Sun, 30 Oct 2011, 06:30 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 3 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 11th annual Big O Tires NHRA Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    9 Clint Thompson                        744 Shane Westerfield            
E3                   0.163 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.038  5.711 254.09
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Payne     ) 0.094  5.644 257.73      (J Evanchuk  ) 0.043  5.715 253.52
E1    (J Lombardo J) 0.075  5.647 258.81      (K Hool      ) 0.064  5.674 255.29
 Qualified:            #15 11.757  99.21                       #11  5.772 251.86

3:09 p.m. Thompson hits the throttle, loses traction, makes a move to the right and crosses the centerline. Westerfield goes right down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend and moves to his first ever national event final round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  147 Fred Tigges                             4 Tony Bartone                 
E3                   0.090  5.787 247.66     ****WINNER****  0.074  5.609 260.06
 Prior rounds:
E2    (J Ashwell   ) 0.055  9.098 100.48      (S Gasparrell) 0.052  5.582 259.51
E1    (J Pawlick   ) 0.063  6.218 205.51      (K Ray       ) 0.085  5.558 261.37
 Qualified:             #4  5.668 252.95                        #1  5.560 260.51

Bartone gets out of the gate first, goes right down the groove and takes the win. he will have lane choice over Westerfield in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink