They leave the line together, then Lucas strikes the tires about 300 feet out, pedals, goes up in smoke again and backs off the throttle. Fuller makes a decent run but was losing the engine as he went through the lights.

Kalitta will have lane choice over Fuller in the final round.

Rod Fuller's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.013), 330 ft(0.004), 660ft(0.197), 1,000ft(0.471). MOV: 0.9057 seconds (more than 100 feet).