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Cruz Pedregon
0.058 | 4.01 | 310.84
John Force
0.114 | 4.238 | 228.11
John Force has eight wins here and that is the second most for any professional driver behind only Bob Glidden who won it eleven times. This is John's 34th time competing at this event and his first was in 1978.. Cruz Pedregon won here in 2008 & 2012. This is Cruz's 24th trip to the "Finals." This will be the 100th meeting between these two drivers and that is the most head-to-head matches between any two pro drivers in NHRA history. Force has won in first round over 75% of the time and has a 15/9 advantage over Pedregon. Cruz has won almost 61% of his first round races. Force is 67 - 32 against Pedregon in prior events.

Another whacky race. Pedregon drops a cylinder right off the line and the Camry drives hard towards the centerline. He pumps the pedal to recover. Force gets sideways right after that and drives across the center line to give the easy win to a trailing Pedregon. Force's better 5.476 @ 145.58 is DQ'ed.