1998 NHRA Pioneer Keystone Nationals
Round-by-round Results
Competition Eliminator
Saturday
Elimination Round #1
Driver Index ET
(-) Jerry Hemmington 7.97 8.027 (W) Dennis Meli 8.54 9.668
(-) Ken Keir 8.77 12.023 (W) Rob Slavinski 7.97 7.770 Slavinski stalled after the burnout, but got it refired. Keir heads for the wall and is forced to lift.
(-) Victor Cagnazzi 7.97 (W) Stephen Szupka 7.99 A power outage in the press room leaves us with some results missing. Szupka did win this round.
In the following round, with Don Eckel and Chip Ippolito, Ippolito got loose, got back in it, and the car veered into Eckel's lane. Eckel's dragster drove around his opponent's car as it rolled several times in front of him. More as we hear...Eckels will advance to round 2.
(W) Bob Wise 8.15 7.941 (-) Michael Hardee 9.04 8.942
(W) Santo Volpe 8.68 8.165 (-) George Supinski 8.54 8.707
(W) Tom Haueter 8.15 7.668 (-) Frank Aragona 7.99 7.560
(-) Ray Smith 8.03 13.325 (W) Al Ackerman 8.66 8.717
(-) John Alosio 9.06 8.551 (W) Dave Northrop 8.96 8.454
(W) Hush Dawson 8.57 8.365 (-) David Strouse 7.97 8.127
(-) Paul Jannoni 7.50 7.051 (W) John Frech 8.86 8.538
(W) Allen Stanfield 9.79 9.409 (-) Kent Ritter 7.66 10.786
(-) Mike Corvo 8.25 8.098 (W) John Caliendo 8.54 8.154
(-) Carl Miller 8.85 8.621 (W) Steve Ambrose 8.60 9.341
(-) Sherrill Huff 8.85 8.437 (-) Tom Ekroth 8.25 7.702