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POMONA, Calif. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 57th annual Circle K NHRA Winternationals: Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 340 Bob Bode 1 Ron Capps E1 0.100 9.544 67.95 ****WINNER**** 0.075 3.880 329.10 Qualified: #13 4.142 285.29 #4 3.850 325.8511:36 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 66 degrees, relative humidity 54 percent, barometer 28.96 inches, adjusted altitude 2,097 feet, track temperature 92 degrees. Ron Capps comes into round one as the defending 2016 Funny Car Champion. He has three wins at this race and he is the defending event champion. Only two Funny Car drivers, John Force and Al Segrini, have ever won this event in consecutive years. Ron has also been the runner-up here four times. This will be his 465 round one encounter. He has won almost 62% on them and all 8 of his races with Bode. Bob Bode is making his 88th first round appearance and has won over 16% of them. Capps is off the line first and powers on down the track with his best speed of the weekend to take the easy win. Bode's Charger moves a few feet off the line and then has the blower go Bang! He coasts on down and stops on the track. Ron Capps' incremental times: 60ft-0.870 sec., 330ft-2.224,
660ft-3.140/281.83 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 703 Jim Campbell 6 Courtney Force E1 0.137 19.483 108.10 ****WINNER**** 0.077 6.610 105.68 Qualified: #14 4.451 219.79 #3 3.849 330.23Courtney Force won here in 2003. Force is making her 120th appearance in round one. She has over a 57% win record. She is undefeated against Campbell in their three prior first round races. Jim Campbell is making his 12th round one appearance and has one prior win. No joy for either racer. Force ducks a bullet. She has a big starting line advantage and then rattles the tires loose. She does a quick pedal slap, but the car won't recover. She coasts on down for the win. Campbell had a chance early, but his tire get loose too. The chutes come out at that point
and he is done. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 717 Jeff Diehl 3 Matt Hagan E1 -0.082 11.556 69.79 ****WINNER**** 0.072 3.885 331.77 Qualified: #16 4.564 187.94 #1 3.822 335.57Matt Hagan qualifying times from last night matched his 2016 Nation Record speed and ET to the thousandth. He won this event in 2015 and was runner-up in 2011 & 2014. The #1 FC qualifier has won this race 8 times. Hagan has already won over 70% of his 188 round one match ups and has won both of his prior races with Diehl. Jeff Diehl starts from the #16 spot, and in the last 30 years the 16th FC qualifier has won their first round match four times. This will be Diehl's 45th round one encounter. Diehl goes red and Hagan flies on down the track with another big speed to take the easy win. Smooth and clean! Matt
Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.881 sec., 330ft-2.240, 660ft-3.149/283.85 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 156 Phil Burkart 4 John Force E1 0.101 10.607 73.10 ****WINNER**** 0.094 3.897 328.38 Qualified: #15 4.470 280.66 #2 3.849 335.15John Force has 7 wins at this event and that is the most for any active driver on any of the top three classes. He also was the runner-up three times. Force has won over 74% of his 690 round one matchups, but has only a five to four win advantage over Burkart in round one. Phil Burkart was runner-up here in 2005 and has won almost 46% of his 96 round one races. Burkart starts dropping cylinders at the green and he is coasting early. Force makes it loo easy and powers on down the track for the easy win. John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.875 sec.,
330ft-2.245, 660ft-3.156/282.54 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 750 Del Worsham 8 Robert Hight E1 ****WINNER**** 0.100 4.008 313.15 0.061 4.313 213.94 Qualified: #12 3.940 323.89 #5 3.853 327.43This is Robert Hight's 275th round one match up. He has almost a 66% win record. He has a seven to five win advantage over Worsham in round one match ups. Hight won here in 2006, 2008 & 2011. This is Del Worsham's 27th Winternationals' appearance. He was runner-up here in 1993, 2002 and 2016 and has won over 60% of his prior 506 round one races. HIght gets a nice head start and is pulling ahead until before the 660 lights. The tires come loose and the engine gets unhappy. Worsham flies on by for his first win for the Worsham family in a long time. He gives up lane choice to Capps next round. Del Worsham's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.056), 330 ft(-0.087), 660ft(-0.011). MOV: 0.2662 seconds (approximately 84 feet). Del
Worsham's incremental times: 60ft-0.898 sec., 330ft-2.293, 660ft-3.230/271.08 mph.
Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.881 sec., 330ft-2.245, 660ft-3.258/222.62 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 373 J.R. Todd 9 Tim Wilkerson E1 ****WINNER**** 0.070 3.902 330.72 0.088 6.970 112.50 Qualified: #11 3.936 329.42 #6 3.857 322.65Tim Wilkerson was runner-up here in 1998. He is making his 408th first round appearance and has over a 51% win record. He had career best performance in qualifying last night. J.R. Todd is the 382nd driver to qualify for an NHRA Funny Car field. He is making his first Funny Car eliminations appearance today. In Top Fuel, he won almost 55% of his 148 first round encounters. Todd gets away first and pulls hard all the way to the finish line to make his best run of the weekend. He will have lane choice over Courtney Fore later. Wilkerson looked to be on a good pass until the tires were up in smoke big time about 330 feet out. J.R. Todd's incremental
times: 60ft-0.882 sec., 330ft-2.253, 660ft-3.167/283.43 mph.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
2 Tommy Johnson Jr. 771 Alexis DeJoria
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.060 3.938 323.89 0.085 4.148 229.24
Qualified: #10 3.933 323.97 #7 3.879 330.39
DeJoria has won over 41% of her 116 round one races. She and Johnson have each won three times
in prior encounters.
Tommy Johnson Jr. won here in 2005. Johnson is making his 355th first round appearances and has
almost a 54% win record.DeJoria was away second, but quickly catching TJ until right before the 660 lights, where something flies off the car. Johnson takes the easy win and gives lane choice to John Force later. Tommy Johnson Jr.'s incremental margins: 60ft(0.007), 330 ft(0.002), 660ft(0.010). MOV: 0.2351 seconds (approximately 79 feet). Tommy Johnson Jr.'s incremental
times: 60ft-0.900 sec., 330ft-2.269, 660ft-3.190/279.90 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 71 Cruz Pedregon 5 Jack Beckman E1 0.086 13.004 67.39 ****WINNER**** 0.072 3.867 330.63 Qualified: #9 3.906 319.98 #8 3.894 333.99Beckman has already run 245 round one races and has over a 68% win record. He has a seven to five win advantage over Pedregon in prior encounters. Cruz Pedregon won the Winternationals in 1995. He also won this race in Top Alcohol Dragster (1989) and Top Alcohol Funny Car (1990). This will be Pedregon's 482nd first round race. He has won just over 59% of them. Pedregon's problems continue, as the engine gets real unhappy at the green. Beckman Make his best run of the weekend and will have lane choice over team mate, Hagan, in round two. Jack Beckman's incremental times: 60ft-0.866 sec., 330ft-2.218, 660ft-3.130/283.67 mph. 12:02 p.m.
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