Sun, 19 Sep 2010, 06:38 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

CONCORD, N.C. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, Third annual O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Jack Beckman                           71 Cruz Pedregon                
E4                   0.066  4.212 301.81     ****WINNER****  0.070  4.171 299.13
 Prior rounds:
E3    (B Tasca III ) 0.081  4.199 301.13      (J Arend     ) 0.089  4.181 300.66
E2    (P Lee       ) 0.092  4.239 292.58      (T Pedregon  ) 0.058  4.392 268.87
E1    (R Capps     ) 0.073  4.232 302.01      (J Smith     ) 0.078  4.161 298.27
 Qualified:             #7  4.123 305.36                        #1  4.078 303.57

Weather conditions: air temperature 87 degrees, relative humidity 38 percent, barometer 29.36 inches, adjusted altitude 3,168 feet, track temperature 112 degrees.

Pedregon is 7 - 5 against Beckman in prior events and each has won 1 times against the other in final rounds. They leave together with Beckman getting the slight edge, but Pedregon had the difference made up by the time he went by the Christmas tree. Cruz Pedregon's MOV: 0.0375 seconds (approximately 17 feet). This is Pedregon's 27th National event win and his first win since the last race of 2008.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink