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Sun, 26 Sep 2021, 14:42 PM

Funny Car Round 2 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

MADISON, Ill. - Results of round 2 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 10th annual NHRA Midwest Nationals:


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  256 Blake Alexander                        71 Cruz Pedregon                
E2                   0.107  8.867  73.85     ****WINNER****  0.077  4.127 243.06
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Creasy Jr ) 0.110  3.953 298.01      (J Campbell  ) 0.092  3.913 327.03
 Qualified:             #4  3.892 322.88                        #5  3.896 328.62

1:16 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 79 degrees, relative humidity 42 percent, barometer 30.01 inches, adjusted altitude 2,042 feet, track temperature 109 degrees.
Pedregon and Alexander have only raced twice, once in 2013 & once in 2020. They are 1 - 1 against each other.

Alexander hits the throttle and goes up in smoke. he pedals a couple of times and then gives up on the run. Pedregon gets about 800 feet out, hazes the tires and backs off of the throttle.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
 3095 Bobby Bode                              5 Bob Tasca III                
E2                   0.119  4.431 195.93     ****WINNER****  0.072  3.959 330.88
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Haddock   ) 0.107  4.353 250.51      (A DeJoria   ) 0.107  3.927 330.55
 Qualified:             #3  3.891 322.04                        #6  3.898 331.69

This is the first time Bode and Tasca III have faced each other in eliminations.
Bode got his first career round win earlier today.
Tasca gets out of the gate first and goes down the groove with a clean straight pass. Bode hits the throttle, gets about 300 feet out, has problems and is off of the throttle early.
Tasca takes the win and moves into sixth place in the points chase.

Bob Tasca III's incremental margins: 60ft(0.020), 330 ft(0.013), 660ft(0.126). MOV: 0.5191 seconds (more than 100 feet).


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  723 John Force                             28 Ron Capps                    
E2   ****WINNER****  0.039  3.970 328.70                     0.121  3.929 326.56
 Prior rounds:
E1    (R Hight     ) 0.058  3.970 316.30      (C King      ) 0.085  3.854 333.41
 Qualified:            #10  3.915 304.94                        #2  3.876 333.82

Force gets out of the gate first and goes down the groove with a good pass. Capps makes up a little ground early in the run,but then Force is able to pull away and take the win.
John Force's incremental margins: 60ft(0.027), 330 ft(0.034), 660ft(0.036). MOV: 0.0412 seconds (approximately 20 feet).

Tasca will have lane choice over Force in the next round.


 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  373 J.R. Todd                               1 Matt Hagan                   
E2                   0.078  4.571 182.21     ****WINNER****  0.065  3.894 332.18
 Prior rounds:
E1    (T Wilkerson ) 0.082  3.895 330.39                           No Time      
 Qualified:             #9  3.915 330.72                        #1  3.868 333.25

A coin flip off of the line, Hagan gets out in front early. Todd was staying with him for the first 400 feet or so, then he strikes the tires, the car makes a move to the left, then he backs off of the throttle. Hagan goes on through and takes the win.
With the win, Hagan goes into the points lead and with Todd's loss Pedregon goes ahead of Todd.
Matt Hagan's incremental margins: 60ft(0.020), 330 ft(0.022), 660ft(0.202). MOV: 0.6901 seconds (more than 100 feet).

Hagan will have lane choice over Pedregon in the next round.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink

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