Sun, 29 Oct 2000, 04:50 PM HOUSTON-2 - Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Darryl Jackman

BAYTOWN, Texas - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the 4th annual Matco Tools SuperNationals presented by Racing Champions:

 Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-Rd-Qua-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed
   8 Tony Pedregon       4.948 304.39  Q    2 John Force          4.878 311.77
   (D Skuza     ) 0.508  4.895 299.46  E1   (C Powell    ) 0.510  4.847 313.00
   (J Gray      ) 0.521  4.903 312.35  E2   (F Pedregon  ) 0.504  5.002 294.95
   (W Bazemore  ) 0.506  4.922 309.91  E3   (B Gilbertson) 0.500  4.847 314.17
 *****WINNER***** 0.527  4.906 309.27  E4                  0.542  5.293 287.41

4:51 PM Force has put the 'Frankenstein' body on the car for the final round as according to Coil there were a couple of broken struts in the other Castrol body. John is a whopping 32-6 against his team mate over the course of years. Force has cliched his record-tying tenth title so this run could be a real barn burner. Not as close as many hoped. It was a fairly even leave but Force pedaled the car around 400 feet as the Mustang started to rattle the big Goodyears. By the time Frankenstein recovered Tony was streaking away to a win the puts him twenty points closer to second and third place in the points.