Sun, 13 Nov 2011, 19:57 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

POMONA, Calif. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 47th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    3 Jay Payne                             799 Sean Bellemeur               
E4   ****WINNER****  0.058  5.575 259.36                     0.042  5.676 255.73
 Prior rounds:
E3    (K Ray       ) 0.109  5.606 260.21      (J Lombardo J) 0.028  5.681 255.43
E2    (S O`Bannon  ) 0.042  5.564 260.51      (B Harrington) 0.022  5.688 255.34
E1    (J Ashwell   ) 0.072  5.617 259.96      (D Gordon    ) 0.040  5.708 254.23
 Qualified:             #5  5.590 261.22                       #11  5.688 254.86

4:49 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 68 degrees, relative humidity 52 percent, barometer 28.79 inches, adjusted altitude 2,464 feet, track temperature 84 degrees.

Payne is 4 - 1 against Bellemeur in prior events and Payne is 2 - 0 against Bellemeur in prior final rounds. Both were in 2007 and are the only two prior final rounds for Bellemour. Payne has won this event twice in TAD and twice in TAFC.

Bellemeur did all he could, with a better light and his best run of the event, but Payne had the power to make up the starting line difference in the first 60 feet and pull away to win by over a car length for his fifth Finals win.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink