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Sun, 31 Oct 2010, 09:14 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, 10th annual NHRA Las Vegas Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    9 John Force                           2814 Matt Hagan                   
E4   ****WINNER****  0.054  4.232 281.36                     0.078  6.925 110.96
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Tasca III ) 0.081  4.130 307.72      (A Force Hood) 0.095  4.097 304.80
E2    (M Troxel    ) 0.019  4.710 197.65      (J Head      ) 0.063  4.133 303.98
E1    (J Arend     ) 0.075  4.122 309.56      (T Pedregon  ) 0.085  4.071 305.49
 Qualified:             #2  4.050 311.92                        #5  4.090 304.53

6:11 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 31 percent, barometer 27.98 inches, adjusted altitude 3,535 feet, track temperature 81 degrees.
This is Hagan's fifth final this year. He has three wins, the last one coming in Dallas. Force has four wins the year but has not won since the Bristol race. Force has 130 career wins
If Hagan wins he will have a 77 point lead over Force. if Force wins the lead will be 37.

Force gets of the line first and starts to pull away. Hagan hits the throttle and goes up in smoke before he makes it to the sixty foot mark. Force goes right down the groove, header flames high and steady all the way through the run.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink