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MOHNTON, Pa. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA POWERade Drag Racing Series, 19th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals: Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 506 Jack Wyatt 347 Tim Wilkerson E1 -0.344 No Time ****WINNER**** 0.580 4.833 319.75 Qualified: #12 4.917 297.22 #5 4.811 319.75Current weather conditions: 54 degrees, 38 percent relative humidity, the barometer 29.99 inches. Wilkerson and Wyatt have only raced once and Wilkerson won that race. Wyatt leaves
way early and then dropped cylinders right off the starting line. He drifted toward the
centerline and collected the 330-foot cone and knocked it into Wilkerson's car as he came
blasting by. Wilkerson was late on getting the chute out and ended up in the sand
trap. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 28 Ron Capps 9 Dean Skuza E1 0.063 4.898 319.07 ****WINNER**** 0.061 4.888 304.25 Qualified: #14 4.943 314.53 #3 4.794 309.20Skuza last National event win came right here in 1998. This is his 351st round of competition, and he has a slight advantage over Capps in head to head match ups 8 to 7. This was a great drag race here, Skuza with a slight starting line advantage and held on to take the win by about six feet. Capps with a big puff of smoke as he crossed the finish line. Dean
Skuza's incremental margins: 60ft(0.012), 330 ft(0.086), 660ft(0.075), 1,000ft(0.045). MOV:
0.0126 seconds (approximately 6 feet). Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 121 Terry Haddock 1 John Force E1 ****WINNER**** 0.111 4.973 308.35 0.100 5.440 189.07 Qualified: #15 4.974 310.20 #2 4.787 318.39Force has won here six times. This is the first time these two have raced and it is the 112th different driver Force has raced in his career. This is Haddock 6th career start and three of them have been this year. Force is out of the gate first and has the lead and then just before half track the front end of Force's car went airborne, and he had to pedaled it. It slammed back to the track and got out of the groove and close to the wall and Haddock drove around for his first career round win. Terry Haddock's incremental margins (negative if
behind): 60ft(-0.036), 330 ft(-0.103), 660ft(-0.159), 1,000ft(0.063). MOV: 0.4560 seconds
(more than 100 feet). Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 73 Frank Pedregon 156 Phil Burkart E1 0.088 5.488 193.93 ****WINNER**** 0.068 4.836 302.96 Qualified: #11 4.903 300.53 #6 4.813 320.43This is the first time Burkart has raced here on Sunday. He and Pedregon have only faced off once and Burkart won that one. Burkart is out of the gate first and never looked back as Pedregon smoked the tires by the 330 foot mark pedaled it, but it was over by then. Burkart will have lane choice against Skuza in
the round. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 13 Cory Lee 4 Gary Densham E1 0.120 11.201 61.83 ****WINNER**** 0.104 4.859 270.21 Qualified: #16 5.078 308.71 #1 4.749 327.27This is the sixth time Densham has qualified number one. Cory Lee has only qualified here once before and he went to the semis in that race in '99. He and Densham have only raced once and Lee won that race. Densham with the starting line advantage and never looks back to
take the win. Lee is up in smoke as soon as he hits the throttle. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 302 Dale Creasy Jr. 2 Tony Pedregon E1 ****WINNER**** 0.050 4.904 309.42 0.073 5.186 278.12 Qualified: #13 4.942 304.94 #4 4.803 316.67Tony Pedregon is the defending champ and he has never lost to Dale Creasy in the 11 times they have raced. Creasy with the starting line advantage and he keeps the candles lit and the
tires stuck to take the win. Pedregon shook the tires and then started mixing up the cylinders.
This is Creasy's first round win in over a year, his last win coming in Memphis, 2002. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 20 Gary Scelzi 71 Cruz Pedregon E1 0.092 4.840 318.32 ****WINNER**** 0.027 4.796 320.43 Qualified: #10 4.883 318.47 #7 4.819 313.73Cruz Pedregon has won here twice in 1992 and '94. His last round here was in 1998. Scelzi has won this race twice in Top Fuel in 2001 and 1998. He has a 3 to 0 advantage over Pedregon in head to head match ups. Pedregon with a great light and then runs a career best E.T. here to take the win. Scelzi's engine went away on the top end as the Safety Safari is rolling for the clean up. Cruz will have lane choice against Haddock in the next
round. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 503 Tommy Johnson Jr. 3 Del Worsham E1 0.077 5.195 283.07 ****WINNER**** 0.067 5.172 278.00 Qualified: #8 4.834 314.09 #9 4.876 312.13Tommy Johnson won this race in 1999. Worsham has qualified ninth 22 times in his career and owns a 9 to 4 advantage over TJ in head to head match ups. Worsham with the slight starting line advantage and then started to shake the tires, he pedaled it one time, TJ started to lose traction and he was on and off the throttle one time. TJ got out of the groove, but stayed with it . Worsham was able to hold on for the win by about 14 feet and then just as he crossed the finish line the engine exploded ripping the body off the chassis blowing it up. The back half of the body landed just on the other side of the wall. Worsham then had to fight the car to a stop, first the left side of the was a foot and half in the air and then he hit the wall hard. He came off the wall still wrestling it, as it was going from right to left. He ended up in the sand trap up against the wall and the Safety Safari was right on the scene. He is out of the car and he is okay. He will not even be transported. He will give up lane choice to Densham in the next
round.
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