Sat, 4 Nov 2000, 07:34 PM DALLAS-2 - Federal-Mogul Dragster Round 3 Eliminations

By Larry Sullivan

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Federal-Mogul Dragster at the 15th annual O'Reilly Fall Nationals presented by Castrol Syntec:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   7 Troy Buff           5.547 254.47  Q    6 Jay Meyer           5.520 253.90
   (B Bybee     ) 0.555  5.516 257.53  E1   (S Federlin  ) 0.396  5.452 255.34
   (G Snow      ) 0.464  5.704 202.94  E2   (J Fuentes   ) 0.476  5.841 181.37
                  0.469  5.566 257.04  E3 *****WINNER***** 0.436  5.488 255.32

Meyer's crew had a hard time getting the engine started, they end up doing a short burnout to catch up with Buff. Nice runs by both cars.

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   4 David Wells         5.496 258.52  Q    8 Mark Hentges        5.550 256.55
   (S Howard    ) 0.442  5.555 255.48  E1   (D Foley     ) 0.491  5.625 238.26
   (S Faria     ) 0.468  5.490 255.48  E2                  0.464  5.592 249.95
 *****WINNER***** 0.464  5.416 257.24  E3                  0.476  5.589 254.66

Hentges ran a good race, but Wells has the Blue Bunny Ice Cream dragster screaming this weekend, running low ET of the day so far for the win.