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Sun, 06 Aug 2017, 18:36 PM

Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

KENT, Wash. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 30th annual NHRA Northwest Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   77 Jay Payne                              10 Steve Gasparrelli            
E4   ****WINNER****  0.031  5.526 266.00                     0.059  5.646 260.06
 Prior rounds:
E3    (C Marshall  ) 0.103  5.557 262.85      (B Hough     ) 0.086  5.572 262.33
E2    (T Ruckman   ) 0.033  5.525 266.90      (S Westerfiel) 0.084  5.584 262.49
E1    (N Januik    ) 0.088  5.548 266.85      (A Whiteley  ) 0.069  6.107 248.71
 Qualified:             #6  5.531 266.37                       #10  5.641 247.84

3:27 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 82 degrees, relative humidity 51 percent, barometer 29.57 inches, adjusted altitude 2,619 feet, track temperature 118 degrees.
Payne and Gasparrelli have each won 10 times against the other in prior events and Payne is 2 - 1 against Gasparrelli in prior final rounds. Payne already has forty-seven wins, twenty-six of them in TAFC. Gasparrelli has eleven wins with one here in 2013.
Payne runs the table with the best reaction time, quickest ET and fastest speed to take the almost 60 foot win.
Gasparrelli can't match his prior pace and has to settle for runner-up today.

Jay Payne's incremental times: 60ft-0.974 sec., 330ft-2.500, 660ft-3.683/209.52 mph, 1,000ft-4.682.
Steve Gasparrelli's incremental times: 60ft-0.959 sec., 330ft-2.530, 660ft-3.745/203.61 mph, 1,000ft-4.779.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink