Sun, 21 Oct 2001, 04:43 PM DALLAS - Federal-Mogul Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Funny Car at the 16th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   3 Pat Austin          5.723 247.72  Q    1 Jay Payne           5.632 252.38
   (J Jones     ) 0.492  5.682 252.24  E1   (S Burck     ) 0.527  5.657 248.27
   (T Branch    ) 0.487  5.694 250.69  E2   (S Harker    ) 0.476  5.683 249.23
   (V Smith     ) 0.469  5.701 250.76  E3   (B Newberry  ) 0.482  5.668 252.59
 *****WINNER***** 0.484  5.661 253.16  E4                  0.434  5.724 252.52

Payne with the starting line advantage, but then for the first time this weekend does not run in the 5.60's and Austin with the power to drive around him. Austin caught him around half track and runs his quickest and fastest pass of the weekend. Margin of victory = 0.013 seconds (approximately 5 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink