Sun, 22 Sep 2013, 16:06 PM Top Fuel Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 28th annual AAA Texas NHRA Fall Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    4 Shawn Langdon                          34 Morgan Lucas                 
E3   ****WINNER****  0.061  3.883 294.95                     0.079  3.895 297.75
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Vandergrif) 0.072  3.813 324.51      (T Schumacher) 0.070  3.845 312.13
E1    (T Zizzo     ) 0.079  3.767 325.53      (C Millican  ) 0.080  3.797 323.04
 Qualified:             #1  3.819 321.04                       #12  3.872 317.87

Weather conditions: air temperature 86 degrees, relative humidity 35 percent, barometer 29.28 inches, adjusted altitude 3,122 feet, track temperature 127 degrees.

Lucas is 8 - 4 against Langdon in prior events. Langdon was out of the gate first and never trailed for the win by 0.0302 seconds (approximately 13 feet). Both cars slowed on the top end.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   22 Doug Kalitta                            3 Spencer Massey               
E3   ****WINNER****  0.072  3.853 312.42                     0.072  4.393 188.78
 Prior rounds:
E2    (B Force     ) 0.103  3.805 320.20      (A Brown     ) 0.050  3.832 317.79
E1    (L Dixon     ) 0.115  3.793 322.96      (J Todd      ) 0.068  3.798 320.74
 Qualified:             #2  3.825 318.39                        #6  3.839 318.02

Massey is 8 - 4 against Kalitta in prior events. They have identical reaction times and then Massey starts to haze the tires and Kalitta is straight down the groove. Kalitta will have lane choice over Langdon in the final.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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