Sun, 30 Oct 2011, 06:58 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 3 eliminations in 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
   71 Cruz Pedregon                          28 Ron Capps                    
E3                   0.187  4.196 304.05     ****WINNER****  0.089  4.125 309.20
 Prior rounds:
E2    (M Hagan     ) 0.115  4.167 306.60      (J Beckman   ) 0.068  4.187 305.22
E1    (J Arend     ) 0.083  4.171 306.95      (T Lesenko   ) 0.084  4.139 306.95
 Qualified:             #4  4.087 309.49                        #1  4.080 315.49

3:52 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 82 degrees, relative humidity 16 percent, barometer 27.92 inches, adjusted altitude 4,184 feet, track temperature 108 degrees.

Capps nails Pedregon to the tree and pulls away all the way through the run.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   31 Johnny Gray                             5 Bob Tasca III                
E3   ****WINNER****  0.099  4.123 311.56                     0.086 10.799  86.69
 Prior rounds:
E2    (P Lee       ) 0.103  4.147 312.93      (T Pedregon  ) 0.055  4.205 306.12
E1    (M Troxel    ) 0.087  4.158 311.63      (A DeJoria   ) 0.101  4.185 307.65
 Qualified:            #10  4.118 311.05                        #6  4.096 310.91

Tasca goes up in smoke at the hit and has to give up on the run. Gray makes his quickest run of the day and will have lane choice over Capps in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink