Sun, 02 May 2021, 12:38 PM Top Fuel Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

COMMERCE, Ga. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 40th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Southern Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Antron Brown                            2 Doug Kalitta                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.065  3.793 317.19                     0.069  3.800 322.19
 Qualified:             #8  4.331 191.76                        #9  4.389 195.08

Weather conditions: air temperature 65 degrees, relative humidity 77 percent, barometer 30.02 inches, adjusted altitude 1,667 feet, track temperature 87 degrees.

Brown is 35 - 26 against Kalitta in prior events.

Antron Brown won this race four times. Doug Kalitta has three wins at this event.

Brown with a slight starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. Antron Brown's MOV: 0.0117 seconds (approximately 6 feet).

Brown with his quickest pass of the event for the win.

Kalitta with the second quickest pass of the event in the losing effort.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  745 Brittany Force                       1301 Doug Foley                   
E1   ****WINNER****  0.086  3.768 330.63                     0.116  3.797 318.77
 Qualified:             #5  3.856 314.90                       #12  4.842 151.63

This is the first time Force and Foley have faced each other in eliminations.

Force with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. Brittany Force's MOV: 0.0597 seconds (approximately 28 feet). She runs low E.T. and top speed of the event.

Foley with a great pass, the third quickest pass of the event in the losing effort.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  211 Arthur Allen                           77 Josh Hart                    
E1                   0.152  4.179 216.83     ****WINNER****  0.108  3.811 319.37
 Qualified:            #13  5.690 116.81                        #4  3.844 319.98

This is the first time Allen and Hart have faced each other in eliminations.

Josh Hart won this race in Top Alcohol Dragster in 2018. Hart with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. He makes his quickest pass of the weekend. He will give up lane choice to Force in the next round.

Allen started to haze the tires and drop cylinders before he really smoked the Goodyears and clicked it off.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 7211 Mike Salinas                          171 Joe Morrison                 
E1   ****WINNER****  0.156  3.785 324.67                     0.099  9.659  82.95
 Qualified:             #3  3.841 317.05                       #14 30.957  38.56

This is the first time Salinas and Morrison have faced each other in eliminations.

Morrison with the starting line advantage and then has problems right at the hit and clicks it off.

Salinas with his quickest pass of the weekend and second quickest pass of the event for the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
        Bye                                   3 Billy Torrence               
E1                                            ****WINNER****  0.107  3.784 326.32
 Qualified:                                                       #1  3.815 323.43

Torrence qualified No. 1 for the fourth time in his career.

He launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the second quickest pass of the event. He will have lane choice over Brown in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  323 Buddy Hull                              1 Steve Torrence               
E1                   0.153  4.005 290.88     ****WINNER****  0.089  3.769 327.03
 Qualified:            #15 No Time                              #2  3.817 323.66

Steve Torrence won this race three times.

Buddy Hull is the 574th driver to qualify for a Top Fuel show, he is driving Terry Haddock's car.

Torrence with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. torrence with the second quickest pass of the event, just 0.001 seconds behind Force.

Hull after having problems yesterday in qualifying, he makes a good clean pass.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  333 Shawn Langdon                         777 Leah Pruett                  
E1   ****WINNER****  0.025  4.048 294.43                     0.172  4.071 237.00
 Qualified:            #11  4.783 154.79                        #6  3.957 304.94

Langdon is 11 - 5 against Pruett in prior events.

Leah Pruett won this race in 2018.

There was a whomp-whomp on the starting line...Langdon has a great light and never trailed for the win. The car is dropping cylinders on the top end, but he holds on for the win. Langdon will give up lane choice to Salinas in the next round.

Pruett is dropping cylinders right at the hit and can't get it to clean up.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    7 Justin Ashley                          25 Clay Millican                
E1   ****WINNER****  0.057  3.746 323.12                           No Time      
 Qualified:             #7  4.104 231.28                       #10  4.584 164.27

Ashley is 1 - 0 against Millican in prior events.

Millican with problems on the burnout, can't get the tires to turn over. He pulls over to the wall because he knows he has problems.

Ashley launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the event for the win on the single. He will have lane choice over Steve Torrence in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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