Thu, 03 Sep 2015, 15:16 PM Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Session #1 |
By David Gerard |
BROWNSBURG, Ind. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 61st annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, amount over/under index, and position in order following run, class and class index:
Left Lane: Aaron Disinger Runs 8.326/160.69/-0.394, Now #1 D/EA Index: 8.72
2:25 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 89 degrees, relative humidity 49 percent, barometer 29.06 inches, adjusted altitude 3,864 feet, track temperature 122 degrees.
A nice clean pass for the the first Comp car down the track. I believe there
are only sixty cars entered, so thereisn't likely to be a bump spot.
Right Lane: Scott Chamness Runs 6.704/201.64/-0.476, Now #1 B/D Index: 7.18
Tough B/D index and Chamness runs close to fifty under.
Left Lane: Jake Savani Runs 8.207/166.99/-0.043, Now #4 D/A Index: 8.25
Right Lane: Danny Holt Runs 8.275/164.59/-0.325, Now #3 C/EA Index: 8.60
Finally a pair.
Savani goes red and then can't run the number. No problems for Holt.
Left Lane: Todd Franz Runs 9.347/94.46/0.467, Now #6 D/SMA Index: 8.88
Right Lane: Rodney Rosenstiel Runs 6.894/209.72/-0.066, Now #4 AA/AM Index: 6.96
Two not so good passes. Time for the tune up thrash.
Left Lane: Chad Voges Runs 7.697/169.44/-0.543, Now #2 K/AA Index: 8.24
Right Lane: Mark Kirkman Runs 6.540/204.45/-0.560, Now #1 A/DA Index: 7.10
Two very different cars and the runs almost the same under their indexes.
Left Lane: Mark Lelchook Runs 7.551/175.50/-0.369, Now #5 D/ED Index: 7.92
Right Lane: James Smith Runs 8.417/159.57/0.247, Now #9 D/AA Index: 8.17
Smith's Firenza moves towards the wall and he has to fight it back into the groove.
Left Lane: David Billingsley Runs 8.805/152.97/-0.465, Now #4 L/AA Index: 9.27
Right Lane: Craig Schuck Runs 6.826/197.45/-0.404, Now #5 I/D Index: 7.23
Strong pass for Schuck, near the national record.
Billingsley is even better and makes a strong and clean pass.
Left Lane: Travis Gusso Runs 24.393/30.84/15.453, Now #14 D/SM Index: 8.94
Right Lane: Shaun Vincent Runs 8.450/157.21/-0.490, Now #3 C/TA Index: 8.94
Gusso has a good start and then quickly slows. He motors on down the track.Strong pass for Vincent.
Left Lane: Brian Stufflebeam Runs 7.443/178.87/-0.377, Now #8 A/EA Index: 7.82
Right Lane: Kenneth Laughlin Runs 7.356/188.81/-0.044, Now #12 BB/AM Index: 7.40
Left Lane: Doug Engels Runs 7.229/183.69/-0.531, Now #3 D/D Index: 7.76
Right Lane: Keith Hall Runs 8.567/153.13/-0.433, Now #7 E/SM Index: 9.00
Engles leaves hard and powers into the new #3 spot. Nice pass for Hall too.
Left Lane: Kevin Self Runs 7.863/166.17/-0.517, Now #4 F/EA Index: 8.38
Right Lane: Andrew Holt Runs 9.208/143.03/0.638, Now #19 F/D Index: 8.57
Lots of smoke off the little engine off the line and the car slows.
Self makes a clean pass into the top four for now.
Left Lane: John Keilers Runs 6.975/202.58/-0.125, Now #15 A/DA Index: 7.10
Right Lane: Jim Greenheck Runs 7.351/184.02/-0.519, Now #4 C/AA Index: 7.87
Keilers dragster is lazy off the line and doesn't improve much going down the track.
Greenheck makes a clean pass into #4.
Left Lane: Al Ackerman Runs 8.095/164.89/-0.475, Now #9 F/D Index: 8.57
Right Lane: Jim Kimbrough Runs 7.026/192.06/-0.504, Now #6 C/DA Index: 7.53
Left Lane: Dick Maris Runs 6.989/191.46/-0.541, Now #3 C/DA Index: 7.53
Right Lane: Doug Warren Runs 6.582/206.89/-0.518, Now #6 A/DA Index: 7.10
Strong leave for Maris and he parlays it into the latest #3 spot.
Warren runs the eight pass better than .500 under the index.
Left Lane: Pete Pawlak Runs 8.065/173.25/0.195, Now #24 C/AA Index: 7.87
Right Lane: Lee Sharp Runs 8.510/158.26/-0.370, Now #17 D/SMA Index: 8.88
Left Lane: Craig Bourgeois Runs 7.004/172.17/-0.546, Now #3 A/ND Index: 7.55
Right Lane: Ray Skillman Runs 7.673/174.98/-0.547, Now #2 B/EA Index: 8.22
Looks like the computer has the wrong class E/SMA for Skillman. While he got his first Comp win last week. -1.027 under the index is a little quick. Nope, it's really a B/EA and he is "only" -0.547 under.
Bourgeois puts the front engined dragster takes the #3 spot.
Left Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 7.202/190.51/-0.418, Now #16 DD/AT Index: 7.62
Right Lane: Jim Primozic Runs 7.538/180.79/-0.332, Now #22 C/AA Index: 7.87
Left Lane: Van Puckett Runs 8.368/156.83/-0.472, Now #15 G/AA Index: 8.84
Right Lane: Randy Daniels Runs 9.029/147.83/-0.531, Now #7 F/SM Index: 9.56
Daniels moves into the top eight.
Left Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.429/209.52/-0.511, Now #11 A/D Index: 6.94
Right Lane: Jenny Treadwell Runs 9.182/101.27/0.332, Now #33 E/ED Index: 8.85
Treadwell is slow off the line and motors on down.
Left Lane: Jason Coan Runs 8.274/146.72/-0.456, Now #19 G/EA Index: 8.73
Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 6.914/174.66/-0.536, Now #6 B/ED Index: 7.45
Nice pass for Kamplain in the B/ED into the top eight.
Left Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 8.265/164.47/-0.335, Now #27 E/AA Index: 8.60
Right Lane: Brian Browell Runs 9.368/95.19/1.608, Now #39 D/D Index: 7.76
Browell has a broken run.
Left Lane: Lee Zane Runs 9.043/143.52/-0.467, Now #18 H/EA Index: 9.51
Right Lane: Mike Farrell Runs 8.874/119.33/-0.006, Now #35 A/EA Index: 8.88
Zane is off the pace and can only run into the #18 spot.
Left Lane: Jeremy Bailey Runs 6.972/194.69/-0.388, Now #26 B/DA Index: 7.36
Right Lane: Ronnie Bohn Runs 7.733/170.86/-0.477, Now #15 J/D Index: 8.21
Bohn's little dragster moves over towards the wall and he drives it back to the groove.
Left Lane: Clint Neff Runs 7.700/170.58/-0.540, Now #6 K/AA Index: 8.24
Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.677/205.51/-0.533, Now #8 A/ED Index: 7.21
Two good passes for today's conditions. Neff to #6 and Bailey to #8.
Left Lane: Ed Bennett Runs 6.508/209.88/-0.432, Now #26 A/D Index: 6.94
Right Lane: Terry Smith Runs 6.667/203.74/-0.433, Now #25 D/ED Index: 7.10
Just 0.001 difference in there under the indexes.
Left Lane: Glen Treadwell No Time, Now #50 J/DA Index: 8.26
Right Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.301/180.67/-0.519, Now #12 A/EA Index: 7.82
Treadwell gets pushed away.
Some strong smoke from Rampy's engine in the lights. Good pass until then.
Left Lane: Troy Galbraith Runs 6.856/174.75/-0.504, Now #17 B/DA Index: 7.36
Right Lane: Joe Santangelo Runs 7.880/166.70/-0.470, Now #23 B/SR Index: 8.35
Santangelo is the defending champion and he is a little off his usual pace.
Left Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 7.781/167.99/-0.519, Now #13 J/AA Index: 8.30
Right Lane: Todd Patterson Runs 7.961/170.67/-0.479, Now #20 A/SMA Index: 8.44
Ambrose is late at the green, so the two cars are side by side right on down the track.
Left Lane: Steve Polhill Runs 9.344/139.69/-0.166, Now #42 H/EA Index: 9.51
Last of the pairs. Two singles left to run this session.
Left Lane: Arnie Martel Runs 7.727/174.37/-0.513, Now #16 E/AA Index: 8.24
Nice 0.001 light and Martel moves into the top sixteen to wrap up the session.
3:09 p.m. Mark Kirkman is number one at -0.560. Field not filled, no bump spot.
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