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MOHNTON, Pa. - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, 35th annual Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals presented by Pennzoil 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: Mike Smith Runs 8.393/81.81, Now #17; Best prior run: 7.192/111.19, Was #17 4:51 p.m. - Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 67 percent, barometer 29.59 inches, adjusted altitude 2,449 feet, track temperature 92 degrees. At the start of this final qualifying session, Mike Smith was the only driver who had not qualified for the field of 16. Mike McIntire was on the bump spot at 4.708 seconds.
Smith launched and his car shook the rear tires coming out of the gate. He clicked it off before he reached 120 feet and clicked it
off. The field is now set and any more runs this session will be for position only. As soon as Mike Smith finished this run, John
Smith pulled his car out of the lanes and will not make a run in this session. Left Lane: Mike McIntire Runs 4.892/142.63, Now #16; Best prior run: 4.708/176.21, Was #16 McIntire launched hard. When he got 300 feet down the tire, car drifted out of the groove, the rear tires lost traction, started spinning and the back end of the car got really loose. McIntire shut the engine off shortly after that. Left Lane: Jim Campbell Runs 4.103/314.83, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.427/223.69, Was #15 Campbell took his car down the groove for his best run of the weekend so far. He moved up one spot in the order. Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.910/328.86, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.047/311.05, Was #12 Right Lane: John Force Runs 3.889/334.40, Now #4; Best prior run: 4.011/258.71, Was #11 Force and his team brough out a new car for this session, saying that the other car had chassis problems. The change worked as he had his best run of the weekend and moved up seven spots in the order. Langdon also had a solid run and moved up four spots with his best run of the four qualifying sessions. Left Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 3.981/323.27, Now #12; Best prior run: 3.979/328.22, Was #12 Right Lane: Jonnie Lindberg Runs 3.947/323.81, Now #11; Best prior run: 3.937/318.09, Was #11 Both drivers made good, clean runs but neither moved up in the qualifying order. Both stayed where they were in the order. Left Lane: Tommy Johnson Jr. Runs 5.204/138.50, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.905/326.95, Was #7 Right Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 3.913/333.66, Now #9; Best prior run: 3.919/333.00, Was #10 Hagan picked up a bit of time with this run and moved up one spot in the qualifying order. Johnson got a few hundred feet down the track when the spun the rear tires before the engine shut down and he coasted the rest of the way. Left Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 3.866/332.67, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.898/335.32, Was #6 Right Lane: J.R. Todd Runs 7.803/87.44, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.916/314.17, Was #10 Todd's car shook the rear tires hard about 200 feet out and he clicked it off. Tasca had his quickest run of the weekend and moved up four spots in the order. Left Lane: Robert Hight Runs 3.895/330.07, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.897/331.36, Was #6 Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson No Time, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.879/324.90, Was #4 Wilkerson launched, the car backfired and the chutes came out., He pulled over to the wall and stopped at 330 feet. Hight took his car down the groove for his quickest run of the weekend. Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 3.877/332.34, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.837/339.28, Was #1 Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 3.932/297.09, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.876/331.77, Was #3 Both drivers had strong runs down the groove but neither run had an effect on the qualifying order.
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