Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 05:46 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of final, round 4 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                           2814 Matt Hagan                   
E4                   0.074  4.714 231.20     ****WINNER****  0.039  4.390 247.57
 Prior rounds:
E3    (D Worsham   ) 0.084  4.408 290.01      (T Pedregon  ) 0.067  4.632 230.29
E2    (R Hight     ) 0.067  4.246 295.92      (C Pedregon  ) 0.093  4.183 303.78
E1    (J Head      ) 0.078  4.140 307.23      (M Troxel    ) 0.071  4.217 302.48
 Qualified:             #6  4.095 309.98                        #5  4.091 311.99

Weather conditions: air temperature 75 degrees, relative humidity 57 percent, barometer 30.13 inches, adjusted altitude 1,517 feet, track temperature 112 degrees.

Hagan is 2 - 0 against Arend in prior events and this is the first time they have faced each other in a final round. Hagan is out of the gate first and never trailed and Arend started to lose traction early. He pedaled it and couldn't get it to hook back up, while Hagan started to haze the tires and mix up cylinders on the top end, but held on for the win. Hagan wins his first National event win in four tries, and in the 23 year history of this event the number five qualifier wins.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink