Sun, 20 Mar 2005, 05:35 PM Funny Car Final, Round 4 Eliminations

By Rick Green

GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Results of final, round 4 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 36th annual MAC Tools NHRA Gatornationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  206 Bob Gilbertson                          6 Whit Bazemore                
E4                  -0.324  5.362 194.30     ****WINNER****  0.072  4.897 315.67
 Prior rounds:
E3    (J Force     ) 0.122  5.414 211.41      (G Scelzi    ) 0.089  4.920 302.01
E2    (E Medlen    ) 0.158  4.909 309.70      (R Hight     ) 0.075  4.917 315.45
E1    (T Pedregon  ) 0.086  4.924 311.41      (C Pedregon  ) 0.068  4.869 316.67
 Qualified:            #10  4.887 311.63                        #8  4.862 313.26

Weather conditions: air temperature 75 degrees, relative humidity 49 percent, barometer 29.87 inches, adjusted altitude 1,368 feet, track temperature 97 degrees.

Bazemore has owned Gilbertson in head-to-head matchups. Gilbertson was able to make the call because of the help he got from both of the CSK teams, Ron Capps, The Carrier Boyz team, Baca's team and the Weis team. Gilbertson had problems on the burnout, but gets it staged. Gilbertson is then real early, and this will give Bazemore his first ever win in Gainesville and first win since Topeka last year. Bazemore will leave here with the Funny Car points lead.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink