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Sat, 19 Sep 2026, 15:30 PM

Top Fuel Qualifying Notes, Session #3

By Rick Green

MARTIN, Mich. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, Inaugural NHRA Great Lakes Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time/top speed this round, position in order following run, best prior elapsed time/speed, and position in order prior to run:

Left Lane: Justin Ashley Runs 3.733/333.58, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.748/333.58, Was #7
Right Lane: Tony Stewart Runs 4.001/223.10, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.714/339.62, Was #3

Weather conditions: air temperature 65 degrees, relative humidity 85 percent, barometer 29.98 inches, adjusted altitude 1,791 feet, track temperature 75 degrees.

Ashley launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number three spot.

Stewart with a good pass early, but then started to lose traction and drop cylinders.

Left Lane: Leah Pruett Runs 9.333/70.88, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.743/328.23, Was #7
Right Lane: Maddi Gordon Runs 3.746/336.57, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.832/318.70, Was #14

Pruett loses traction early and clicked it off.

Gordon launched hard and kept it hooked up to move into the top half of the show.

Left Lane: Josh Hart Runs 3.860/240.77, Now #14; Best prior run: 3.826/332.35, Was #14
Right Lane: Kyle Satenstein Runs 8.225/77.99, Now #16; Best prior run: 7.888/81.48, Was #16

Hart was on a good pass early and the the car shut off around 800 feet.

Satenstein lost traction right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Shawn Reed Runs 8.712/77.67, Now #13; Best prior run: 3.801/333.58, Was #13
Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 3.805/331.86, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.437/189.16, Was #15

Reed with tire shake early and clicks it off.

Schumacher is straight down the groove with hisn quickest pass of the weekend. He moves up the ladder one spot.

Left Lane: Antron Brown Runs 3.740/331.86, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.779/331.86, Was #11
Right Lane: Spencer Massey Runs 3.736/330.15, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.792/327.27, Was #12

Brown is straight down the groove with a good pass to move into the top half of the show.

Massey launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number seven spot. He makes his quickest and fastest pass this season.

Left Lane: Kyle Wurtzel Runs 3.739/334.08, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.758/325.38, Was #11
Right Lane: Clay Millican Runs 13.131/66.88, Now #12; Best prior run: 3.762/334.08, Was #12

Wurtzel kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to move into the top half the show. He makes his quickest pass this season and fastest of his career.

Millican is up in smoke right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Will Smith Runs 3.706/335.32, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.736/333.58, Was #6
Right Lane: Billy Torrence Runs 5.890/200.62, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.736/334.57, Was #5

Smith launched hard and kept it hooked up to make his career quickest and fastest pass. He moves up to the number three spot.

Torrence drives into tire shake and clicks it off early.

Left Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 3.660/338.86, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.682/334.82, Was #1
Right Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.700/336.32, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.698/339.37, Was #2

Kalitta launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the weekend. He improves his number one spot.

Langdon with another good pass, the second quickest pass of the session.