Sun, 18 Oct 2026, 16:00 PM Funny Car Round 2 Eliminations

By Dave Rowe

ENNIS, Texas - Results of round 2 eliminations in Funny Car at the NHRA Mission Foods Drag Racing Series, 41st annual Texas NHRA FallNationals:

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   14 Matt Hagan                              6 Paul Lee                     
E2   ****WINNER****  0.047  3.948 331.37                     0.088 11.077  58.40
 Prior rounds:
E1    (H Green     ) 0.064  3.918 332.20      (D Wilkerson ) 0.043  4.095 255.87
 Qualified:             #2  3.855 334.80                       #10  3.912 328.37

2:41 p.m. Weather conditions: air temperature 70 degrees, relative humidity 44 percent, barometer 30.29 inches, adjusted altitude 1,233 feet, track temperature 111 degrees.

Hagan is 17 - 2 against Lee in prior events.

Hagan gets the holeshot and goes down the groove with a good pass to take the win.

Lee gets about 60 feet out, loses traction, then backs off of the throttle.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
   28 Ron Capps                               3 Jack Beckman                 
E2   ****WINNER****  0.054  3.917 332.67                     0.057 10.111  85.17
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C Green     ) 0.082  3.922 330.11      (T Haddock   ) 0.082  3.884 335.12
 Qualified:             #8  3.899 324.61                        #1  3.852 330.13

Capps is 42 - 28 against Beckman in prior events.

Capps is 17 - 10 against Jack Beckman in Rd. 2 races.

A coin flip off of the line, Beckman goes up in smoke off of the line and has to give up on the run. Capps goes down the groove with a good pass to take the win.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
    1 Austin Prock                           24 Jordan Vandergriff           
E2                  -0.160 10.063  87.43     ****WINNER****  0.007  3.922 332.01
 Prior rounds:
E1    (C Pedregon  ) 0.063  3.883 331.74      (B Alexander ) 0.064  3.877 338.37
 Qualified:            #14  3.930 300.20                        #6  3.881 333.83

Austin Prock is 3 - 2 against Vandergriff this year.

Vandergriff beat Prock here in TF in 2019.

Prock and Vandergriff have each won 4 times against the other in prior events.

Prock double steps it out of the gate and goes red giving the win to Vandergriff. Vandergriff goes down the groove with a good pass to take the win.

Vandergriff will have lane choice over hagan in the next round.

 Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT-----ET---Speed-----Car#-Driver(Opp'nt)-RT----ET---Speed
  771 Alexis DeJoria                        373 J.R. Todd                    
E2                   0.265  3.890 314.66     ****WINNER****  0.080  3.930 333.75
 Prior rounds:
E1    (D Richards  ) 0.083  3.902 331.56      (S Hyde      ) 0.057  3.940 329.60
 Qualified:             #4  3.873 333.09                        #5  3.874 337.13

DeJoria is 11 - 9 against Todd in prior events.

Todd gets out of the gate first, DeJoria starts making up ground, but Todd holds her off and takes the holeshot win, the 32nd of his career.

Capps will have lane choice over Todd in the next round.




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