Alexis De Joria and the Patron Tequila sponsored Top Alcohol Funny Car Team have made an
unbelievable mid-season comeback and now are focusing their efforts on moving up in the
championship points chase during the upcoming 24th Annual O'Reilly Auto Parts Fall Nationals
Presented by Super Start Batteries.
With their return to action at the recent Mac Tools U.S. Nationals Presented by Lucas Oil over the
Labor Day weekend, the Patron Tequila team has regained consistency and look to gain some late
season momentum in their quest to finish in the top 10 in championship points. "Qualifying well
and going rounds at Indy helped the team get back into race mode; we have since raced at a division
two event in Georgia" said De Joria. "With Dallas being an all concrete track we plan to throw as
much power at it as possible and see if we can get back into the 5.50 zone again". Nick Bastiao
and Bob Newberry have the guys working together well since the Englishtown incident and we hope
that Dallas will be our turning point as far as performance goes".
"I feel good about our chances to move up in the points De Joria said, the Texas Motorplex has been
good to our Crew Chief Bob Newberry in the past and our game plan is to turn up the power and turn
on the win lights".
Event Schedule
The O'Reilly Auto Parts Fall Nationals Presented by Super Start Batteries begin qualifying Friday
for the Top Alcohol classes with two qualifying sessions at 12:30 p.m. (ET) and 3:45 p.m.
continuing Saturday at 1:15 p.m. with first round eliminations at 4:15 p.m. and final eliminations
at 12:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon.
ESPN2 TV Schedule
10/4 - Eliminations: 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. (ET)
