Sun, 21 Oct 2001, 05:04 PM DALLAS - Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in 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
   2 John Force          4.758 322.69  Q   12 Gary Densham        4.896 318.35
   (J Lawson    ) 0.503  4.802 321.08  E1   (D Skuza     ) 0.481  4.803 324.32
   (S Cannon    ) 0.482  4.808 322.34  E2   (B Gilbertson) 0.506  4.827 320.39
   (J Gray      ) 0.474  4.889 318.58  E3   (D Worsham   ) 0.495  4.812 319.71
                  0.492  4.852 318.69  E4 *****WINNER***** 0.506  4.832 318.13

3:55 PM These two met in the finals at Memphis and Densham was the winner. Force holds a 20-2 career edge over Densham, 3-1 in final rounds. Force is going for his 99th career victory, Densham his second. Force jumps out in front off the line. Densham picks up .003 at the sixty foot mark, and .017 at half-track putting him out in front. He held on and took the win by .006 seconds or about three feet.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink