Sun, 15 Oct 2017, 16:44 PM Top Alcohol Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 32nd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    8 Annie Whiteley                          2 Doug Gordon                  
E4                   0.116  5.382 275.00     ****WINNER****  0.091  5.376 272.23
 Prior rounds:
E3    (N Januik    ) 0.120  5.403 274.33      (S Westerfiel) 0.066  5.380 271.30
E2    (U Leanders  ) 0.139  5.397 274.27      (J Payne     ) 0.101  5.407 271.90
E1    (K Hool      ) 0.102  5.496 269.24      (M Billington) 0.088  5.468 268.49
 Qualified:             #6  5.536 269.40                        #1  5.472 268.76

3:35 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 34 percent, barometer 29.62 inches, adjusted altitude 2,024 feet, track temperature 109 degrees.

Gordon gets out of the gate first and starts to pull away. Whiteley is able to make up ground after the 330 foot mark but runs out of race track. This was the quickest side-by-side race in history.

Gordon makes the second quickest run in TAFC history to take the win, his second this year and the ninth in his career.

Whiteley runs the fifth quickest pass in history in the loss.

Doug Gordon's incremental margins: 60ft(0.034), 330 ft(0.050), 660ft(0.048), 1,000ft(0.038). MOV: 0.0317 seconds (approximately 13 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink