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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 47th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals 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: Bob Bode Runs 4.199/293.47, Now #13; No Prior Run Right Lane: John Force Runs 4.131/308.21, Now #6; No Prior Run 11:58 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 65 degrees, relative humidity 50 percent, barometer 28.72 inches, adjusted altitude 2,256 feet, track temperature 72 degrees. Bode missed the provisional field by three thousandths of a second, so he has to start all over today, as does Force, who wasn't even close in two attempts. Both teams came through under pressure,
Force all the way up to the top half of the field. Force's car was trying to go left or right on the top end, it didn't seem to care
which, but Force muscled it back to the groove. Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 4.158/297.48, Now #5; Best prior run: 4.124/301.94, Was #5 Right Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 4.140/305.42, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.138/306.33, Was #9 These two are already on the field with good runs Thursday. Both made full passes here - nothing spectacular and no improvement for either, however. Left Lane: Terry Haddock No Time, Now #23; No Prior Run Right Lane: Johnny Gray Runs 4.107/308.28, Now #4; No Prior Run Haddock made the burnout, backed up, then the team shut the car off and he's down to one last chance later today. Gray made the quickest pass of the session so far and is solidly in the field. Left Lane: Jim Head Runs 4.912/187.26, Now #16; No Prior Run Right Lane: Paul Lee Runs 5.105/153.37, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.254/300.20, Was #15 Cory Lee won't make a run in this session. Paul Lee was on the 12-car bump spot yesterday.Both cars were struggling and Lee shut it off around 660 feet. Head's car was laboring and dropped a couple cylinders. He gets in, on the bump spot, but there are a few not-qualified, quick cars left in line. Left Lane: Todd Lesenko No Time, Now #21; No Prior Run Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.087/307.79, Now #3; No Prior Run Here's one of those not-yet-qualified, quick cars. Pedregon made hard launches, then overpowered the track on his first two attempts. Lesenko skipped the first session, made a half-pass in the second. Lesenko's car had a big fuel leak after the burnout and the crew shut it off. Pedregon made yet another hard charge, with the quickest 330-foot time so far, got the tires to stick through the early part of the run this time, and vaulted into the top part of the field. Cruz Pedregon's incremental times:
60ft-0.911 sec., 330ft-2.321, 660ft-3.291/264.39 mph. He ties #2 qualifier Mike Neff's ET, gives up second place on speed. Left Lane: Tony Pedregon Runs 4.203/296.83, Now #17; No Prior Run Right Lane: Melanie Troxel Runs 4.087/309.70, Now #3; No Prior Run Tony Pedregon's run looked okay, right down the groove, but the header flames were orange and the incremental times were off the quick pace. By contrast, Troxel made a hard charge, matching Cruz Pedregon and Mike Neff on ET, taking the #3 spot away from Cruz on speed. Tony Pedregon's incremental times: 60ft-0.924 sec., 330ft-2.366, 660ft-3.376/250.83 mph. Left Lane: Gary Densham Runs 4.172/295.85, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.163/301.94, Was #14 Right Lane: Jeff Diehl Runs 7.762/87.86, Now #20; No Prior Run Diehl launched, shook, and shut off. Densham made another full pass, just a few ticks slower than his run yesterday. Left Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 4.113/313.58, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.136/310.55, Was #11 Right Lane: Jon Capps Runs 9.642/80.48, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.165/298.01, Was #15 Capps launched, then smoked the tires and lifted. Beckman made a nice pass, moved into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Jeff Arend Runs 4.111/308.92, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.133/307.02, Was #11 Right Lane: Alexis DeJoria Runs 8.066/84.49, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.158/306.88, Was #13 DeJoria shook hard and headed for the centerline, then lifted. Arend made a nice pass, picked up his pace a bit and moved into the top half of the field. Left Lane: Mike Neff Runs 4.141/306.12, Now #2; Best prior run: 4.087/313.44, Was #2 Right Lane: Robert Hight Runs 4.093/313.88, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.084/312.13, Was #1 Okay run for Neff, another quick run for Hight, but he will only get one bonus point (if any) because Cruz pedregon and Melanie Troxel were quicker in this session. Left Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 6.852/106.24, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.122/304.46, Was #9 Right Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 4.033/315.27, Now #1; Best prior run: 4.088/310.41, Was #5 Final pair. Wilkerson lost traction after 100 feet, but Hagan had it loaded to rotate the Earth and he went right to the top spot with low ET and top speed of the weekend. That shuts Hight out of the bonus points for this session.
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