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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 53rd annual Auto Club 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: Steve Faria No Time, Now #18; Best prior run: 4.096/232.71, Was #17 Right Lane: Mike Salinas Runs 3.796/322.50, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.508/260.91, Was #18 Weather conditions: air temperature 76 degrees, relative humidity 44 percent, barometer 28.85 inches, adjusted altitude 2,886 feet, track temperature 101 degrees. Faria can't get the car to fire and he will not get in the show. Salinas with a great pass after struggling earlier this weekend to get in the show. Mike Salinas' incremental times: 60ft-0.845 sec., 330ft-2.149, 660ft-3.047/283.31 mph. Left Lane: Shawn Reed Runs 3.841/305.01, Now #15; Best prior run: 3.839/289.32, Was #14 Right Lane: Terry McMillen Runs 3.753/323.81, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.913/252.61, Was #17 Reed with another good pass, but will not improve and gets bumped moved back one spot by McMillen. Shawn Reed's incremental times: 60ft-0.852 sec., 330ft-2.183, 660ft-3.081/282.90 mph. McMillen launched hard and kept it hooked up to make his quickest pass of the weekend. He goes from the outside to the top half of the show with this pass. Terry McMillen's incremental times: 60ft-0.847 sec., 330ft-2.129, 660ft-3.007/286.38 mph. Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.784/315.56, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.816/320.13, Was #14 Right Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 3.879/315.05, Now #17; Best prior run: 3.877/312.06, Was #17 Langdon with his quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder to the number 10 spot. Shawn Langdon's incremental times: 60ft-0.850 sec., 330ft-2.143, 660ft-3.028/285.59 mph. Alexander with another good pass, but just misses getting in the show. Blake Alexander's incremental times: 60ft-0.858 sec., 330ft-2.185, 660ft-3.108/274.50 mph. Left Lane: Scott Palmer Runs 3.876/263.98, Now #14; Best prior run: 3.813/313.22, Was #14 Right Lane: Terry Haddock Runs 3.906/300.40, Now #16; Best prior run: 3.874/307.51, Was #16 Palmer was on a good pass until it started to mix up cylinders and he clicked it off. Scott Palmer's incremental times: 60ft-0.847 sec., 330ft-2.160, 660ft-3.057/283.55 mph. Haddock with another good pass until right in the lights when it banged the blower. Terry Haddock's incremental times: 60ft-0.856 sec., 330ft-2.177, 660ft-3.106/269.24 mph. Left Lane: Wayne Newby Runs 3.784/326.32, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.785/324.59, Was #11 Right Lane: Troy Buff Runs 5.263/104.10, Now #12; Best prior run: 3.785/320.43, Was #12 Newby launched hard and kept it hitting on all eight to make his quickest pass of the weekend. He ties Langdon's E.T., but because on his faster speed he will get the spot. Wayne Newby's incremental times: 60ft-0.852 sec., 330ft-2.161, 660ft-3.043/287.60 mph. Buff started to drop cylinders and then the engine let go with a huge fireball. The word is there is oil on the track. Left Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 3.721/328.54, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.757/326.00, Was #9 Right Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 3.738/325.37, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.755/326.71, Was #8 This was a great side-by-side drag race... Schumacher launched hard and kept it hooked up to move into the top half of the show. Schumacher with his quickest pass of the weekend. Tony Schumacher's incremental times: 60ft-0.841 sec., 330ft-2.121, 660ft-2.989/292.39 mph. Kalitta was right there with him to make his quickest pass of the weekend to move up one spot on the ladder. Doug Kalitta's incremental times: 60ft-0.845 sec., 330ft-2.133, 660ft-3.002/291.13 mph. Left Lane: Richie Crampton Runs 3.764/320.28, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.748/316.23, Was #8 Right Lane: Steve Torrence No Time, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.719/289.26, Was #5 Crampton with a good clean pass after making a planed shut off pass in the earlier round today. He will not improve...Richie Crampton's incremental times: 60ft-0.853 sec., 330ft-2.150, 660ft-3.021/289.69 mph. Torrence is shut off after the burnout and Torrence said he had problems with the brakes. Left Lane: Antron Brown Runs 3.708/326.87, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.696/326.00, Was #4 Right Lane: Leah Pritchett Runs 5.184/129.89, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.674/325.61, Was #3 Brown launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the session. He will stay in the number four spot. Antron Brown's incremental times: 60ft-0.841 sec., 330ft-2.112, 660ft-2.972/291.95 mph. Pritchett is up in smoke early and clicks it off. Left Lane: Brittany Force Runs 3.698/327.03, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.667/330.31, Was #1 Right Lane: Clay Millican Runs 3.698/326.56, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.671/328.22, Was #2 This is a great side-by-side drag race to wrap up Top Fuel qualifying. Force and Millican run identical E.T.s and Force will get the bonus point because of her faster speed. Force launched hard and kept it hooked up to make the quickest pass of the session. She will hold on to the number one spot for the second time this season and the eighth time in her career. Brittany Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.830 sec., 330ft-2.100, 660ft-2.966/292.77 mph. Millican matches Forces E.T. and will not improve with a great pass. Clay Millican's incremental times: 60ft-0.833 sec., 330ft-2.098, 660ft-2.961/290.76 mph.
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