Sun, 24 Oct 1999, 04:30 PM DALLAS - Comp Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Comp Eliminator at the 14th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

  
 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
  20 Joey Tanksley       7.104 -0.466 Q    8 Buddy Nickens       7.691 -0.539
      B/ED Index: 7.57                         C/A Index: 8.15
   (R Braun     ) 0.567  7.289 -0.281 E1   (R Smith     ) 0.480  7.970 -0.260
   (L Mayes     ) 0.557  7.253 -0.317 E2   (B Coates    ) 0.579  7.650 -0.580
 *****WINNER***** 0.545  7.295 -0.275 E3                  0.419  7.940 -0.210

3:12 PM Nickens took a 0.08 CIC hit last round, so was at a disadvantage against Tanksley and tried to make it all up at the tree - he went deep red instead.

Tanksley's second-round opponent was incorrectly reported as Doug Stewart in the second-round report. His opponent was actually Larry Mayes in that round.

  
 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
   3 Doug Stewart        7.016 -0.554 Q    7 Doug Engels         7.560 -0.540
      B/ED Index: 7.48                        D/ED Index: 8.03
   (F Affronti  ) 0.600  7.269 -0.301 E1   (C Stewart   ) 0.615  8.246  0.146
   (D Smiley    ) 0.517  6.971 -0.509 E2   (J McClintic ) 0.558  7.522 -0.578
                  0.641  6.970 -0.510 E3 *****WINNER***** 0.533  7.524 -0.506

  
 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
  22 Russ Kelly          6.916 -0.454 Q    2 David Rampy         7.015 -0.555
      A/ED Index: 7.32                        B/ED Index: 7.53
   (P Carbery   ) 0.520  6.867 -0.503 E1   (D Kilheffer ) 0.552  7.173 -0.397
   (R Slavinski ) 0.570  6.816 -0.554 E2   (J Linton    ) 0.571  7.023 -0.547
                  0.531  6.854 -0.466 E3 *****WINNER***** 0.513  7.024 -0.506

margin of victory = 0.058 seconds (approximately 16 feet)

  
 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET--(+/-)-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---(+/-)
  34 Alan Swindoll       7.503 -0.337 Q    5 Larry Pritchett     8.205 -0.545
       B/A Index: 7.84                        D/SM Index: 8.68
   (D Maris     ) 0.524  7.586 -0.254 E1   (M Austin    ) 0.507  8.883  0.133
   (A Martel    ) 0.518  7.376 -0.464 E2   (G Treadwell ) 0.543  8.178 -0.572
                  0.689  9.427  1.587 E3 *****WINNER***** 0.597  8.174 -0.506

Swindoll's air scoop is patched together with "racer tape" (duct tape to the rest of us) after being blown off the car in round two. Swindoll had more problems here, off the throttle way before the finish line.