022 -0.028                        #6 10.064  0.014
Don Anderson's MOV: 0.0180 seconds (approximately 4 feet). Identical ETs, Anderson got there first.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7169 Dave Cook                            7941 Thomas Bayer                 
E3   ****WINNER****  0.023 10.044 142.94                     0.024 10.043 161.79
         S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.006            S/G Index: 10.05 (+/-): -0.007
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Cates     )       No Time            (J Farrar    ) 0.017 10.041 -0.009
E1    (N Cannon    ) 0.051 10.067  0.017      (V Torres Jr ) 0.010 10.061  0.011
 Qualified:            #10 10.067  0.017                        #4 10.061  0.011
This was about as close as it gets - Cook on a thousandth of a second holeshot win when they both run the same ET. They got there together, but Cook had the smaller breakout.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink


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