Sun, Feb 7, 07:54 PM POMONA - Federal-Mogul Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Ed Dykes

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Funny Car at the 39th annual NHRA AutoZone Winternationals:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   2 Russ Parker         5.741 243.63  Q   3 Bucky Austin        5.785 248.93
   (B Gallio    ) 0.461  5.797 246.30 E1   (M Littlefiel) 0.468  5.770 250.04
   (S Gasparrell) 0.438  5.769 243.72 E2   (S Sommer    ) 0.494  5.766 245.54
                  0.428  6.947 139.30 E3 *****WINNER***** 0.466  5.768 247.61

4:29 PM and Parker gets out of the groove, very close to the center line, and had to abort the run, handing the win to Austin.

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
  13 Pete Swayne         5.985 242.41  Q   8 Dennis Taylor       5.922 218.76
   (F Manzo     ) 0.525  5.728 250.27 E1   (M Andreotti ) 0.426  6.026 232.07
   (P Austin    ) 0.472  5.747 246.53 E2   (R Alexander ) 0.628 11.373  71.26
 *****WINNER***** 0.560  5.725 248.48 E3                  0.437  6.007 232.67

Two long-time friends match up, here, and it's Pete Swayne into the final in Randy Goodwin's machine, with what we believe is second-quickest run of the weekend.

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