Sun, 1 Apr 2007, 08:20 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

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

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   28 Ron Capps                              10 Cruz Pedregon                
E4   ****WINNER****  0.045  4.868 307.93                     0.039  5.025 270.97
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Worsham   ) 0.064  4.869 306.19      (J Head      ) 0.031  4.875 310.70
E2    (G Scelzi    ) 0.067  4.866 312.42      (B Gilbertson) 0.057  5.367 240.47
E1    (J Beckman   ) 0.088  4.872 313.95      (T Simpson   ) 0.090  4.826 309.56
 Qualified:             #3  4.806 315.34                        #1  4.796 300.20

Capps holds an 11 to 10 advantage in overall head to head match ups. They have met twice in the final round and they each have won once. Pedregon with a slight starting line advantage, but Capps has the difference made up by 60 feet and then just drives away for the his second consecutive event win. Pedregon's engine was going away on the top end. He also wins his second consecutive race this season and increases his point lead over Tony Pedregon to 83 points.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink