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POMONA, Calif. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 54th 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: Jeff Diehl Runs 5.001/157.85, Now #18; Best prior run: 4.632/190.35, Was #18 1:48 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 78 degrees, relative humidity 11 percent, barometer 28.80 inches, adjusted altitude 2,762 feet, track temperature 106 degrees. Tommy
Johnson is number one at 3.881 and John Force is on the bump spot at 4.386. Left Lane: Bob Bode Runs 4.005/317.49, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.346/205.76, Was #15 Right Lane: Courtney Force Runs 3.920/313.58, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.965/316.15, Was #7 Two strong passes and two good moves up the ladder. Bode gets to the finish in his lane this time, but still has to work hard to stay off the center lie down track. He moves up seven spots with a career best ET and speed to #8 for now. Force's Camaro was hunting around a lot going down the track too and she gets a clean pass otherwise to move four spots up to #3. Bob Bode's incremental times: 60ft-0.885 sec., 330ft-2.289, 660ft-3.241/272.94 mph. Courtney Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.874 sec., 330ft-2.247, 660ft-3.171/281.07 mph. Left Lane: Jonnie Lindberg Runs 5.002/141.16, Now #19; Best prior run: 5.639/122.74, Was #19 Right Lane: Jim Campbell Runs 4.000/309.70, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.029/307.30, Was #9 Lindberg has a strong leave and gets to near the 660 lights before the engine starts to drop cylinders and has a big boomer from the blower. It's his best run, so far, but not enough to get into the field. Campbell makes a strong pass right down the track to move up a spot to the top eight for now. He runs as close to three second run, as you can! Jim Campbell's incremental times: 60ft-0.889 sec., 330ft-2.276, 660ft-3.221/270.27 mph. Left Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 5.852/116.95, Now #15; Best prior run: 4.256/214.62, Was #14 Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 4.065/300.20, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.396/204.14, Was #17 These two are in unexpected territory for a Saturday afternoon. Pedregon gets away well and then starts to drop cylinders. He knows that he needs to get a time up on the boards and stays with it to the finish line. His plan works, as he is able to not only bump in, but move up to the #10 spot for now. Hagan gets loose early and slows. Cruz Pedregon's incremental times: 60ft-0.881 sec., 330ft-2.298, 660ft-3.270/265.64 mph. Left Lane: John Force Runs 4.001/326.63, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.386/206.54, Was #17 Right Lane: Jeff Arend Runs 4.116/303.37, Now #12; Best prior run: 4.276/255.15, Was #16 Jeff Arend is on the bump spot at 4.276 and finally gets a near full pass into the 300 plus MPH range to move up to #12. Force was just bumped out and he too gets a strong pass and moves right up the ladder eight spots to the current #9 position. John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.889 sec., 330ft-2.293, 660ft-3.246/273.72 mph. Jeff Arend's incremental times: 60ft-0.913 sec., 330ft-2.342, 660ft-3.315/263.00 mph. Left Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 3.991/320.20, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.217/230.06, Was #14 Right Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.975/320.20, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.950/320.97, Was #7 Terry Haddock is on the bump spot at 4.253. Two good leaves and two strong passes. Langdon was already in the field in #7 and runs clean and straight for no improvements. Tasca gets his first full pass too and it's a good one to move him from #14 to the top half of the field. Bob Tasca III's incremental times: 60ft-0.883 sec., 330ft-2.284, 660ft-3.228/274.27 mph. Shawn Langdon's incremental times: 60ft-0.881 sec., 330ft-2.278, 660ft-3.215/275.51 mph. Left Lane: J.R. Todd Runs 3.959/321.04, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.220/310.13, Was #15 Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 3.931/321.81, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.936/305.29, Was #5 Another pair of strong passes and both move up They leave close together and Wilkerson makes the most of it on another clean pass to move into the top four for now. Todd has been struggling a little, but puts up good numbers to tune to in the fourth session later. J.R. Todd's incremental times: 60ft-0.877 sec., 330ft-2.266, 660ft-3.201/276.46 mph. Tim Wilkerson's incremental times: 60ft-0.883 sec., 330ft-2.266, 660ft-3.182/280.78 mph. Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 3.900/327.03, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.948/320.66, Was #6 Right Lane: Robert Hight Runs 3.944/325.92, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.936/325.69, Was #5 Clean passes a pair! Capps gets the better of the two and moves up four spots to the new number two position with ease. Hight had another strong three ninety pass, but gets bumped back a spot by Capps' better run to #6. Ron Capps' incremental times: 60ft-0.870 sec., 330ft-2.226, 660ft-3.153/278.52 mph. Robert Hight's incremental times: 60ft-0.882 sec., 330ft-2.274, 660ft-3.196/279.61 mph. Left Lane: Tommy Johnson Jr. Runs 3.899/326.40, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.881/328.54, Was #1 Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 3.912/325.77, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.901/323.35, Was #3 We wrap up session three with two teammates running right together to the finish line and running 0.013 to each other. Neither car will improve their positions, but the consistency will really count tomorrow! Tommy Johnson Jr.'s incremental times: 60ft-0.870 sec., 330ft-2.235, 660ft-3.153/280.66 mph. Jack Beckman's incremental times: 60ft-0.873 sec., 330ft-2.238, 660ft-3.164/281.54 mph. 2:16 p.m. Terry Haddock is on the bump spot at 4.253.
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