Sun, 23 Feb 2020, 15:04 PM Top Fuel Harley Round 1 Eliminations

By David Gerard

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Top Fuel Harley at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 36th annual NHRA Arizona Nationals:

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  212 Tyler Wilson                           13 Tracy Kile                   
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.509  6.635 214.21
 Qualified:             #5  6.739 200.11                        #4  6.620 212.19

12:51 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 66 degrees, relative humidity 46 percent, barometer 28.94 inches, adjusted altitude 2,052 feet, track temperature 80 degrees.

Wilson shuts the bike off on the line, as the parachute falls out just before he stages!

Easy win for Kile!

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Tii Tharpe                             63 Jay Turner                   
E1                   0.234 15.900 100.32     ****WINNER****  0.061  6.193 237.75
 Qualified:             #6  6.764 181.91                        #3  6.314 226.73

Tharpe's bike bucks and snorts at the green and then goes silent.

Turner makes his best run of the season and set the Track ET record. That's also the Track and National Speed record too.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  602 Mike Scott                            204 Randal Andras                
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.097  7.217 139.50
 Qualified:             #7  9.556 142.63                        #2  6.297 222.62

Scott clicks off the engine after the burnout and is pushed away.

Andras is off the handle early and coasting for the easy win. He will give up lane choice to Turner.

Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed----Bike#-Rider-(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 6640 Rich Vreeland                           3 Rickey House                 
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.050  6.659 217.88
 Qualified:             #8 11.349  94.01                        #1  6.285 222.62

Vreeland is a no show and Rickey House gets a single to round two, where he will face Kile without lane choice.

House rus hard early and then slows a tad just before the lights

12:58 p.m.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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