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Sat, 17 Oct 2020, 11:48 AM

Competition Eliminator Round 1 Eliminations
By Rick Green



ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 1 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 35th annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    1 Frank Aragona                              Bye
E1   ****WINNER**** -0.003  7.835 132.53     
        J/AA Index: 8.03 (+/-): -0.195    
 Qualified:             #1  7.264 -0.766                     Bye
Aragona with the bye...

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  233 Art Hodges                           4548 Keith Mawhee                 
E1                   0.130  7.271 187.26     ****WINNER****  0.004  7.642 165.88
         C/A Index: 7.85 (+/-): -0.579             D/A Index: 8.27 (+/-): -0.628
 Qualified:            #23  7.841 -0.009                       #11  7.606 -0.664
Mawhee with great light and the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  205 Ed Federkeil Jr                       469 Clark Smiley                 
E1                  -0.102  7.853 124.69     ****WINNER****  0.034 11.012  80.81
        B/AA Index: 7.59 (+/-):  0.263            BB/A Index: 7.90 (+/-):  3.112
 Qualified:            #18  7.101 -0.489                        #6  7.216 -0.684
Federkeil Jr. goes red to give Smiley the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4289 Daniel Leibham                       4483 John Clegg                   
E1                   0.193  6.734 203.98     ****WINNER****  0.034  7.000 166.97
         A/A Index: 7.17 (+/-): -0.436            CC/A Index: 7.55 (+/-): -0.550
 Qualified:            #21  6.788 -0.382                        #9  6.875 -0.675
Clegg with the starting line advantage and the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4211 David Nickens                          49 Ashton Hudson                
E1                   0.091  8.196 141.16     ****WINNER****  0.070  8.807 138.67
        B/AA Index: 7.62 (+/-):  0.576            H/AA Index: 9.22 (+/-): -0.413
 Qualified:            #17  7.095 -0.525                        #5  8.536 -0.684
Hudson with the starting line advantage and th win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
  427 Jarrod Granier                         48 Keith Hall                   
E1                   0.009  9.045 109.33     ****WINNER****  0.008  8.415 140.99
         G/A Index: 9.00 (+/-):  0.045             G/A Index: 9.00 (+/-): -0.585
 Qualified:            #14  8.362 -0.638                        #2  8.278 -0.722
Heads-up!

A couple great light with Hall getting a tick advantage on the tree for the win.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4116 Justin Hutto                           23 Jim Kimbrough                
E1                   0.002  8.543 111.05     ****WINNER****  0.013  7.804 127.21
        B/DA Index: 7.40 (+/-):  1.143            C/ED Index: 7.90 (+/-): -0.096
 Qualified:            #20  6.930 -0.470                        #8  7.224 -0.676
Hutto with a near perfect light, but slows and Kimbrough takes the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    7 Troy Galbraith                        590 Clint Neff                   
E1                   0.079  6.802 197.13     ****WINNER****  0.050  7.563 166.64
        B/DA Index: 7.30 (+/-): -0.498            K/AA Index: 8.10 (+/-): -0.537
 Qualified:            #25  9.714  2.414                       #13  7.460 -0.640
Neff with the starting line advantage and th win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4487 Sean Dodd                               3 Brad Plourd                  
E1                   0.015  8.159 144.67     ****WINNER****  0.023  6.333 179.21
        C/EA Index: 8.70 (+/-): -0.541           AA/AM Index: 6.94 (+/-): -0.607
 Qualified:            #15  8.075 -0.625                        #3  6.225 -0.715
Dodd with the starting line advantage, but Plourd chased him down for the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4441 Adam Hickey                          5212 Doug Engels                  
E1                   0.226  6.881 181.28     ****WINNER****  0.015  7.294 164.17
        B/DA Index: 7.38 (+/-): -0.499             D/D Index: 7.84 (+/-): -0.546
 Qualified:            #16  6.846 -0.534                        #4  7.144 -0.696
Engels with the starting line advantage and th win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
    2 Craig Bourgeois                      5233 Taylor Chomiski              
E1                   0.017  6.847 181.96     ****WINNER****  0.002  7.683 174.93
        A/ND Index: 7.42 (+/-): -0.573             D/A Index: 8.30 (+/-): -0.617
 Qualified:            #10  6.752 -0.668                       #22  8.016 -0.284
Chomiski with a near perfect light and the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
   45 Chase Williams                       4025 Joey Tanksley                
E1   ****WINNER****  0.069  7.209 173.78                     0.092  7.235 151.22
        C/DA Index: 7.56 (+/-): -0.351             C/D Index: 7.48 (+/-): -0.245
 Qualified:            #24  7.771  0.211                       #12  6.834 -0.646
Williams with the starting line advantage and th win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- Speed
 4650 Dennis Smiley                          46 Don Thomas                   
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.019  7.441 125.46
        A/ED Index: 7.28 (+/-): 92.719            B/ED Index: 7.43 (+/-):  0.011
 Qualified:            #19  6.806 -0.474                        #7  6.753 -0.677
Smiley is a no-show to give Thomas the win.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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