Sun, Mar 21, 06:46 PM GAINESVILLE - Top Fuel Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Ed Dykes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Fuel at the 30th annual Mac Tools Gatornationals:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   3 Mike Dunn           4.540 297.75  Q   4 Doug Herbert        4.551 316.67
   (J Head      ) 0.493  4.561 320.66 E1   (C McClenatha) 0.508  4.663 307.16
   (B Sarver    ) 0.489  4.529 311.56 E2   (D Kalitta   ) 0.501  4.560 312.86
   (B Vandergrif) 0.490  4.510 321.42 E3   (L Dixon     ) 0.513  4.551 316.60
 *****WINNER***** 0.498  4.550 319.98 E4                  0.500  4.563 318.62

6:33 PM and it's time for the final run of the weekend, a weekend that has turned out to be one for the record books. National records have been established for ET and speed in four of the five professional categories -- it doesn't get much better than that.

If winning this event isn't enough incentive, Doug Herbert stands to take home an extra $100K from Winston if he wins this race. And he makes it a drag race, dead even off the line, 0.846 to 0.848 (Dunn) in 60', and 3.072 to 3.073 (Dunn) at the eighth-mile. They were just 0.007 apart at 1000', but Dunn managed to pull ahead right at the stripe, by only 0.015 seconds. And the crowd goes wild, the Darrell Gwynn fans a huge majority here in Florida.

Congrats to Team Mopar, it's a great one!!

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