Sun, 07 Oct 2018, 10:49 AM Top Alcohol Funny Car Round 1 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 1 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  433 Bryan Brown                            10 Jay Payne                    
E1                   0.064  7.233 139.62     ****WINNER****  0.089  6.495 157.32
 Qualified:             #9  5.744 260.21                        #6  5.650 262.39

Weather conditions: air temperature 90 degrees, relative humidity 57 percent, barometer 29.30 inches, adjusted altitude 3,786 feet, track temperature 115 degrees.

Payne is 4 - 0 against Brown in prior events.

Brown with the starting line advantage, but is real loose and got real close to the wall before he clicked it off.

Payne was loose and pedaled it a couple times and gets the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 2183 Aryan Rochon                            3 Doug Gordon                  
E1                   0.076  5.709 243.63     ****WINNER****  0.065  5.617 264.39
 Qualified:            #10  5.865 220.76                        #5  5.574 265.38

9:26 a.m. Here we go finish round one after it was interrupted by rain last night.

Weather conditions: air temperature 80 degrees, relative humidity 82 percent, barometer 29.38 inches, adjusted altitude 3,063 feet, track temperature 92 degrees.

This is the first time Rochon and Gordon have faced each other in eliminations.

Gordon with the starting line advantage, but Rochon had the lead until just past half track when Gordon chased him down. Doug Gordon's MOV: 0.1034 seconds (approximately 37 feet).

Rochon with his quickest pass of the weekend in the losing effort.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
        Bye                                   2 John Lombardo Jr.            
E1                                            ****WINNER****  0.105  5.478 269.51
 Qualified:                                                       #1  5.480 270.10

Lombardo with the bye for his number one qualifying effort.

Lombardo launched hard and kept it hooked up to make his quickest pass of the weekend.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Sean Bellemeur                         63 Chris Marshall               
E1   ****WINNER****  0.023  5.481 268.28                    -0.040  5.470 268.92
 Qualified:            #13  8.954  99.95                        #2  5.517 267.43

Bellemeur is 1 - 0 against Marshall in prior events.

Marshall gos red to give Bellemeur the win. He then runs low E.T. of the event.

Bellemeur was straight down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend for the win. He will have the bye in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   66 Brian Hough                             1 Shane Westerfield            
E1                   0.105  5.622 263.46     ****WINNER****  0.028  5.572 266.79
 Qualified:            #12  8.509  96.16                        #3  5.521 267.75

Westerfield is 4 - 1 against Hough in prior events.

Westerfield with a great light and the never trailed for the win. He will have lane choice over Payne in the next round.

Hough runs his quickest pass of the weekend in the losing effort.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 2606 Mark Billington                         4 Annie Whiteley               
E1                   0.298  7.998  96.75     ****WINNER****  0.176  5.579 268.33
 Qualified:            #11  6.087 241.28                        #4  5.564 268.06

This is the first time Billington and Whiteley have faced each other in eliminations.

Whiteley with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. She will have lane choice over Gordon in the next round.

Billington with a big bang and the chutes deployed.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  556 Lance Van Hauen                       729 Nick Januik                  
E1                   0.131  5.656 257.58     ****WINNER****  0.071  5.587 259.81
 Qualified:             #8  5.719 256.41                        #7  5.661 258.17

This is the first time Van Hauen and Januik have faced each other in eliminations.

Januik with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. He runs his quickest pass of the weekend. He will give up lane choice to Lombardo in the next round.

Van Hauen runs his season quickest and fastest pass in the losing effort.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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