Sun, 14 Nov 2004, 04:41 PM Competition Eliminator Round 3 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 40th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
 2125 Tony Stephenson                       717 Mike DePalma
E3   ****WINNER****  0.011  8.142 -0.668                     0.026  7.146 -0.594
       C/EA Index: 8.81                           B/A Index: 7.74
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Self      ) 0.005  8.309 -0.501      (S Biondo    ) 0.029  7.248 -0.492
E1    (C Stewart   ) 0.084  9.105  0.295      (A Ellis     ) 0.074  7.326 -0.414
 Qualified:             #3  8.098 -0.712                       #15  7.116 -0.624

12:52 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 30 percent, barometer 28.98 inches, adjusted altitude 2,450 feet, track temperature 94 degrees.

Both are coming in without any CIC to this point. Well, that's over. Stephenson goes -.668 and Glendora will change the index for all the folks in the class on Monday.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   33 Bo Butner                             618 Dave Barcelon
E3   ****WINNER****  0.034  9.071 -0.419                     0.179  8.205 -0.495
      G/SMA Index: 9.49                           F/A Index: 8.70
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Mettler   ) 0.047  9.020 -0.470      (T Huggins   ) 0.020  9.036  0.336
E1    (D Lambeck   ) 0.086  8.990 -0.590      (S Hedlund   ) 0.219  8.198 -0.582
 Qualified:             #5  8.892 -0.688                        #9  8.113 -0.667

Barcelon almost looked like he double clutched the car at the hit. A horrible light and Butner's closer to the index run is a winner. Butner will race Stevenson next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   21 Glen Treadwell                        706 Art Hodges
E3   ****WINNER****  0.087  8.547 -0.443                     0.210  7.438 -0.462
       E/ED Index: 8.99                           C/A Index: 7.90
 Prior rounds:
E2    (L Snyder    ) 0.078  8.482 -0.538      (E Sigmon    ) 0.133  8.947  1.047
E1    (J Miller    ) 0.027  8.514 -0.556      (J Mozeris   ) 0.070  7.399 -0.601
 Qualified:             #4  8.369 -0.701                       #16  7.380 -0.620

Treadwell takes a safe win over Hodges and his horrible light.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET-- (+/-)
   73 Steve Wilmoth                        7058 Michael Stone
E3   ****WINNER****  0.037  8.864 -0.356                    -0.040  7.404 -0.536
       C/SR Index: 9.22                          C/ED Index: 7.94
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Mikel     ) 0.126  8.745 -0.475      (V Deceglie  ) -0.003  7.521 -0.419
E1    (J Cowan     ) 0.037  8.718 -0.542      (C Sallee    ) 0.021  7.466 -0.474
 Qualified:            #14  8.621 -0.639                       #26  7.359 -0.581

Stone goes red and another dragster bites the Comp dust. Wilmoth will take his semi-final shot against Treadwell.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink