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Fri, 18 Sep 2026, 11:00 AM

Top Alcohol Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Rick Green

MARTIN, Mich. - Notes from round 1 qualifying in Top Alcohol Funny Car at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, Inaugural NHRA Great Lakes Nationals listing lane, driver name, elapsed time, top speed, and position in order following run:

Right Lane: Tony Bogolo Runs 5.588/260.42, Now #1

Weather conditions: air temperature 64 degrees, relative humidity 79 percent, barometer 30.27 inches, adjusted altitude 1,327 feet.

Bogolo is straight down the groove with a good clean pass.

Left Lane: Jesse Clark Runs 5.528/254.38, Now #1
Right Lane: Bruce Mullins Runs 5.711/244.30, Now #3

Clark kept it hooked up with a good clean pass, his career quickest.

Mullins with a good pass.

Left Lane: Christopher Menapace Runs 5.525/265.02, Now #2
Right Lane: Mick Steele Runs 5.413/258.92, Now #1

A pair of good passes to go to the number two and one spots.

Menapace is straight down the groove with a clean pass.

Steele with his quickest pass this season to go to the number one spot. Mick Steele's incremental times: 60ft-0.973 sec., 330ft-2.472, 660ft-3.597/221.35 mph, 1,000ft-4.562.

Left Lane: Phil Esz Runs 5.481/259.67, Now #2
Right Lane: Chris Foster Runs 10.166/96.53, Now #7

Esz kept it hooked up to go to the number two spot.

Foster was up in smoke right at the hit and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Shane Westerfield Runs 5.507/266.43, Now #4
Right Lane: Sean Bellemeur Runs 5.483/268.02, Now #3

Westerfield is straight down the groove with a good pass.

Bellemeur with a good pass to go to the number three spot.