Sun, 1 Nov 2009, 08:24 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Ninth annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Jack Beckman                            4 Robert Hight                 
E4                   0.058  4.154 303.16     ****WINNER****  0.075  4.125 304.46
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Worsham   ) 0.083  4.359 262.90      (T Wilkerson ) 0.095  4.080 312.57
E2    (M Hagan     ) 0.097  4.210 285.41      (J Force     ) 0.118  4.125 309.42
E1    (M Neff      ) 0.097  4.430 261.12      (A Force Hood) 0.071  4.114 309.06
 Qualified:             #8  4.118 304.87                        #3  4.065 308.71

5:14 p.m. Beckman is 8-8 in final in final rounds, 2-2 this year. This is his second final round at this track. He won this event in 2006.

Hight is 13-12 in final rounds, 2-1 this year. He beat Beckman in one final round in Dallas earlier this year. Hight has the three quickest times in eliminations today.

Beckman gets out of the gate first and hangs on to the lead until just past the 330 foot mark. Hight was making up ground quickly and drove around him at that point. Hight kept the candles lit all the way through the run and pulled away for the win.

With this win Hight will have a 105 point lead over his team-mate Force-Hood going into the last race.

Robert Hight's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.024), 330 ft(-0.017), 660ft(0.004). MOV: 0.0127 seconds (approximately 6 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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