Fri, 14 May 2021, 20:33 PM Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Session #1

By Rick Green

CONCORD, N.C. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 11th annual NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:

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Lane 1: Cory Lee Runs 8.168/77.53, Now #4
Lane 2: Dale Creasy Jr. Runs 7.788/89.52, Now #3
Lane 3: Mike McIntire Runs 4.019/313.15, Now #1
Lane 4: Dave Richards Runs 6.857/90.88, Now #2

Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 48 percent, barometer 30.24 inches, adjusted altitude 988 feet.

Lee is making his first pass since Gainesville 2018...He is driving for Bob Simmons who raced in the 1970's and early 80's. His last race was in 1986. He starts to shake and clicks it off.

Creasy Jr. is making his season debut and he starts to lose traction and clicks it off.

McIntire is straight down the groove to make his career fastest pass. Mike McIntire's incremental times: 60ft-0.884 sec., 330ft-2.292, 660ft-3.246/269.83 mph.

Richards lost traction early and clicked it off.

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Lane 1: Terry Haddock Runs 12.460/77.35, Now #8
Lane 2: Jim Campbell Runs 8.542/68.16, Now #6
Lane 3: Blake Alexander Runs 8.230/74.94, Now #5
Lane 4: Cruz Pedregon Runs 8.906/84.28, Now #7

Haddock went silent right at the hit.

Campbell started to shake and clicked it off.

Alexander started to lose traction and clicked it off.

Pedregon went silent early.

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Lane 1: Alexis DeJoria Runs 3.930/301.74, Now #1
Lane 2: Tim Wilkerson Runs 8.615/51.30, Now #10
Lane 3: Robert Hight Runs 7.366/90.89, Now #4
Lane 4: Ron Capps Runs 7.676/84.83, Now #5

DeJoria was on a good looking pass until on the top end when she started to move out of the groove and over by the wall. She clicked it off early and still goes to the number one spot. Alexis DeJoria's incremental times: 60ft-0.888 sec., 330ft-2.248, 660ft-3.164/282.13 mph.

Wilkerson lost traction and clicked it off.

Hight and Capps, both started to lose traction about the same time and clicked it off.

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Lane 1: John Force Runs 14.300/70.63, Now #16
Lane 2: Matt Hagan Runs 7.584/87.52, Now #5
Lane 3: J.R. Todd Runs 7.996/81.66, Now #8
Lane 4: Bob Tasca III Runs 8.228/91.12, Now #10

Force went silent right at the hit.

Hagan lost traction early and clicked it off.

Todd and Tasca both lost traction early.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink



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