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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 50th annual Automobile Club of Southern California NHRA Finals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run: Left Lane: Shane Westerfield Runs 4.229/233.20, Now #1 12:24 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 69 degrees, relative humidity 57 percent, barometer 28.86 inches, adjusted altitude 2,533 feet, track temperature 82 degrees. Westerfield is the first driver since Gary Scelzi, at the 2005 Las
Vegas 1 race, to attempt to race both Top Alcohol Funny Car and Funny Car at the same event. He is driving the Worsham Family
Charger. Left Lane: Jon Capps Runs 8.279/80.97, Now #3 Right Lane: Bob Bode Runs 7.534/91.85, Now #2 12:36 p.m. Back to qualifying. Dueling shake, rattle, spin, and shut offs. Bode gets a couple of feet further for the advantage. Left Lane: Terry Haddock Runs 12.252/77.59, Now #5 Right Lane: Gary Densham Runs 8.348/92.68, Now #4 Densham is back in his own Funny Car after recent knee surgery. His last race was Seattle, where he went to the final round. Once again, two broken passes. Haddock instantly smokes the tires and Densham is shaking hard right before the sixty foot lights. Left Lane: Jeff Diehl Runs 7.186/94.33, Now #2 Right Lane: Chad Head Runs 9.162/71.18, Now #6 Head gets the tires loose and then goes sideways. Diehl has the best sixty foot numbers, but doesn't get past 100 feet before kicking the tires loose. Left Lane: Tony Pedregon No Time, Now #9 Right Lane: Jeff Arend Runs 4.126/287.05, Now #1 The Jim Dunn Racing team is running a newly designed, bright yellow and black, Mooneyes Tribute Funny Car this weekend. Arend makes a near full pass, as the engine goes silent right before the lights. He will still get the current top spot. Pedregon's Camry is trailing fluid back from the burnout and he is told to shut it off. Time for more dusting and cleaning. Jeff Arend's incremental times: 60ft-0.905 sec., 330ft-2.328, 660ft-3.304/261.47 mph. 12:47 p.m. Left Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 11.406/77.65, Now #9 Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 4.409/206.61, Now #3 1:00 p.m. Tasca recently announced that he will be running a "limited 2015 schedule" in a Tasca Family Ford. The slicks are smoking instantly and he is done for this session. Beckman has a good pass going until after the 660, where the pipes go wet. Jack Beckman's incremental times: 60ft-0.897 sec., 330ft-2.327, 660ft-3.344/234.61 mph. Left Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.011/311.77, Now #1 Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 7.273/84.66, Now #6 Snap-On Tools has announced that they have renewed their primary sponsorship of Cruz Pedregon's Funny Car for 2015. He shows that you can put the power to the track and motors on down the track right into our first full pass and the top spot to the rest to shoot at! Wilkerson has a good leave, but gets the tires loose before the 330 lights and the car way sideways. Cruz Pedregon's incremental times: 60ft-0.881 sec., 330ft-2.281, 660ft-3.232/270.37 mph. Left Lane: Alexis DeJoria Runs 4.020/314.39, Now #2 Right Lane: Ron Capps Runs 7.473/79.42, Now #8 Capps does a "instant replay" of Wilkerson's run and slows. DeJoria strives for her own "instant replay" and runs straight and true to the finish line to slot in right behind Pedregon in number two with a better speed. Alexis DeJoria's incremental times: 60ft-0.892 sec., 330ft-2.292, 660ft-3.245/270.70 mph. Left Lane: Del Worsham Runs 4.062/314.97, Now #4 Right Lane: Robert Hight Runs 4.051/317.87, Now #3 Chad Head is on the bump spot at 9.162. We finally get our first 300MPH passes and they are good ones to move up near the top of the ladder in the top four. Nice looking runs! Del Worsham's incremental times: 60ft-0.910 sec., 330ft-2.328, 660ft-3.287/269.56 mph. Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.904 sec., 330ft-2.314, 660ft-3.279/268.60 mph. Left Lane: Tommy Johnson Jr. Runs 4.031/316.08, Now #3 Right Lane: Courtney Force Runs 8.095/70.57, Now #13 Jon Capps is on the bump spot at 8.279. Force shakes the tires and lifts. Johnson's Make-A-Wish Charger is strong off the line and strong at the finish to move into the current #3 spot. Tommy Johnson Jr.'s incremental times: 60ft-0.884 sec., 330ft-2.291, 660ft-3.256/267.85 mph. Left Lane: John Force Runs 4.015/316.60, Now #2 Right Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 4.063/314.83, Now #7 Bob Bode is on the bump spot at 7.534. Hagan comes into session one with a twenty-one point advantage over Force for the Funny Car Championship. The "Little Points" are vital to both cars in qualifying. Hagan gets a starting line advantage, but Force has better incrementals right away and parlays them into the number two qualifying spot, with two vital points that takes Hagan's leave to less than one round. Hagan had a great pass too and misses the top half of the field by just 0.001. John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.893 sec., 330ft-2.302, 660ft-3.248/273.05 mph. Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.897 sec., 330ft-2.312, 660ft-3.285/266.37 mph. 1:18 p.m. Cruz Pedregon is number one at 4.011 and Tim Wilkerson is on the bump spot at 7.273.
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