Sun, 17 Sep 2000, 03:36 PM READING - Federal-Mogul Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By David Rowe

MOHNTON, Pa. - Results of round 3 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Funny Car at the 16th annual Keystone Nationals:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   4 Frank Manzo         5.626 256.06  Q    2 Paul Gill           5.607 259.41
   (E Fisher    ) 0.513  5.585 257.28  E1   (D Cox       ) 0.485  5.666 256.75
   (B Newberry  ) 0.458  5.558 258.37  E2   (F Monaghan  ) 0.551  5.700  57.00
 *****WINNER***** 0.484  5.599 257.53  E3                  0.434  5.674 256.60

3:24 PM Manzo lost to Gill in a divisional race run here yesterday but he avenges that loss here and will run Bartone in the finals. Margin of victory = 0.025 seconds (approximately 9 feet).

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   1 Tony Bartone        5.549 257.73  Q        Bye
   (W Fulford   ) 0.505  5.563 257.58  E1
   (J Payne     ) 0.490  5.570 257.38  E2
 *****WINNER***** 0.461  5.582 257.04  E3

Bartone gets a bye on this run and needs to beat Manzo's 5.599 to get lane choice in the finals....and he does it by about one-thousandth of a second.