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The final round in Federal Mogul Dragster was a classic in many respects.
David Baca's car (left) is a dual plug, injected, nitro burner on Hoosier
tires. Steve Santo's supercharged car uses a single mag and Goodyear
tires. Santos qualified number one with a quickest-ever for the class
5.338 and Baca qualified number 2 with the best speed of all time 269.56
and change. The pair met in the final and it was all Santos and the
defending world champ motored away from a wounded Baca.
Tony Schumacher picked up where he
left of in '99 when he won his first World Championship at the
Phoenix event, dropping the unsponsored car of Bob Vandergriff
in the finals.
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Joe Amato was right behind Gary Scelzi
in qualifying with a stout 4.601 / 317.42 which was good for Top
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Ron Capps driving for Don Prudhomme drove the Ed McCulloch-tuned Camaro
to a 4.85 and a 4.89 before bowing out in the semi-finals.
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