Sat, 15 May 2021, 18:46 PM Funny Car Qualifying Notes, Final Session

By Rick Green

CONCORD, N.C. - Notes from final, round 3 qualifying in Funny Car at the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series, 11th annual NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals 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:

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Lane 1: Robert Hight Runs 5.413/132.67, Now #15; Best prior run: 5.828/118.15, Was #14
Lane 2: Cruz Pedregon Runs 3.957/322.81, Now #5; Best prior run: 5.886/123.75, Was #15
Lane 3: Cory Lee Runs 5.003/163.69, Now #14; Best prior run: 4.423/230.92, Was #13
Lane 4: Dale Creasy Jr. No Time, Now #16; Best prior run: 6.104/112.87, Was #16

Weather conditions: air temperature 73 degrees, relative humidity 35 percent, barometer 30.20 inches, adjusted altitude 1,611 feet.

Hight started to lose traction and clicked it off.

Pedregon kept it hooked up to move into the top half of the show. Cruz Pedregon's incremental times: 60ft-0.868 sec., 330ft-2.254, 660ft-3.201/274.72 mph.

Lee starts to lose traction and clicks it off.

Creasy Jr. reverser cable broke and shut off.

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Lane 1: J.R. Todd Runs 3.946/325.69, Now #3; Best prior run: 4.074/307.72, Was #10
Lane 2: Dave Richards Runs 6.769/102.17, Now #9; Best prior run: 4.044/308.57, Was #8
Lane 4: Matt Hagan Runs 4.058/260.71, Now #11; Best prior run: 4.128/247.07, Was #12

Todd kept it hooked up with his quickest pass of the weekend to go to the number three spot. J.R. Todd's incremental times: 60ft-0.878 sec., 330ft-2.266, 660ft-3.196/280.43 mph.

Richards started to lose traction and clicked it off.

Hagan with his quickest pass of the weekend to move up the ladder one spot. Matt Hagan's incremental times: 60ft-0.868 sec., 330ft-2.256, 660ft-3.196/265.90 mph.

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Lane 1: Blake Alexander Runs 5.147/146.53, Now #10; Best prior run: 4.057/309.27, Was #10
Lane 2: Bob Tasca III Runs 6.116/111.45, Now #7; Best prior run: 4.013/324.05, Was #7
Lane 3: Alexis DeJoria Runs 3.949/318.54, Now #2; Best prior run: 3.930/301.74, Was #2

alexander lost traction and clicked it off.

Tasca III lost traction and clicked it off.

DeJoria is s straight down the groove with the second quickest pass of the session. Alexis DeJoria's incremental times: 60ft-0.879 sec., 330ft-2.257, 660ft-3.190/276.75 mph.

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Lane 1: Mike McIntire Runs 4.054/316.60, Now #8; Best prior run: 4.019/313.15, Was #8
Lane 2: Ron Capps Runs 3.943/325.30, Now #3; Best prior run: 3.946/318.54, Was #4
Lane 3: John Force Runs 3.902/330.55, Now #1; Best prior run: 3.904/328.30, Was #1
Lane 4: Tim Wilkerson Runs 4.105/249.12, Now #5; Best prior run: 3.952/320.05, Was #5

McIntire with a good clean pass and will start from the number eight spot. Mike McIntire's incremental times: 60ft-0.890 sec., 330ft-2.312, 660ft-3.281/267.91 mph.

Capps launched hard and kept it hooked up to go to the number three spot. He makes the second quickest pass of the session. Ron Capps' incremental times: 60ft-0.866 sec., 330ft-2.248, 660ft-3.191/276.41 mph.

Force with a great pass, the quickest of the weekend. He will qualify number one for the 161st time in his career and first time since Phoenix last year. This is the second time that John and Brittany have qualified number one at the same race. John Force's incremental times: 60ft-0.859 sec., 330ft-2.238, 660ft-3.162/281.60 mph.

Wilkerson starts to lose traction and clicks it off.

Timing data courtesy of CompuLink