Sun, 07 Oct 2018, 15:45 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 33rd annual AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Robert Hight                           77 Bob Tasca III                
E3   ****WINNER****  0.063  3.962 316.75                     0.090  4.323 251.34
 Prior rounds:
E2    (T Wilkerson ) 0.073  3.954 321.12      (J Force     ) 0.007  4.021 304.39
E1    (J Campbell  ) 0.070  3.942 320.05      (M Hagan     ) 0.051  3.998 319.37
 Qualified:             #6  3.979 314.83                        #2  3.950 322.27

2:36 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 90 degrees, relative humidity 55 percent, barometer 29.29 inches, adjusted altitude 3,722 feet, track temperature 128 degrees.

Hight is 20 - 7 against Tasca in prior events.

Hight gets out of the gate first and goes right down the groove with another good pass. Tasca gets about 400 feet out, strikes the tires and backs off the throttle.

Hight takes the win and will be going to his seventh final round this season.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    6 Tommy Johnson Jr.                     373 J.R. Todd                    
E3                   0.073  3.964 321.58     ****WINNER****  0.033  3.952 320.89
 Prior rounds:
E2    (C Pedregon  ) 0.073  3.937 322.65      (J Beckman   ) 0.071  3.991 318.69
E1    (T Haddock   ) 0.037  3.981 324.44      (J Hale      ) 0.084  3.982 321.35
 Qualified:             #1  3.918 321.73                        #4  3.962 320.05

Todd gets the advantage off the line and goes down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend to take the win. Johnson makes a clean pass but was behind all the way through the run.

Todd will have lane choice over Hight in the final round, his fifth of the season.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink