Sun, 24 Feb 2019, 18:52 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By David Gerard

CHANDLER, Ariz. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 35th annual Magic Dry Organic Absorbent NHRA Arizona Nationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 J.R. Todd                            2814 Matt Hagan                   
E4                   0.077 No Time           ****WINNER****  0.048  3.890 325.06
 Prior rounds:
E3    (R Hight     ) 0.073  3.919 327.19      (B Tasca III ) 0.092  3.921 321.96
E2    (T Johnson Jr) 0.052  3.967 323.27      (S Langdon   ) 0.084  3.894 327.19
E1    (T Haddock   ) 0.081  4.655 215.03      (P Burkhart J) 0.081  3.919 324.12
 Qualified:             #5  3.911 321.35                        #2  3.881 323.43

4:45 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 69 degrees, relative humidity 33 percent, barometer 28.76 inches, adjusted altitude 2,435 feet, track temperature 95 degrees.

Hagan is 3 - 2 against Todd in prior events and Todd is 2 - 0 against Hagan in prior final rounds.

This is Hagan's fifty-forth final round, with twenty-nine wins and twenty-five runner-ups. Todd has a career seventeen wins and twelve runner-ups, with eight wins and two runner-ups in Funny Car.

It is all over at the green, as the DHL Camry backfires at the green and dumps out the chutes. He coasts to a stop about 100 feet out.

Hagan had a good light and runs strong and clean right to the finish line. He would have been hard to beat!

Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.865 sec., 330ft-2.234, 660ft-3.147/282.60 mph.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink