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CLERMONT, Ind. - Results of round 1 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series, 56th annual Mac Tools U.S. Nationals presented by Lucas Oil:
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
2 Ashley Force Hood 7 Del Worsham
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.080 4.059 313.07 0.056 4.457 233.48
Qualified: #6 4.059 310.98 #11 4.106 308.28
11:21 a.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 77 degrees, relative humidity 37 percent, barometer 29.05 inches, adjusted
altitude 2,721 feet, track temperature 98 degrees.Force Hood is 11-5 against Worsham, 7-2 in the first round. Top Fuel started with three upsets, on holeshots, and Worsham tried to start Funny Car the same way, getting a small edge on the tree, but he started hazing the tires before the 330-foot mark and Force Hood sailed by, resetting the track speed record enroute to the win. Ashley
Force Hood's incremental times: 60ft-0.910 sec., 330ft-2.314, 660ft-3.279/266.69 mph. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 71 Cruz Pedregon 170 Jeff Arend E1 ****WINNER**** 0.074 4.103 309.42 0.077 4.531 197.94 Qualified: #4 4.057 311.34 #13 4.110 307.02Cruz holds a 7-3 record against Arend, 7-2 in round one meetings. This was pretty close to just before the 660 mark, then
Arend lost traction, the car getting very sideways very quickly. Pedregon had no visible problems, making a smooth, straight
run. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 28 Ron Capps 507 Melanie Troxel E1 0.099 4.165 302.75 ****WINNER**** 0.097 4.131 308.64 Qualified: #2 4.049 309.77 #15 4.146 303.64Capps is 3-1 against Troxel, but it's 1-1 in prior round one meetings. Capps is seeking his first-ever win at Indy, one of the few events that have eluded him so far. This was a great drag race, Capps leading past the 330-foot marker, then Troxel taking the point and the win. Melanie Troxel's incremental margins (negative if behind): 60ft(-0.014), 330 ft(-0.015), 660ft(0.016). MOV:
0.0361 seconds (approximately 16 feet). That's a season-best speed for Troxel and she needed every bit of it to pull this one out
for just her fourth round win of the year. After winning, she announced that she will be competing in all the remaining Full
Throttle events this year. Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed 2814 Matt Hagan 6 Tony Pedregon E1 ****WINNER**** 0.076 4.096 303.09 0.063 5.075 152.24 Qualified: #1 4.039 277.89 #16 4.151 297.48Pedregon is 6-5 against Hagan in prior events, but only 2-4 in round one. Pedregon had the toughest time of any of the Countdown contestants in qualifying, barely making the field on his last try, while Hagan dominated the final qualifying sessions. Pretty
much according to form, Hagan went right down the lane, Pedregon had traction problems past the 330-foot marker.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
1 Robert Hight 116 Paul Lee
E1 0.114 4.473 267.37 ****WINNER**** 0.087 4.114 277.26
Qualified: #3 4.055 310.98 #14 4.120 300.20
Hight is 1-0 against Lee, their only other meeting coming in Houston this year.So much for "prior rounds," Hight lost
traction in the middle of the run and Lee was "clean and green," bringing a smile to the face of his usually dour car owner Jim
Dunn, who pointed his finger at the Team Force crew and shot them down. Lee faces another of the Force cars next round, Ashley Force
Hood, who will have lane choice.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
9 John Force 340 Bob Bode
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.082 4.090 311.05 0.090 5.025 195.25
Qualified: #5 4.058 312.86 #12 4.109 298.14
Force is 7-0 against Bode, all in round one. Make it 8-0, Bode losing traction fairly early in the run, Force with no visible
problems. Force will have lane choice against Cruz Pedregon in round two.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
5 Jack Beckman 4 Tim Wilkerson
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.084 4.512 219.97 0.085 6.167 110.19
Qualified: #7 4.076 302.96 #10 4.104 297.02
Wilkerson is 7-5 against Beckman, 3-1 in the first round, but Beckman outqualified Wilkerson this weekend.Wilkerson lost
traction before the 330-foot marker, then Beckman "got wacky" around the 660-foot mark, but Wilkerson was coasting by then.
Beckman will not have lane choice when he meets Troxel next round.
Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
8 Bob Tasca III 388 Jim Head
E1 ****WINNER**** 0.119 4.095 304.87 0.066 4.233 267.80
Qualified: #8 4.086 306.33 #9 4.095 296.96
Tasca is 3-2 against Head, all in round one matchups.Head had the early edge, but Tasca made that up and slowly pulled ahead
to win by over a car length, both cars making "full pulls." Tasca meets Hight in round two and has lane choice by a thousandth of a
second.
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