Sun, 04 Oct 2020, 16:17 PM Funny Car Round 2 Eliminations

By Rick Green

MADISON, Ill. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, ninth annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals presented by Pennzoil:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   33 Tommy Johnson Jr.                     116 Paul Lee                     
E2   ****WINNER****  0.078  3.943 324.51                     0.184  3.892 330.72
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Haddock   ) 0.084  3.919 324.05      (J Campbell  ) 0.130  3.945 323.81
 Qualified:             #8  7.220 118.97                        #1  3.913 326.95

Johnson Jr. is 4 - 1 against Lee in prior events.

Johnson Jr. with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the hole shot win. The car made a quick move toward the wall, but he reeled it in.

Tommy Johnson Jr.'s MOV: 0.0551 seconds (approximately 27 feet).

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   28 Ron Capps                            2814 Matt Hagan                   
E2                   0.090  5.182 113.44     ****WINNER****  0.080  4.085 249.58
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C Pedregon  ) 0.110  3.894 331.77      (B Bode      ) 0.094  3.959 319.98
 Qualified:            #14 12.851  71.93                        #6  5.105 148.15

Capps is 34 - 27 against Hagan in prior events.

Hagan with the starting line advantage and never trailed for the win. The car started to haze the tires on the top end, but held on for the win.

Capps banged the blower just past half track with a quick flash of flame. The world is there is oil. Ron Capps was charged with an oildown, #2 for the season. That will cost 10 points.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    2 Jack Beckman                          348 Daniel Wilkerson             
E2   ****WINNER****  0.089  3.890 329.50                     0.092  3.976 314.97
 Prior rounds:
E1    (B Alexander ) 0.084  3.885 332.10      (B Tasca III ) 0.068  4.053 258.76
 Qualified:             #5  4.750 185.03                        #4  4.389 197.48

Beckman is 1 - 0 against Wilkerson in prior events.

Beckman with a slight starting line advantage and never trailed for the win.

Beckman will have lane choice over Johnson Jr. in the semifinal

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  771 Alexis DeJoria                        373 J.R. Todd                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.086  3.918 322.96                     0.080  6.559  99.33
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Creasy    ) 0.105  3.907 329.50      (T Wilkerson ) 0.078  4.641 290.88
 Qualified:             #2  3.929 288.21                        #7  5.801 184.98

Todd is 3 - 1 against DeJoria in prior events.

Todd with a slight starting line advantage, but lost traction early and clicked it off.

DeJoria is on good looking pass until right in the lights when it started to mix up cylinders. The engine let go with a huge boom and the front end blows up into a lot of pieces.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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