Mon, 14 Jun 2010, 11:16 AM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 41st annual NHRA SuperNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    8 Bob Tasca III                           7 Del Worsham                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.027  4.117   NS                       0.104  4.107   NS  
 Prior rounds:
E3    (M Hagan     ) 0.093  4.154 302.89      (J Beckman   ) 0.097  4.180 303.30
E2    (J Force     ) 0.093  4.175 300.93      (R Hight     ) 0.091  4.230 297.75
E1    (A Force Hood) 0.150  4.162 303.71      (C Pedregon  ) 0.125  4.228 297.68
 Qualified:             #7  4.121 305.91                        #9  4.135 306.88

11:04 a.m. - Worsham is 4 - 2 against Tasca III in prior events and this is the first time they have faced each other in a final round. Worsham won here at Englishtown in 1991 and 2005 and was runner up in 1992. This is Tasca's first time in the final round here. He has been in four finals before this and won at Gainesville and Maple Grove last year. He was runner up at Gainesville this year.

Tasca got out of the gate first by a hundredth of a second and needed every bit of it. He was trailing the race at 660 feet had a late charge at the end to edge out Worsham and take the Funny Car win. Both drivers had clean runs with barely a trace of tire smoke.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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