Sat, 12 Oct 2019, 19:07 PM Competition Eliminator Round 2 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

CONCORD, N.C. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 12th annual NTK NHRA Carolina Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  104 Frank Affronti                       1034 Chip Ippolito                
E2   ****WINNER****  0.030  7.807 170.13                     0.107  7.838 167.26
        E/AA Index: 8.26 (+/-): -0.453            PSTA Index: 8.20 (+/-): -0.362
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Kimbrough ) 0.102  8.085 -0.175      (D Eaton     ) 0.030  7.726 -0.474
 Qualified:            #17  7.787 -0.473                       #12  7.636 -0.564

6:57 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 86 degrees, relative humidity 38 percent, barometer 29.26 inches, adjusted altitude 3,191 feet, track temperature 105 degrees.

Affronti gets the advantage off the line and holds off Ippolito to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  340 Terry Smith                             1 Frank Aragona                
E2                   0.052  6.473 182.97     ****WINNER****  0.037  7.552 169.66
        A/DA Index: 6.97 (+/-): -0.497            J/AA Index: 8.09 (+/-): -0.538
 Prior rounds:
E1    (G Russo     ) 0.106  6.462 -0.608                     -0.015  7.982 -0.108
 Qualified:             #7  6.452 -0.618                        #1  7.335 -0.755

Aragona gets the advantage off the line and holds off Smith to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    9 Van Puckett                           186 Tom Martino                  
E2                   0.188  9.570 108.60     ****WINNER****  0.214  8.237 145.45
        F/AA Index: 8.47 (+/-):  1.100            C/SM Index: 8.77 (+/-): -0.533
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Carnascial) 0.031  7.970 -0.560      (C Logan     ) 0.053  8.761 -0.009
 Qualified:            #14  7.991 -0.539                        #9  8.167 -0.603

Puckett gets the holeshot but his car noses over late in the run. Martino takes the win and will take on Affronti in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    3 David Rampy                          105K Elio Mannino                 
E2                  -0.010  8.370 108.55     ****WINNER****  0.056  7.676 140.30
        A/EA Index: 7.82 (+/-):  0.550            B/AA Index: 7.55 (+/-):  0.126
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Kramer    ) 0.042  7.633 -0.187      (A Hodges    ) 0.000  7.049 -0.571
 Qualified:             #2  7.135 -0.685                       #19  7.167 -0.453

Rampy leaves a little too quickly and goes red giving the win to Mannino.

Mannino backs off the throttle early.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   24 Randy Daniels                        1937 Lee Zane                     
E2   ****WINNER****  0.023  8.522 145.88                     0.030  8.904 121.28
        E/SM Index: 9.01 (+/-): -0.488            F/DA Index: 8.74 (+/-):  0.164
 Prior rounds:
E1    (J Frech     ) 0.105  8.503 -0.557      (T Terry     ) 0.006  8.793  0.053
 Qualified:            #10  8.467 -0.593                        #4  8.071 -0.669

Daniels gets the advantage off the line and he holds off Zane to take the win.

Daniels will take on Aragona in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  353 Bruno Massel                          224 Brad Plourd                  
E2   ****WINNER****  0.010  6.676 164.11                     0.037  6.397 207.05
         I/D Index: 7.26 (+/-): -0.584           AA/AM Index: 6.94 (+/-): -0.543
 Prior rounds:
E1    (A Ackerman  ) 0.047  6.752 -0.518      (C Piston    ) 0.002  6.482 -0.458
 Qualified:             #5  6.602 -0.668                       #22  7.084  0.144

Massel gets the holeshot and holds off Plourd to take the win. Massel uses up a little bit of his index in the win.

Massel will take on Mannino in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink