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Ron Capps
0.086 | 3.944 | 321.5
Jeff Arend
0.108 | 4.368 | 255.97
This is the 17th time that Ron Capps has qualified #1. He has three event wins when starting from the top spot in the field. He was runner-up here in 2008..The #16 qualifier in Funny Car hasn't won a round-one match at this event since 1998. Capps has won fourteen of their prior seventeen first round races and has an overall60% first round win advantage. . He will need a 3.925 today to back up his potential National Record. Capps is 17 - 5 against Arend in prior events.

Capps leaves first and runs hard to the finish line without drama for the win.

Arend makes his best run of the weekend in the loss.

Ron Capps' incremental times: 60ft-0.865 sec., 330ft-2.237, 660ft-3.183/273.66 mph.
Jeff Arend's incremental times: 60ft-0.952 sec., 330ft-2.446, 660ft-3.483/246.03 mph.