Sat, 4 Nov 2000, 04:58 PM DALLAS-2 - Funny Car Round 3 Eliminations

By Mike Jex

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 3 eliminations in Funny Car 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
   3 Jerry Toliver      13.000  13.85  Q    7 Scotty Cannon      17.000  10.08
   (G Densham   ) 0.477  5.139 299.93  E1   (D Skuza     ) 0.512  5.119 234.98
   (F Pedregon  ) 0.481  5.007 306.81  E2   (R Capps     ) 0.521  5.164 246.21
 *****WINNER***** 0.545  4.955 306.60  E3                  0.000 No Time

Cannon had oil coming out during the burnout, over the radio the mad scientist of nitro comments "It did the same thing as last time." He'll get another fine and lose ten more points. Toliver would have been tough to beat, the run was straight as a string all the way past the finish line. Down for a cleanup. 3:09 PM

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   4 Tony Pedregon      14.000  13.14  Q    1 John Force         11.000  17.56
   (A Hofmann   ) 0.487  5.021 296.05  E1   (C Powell    ) 0.532  5.201 215.75
   (J Epler     ) 0.440  5.014  29.76  E2   (D Worsham   ) 0.473  4.904 312.28
                  0.477  5.067 257.68  E3 *****WINNER***** 0.546  4.862 298.27

Tony put a big holeshot on his boss, but Tony's engine started to go away on the top end while Force ran low ET of the event.