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MADISON, Ill. - Notes from round 3 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, eighth annual AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals 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: Right Lane: Cruz Pedregon Runs 6.715/100.10, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.047/314.97, Was #14 3:15 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 82 degrees, relative humidity 65 percent, barometer 29.53 inches, adjusted altitude 2,906 feet. Pedregon rattles the tires off the line,gets about 200 feet out and backs off the throttle. Left Lane: Bob Bode Runs 3.967/322.96, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.212/275.11, Was #15 Right Lane: Jim Campbell Runs 4.787/173.34, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.038/314.90, Was #13 Campbell gets about 300 feet out, the pipes go wet and he clicks it off. BNode goes down the groove with a good pass and he moves up to the 11th spot. Left Lane: Jack Wyatt No Time, Now #18; Best prior run: 7.335/98.44, Was #18 Right Lane: Dale Creasy Jr. Runs 4.411/213.03, Now #17; Best prior run: 4.258/237.05, Was #17 Wyatt completes his burnout, has problems and shuts it off. Creasy gets about 200 feet out and puts out a cylinder or two on the right side. the car starts pushing toward the wall and he aborts the run about 400 feet out. Left Lane: Blake Alexander Runs 3.960/323.43, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.036/310.98, Was #13 Right Lane: Tim Wilkerson Runs 4.475/193.49, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.949/309.91, Was #10 Alexander goes down the groove with his quickest pass of the weekend and he moves up to the 11th spot for now. Wilkerson was on a good pass but has problems about 500 feet out and clicks it off. Left Lane: Ron Capps Runs 4.212/223.21, Now #13; Best prior run: 4.012/323.50, Was #13 Right Lane: J.R. Todd Runs 4.965/155.81, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.940/329.83, Was #8 Todd gets about 300 feet out, hazes the tires and clicks it off. Capps gets a little further, loses traction and aborts the run. Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.923/329.50, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.940/328.62, Was #9 Right Lane: Jonnie Lindberg Runs 3.878/328.46, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.939/319.90, Was #7 A good side-by-side, both cars right down the groove. Langdon makes his quickest pass of the weekend and moves up to the seventh spot. Lindberg makes an impressive pass and moves all the way to the second spot. Jonnie Lindberg's incremental times: 60ft-0.872 sec., 330ft-2.230, 660ft-3.140/283.25 mph. Left Lane: Matt Hagan Runs 3.854/333.08, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.921/327.66, Was #6 Right Lane: Tommy Johnson Jr. Runs 3.911/324.12, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.938/326.63, Was #8 Hagan goes right down the groove with an impressive pass and goes all the way to the top. Johnson makes a clean, straight pass and he moves up to the sixth spot. Left Lane: John Force Runs 3.911/328.22, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.911/329.18, Was #5 Right Lane: Jack Beckman Runs 4.140/234.04, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.916/329.99, Was #7 Force makes another clean, straight pass, equalling his best run from yesterday. Beckman gets about 500 feet out, hazes the tires and clicks it off. Left Lane: Bob Tasca III Runs 3.897/331.69, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.904/324.98, Was #4 Right Lane: Robert Hight Runs 5.106/145.94, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.877/334.90, Was #2 Hight gets about 300 feet out, loses traction and clicks it off. Tasca makes his quickest pass of the weekend and stays in the fourth spot.
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