Sun, 26 Jun 2005, 01:37 PM Pro Stock Round 1 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

EDMONTON, Alb. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Torco Race Fuels Pro Stock at the 2005 Hooters IHRA Drag Racing Series, Third Annual Western RV Rocky Mountain Nationals presented by TORCO Race Fuels:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    4 Pete Berner                           103 Daniel Seamon                
E1                   0.083 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.079  6.570 212.83
 Qualified:             #7  6.569 210.05                        #6  6.564 213.33

11:11 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 60 degrees, relative humidity 73 percent, barometer 27.69 inches, adjusted altitude 2,964 feet, track temperature 66 degrees.

Berner launched into severe tire shake and slowly rolled down the track.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  381 Jerry Haas                              8 Steve Spiess                 
E1                  -0.095  6.543 212.29     ****WINNER****  0.098  6.511 213.47
 Qualified:             #8  6.578 212.29                        #5  6.541 212.69

Haas took a shot at the tree and missed. Two nice runs, one doesn't count.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 Rick Jones                              3 John Montecalvo              
E1                   0.068  6.568 213.16     ****WINNER****  0.044  6.539 211.59
 Qualified:             #9  6.590 212.66                        #4  6.537 212.43

Jones' car appeared to go a bit left of the groove and that had to hurt his time. After the start, they were locked together all the way. John Montecalvo's incremental margins: 60ft(0.031), 330 ft(0.055), 660ft(0.060), 1,000ft(0.057). MOV: 0.0532 seconds (approximately 17 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  235 Chuck DeMory                           10 Tony Gillig                  
E1                         No Time           ****WINNER****  0.056  6.540 212.09
 Qualified:            #10  6.654 208.75                        #3  6.533 212.56

DeMory broke in the water and was shut off. Gillig made a nice run, losing lane choice to Montecalvo by a thousandth.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Elijah Morton                           7 Frank Gugliotta              
E1                  -0.060  6.686 207.40     ****WINNER****  0.043  6.535 212.83
 Qualified:            #11  6.709 207.75                        #2  6.521 213.20

After a few minutes to clean up the oil DeMory left in the water box, these two made their burnouts, pulled forward to stage, and the power to the Christmas tree died. The timing system was okay, but the AC power that lights the bulbs blew a breaker. Then Morton got too eager and Gugliotta got an easy win, but he lost lane choice to Spiess in round two.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
        Bye                                 262 Robert Patrick               
E1                                            ****WINNER****  0.111  6.488 212.96
 Qualified:                                                       #1  6.492 212.79

Patrick staged very carefully, getting as shallow as he could, to make sure he got lane choice. He did, resetting the track elapsed time record in the process. He faces Seamon next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink