Sun, 21 Oct 2001, 05:01 PM DALLAS - Pro Stock Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

ENNIS, Texas - Results of final, round 4 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
   5 Tom Hammonds        6.883 200.22  Q   16 V. Gaines           6.911 200.49
   (M Osborne   ) 0.448  6.883 200.40  E1   (J Yates     ) 0.409  6.915 200.35
   (D Alderman  ) 0.423  6.908 200.31  E2   (T Martino   ) 0.730  6.938 192.30
   (B Jeter     ) 0.440  6.908 200.71  E3   (G Marnell   ) 0.426  6.925 199.95
                  0.446  6.961 200.00  E4 *****WINNER***** 0.435  6.929 199.77

Gaines with the starting line advantage and never looked back to take his second National event win. Both of his wins have been here in Dallas. Hammonds was sluggish off the starting line and had his slowest pass of the weekend. Margin of victory = 0.043 seconds (approximately 13 feet).

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink