Sun, 19 Jun 2011, 09:06 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

BRISTOL, Tenn. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 11th annual Ford NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals presented by Tri-Cities Area Ford Dealers:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    4 Jack Beckman                            8 Robert Hight                 
E4                   0.062  5.615 152.66     ****WINNER****  0.054  4.092 314.90
 Prior rounds:
E3    (C Pedregon  ) 0.120  4.116 308.78      (J Arend     ) 0.063  4.047 316.45
E2    (M Troxel    ) 0.048  4.144 311.85      (M Neff      ) 0.084  4.062 311.13
E1    (J Head      ) 0.067  4.157 308.57      (R Capps     ) 0.060  4.132 312.28
 Qualified:             #4  4.087 311.70                        #6  4.090 311.20

Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 66 percent, barometer 28.30 inches, adjusted altitude 3,998 feet, track temperature 85 degrees.

Hight is 10 - 9 against Beckman in prior events and Hight is 4 - 1 against Beckman in prior final rounds. Hight is out of the gate first and never trails as Beckman starts to smoke the tires and pedals it, but can't get it to hook up. Hight launched hard and blast on through for the win for his 22nd and his fourth this year. Hight with another big top end speed to back up his speed record.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink