Mon, 5 Sep 2011, 06:10 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

CLERMONT, Ind. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 57th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Frank Manzo                           147 Fred Tigges                  
E4   ****WINNER****  0.031  5.494 264.55                     0.112  5.595 256.21
 Prior rounds:
E3    (J Lombardo J) 0.052  5.494 265.22      (K Hool      ) 0.065  5.578 255.39
E2    (C Simonton  ) 0.055  5.469 264.34      (F Hagen     ) 0.184  5.623 255.48
E1    (B Henry     ) 0.063  5.549 262.74      (S Gasparrell) 0.007  5.587 256.36
 Qualified:             #1  5.559 259.91                        #6  5.663 253.71

6:02 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 43 percent, barometer 29.05 inches, adjusted altitude 2,257 feet, track temperature 89 degrees.

This is Manzo's one hundred and nineteenth final at National Events and the 33 final in a row. Tigges is making his first final at any National or Divisional event.

Manzo is long gone at the green and thunders into his tenth Indy TAFC Championship. He repeats his round three ET to the thousandth and picks up a little speed with nearly a seventy foot lead at the finish line.

Tigges runs close to his best times of the weekend and represented himself very well in his first final round.

Frank Manzo's incremental margins: 60ft(0.071), 330 ft(0.097), 660ft(0.127), 1,000ft(0.156). MOV: 0.1825 seconds (approximately 69 feet).

Frank Manzo's incremental times: 60ft-0.948 sec., 330ft-2.453, 660ft-3.636/210.18 mph, 1,000ft-4.643.
Fred Tigges' incremental times: 60ft-0.938 sec., 330ft-2.469, 660ft-3.682/204.85 mph, 1,000ft-4.718.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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