Sun, 11 Feb 2007, 09:58 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

POMONA, Calif. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 47th annual CARQUEST Auto Parts Winternationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  799 Sean Bellemeur                          2 Jay Payne
E4                   0.010 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.061  5.779 249.67
 Prior rounds:
E3    (F Manzo     ) 0.018 10.004  85.49      (B Hough     ) 0.089  5.607 259.46
E2    (B Tasca     ) 0.022  5.629 255.43      (M Woznichak ) 0.050  5.708 257.53
E1    (D Taylor    ) 0.035  5.709 252.10      (J Patton    ) 0.029  5.715 254.28
 Qualified:            #12  5.742 254.33                        #2  5.557 260.36

6:49 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 63 degrees, relative humidity 45 percent, barometer 29.06 inches, adjusted altitude 1,478 feet, track temperature 71 degrees.

This is a great weekend for Bellemeur no matter what happens here in the final. At the beginning of the weekend he found out that his mother was declared cancer free by her doctors. Great weekend no matter what happens in his first ever national event final round. Payne has won many of these but he certainly knows he better not be late. Bellemeur's lights have been .035, .022 and .018. This time he catches another huge lead with his .010 light but the car got away and took out the 330 cone. Payne goes to the lead and takes the win by default. Bellemeur's numbers were 7.541/122.47 before I had to take them out.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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