Sun, 30 Oct 2016, 12:41 PM Super Stock Round 5 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 5 eliminations in Super Stock at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 16th annual NHRA Toyota Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    1 Justin Lamb                          1792 Timothy Fletcher             
E5                  -0.001  8.738 153.98     ****WINNER****  0.008 10.768 101.38
       SS/AM  Dial: 8.73 (+/-):  0.008           SS/JA  Dial: 10.60 (+/-):  0.168
 Prior rounds:
E4    (A Stanfield ) 0.008  8.740  0.020      (B Speer     ) 0.000 10.608  0.028
E3    (J Rau       ) 0.011  8.709 -0.001                     0.003 10.732 -0.468
E2    (D Barcelon  ) 0.014  8.710  0.010      (M Braswell  ) 0.000 10.595  0.025
E1    (B Rounds    ) 0.028  8.766  0.036      (W Howes     ) 0.020 10.657  0.047
 Qualified:            #70  8.898 -0.262                       #58 10.620 -0.580

9:35 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 75 degrees, relative humidity 49 percent, barometer 27.80 inches, adjusted altitude 4,145 feet.

Lamb just misses the tree and goes red giving the win to Fletcher.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 703D Kyle Rizzoli                               Bye
E5   ****WINNER**** -0.004 10.012 114.75     
       SS/CA  Dial: 10.23 (+/-): -0.218   
 Prior rounds:
E4    (T Gaynor    ) 0.010  9.920  0.050   
E3    (R Loge      ) 0.039  9.850 -0.010   
E2    (R Blair     ) 0.023  9.847  0.037   
E1    (C Stubeck   ) 0.033  9.964  0.074   
 Qualified:            #68  9.849 -0.381                     Bye

Rizzoli will take on Fletcher in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 7854 Ryan McClanahan                      6002 Rick McKinney                
E5   ****WINNER****  0.011  8.752 154.09                     0.023 10.997 120.12
       SS/BM  Dial: 8.73 (+/-):  0.022           SS/LA  Dial: 10.96 (+/-):  0.037
 Prior rounds:
E4    (D Dietz     ) 0.051  8.732 -0.008      (I Johns     ) 0.016 10.995  0.015
E3    (J Lang      ) 0.017  8.727  0.027      (K Etter     ) 0.016 10.941  0.001
E2    (M Graham    ) 0.021  8.702  0.002      (J DeFrank   ) 0.003 10.976  0.036
E1    (A Falcone   ) 0.047  8.767  0.027      (L Zavala    ) 0.030 11.017  0.047
 Qualified:            #52  8.726 -0.634                       #41 10.936 -0.714

McClanahan gets the advantage off the line and takes the stripe for the win.

McClanahan will have a bye into the final round.

On a side note, jimmy DeFrank clinched the Super Stock championship when Morris lost in Rockingham and Speer went out in the last round here in Las Vegas.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink