Ray does his burnout, starts moving toward the staging beams and the engine dies. he is able to get the engine re-started and moves into the staging beams. Hines gets out of the gate first and goes right down the groove, tying Krawiec for the quickest pass so far, and goes on for the win.

Andrew Hines' incremental times: 60ft-1.068 sec., 330ft-2.859, 660ft-4.391/159.99 mph, 1,000ft-5.726.

Hines will have lane choice over Angie Smith in the next round.