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MOTHER
NATURE 2, NHRA NORTH CENTRAL DIVISION 0
INDIANAPOLIS
- The late rounds of eliminations in the NHRA
Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series event at
Indianapolis Raceway Park have been postponed
until Thursday, July 4. Officials from the
division opted to postpone the event after
getting rain late in the afternoon.
"Once it finally stopped raining and we
were drying the track, the sun went down and the
temperature dropped so we couldn't dry the track
to our satisfaction," said North Central
Division Director Jay Hullinger. "We
started with 618 cars and got down to about 130
so we made progress while it was dry.
We'll just come back and finish later."
Drivers
in Top Alcohol Dragster, Top Alcohol Funny Car
and Comp Eliminator all ran one round of
elimination. Each of the other five
classes got in two rounds.
While
the first round of TAFC went pretty much as
expected, TAD was full of upsets. The No.
8 qualifier, Ben Marshall, beat No. 1 qualifier
Russ Lindert. Defending division champion
Bill Reichert was beaten by Jeff Bohr and Dave
Hirata, who is among the fastest cars in the
class, also lost in the first round.
North
Central Division competitors have yet to
complete an event. The division's season-opener
at Route 66 Raceway in Joliet, Ill., was also
postponed due to bad weather. It will
resume the weekend of July 20.
The
following are the results of Round 1 of
eliminations in TAD and TAFC from the NHRA Lucas
Oil Drag Racing Series event at Indianapolis
Raceway Park:
TOP ALCOHOL DRAGSTER
Round 1
8) Ben Marshall, New Carlisle, Ohio, 5.577,
264.08 def. 1) Russ Lindert,
Manteno, Ill., 5.727, 220.10
2) Ken Perry, Gormley, Ont., Can., 5.423, 259.36
def. 7) Dave Hirata,
Lowell, Ind., 12.528, 56.57
6) Jeff Bohr, Plymouth, Mich., 5.526, 254.45
def. 3) Bill Reichert, Owosso,
Mich., 7.708, 124.80
5) Shawn Bowen, Montrose, Mich., 5.478, 257.28
def. 4) Keith Stark,
Danville, Ill., 5.698, 257.65
TOP ALCOHOL FUNNY CAR
Round 1
TAFC pairings for Sunday's first round of
eliminations
1) Marc White, Glendale Hts., Ill., '01
Firebird, 5.709, 251.32 def. 6)
John Reikas III, Glendale Hts., Ill., '97 Camaro,
6.332, 220.80
2) Chuck Cheeseman, Galena, Ohio, '01 Firebird,
5.724, 248.61 def. 5) Steve
Addleman, Fishers, Ind., '01 Pontiac, no show
3) Todd Veney, Indianapolis, '98 Firebird,
5.985, 236.53 def. 4) Kim
Fritts, Greenup, Ill., '98 Firebird, broke
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