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Since 2005 the #1 FC qualifier at this race is only 9 -5 in the first round. Coming off the first race of the season with a win under his belt, two-time Funny Car world champion Robert Hight, has now won in 15th consecutive seasons with 46th career victories to date. He has four final round appearances here including one in 2012 where he secured his first career win defeating then teammate Mike Neff. This is the 62nd time he has been the number one qualifier and the first time in his career that Robert has qualified #1 at the first two races of the season. he now has 460 round wins for his career and this is 6th best among all FC drivers. Jeff Diehl has lost 7 races in a row to Robert Hight. Hight is 11 - 1 against Diehl in prior events. Diehl's engine in in trouble when they tried to start it and the sign goes out for Hight to take a single. Hight makes his best pass of the weekend and will have lane choice over Force next round. Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.864 sec., 330ft-2.228, 660ft-3.129/285.11 mph. |