Sun, 30 Oct 2016, 17:55 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 16th annual NHRA Toyota Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    5 Matt Hagan                              7 John Force                   
E3                   0.054  6.561 122.13     ****WINNER****  0.040  3.928 330.39
 Prior rounds:
E2    (D Worsham   ) 0.053  3.887 329.02      (C Head      ) 0.075  3.917 325.92
E1    (J Hale      ) 0.065  3.911 328.14      (J Bojec     ) 0.115  3.906 326.95
 Qualified:             #2  3.872 329.18                        #3  3.876 331.94

Force is 18 - 14 against Hagan in prior events.

Hagan hits the throttle and goes up in smoke. Force goes right down the groove with a good pass to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   28 Ron Capps                             746 Courtney Force               
E3                   0.064  3.937 317.49     ****WINNER****  0.058  3.880 326.48
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Pedregon  ) 0.103  3.921 323.43      (J Beckman   ) 0.082  3.886 321.73
E1    (P Lee       ) 0.083  3.916 323.66      (A DeJoria   ) 0.122  3.888 327.82
 Qualified:             #4  3.881 326.71                        #8  3.905 325.69

Force gets out of the gate first and starts to pull away. Capps made a decent pass but was falling behind all the way through the run.

Courtney Force's incremental margins: 60ft(0.022), 330 ft(0.029), 660ft(0.045). MOV: 0.0632 seconds (approximately 29 feet).

It will be Courtney with lane choice over John in the final round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink