Sun, 11 Apr 2010, 06:12 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol 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
    6 Mickey Ferro                            4 Tony Bartone                 
E4   ****WINNER****  0.052  5.543 261.98                     0.113  5.561 257.92
 Prior rounds:
E3    (J Lombardo J) 0.048  5.528 261.32      (S Harker    ) 0.075  5.600 257.68
E2    (A Bohl      ) 0.043  5.561 259.01                     0.112 10.588  69.52
E1                   0.068  5.490 262.85      (L Callaway  ) 0.102  5.539 259.01
 Qualified:            #12 14.393  50.92                        #1  5.546 260.56

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

This is the first time Ferro and Bartone have faced each other in eliminations. Ferro is out of the gate first and never trailed for his third National event win. Ferro was straight down the groove, and Bartone with a nice pass in the losing effort. This is the third time number one and two qualifiers have race in the final at this event and the previous two time the number two qualifier won, and for the 21st time in the history of this event the winner has come from the top half of the field.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink