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Nostalgia 4-Gear Funny Car Elimination Race

A nice full 8-car elimination ladder started with first vs last qualifiers...

   

Kev's 'Cuda seems to have power, but has way too much wheelspin off the line. Until that's sorted, Iain was always going to win this by a big margin - 0.519 of a second, as it turned out. The ETs 0.745 and 1.172.

   

Rebecca and Rose had qualified fourth and fifth. Rose should have fancied a win here, but the Camaro had a poor run and lost by 0.081 - the ETs 0.827 and 0.891. Rose was in fact sleeping off a morning stalking a stranded herring gull. Despite being 3 times bigger than the mini-panther, the gull was utterly terrified and human intervention was required... much to Rose's disgust.

   

Back to the racing... and Nico comfortably dispatched Jerome's Dodge Challenger by 0.124 seconds. Nico's ET was just a fraction slower than Iain's at 0.748. Jerome's time was 0.859.

   

The fourth first-round race saw the smallest margin of victory, as Bill beat Andy by 0.068 of a second to reach the semis. Their ETs were 0.801 and 0.848.

Funny Car Semi-Finals

   

There was a full tenth of second at the finish line in the first semi-final - Iain and Rebecca's ETs 0.737 and 0.829. Iain was warmed up nicely for the final.

   

Nico also breezed through his race - beating Bill by 0.067 in the battle of the Vegas. Nico clocked 0.749 and Bill 0.810.

4-Gear Funny Car Final

   

Both cars had been quick, Iain's slightly faster. When the lights went green, this is what happened...




Was Iain slow off the line? Or did Nico get a brilliant start? It didn't matter - Nico's Vega had a decent early lead...

   

But then Iain's 'Cuda started reeling him in - with a pass happening somewhere around the finish line...

   

Nico had held on - the pass was after the line!

   

Massive congratulations to Nico on his win - and for breaking Iain's stranglehold on Nostalgia 4-Gear Funny car...

   

Here's the ladder...

   

And all the date from the elimination rounds...

   

That's been a super afternoon of racing so far. I reckon it's match-racing next. Looks like we're still on schedule, with a planned finish of around 8.30-9pm this evening.