Sun, 9 Oct 2005, 05:47 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 20th annual O'Reilly NHRA Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 John Force                             73 Frank Pedregon               
E4   ****WINNER****  0.215  4.797 324.05                           No Time      
 Prior rounds:
E3    (T Bartone   ) 0.090  4.834 322.34      (D Worsham   ) 0.119  5.033 307.23
E2    (T Wilkerson ) 0.089  4.838 322.88      (R Capps     ) 0.106  5.680 191.73
E1    (T Johnson Jr) 0.025  4.835 325.53      (M Ashley    ) 0.084  4.870 306.88
 Qualified:             #7  4.737 326.40                        #9  4.768 320.89

Weather conditions: air temperature 89 degrees, relative humidity 19 percent, barometer 29.74 inches, adjusted altitude 2,581 feet, track temperature 99 degrees.

Pedregon has trouble getting the car to stay fired and finally it dies and a deject Frank Pedregon climbs from the car. Force will get a single here for the win and he runs it out the back door. Force with the quickest pass of eliminations and now has 36 points lead over Scelzi.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink