Sun, 27 Jun 2010, 02:54 PM Top Fuel Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

NORWALK, Ohio - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Fourth annual Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Antron Brown                            4 Cory McClenathan             
E3   ****WINNER****  0.064  4.863 219.36                     0.066  7.884 101.01
 Prior rounds:
E2    (P Dakin     ) 0.085  3.934 299.73      (B Bernstein ) 0.099  3.953 302.48
E1    (L Novelli   ) 0.082  3.885 314.24      (D Kalitta   ) 0.084  4.019 296.96
 Qualified:             #2  3.795 318.99                        #6  3.887 313.73

Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 66 percent, barometer 28.72 inches, adjusted altitude 4,314 feet, track temperature 128 degrees.

Cory McClenathan clinched his spot in the Countdown to 1 earlier this weekend. Brown is 9 - 3 against McClenathan in prior events. They leave together and McClcnathan is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. Then Brown starts to smoke the tires, so McClenathan pedals it and is back up in smoke, he attempts a couple more times to get to hook up and can't get it to hook up. Brown pedals it and lose traction again and pedals it again and then starts dropping cylinders, but takes the win hazing the tires through the 1000 feet.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    2 Larry Dixon                             1 Tony Schumacher              
E3   ****WINNER****  0.068  3.919 306.53                     0.066  4.111 235.51
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Foley     ) 0.050  3.910 310.34      (S Langdon   ) 0.079  3.951 308.57
E1    (T Buff      ) 0.108  3.865 313.51      (B Vandergrif) 0.076  3.907 310.41
 Qualified:             #1  3.780 320.43                       #12  3.920 308.92

Schumacher is 35 - 31 against Dixon in prior events. this is the eighth time these two have raced this season with Dixon winning four of those races. They leave together and it is pretty close race until about half track when he started to haze the tires. Dixon with a great pass and he will have lane choice in the final.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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