Force scores a big advantage off the starting line and then strikes the tires. Arend gets on by after the sixty foot lights and takes the easy win. He will give up lane choice to Beckman next round.

Force's loss lets Wilkerson move around him into the #8 spot in the Championship.

Jeff Arend's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.023), 330 ft(0.191), 660ft(1.165). MOV: 3.5116 seconds (more than 100 feet).

Jeff Arend's incremental times: 60ft-0.910 sec., 330ft-2.320, 660ft-3.296/264.91 mph.