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Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 19:09 PM

Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Final Session
By Rick Green



ENNIS, Texas - Notes from final, round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 35th annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed this round, amount over/under index this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time, speed & over/under Index, and position in order prior to run:
Left Lane: Keith Hall Runs 9.912/102.89/0.912, Now #1; G/A Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.278/164.29/-0.722, Was #1
Right Lane: Clint Neff Runs 7.460/172.92/-0.640, Now #5; K/AA Index: 8.10, No Prior Run

Hall with problems early and clicked it off.

Neff is straight down the groove to the number number five spot.

Left Lane: Ed Federkeil Jr Runs 7.101/198.67/-0.489, Now #15; B/AA Index: 7.59, Prior Best: 7.118/198.38/-0.472, Was #16
Right Lane: John Clegg No Time, Now #2; CC/A Index: 7.55, Prior Best: 6.875/207.85/-0.675, Was #2

Federkeil Jr. improves on his previous pass.

Clegg breaks after his burnout.

Left Lane: Jarrod Granier Runs 8.362/161.05/-0.638, Now #6; G/A Index: 9.00, Prior Best: 8.450/161.79/-0.550, Was #11
Right Lane: Daniel Leibham Runs 6.788/202.79/-0.382, Now #18; A/A Index: 7.17, Prior Best: 11.628/75.39/4.458, Was #23

Granier with a good looking pass to move up to the number five spot.

Leibham makes a clean pass.

Left Lane: David Nickens Runs 7.098/195.90/-0.522, Now #14; B/AA Index: 7.62, Prior Best: 7.095/195.56/-0.525, Was #14
Right Lane: Brad Plourd Runs 6.225/201.58/-0.715, Now #2; AA/AM Index: 6.94, Prior Best: 6.325/174.84/-0.615, Was #10

Nickens with another good pass, but will not improve.

Plourd is straight down the groove with a real nice pass to go to the number two spot.

Left Lane: Don Thomas Runs 6.753/194.94/-0.677, Now #3; B/ED Index: 7.43, Prior Best: 6.782/194.13/-0.648, Was #5
Right Lane: Jim Kimbrough Runs 7.224/183.79/-0.676, Now #4; C/ED Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.529/181.98/-0.371, Was #19

Thomas with areal nice pass to move up the ladder two spot.

Kimbrough is right there with him to go to the number four spot.

Left Lane: Ashton Hudson Runs 8.536/158.22/-0.684, Now #3; H/AA Index: 9.22, Prior Best: 10.070/118.16/0.850, Was #23
Right Lane: Keith Mawhee Runs 7.606/177.58/-0.664, Now #7; D/A Index: 8.27, Prior Best: 7.724/176.26/-0.546, Was #13

Hudson is straight down the groove to the number three spot.

Mawhee improve on his pass from earlier today.

Left Lane: Art Hodges Runs 7.841/130.18/-0.009, Now #22; C/A Index: 7.85, Prior Best: 8.465/111.58/0.615, Was #23
Right Lane: Chase Williams Runs 15.926/63.02/8.366, Now #23; C/DA Index: 7.56, Prior Best: 7.771/114.07/0.211, Was #22

Hodges continues to have problems.

Williams with the problems and clicks it off.

Left Lane: Doug Engels Runs 7.144/183.27/-0.696, Now #3; D/DA Index: 7.84, No Prior Run
Right Lane: Dennis Smiley Runs 9.301/97.13/2.021, Now #19; A/ED Index: 7.28, Prior Best: 6.806/199.76/-0.474, Was #18

Engels launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number three spot.

Smiley with problems and clicks it off.

Left Lane: Clark Smiley Runs 7.216/183.77/-0.684, Now #5; BB/A Index: 7.90, Prior Best: 7.251/185.82/-0.649, Was #9
Right Lane: Taylor Chomiski Runs 8.016/137.13/-0.284, Now #22; D/A Index: 8.30, Prior Best: 8.232/128.53/-0.068, Was #22

Smiley improves on his pass from earlier today.

Chomiski continues to have problems.

Left Lane: Sean Dodd Runs 8.145/142.42/-0.555, Now #13; C/EA Index: 8.70, Prior Best: 8.075/148.95/-0.625, Was #13
Right Lane: Troy Galbraith Runs 9.714/77.09/2.414, Now #25; B/DA Index: 7.30, Prior Best: 24.963/60.73/17.663, Was #25

Dodd with a clean pass, but doesn't improve.

Galbraith improves, but continues to improve.

Left Lane: Justin Hutto Runs 6.930/189.84/-0.470, Now #20; B/DA Index: 7.40, Prior Best: 6.948/188.94/-0.452, Was #20
Right Lane: Joey Tanksley Runs 6.834/195.19/-0.646, Now #10; C/D Index: 7.48, Prior Best: 6.846/194.77/-0.634, Was #12

Hutto improves, but stays in the number 20 spot.

Tanksley moves up the ladder a couple spots.

Left Lane: Craig Bourgeois Runs 6.752/189.60/-0.668, Now #10; A/ND Index: 7.42, Prior Best: 6.798/189.31/-0.622, Was #14
Right Lane: Frank Aragona Runs 7.264/180.28/-0.766, Now #1; J/AA Index: 8.03, Prior Best: 7.425/177.58/-0.605, Was #15

Bourgeois kept it hooked up to go to the number 10 spot.

Aragona launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number one spot.

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