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J.R. Todd
0.07 | 3.902 | 330.72
Tim Wilkerson
0.088 | 6.97 | 112.5
Tim Wilkerson was runner-up here in 1998. He is making his 408th first round appearance and has over a 51% win record. He had career best performance in qualifying last night. J.R. Todd is the 382nd driver to qualify for an NHRA Funny Car field. He is making his first Funny Car eliminations appearance today. In Top Fuel, he won almost 55% of his 148 first round encounters.

Todd gets away first and pulls hard all the way to the finish line to make his best run of the weekend. He will have lane choice over Courtney Fore later.

Wilkerson looked to be on a good pass until the tires were up in smoke big time about 330 feet out.

J.R. Todd's incremental times: 60ft-0.882 sec., 330ft-2.253, 660ft-3.167/283.43 mph.