Sun, 27 Oct 2002, 05:33 PM Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Bob Orme

LAS VEGAS - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, Second annual ACDelco Las Vegas NHRA Nationals:

Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
  11 Ron Capps           4.891 313.00  Q    2 Tony Pedregon       4.786 322.73
   (S Cannon    ) 0.471  4.890 316.45  E1   (B Gilbertson) 0.460  4.858 314.31
   (W Bazemore  ) 0.471  4.883 317.49  E2   (D Worsham   ) 0.437  4.897 307.72
                  0.456  4.962 297.48  E3 *****WINNER***** 0.466  4.923 310.63

2:22 PM Capps moved to the left of the groove at 1000 feet. He was mixing up the cylinders at the finish, the car nosing over at the finish line.

Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   9 Tim Wilkerson       4.879 310.27  Q    4 John Force          4.793 322.81
   (T Johnson Jr) 0.481  4.936 302.82  E1   (F Pedregon  ) 0.498  4.920 304.87
   (B Sarver    ) 0.491  4.884 311.63  E2   (G Densham   ) 0.464  4.803 323.19
                  0.526  4.844 313.80  E3 *****WINNER***** 0.468  4.846 320.51

Force left first and he needed to as Wilkerson's car was a couple ticks quicker. Force will have lane choice over Tony Pedregon in the final round.