Bad choice, as he leaves first, pulls hard and then starts to smoke the tires just past the 330 lights. The car starts a hard move towards he center line and he just pulls it back enough to miss the 660 lights. He hammers the throttle again a nd the car powers back to the center line again, taking out the 1000ft. reflectors.

Pedregon gets a straight and clean pass, running close to his qualifying times and will go onto round two.

Cruz Pedregon's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.003), 330 ft(-0.019), 660ft(0.118). MOV: 0.4756 seconds (more than 100 feet).