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Sat, 31 Oct 2026, 17:24 PM

Top Fuel Qualifying Notes, Final Session
By Rick Green





LAS VEGAS - Notes from final, round 4 qualifying in Top Fuel at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, 26th annual MOPAR NHRA Las Vegas Nationals powered by Dodge 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:
Left Lane: Chris Powers Runs 3.807/321.19, Now #14; Best prior run: 3.882/272.01, Was #15
Right Lane: Bernie Plourd Runs 5.584/121.34, Now #17; Best prior run: 11.645/42.42, Was #17

Weather conditions: air temperature 66 degrees, relative humidity 72 percent, barometer 29.90 inches, adjusted altitude 3,342 feet, track temperature 101 degrees.

Powers kept it hooked up and was straight down the groove to move up the ladder one spot.

Plourd start to mix up cylinders and clicked it off. He will not get in the show.

Left Lane: Shawn Reed Runs 3.777/328.94, Now #14; Best prior run: 3.823/318.99, Was #15
Right Lane: Justin Ashley Runs 3.759/331.61, Now #13; Best prior run: 3.775/328.70, Was #13

Reed kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to make his quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder one spot.

Ashley is straight down th groove and makes his quickest pass of the weekend. He will stay in the number 13 spot.

Left Lane: Antron Brown Runs 3.738/324.90, Now #10; Best prior run: 3.741/325.77, Was #10
Right Lane: Will Smith Runs 4.617/163.14, Now #12; Best prior run: 3.756/327.11, Was #12

Brown was on a great looking pass until right in the lights when it dropped a cylinder or two. He makes his quickest pass of the weekend, but will stay in the number 10 spot.

Smith started to lose traction just past half track and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Billy Torrence Runs 4.320/204.57, Now #9; Best prior run: 3.722/334.73, Was #9
Right Lane: Tony Schumacher Runs 5.594/124.91, Now #11; Best prior run: 3.750/334.65, Was #11

Torrence starts to lose traction right around half track and clicks it off.

Schumacher started to haze the tires and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Maddi Gordon Runs 4.769/154.78, Now #7; Best prior run: 3.716/335.65, Was #7
Right Lane: Spencer Massey Runs 3.888/314.09, Now #8; Best prior run: 3.719/332.67, Was #8

Gordon drives into tire smoke around half track and clicks it off.

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

Left Lane: Leah Pruett Runs 3.717/331.85, Now #6; Best prior run: 3.705/332.84, Was #6
Right Lane: Doug Kalitta Runs 3.721/336.65, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.695/335.73, Was #5

Pruett kept it hooked up and was straight down the groove with the quickest pass of the session. Leah Pruett's incremental times: 60ft-0.846 sec., 330ft-2.127, 660ft-2.990/293.54 mph.

Kalitta is straight down the groove with the second quickest pass of the session. Doug Kalitta's incremental times: 60ft-0.849 sec., 330ft-2.149, 660ft-3.005/296.70 mph.

Left Lane: Clay Millican Runs 5.553/118.83, Now #4; Best prior run: 3.691/336.32, Was #4
Right Lane: Josh Hart Runs 6.754/95.91, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.688/325.61, Was #3

Millican is up in smoke early and clicked it off.

Hart lost traction and clicked it off.

Left Lane: Shawn Langdon Runs 3.727/332.59, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.672/332.59, Was #1
Right Lane: Tony Stewart Runs 5.520/119.59, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.676/339.28, Was #2

Langdon kept it hooked up and hitting on all eight to make the third quickest pass of the session. Langdon qualifies number one for the ninth time this season and 31st of his career. Shawn Langdon's incremental times: 60ft-0.845 sec., 330ft-2.139, 660ft-3.008/294.75 mph.

Stewart is up in smoke early and clicked it off.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink




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