Mon, 1 Sep 2008, 04:58 PM Top Fuel Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Michael L Jex

CLERMONT, Ind. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Fuel at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 54th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Tony Schumacher                        22 Doug Kalitta                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.062  3.916 309.13                     0.067  4.036 299.86
 Prior rounds:
E3    (C McClenatha) 0.074  3.947 305.42      (A Brown     ) 0.075  4.015 296.37
E2    (H Will      ) 0.080  3.897 314.31      (B Bernstein ) 0.083  5.447 229.04
E1    (B Vandergrif) 0.068  3.842 316.90      (J Todd      ) 0.104  3.957 304.12
 Qualified:             #6  3.877 313.58                       #12  3.901 309.70

4:48 p.m. It's the 7th Indy final round appearance in a row for Tony Schumacher. He has won five of them. This is a repeat of the legendary Pomono final round of 2007, and the Kalitta camp, sponsor Mac Tools and quite a few the fans are looking for Doug to end Tony's record setting round win streak at 23.

Make it six wins in a row - a record, 11 wins this season, another record, and 24 straight round wins, well yep, that's another record as well. Not much else to say, the Army team has dominated all day. That's it from Indy - The 2008 Big Go is in the books, goodnight from Indianapolis!

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink