Mon, 07 Sep 2015, 17:13 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations |
By David Gerard |
BROWNSBURG, Ind. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 61st annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
5 Robert Hight 711 Jack Beckman
E4 0.063 4.045 309.77 ****WINNER**** 0.034 4.058 310.77
Prior rounds:
E3 (T Johnson Jr) 0.221 4.047 313.58 (D Worsham ) 0.079 4.058 307.72
E2 (J Force ) 0.086 4.064 312.57 (R Capps ) 0.060 4.057 311.41
E1 (J Bojec ) 0.106 4.078 315.78 (B Bode ) 0.088 4.047 302.55
Qualified: #2 3.971 322.96 #1 3.936 323.74
5:05 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 91 degrees, relative humidity 48 percent, barometer 29.07 inches, adjusted
altitude 3,976 feet, track temperature 118 degrees.Hight is 18 - 14 against Beckman in prior events and Hight is 7 - 1 against Beckman in prior final rounds. Beckman has two Indy runner-ups. He has a career national event win/loss record of 20 and 21, with five wins this year and one runner-up. Hight has a career national event win/loss record of 35 and 19, with one win at Brainard this year and one runner-up earlier. His Indy record is three wins and two runner-ups. Two of the wins were against Beckman.
Beckman gets a significant lead at the green and holds off the thundering Camaro of Hight for the hole shot win. His biggest lead way 0.018 at the sixty foot lights, Hight picked up a little before the 330 lights and the run together to past the 660 lights. Hight was slowly closing the gap after that, but he ran out of track first.
Jack Beckman's incremental margins: 60ft(0.018), 330 ft(0.013), 660ft(0.013). MOV: 0.0167 seconds (approximately 8 feet).
Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.897 sec., 330ft-2.295,
660ft-3.261/268.01 mph.
Jack Beckman's incremental times: 60ft-0.908 sec., 330ft-2.311, 660ft-3.277/267.96 mph.
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