Sun, 26 Sep 2010, 04:44 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 25th annual O'Reilly Super Start Batteries NHRA Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    9 John Force                              7 Del Worsham                  
E3   ****WINNER****  0.087  4.107 301.47                     0.106  5.738 223.54
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Wilkerson ) 0.085  4.083 308.21      (B Tasca III ) 0.098  4.085 309.49
E1    (R Hight     ) 0.110  4.144 309.34      (R Capps     ) 0.082  4.131 302.48
 Qualified:             #8  4.170 294.63                       #12  4.249 277.43

3:38 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 80 degrees, relative humidity 51 percent, barometer 29.39 inches, adjusted altitude 2,663 feet, track temperature 104 degrees.

Force is 44 - 21 against Worsham in prior events. This is their first meeting this year.

Worsham hits the throttle and strikes the tires. He pedals three or four times and finally gets the slicks to bite. no problems for Force, right down the groove, and he takes the win and extends his points lead over Beckman to 45 points.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 2814 Matt Hagan                              2 Ashley Force Hood            
E3   ****WINNER****  0.089  4.111 300.26                     0.093  4.178 300.26
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Pedregon  ) 0.087  4.062 306.74      (J Beckman   ) 0.135  4.085 308.92
E1    (J Arend     ) 0.076  4.105 305.15      (T Simpson   ) 0.111  4.089 308.57
 Qualified:            #14  4.291 295.72                        #2  4.100 307.72

Hagan and Force Hood have each won 2 times against the other in prior events, all four races have been this year. Hagan has a three point lead over Force-Hood in the points battle.

Not much difference between these two off the line, Hagan with just a slight advantage. Hagan starts to pull away and extends his lead to the 660 foot mark and hangs on to take the win.

john Force will have lane choice over Hagan in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink