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POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
3 Del Worsham 21 Scotty Cannon
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.075 4.793 318.54 0.075 No Time
Qualified: #6 4.809 321.42 #11 4.872 314.31
11:36 AM Scotty is most likely in a Funnycar for the last time this weekend. He has
said if anyone else is interested he would listen but Pro Mod is where he's bound. Scotty
is three up and ten down against Del for his Funnycar career. It was a dead even leave
between the pair but one of the center line cones got in Scotty's way and he sent it
flying. Worsham takes the automatic win and runs quicker than he qualified.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
1 John Force 200 Tony Bartone
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.067 4.791 322.58 0.052 9.852 102.86
Qualified: #5 4.771 321.65 #12 4.897 292.90
Force is here for round one bad hands and all. It's been a quiet weekend for the Champ
but he'd like to make some noise in eliminations. Bartone is driving for Dunn this
weekend. Force has never met Tony Bartone in an elimination round until today. Bartone
strikes the tires early and his event is over. Force heads for the second round.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
2 Tony Pedregon 71 Cruz Pedregon
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.058 4.722 320.28 0.036 5.690 174.08
Qualified: #1 4.721 326.79 #16 4.929 308.57
The brothers two meet here in round one. If you believe the rumors this is a match
between 2004 teammates. Overall Cruz is 7-11 against his brother. Tony said in his post
qualifying interview that Cruz was 'going down tomorrow' and he was right. Cruz took the
lead at the hit but the car drove him to the centerline and he had to bail out of the
throttle to keep the car in his own lane.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
4 Gary Densham 340 Bob Bode
E1 0.108 7.809 112.24 ****WINNER**** 0.128 5.686 268.33
Qualified: #2 4.749 327.43 #15 4.921 309.84
Densham will be around in 2004 but we just don't know where yet. We may know as soon
as tomorrow. Bob Bode is 0-1 against Densham but now the score is tied. Gary has problems
and Bode takes the win. Bode got close to the line but didn't cross.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
5 Whit Bazemore 206 Bob Gilbertson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.044 8.043 98.84 -0.011 No Time
Qualified: #3 4.768 324.90 #14 4.919 307.58
Gilbertson loses twice on this run. He redlights for the third time this season and
then takes out a cone down track. Bazemore was there for the taking as he smoked the tires
hard at about 300 feet. Centerline cones are on the endangered species list
today.Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 20 Gary Scelzi 28 Ron Capps E1 ****WINNER**** 0.072 4.817 323.66 0.049 8.607 95.19 Qualified: #4 4.769 327.27 #13 4.906 311.05The winner of this match will face Force in the second round. Scelzi is down 1-2 against Capps for his short Funnycar career. These two have raced each other in just about everything that rolls. Sprints to go karts, these two have done it. Capps blows it up big time early in the run. He had pedaled a couple of times and then it just blew it's self up. Scelzi gets another nice run on the books but appeared to nip a few pistons in the lights as there was smoke coming out of both banks of headers. We're down for a few to clean the right lane after Capp's problems. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 347 Tim Wilkerson 156 Phil Burkart E1 ****WINNER**** 0.057 4.770 322.42 0.111 11.029 66.56 Qualified: #7 4.838 310.27 #10 4.864 315.42Wilkerson and Burkart light'em up as the Safari pulls off the rack. A real surprise here is that Tim Wilkerson is 0-2 against Burkart. Not this time. Burkart's ride goes silent at about 200 feet and Wilkerson makes his best pass of the weekend. Couldn't see anything wrong with Burkart's car and it just appeared to quit. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 503 Tommy Johnson Jr. 13 Cory Lee E1 0.083 4.925 314.97 ****WINNER**** 0.083 4.822 316.82 Qualified: #8 4.862 314.02 #9 4.864 315.71This is the #8 and #9 pairing off of the qualifying list. We had to wait while they cleaned the lane a bit after Phil Burkart. There was a bit of 'stuff' in the first sixty feet. Identical reaction times for the two drivers. Lee pulled away and carded the best ET and mph of his career. Next round Lee will face Tony Pedregon without lane choice. Force will have choice over Scelzi; Wilkerson over Bode and Worsham over Bazemore.
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