Sun, 01 May 2016, 16:05 PM Top Alcohol Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Alcohol Dragster at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 29th annual SpringNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 5961 Megan Meyer                           415 Lee Callaway                 
E3                   0.062  5.337 271.95     ****WINNER****  0.072  5.288 272.23
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Brounkowsk) 0.021  5.280 272.94      (D Sheetz    ) 0.115  5.321 269.08
E1    (R McKinley  ) 0.059  5.323 271.35      (B Domingue  ) 0.133  5.344 268.33
 Qualified:             #3  5.354 268.54                        #2  5.300 271.62

2:31 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 81 degrees, relative humidity 74 percent, barometer 29.78 inches, adjusted altitude 2,656 feet, track temperature 104 degrees.

This is the first time Meyer and Callaway have faced each other in eliminations. Either Meyer will go to her third final round in three starts or Callaway will go to his first final round in 42 starts.

Meyer had a hundredth in hand at the green and Callaway had the lead at 60 feet He pulled away in the first half of the track, then Meyer started closing the gap, but ran out of race track.

Lee Callaway's incremental margins: 60ft(0.005), 330 ft(0.067), 660ft(0.065), 1,000ft(0.045). MOV: 0.0397 seconds (approximately 16 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Joey Severance                        421 Spencer Massey               
E3   ****WINNER****  0.032  5.313 269.67                     0.053  5.392 267.27
 Prior rounds:
E2    (S Cowie     ) 0.036  5.308 271.13      (C Copeland  ) 0.035  5.428 257.33
E1    (G Cooper    ) 0.057  5.327 271.30      (D Martinets ) 0.029  5.480 260.91
 Qualified:             #5  5.439 256.75                        #8  5.471 235.39

This is the first time Severance and Massey have faced each other in eliminations. Since this is Massey's first TAD competition since Dallas in 2008, that's not surprising. But we'll have to wait a bit to find out how this comes out, it's sprinkling again.

2:58 p.m. Sprinkles gone, track dried itself, now it's down to 102 degrees.

Severance beat Massey off the line by a couple hundredths, then pulled away for the win. Joey Severance's MOV: 0.1003 seconds (approximately 39 feet). Severance will not have lane choice against Callaway in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink