Blown cars: Hard numbers

Here are your hard numbers; this will illustrate that the blown cars very well could have won any of the National events this season (except Houston)
Nationals:
Pomona, top qualifiers
1. Hudson 5.379
2. Hentges 5.387
4. Federlin 5.419

round 1
Federlin 5.354
Hudson 5.39

quarters
Severance 5.35 beats Hentges 5.34 on holeshot
Federlin 5.34
Hudson,redlights

semis
Myers beats Severance 5.41 to 5.42,
Hitchman beats Federlin 5.364 to 5.367 (Hitchman also has a .065 to .102 reaction time advantage)

***Gainesville***
Qualifying
(1. Gallant 5.321)
(2. Force 5.368)
3. Thacker 5.408
4. Kelly 5.410
6. Cannon 5.416

Round one
Kelly 5.387
Cannon 5.411

Semifinals
Thacker 5.387, runner up

***Las Vegas***
Qualifying
1. Severance 5.449
2. Perkins 5.459
4. Hudson 5.465
5. Tacke 5.472

Semifinals
Demke, Tacke and Wells make it;
Wells loses to Lucas in final 5.44 to 5.52

***Houston***
Qualifying
6. Jason Cannon 5.371

Round One
Wells 5.347
Cannon 5.407

Quarters
Wells 5.343
Cannon 5.395

Semis
Wells 5.389, runner up to Myers, 5.355 to 5.307.

This was the one event where the afuelers seemed to have an advantage (re Gunderson's 5.21 in qualifying)

***Atlanta***
(1. Gunderson 5.346)
2. Wells 5.367
3. Thacker 5.391
5. Cannon 5.412

Round One
Wells 5.384
Thacker 5.398

Quarters
Thacker, ran .03 better than Datweiler but had .066 reaction time disadvantage

Wells 5.385
Wells goes on to win the event.

Divisionals
Div. 2
**Gainesville**
(1. Reichert 5.343)
2. Kelly 5.387
3. Cannon 5.397
Cannon wins event

**Montgomery**
Kelly #1 qualifier, wins and runs 5.37 in final

div. 3
**Indy***
Thacker and J. Wilson, top 2 qualifiers.
Wilson wins event

Div. 4
**Houston**
Hentges #4 qualifier, 5.383,
wins round 1 w/5.39. Like the National event, the afuelers seemed to do better at this track

**Memphis**
Jeff Wilson, made semis, #4 qualifier

Div. 6
**Mission**
qualifying
(1. Myers 5.336)
2. Hentges 5.366
3. Severance 5.371

Round 1
Hentges 5.359
Federlin 5.394

Semis
Hentges 5.36, loses to Federlin in all blown final

Div. 7

**Phoenix**
top 4 qualifyers, Hudson, Demke, D. Wilson, Cofini,
Demke beats Hudson in final

**Tucson***
D. Wilson wins over Demke (in fairness, poor turnout of tads)

**Sacramento**
Demke, #1 qualifier and wins over Hudson.

So far, except for Houston, the blown cars have been very competitve with the afuelers.
It will be interesting to see how things develop as the season goes on.

[ May 20, 2004, 02:41 AM: Message edited by: wolfgang ]

 

There seems to be much more parity this year.

 

That's what we like to see.

Thanks for the work.

 

In fairness, morgan lucas ran 5.389 256.50 in the final at vegas, far and away low et

 

Parity in the eyes of some is viewed as advantage in the eyes of others!!