Sat, 9 Sep 2000, 05:44 PM ENGLISHTOWN - Federal-Mogul Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENGLISHTOWN, N.J. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Dragster at the 31st Matco Tools Spring SuperNationals presented by Racing Champions:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   2 Shawn Bowen         5.548 263.82  Q    3 Cliff Bozzelli      5.596 251.30
   (J Headley   ) 0.499  5.677 260.16  E1   (M Kosky     ) 0.417  5.656 250.37
   (B Horner    ) 0.498  5.720 259.41  E2                  0.507 11.412  99.31
 *****WINNER***** 0.482  5.820 257.68  E3                  0.475 12.126  63.60

Bozzelli out of the gate first and then has problems right off the starting line and clicks it off.

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   1 Dave Hirata         5.409 267.59  Q   12 David DeAngelis     6.452 186.33
   (B Reichert  ) 0.533  5.451 265.69  E1   (A Gallant   ) 0.427  5.983 226.81
   (R McPhillips) 0.516  5.769 247.52  E2   (F Ahrberg   )        6.105 228.42
 *****WINNER***** 0.519  5.619  25.61  E3                  0.408  6.019 230.65

DeAngelis cut the tree down on Hirata, hirata had the power to chase him down to make it an all injected nitro final with Hirata taking lane choice.