Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 04:06 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 23rd annual O'Reilly NHRA Spring Nationals presented by Pennzoil:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  170 Jeff Arend                              7 Del Worsham                  
E3   ****WINNER****  0.084  4.408 290.01                     0.083  5.499 241.28
 Prior rounds:
E2    (R Hight     ) 0.067  4.246 295.92      (A Force Hood) 0.073  4.596 252.19
E1    (J Head      ) 0.078  4.140 307.23      (B Tasca III ) 0.088  4.109 307.02
 Qualified:             #6  4.095 309.98                        #7  4.096 305.84

Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 56 percent, barometer 30.14 inches, adjusted altitude 1,664 feet, track temperature 117 degrees.

Worsham is 7 - 1 against Arend in prior events. They leave together and Worsham is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. Arend launched with the front end in the air, but sat it down and motored on through for the win light.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 Tony Pedregon                        2814 Matt Hagan                   
E3                   0.078  5.838 130.56     ****WINNER****  0.067  4.632 230.29
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Wilkerson ) 0.041  4.225 302.89      (C Pedregon  ) 0.093  4.183 303.78
E1    (J Force     ) 0.069  4.708 183.79      (M Troxel    ) 0.071  4.217 302.48
 Qualified:            #16  4.296 260.16                        #5  4.091 311.99

Pedregon is 6 - 2 against Hagan in prior events. Hagan with the starting line advantage and never trails for the win. He started to lose traction around 700 feet and then mix up cylinders, but held on for the win. Pedregon is up in smoke right off the starting line and then clicked it off. Hagan will give up lane choice to Arend in the final.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink