Sun, 9 Nov 2003, 06:07 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 39th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Del Worsham                           347 Tim Wilkerson
E3   ****WINNER****  0.064  4.797 317.49                     0.061  4.803 323.58
 Prior rounds:
E2    (W Bazemore  ) 0.082  4.834 319.60      (B Bode      ) 0.105  4.890 318.32
E1    (S Cannon    ) 0.075  4.793 318.54      (P Burkart Jr) 0.057  4.770 322.42
 Qualified:             #6  4.809 321.42                        #7  4.838 310.27

2:52 PM Worsham takes the left lane as all the quicker cars have today. Who's going to the final? We're about to find out. What a dragrace! Only .003 at the start and Wilkerson had the lead. Worsham drives around Tim at the lights and wins a close one. Del Worsham's MOV: 0.0034 seconds (approximately 19 inches).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   20 Gary Scelzi                            13 Cory Lee
E3                   0.087  5.700 185.33     ****WINNER****  0.059  5.303 266.53
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Force     ) 0.085  4.751 326.16      (T Pedregon  ) 0.087  4.870 321.27
E1    (R Capps     ) 0.072  4.817 323.66      (T Johnson Jr) 0.083  4.822 316.82
 Qualified:             #4  4.769 327.27                        #9  4.864 315.71

Oh, this is so CLOSE. Scelzi goes up in smoke and pedals a couple of times. He finally gave in up frustration and watched Lee. Lee had his hands full off the starting line as the car turned left on him. The Left rear tire crossed one line of the two on the center, but not the second. It was second but he was good for the win. Folks if you see this on TV it WAS that close.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink