Sun, 4 Jun 2000, 06:08 PM GRAND BEND - Top Fuel Final, Round 3 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

GRAND BEND, Ont. - Results of final, round 3 eliminations in Top Fuel at the Inaugural Mopar Parts Canadian Nationals presented by Castrol:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   4 Clay Millican       4.793 298.21  Q    3 Shirley Muldowney   4.785 309.38
   (J Bailey    ) 0.534  4.768 306.95  E1   (B Litton    ) 0.506  4.848 310.13
   (P Romine    ) 0.538  4.892 298.40  E2   (J Head      ) 0.517  4.828 278.63
 *****WINNER***** 0.544  4.848 307.48  E3                  0.656  4.889 297.12

5:50 PM The final round got off to a bad start for Shirley, her car refusing to go into reverse and her crew having to run down and push her back to the starting line. Millican could have pushed the issue and staged, but he waited for her crew to get her back so they could make a race of it. When the tree came down, it was all Millican on reaction time, the two cars very close in performance. That's it, it's 6:00 PM and this race is history. See you in Cordova, Ill. in two weeks.