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Sat, 19 Mar 2005, 08:01 PM

Competition Eliminator Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Larry Sullivan

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Notes from final, round 2 qualifying in Competition Eliminator at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 36th annual MAC Tools NHRA Gatornationals 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: David Allen Runs 8.215/164.14/-0.565, Now #12; F/A Index: 8.78, Prior Best: 8.247/163.78/-0.533, Was #13
Right Lane: Rob Kropfeld Runs 6.615/205.80/-0.495, Now #16; A/D Index: 7.11, Prior Best: 6.693/203.89/-0.417, Was #20

7:22 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 56 percent, barometer 29.93 inches, adjusted altitude 508 feet, track temperature 74 degrees.

The bump spot is Michael Hardee's 2.021-over run, so the field should get thoroughly reshuffled tonight. Kropfeld picked the front wheels up, went about 100 feet and gently set them down for a nice run. Allen improved slightly.

Left Lane: Keith Roberts Runs 8.972/159.97/0.442, Now #28; C/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 10.610/84.75/2.080, Was #33
Right Lane: Bert Dawson Runs 8.035/167.94/-0.495, Now #17; B/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 10.947/80.27/2.417, Was #35

Roberts' car was slow right from the beginning of the run. Dawson made a clean, straight run to get into the field. That moved the bump time down to 1.461 over.

Left Lane: Allen Stanfield Runs 9.158/147.51/-0.622, Now #7; H/SM Index: 9.78, Prior Best: 9.180/147.17/-0.600, Was #9
Right Lane: Jim Kimbrough Runs 8.010/173.98/0.070, Now #27; C/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 10.351/92.55/2.411, Was #35

Nice run for Stanfield, right down the groove. Kimbrough's dragster spun the tires hard on the launch.

Left Lane: Jacklyn Gebhardt Runs 7.348/177.65/-0.592, Now #11; C/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 12.127/62.76/4.187, Was #39
Right Lane: Gary Merrick Runs 7.425/175.47/-0.575, Now #13; D/ED Index: 8.00, Prior Best: 7.501/174.62/-0.499, Was #15

Two nice runs, Gebhardt coming from way out of the field to lower the bump to 0.740 over.

Left Lane: Don Ksiezyk Runs 8.563/150.77/1.153, Now #35; A/AA Index: 7.41, Prior Best: 10.359/99.00/2.949, Was #39
Right Lane: Rod Dorsey Runs 9.118/148.63/-0.662, Now #4; H/SMA Index: 9.78, Prior Best: 28.000/0.00/18.220, Was #41

Ksiezyk was way over next to the wall early in the run, then over near the centerline on the top end. Dorsey lost his first run when he crossed into the other lane to avoid a wayward race car that crossed into his lane and hit the wall. Nice recovery, way up near the top of the field. That moved the bump to 0.656 over.

Left Lane: Tim Timmerman Runs 7.986/168.53/-0.544, Now #17; B/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 8.405/127.75/-0.125, Was #27
Right Lane: George Supinski Jr. Runs 8.134/166.42/-0.566, Now #15; B/T Index: 8.70, Prior Best: 8.147/165.07/-0.553, Was #16

Nice runs, a pair.

Left Lane: Brad Zaskowski Runs 9.129/132.19/-0.651, Now #3; H/SM Index: 9.78, Prior Best: 9.066/148.41/-0.714, Was #3
Right Lane: Robert Bailey Runs 6.608/203.34/-0.682, Now #4; A/ED Index: 7.29, Prior Best: 6.931/195.27/-0.359, Was #25

Bailey creamed the A/Econo Dragster "best run" with an awesome pass. Robert Bailey's incremental times: 60ft-0.999 sec., 330ft-2.747, 660ft-4.222/166.35mph, 1,000ft-5.506. meanwhile, Zaskowski also ran an impressive number, but his first run was even more impressive.

Left Lane: Ralph Hope Runs 8.120/161.87/-0.420, Now #27; J/A Index: 8.54, Prior Best: 10.135/92.03/1.595, Was #37
Right Lane: Mark Linebarrier Runs 7.278/185.79/-0.462, Now #26; B/A Index: 7.74, Prior Best: 8.480/112.64/0.740, Was #33

Tow middle-of-the pack runs for these two. That moves the bump to 0.358 over.

Left Lane: Pete Hanratty Runs 6.755/198.58/-0.535, Now #20; A/ED Index: 7.29, Prior Best: 7.648/142.15/0.358, Was #32
Right Lane: Charlie Westcott Jr Runs 9.151/138.05/-0.629, Now #9; H/SMA Index: 9.78, Prior Best: 9.251/134.79/-0.529, Was #19

Nice improvements in both lanes, Hanratty off the bump spot and Westcott a tenth better than his first run. Now the bump is 0.070 over.

Left Lane: David Eaton Runs 6.993/189.99/-0.527, Now #21; A/AP Index: 7.52, Prior Best: 10.274/117.69/2.754, Was #40
Right Lane: Bruno Massel Runs 8.887/136.48/1.427, Now #38; BB/AT Index: 7.46, No Prior Run

Eaton came through with a strong run, but Massel's turbo car was all over the lane and he had to lift. That moved the bump to 0.025 over

Left Lane: Wayne Hutton Runs 7.803/140.38/0.063, Now #33; B/A Index: 7.74, Prior Best: 7.765/140.40/0.025, Was #32
Right Lane: Greg Kamplain Runs 7.368/179.03/-0.572, Now #17; C/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 10.503/99.48/2.563, Was #41

Kamplain had to feather the throttle to get the front end back down on the launch, but still made a nice ru n to lower the bump to David Rampy's -0.190.

Left Lane: John Eyer Runs 7.651/172.24/-0.289, Now #31; C/ED Index: 7.94, Prior Best: 7.725/170.58/-0.215, Was #31
Right Lane: Donald Eberly Runs 8.089/165.22/-0.661, Now #7; C/EA Index: 8.75, Prior Best: 8.161/164.05/-0.589, Was #15

Nice improvements in both lanes by two cars already in the field.

Left Lane: Frank Affronti Runs 10.921/82.06/2.921, Now #42; C/A Index: 8.00, Prior Best: 13.906/60.48/5.906, Was #42
Right Lane: Jonathan Aloisio Runs 8.149/168.98/-0.621, Now #12; B/SM Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 10.231/90.87/1.461, Was #40

Aloisio made an awesome run to get into the field, bumping David Rampy. That moved the bump to John Eyer's -0.289.

Left Lane: Larry Pritchett Runs 8.064/167.25/-0.706, Now #4; B/SM Index: 8.77, Prior Best: 8.304/141.28/-0.466, Was #28
Right Lane: Cliff Agar Runs 8.072/167.44/-0.458, Now #27; B/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 8.047/167.34/-0.483, Was #26

Pritchett ran way under the class index to move into the top four. Agar improved slightly, not enough to keep him from being shoved down by Pritchett's run.

Left Lane: David Rampy Runs 7.395/177.33/-0.575, Now #19; A/EA Index: 7.97, Prior Best: 7.780/173.77/-0.190, Was #33
Right Lane: Pat Ross Sr. Runs 8.120/166.05/-0.660, Now #9; F/A Index: 8.78, Prior Best: 8.172/165.22/-0.608, Was #15

Rampy went right down the groove to bump Eyer, putting Ralph Hope on the bubble at -0.420.

Left Lane: Terry Smith Runs 8.325/158.25/-0.665, Now #6; D/EA Index: 8.99, Prior Best: 8.378/158.33/-0.612, Was #15
Right Lane: Tony Stephenson Runs 12.081/72.23/3.551, Now #16; B/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 7.934/147.32/-0.596, Was #16

Stephenson's Cavalier got out of the groove, toward the centerline, and started fishtailing. Nice pass by Smith to move well up the ladder.

Left Lane: Michael Hardee Runs 8.690/154.69/-0.550, Now #23; E/SMA Index: 9.24, Prior Best: 11.261/83.18/2.021, Was #41
Right Lane: Bo Nickens Runs 7.458/157.64/-0.562, Now #1; B/AP Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 7.285/188.56/-0.735, Was #1

Bo clicked it way before the finish line, the run to that point easily a match for his first. Meanwhile, Hardee bumped his way back into the field. That made Mark Linebarrier's -0.462 the mark to beat.

Left Lane: Mike Schaefer Runs 7.431/184.46/-0.589, Now #18; B/AP Index: 8.02, Prior Best: 8.676/123.49/0.656, Was #38
Right Lane: Gary Wisecarver Runs 9.056/148.39/-0.724, Now #2; H/SM Index: 9.78, Prior Best: 9.060/148.68/-0.720, Was #2

Schaefer lost almost a tenth of a second from his best run, while Wisecarver almost duplicated his awesome first pass.

Left Lane: Mike Saye Runs 8.770/152.49/-0.650, Now #8; H/A Index: 9.42, Prior Best: 8.759/152.85/-0.661, Was #8
Right Lane: Frank Aragona Jr Runs 8.995/149.87/-0.585, Now #12; G/SMA Index: 9.58, Prior Best: 8.939/149.87/-0.641, Was #12

Two good runs, but both drivers were quicker yesterday.

Left Lane: John Mischuch Runs 7.998/168.76/-0.532, Now #27; B/EA Index: 8.53, Prior Best: 8.059/152.02/-0.471, Was #31
Right Lane: Glen Treadwell Runs 8.399/153.11/-0.621, Now #11; E/ED Index: 9.02, Prior Best: 8.372/150.32/-0.648, Was #11

Nice improvement for Mischuch.

Right Lane: Fred Allen Runs 8.438/158.39/0.928, Now #39; B/ED Index: 7.51, Prior Best: 8.349/165.50/0.839, Was #39

This was pretty ugly, Allen's car making several hard moves, once every time he stabbed the throttle. He may have crossed the centerline, maybe twice.

Right Lane: Steve Ambrose Runs 16.677/51.70/8.227, Now #32; J/AA Index: 8.45, Prior Best: 7.986/161.20/-0.464, Was #32

Ambrose is in the field, but in the final spot. His car made a very hard left turn on the launch and he had to lift.

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