Sun, 21 Oct 2001, 03:49 PM DALLAS - Pro Stock Round 3 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Pro Stock 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
   6 George Marnell      6.885 200.31  Q   16 V. Gaines           6.911 200.49
   (K Johnson   ) 0.448  6.904 199.77  E1   (J Yates     ) 0.409  6.915 200.35
   (B Allen     ) 0.414  6.914 199.33  E2   (T Martino   ) 0.730  6.938 192.30
                  0.432  6.921 200.13  E3 *****WINNER***** 0.426  6.925 199.95

Gaines is out of the gate first and the power to hold off the hard charging Marnell to take the hole-shot win. Margin of victory = 0.002 seconds (approximately 7 inches).

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   5 Tom Hammonds        6.883 200.22  Q   17 Brad Jeter          6.914 200.04
   (M Osborne   ) 0.448  6.883 200.40  E1   (M Edwards   ) 0.405  7.369 149.03
   (D Alderman  ) 0.423  6.908 200.31  E2   (W Johnson   ) 0.425  6.946 199.11
 *****WINNER***** 0.440  6.908 200.71  E3                  0.428  6.955 198.98

Jeter out of the gate first, but Hammonds with the power to chase him down by half track to take the win. Hammonds will have lane choice in the final. We will have our 14th different winner in the Pro Stock category this year.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink